Vintage items are one of the hottest items on eBay and Etsy right now. You don't have to spend hours in thrift stores and at garage sales to find vintage items to sell. You can use items in the public domain that you can access from your computer.
So what does this mean? Anything in the Public Domain is "held by the public at large" - no permission is needed to copy or use public domain works. Public Domain information falls under these categories:
1) Anything published before 1923 when copyright laws went into effect.
2) Items whose copyrights have expired.
3) Items ineligible for copyright protection.
Your best bet is to use information from before 1923. Public Domain information can include:
1) Text, articles, stories
2) Photographs
3) Sheet music
4) Research papers
5) Drawings and illustrations
6) Laws and government documents
7) Maps
8) Newspaper and magazine articles and ads
9) House Plans
10) Craft, sewing, knitting, cross stitch, embroidery patterns
The trick is to create a VERY SPECIFIC NICHE PRODUCT using information from the Public Domain. The information is free. You might think, "Why would anyone buy something from me on eBay when they can get it for free?" Most people don't know they can get these types of vintage items for free. Also, they are paying you for your time in packaging the information for them. Much like a person would go to a bookstore and buy a book with "101 Blueberry Recipes." Sure, they could find this for free at the library or in a variety of places online, but how much of their time would it take to find it? Most people are happy to pay $20 for the finished product.
A few examples of the types of information products you can create with items from the Public Domain:
19th Century Guitar Music - Sheet Music Collection
Vintage bicycle Photographs
Vintage Doll Clothing Patterns
Early Inventions - Drawings and Plans of Mechanical Inventions
Historical Churches - Drawings and photos
Recipe Collections - 101 Ways to Cook Rhubarb
The beauty of this business model is that you can create a product once and sell it an unlimited number of times. The only storage space needed is on your computer, and you can create an infinite number of products. The only limitation is your time and imagination. If you created one product a week, you would have 52 products at the end of a year. Sell them each for $20 and you have built up a nice business with no inventory to store. Even if you only sold one of each of your 52 items a month at $20, that is $1,040 a month in passive income.
For more information on how to create these products, where to find Public Domain items, what topics sell the best, and where else you can sell them, check these resources:
How to Create an Automated eBook Business on eBay
How to Create and Sell Information Products on eBay, Amazon, and the Internet
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