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Stay-At-Home Mom's Guide to Successful eBay^® Selling

Suzanne Wells

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Are you a stay-at-home mom who wants to sell on eBay but aren’t sure how to get started? Do you want to earn extra cash selling your kids outgrown clothes and toys, but are unfamiliar with eBay?

Written by Suzanne Wells, a stay-at-home mom and eBay Silver Level Powerseller, this book will take you step by step through the selling process from start to finish. You’ll learn:

• How to make thousands of dollars a month using eBay
• What to sell
• Where to find items to sell
• How to use eBay to its fullest potential
• How to photograph your items
• How to fit eBay into your busy, stay at home mom schedule
• All about shipping
• How to get started today, with no financial investment

Whether you want to sell 10 or 1,000 items a month, this book will provide valuable information to help you become a successful eBay seller from the comfort of your home, and on a schedule that works for you and your family.

eBay has 220 million users worldwide and millions of dollars worth of merchandise is sold on eBay every day. There is room for you on eBay, too!

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting an eBay Business, 2nd Edition (Complete Idiot's Guide to...(Computer))

Barbara Weltman, Malcolm Katt

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Covers all the basics of starting an online ebay business 5 out of 5 stars.
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Covers all the basics of starting an online ebay business, from insurance coverage and handling sales tax quirks between states to advertising, promotion, accepting and pursuing payments and more. Those who recall the old ebay auction-only model will find much changed: you can now set up a shop with fixed prices on ebay and Starting An eBay Business covers both stores and auction formats.

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The buck starts here!

eBay® is the Internet’s premier auction site and everyone’s favorite place to shop. It’s also the place to start a business and make money from the comfort of one’s home. Completely revised, this new edition will help readers create the eBay® business they dream of. There is also new and updated information on:
• The basics of eBay®, the auction process, and the essentials of getting the business down on paper—including recordkeeping, accounting, taxes, insurance, legal issues, and other essential details
• Determining what to sell, how to price it, and working with services such as PayPal®
• The ins and outs of the biggest growing areas of eBay business—sourcing, wholesaling, and fixed price sales
• Cutting through the competition, improving profit margins, changing strategies, improved advertising and promotions, and more

I Sold My Soul on eBay: Viewing Faith through an Atheist's Eyes

Hemant Mehta

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Unique insights from an atheist’s Sunday-morning odyssey

When Hemant Mehta was a teenager he stopped believing in God, but he never lost his interest in religion. Mehta is “the eBay atheist,” the nonbeliever who auctioned off the opportunity for the winning bidder to send him to church. The auction winner was Jim Henderson, a former pastor and author of Evangelism Without Additives. Since then, Mehta has visited a variety of church services–posting his insightful critiques on the Internet and spawning a positive, ongoing dialogue between atheists and believers.

I Sold My Soul on eBay tells how and why Mehta became an atheist and features his latest church critiques, including descriptions of his visits to some of the best-known churches in the country. His observations will surprise and challenge you, revealing how the church comes across to those outside the faith. Who better than a nonbeliever to offer an eye-opening assessment of how the gospel is being presented–and the elements that enhance or detract from the presentation.

Mehta announced prior to his churchgoing odyssey that he would watch for any signs of God’s existence. After spending Sunday mornings in some of the nation’s leading churches, what happened to the man who sold his soul on eBay? Did attending church change his lack of belief? The answers can be found inside.

