As the economy struggles, more and more people are turning to the internet looking for potential earning opportunities. According to Adam Ginsberg, the hugely successful eBay entrepreneur and internet marketing expert, eBay is by far the most popular e-commerce website owing to its popularity, profitability and its ever growing user base. Adam Ginsberg gives his valuable insight and advice on how to get started on eBay and make it extremely profitable for yourself.

Right Price

When selling on eBay, it is always a good idea to see what your competition is doing. If you see the completed listings of products similar to what you are selling, you will get a fair idea of the bidding trends and price variations on the products. Secondly, keep the reserve price of your item as low as possible to attract more and more bidders. Successful eBay sellers do this as they know that they will get a fair price by the time the bidding ends.

Right Time

The ending time for an auction is very important in order to attract more buyers. Research has shown that the best time to end an auction is between 6:30 PM and 10:30 PM as potential bidders are back from work and are unwinding for the day, of which the internet is a very important part.

 

Shipping Options

While selling your products on eBay, do a little research on what your competitors are offering shipping-wise. While many buyers may not bother too much about it, shipping costs could play an important role in selling your products. If your competitors are offering free shipping, then it may be wise for you to do the same; however, if you do have to charge for shipping, then you should start at a lower starting price for your auctions and clearly mention the shipping charges.

 

Photos Talk

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but the quality of the picture will determine the language. While it is very important to add pictures of your products, it is equally important to have accurate and properly lit pictures for your potential customers to get a feel of your product. So, investing in a good camera setup may not be a bad idea to get ahead in your eBay business.

These tips from Adam Ginsberg will help a great deal in achieving success in your eBay business as they are shared from his own extensive experience as a hugely successful eBay seller. If you have any experiences or tips of your own that you’d like to share with us, we’d love to hear from you. Write to us at the given email address.
 
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Whenever someone mentions, or even wonders aloud if they should take out insurance for their children, a hot debate kicks off. Every single time!

 This is probably one topic of personal finance/insurance that doesn’t seem to have unanimity on either side. Adam Ginsberg, the online entrepreneurship and wealth-building coach, too studied the various arguments and has decided to put forth his views on the subject.

First and foremost, taking out insurance for children is a sensitive topic for parents as each parent thinks differently about the welfare of their children. Hence, the decision to buy or not to buy life insurance for children should be left entirely to the parents. But here are a few arguments, both for and against, that Adam Ginsberg believes should be shared with parents so as to help them take an informed, albeit an emotional decision.  

The one argument that leans heavily in favor of buying insurance for children is to allow them to enjoy insurance coverage later in their lives in case they end with a chronic illness or a disability which renders them uninsurable. If this is the argument that you as a parent are going to consider then Adam Ginsberg suggests buying a whole life insurance policy, which will keep your child insured for his or her entire life, and also give them some returns in terms of the cash value of the policy. If that is the way you are going to go as a parent, then experts advise buying a renewable term plan for a high value makes more sense, and that too which has the option of converting into a whole life policy later.

On the other hand, the pundits believe that that purpose of insurance is to cover the loss of wage or income in the event of the insured person’s demise, and since children are not earning any livelihood, it is pointless to take out insurance policies for them. Instead, investing in a good 529 plan or IRA make better sense in the case of children. Click here to read more about what various experts think about this never ending argument.

To know more about Adam Ginsberg’s views on personal finance and about his eBay tools and software, go here.


 
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My name is Adam Ginsberg and I’ve been helping millions of people just like you use eBay software programs such as eBay Listing Software to grow their home based business. Today, I’m going to give you a brief introduction to this software and tell you how to use it an optimum efficiency for maximum profit. I’ve been using eBay software for many years and have become known as one of the best eBay Sellers out there!

eBay software programs such as the eBay Listing software program is an easy to use application that allows you to easily create listings of all the products you are selling on your auction site. It’s very simple. It can be used to sell one or multiple products at one time.

There are many different types of eBay listing software programs available on the Internet today. It’s important that you do your research and pick out the program that is right for you. I use a variety of different programs based on my unique needs so you will definitely need to look around first. What kinds of products are you selling? How can they be listed in an easy-to-read format that your buyers will love (and buy!)?

In a nutshell, the eBay listing program helps eBay sellers like yourself create lists of products on your eBay storefront. There are many different themes to choose from. Make sure your theme is consistent and fits in with your overall brand messaging. You can also use an HTML editor to customize your eBay listing program even more.

The best part of this listing software is that it lets you create categories for your goods. You can also easily learn eBay functions like the ability to set and forget your eBay auctions. One of my favorite features is to list multiple auctions at one time. You will definitely start depending on your software.

