You’ll have heard people say ‘One good idea is all it takes to become incredibly rich’, but those people never seem to tell you what that one good idea is.  In fact there are hundreds of very good ideas, commonplace and unusual, that can be used to turn your eBay business into a big profit moneymaker every week from now to forever. 

Such as one of my own top favourites!

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When you’re looking for profitable products for your business and you research items other people are selling successfully on eBay, instead of looking for products similar to theirs, look for complementary products that will benefit those other people’s customers and which in some cases are absolutely essential to buyers.   I’m reminded of mega-marketer Bill Myers suggesting goods to complement his own best selling products, in one case he mentions writing and publishing a book of juice recipes to sell to people buying juice makers.

Alternatively, the product you source might help people acquire similar products at much lower cost than their hot selling counterparts on eBay.  

Apply that theory to eBay by looking for items to accompany current hot selling products in one or two or more eBay categories.  Do this by visiting the Pulse Pages, look bottom of the page where you’ll find currently most visited listings, then click inside a few to calculate sales figures for some of those products in the last few weeks. 

For example, currently bottom of the page at http://pulse.ebay.co.uk are two listings for sheds.  That’s almost certainly because winter is coming and that’s when people look for sheds to store bulbs and furniture, hanging baskets and garden ornaments, alongside other paraphernalia bought for their gardens during the summer months.

So sheds are currently just one popular product for which buyers might needs an accompanying product or which may suggest an altogether different product for you to source. 

This is a great game to play, given those two shed listings show that one eBayer sold 26 sheds in the last four months at £695 each, the other sold 241 sheds in the same four month period at just under £200 apiece. 

We may not want to sell sheds, though for the life of me I can’t work out why, but at least we know the market is hot for sheds right now.  So how about selling wood preservative, for example, to protect those sheds, or additional shelving, or roofing?

And the fact there’s a recession going on is probably the reason more people bought those cheaper sheds than others costing almost four times more.  Do you think other people wanting sheds might like to save more money on their forthcoming acquisition?  Certainly they would, and for me the best way to serve those people is by promoting plans showing how to create their own shed or have someone else make it for them.  I suspect that’s why a solitary Classified Ad. on eBay.com features one of ClickBank’s most popular products, about making sheds and other garden structures, and by the look of it that Classified Ad. is doing very well indeed.  There’s another idea that can be applied across a wide range of eBay categories, sub-categories, and individual products.

Back to eBay UK’s Pulse Pages, let’s turn now to ‘Consumer Electronics’, where bottom of the page you’ll find two of the currently most visited listings are for Plasma TV Wall Brackets, of which one listing sold 1,137 at £49.99 apiece in the last three months, the other has sold 2,146 of a bracket priced at £29.99.  Here’s the surprise, both sales are from the same person!  Lucky man!  But looking further I find thousands of TV brackets selling on eBay each month and that makes me wonder what else those people might require which is not yet offered on eBay. 

No I don’t have a product in mind for people buying plasma TV wall brackets on eBay, but there will be one and it’s your job to find it, along with complementary products for thousands of other best selling items you’ll find from regular visits to eBay Pulse Pages.