Tip one for buying wholesale

When I first started selling items on-line on http://www.ebay.com I sold items “I thought” people would be interested in, I couldn’t have been further away from the truth. I didn’t do a thorough research on my market, thinking that people would surely like what I had for sale, wrong. The reality is research and testing is the name of the game when it comes to selling on-line or off-line. Why invest your hard earned dollars into a product/service that you think is a sure thing; to find out that people don’t want or need what you have to offer. You should search and find out if people truly want what you have to offer. You should look for items to sell and services to provide that offer solutions to most people’s problems. A great tool to use to see what keywords people are searching for online and that’s free is: http://inventory.overture.com. Ex) If you’re looking to sell wholesale or to become a wholesaler, put in the keyword wholesale, discount wholesale products, buy wholesale, etc, to see how many people are searching this term. 5,000 or more searches a month from search engines like Google.com or yahoo.com indicates a healthy market.