Archive | Running an Online Business

23 May 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Taking Great Product Photos

Taking great product photos is often the key to great sales and conversion in ecommerce and online retail. It simply AMAZES me how many (seemingly) professional/full time eBay sellers there are that have a good range of products, good turnover and good sales potential but TERRIBLE photos. Improving our product photos made the single biggest [...]

Continue Reading

22 May 2007 ~ 2 Comments

Growing a Customer Base Using eBay

Building a customer base using eBay is not that easy to do if you are only using eBay’s tools. In the North American market there has been a push from the top eBay sellers to broaden their businesses by selling in other marketplaces (like Amazon, Overstock etc) and to build their own ecommerce storefronts. eBay [...]

Continue Reading

10 May 2007 ~ 5 Comments

Read johnchow.com for some good online money making ideas

I have recently been browsing the net (well, I am always browsing the net really) for some information on blogs. Particularly, how they could apply to my other businesses, but also to me and my private blog here. I started this blog pretty recently as a big of an experiment in using blogs, trying to [...]

Continue Reading

09 May 2007 ~ 1 Comment

The top 5 eBay non-paying bidder excuses.

We currently sell many thousands of items per month no eBay and like any other retailer we receive our fair proportion of non-payment excuses for items after sale. I thought I would jost down my top 5 favourite excuses, in no particular order “I am stuck in hospital for the day. It was very sudden. [...]

Continue Reading

08 May 2007 ~ 2 Comments

Want to import product from China?

Want to import product from China? Great. Do it. It isn’t that scary. But make sure you are careful when starting out. When we looked at our eBay business and how we could make the most profit we came to one conclusion pretty quickly : we had to buy from the cheapest source, preferably the [...]

Continue Reading

08 May 2007 ~ 0 Comments

How do you value an online business?

Interesting question. The last few years or so has seen a  resurgence of internet properties and some pretty large sale prices and many of the big boys of the industry seem pretty happy to lay some big numbers on the table (think Skype, Youtube etc). The internet is obviously climbing in popularity again and seems [...]

Continue Reading

02 May 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Making Money Online

Making money online. What an audacious title! Lots of people do it though, you know that. Maybe you do too, or maybe you don’t? In any case there are no shortages of websites telling you how to make $200,000 per month with little to no effort but if it sounds too good to be true [...]

Continue Reading

01 May 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Building a Brand on eBay

Building a Brand on eBay I should start by defining what I mean by brand building on eBay. I want to talk about building a new brand, or your own brand on eBay or using eBay. I would also start by saying that building some type of branding is very important as it does add [...]

Continue Reading

14 April 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Fill out the product range

So you are looking for more products to sell, expand your business. Are you looking too far away? Why not look at your core lines and see what really compliments them? In our case, one of our core lines is musical instruments. We supply a quality range of products with our own brand and they [...]

Continue Reading

27 March 2007 ~ 1 Comment

PeSA Goes Global With Expansion to Australia

PeSA Goes Global With Expansion to Australia, good news for large Australian ebay sellers, powersellers, ecommerce and online retailers.

Continue Reading

Close
E-mail It
Socialized through Gregarious 42