"virtual" jobs

My wifes about done with her medical Transcribing coarse, when she's done she can average $4000 a month at home. She also does the e-bay thing.

If I remember correctly i think log home instructor Steve has written a book entitled "Ebay Secrets". I'm not positive on the name because it was a few months ago that i remember reading it. I think I saw it in a LHBA newsletter last fall.

That's a slick site. Thanks!

try this site for a product source. I haven't used them, but it looks interesting!

There are basically two types of home based opportunities.

1) Offering some type of "professional service" such as accounting. In this case, you work at home for the actual work but still need to get out to service clients and prospect new clients. A "financial planner" is another example.

2) Selling stuff. Your house becomes your warehouse. The computer and internet is the marketing tool. Like I said earlier, the hardest part is finding stuff to sell that people want to buy. The trick is to remain diversified. There are two types of sellers. If you are doing it as a "jobber", that is buying and reselling then you need to constantly look for the bargains. If you are selling something you make, such as crafts, then you must set up some sort of manufacturing. Example, I know a lady that sells doorstops.....cloth sown into a duck with a brick inside. She has ladies that cut out the fabric according to the patterns and other ladies that do the sewing. She sells these things on EBay and craft markets....cost to her is $15 each, selling price $60.

Stay away from the home-based ads you see out there. Most, if not all of them are nothing more then the modern version old envelope-stuffing scam. Look on Amazon, you'll see some books on how to sell on EBay. It's always a wise investment to spend $20 on a book to get the basics.

I go to a lot of estate auctions and I'm amazed how cheap some things go. This won't provide you with a consistent source of items, but if you learn what's what in antiques and the like there is proffit to be made. I just don't have the time to go to all the auctions. Often, whole boxes of items sell for $1 or $5 and any one item in the box is worth more than that. I often sell things out fo a box for what I paid for the whole box, go hime with a truck full of items I needed and more money than I had when I arrived. The downside is there will be a lot of "junk" to deal with... and it eats up your saturdays.

I've done a little bit of reading along those lines, and it seems like that's the hard part, and the biggest secret of all. Any suggestions on how to go about finding a source? I'm not asking you to give up your sources (as I doubt any smart ebay seller would), but any good tips on digging up my own unique source of hot items?

Yup!

Selling stuff on EBay.

The whole trick is 1) learning how EBay works (as a vendor) and 2) finding stuff to sell.

Buy low, sell higher, make a profit.

The most difficult part is finding and sourcing sale items. I'm not talking about selling a one-time "Aunt Molly's Doll Collection". I'm talking about having 30 or 40 different items for sale at any given time.

Example: I found a local textile mill that was making T-Shirts. They had a run of many thousands of shirts for a beer company. Except they overproduced by about 500 shirts. I bought those 500 shirts for $4 each and sold them individually for an average $15. Net profit about $10,000 in two months.