Your home business on eBay depends on your reputation. Without a good reputation, you’ve got nothing. Your buyers don’t know who you are, they don’t know if they can trust you, and you won’t drum up much business. But when you are just starting out on eBay, building up a good reputation can be tough. [...]

Pricing your items that you want to list on eBay can be difficult for those who have never done it before. List your items too high, and you won’t receive any bidders. List your items too low, however, and you run the risk of not making money – or worse, landing yourself in the negative. [...]

The other day I received two emails, both with the same question, why didn’t we have a direct call to action on our website? Sales people are taught, you always need ‘a call to action,’ a request to act or lose the opportunity of a lifetime. I’m sure you’ve seen the infomercials, website presentations, online [...]

As a stay at home mom trying to run a home eBay business on a budget, you are probably well aware of the high costs of marketing. When you are trying to promote your business, it can be hard to find methods that actually work without breaking the bank. Lucky for you, eBay has a [...]

As an owner of your own ecommerce website, how do you know when is it right time to revamp and tweak things? How do you find things are not working the way it supposed to? Website owners are aware of the time and stress involved to go through the entire process of building a website [...]

Introduction Choosing shopping cart software can turn into a tough job due to the large number of e-commerce solutions available on the market. Overall, it’s almost impossible to say which product is the best one since their feature richness, pricing, flexibility and the range of extra services vary to a great extent. Therefore, buying the [...]

Don’t be fooled. What you are about to discover could prevent your eBay business from failing. Reputation is everything when selling on ebay and when tarnished with the wrong type you will forever struggle to regain buyer’s confidence. Be very aware of the following and by ensuring you are never guilty of any of these, [...]

If you have to fight an 800 Pound Gorilla you’re certainly not going to match might for might.  Your only chance would be to use speed, agility and anticipation.  Even then I wouldn’t bet on you.  The small Internet retailer will similarly have a hard time competing with Internet giants like Amazon or Buy.  Most [...]

Over the years, eBay has introduced all sorts of different auction types, in an effort to give people more options when they buy and sell their things on eBay. For every seller who doesn’t like the idea that their item might sell for a far lower price than they intend, there’s another who wants to [...]

Online retail is booming, even in the current economic climate, and has been growing significantly year after year for the past 6 years. However the online shopping landscape is changing, with declining customer loyalty; larger retailers focusing on price alone, severe price competition, the increase in cost comparison web sites and multibrand synergies. Similarly consumers [...]