Many ebay new comers will wonder how can they can make money selling on ebay when they are just starting with very few feedback rating in their hands. You are probably reading this because you were searching for tips on how to quickly start and become successful selling products on eBay – you want to become an eBay PowerSeller.

Who are the Powersellers?

PowerSellers have a combination of high sales volume, at least 98% positive feedback, and at least $1000 a month in income.

Powersellers have a good number of feedback rating to back their reputation. Buyers will not trust a new ebayer as compared to a Powerseller. If you are selling the same item as a Powerseller at even a lower price, chances are a buyer will choose to buy from the Powerseller.  The reputation is very important in the eBay marketplace as buyers will not want to risk their money especially on high ticket items.

Simply put, you need around 50 or above feedback rating before buyers will trust you and will start buying high ticket items from you.

You can quickly increase and gain your feedback ratings by:

1. Buying many cheap items on ebay - First Drawback: requires you to spend money (if you are buying fifty $1 items - you would have to spend $50 in total to gain 50 feedback. Second Drawback: People will see that all your feedbacks relates to you as a Buyer, not as a Seller.

2. Buying Digital Items: This is a must as you need to conclude transactions as quickly as possible to gain the feedbacks.

3. Selling Cheap Items: You can only list lowest item at 99 cents per auction. 50 auctions will have you end-up $50 poorer. That is not yet including ebay Final Value fees etc.

I was able to jumstart my eBay feedback rating to 50 in 3 days, by using a technique involving eBay Store as outlined by Robert Allen.  I had to spend less than $1 and the fee to setup the storefront which costs way less than the above methods.

Click here to download the free eBay Powerseller Feedback Rating guide.

I was searching for some info about starting my own MLM system and I started reading the article by Michael Badger in the 20 Ways to Make $100 Per Day Online book. He mentioned a hard fact about MLM…

95%-99% of participants in any MLM will suffer financial LOSS!

Not to encourage you to go gambling, but your odds of winning at a single spin of a roulette wheel are greater than your odds of pulling a profit in an MLM company. As simple as that!

So why do we still waste our time and money on MLM companies? But all is not lost. You can learn from 20 Ways to Make $100 Per Day Online and be the few 1%-5% who make profit. But if you are scared of the numbers, just try some other methods of making money online.

Yeah. ICDSoft hosting sucks real bad. They are so bad because they don’t have any bad reviews about them when I searched for “icdsoft sucks” on Google today… yeah bad for their competitors is what I meant. I also tried “icd soft sucks”, “icdsof sucks”, “icd sucks”, “icd soft sux” and other variation of misspells, just incase some smart ass cannot even spell the host name right or try to avoid being sued by ICDsoft. Sorry still none.

I always do a search for “X sucks” or ”X problems” on Google for every host X (replace X with any hosting company) before I decide to host my sites anywhere. Most other big hosting companies including GoDaddy, Hostgator, Hostmonster etc has some kind hate-sites or hate-pages dedicated to them by some unhappy customers. Surprisingly ICDsoft doesn’t have one! So I decide to create a page for it now. Sorry ICDSoft! I hate you ICDsoft, for not allowing me to exercise my option to choose other hostings after this!

I have been with ICDsoft for 3 years and currently have 7 accounts with them. I also have other 3 hosting companies that I currently use. To be honest, ICDsoft is the cheapest and has answered my support tickets at the fastest times. You don’t need those discount coupons - they are already discounted - and you get more discount with more accounts you have with them.

 I try not to be biased when I do reviews but with ICDsoft, it is hard not to. So I have no problem recommending it to anyone. Now click here and start hosting at lower price without compromising support!

Now here is the challenge to find a better hosting than what I just recommended. Go search for some other hostings with no “X sucks” pages on Google, and post them down here in the comment box. Better yet, try find such a hosting company with the same criteria as ICDSoft but with cheaper monthly hosting price (my hostings at ICDsoft is at about $3.50 per month). If you do find it, please do post a comment here and I will retract this recommendation.

Great template out-of-the-box for manufacturing, factory or industrial related websites or blogs. However, you might encounter some problem when trying to modify the horizontal transparent navigation bar. It looks nice though, if you made it to work.  

Come view this template with some related niche. You might get some ideas for you own project yourselves.

A nice and clean looking fixed width 3-column template. Great for interior design, decorator, home furnishing or furniture related sites. It includes a search box at the top right-hand corner.

 Click here to see the Small Studio template in action with some live niche content. You can also see some Adsense placements ideas.

The header background is the city of Seattle. The designer describe it as a design: 

“with stretching horizontal border. Also incorporates a great javascript free thumbnail enlarger”.

Although the image thumbnail that enlarges can break the flow in the right column, you can easily opt not to use that javascript function. This template is suitable for all kinds of blog, especially if you are an urban person. To see this template in action with some Adsense placement ideas, go to this preview here.

Adsense Placement Ideas
This template is more like a 4-column layout design. For better click through, you can try put Adsense on the first and 3rd columns. Leave the second and right-most column for your own content. Ads on the first column are usually the most visible while the ones on the third column will blend in well with the rest of the content.

According to the designer (fullahead.org),

this template is tableless XHTML/CSS that validates as 1.1 strict. It uses relative widths so that it handles browser font +/- without any troubles. The vertical plant image is easy to switch for one of your own, as is the accent colour.

Great for sites about gardens, trees, plants, or anything related to nature.

Click here to see this template in action, with some modification and ideas to include Adsense ads to blend in with the theme.

The designer classify this design as a city themed XHTML Strict 1.0 template. It uses a fluid CSS layout with dark background. The header is a cityscape with some hot air balloons flying over the buildings.

Great for any personal blogs, events, special occasions and cheerful urban forums. Click here to see Lazy Days in action.

Go here to download this open source template: http://www.oswd.org/design/information/id/2839/

This is another good looking CSS template by Dreamlogic. It uses a fixed background to keep the image at the bottom of the screen. Click here to see Cruiser template in action with some Adsense ads placed in different places.

Suggested usage: 

1. sites or blogs about convertible cars 
2. sites or blogs about muscle cars
3. anything about classic cars

Here is another cityscape template. It has a grayish background on a 2-columns layout.

Suitable websites may include financial sites, money, stock exchange, urban blog, business, management, marketing and construction industries. View the template in action with some Adsense built-in.

To be honest, this template is not the easiest to modify. I had trouble looking for a suitable color scheme to blend Adsense ads into this template. If anybody have a good color codes for Adsense to be used in this template, please share with us here.