Running an Online Business
My eBay Business Part 2 - Sourcing Product From China
Sourcing product from China
We needed to find a good supplier to get us some reasonable quality fishing reels (and rods if we could find them) from China.
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 improvement to [...]
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 fees can [...]
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 generate [...]
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. I will [...]
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 factory [...]
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 to [...]
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 it [...]
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 value [...]
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 are doing [...]
