Selling an item online is easy, so is a couple of items, but making living from a business that sells online, well that's something different entirely.

That's me over to the right *waves* I don't pretend to know everything, but I have spent the last 10 years running an online business, helping people just like you become more effective & efficient with the online sales channels like eBay & Amazon, either through consulting or at one of the two ERP software companies I have worked for.

It's my personal goal to turn everything I know about eCommerce into plain English and that's why I need your assistance by getting involved.

Looking for BETA Testers – A Couple of eBay Related Widgets

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Hola, I’ve been working on a couple of widgets for eBay and I’m wondering if you would be interested in using them to help me make them better before they’re released publicly. There are a few of them as listed below and I’ll cover them in more detail: Dynamic eBay Store Categories for eBay Listings Dynamic Related Items Gallery Terapeak Value Summaries Single & Multi-variation data extraction for sales If any … [Full Article >> ]

That’s How You Solve Scroll bars in eBay Listings! – Fix eBay’s Duff Code

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I covered this previously in an article called “Do you keep seeing scroll bars on your eBay listings?” and as I started to explore this again for someone it became apparent that eBay’s JavaScript code is actually broken. But before we go any further, I am fully aware that this could be classed as “site interference” by eBay (again this a debatable subject, as I’d class it as fixing a known problem, … [Full Article >> ]

How to: Remove Provider Credit Images From eBay Listings

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I was asked on Thursday if I knew of a way to remove the “Powered By” logo’s from the bottom of eBay listings. You know the ones, the little 88×33 graphics that you see added to the bottom of your listings, that were not on your template, a few examples are below: You could crudely use CSS and set the CENTER tags to “display:none” eg center {display:none;}. The problem with that approach is … [Full Article >> ]

Birdtables & Competition, What on earth could they have in Common?

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Birdtables & competition, what on earth could they have in common? Quite a lot actually. It’s a story I have enjoyed sharing with a couple of people and each time I share it, it gets added to and I’m hoping you’ll get the idea too and add to it as well by leaving a comment at the bottom. The Almighty Bird Table Sat on the doorstep one morning, sipping the first coffee of … [Full Article >> ]

Tesco Marketplace Now Partly Live – Already Showing Signs of Flaws

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Tesco have soft launched the redesigned Tesco Direct website with two “Marketplace” sellers and guess what…we’re already seeing that there has been little learned by looking at the core rival Amazon. The Tesco marketplace have two merchants live on the platform already, Crocus & Maplins and its the latter merchant that is making it clear that Tesco haven’t really worked out that Data is the life blood of an eCommerce business just yet. Product … [Full Article >> ]

Delving into Niches with Multiple Websites – Part 1 Why & How

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Hola! Welcome to the first part of a series of articles on how to run multiple niche websites and really tap into multi-channel eCommerce without eBay & Amazon. I have been meaning to write this series for quite some time now and its going to take me a while to work through the different aspects I’d like to cover, hence breaking it up into multiple parts which will take me a few weeks … [Full Article >> ]

The First Bristol Multi-Channel eCommerce Meet Up 20th April

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Hola! I’d like to invite you to the very first Multi-Channel eCommerce meet up on Friday 20th April in Bristol. One of the biggest take-aways from working with the 6 businesses in the latter part of last year was that while we enjoyed the one-on-one time, there was really no replacement for meeting as a group and discussing the challenges that we face as a group. Some of the solutions were ingenious and meeting on common … [Full Article >> ]

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