Archive for February 6th, 2007
This weekâs Carnival is being hosted by Ty Tribble of eBay Business Opportunities and we have 9 articles for your review. This is the first week for Ty Tribble to host the Carnival of eBay Sellers and he’ll be doing it for the entire month of February. If you are interested in hosting in March, [...]
ebays Buyer Protection Limited
eBay will double PayPal Buyer Protection on its site, offering up to $2,000 of coverage for qualified transactions on eBay.com, but is eliminating buyer-protection for non-PayPal transactions. The move is a dramatic effort by eBay to push buyers to use its PayPal online-payment service at a time when it faces increasing competition from Google Checkout, [...]
Homestead Websites Intergraded with eBay
Homestead.com has offered website hosting since 1998. As an online seller, you can choose between two main offerings. Homestead’s web-hosting service allows you to add a PayPal shopping cart if you want to sell items. And Storefronts is a full-featured ecommerce service that uses eBay’s ProStores technology (formerly Kurant) and integrates with eBay and PayPal. [...]
Get Tax Relief From eBay Profits
If you run a profitable eBay business, full-time or part-time, you may be able to gain tax relief and build up retirement savings through a qualified retirement plan and/or IRA. For example, if you net $40,000 from an eBay business and make a tax-deductible contribution of $5,000 to a retirement plan, you only pay income [...]
Questions Answered on eBay Affiliate Marketing
Since eBay established its affiliate marketing program in 2001, its network has grown to 50,000 affiliates worldwide, with eBay employees dedicated to managing specific geographic regions and paying out millions a month in rewards for driving eBay sales. Recently, ClickZ sat down with Lily Shen, senior manager of the program, to discuss its inner workings [...]
New Options for Auto Dealers on eBay
EBay is out to snag more marketing dollars from the nation’s automobile dealers. The online auction giant unrolled a new service today that allows dealers to post their entire inventory online for one price and have it viewed by a local audience. Called eBay Motors Local Market, the subscription-based feature will let dealers list their [...]
CNNMoney.com: Web sites seem the way of the world these days, but many small-business owners still don’t have an Internet presence. Of the nearly 25 million U.S. small businesses, 46 percent do not have a Web site, according to the Kelsey Group, a research firm. But Web sites are not only powerful tools for e-commerce, [...]
6 Ways to Maximize Paid Search
PowerHomeBiz: Catalog Success Magazine has a very interesting article on how to maximize your paid search marketing this year. Pay per click has become an important source of traffic and sales for online marketers; hence it is essential to get the best return from this advertising medium. 1. Invest in Google. 2. Grow your term [...]
The Washington Post: Bringing small borrowers and small lenders together is the idea behind the online social lending venture called Prosper.com. Prosper, based in San Francisco, offers unsecured loans of up to $25,000 at a fixed rate for three years. Anyone with money can lend on Prosper, in increments as small as $50. The system [...]
Small Business Connection: Nearly three-quarters of workers in the survey by Discover Business Card say health-care benefits are a “very important” (47%) or “somewhat important” (24%) factor when they choose a job. That means small companies that don’t offer the benefit are at significant disadvantage in recruiting and retaining workers, Discover says. The survey of [...]
