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Ever Wondered What eBay Really Is?

| Jun 16, 2009

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So what is eBay anyway? You probably already have some idea of what eBay is, but let me elaborate a little further.An easy way to look at eBay is to imagine a worldwide newspaper full of classified ads. This worldwide classified ad section has products and services for sale. Or imagine a huge bulletin board that millions of people can see and put their ads on. Of course, eBay charges sellers to put an ad on their website, but the exposure to the millions of worldwide buyers is worth it.Also, anyone can put almost anything for sale on eBay. News stories abound about the ridiculous and bizarre actions on eBay. One notable example is the grilled cheese sandwich with the (supposed) image of the Virgin Mary that sold for $28,000.However, not every seller is "out to lunch." With over 276 million users on eBay, there will be some oddballs, but the majority are average hard-working people just like you or I.These millions of users are part of the eBay "community." When you have registered on eBay, you'll deal with other users directly. Any purchase you make are between you and the other seller. All transactions happen one-on-one, just like it would in a marketplace in a town square. eBay is just the venue where the buyers and sellers meet. One on one, they haggle over the price and then complete the transaction.When you start out on eBay, you might feel overwhelmed. Don't worry, it gets easier. At first, without any experience or training, it can be a little tricky to get your ad noticed among the 3.6 million other items added every day. But in time, you too can learn the tricks of the trade to sell and make a nice profit selling on eBay.The key is to find someone who has already been there and ask if they can show you the ropes. Find a seller who has been selling on eBay for many months or years. Look at their feedback and see if they are providing a good customer experience.Also, you could look for an Education Specialist trained by eBay. These people have graduated from a course to be able to teach beginning sellers how to get started on eBay. They know how to teach you, and they want to help.It doesn't matter whether you're young or old. The great thing about eBay is that anyone can get started no matter who what their level of experience. You can get started even if you know nothing about computers or e-commerce. Everyone starts at the same place, with 0 feedback and no experience. You can learn how to sell on eBay. With time and experience, you'll become a successful eBay seller.

Wealthy Affiliate Scam?

| Apr 3, 2009
As an online program, Wealthy Affiliate seems to have a mission to teach aspiring affiliate marketers how to go about becoming consistent and effective at the game. It doesn't pretend to be a way to make huge wealth, though, and that's comforting. Most scam sites do just that, and make cheap promises they never keep. If you follow the advice given in the site, you could find yourself with proven money making programs for the long run, earned honestly.A typical scam website wouldn't offer the depth and richness of training that Wealthy Affiliate does in the first place. It has a frenetic pace to it in the member forum, where all kinds of helpful and enriching advice is given freely and openly by other members. Some of it can actually help you improve your cash generation fairly rapidly, too.Also, a scammer site wouldn't offer one-on-one tutoring from the program's creators and mentors. They have a deep knowledge of what it takes to set up effective affiliate marketing networks and they freely share it, with no upselling involved. Plus, they check your own Adwords accounts to make sure they're set up correctly. You'd never see that from scam artists interested in a hit-and-run campaign.Wealthy Affiliate takes its primary mission - the training of nascent affiliate marketing hopefuls - very seriously. It passes out knowledge on how landing pages are set up and work. It also covers things like opt-in lists, which are real marketing concepts. Also, lots of videos and training opportunities exist in the site which, which a scam site would never waste bandwidth on hosting.If there's a problem with Wealthy Affiliate, it's that it tends to make someone overeager to jump in and get started at affiliate marketing. If you take care that you don't hastily rush in before the site's founders and others think you're good to go, you should have little real issue with the program.