No matter how you spin it, our business is about branding. Even if you do not have an eBay or eCommerce store, you still should concern yourself with building an image and a brand. It contributes to enhancing your professional image and therefore to enhancing the trust your customers hold in you.
One of [...]

I insist that the only way to become an outstanding eBay seller is to be a consistent eBay buyer first. As such, you learn how it feels to participate in transactions from both sides. You learn what is important to both the buyer and the seller. What qualities make the biggest impressions. [...]

The question I am asked most often is, “Can you really make money on eBay?”
The answer is, “Absolutely.”
But between you and me, you can make so much more than a living on eBay. You can make a life.
Hold on tight, because it can be quite the ride. Allow me to share with you [...]

You asked! Here are some answers:
With all of its challenges, is eBay still more rewarding than monetizing a blog… from a work-at-home parent’s perspective?
I don’t know what kind of monetizing you are doing with your blog, but in my opinion, eBay is much more financially rewarding versus monetizing a blog. I can [...]

The problem with rarin’ to go is that sometimes you have to spin your wheels a bit before you gain some traction. You get your wheels all warmed up and find your place again on the track. You begin to pick up speed, find yourself passing the competition, and find it easier and [...]

I love a challenge. I accepted this job at eMoms at Home precisely because I needed to challenge my eBay skill set again. As I’ve said, I had become complacent about my eBay store and allowed my attention to drift to other things. Things that did little to help our family finances, [...]

I let my guard down and shared with you that I may be allowing the fear of success to paralyze me. Then I was called a lazy whining mom who has never had a real job in her life. Ooh, and also a cry baby.
Impressive. The number of insults in the full [...]

I lied to you. Repeatedly. And I’m really sorry. Time to come clean.
Remember when I told you that this wouldn’t be a how-to blog about eBay? I said that it would stand apart from all of the mundane and functional “Top 10 blahdy blahs about eBay” posts out there? [...]

Unscheduled hiatuses happen to the best of us. You are plugging right along, all of your balls in the air, everything going as planned, and then something slips, a ball drops, you scramble to get it and then… bounce. bounce. bounce. bouncebouncebounce. All of the balls drop around you.
When you [...]

eBay is a wonderland of fabulous tools and features. As you are wrapping up your initial (and consistently ongoing) target product research, you will have been hard pressed to not notice all of the banners pointing you toward additional features, promising to help you along your way as a new seller.
However, a lot of [...]