Archive for the 'eBay Entrepreneurs' Category

Charissa Bear:
If you’re like many stay at home moms, you are thinking about starting your own home based business so that you can earn a little extra money to help with family expenses or maybe even to pay for a nice family vacation this year. You’ve probably scanned the usual options: the party plan companies, […]

Michael Saunders:
Auctions are excellent tools for diversifying funding streams for nonprofit development professionals. The emergence of ubiquitous online access have made online auctions an excellent vehicle for nonprofits and charities to raise funds while engaging stakeholders and other consituencies in their causes. eBay, the leader platform for online auctions also provides a number of offerings […]

Do you participate in $0.01 eBay auctions to raise your rating? I’ve written a new webservice to make it easier.
If you’d like to participate in a free beta, send me an email at dane@carlsoncarlson.com.

AuctionBytes 
eBay sellers in Australia and the UK were as unhappy as those in North America over eBay hikes in Store fees. And while eBay is charging sellers higher fees for Store listings, they are at the same time decreasing Store listings visibility to potential buyers by rolling back Stores in Search effective August 1. eBay […]

Forbes
EBay’s recent lag in listings growth is likely a function of seasonally slow summer trends, according to Bear Stearns analyst Robert S. Peck in a report to investors Tuesday.
For the first week of the third quarter, Bear Stearns estimated eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ) hosted 31.9 million items on its global platforms, […]

 AuctionBytes
It’s all too easy to forget about your eBay Store when you’re scrambling to get your personal quota of auction sales online at the beginning of the week. But at the end of the week when you’ve sold more out of your store than you did online, you suddenly realize the store’s value.
eBay Store promotion […]

Newsfactor Magazine 
 In its nearly 11 years of existence, the auction site eBay has come a long way from its early days as a souped-up online flea market. Thanks to its anyone-can-sell business model, and a prevailing philosophy that there’s a buyer out there for anything, eBay has become the granddaddy of all auction sites. Countless […]

Read/write Web
eBay, in collaboration with JotSpot, has just released a new community wiki - making it almost certainly the world’s largest wiki platform for a commercial website (Wikipedia is bigger, but it’s non-commercial). eBay Wiki is described as “a collection of fact-based articles written and maintained by eBay Community members” and is powered by […]

Got Ads:
According to Meg Whitman’s keynote (she’s the CEO of eBay), at the eBay Developer Conference: 1.3M people make their living selling full-time on eBay