My Top 5 Most Profitable Items Sold This Week

By Danny Gard

For those who are looking for items to buy and sell on eBay here are a few that my colleagues and I made some great money on in the past week. This was a difficult week to sell as it was after Christmas but they still managed to make some great profit. Here are my favorites:

- Microsoft Zune Accessories. Though the Zune is the ugly stepchild of the I-pod, it still sells relatively well. The accessories that can be used for the Zune can be found at many outlet sites online and can be sold for great profit on eBay. Watch for sites to have these on sale, as many do, and sell them for a great price on eBay.

- Portland Trailblazers basketball cards. The Brandon Roy rookie cards are starting to climb as he continues to help the Blazers basketball team. If you can get these cards now, they should continue to go up in price. Especially if he makes the all-star team or if he can take his team to the playoffs.

- Used Gamecube games. You can find these at Yard Sales now. As the new systems are out, the old games are being tossed, My friend found quite a few at a yard sale and sold his for a great amount. The great thing about the Gamecube games is that they are still playable on the new Nintendo Wii, the hottest gaming system out. More Wii players are discovering old games they never played before.

- Indiana Jones, and Star Trek memorabilia. With the new movies coming out, these are and should continue to grow in popularity. These are more difficult to find but will be great resale items in the near future.

- Cutco knives. Surprisingly more and more Cutco knives are being found in obscure places like estate sales and storage shed clear outs. For some great items to sell on eBay, the estate sells and storage shed clearouts are gold mines. Especially for the extremely popular Cutco knives.
Good luck on your eBay sales.

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Danny Gard is an eBay powerseller and employee of eBay. He is also the owner of the GardianGroup which specializes in auctions, and homes for the mentally handicapped. At eBay, he specializes in teaching eBays biggest sellers on how to increase revenue and traffic. His personal website, which sales the nets best tee-shirts, can be found at http://www.shibbyshirts.com They can also be sold in wholesale and bulk numbers for resale on eBay or anywhere.

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Make Your Passion Profitable

By T Dorsey

Once you have found your life purpose, how do you stay true to it? What if living your life purpose does not enable you to make a living? How do you stay the course of the journey when your purpose does not produce enough visible money to enable you to pay your bills?

Often people wonder how they can pursue their passion and meet their financial obligations with ease. One approach to achieving this goal is to begin doing what you are passionate about as a part-time venture while still maintaining your full time employment. Look for opportunities to free lance or do work on a contract basis. This way you test the waters instead of plunging headfirst.

Also, network with people already in the industry you want to enter. You can find out how others made their passion profitable. Do not be timid about asking others for advice. People like talking about their successes. You may also learn about opportunities you can take advantage of without 'quitting your day job' just yet.

As my business as a storyteller got more profitable, I stopped doing birthday parties, coffee houses and other small venues because the clients had limited funds and my work was shaping up to be more suitable for larger venues. At the time, I knew a budding storyteller and I passed those gigs on to her. Not only did she get an opportunity to make money at her passion, but also with a recommendation from me, clients who may not have given a newcomer a shot, were now ringing her phone.

Another approach to ensuring that your life purpose is profitable is to be certain not to narrowly define your life purpose. Brainstorm different ways you can do the work you love. Think about non-traditional avenues to pursue your passion. Explore unconventional methods. Let's say your passion is to have your own therapy practice. If you define your purpose that narrowly (own my own therapy practice) then you limit the opportunities available to you. Define your purpose more broadly such as:

"My life purpose is to use my skills as a mental health practitioner to help couples and families live happier, healthier lives."

Do you see how other avenues become possible with this broadly defined purpose? You could conduct workshops on parenting. You could write articles for industry publications. You could do weekend seminars on subjects related to families and relationships.

To assist you in defining your life purpose and to allow for maximum opportunities, you should write a mission statement. This statement should define what you want to do; for whom you want to do it; and why you want to do it. In our example above:

• What = use my skills as a mental health practitioner
• For whom = couples and families
• Why = to help them live happier and healthier

Having a mission statement also gives you clarity about your life purpose. Your mission statement can be your beacon of light to help you stay the course on your journey to purpose.
To summarize, to make your passion profitable:

• Begin with a part-time venture
• Network to find out how others did it
• Look for unconventional methods
• Broadly define a mission statement of your purpose

Consistently apply these tactics. Stay positive. Keep the faith. Soon you will find that the profits begin to roll in.

T. Dorsey is an author, performing and teaching artist who uses stories, poetry and songs to inspire and heal others. After many years in corporate America working as a training consultant, she followed her heart and stepped out on faith. T. Dorsey's e-book, Journey to Purpose: Simple Guide to Discovering Your Life Purpose (http://www.JourneytoPurpose.net) is powerful tool that can help you find your life calling. For more personal development tips, check out T. Dorsey's blog http://www.journeytopurposeblog.blogspot.com

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Product Creation Secrets - The Key To Creating A Successful, Profitable eBook

By James Penn

Product creation is one of the most important aspects of internet marketing. In order to be a recognised success, you need to have your own information products, in the form of eBooks.
Many people go about creating their products the wrong way though. They make one fundamental error that ultimately contributes 100% to their downfall.

This one mistake is simply providing a poor quality product. A product that doesn’t deliver on its promises. A product that fails to teach the reader what it should. Ultimately, a product that is worthless and a waste of the customers’ hard earned money.

By producing a poor quality eBook, the publisher sacrifices the insane amount of profits they could be making in sales.

Word of mouth is the most powerful marketing tool, and without a quality product do you really think customers are going to recommend their friends and family? Do you think JV partners will want to promote your product? Do you think affiliates will join your affiliate programme and start generating you sales? Do you think anyone in their right mind will want to be associated with your product in any way whatsoever?

I’d be embarrassed to put my name on a low quality product, and hopefully, you would be to… so don’t!

Creating a quality product takes no longer than it would if you were to create a poor eBook, so get it right from the start and make your product stand out from the endless amount of other products already available.

James Penn is an experienced niche marketer who has developed and profitably marketed a library of niche eBooks and reports. To discover how to create an insane passive income online by creating tiny reports, visit http://www.shortreportprofits.com

He also builds and manages a number of niche opt-in lists using a systematic marketing process, find out the process at http://www.insanepassiveincome.com