Making A Living From Your eBay Business, 2nd Edition (2006)

The power of online auctions is attracting hundreds of thousands--if not millions--of users who want to turn their eBay hobbies into profitable businesses. While turning an eBay hobby into an eBay business might look easy, making that business profitable is much more difficult. Not enough sellers treat their eBay sales as a business, and subsequently are disappointed in the results. To launch a successful and profitable eBay business, the detailed instructions in this book will show you how to get started. It will help you determine what kind of business you want to run, write an action-oriented business plan, establish an effective accounting system, set up a home office, obtain starting inventory, arrange initial funding, establish an eBay presence, and arrange for automated post-auction management. This book is a step-by-step guide for anyone serious about making money from their eBay sales. Unlike other computer-oriented titles, this is a straight-ahead business book that shows how to set up and run different types of eBay businesses, and how to maximize sales and profits while doing so. This book includes a section titled "Choosing Your eBay Business" that details six different types of eBay businesses you can start. Included in this section is a chapter on eBay Trading Assistants (AKA drop-off stores or consignment stores), which is the newest form of an eBay business.

How This Book Is Organized

This book is organized into five main parts, as follows:

Part 1, "Planning and Launching Your eBay Business," walks you through the "homework" you need to do before you start selling on eBay. You'll learn how to research your business model, create a business plan, evaluate your funding needs, deal with legal and tax issues, set up a recordkeeping system, and put together your eBay back office.

Part 2, "Choosing a Business Model," introduces you to six common types of eBay businessesone of which should be just right for you.

Part 3, "Managing Your Day-to-Day Business," takes you through everything you need to know about running your business. You'll learn where to buy and how to manage your inventory, how to automate the auction listing process, how to manage customer payments, the best ways to pack and ship your merchandise, how to deal with customers (and customer problems), and how to more effectively automate your auction management.

Part 4, "Maximizing Your eBay Sales," helps you make your auctions more successfuland your business more profitable. You'll learn some tips for improving item sell-through and increasing your selling price, for choosing the most effective listing options, for creating more powerful auction listings, for taking and displaying better product photos, and for promoting your eBay auctions.

Part 5, "Growing Your Online Business," shows you how to take the next steps toward business success. You'll learn how to become an eBay PowerSeller, expand your sales to eBay Express and Half.com, open an eBay Store, sell at other online sites, launch a full-fledged merchant website, and manage your business's growth.

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