I haven’t tried Ebid, Overstock or Bluejay so I can’t comment on those just yet but I will be trying them out over the next few months and will update you on my findings.

Selling on Ebay initially started well but has recently gone very quiet.

Amazon in my opinion have fairly high charges but believe me it is worth being on there. They get a hugh amount of traffic and again in my opinion Amazon is a name that people trust.

Selling on your own website is one of the cheapest options if you get a lot of sales. Obviously you have to take into account the cost of the website, the cost of promoting it and any other fees such as web hosting and fees from your payment provider.

I find that using multiple sites or sources is the best way. So that when one of them is quiet another one is working well for you.

What can I sell online?

Obviously this can literally be anything but you need to be sure you can compete with oter websites. Below are examples of things either I am selling online or my customers\friends are selling online:

• lampe berger oil
• steiff teddy bears
• floor tiles

Your website needs to look friendly, attractive and professional otherwise you are giving people a bad impression of your business. However more importantly your website should be designed with the search engines in mind. The number of people I talk to that say I have got a fantastic looking website but  I never get any work from it is incredible.

So how do you get people to your website?

There are many different ways to do this. Here are jst a few examples:

Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising

PPC advertising is where you sign up for an account with for example Google Adwords and you create an advert that is displayed on Google and 3rd party websites that show Google adverts. Everytime someone clicks through onto your website you pay Google an amount calculated by Google based on what you want to pay per click and some other factors such as click through rates. You can also set a daily budget so that you know how much it is going to cost you.

Search Engine Optimisation or SEO

SEO services are about optimising your website for the organic listings on the search engines. These listings are free but getting to page 1 is very difficult especially for competetive keywords. Optimising your site is just a small part of the SEO work. Inbound links are seen by search engines as a “like” from other websites and this helps your own website to move up the listings or rankings. Getting links to your site with anchor text is even more important. Anchor text is basically a keyword that has a link to your website attached to it.

There are many other ways of getting visitors to your website but these are the ones I have found to work best for me.