Yes well, all I know is you are looking at your 'sales' business the wrong way and not assessing the full picture.
You are treating your business like a hobby, or extra thing to do. You don't want to do that. You want to treat your business, like a business.
So for instance for me, what I discovered is I could be a heck of a lot more successful selling OFF of eBay than bothering to really continue with eBay.
What I discovered is that eBay just isn't a very realistic marketplace for dropshipping anything, and that was a while ago and I saw the inside of the court system as proof of that fact.
VERO and the like have completely ruined the eBay experience, and for whatever reason they are like thieves of a different sort. So once in a while, you might find something worthy on eBay and what I mean is rare vintage items. Usually things that can be auctioned off, not sold. I don't see eBay any longer a real sales environment.
So once in a while I might have something I have to auction off, that's fine and I put it on eBay or eBid something of that variety.
But all the other times, I pick my niches on my own which requires quite a bit of searching and pointed work. Then I make sure my niches are in stock, of course I even do background research.
To top it off, I sell all my merchandise through official merchant stores like Amazon or Godaddy as those are the places to make real profits. They're designed for selling goods and products, of any kind especially dropshipping.
And I mean products that have been routinely checked. I screen every product I sell so I'm never dealing with someone like the real nasty type who works at eBay. Every single product is screened and fulfilled by me, shipped by me, and on the back end I do almost no work at all except administrative.
Then obviously, the profit margins are high and always very good. Because I'm just doing straight sales of all my products, and I can advertise them everywhere on my own since this is a business.
To give you an idea, I have one ad that goes out to 600,000 list subscribers. I have another ad that goes out to another 300,000. I have another ad that reaches over 1 million people with a few days, and yet another one which I advertise in intervals of more than 90,000 a shot.
These are all people seeing my offers, genuinely interested in finding a particular product or just buying it up like I suggested. They also then will buy from me direct at ioffer.com or something else to that extent, and what matters is traffic and content.
By treating my business like a business, it has been quite good to me. But I had to get over that small 'jump' and not limit the vision. I may advertise to well over 50 million people. But it brings in the sales, and it brings in the Clickbank sales in addition, so it works and it works fast.
And I will do that on a regular basis so that I'm in control of my business, NOT eBay. eBay no longer has any say in what goes on in MY business. Because anytime I use eBay or even have a need to use it, its done on my terms only.
And that's because I do have the capacity to generate that level of traffic now, I can advertise my business & products drop-shipped or whatever else on twitter, on 30 other social networks, and in front of well over 40-60 million people and I can be absolutely 100% confident that they will sell & the profits will fly inward. That may seem like a heck of a lot, but suddenly it's rather easy to advertise that far. And that I can then triple my traffic again, and bring in even more added.
And I can be 100% confident that when my marketing has reached its max potential, something as archaic as eBay will be phased out completely. It's just you and your business after all. So I recommend treat it like a business, and do whatever you feel is best to obtain those results all the time. Forget doing the same old thing to change them.
