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The Perfect Home Based Business! by Joe Clare Are you looking for a Business you can Work at Home? Did you know that a Work at Home Business is the dream of millions of Americans, and millions more world wide? It is estimated that by 2010, over 68% of us will have some kind of Home Business to help supplement our income. Plus, numerous surveys show that a Business of your own is still the #1 way for the average person to achieve financial freedom and independence. Learn more

How To Create Your Own eBay About Me Page by Tim Knox Regular readers of this newsletter and my newspaper column know that I am a big fan of eBay's About Me Page feature. This is a special page you can create as part of your eBay account that is linked from your eBay ID (with a little About Me icon). You can use your eBay About Me Page as a sales tool. Customers can click on your About Me icon to get to your About Me page, which you can set up to include information about you, your interests, and Learn more

When It Comes To eBay, Don't Follow The Herd by Tim Knox While it's true that selling products on eBay can be a quick, low cost way to launch an online business, following the herd by selling the "hot product" of the moment, is not a great idea. To the contrary, chances are you will be stomped in the ground by the herd and left lying in the dust with your unsold inventory in hand. Learn more

Auction Tip: Make the Most of Your eBay "About Me" Page by Chuck Smith One of the most important, and least-utilized, features on eBay is the "About Me" page. With your About Me page, you can promote yourself as a seller, promote all of your auctions, and show off your eBay Feedback ratings. This provides credibility for your auction business, and also gives you an opportunity to express your unique personality. Learn more

An eBay Seller’s Checklist by Kirsten Hawkins Being a seller is a lot of responsibility, and sometimes you might feel like you’re not doing everything you should be. This simple checklist will help you keep on top of things. Learn more

Ten Sure Fire Ways To Lose Bidders by Steven Woodward When you realize the cost of placing an auction includes everything from auction site fees, cost of electricity, internet access, your time, and other auction management issues and expenses, why is it that many auction sellers lose bidders they’ve worked so hard, and spent so much money to get to their auctions, by making easy to fix mistakes? Learn more

Do I Really Need A Business License and Tax ID? by Tim Knox I've gotten quite a few emails recently from ebusiness owners who seem to think that just because their business is conducted online or from the comfort of home that the rules and regulations that govern brick and mortar businesses do not apply to them. The ebusiness questions I get most often do not involve building websites or conducting ecommerce... Learn more

What? You Don’t Have an eBay Store? by Kirsten Hawkins In fact, you might not even have heard of eBay stores. Read on to find out what you’ve been missing. Learn more

4 Steps to eBay Affiliate Success by Anthony Samuel Getting started with the eBay affiliate program is as simple as 4 easy steps. eBay knows you have a business to run, so they have created a step-by-step guide to see you down the road of success. With the eBay Affiliate Program, you could bring in an extra $25,000 a month, as well as gain access to many tools and strategies that will optimize the working of your website, its effectiveness with search engines and on the Web in general. Getting started in a successful venture has never been so easy. Learn more

Why Adding Pictures Increases eBay Bid Response by Jeanne Sheridan Buyers really like pictures. The more pictures you have, the more they'll feel like buying their item from you instead of your competitor. In fact, there are plenty of buyers who will literally leave your auction within 5 seconds of arriving if they don't find a picture there waiting for them. Learn more

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