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Lessons About Business That I Learned From My Cats – Part II

Yesterday I posted about some challenges that I’m having with my online business and how I’d like to take it to the next level and change things up. Believe it or not, in a roundabout way I got some business ideas from watching my cats deal with a recent dilemma.  Sounds silly but stick with [...]

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Selling on Ebay – Is Fixed Price with Free Shipping the Answer?

I decided today that I would suck it up and just work within the parameters of the convoluted rigamorole also known as eBay’s Best Match.  If you sell on eBay (or anywhere else really) you know that getting seen at the top of a search is what it’s all about.  Best Match is eBay’s way of matching the [...]

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Some Recent Observations About The Online Selling World

I’ve been selling items online for about 5 years now.  Currently and hopefully for the rest of my working days this is a full-time gig.  In the past it has run the gamut from part-time in addition to a full-time lifesucking corporate job, little time because it was just a hobby, to virtually no time [...]

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Picture This … Easel-y Displayed

Recently I bought a lot of inventory from a gift shop that had closed.   These neat easel picture holders were part of my loot.  They’re in great condition and if I didn’t have cats that liked to bat things off of my fireplace mantels they would have never made it to eBay! This is a more ornate [...]

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Sellers, Don't Slip To The Dark Side

Controlling your dark side.

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eCrater and Bonanzle – Who knew?

Lately I’ve been thinking of ways to diversify my online business beyond eBay and Amazon.  I have my own website that I do next to nothing with due to time constraints and I sell on five other sites that provide some extra sales in addition to the “Big Two”  - eBay and Amazon.  With eBay ripe for competition, there are [...]

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