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How can we find the sure-fire, hot niches and products that will sell tomorrow among what sells on eBay today? Perhaps you’ve already tried finding your niche, only to discover the market for your favorite gadget has become saturated or you can’t find a reliable source for the product in the first place. I understand, because I’ve been there and done that. When you pick a product to run with, you want to bet on a winning horse so you can make steady money on eBay.

One way to find a winner is to stick within a proven market on eBay and then drill down to find a good product within it. eBay has been around long enough and has a sufficient history that we already know a handful of market areas with consistent consumer demand. Electronics, for example, is one of the popular and proven markets on eBay. Others include collectibles and antiques, clothing, gaming systems, health and beauty, and gear for babies.

Once you’ve got a niche, you need to find products and suppliers. Finding good suppliers isn’t always as easy as it sounds, in this market or in others. Luckily for us, Salehoo has developed a huge and growing database of over 8000 wholesale suppliers across many markets. For almost any product, the always-in-demand ipods and accessories for instance, you can almost always find more than one source among their suppliers. They feature many suppliers with low or no minimum order quantities and dropshippers, which is great when you are starting out and don’t have much money to make bulk inventory purchases. At the user forum, you can get some frank discussion of any suppliers that aren’t passing muster with members.

The Salehoo research tools for auction trends will help you drill into your niche and pick specific products to sell. They’ll help you prune out products where the market may be too competitive or where demand may be declining so you won’t waste your time and money. If demand for a specific product is declining, you can look for a related one in the same niche with steady or rising sales volume. You can see the sell through rate for a product at a glance, as well as what the going auction selling price is and what part of the week sales for it are most active. The sell through rate warns you if there are few sales per number of listings. Experienced sellers and many newcomers as well know that how auctions are timed can make a significant difference in sales. What many newcomers don’t realize is that the ideal times to end auctions can vary substantially among products. The Salehoo auction trend tools take all the guesswork out of this for you and gives you the best possible chance to succeed with your auctions!

Salehoo is known as a great source for suppliers and their research tools are also quite valuable. Salehoo is actually terrific resource to have even if you don’t sell on eBay since you can use the suppliers to stock your own retail business apart from eBay.

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If you do build a website, be sure to also sign up as an eBay affiliate to promote what sells on eBay. You will have to tell them what website you intend to use and the review process is fairly quick. The reason to join the eBay Partner Network (ePN) is that you can earn a reward for any sales referred from your website, including your own. Thus, you can earn your usual revenue from what sells on eBay plus some bonus. The policy benefits everyone at the online auctions by driving sales and it encourages sellers to promote complementary listings from other sellers.

Note that the eBay Partner Network and Google Adsense programs both require you to establish ownership or control of your domain in order to participate. They check this by requiring you to upload a test file to the base directory of your website, which can be done easily by FTP if you know the password for the administrator account. People writing Squidoo lenses and Hubpages have profited from either their own eBay modules or modules provided by Squidoo and Hubpages. However, the eBay Partner Network is converting to a new quality click payment system for affiliates and it is currently not clear how affiliates working from Squidoo websites will earn money from what sells on eBay.

Naturally, you have to answer the question “What should I sell on eBay?” before tackling any website design. In fact, you can join ePN to earn from eBay sales even if you do not personally sell goods on eBay.