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.  [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Global Sources is a wholesale product sourcing website where manufacturers (mostly in Asia) advertise wholeslale products for export to the US.  Global Sources publishes a series of magazines for their customers. They have recently started offeing free copies of the electronic version to anyone who wants them. Here is the link where you can download [...]

eBay Sellers have a new eBay research tool to track and evaluate their buyer’s behavior.  Today, the Sellebrity Company announced Auction Analytics, a new service to monitor and interpret traffic data for eBay auctions.   The new service is located at www.sellebrity.com. “This is not your father’s analytics service,” says founder and CEO, Jason Ritenour. [...]

Just a short post today to let everyone know that the traditional summer slowdown on eBay is about to end.  I have been selling on eBay for ten years and have seen the same thing every August. The slowdown typically starts a little bit in July and then cascades into the middle of august. The [...]

The Top Rated Seller program doesn’t roll out until October, but eBay has selected a handfull of sellers to test the concept. I was surprised when I looked at one of my eBay listings yesterday and saw the Top Rated Seller Badge displayed.  Here is a screenshot of what it looks like: It will be [...]

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 [...]

Eight finalists chosen to compete for $25,000 to grow their eBay business The eight finalists, two in each of the four categories, were selected based on their perceived business challenges and obstacles, clarity of business plan, passion for using eBay and appropriateness to the contest’s theme. Each of the four challenge winners will receive a [...]

While everyone is paying attention to Health Care, the Sotomayor hearings and Cap & Trade, congress is quietly getting ready to impose sales tax on all internet sellers Great Magicians master the craft of misdirection. They create a diversion with their right hand while the left hand is doing the real work. It seems our congress has [...]

Get some exposure for your eBay listings and win a free copy of my latest book to be released next week The Prize:  After the July 4th Holiday Weekend I will be releasing my latest book, Making Money With an Online Consignment Business ~ An eBay consignment business operations manual. The book will sell for [...]