Overall, eBay software programs such as the eBay listing program is a great addition to your marketing toolbox. It will help you become a more efficient and profitable seller online. Should you have any questions relating to this post please feel free to contact me.

Posted on behalf of Adam Ginsberg by the Adam Ginsberg Team

 
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Do you dream of owning your own business? Does the idea of setting your own hours make you weak in the knees? Becoming an eBay entrepreneur might be the perfect job for you. My name is Adam Ginsberg and I found my success by becoming an eBay PowerSeller. Many years ago, I was like you and I worked a regular nine-to-five job. I dreamed of starting my own business but worried about leaving the security of my regular job. Finally, I decided to make the jump to become an eBay entrepreneur and I haven’t looked back since. Here’s how I did it:

Do Your Research eBay takes about 9% of every transaction you make online. There are other fees such as fees and shipping costs as well. Make sure you do your research when it comes to becoming an eBay entrepreneur. Visit the eBay site often and research other businesses like yours. How do they market their services and products? How can you set yourself apart from the completion? You have to differentiate yourself to become successful using eBay

Make a Plan Before you create your eBay account, make a business plan. Successful entrepreneurs always have a plan of action. Put your research to work. Purchase the eBay software you need, take pictures of your products, and map out how you will sell them online. You should also create a budget and marketing plan. Take advantage of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn to market your products and services.

Re-Evaluate Your Progress Every Three Months  You should re-evaluate your progress on eBay every three months.  Set aside some time to see what works and what doesn’t. Are you selling as much as you thought you would? What marketing tactics have worked and what has tanked? How is your supply and demand? Do you need to hire additional help? These are some of the questions you should ask yourself every three months.

Many people dream of owning their own business. Becoming an eBay entrepreneur is a great choice for many individuals. Make sure you do your research, make a plan and re-evaluate your progress every three months to ensure success. If you want help with your eBay selling plan, please feel free to contact me anytime. I look forward to hearing from you.

Posted on behalf of Adam Ginsberg by the Adam Ginsberg Team Adam Ginsberg is helping people to become financially independent with his resources like eBay templates, eBay software and eBay tools. If you want to know more about his resources you can visit Secrets of an Auction Millionaire, Success with Adam or even Adam’s main website.  You can also listen to some testimonials of his satisfied customers.


 
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If you are young and have a stable career, then you should look at starting to save for your retirement (if you haven’t started already). Remember, the sooner you start, the bigger your retirement fund will be. Heck! You may even be able to retire much earlier too. Imagine playing golf or relaxing by your beach house on a weekday by the time you are 45, or even 50. No more Monday blues or rush hour traffic. Sounds great, doesn’t it? It is possible, provided you start building up your retirement fund early, and build it right.

We all know that the economy doesn’t look good right now, but the depression isn’t going to last forever. The stock market’s volatility has eroded many a retirement funds, and don’t seem to be recovering any time soon. But, there are other avenues where you can invest to beat the volatility of the stock market or the low returns on cash deposits, not to mention the ever growing inflation. For instance if we take the annual inflation rate at 4% (an average of the last few decades), then a fund of $1 million after 30 years will be roughly equivalent to $300,000 in today’s value. So do the math and figure out how fat your retirement fund should be to live on comfortably after you stop working.

 Adam Ginsberg, a highly successful entrepreneur and wealth-building coach, recommends two key areas to invest in that can boost up your retirement fund beyond the cost of inflation.

1. Gold That’s right! The good ol’ shiny, yellow metal. Gold prices have beaten the economic downturn, the crashing stock markets, the economic depression, and have risen the most in the past decade. Gold has always been a practical investment for the pragmatic citizen. The rising inflation and the eroding value of paper money have had little effect on the value of this precious metal. Adam Ginsberg strongly recommends including this commodity in your retirement nest egg. Now, you could buy gold in a variety of ways too. The most common is to buy this metal in the physical form of bullion bars or coins. But remember when buying physical gold that while bullion bars are available at prevailing market prices, coins, on the other hand, are priced at perceived collector value. The second option is to invest in Gold ETFs (exchange traded funds), which too are traded at the prevailing market rates. This way you do not have to take physical possession of gold but instead get fund certificates, which are easy to store and faster to liquidate.

