Archive for April 3rd, 2006
The Professional eBay Sellers Alliance
auctionbytes: The Professional eBay Sellers Alliance (PESA) issued a statement announcing its concern with recent member suspensions from eBay. PESA, describes itself as a non-profit trade association comprised of over 800 high-volume eBay sellers generating over seventy million eBay transactions worth $1 billion in eBay sales annually.
Career Intensity: Business Strategy for Workplace Warriors and Entrepreneurs
Sarah Bosch continues her reviews this week with David Lorenzo’s Career Intensity: Business Strategy for Workplace Warriors and Entrepreneurs. What is it that separates the best from the rest? More importantly, how can you become the best? In his new book, David Lorenzo challenges readers to turn their passion and drive into a competitive career [...]
Interview With Greg Hartnett of Botw
Shimon Sandler: I recently got to know Greg Hartnett from the web directory: Best of the Web… or BOTW for short. BOTW is the internet’s oldest web directory. Greg has been in the search industry since the beginning. As a matter of fact, BOTW is the first reference in Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s college [...]
Robert Scoble: At the Northern Voice conference I met Markus Frind, founder of Plentyoffish.com. He’s Google’s #1 Adsense user in Canada. His site is pulling in more than $10,000 per day from Google, he told me, and has millions of passionate users. Tens of millions of page views EVERY DAY. Whew! What’s the secret to [...]
This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance is up at Okdork.com.
Costs of Starting an Online Retail Business
Startup Nation: Online retail businesses are a popular option for entrepreneurs with minimal capital to invest up front. What’s more, online retail is a great business to run as a home-based, solo, parent or part-time entrepreneur. It can also be a fantastic outlet for your creative talent or hobby. So you’re asking yourself—what does it [...]
wikipedia: eBay generates revenue from a number of fees. There are fees to list a product and fees when the product sells. The eBay fee system is quite complex and takes $0.25 to $80 per listing and 2-8% of the final price. In addition, eBay now owns the PayPal payment system which has fees of [...]
charlotte.com: I recently listed a toy Mattel Winchester Saddle Rifle on eBay, and they interpreted it to be a real gun and pulled my listing and suspended me for one day. I responded to their letter they sent me telling them it was not a real gun and asking them to please resolve this problem. [...]
eBay origins and early history
wikipedia: Founded in San Jose on September 4, 1995 by Pierre Omidyar as Auctionweb, part of a larger personal site that included, among other things, Omidyar’s own tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Ebola virus. The first item sold was Omidyar’s broken laser pointer for $14.83. Astonished, he contacted the winning bidder and asked if he understood [...]
whereiseric.com: Eric Clapton Sales is an eBay Store where all proceeds from items sold benefit the Crossroads Centre at Antigua. Everything sold in the online store is genuine Eric Clapton merchandise. Visitors to Eric Clapton Sales on eBay can purchase unique collectibles like the Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival Display; a full-size cardboard replica of [...]
This week’s Carnival of Investing is up at Free Money Finance.
This week’s Carnival of Marketing is up at A Marketing Blog by Marketing Journal.
Startup Journal: Are you searching for money to start a new business? The first place entrepreneurs commonly look is their own savings or credit cards. The second place is family and friends. But borrowing from relatives, or allowing them to invest in your new business, can put your personal relationships at risk, and the cozy [...]
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Jotzel.
