Magnitize is a free service where you can get a personal website to act as your home base for connections to Twitter, Facebook and any other websites you have.  Its sort of like having an online business card. Karen was sitting in a workshop at the Amazon conference and asked if anyone knew of a [...]

Karen and I just returned from two days at the annual SCOE – Sellers Conference of Online Entrepreneurs, which is actually an annual conference of Amazon sellers. I am pretty sure SCOE would like to call it that, but Amazon doesn’t allow the use of their name that way. Anyway the conference has been going  [...]

I have had so much trouble working the past few days. I would be sitting here working when all of a sudden my wife Karen would hoot out loud or fall into paroxysms of laughter. Somehow she accidently came across an obscure forum on Amazon for the Textbook Buyback community. (Who knew?). It all started [...]

My good friend, Steve Lindhorst, author of Selling on The River has just come out with a great new eBook called Amazon – The Quick and Dirty Guide. This great little book makes a great companion to my book, How To Make Money Selling Used Books on eBay, Amazon and the Internet. In this book [...]

Join me at the Amazon independent Sellers Conference July 10-13 in Seattle Colin Sebastian, Digital Media & Internet analyst at Wall Street firm Lazard Capital Markets, estimates that Amazon.com’s third-party sellers will generate nearly $9 billion in gross merchandise sales in 2009. This is up from roughly $7 billion in 2008.This may be why more [...]

No. Carolina trying to force Amazon to collect sales tax on affilaite sales It is no secret that state budgets are under pressure.  States get their revenue form many sources but income tax, property tax and sales tax are the big three. As people lose their jobs there is less income tax. As proper values [...]

comScore shows that Amazon passed eBay for the first time According to comScore, Amazon had 60 million visitors to its site compared with 50 million a year ago. By comparison, eBay had 70 million visitors, down from 80.1 million a year ago. Amazon clearly has the potential to overtake eBay unless eBay can rebuild its visitor count. [...]

First Long Beach and Now Miami. What is behind The eBay seller meetings? Are these the "series of events" eBay promised when they cancelled eBay  Live? Last month eBay held a meeting in Long Beach, CA for selected sellers (mostly large sellers) and last week they held another one in Miami.  All sellers who attended [...]

If you are a small seller on eBay or Amazon, you may not know it but Big Business is coming after YOU !!! Earlier this week, two bills were introduced in the House of Representatives and one in the Senate that were written by lobbyists of the Big Retail Chains.  All three bills target small [...]

Amazon and Apple did great but it will be a while until we hear from eBay Online sales held up better than the rest of the retail market during the dismal holiday period, but the season is still likely to go down as one of the worst on record for the traditionally booming eCommerce sector. [...]

I have long known the value of small niche websites and even made some money with them. Maybe it’s time you took a look too? Steve Lindhorst has just released his latest book: The Niche Book –How to pick a niche for profit.  Picking niches and finding ways to make money from them is something [...]