Making Money With Ebay, The Pitfalls To Dropshipping

Drop shipping With Ebay 

"Pitfalls of Drop shipping"

Today I want to discuss drop shipping with Ebay. Drop shipping is when a person sells a product and has that product shipped directly to their customer. Doing this allows someone to sell products without ever touching the actual inventory. This can save you a lot of money because your not paying any shipping fees. Starting a drop shipping business on Ebay can make you money, but I want to discuss a few things you should watch out for.

About a year ago I decided I was going to make some money with Ebay and do it with no money out of my pocket. Researching heavily, I found a drop shipper with products at astounding prices. I simply took these products and advertised them for sale on Ebay and overnight I made close to three hundred and fifty dollars. I took their name and address, went back to my drop shipper and purchased the product and had it delivered directly to my customer. I did have to spend the initial amount on the product but after delivery is confirmed you get everything back, plus any profit accumulated. Paypal will release your funds as soon as the item is delivered. This seems all too easy, but there are things to watch out for!

With Drop shipping, there is a fine line when it comes to your gross profit margin. It all depends on the price you paid for the product and what the return would be. In some cases, companies will offer wholesale discounts if purchased in bulk, allowing room for a better profit margin. What people fail to take into consideration, is the fact that Ebay and Paypal have associated fees as well. They dive in and realize that by the time they pay all the fees, their gross profit margin was almost nothing! Watch out for these fees! Take them into consideration!

The second thing you need to watch for is, unhappy customers. The reason I say this is because you never get to physically see the product. Make sure you trust this company before doing any kind of business with them. I used www.dhgates.com and I did have a few issues. One, they sent all my customers the wrong chargers. I sold the Nintendo Ds, but when my customer got his product the charger doesn't even plug into the wall, anywhere in this country! So be careful about what your offering for sale and be as accurate as possible when giving product details to your customers.

When the customer is unhappy, they tend to want their money back! This poses a concern because now you will have to go back to your drop shipper, ask for a refund, wait a month and piss your customers off! The really bad thing about this is that the fees Ebay and Paypal charged you when making the sale, will still have to be paid even if it's returned. So, now you have a returned product that has costed you money!

Thanks for reading! I hope that that this post will save someone a lot of headaches and money. Ebay is a business, plan it out before diving in! There are a lot of different opportunities for you to make money online. Visit the Home Business Guide for more info on making money online from home!

EzineArticles and Adsense, Google Adsense Terms and Conditions

Today I wanted to write a short post about a problem I recently had. I started an account with EzineArticles and published my first article. After publishing my article, the adsense code was automatically generated for my article. The problem that I am having, is that under Google's terms and conditions, a person can only place three ad choice ads per page. If you have more, you will not be compensated for your advertising efforts.

Since Ezine had automatically generated these adsense ads for me, they are placing more than three per article. With Google's terms and conditions stating that, I currently earn nothing from my articles. I shall keep people posted about this topic. I am sure that I'm not the only one who has had this problem. I wrote to Ezine customer support about this issue, so stay posted if your having the same problem.

Please feel free to comment on this topic if you have had this problem and know how to resolve this issue, thanks!

CPC Advertising, Google Adsense Strategies

Today I wanted to talk a little about Google Adsense. I do have my own site and I have been currently using adsense as a form of advertising for my web site. When I first started out things didn't really take off too fast. When  I set my account up, I made sure to only select the advertiser's I wanted to display ads on my page. Based on the niche of my site, I chose what I felt suited my site best. Everything started picking up and I started getting some clicks. This week, on average, I have been getting paid about about one dollar and twelve cents. Which is actually really good. Now, the way Google works, the more people that actually click on your ads will drop your cpc. It's based on a percentage and complicates many. I even sometimes don't understand how my account makes more some days than others.

The best way to really learn Adsense and make the most from it is trial and error.One day you could allow a few new advertiser's to bid on your spots in hopes to have them battle it out, giving you the best possible cpc. The more traffic and potential customer's you can place in front of these advertiser's, the more they will pay per click. The thing about this is you want to have, interest based advertiser's. Subject's that are closely related to your niche will most likely give you a better click-through rate and a higher cpc because we know the people clicking on them are already interested in the subject. Now you can be successful at using ads that are not based on your niche but research and analysis will be the only way to know which of these ads you will want to use. After a while you will begin to see what your traffic likes to click on and you simply give it to them. It's not as easy as it sounds but if your not making enough on one site, make another. The more information that you can get out, the more chances that someone will find your page and click on an ad.

Everyone who is successful with Adsense, have their own strategies to how they get people to click. Some park domains to make money with Adsense. Parking a domain is when you purchase a domain name and use it like it's a intersection on a major highway. When people type in a address in their browser window and they make a mistake it sends them to a parked domain. These domains are full of Adsense ads, closely related to what you were searching for, maximizing the click-through rate. Want to see? Type in an address you know is incorrect and view the page it takes you to. That's a parked domain!

Some people try very hard to make money online with Adsense but never make much. With this in mind, I want to spark conversation about this topic. So please, below in the comments, give us  a little about your experience with Adsense. Do you make money with Adsense? Any questions about your Google Adsense account? We would love to help you with any problems you may have, so please feel free to comment, thank you!