Archive for March, 2007
My eBay Business Part 1 - How it all started
I have decided to post ‘our story’. This story is all about our eBay business. Our business now sells two main product groups, fishing products and musical instruments.
To give you a rough idea of our size at the moment, we lease warehouse space, we order goods in 40′ containers and we employ full time staff. [...]
How to start an eBay business
Recently I got asked this question again. Usually when I talk to a group of people that I haven’t met, discussions move on to what you do for a living. I tell them about the companies that I am involved in and often I get called an entrepreneur (something I am still uncomfortable about).
When I [...]
View an eBay sellers’ monthly turnover
I suppose I had better give up one of my favourite eBay tools… it allows you to enter a eBay seller’s ID and then browse their months sales and total it up. You can even dump the info into a spreadsheet and analyse the item breakdown if you like.
I use it as a quick guide [...]
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.
Cool customer support tools for eBay sellers
Came across these cool customer support tools for eBay and other online sellers today. We use a similar system that we coded ourselves to handle the hundreds of customer emails every day, but these are neat and cheap.
http://www.phraseexpress.com/
http://www.shortkeys.com/index.htm
Any serious online seller knows, you have to automate as much as possible. Save some time by replying [...]
The eBay marketplace in Australia
Evening!
Thought I would kick off with a few thoughts about the eBay marketplace in Australia. Recently news that a number of powersellers with revenues of $50,000 AUD per annum had some of their details passed on to the Australian Tax Office. There are some interesting comments in this article :
“It is understood, however, that up [...]