2. Real Estate If “are you kidding me?” is the thought in your mind right now, read on and you’ll know why Adam Ginsberg recommends investing in real estate. Sure, real estate has probably felt the worst brunt of the economic crash in the last few years, which is exactly why it makes such a lucrative investment option. Home prices are probably at their lowest right now and so are mortgage interest rates. So, go ahead and buy yourself a home. Take out a mortgage on it and pay it off. Over years the demand for real estate will grow, because the population will grow and the economy must grow, so the prices will grow. Secondly, once you’ve paid off your mortgage, redirect your mortgage installments to more traditional retirement savings. Third, once you retire you can consider selling off your current home and buy yourself something smaller, which could possibly get you some extra cash to spend in your retirement years.

 While these investment options come highly recommended by Adam Ginsberg, you should do your own research before you decide to put your money into them. And, if you come across some more lucrative areas to put your retirement money into, we’d love to hear about them.

Adam Ginsberg helps people to become financially independent with his resources like eBay auction templates, eBay software and other eBay tools. If you want to know more about his resources you can visit Secrets of an Auction Millionaire, Success with Adam or even Adam’s main website.  You can also listen to some testimonials from his satisfied customers.


 
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Remember how carefree and adventurous we are in the prime of our youth. Remember the exhilaration of landing our first real job (summer jobs in school not counting) and the pride in getting our first paycheck that we end up blowing, in just a day or two, on buying stuff for ourselves, our friends and our family. Remember all the subsequent paychecks that end up the same way and we are broke after just a few days of payday, and live off our friends or family till the next payday arrives. Living for the day sounds like a great motto and there’s no worrying about the future. Soon we are in the middle of our careers, doing well for ourselves and looking up in our lives, planning to settle down, own a nice house, maybe get married and have a kid or two.

That’s when we realize how expensive living can be. That’s the period in our lives where we are only working to make mortgage payments, tuition fees and insurance premiums. Our own dreams and personal goals are put on the back burner till “retirement”. And then it hits us—we won’t have a salary to live on when we retire—and knocks the wind out of our sails. How are we going to live after we retire, we ask ourselves. How will we maintain our lifestyle? How will we travel? How will we do all that we hoped to do and still make the day-to-day expenses and the monthly bills? By planning for it, of course, says Adam Ginsberg, one of America’s well-known coaches and mentors on internet entrepreneurship and wealth building.

Here are Adam Ginsberg’s top tips for building up a big fat retirement fund that will not stop you from doing anything that you want in your golden years.

Top Tip #1

Start Early

That’s right: start saving for your retirement as early as you can. While you may have to cut back on a few parties and extravagant meals, you can put away a lot more when you are young and single than when you settle down and comforts become a priority. Also, when you start saving in your youth, you can put more money in high-risk portfolios that could get you high returns by the time you reach retirement.

Top Tip #2

Diversify your portfolio  

There are many investment options available for you to plan not only your retirement fund, but also all your needs up to retirement. There are saving accounts for emergencies, IRA and Roth IRA accounts to balance your tax savings and retirement savings, 401 (K) accounts, mutual funds for balanced growth of funds, real estate investments to keep up with inflation and so much more. It all starts with what your goals are and the research you put in.

Top Tip #3

Involve your Family

To meet any goals that you may set yourself, it will be equally important to get your spouse’s support in meeting those goals. It’ll be even better if you and your spouse share the same retirement goals, because then you’d both know the sacrifices and hard work it would take to meet those goals. If you have kids, it would be a great idea to involve them in the discussions as well. This will not only teach them the value of money early in their lives, but also the good habits of saving for the future.  And, you never know, they just might surprise you by springing for their college education (or a part of it) themselves when the time comes.

For more tips and tricks on how to build your retirement fund, or if you have any tips of your own that you’d like to share with us, we’d love to hear from you.

Adam Ginsberg is helping people to become financially independent with his resources like eBay templates, eBay software and eBay tools. If you want to know more about his resources you can visit Secrets of an Auction Millionaire, Success with Adam or even Adam’s main website.  You can also see some testimonials of his satisfied customers.


 
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According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a scam is defined as ‘a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation’. And an even simpler definition for kids is ‘a dishonest way to make money by deceiving people’. Take for example, the Ponzi scheme, or emails from Nigeria or some other country offering you millions of Dollars in exchange for a small amount of money to execute the transfer. Some scam artists even go to the extent of declaring you lottery or sweepstake winners and just ask you to pay the tax component of your winnings beforehand. Yes, these are scams, but none of them will sell you a product that you can use.

