Are you excited??  I was out doing some shopping this weekend and I really noticed a huge increase in traffic around the shopping malls.  Could the Holiday Season already be underway?  I think so!  I’ve even noticed a nice upswing in sales from my eBay store.  I happen to love store sales, since it’s how [...]

As we wind up for the Holiday Season on eBay, there is one thing that you can prepare for to optimize your eBay store for the New Year, if you haven’t done so already.
Create Multiple Custom Store Categories
It makes total sense!    eBay lets you create up to 300 Categories AND Subcategories in a [...]

Sparkplugging is starting a new tradition called “Spark an idea Thursday.” As part of this tradition, I’ll be sharing with you my experiences and interpretations for each week’s topic for those of you who sell products or services online.
I invite you to grab our image over there to the right and carry the tradition through [...]

If you’ve been managing auctions on eBay for a while and you are ready to kick things up a notch, opening your own eBay store is crucial to taking your e-business to the next level.
Having a store will save you time and money. Currently, store listing fees are only .03-.05 cents per listing, depending on [...]

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 [...]

When I first started selling on eBay, I taught myself how to do it simply by reading all of eBay’s how-to guides and FAQ forums available on their site. They have some wonderful Seller’s Checklists, so I printed them out and made sure to do each and every item, researching what I didn’t understand [...]