I was listening to the radio while I was sitting here working on my eBay listings, when I heard the Cybershake podcast broadcast on the ABC Radio News. The podcast was an interview with an eBay consignment seller (Trading Assistant) Vickie Campbell.  She was explaining how this is a great time of year for Trading [...]

Making money on eBay requires consistent effort and attention to detail. Here is a great article with tips to help eBay sellers make more money on eBay. 
We have a guest article today by Sean Eyring from HammerTap Research.  HammerTap is our recommended eBay research solution.  At the end of the article is some information about [...]

Government numbers on retail sales came out this morning falling 0.5% in one month. If it keeps up, that works out to a 6% annual rate. This comes on top of consumer confidence numbers out earlier in the week that were so bad it took the stock market down almost 200 points. The GDP economic [...]

Make Extra Money with The Top Fifty Affiliate Marketing Networks
Affiliate marketing is a great way for small online sellers to make extra money. You don’t even need a website. You can promote affiliate advertisers with a blog, from social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook or to your readers if you have a newsletter. Of [...]

I have been a fan of XsitePro for some time. They offer a very easy and inexpensive way to create websites that can be used for selling products, generating affiliate income or earning money with Google AdSense.
They are coming out with a new product called The Complete Guide to Website Building.  Don’t worry this is [...]

Data Shows eBay September Year over Year Traffic at 5-Year Low
An article by Ina Steiner in AuctionBytes this morning reported that eBay traffic for the months of August and September were at 5-year lows when compared to those same months going back to 2005, according to data provided by Nielsen, which also shows a slight but steady [...]

The holidays are fast approaching and this is the time of year when eBay sellers make the most money. For example, last year our sales for November thru January exceeded our sales for the prior 5 months. I just sent this out to my newsletter subscribers, but since some of my blog readerrs don’t subscribe [...]

The original reesponse to our eBay Niche Workshop was excellent but we still ended up with a few open slots. So we opened it up again this week and we are almost full.  Here is the link to read about the workshop opportunity: http://budurl.com/ebayniche
We will be closing it on Sunday Evening, so this is your [...]

Let eBay and other sellers know how you feel and how you are coping with the changes.  AuctionBytes is conducting a survey of readers to see how eBay’s Fall Release of changes is impacting sellers.
The survey focuses on eBay’s changes to search and new Top Rated Seller program.
There are 22 questions and takes about 5 [...]

The eBay niche workshop I promoted a couple of weeks ago was a huge success. We limited the workshop to a low number so we would not saturate the niche. Originally the full number sold out, but we had a few people who backed out at the last minute, so we can still take a [...]

A year ago that would have been a silly question –but today it’s not. In fact, I probably get a least a dozen emails a week from readers who tell me they are desperate to make some money quickly.  With over ten million unemployed and growing it’s no wonder this is happening.
The saddest emails I [...]

The Workshop is over, but it was recorded and we still have a few slots left. When they are gone, we will be closing the workshop.
If you visit the page and the PayPal button is gone –then it means the workshop is full.
One of the most trusted online gurus on the web is Jim Cockrum. [...]

Join me for a FREE Webinar on Thursday, September 17 at 5:00 PM Pacific Time (8:00 PM East Coast Time). I will be putting on a free 45 minute eBay coaching Webinar featuring eBay PowerSeller Coach Suzanne Well’s who is one of our lead coaches at the Skip McGrath Coaching Program.  The webinar will focus [...]

Double milestones for Bonanzle.com –100,000 members and 1,000,000 unique visitors
Bonanzle.com, who bill themselvess as the marketplace to find everything but the ordinary, surpassed 100,000 members on September 14, just barely a year after the company’s official launch. Bonanzle competitor eBay had about 41,000 members during a comparable period in their history.
Unlike other marketplaces, Bonanzle’s traffic [...]

ChannelAdvisor, a service that helps online sellers list their products on eBay, Amazon and other channels, recently released the third in a series of reports that show how shoppers shop online.
There is some really surprising data in the report and I think it is must reading if you sell on eBay, Amazon or your website.
The [...]