Adam Ginsberg offers products and online business tools to help those who purchase them. Ginsberg asks people to pay money to buy his products in order to help them generate a healthy income for themselves by using these products. Adam Ginsberg does not scam people; he is not a con artist. He is just a businessman trying to sell his wares. And a successful businessman at that! Adam Ginsberg is respected as a pioneer and one of the foremost authorities on eBay entrepreneurship, having sold millions of dollars worth of products on eBay and other places on the internet for over 10 years.

Mr. Ginsberg has grown from being a successful trader to developing his own system that he has used to make money for himself before putting it out on the market for other people to buy and use for their own successes. He has training programs to teach people how to use his product. He offers a money-back guarantee and a year-long performance guarantee. Can it get any more legitimate than that? These types of assurances and guarantees are not the kinds of things you’ll find in a scam.

But like any other business, there are bound to be some dissatisfied customers. There are people who have found his system, after allegedly implementing its procedures, to be inadequate in their efforts to turn a profit. Their inability to succeed at their venture could be due to any number of reasons, but they blame Adam for it, and label their experience as an “Adam Ginsberg Scam”.

The complaint from these dissatisfied customers is that Adam Ginsberg’s products “don’t work”. The truth is, there are thousands of people out there who are making it work rather profitably. Those that complain about Ginsberg say they don’t get any support from him and his team; but Adam Ginsberg makes himself personally available for any customer who wants to talk to him. He has a dedicated team of customer support officers available on email and toll-free phone numbers to help with complaints or any allegations of scam or fraud.

Sure, sometimes there can be delays in getting a resolution for an odd complaint, but what business doesn’t have these delays? Adam Ginsberg is human, and so is his business venture. The fact that people have differing experiences of success and failure does not imply that there’s an Adam Ginsberg scam. Different people will use his products differently, and get different results from it.  What is sad though, is that people who are unsuccessful or dissatisfied are quick to jump on their keyboards and brand Adam Ginsberg as a fraud and a scam artist on the internet, without realizing that their irresponsible words are accessible to hundreds of millions around the world, and sets off a chain reaction of rumor mills and free-flowing, ill-informed opinions that not only tarnish the reputation of a businessman like Adam Ginsberg but also deprives so many people of the wonderful opportunities that Adam has to offer.

So, if you are one of those people who are not satisfied with Adam’s products, and tempted to consider them some sort of scam, Mr. Ginsberg invites you to get on the phone and speak to him before you unleash your anger on the internet. Adam is waiting for your call.


 
The team here at Ginsberg hopes that this article by  Kevin Mulligan about how to save money through credit cards is helpful.  You can read the original and full article here.

Your credit card spending says a lot about you; it might even say things that you don’t even realize. There are many things you can learn from your credit card bill. Which ones can have the biggest financial impact on your life?

Of course your credit card bill is going to show you how much money you spent last month, but you knew that. Did you know it could show you many other things?

One of the greatest tools you gain access to by putting a majority of your spending on a credit card is a categorical look at your spending. For many people simply figuring out where they spent that $20 bill or what that $72 check last month was for is complicated. You don’t get any trend data or the ability to look at your spending from a 30,000 foot view.

However, when you use a credit card, you do.

At minimum the major credit card companies offer a year-end statement that will break the last year’s worth of spending down into major categories. The best accounts will let you sort, analyze, and dig in to those categories – even down to specific stores.

With these modifiable views you can take a thorough look at your spending to figure out:

  • Where you spent the most money last year
  • How much you spent on groceries versus eating out
  • How much you spent on car insurance
  • How much you spent on utilities
  • How much you wasted on interest and fees
You might be surprised by what you find. For example, if you spent just as much money eating out as you did on groceries, it might be time to pack a brown bag lunch more often. The spending analysis can help you change your spending for the coming year in a positive way.

If you are using a credit card wisely you shouldn’t have anything in this category. But hey, sometimes life happens, right? Seeing how much interest you paid on the balance and how much it will cost you to pay off with just minimum payments should encourage you to avoid paying interest moving forward.

If you unfortunately need to carry a balance for a long period of time, knowing your interest rate is the first step in finding a better deal. If your credit card is charging you 15% to 20%, you need to find a card with a low interest rate, a balance transfer offer, or both.

Maybe you’re a responsible credit card user that signed up for the card a long time ago. You know you get some sort of rewards for your spending, but can’t remember how much. Your statement will have a breakdown of what kind of rewards you are earning.

This can help you in two ways:

You might find out you have the perfect card for you. Then again, you might discover that you don’t spend any money in the best categories on that card and there is a different card available that offers you much better rewards for the areas you do spend in. Moving to a new card might earn you an extra 1-3% per year on your spending. That doesn’t sound like much, but over thousands of dollars of responsible credit card use it really adds up.