My sister took two bags of gently used name brand children’s clothing to her favorite consignment shop the other day. They told her they’ve decided to discontinue the consignment section of the shop and just sell new clothes. She was pretty upset, because she usually got a large percentage of the purchase price of the clothes back and could buy the kids’ wardrobe for the next season from the consignment sales.

When she told me about the loss of her consignment outlet, I suggested she try selling them on eBay. I got her all the For Dummies guides and showed her a few of my favorite blogs and sites about selling on eBay. Well, it takes time to photograph the clothing, upload the pictures and write good auction listings, so she asked me to do it instead. It is something I’ve been thinking about getting back into anyway, because I really used to do well with eBay.

If you want to sell on eBay and you don’t have a whole backlog of stuff to list like I do, you may want to look into another option - using a dropshipping company like Doba.com. They have a free trial option so you can decide if dropshipping is right for you.

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If you have hobbies you want to share information on, you want to drive traffic to a blog, or you just want to write about some obscure topic and don’t want to buy a domain name and hosting for it, you are a strong candidate for my new addiction - Squidoo. I love how easy it is to use Squidoo and I have gotten some traffic from it.

However, if you are in it for the money, be warned. It is slow going. Earnings build slowly as you make and promote more and more of your lenses. If you are making lenses on topics that aren’t popular, you may never see earnings from Squidoo.  Some people with popular lenses say they’ve made hundreds, mostly from their own affiliate sales.

By the way, if you do get into Squidoo and want to learn more, Tiffany Dow has an excellent e-book on using Squidoo that is well worth the low price. I read the whole thing twice the day I got it and I “blame” her for my addiction!