Real World Web Services

Will Iverson

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The core idea behind Real World Web Services is simple: after years of hype, what are the major players really doing with web services? Standard bodies may wrangle and platform vendors may preach, but at the end of the day what are the technologies that are actually in use, and how can developers incorporate them into their own applications? Those are the answers Real World Web Services delivers. It's a field guide to the wild and wooly world of non-trivial deployed web services. The heart of the book is a series of projects, demonstrating the use and integration of Google, Amazon, eBay, PayPal, FedEx, and many more web services. Some of these vendors have been extremely successful with their web service deployments: for example, eBay processes over a billion web service requests a month! The author focuses on building 8 fully worked out example web applications that incorporate the best web services available today. The book thoroughly documents how to add functionality like automating listings for auctions, dynamically calculating shipping fees, automatically sending faxes to your suppliers, using an aggregator to pull data from multiple news and web service feeds into a single format or monitoring the latest weblog discussions and Google searches to keep web site visitors on top of topics of interest-by integrating APIs from popular websites most people are already familiar with. For each example application, the author provides a thorough overview, architecture, and full working code examples. This book doesn't engage in an intellectual debate as to the correctness of web services on a theological level. Instead, it focuses on the practical, real world usage of web services as the latest evolution in distributed computing, allowing for structured communication via Internet protocols. As you ll see, this includes everything from sending HTTP GET commands to retrieving an XML document through the use of SOAP and various vendor SDKs.

Launching a Successful eBay Store

Ron Mansfield

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Disregard the recent grumbling over recent eBay Store fee hikes. A well-run eBay Store is worth every penny, and can add considerably to your profitability! Recent enhancements to eBay's Store features make running a Store an essential part of successful eBay selling. Stores give you so many new ways to cross-promote your eBay items that running a Store gives you an almost unfair advantage over sellers without one.  

When shoppers enter your eBay Store they visit your own private eBay. They see only your items, organized in a way that suites what you sell; and when they use your Store's search feature only your items appear.

 

Stores can actually reduce your Final Values fees by 75% in some cases. Stores let you organize, showcase, cross-promote and catalog all of your items, (including auctions) in ways that make it easier for shoppers to find and purchase your items.

 

eBay Stores have come a very long way in the past few years, and when augmented with tools like eBay Express, Selling Manager Pro and Blackthorne, (all discussed in this book), they are poised for astronomical growth. If you are not onboard yet, it's time to get moving. You need a Store, and this book will help you launch and run a great one or bring your existing Store up-to-date.

 

Launching a Successful eBay Store offers eBay sellers tips, techniques, best practices and resources necessary to have their items gain high visibility on and off of eBay. You'll find out how to set up a new store, choose what to sell in the store, perform store bookkeeping, manage store inventory, promote the store on and off eBay, purchase eBay keywords and more. It will also show you how to take your selling to the next level, while saving money in the process.

eBay Photos That Sell: Taking Great Product Shots for eBay and Beyond

Dan Gookin, Robert Birnbach

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Excellent for Much More Than Just eBay Photos 5 out of 5 stars.
11 of 12 people found this review helpful.

Using simple, lo-tech language and a wealth of color photos, this excellent book can teach anyone to arrange, light, photograph and even edit macro (closeup) pictures. I bought it sight unseen on a friend's recommendation, and it's even better than I thought it would be.
The instructions are always clear and simple, and every instruction is illustrated with full-color, detailed examples. The results make you look like a professional photographer (or could even make you become one!).
I've bought tons of books on Amazon; but this is the first one I've felt compelled to review, because it's so darn good.

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Successful online sellers know that a product photo can make or break a sale. But taking a good product shot is not easy. With eBay Photos That Sell, anyone who wants to make money online can learn to take the kind of photos that attract customers and increase profits -- without spending a fortune on equipment. This must-have book features: professional secrets for taking great photos of everything from jewelry to cars; tips for using Photoshop Elements to enhance photos; an entertaining approach that makes even the advanced techniques easy to absorb; and page after page of inspiring full-color photos.

Letters to Ebay: Hilarious Auctions, Crazy Emails, and Bongos for Grandma

Art Farkas

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Letters to Ebay 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

This is a very funny book, that is sure to entertain the people who receive it for Christmas.

