I am a big fan of set em and forget em scripts and software and this one is a gem. This set em and forget it software is for eBay… the #1 online auction site in the world. I’ve been using Instant  Auction Site software  for a while now and am very impressed with the results. 

With more than $40 million a day in business transacted on eBay,  selling eBay items successfully is an art AND a science. Finding the right item to sell is the key. The good news is that eBay offers so many different forms of  products. You just need to do a little research to help you determine  if you are selling the right item.

To be a success with your Instant Auction Sites you must do your planning and market research, offer something unique, and pin point your target market.

How to Find Your Niche Market on Ebay

Many of us dream of working from home by selling products through eBay. But what would we sell? And how would we know if a market exists for the items we have? To avoid building niche sites that nobody wants, some research is in order. The goal of this research is to find your eBay niche.

I will show you how I do research and create my list for a new eBay niche site.  First I go to eBayand select a category. As you can see from the eBay home page I have alot of general categories to choose from.

eBay Catagory List

For this demonstration I decided to go with Pet Supplies.  Since Pet Supplies is a huge niche and covers everything from birds to reptiles I will go with Americas very popular pet, dogs. 

For many just starting out with niche building the key is to find a product that you’re already familiar with. Perhaps you’ve been a collector of antiques for many years. If so, you probably know when you come across a targeted keyword / item that could potentially sell to a large group of collectors.

Likewise, you have a good idea of which items you should avoid – items that are likely to collect cyber dust and not sell very well. You can put this knowledge to work for you on your eBay niche site. Your expertise with antiques gives you an edge over many competitors. Which keywords would you do a search for online?

Once I have a good idea of the niche I want to target, it’s time for the second half of my preliminary work. I open up my notepad (word is ok but to enter them later in the Instant Auction Site software notepad works better) and copy & paste the search results from eBay. These are my main keywords.  But, I will have to tweak them to get the results I want.

Tweaking Your Keyword List:

Once I have my Keyword list on notepad it’s time to tweak. First I need to remove anything I don’t want on my site. I am going to remove Tents and Canopies, Ramps and Stairs, and Signs & Plaques. Those are not dog supply items I want to target.

Next I have to make the rest of my list keyword related. Dogs is just too broad so I am going to drill deeper into the dog supply niche so as a large dog owner,  I am going to target ‘large’ dogs. I could drill deeper and select ‘extra large dog’  but my keyword list is based on seller keywords in eBays marketplace and after a eBay search ‘extra large dog’ didn’t provide a large enough selection. The ‘large dog’ search produced enough products for my niche site.  

So now I want to add Large &  Dog in front of most of my niche specific keywords and separate any keywords grouped together with {&} like Pooper Scoops & Bags.  Since most of the keywords are general and can be used for any size dog {flea and tick} I just added the word Dog or Pet in front of those.

Now my tweaked keyword list looks like this:

Next is domain name research. For this post I did my search on Bing. 

I came up with several options. Large Dog is a definite keeper since this is my main niche theme and has produced a large variety of results – all products that I will have on my Instant Auction Site. Everything I see on my Bing search has to do with supplies. So my domain search will include the keywords large, dog and supplies. Pretty simple so far right?

Next I go to GoDaddy to do the domain search. I lucked out with a dot net site “ largedogsupplies.net “. Usually it’s not this easy and I have to get a little creative.

Large Dog Supplies Domain Search

Now I open my Instant Auction Site software and enter my information. For this step I will have my eBay campaign ID, Domain information, keyword list, and AdSense Pub ID ready. If you want to add additional ClickBank or affiliate products you will need to have this information ready as well. (item, pictures, and affiliate link)

 And the Result? Large Dog Supplies dot net 

Not to bad for a few hours work eh?

Traffic and Sales

For many affiliate sellers, waiting is the hard part. But you’ll need patience for this phase of your niche-finding project. Monitor your traffic, keywords  and sales and see how they perform. If they do well, you can build up your stock even more and increase your niche sites. If they don’t quite live up to your expectations, you can research your keywords again to target the most profitable ones or you can go back to square one. Pick another niche from eBay and start researching it.

Harness the Potential of eBay

See one auction site I put up in just a few hours.  Electronics New and Used

Camping and Hiking Gear for Outdoor People is an addon to a blog I created that didn’t take long once I had the system down. I just did the research on eBay and the rest was a snap.

Zhu Zhu Hamster Pets earned me money the first day I put it online.

Instant Auction Sites enables you to earn money from FOUR different income streams:

- eBay auctions affiliate program
- Your own product OR other affiliate products
- Google AdSense
- Text Link Ads

You could well get your first eBay affiliate niche store up and running and be ready to make money in just ten minutes time..  even if you have no technical knowledge! All you need is the domain name and time for some keyword research. In just a few hours, you can potentially have dozens of eBay mini sites in all kinds of niches acting as automated sales profit machines.

If your observations were mostly positive, you may have found your eBay niche already. In that case, go out and start building up your niche sites. Don’t go overboard; you’re still in the testing phase. Then send traffic to them.

The key to finding a good niche through eBay, as with many challenges in life, is simply to never quit. If you have a wide variety of interests, you’re more likely to find a profitable niche. Think of all the things you enjoy doing, making, or collecting. Then come up with a list of ten items related to each. Let your imagination roam, and you’ll carve out your Ebay niche in no time.

Imagine having the ability to generate HUNDREDS of search engine optimized, traffic pulling & cash producing eBay affiliate niche sites with just a few clicks of the mouse! Just 5 simple steps to creating your first eBay affiliate mini store! (Doesn’t require much technical knowledge at all due to it’s user friendly interface )

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