Make My Day eCommerce Podcast: Recent Episodes
Jon P Fox
Closing the book on the 145 episodes of the Make My Day eCommerce Podcast. I hope it helped people in the little push they may have needed to start up their eCommerce business or at least start selling on eBay and then some!
But now I have to announce it has ended and although these episodes will remain posted for some time, I am starting a new subject and a new podcast called "American Freedom & God"
After much research this should get some attention and give me something I like talking about even more than eCommerce. listen in to get the details, and hope to see you join us for the new subject.
After having spent an entire episode on a great product idea last week, which was smart phones, we started to go into a few different sourcing ideas and see if we can find even more great products to sell.
What are the best phones to resell for profit? Today's show is all about finding out which phones are the best sellers, and what buying and selling strategy to avoid where it comes to smartphones.
This can be a great way to get traffic to your own eCommerce website. You set up a giveaway that contains options that will send people to your product page. Today we talk about setting all that up and how to promote the giveaway and see the numbers you need!
Sometimes a sale can happen much easier when bundled with another relevant product. Today we look at some of the possibilities and bundles that we find already listed as an example. Also we will cover where and how to get traffic to your listing.
When you find yourself drowning in products from maybe having ordered large lots of them, it can be a frustrating thing. Today we discuss how to get rid of these surplus products in a number of ways. Guest on the call is my brother Joseph Fox, very talented at marketing and doing person to person selling of almost anything.
Today we look at some legacy items as well as any collectible that we might be able to list on eBay. The collectibles business is a great way to double your money or just sell for way more than you had to pay for that item.
Pick up where we left off from last week. Another great method to sell off the products other than what we already covered. Great value bomb in this one as well.
It is almost like nicheing down, but we are taking a certain category and going over all the great things that you can take from that category and start selling it now. Listen in as we talk about the listings from the wholesaler and their cost, as well as looking at the market where they sell for the normal price.
As a startup business idea, you like the thought of going with ecommerce or buying and selling online for profit. So we can always get started by zero money down using the dropship technique. Today we discuss a great idea in getting started the dropshipping way!
Join Leadsleap for traffic to your listings: https://leadsleap.com/?r=jonpf7 We go over some of the very best ideas for not only what to deal in but the many different choices we have in the way to go about dealing in it. Also find out about a website that can bring loads of traffic to your listings!
Today we talk about the types of products that will be obtainable at a low cost but can sell for a nice profit or a higher profit than some other choices. It is a little tricky as some hot selling low cost, high profit products can be quite saturated in the market but we can still get around this to some extent.
We decided to talk about finding products in lots even if they are at random. Search begins on eBay and then on to some other stores to find sellers that can offer a better price.
Episode 132 Today we go all into a product that we know will do a good job after listing it on eBay or Amazon or your own site. We also look at places to find this item and other similar items.
So it can be an ah-ha moment to decide to start-up an ecommerce business but then comes the take action moments, and they can be overwhelming. So what if we just narrow down our focus and at least do one thing each day.
In This episode we talk about creative side of getting started in eCommerce. From changing a problem in everyday life to its solution to not letting analytics do the thinking for you.
In this episode we visit the movers and shakers page and take in good advice from professionals that have been there and done that. Talk about some techniques that can help us get sales without paying for ads.
When it comes to products we buy for resale, it is a must that we are careful to not get that wrong. Today we talk about how that does happen and the things that we can do to help avoid falling short of profiting.
Today that is exactly what we do; we find a product and we find a supplier for that product during this show. You may go about it the way we show here or use this as a reference to go about it your own way. Look for the value bomb we drop in this one!
This episode will explain the top 10 things we need to make sure and have in place as the e-commerce business needs these ground floor basics in order to set up for success.
Today we go into the Ecwid Dashboard and add a product, then we head over to Rafflecopter and start a giveaway. Once we do all that it is time to promote that giveaway and then finally we discuss gift cards and vouchers, how to produce your own digital gift giveaway. Let's promote our offer.