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By day, Paul Meadors is a fifth grade teacher in a small California town. By night, he trolls the millions of items for sale on eBay, posing as his alter ego Art Farkas, and catching sellers off guard with his ludicrous and bizarre questions about their auctions. As he amusingly demonstrates time and time again, even in today's hyper-vigilant and impersonal digital world, the spirit of human salesmanship lives on, no matter how outrageous the question or request. For example, Art asks the seller of a set of bongo drums if there would be a way to attach them to his grandmother's back so that she could take them to the corner and play on the street to earn her rent money--which elicits a sincere, yet bitingly humorous response. From the entertaining auctions themselves, to Paul's loony letters and the serious responses they provoke, LETTERS TO eBAY provides a fascinating and humourous glimpse into the strange world of eBay and those who dwell within.

How to Start and Run an eBay Consignment Business

Skip McGrath

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If you have Titanium Ebay from the same author, this book is just a cut and paste work with an extended chapter on consignment 3 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

About 85% of the book is in Titanium Ebay, and in the exact same words. Its just cut and paste. If this is your first Skip McGraph book, this is excellent way to start.

I love McGraph style, and incisive info on the Ebay business. He tells you insider secrets of PowerSellers, and their tactics. But the best are the cases he makes, examples of what to buy, how to sell it and profit. He opens up your mind that almost everything sells.

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Make big profits on eBay with no upfront investment!

Make thousands of dollars per week--with little or no financial risk--selling other people’s stuff on eBay. How to Start and Run an eBay Consignment Business explains how to locate and work with consignors and successfully deal in the goods they want to sell, including collectibles, retail store closeouts, estate items, corporate merchandise, and much more.

Find out how to get started selling on consignment, decide what kinds of items will be the most profitable, and set up your business. You’ll get sample contracts, forms, and flyers, as well as tips on creating a web site, marketing your business, and automating day-to-day tasks. Whether you want to supplement your income or become a registered eBay Trading Assistant, you’ll find everything you need in this helpful, step-by-step guide.

The Maui CEO: Import from China, Sell on eBay, and Live Wherever You Want

John Tennant

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Have you always dreamed of leaving your mundane job and owning your own business? The Maui CEO is a practical guide for any new entrepreneur that demonstrates how to develop a business from idea to launch. Maui CEO provides specific tips on how to dominate and manage an entire competitive segment on eBay.

Author John Tennant, an experienced dot-com business owner and professor, shares his vast knowledge about eBay—a critical channel for product businesses. Mr. Tennant helps you decide which product to buy for resale, and provides practical direction on how to:

• Develop an online business identity and incorporate in Nevada
• Find sellers in China
• Order and import your first container of product
• Outsource Web development, site hosting, and merchant integration
• Locate warehouse space and manage inventory
• Avoid fraud with eBay, escrow, and PayPal

The Maui CEO will help you create a product-oriented business that will quickly be up and running, and can easily be managed from any location. If you are ready to earn the coveted eBay title “category killer,” then don’t wait any longer—get started today!

The 7 Essential Steps to Successful eBay Marketing

Janelle Elms, Phil Dunn, Amy Balsbaugh

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And I thought I knew a lot about Ebay.. 5 out of 5 stars.
17 of 19 people found this review helpful.

I have been selling on Ebay for over 2 years. But after reading this book I realize how little I knew about marketing my product. This little gem contains very valuable information about making the most out of Ebay's competitive marketplace. This book is interesting to read and gives clear step by step instructions for changes you can make to Market your Ebay items. Like I said, I thought I knew a lot about Ebay but I was surprised by how much I learned from this book!

Fun to read 4 out of 5 stars.
3 of 7 people found this review helpful.

This book is hardcore. Give a lot of info and can save painfull hours of try-and-faild. You need to read it.

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In this must-have book for eBay entreprenuers, eBay experts reveal how to reach the more than 100 million registered users and catapult your sales. Learn how to make listings stand out, inspire buyer confidence, close a sale, and keep customers coming back. An eBay University Instructor, a Fortune 100 marketing specialist, and an eBay PowerSeller offer valuable marketing insights and tried-and-true techniques for propelling eBay sales to the next level.