| My wife and I began with our Internet marketing career | | | | why we chose to move on to a real website; a more |
| on eBay. To everyone who is starting out, I highly | | | | static website which requires a lot less weekly work |
| suggest you to use it to learn some of the basic | | | | than an auction site does. I highly suggest anyone |
| principles of Internet marketing. We spent about a year | | | | starting out go ahead and clean out your closets, sell |
| on the auction site before we moved on to a real | | | | whatever you can, have a garage sale online learn |
| Internet business with a real website. Selling there | | | | how to write the copy, take the pictures and find the |
| taught us a lot of things about Internet marketing. | | | | key words, etc. Yes, it is a lot of work, but it's a very |
| We learned all about accepting payments via PayPal | | | | good experience for those just starting out. |
| and dealing with those online orders. Selling items there | | | | I do not suggest beginning with one of their "stores." It |
| is also a great teacher of shipping. If you plan on | | | | is best to simply find some items to sell and practice |
| shipping products in your future Internet business, eBay | | | | building the auctions and making sales. If you find a |
| is a great place to learn. We learned all about using | | | | good niche, you can then consider building a store on |
| USPS packages, shipping weights, how to charge for | | | | the site. |
| shipping, getting the electronic shipping labels and | | | | It would have been much more difficult for us to jump |
| confirmation labels. You will also acquire the skill in | | | | into our Internet business with a website if we had not |
| customer service for an online business. You learn a | | | | had all of the experience with eBay. It was a very |
| lot with it in those respects. It's a great place to begin | | | | good learning experience for us and I encourage you |
| an Internet marketing career. | | | | to start with it. |
| However, eBay does have its limitations, and that's | | | | |