My Little Ebay Business Beginnings..
Hello Fellow Newbie Internet Business People!
It is that time again for me to post. I am a few days late this week. I got caught up with the beginnings of the silly season and right now I am nursing a sore toe from trying to move a couch and wearing the wrong shoes!! That will teach me!!
And to top it off for the last week I have also been nursing an injured puppy that joined my family and my other dog has already tried to eat it!
So this week I have not been able to get much work done on the internet side of things. I have actually just been reading and doing some final editing to my spray tanning training manual that is yet to be re-released.
So for this post I thought I would continue on with my story of how I started online…..
I left off telling you about how I began on eBay so continuing on from there. I used the first 2 months on eBay and the first 50 items I sold as my learning before actually listing my spray on tanning equipment packages. It was during this time that I had the opportunity to attend an eBay seminar by Adam Ginsberg (I think I have spelled his name correct). He is one of eBay’s Titanium PowerSellers which is over $20,000 per month in sales I think.
This seminar was excellent and showed me the opportunity of what eBay is. I learned so much in the short three hours but I had a light bulb moment and realized I was on the right path even though I was moving at a snails pace.
I sold my first spray tan package November 2005. Then for the next 6 months I sold spray tanning solution and spray tanning equipment packages on eBay and made a nice little part-time income, some weeks I was earning more than my day job.
While I was selling my packages I was asked regularly to sell my manual separately. At first I didn’t want to do this as it was dedicated to the machine I was selling, however I soon realized the potential of selling the manual on its own due to the constant inquiries I was receiving.
So after hours and hours of work, creating pictures of how to’s and adding more information to it. I made the manual more general to the industry to include the most popular machines and training techniques. I started selling the manual in a printed format by May 2006.
My manual was sold all over the world and was really popular. After costs I was making about $15 profit each manual so that wasn’t too bad. Spray Tanning is a niche industry so I wasn’t selling masses of the manual but I was averaging about 5 per week at the time. The way I figured it, is that it was a nice little extra income stream on top of what I was already selling in the way of solution and equipment packages.
Must away for now, little one is awake so until next time…
Be Good To You & Believe in Your Dreams
Jacinta 
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Hello,
I am newbie in making profits through the net. I am also like you with one kid. I really like selling products through internet. If that would not cause you so badly at first. But that is the first try.
Thank for sharing!!!