What tricks or tips will you find in this book? Here’s a short list: • Plan for a successful business • Determine what kinds of products to sell • Find suppliers for your inventory • Manage your inventory levels • Administer your day-to-day business • Create more effective listings • Set the right prices • Handle customer payments • Pack and ship your products • Promote your business • Sell items on consignment as a Trading Assistant • Cut costs and increase profits • Expand your business beyond eBay Want to be your own boss? Want to make a decent living selling online? Want to start your own profitable eBay business? Then check out the 101 tips and tricks in Tricks of the eBay Business Masters–the best advice you can get for building a successful eBay business. Everything you need to know about building an eBay business is in this book. From writing a business plan, to purchasing inventory, to choosing a shipping service, you’ll find pieces of advice that will better help you do what you need to do. These are the tips and tricks that the eBay business masters have used to grow their own eBay businesses. Now you can learn from the most successful eBay business people. Learn how to increase your sales–and your profits–with the 101 tips in this book, Tricks of the eBay Business Masters. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1 Tricks for Managing Your eBay Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 2 Tricks for Deciding What to Sell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51 3 Tricks for Purchasing and Managing Your Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . .89 4 Tricks for Creating More Effective Listings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121 5 Tricks for Setting Prices and Handling Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163 6 Tricks for Packing and Shipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195 7 Tricks for Promoting Your eBay Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .221 8 Tricks for Running a Successful Trading Assistant Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .251 9 Tricks for Cutting Costs–And Increasing Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .269 10 Tricks for Expanding Your eBay Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .291 11 The Ultimate Trick for eBay Business Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .325

Take the mystery out of eBay and the enviable PowerSellers. Tricks of the eBay Masters, Second Edition is full of advice and over 600 tricks from expert eBay users. They learned by doing and are now going to pass on their wisdom to you. Find out how to jazz up your auction listings with HTML, how to increase buyer traffic through key words and how to use photos to increase your selling potential. You'll even get tips on where to find items to sell, how to pack your items better and how to ship cheaply. Also find out what not to do as the experts give you examples of mistakes they made early in their eBay careers and how not to repeat them. Increase your auction income and successful bidding through Tricks of the eBay Masters, Second Edition.

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Sams Teach Yourself eBay® in 10 Minutes Michael Miller Sams Teach Yourself eBay in 10 Minutes offers straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through 10-minute lessons, you learn everything you need to know to shop for, purchase, and sell items on eBay—safely and securely. 10 minutes is all you need to learn how to... Bid in eBay auctions Win auctions with last-minute snipes Buy fixed-price items Pay for your purchases Find items to sell List items for sale via online auction Sell items at a fixed price Use pictures in your eBay listings Pack and ship the items you sell Accept credit card payments via PayPal Deal with feedback Manage your eBay activity with My eBay Browse and search for items to buy Deal with non-paying buyers Create more effective item listings Use a Trading Assistant to sell your items Sell internationally Use eBay’s advanced selling tools Buy online safely and securely Category: Internet Covers: eBay User Level: Beginning

To any businessperson or marketing professional, YouTube’s 20 million viewers are a tempting target. How can you tap into the potential of YouTube to promote your business and sell your products or services? The answers in YouTube for Business show you how to make YouTube part of your online marketing plan—and drive traffic to your company’s website. In this book you’ll learn how to: • Develop a YouTube marketing strategy • Decide what types of videos to produce • Shoot great-looking YouTube videos—on a budget • Edit and enhance your videos • Create a presence on the YouTube site • Manage a video blog • Generate revenues from your YouTube videos • Produce more effective YouTube videos Includes profiles of successful businesses • Blendtec • Charles Smith Pottery • Annette Lawrence, ReMax ACR Elite Group, Inc. • Stone Brewing Company • D-Link Author Michael Miller has written more than 80 how-to books over the past two decades, with more than one million copies in print. His best-selling books include YouTube 4 You, Tricks of the eBay Business Masters, Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Computer Basics, and Googlepedia: The Ultimate Google Resource. Front cover quote: “Never thought you could use YouTube for your business? Well, think again! This book gives you a complete overview of why, how, and the technology to get you started.” — Rhonda Abrams, USAToday small business columnist and author of Successful Marketing: Secrets & Strategie

REMEMBER WHEN eBay USED TO BE A GREAT PLACE FOR SMALL SELLERS TO BECOME BIG SELLERS? Unfortunately, recent changes at eBay have made online auctions less reliable and profitable. So where can you sell when you can’t sell on eBay? Online auctions are the past; fixed-price selling is the future. It’s time to move beyond eBay and first-generation online selling and start Selling Online 2.0. Second generation online selling means migrating from eBay to other online marketplaces, including craigslist, Amazon, and your own e-commerce website. You’ll need to make some new plans, learn some new skills, and change some of the things you do--but you’ll find that there’s more money to be made on your own than relying on traditional eBay online auction sales. Put together a plan to maintain your sales level and profitability--to counteract eBay’s changes Discover how to shift from auction sales to fixed-priced listings on the eBay marketplace Find out if running an eBay Store or selling on Half.com makes sense for your business Learn out how to sell locally on craigslist and other online classifieds sites Discover how to sell fixed-price merchandise on the Amazon marketplace Find out how to launch your own e-commerce website--and promote your online store Learn how to sell products across multiple channels--and manage multichannel conflicts

The power of online auctions is attracting hundreds of thousands--if not millions--of users who want to turn their eBay hobbies into profitable businesses. While turning an eBay hobby into an eBay business might look easy, making that business profitable is much more difficult. Not enough sellers treat their eBay sales as a business, and subsequently are disappointed in the results. To launch a successful and profitable eBay business, the detailed instructions in this book will show you how to get started. It will help you determine what kind of business you want to run, write an action-oriented business plan, establish an effective accounting system, set up a home office, obtain starting inventory, arrange initial funding, establish an eBay presence, and arrange for automated post-auction management. This book is a step-by-step guide for anyone serious about making money from their eBay sales. Unlike other computer-oriented titles, this is a straight-ahead business book that shows how to set up and run different types of eBay businesses, and how to maximize sales and profits while doing so. This book includes a section titled "Choosing Your eBay Business" that details six different types of eBay businesses you can start. Included in this section is a chapter on eBay Trading Assistants (AKA drop-off stores or consignment stores), which is the newest form of an eBay business.