Research
As an eBay Consultant each day is very varied and brings good points and also some bad points when having to deal with some situations a client goes through. But one aspect that I enjoy and I know other eBay Consultants enjoy is the area of research. In the olden days research used to mean going to a library and making loads of phone calls – (and this still works and is very valid and can bring you fruitful results) but in 2012 research can be done in so many more different ways. With the internet being one of the most useful tools any eBay seller can have.
But in today’s article on research I want to look at a broad overview and then with further articles look at each one in more depth. This will save you having to read everything at once, but it will also let you read something and then put into practise what you have just read. You need to do your research and then make a plan, and then put that plan into action and only then will you start to see the results from all your research.
So where can you go and do your research ?
- Library
- Newspapers
- Magazines
- High Street
- Internet
- Software
- Membership Sites
- People
- TV
- Shopping Channels
- eBay
- Amazon
The above is just a small example of where you can go and do some research for products that you are looking to sell. I would suggest that you spent sometime each day or week and all you do in that time period is research for new products and niches that you can sell into. As an eBay seller you need to get into the mindset that you are always looking to expand your product lines and looking to sell into other product niches. You need to be thinking like a buyer from one of the multi-national shops. The whole time they are looking for new products to sell. They do this by spending hour after hour and week after week looking at new products and then doing the research as to how the product will sell.
While you do this research you will find some winners and some losers, when you get a loser, you just need to learn to move on and find that next winner. But also something else will start to happen, as you become more successful and known, you will start to get phone calls and emails from companies asking if you would like to sell their product, while this saves you the time having to go out there, you will still need to do the research. Research is not one of those old fashioned boring subjects, it is fun and exciting and with all the modern ways of doing research out there it will be a fun part of your business and over the coming weeks we will be looking at some of the more exciting ways of doing research both online and offline.
Happy Research
