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 [...]

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 [...]

Finally a simple textbook that shows how to use social sites like Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, YouTube and others to make money online
It is no secret that lots of people are making money selling their products, services and affiliate links on social marketing sites. But figuring out how they work is frankly 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 studied [...]

eBay Trading Assistants Smiling. Consignment selling on eBay is a bright spot in a slow economy
It wasn’t that long ago that the consignment business model was considered pretty much dead.  That was never really the case, but consignment selling did take a big hit when hundreds of eBay drop-off store franchise stores went out of business. It [...]

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 $47 [...]

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 and [...]

Don’t get scammed by dropshipping programs that don’t work. Get this FREE dropshipping directory
Times are tough and more and more people are turning to eBay and other online sites to supplement or replace their income. Unfortunately a lot of them get sucked into dropshipping scams.
Smart people are searching for something they can do online, in [...]

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.
eBay also [...]

eBay’ s decision to spin off Skype was a brilliant decision, so could PayPal be next?
eBay overpaid for Skype and they never succeeded in integrating it into the eBay platform. Yet Skype continued to grow and its prospects for the future are excellent. So eBay’s decision to spin Skype off into their own IPO works. [...]

A look at the new eBay policy announcement and the likely effect on eBay sellers
The last few parts of the announcements include a new dispute resolution process, free access to eBay Selling Manager, moving the shipping process from PayPal to eBay and tools to bulk edit your listings.
The new Dispute Resolution Process will be the [...]

Finding good dropshippers and wholesale suppliers for eBay is a challenge for every eBay seller. Here is one place you can look
I recently found a new listing of eBay wholesale suppliers and drop shippers called Aid & Trade. Like all wholesale lists it has its flaws –there are always some suppliers who manage to worm [...]

Changes to take place in June will include new item pages, new mandatory return policy enforcement and new dispute system
The announcement from Stephanie Tilenius, Senior VP & GM for eBay North America had been rumored for a while. As part of the announcement eBay stated a new policy that from here on they will give [...]

I asked this question of several sellers and got different answers, but in general the news is not good.
I would love to know what eBay’s stats show, but I suspect that cross border sales between the US and Europe and Japan are down. Why? Because I got a call from eBay last week wanting to [...]

eBay Drop-off Stores and liquidation consignment sellers report that business is up
It is a sad sign of the times, but when the economy sucks people need to raise cash. One of the ways to do this is to sell the things they have acquired over the years when times were good.  Over the past two [...]