Is This Making Money Online?

by Steve Sherron

Is This Making Money Online?

This may be one of the shortest articles I’ve ever written here on BloggerLens but I would like to pose a question to you. This week , I made a focused effort to sell some items from around my house. I shut out most all other distractions. I took pictures, I made a couple of videos highlighting the products. I posted to Ebay, Craigslist and to a related Forum for the items I was selling.

I focused like a laser beam and didn’t let up until I had properly marketed and posted my items for sale. As a result, in 3 days I have made my first sale from the items I’m pushing. Total revenue, $250 placed into my PayPal account this morning. I realize that this is not what people normally think of when you mention making money online.

So I ask you this. With the effort I put forth with the ultimate goal of making the sale, in much the same way as getting someone to click on my Adsense or Amazon affiliate link, do you consider what I did as making money online?

Your thoughts?

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Tagged as: Craigslist, Ebay, PayPal

  • ssherron
    @Lissie What is the link to that hub? This produced such easy money in such a short time that I certainly wish I could duplicate it over and over but I don't have enough stuff around my house. These items were actually fishing rod's and reels. I knew they would go quickly. Now the search is on to find those items that sell quickly and I can duplicate over and over. Ok people, send me your junk!
  • You bet your sweet ***** it is. It is not passive and recurring or residual, whatever your favorite term is for that, but it sure as **** is making money online. Just another online income stream. Are you going to repeat the process?
  • I wrote a relevant hub about this a while back (link on my name). I'd say what you are doing is making some short term money online, you could make it a business by finding an ongoing source of product (local garage sales, your crafts, dropshipping) then it would be an online business. It wouldn't be a very passive income business though - cause you'd have to keep working at it - answering customer orders etc - but definitly a business
  • Medic
    sure. Money online is money online. You should always have more than one stream of income online. That includes jumping on opportunities that present itself. This was an opportunity moment.
  • Yes, this is making money online. I guess "if" you were looking at using the vehicle of ebay and craiglist as a viable way to earn a living, you'd have to:
    1) have lots of crap laying around your house, enought to last years
    2) be willing to do all the shipping and such

    I guess that is why I don't sell on ebay and the like because I don't wanna deal with actual customers in that manner.
    However, there are lots of people that make a lot of money selling stuff on ebay and if you used your video skills and marketing skills to sell stuff there regularly, I think it would be a super successful venture. If you like, i will send you all of my old fat boy clothes and you can sell them for me! LOL

    BTW--I am gonna send you a 6-pack of the '312' ..ping me your address later today. I don't think I would get in trouble sending beer in the mail would I?
    ...like I care anyway, LMAO
    AL
  • ssherron
    @Eric I agree with you. I was curious as to how others felt. I almost never hear anyone speak of Ebay, Craigslist etc. when discussing making money online. I liked doing it this way but will soon run out of junk to sell.
  • Eric
    Of course it is, if you sell something online, that's what it's all about. Whether it's your product, someone else's, or getting a click for cash, it's all the same.

    Without the internet, how would you have sold those items...garage sale?
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