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$100 Contest: Vote for the BEST Online Selling Tip!
Last Friday EcommerceBytes/AuctionBytes Blog kicked off the first of a regular series of contests: t ...
Thursday April 26, 2012
How Would Five-Day USPS Service Affect Your Business?
The U.S. Senate has just passed the 21st Century Postal Service Act , which would enable cost-cutti ...
Monday April 23, 2012
What Are Your Strangest/Most Annoying Buyer Messages?
An online seller friend of mine recently just had to vent about a buyer. The buyer complained an ite ...
Friday April 20, 2012
Contest: Share Your BEST Online Selling Tip: $100 Prize!
What is your very best online selling tip? Share it and you could win $100! EcommerceBytes.com /Auc ...
Thursday April 19, 2012
Are Antiques and Collectibles Dying on eBay?
There's an interesting thread on eBay's Seller Central discussion board : "Is the Collectibles & ...
Tuesday April 17, 2012
What Are Your Sales Insights from Doing Your Taxes?
I spent the better part of Sunday engaging in that mass masochistic obligatory American task: taxes. ...
Monday April 16, 2012
What Are Your Experiences with Global Sourcing or Alibaba.com?
Have you ever sourced for products globally, using any worldwide sourcing service, Alibaba.com , or ...
Thursday April 12, 2012
Can Instagram Give Your eBay Photos a Boost?
When news broke out that Facebook was buying photo-sharing app Instagram for $1 billion , I'd alrea ...
Wednesday April 11, 2012
'Free Shipping' Myth: Do You Use eBay's Shipping Rules?
While eBay executives have been proclaiming "free shipping" as the new ecommerce industry standard ( ...
Tuesday April 10, 2012
Where to Find Valuable Post Cards to Sell on eBay & the Titanic?
This is Part Two of our interview with Post Cards Expert Avril Harper, who has been buying and selli ...
Monday April 9, 2012
An Expert on Selling Post Cards for Big Bucks on eBay: Part 1
Post card (otherwise known as "postcards" in some places) expert Avril Harper has decades of experie ...
Saturday April 7, 2012
Top Five Tips from 15 Years of Packing and Shipping
I used to say that every time I went to the post office, I learned something new. There were, and co ...
Wednesday April 4, 2012
An Expert's Top Tips on Oil Paintings for Fun and Profit
Art: It can be a crazy world, where a shark in a vitrine preserved in formaldehyde (think Damien H ...
Tuesday April 3, 2012
Top Five Tips for Getting the Most Out of Yard Sale Season
The weather's warming up - freakishly warm in some parts of the country. It's getting to be the time ...