After an inspiring YouTube video on the subject of eCommerce, we set out to bring some of the best ways to come up with a great product to sell. We can make a list of nuggets taken from other sources and then act on that list. In this episode we will go over some great ways of finding products and finding product ideas.
It is what it sounds like, today we go into detail on the process of finding a value price on a smart phone, mostly iPhones, and then selling it on your own website. We talk about selling it on a landing page and of course the giant platforms as well.
So we start the podcast by referring back to eCommerce startup basics and just go over the act of grabbing a single product from around the house and then listing it. The big thing is how we list it, the description itself, along with the pictures that we take of the product. A great point is made which is very important.
What are some of the best dropshipping companies that we can use to get our eCommerce website populated? Today we go into the possibilities and zero in on some that we can get started with.
Today we compare businesses that operate on a break even basis in total revenue to businesses that actually turn at least a 15% profit at the terms end. The idea being to watch out for the revenue rabbit hole and avoid getting stuck there.
Today we find a unique way to identify products that are proven to sell nicely each month. It is not a new technique but it can easily overlooked as we learn to build that startup eCommerce business.
In today's episode we discuss how we need to gather up all of our sell-ready products and get them all listed on our very own website. No matter how long it takes. After that we go into the best way to get immediate eyes on your products over at your very own website. Focused on the freedom of having our own websites rather than being a member of somebody else's platform.
We go around to the start/finish line of the eCommerce start-up conversation over and over, cover as many aspects of getting started in eCommerce as we can think of. But after a while you will have clocked a lot of laps in the study and you have to eventually finish the race! So today we talk about eCommerce Start-ups, and where do we go from here?
Since the word "Marketing" is so broad, we need to focus in on a more specific way or ways to get our products in front of people. Even the words "eCommerce Business" are broad terms and could mean more than meets the eye. eCommerce Start-up people can gain much from this episode and see the sales start happening.
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In these uncertain times there are many items that sell online better than others; in fact, some items just became forgotten or just not on peoples' minds at this time. So we go after an item that we can still find plenty of interest in, and show you how to profit on that item, reselling smart phones online is the scheme of things in this one.
In this podcast show we take a great example of how a beginner can grab an item and list it either on the biggest ecommerce websites or your very own site, and make the sale even if it is your first time. Includes checking out demand for that item and calculating fee & shipping costs along with some great tips!
This episode talks about the different ways that we can make the sale using existing listings and/or just creating a new listing for big ticket items, that is, items that cost more and take a little more work to get the sale. We can do dropshipping or handle the items and ship them ourselves, either way the profits or commissions should pay off nicely.
In this episode we ended up at Wikipedia looking at things that have sold in a certain duration of time and the dates they came on the scene. But we also tore into content that shows things we can be doing to get items that sell fast.
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After a search on "How to really start selling online" I use the commentary of the search results from Duck Duck Go search engine, as the content of today's episode. The commentary will try and debunk some of what is written in the results pages.
Taking a look at the training videos in eComRuler where there is a wealth of hands-on step by step information showing exactly how to build you own eCommerce platform and take payments. You can sell you own products or even set it up to do dropshipping, but it is all yours without a middle man taking payments.
Episode 109 Today we get right into the do's and don'ts of blast listing among other ways to explore getting what we have to offer out there. Particularly looking at some new places in addition to the last weeks landing page training, that we can get our product out there.
In the second part of our alternatives to eBay we go into a simple one-product landing page that is useful for sending people from your posts, tweets and any other social pages you use. Don't forget the power of the video and sending them to make the sale at your free landing page.
Guest host and successful entrepreneur, Eric Brown joins us today....When you get an email from PayPal showing how much of the money was just paid out of the money you just made selling on eBay, it can be very disheartening. You start to realize why you didn't charge enough for your items, but wait; no one will buy them for that much....darn. It can feel like a lose lose situation! What are some alternatives to the expensive eBay?
