| | |  | Home Business Tools | Home » » eBay Business All-in-One For Dummies | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Want to become an eBay entrepreneur? Nobody knows more about starting an eBay business than Marsha Collier, and she’s put it all in 1-2-3 order for you in eBay Business All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition.This all-in-one guide includes nine handy minibooks that cover: - eBay Basics
- Essential Tools
- Selling Like a Pro
- Sourcing Merchandise
- Presenting Your Items
- Promoting Your Goods
- Storing and Shipping
- Power Selling
- Office and Legal
eBay PowerSeller Marsha Collier shows you how to: - Set up your business, find and manage inventory, and run your business like a pro
- Equip yourself with the tools that count—eBay’s search engine, online sources of information, the PayPal system, and eBay’s management tools
- Source your merchandise and learn valuable strategies for managing and maximizing sales
- Set up the optimal eBay photo studio and develop and market your eBay Web site
- Learn the ins and outs of online retailing and what it takes to buy and sell online safely and easily
- Find deals on the computer equipment you need
- Promote, market, and show off your goods, all the while keeping your business legal
Before you know it, you too can be a PowerSeller! Get started today with eBay Business All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Marsha Collier | | Paperback:
| 864 pages | | Publisher:
| For Dummies | | Publication Date:
| February 03, 2009 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0470385367 | | Product Length:
| 9.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.2 inches | | Product Height:
| 2.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 2.7 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.2 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.35 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 17 reviews |
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139 of 142 found the following review helpful:
 Good General IntroductionJun 05, 2005
By John Matlock
"Gunny"
There are now something like a half million people making a living from selling things using eBay. In this one book Ms. Collier attemts to tell everything there is about settin yourself up in such a business. It's about as complete a book on the subject that could be written.
My first advice is: "Before you sell, go buy some things." She talks about finding things to buy using eBay's various search tools. She also gives out some of the little secrets such as searching on mispellings. For instance searching for "motherboard" right now finds 5328 entries. Leaving out the "a" and searching for "motherbord" finds five entries that aren't getting much action. One "motherbord" has two bids, one penny and six pennies.
After that you're ready to sell things. This book is mostly on selling thing (check your spelling). And every aspect from signing up as a seller to getting payment (Paypal and other), to setting up your own store is included.
The section on getting products to sell is as good as you could expect in a general book, but you're going to have to work this out yourself as you will need to specialize in something. What that specialty is doesn't much matter, but you've got to find some little niche of your own. That's got to include what will sell and where to get more at a good price. Don't get me wrong, her comments aren't incorrect, just generalized.
51 of 53 found the following review helpful:
eBay Business All-in-One Desk Reference for DummiesFeb 01, 2006
By Janey
"n6neb"
This is a very comprehensive book. Much of the information you will already know if you have bought on eBay. Although it is a large volume, it will answer all your questions and give pieces of information you would not have thought of or give multiple choices to chose from. I think it is a great book and find doing all the reading well worth finding those "gems" of information that can make a difference in working on eBay. The more time put into the checking (whether a buyer, seller, looking for an item, etc.) the more successful an eBay business will be. A successful business is never done overnight and the author obviously didn't become successful without having done her homework and expended the effort to make it work.
23 of 23 found the following review helpful:
Outstanding ResourceFeb 13, 2007
By Spunkychk
"Book Freak"
If you're on a tight budget, much of what she tells you is actually explained on eBay in the "Site Map", but you can't spend ALL your time online! For example: I wanted to have my own domain outside eBay. Marsha provided a springboard saving me hours of research time. I ended up with one of her suggestions. That tip alone has saved me beaucoup $$. Ideal for beginning to intermediate sellers.
CON: this deals only with eBay. I find selling on Amazon often to be the better choice. Also no mention of Overstock nor Yahoo.
16 of 17 found the following review helpful:
 Good comprehensive starting point for the prospective eBay-erMar 27, 2007
By Michael K. Smith
This author is one of the current gurus in the area of making a ton by selling stuff on eBay. I've been registered there for almost a decade myself, buying books and stamps at first, and then selling them. I was never out to amass a fortune, the way Collier and so many others seems to be, but I've made a slow and steady income and I've been happy with that. Since I taught myself how to do all that stuff back when eBay was still a relatively site, I've never felt the need of a how-to book, but a colleague recommended this one so I decided to take a look at it. Not bad, not bad at all. While enthusiastic (because it's required by the publisher of this series), Collier manages not to get carried away too often. For instance, she will suggest good online business practices, then confess that she seldom follows this one or that one herself. I didn't find anything I didn't already know in the "Basics" section (which was kind of a relief), but she has some interesting things to say about researching goods on the Web, whether you're buying or selling, and some subtle points about the way PayPal works which I hadn't really thought about, and so on. The author also has a strong background in marketing and sales and what she has a number of thoughtful things to say regarding the application of that experience to eBay, things that us humanities majors have never had to learn. So, while I won't follow her advice on using QuickBooks, and I don't expect to open an eBay Store, I certainly put a lot of bookmarks in this fat volume for future reference and rereading.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
WOW! - This is a BIG book!Feb 28, 2009
By Makalia Boone
This is a really big book. Lots of great info on everything from how the "pros" sell on Ebay, to finding merchandise to sell, to shipping your stuff, to how auctions are best presented, to becoming a powerseller.
I got some really good info on "tools" I can use to make my auctions run more smoothly. Automation software that takes away a lot of the legwork I was having to do. That was very helpful and a real time saver.
There is some good stuff on finding hot niches to sell to, but for that, I recommend Quit Your Job (and Never Go Back) - How to Create, Start, & Market an Online Business for Under $500 in 30 Days or Less, which goes a little bit deeper into the subject and helps you work through the process in a "workbook" format. The right product is essential to success, so definitely check this one out.
For automation and making auctions easy though, this Dummies guide can't be beat. Tons of great info in this thing. In fact, a bit too much, if you ask me. I would have liked to see this divided into more specific topics, getting really deep with each one. For an overview though, it's wonderful. At the least, you'll discover what you want to read more about.
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