Starting an online business
Do you provide a customer service phone number for your customers?
I see a lot of sellers online these days with no phone number for customers to contact them. Is that a good move?
These days, other people can do the work for you!
Never has it been as easy as it is to start a website or blog as it is now. There are multitudes of products available to create anything from a simple web page to a blog, or a full blown content management system, and many of them are excellent (and more importantly FREE!) Years ago [...]
Marketworks Australia Offering Free Webinar
Marketworks in Australia are offering a free webinar this coming week. The discussion will focus on growing a multi-channel business on eBay and other venues. Topics covered include : What are the key opportunities and challenges of selling online? What are the unique advantages of selling on eBay, a transactional website or other channels? How [...]
eBay. Loved and Loathed
Consumers are fascinated and intrigued by eBay. eBay sellers mention the website they sell on to possible suppliers, and supplirs go running in the other direction! When is it all going to change? Is it going to change at all?
Choosing a Great Domain Name Is Really Hard
I am starting a new website with a friend shortly. It will be based on a specific topic, and will be predominantly content based. I am having trouble choosing a good domain name for it. The reason is that the topic is in a very competitive online market, and of course I would prefer a [...]
What Is The Best Product To Sell On eBay?
Often I think the hardest thing about selling on eBay is selling on eBay! What do you sell? What is the best product to sell on eBay?
f you want to make a real business or income from your eBay sales, then it makes it that much easier to sell something that you have product knowledge about.
* What hobbies do you like?
* Do you have good knowledge about particular products?
* Do you WANT to learn about a particular product?
Start by narrowing down what product groups you would be happiest selling. It can be a broad range, don’t worry about details yet.
Then you need to start narrowing the range down. Write a list of the popular products and accessories in your ‘target’ areas and use the points below to make some decisions.
Below are my top 5 considerations when choosing the best product to sell on eBay, but I saved my top 3 for last. Read on!
My eBay Business Part 3 – The eBay Account and Marketing Strategy
Starting an eBay business, eBay marketing, Turbolister, Selling manager, sourcing product from china
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.
Protect Your Business With a Trademark
Don’t get caught out. Plan a little bit. Choose your business name and your product names carefully. You want to find a name that isn’t trademarked (or if it is trademarked, not in your business area).
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 [...]