In this episode we find some top selling items from a list taken from eBay. Discuss what would be a good candidate for purchase and reselling and why. Also the discussion takes us to the concept of using a good big brother to help push us along, as well as what a good alternative to eBay would be.
Today we invited successful small business owner and eCommerce expert; Eric Brown, to get on the show and give us something to consider, as to what we could be doing during this unfortunate crisis, where people everywhere are having to re-think what to do for time and money. Eric will offer some absolutely great ideas for start-up selling.
With the current outbreak there is a spike in online sales, and we talk about some great ideas to take advantage of that. We also show and tell about the products that just sold recently!
During these tough times on our country we focus on finding ways to see the good in things that come from trying times challenges on us all. In this episode we present a product for sale and go over the steps in listing it for sale on eBay!
Okay, we're going all out today. Discussing the ins and outs of buying and reselling online. Be sure to purchase only if you can actually make any money on it otherwise you don't have a business, but if you find the right stuff it can be a lot of fun. Everything is for sale, or so we thought!
In today's discussion we look at many different places to explore where you may be able to get on board with actual suppliers of ps4, xbox one, and other latest video games. See what we find out about those options and if it is even a good idea!
Today we have reached a milestone; we have 100 episodes under our belts. So to commemorate, please allow this look back and the best of the Make My Day eCommerce Podcast, actually this may or may not be the best ones but we jump between the intervals of 10 to recap some moments from the archives.
We are looking for the best sellers to use for our eCommerce business, and today we take a gander over at the sites of eBay and Amazon and look into their best seller lists.
Today's podcast focuses on what is causing so many eCommerce businesses to fail. With an actual list of the top 10 reasons as well as what to avoid so it won't be you, we go over some material and stats but encourage to stay in and get it done along the way.
This episode goes live to show you where a product that sells well can be found and for pennies on the dollar. So we actually get online during the show and find a prosperous set of products ready to be shipped to us for listing.
With the ongoing case study from this podcast, many musical instruments were sold as an example of a good selling item to work with, today we look at some of the best places to list and sell those musical instruments online.
When you feel like playing it safe is restricting your growth a little too much, you can always get yourself a warehouse or maybe just a little storage unit, and then purchase a pallet or two of shelf pulls, for pennies on the dollar, from a liquidation company!
Up to this point we have never really taken out the word "eCommerce" from the concepts of this podcast, but see what happens when we just talk mainly on just selling online.
Title says it all. Today we talk about how popular dropshipping has become and as this business model increases in saturation, putting a dropshipping business together that succeeds is not so easy anymore. In fact; you really might need to be prepared to fail your way to success and not fear it along the way.
As we start a new decade there will be some changes in life and new and exciting things shall present themselves. Today it is all about looking at what could possibly be a sort of new outlook as to finding products to sell in 2020. Can this be your year to really start to prosper?
We discuss the differences in eCommerce business models and the three pillars that make an eCommerce business work well.
When a problem comes along, instead of whip it, you must find a solution. Once you have done that and the problem is solved, now you know what a great selling product is especially if it was a common problem.
So we have been here before at the start/finish line of eBay selling tools, but today we go over them again and point out some available tools that can help us to sell better and they come from the eBay homeland...imagine that!
Today we go through that last 9 episodes of the MMD Podcast and take a look at what exactly we learned in each of those discussions, but along the way we also cover the ultimate best practices for learning how to get yourself up an running in eCommerce online.
We're running out of time to ship for Christmas but we discuss continuing the big picture and not being stressed about selling for the holidays so much.
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It sounds like a simple task but actually setting up shopping on Instagram comes in layers like an onion, first you have to set up a Business Manager and have a page on Facebook. We look at the process and as a case study try and set this up.
