There is a cool tool right on your My eBay page that can help you make more money on eBay.  It is called the Search Visibility Tool. To find it go you your My eBay Page and hover your cursor over the My Account Tab.  The fifth or sixth item down says Search Visibility Analysis. [...]

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 [...]

2010 eBay Fall Seller Update eBay announced major changes to the platform and new selling policies changes  today that will roll out in September. Most of the changes will launch between September 7 and September 13.  eBay is calling the changes Seller Release 3. As usual eBay is putting a positive spin on the announcement.  [...]

Yesterday I posted about the recent purchase of eBay auction management company, Vendio,  by Chinese company Alibaba.  At the end of that post I promised to tell you the backstory about eBay and Alibaba. So here goes: This goes back about 5 years. Those of you who attended eBay Live in San Jose or Las [...]

eBay Wholesale Sources I just returned from the ASD/AMD Wholesale Trade Show in Las Vegas. This is one of the largest wholesale trade shows in the world with over 4,000 vendors showing their products and looking for people like you to buy from them. Wholesale Products for eBay & Amazon I listed a lot of [...]

We have been selling on eBay for 10 years and new sellers start an eBay business every day.  Not all of these eBay sellers will be successful, but many will.  If you want to make money on eBay follow these eBay tips to increase your bids, final value prices and profits. You can get more [...]

I like to call selling goods on consignment for others the “perfect eBay business.” Often the biggest problem eBay sellers face is finding products that they can resell at a profit. Luckily, there’s an alternative: If you’re finding it difficult to locate products of your own, you may be able to make money selling items [...]

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 [...]

The answer to that question depends on the kind of drop shipper you are looking at.  I like to place drop shippers in four categories: Total scams Large general product dropshippers Specialized drop shippers Small and medium-sized manufacturers that drop ship.   Let’s take a look at each one. 1. Total Scams – there are [...]

I was chatting with Colleen at WorldWide Brands yesterday and she told me about an unusual offer I wanted to alert my readers to.  Here is a chance to go behind the scenes at WorldWide Brands and sample their services for free. If you don’t know about WorldWide Brands they are the oldest and largest [...]

Starting on Saturday, September 26, 2009, sellers who list Auction-style item(s), and have a 12 month Detailed Seller Rating of 4.5 or higher on all criteria, will receive 33% off the standard Insertion Fee per item listed. New sellers who don’t yet have DSR ratings are also eligible. DSR rating criteria for this promotion will [...]

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, [...]

I have just released my 28 page free eBook, The Future of eBay 2009, The Update To The Complete eBay Marketing SystemI first wrote the Future of eBay last year when eBay announced major changes to the platform.  Last week, eBay announced more changes that will take effect in October 2009 and April 2010. The Future of [...]

Just Updated: 77 Free eBay Tips to help eBay sellers avoid mistakes, sell more items and build your eBay business I have been publishing my free eBay tips for the past 6 years. As you can imagine with all of the changes on eBay and the services provided by third parties, these need to be updated frequently. The [...]

In my opinion NOT Now, but it may not hurt to have it. eBay and ProPay announced their deal for eBay sellers that will take effect next week. Starting next week, Silver, Gold, Platinum and Titanium eBay Power Sellers can sign up for ProPay and integrate ProPay into their eBay business much like they now [...]