ebay Archives - Getting Supplies for your Online Store

You have been suspended by Ebay or Amazon. You are shocked and do not know what to do.
How did this happen you ask?
The answer is that it happened and will continue to have to others like you because they missed the same thing that you missed. You missed the fact that you do not own the platform. You were sold a lie that you bought into. The lie was that the online business that you were building belonged to you. That you could support yourself and your family with the earnings from this magical online business. The amazing thing was that it worked like that for a while. Charlie Brown got to kick the football time and time again and then all of a sudden the dream ended and you are reading this.

How do I get back on the ship that threw me off you are wondering.
I would rather not help you to do that.
You could do that for a while,but it will happen again. Why be a sharecropper when you can own the farm. I know that all of your working life has prepared you for working for a paycheck. That working for someone else (a Boss) is all that you know. If you want to break away from that and become the one who is truly in charge then we can continue.
When you say my business wouldn’t it be nice if that was actually true.

Today I would like you to come up with a name for your own business. Your website that will earning you much more than you ever did on Ebay or Amazon. Make it a nice and easy to remember name that you can condense into a website name and a domain name. Then you are going to purchase the domain name and build a website.
Today come up with a domain name like Amazon and Ebay did and tomorrow you will build a website to call your own.
Thank you for visiting this site and good luck with your website.

Today will be a quick talk about ebay.

Most, if not all of us, began life as an online seller at Amazon or Ebay. I learned a great deal there and I have to admit that if not for their business practices I might not have ever grown as an online business person. I might have stayed there, happily selling. Believing that I was actually in business for myself rather than being nothing more than an employee of the company.

So many of us who have moved on to build our own online businesses have done so because of ebay suspensions or restrictions. I wish I knew what I know known when I started. I am going to offer you guys a few pieces of advice and it your take this advance then you will be prepared for the day that ebay or Amazon changes the rules and you become a victim of these changes.

First thing that you need to do is learn to keep proper records. Keep the names addresses and emails of every single customer who purchases from you. This is list building.

Secondly you need to build yourself a website. A website that mirrors Amazon or Ebay. A website that features all the items or services that you have to offer. This website is your actual business and your job from that point on is to feed it new customers and to do everything possible to retain the existing customers.

The third thing that you must do is to grow your business through adding new products and services to your business. The best way to do this is to visit sites like liquidation.com, government auction.org and varies wholesale overseas sites such as lightinthebox.com.

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Perhaps up until now you have only sold inventory on Amazon and Ebay. Those markets are getting tighter and with more and more rules and performance numbers to reach each quarter these market places are making it harder and harder on the seller.

Some would say that means that it is time to look for a few new marketplaces to move your inventory. The first marketplace you should investigate is one created and owned by you. Having your own website is a good business move. Even if you sell at other sites having a site that you can send customers to is good for your long-term survival. There have been many top sellers at Amazon and or Ebay that woke up and found that through no fault of their own that their accounts had been restricted or suspended. A problem that could be worked through and overcome, but the loss of business can not easily be made up for. The one thing that can never be replaced is time. Having your own site means that you can go one no matter what may happen with the sites that you normally work at.
Next thing you should do is look into expanding to other sites. There are many sites out there where you can list items. Sites such as Ioffer, Sell.com, Etsy, Ecrater and Ebid.

Most sites are free to join and list. Some like Sell.com and Webstore require a small fee to join, but usually it is worth it. Research them and visit them.

Okay that is it for today. Good luck with your business.

Still A Good Business Day

Still A Good Day

The worst day that you will every have as a independent business person will outshine 99 percent of the best days that you ever had while working for someone else.

Think about it. You are your own boss and most likely your only employee so at the end of this day all of the credit belongs to you. Yes, I know that when we fail we know who to blame, but even under those circumstances it is far easier to deal with your own mistakes than those of others. You know what you did wrong so you know how to correct those mistakes. It does not take a meeting. It does not take a memo. It does not take hours of finger pointing. You know how to correct it and move on. You know this during the good and the bad times. You know what is best for your business and if you do not you at least know where to go to get the help you need.

I would like to suggest some things to you that might aid your business. Most of us got into the business that we are in hoping that it would grow over time. Who starts a business and says to themselves I want to reach this certain level and stop right there. Who does not want to grow and improve and make more profit?

What I would like to suggest to some of you who are running an online business is that this may be the time to look into adding services.

If you do not have a website why not? If you are earning a living by working at one of the online marketplaces you are still an employee of someone else. Sure Ebay and Amazon will not put it that way, but they can stop you from running your business on their sites any time that they wish. That sounds like having a boss to me.

Get your own website. If you do not know how to build one or do not have the time then below is the banner for a site that can walk you through it.

Also you should think about collecting information about your customer base so that you can go back to them again and again. You will need a service to do that for you unless you have many free hours on your hands.

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Your Go To Players

What Makes Your Business Tick?

We are in the middle of the summer movie season and the film industry has a certain way of doing business. They build their industry around what is called tent poles films. If everything else fails the profit that these movies bring in will keep the massive studios going. They are The Avengers, Spiderman, Men in Black, Batman and the Pixar films. These tent pole movies are their go to products.

What are your tent pole items? What are your go to products? What makes your online store tick? What keeps your online business afloat even when everything else is going bad?

Burger King has its Whopper and MacDonald’s has its french fries. Your business has it’s what?

Do you make most of your money from Ebay or Amazon and you just throw a bunch of stuff up for sale and hope for the best or do you go with a plan. I would suggest that if you want to support your family you come up with a plan and find a go to item. Your circus is coming to town and what is the one-act that you know will make the audience scream and gasp? What can you count on?

If you do not have that go to item where can you go to get it?
That is mostly up to you. I have some resources that I use. Some that work for me, but I can only suggest things. You will have to decide for yourself.

If you need help I would suggest business and or trade magazines. Yeah, actual magazines still exist and in this area they can be very useful. You can read about resources and find out about new developments in your niche. Below is a banner for a service where you can order some free business magazines. Sounds like a waste of time? Two years ago I was sitting in a doctor’s office and I picked up a beat up copy of a website magazine. Two years later I have two websites and seven blogs of my own. I wish that someone had told me about websites and the power of SEO years ago. What I am trying to say is that you will never know until you try it what resource will be the right one for you.

Okay that is it for today. Remember to stumble us on stumbleupon, recommend this site to a friend and try something new for your business. If not each day then at least one new thing a week.

Your online store

Where to Get Things To Sell Online

If you are actually having this problem then that is actually good news. You are now doing well enough with your online store that you are running low on product. Whether you sell at Ebay, Amazon, the few dozen other online marketplaces or even your own website.

You have sold everything from the back of your closet. You have done the thrift store and yard sale tour and now you are stuck. You have a customer base and nothing to offer to them. That is okay, we all reach this point and through trial and error we find a way to move on to the next level. This site is dedicated to helping you eliminate the trial and error.
We will be going over a great deal of options, some of which will work better than others. The right items to sell online will differ from one person to another.

If you are an Ebay or an Amazon seller the items that you need for your store may be night and day. One site is fixed price and the other is Auction. You may be stocking up for your own site or buy items to supply a small home based business.

Read all that is posted here, both by me and comments by others and together we will find the best path to get supplies for your online store.

“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.” – Nietzsche

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