This being the first of December we have a short time to come up with a host of products to sell for Christmas. Today we talk about what good products to sell and where to get them or ship them from.
Riding on some tips the discussion shares a different approach in listing on eBay. Why not try to switch from the "buy it now" format to the "auction" format? We can start the common shipping charge to offset the listing costs coming from eBay.
We're pointing the arrow right at the top selling items on eBay. You may not care to deal in these but if you are interested what is the top selling, today's episode goes into that completely!
In the episode the discussion is all about meeting a goal that will have us selling at least 10 a day of any given item. We need to understand that you should have a consistent flow of sales daily in order to really live the dream of owning your own business in eCommerce.
It doesn't do much good to list a bunch of items for sale on the eBay only to discover that they are not selling. Today we take a look at some of the mistakes made in the case study and find possible solutions to go with in the future listings.
Suppliers of products come in so many forms that you might as well be entering the historical wild wild west where men used to shoot each other over a poker game gone wrong. Its disregard for rules and ethics, its lawlessness and you must try and understand it all so you don't end up with a bunch of stuff you cannot make any profit on.
Today the podcast focuses on an expansion of a part topic from last week. We go into finding a unique product, do some commentary on some of these products and then talk more on the dropshipping business. New to the show is the "Product of the day" segment at the end...enjoy!
A start-up ecommerce business should always look at the possibility of dealing in only certain products that we can call a niche. In this episode we talk about the differences between a good niche and a bad niche and what makes it good or bad and why!
As we have talked in the past about how to get more sales on eBay, we revisit the best ways to drum up more traffic to our listing on our own website as well as eBay.
The items that won't take long to sell are usually the one that are most trending to date. Today we go over a list of these trending items and focus on something we can turn easily for nice profits.
Much inspiration comes when watching videos of other people buying & selling online. They are documenting what they are do as they go and the results are tons of views and subscribers who actually become buyers themselves.
Episode 074 The title of this episode seems a little off track of the norm, but it is on purpose that we want to sell well and not necessarily the highest price in order to profit. Being in the game is most important and doing the best we can to sell well is today's topic!
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The episode starts with a search online for the keywords: "how to start an ecommerce business?" and then does a critique and commentary on the first results pages that we come to adding a realistic outlook to the teachings or articles found in those top results.
After a dry spell of selling on eBay we take a look at some ways to generate new action and sales, and what we found is the Pinterest solution. Pinterest is now pointing more toward the eCommerce marketers of the world instead of people to people type social media presence.
One great way to make profits selling products online is to find low cost non-branded products that are quite useful but won't cost as much money to the customer.
Its nice that phones have a life after death so-to-speak, meaning that they can be resold again and again. In this episode we point to some great places to find those phones and how to pick out the sales that can bring in profits at resale...so flipping phones!
So we have built this eCommerce website from our own uploaded platform and have populated it with a nice theme and products and pay buttons, so when should we start drumming up traffic to the site? Is it ready now?
Episode 068 I discuss many different places that you can source products and get you hands on them for much less than normal cost. We look directly at the those sources and bring forward the actions we can take to get going with a profitable purchase now!
Find on sale or under clearance and then list it for the normal price and you have created retail arbitrage, but there are so many other forms of online arbitrage, let's get into some of that today!
Episode 066 As we cross the start / finish line on the subject of getting authorized to sell a product, we start to examine the difference in getting authorized and finding a supplier. Although the two are similar, there is a difference. We take a good look at the differences and what we can do in either direction.
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Episode 065 Today's episode talks about exactly how you can make it happen in eCommerce startup businesses on a low budget. We cover some immediate actions to take to set this business model up. Also see what it means to add "Amazon Pay" to your eCommerce website!
Episode 064 - Recent visits to thrift stores prove to be profitable in that they really increased the bottom line. With the last three finds several hundred dollars are earned in profits. This "Make My Day eCommerce Podcast" episode reveals at least one of those items and how process works so easily!
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