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The Biggest Ecommerce Opportunity Of This Century
by Derek Gehl
Even with all the controversy and bad press, it's no wonder that eBay is still being called, "The Biggest Ecommerce Opportunity Of This Century." eBay gets serious traffic -- in fact, a whopping TWO MILLION eager buyers visit eBay every day, ready and willing to make purchases online...

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The 8 Things You Must Know To Build A Great Website
by Tim Knox
Last week we talked about how a bad website can do your business more harm than good. That column brought several emails asking what is the key to building an effective business website. I replied with the same answer I always give: building an effective business website is a simple matter of definition.

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Fail Up - 3 Steps To Using Failure To Succeed
by Tom Justin
Any failure is not the end, it's the beginning. This is not about positive thinking but the variety of actions that you can take to restart your project, business or even your life.

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How to Choose the Right eBay Product Category.
by Kirsten Hawkins
Some people think it’s easy to choose the right eBay category, and often it is. Sometimes, though, it might not be quite clear exactly what to go for.

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Selling Digital Downloads Via eBay Classifieds Is Still A Crap Shoot
by Tim Knox
Last week I told you that eBay had decided to ban the sale of digital downloads via its traditional auction system. This means that digital media sellers will have to deliver their goods via CDs or DVDs, or post them for sale on the eBay Classified system. This week I'm hearing from lots of folks who have tried to post sales to the eBay Classifieds only to be denied the privilege of doing so or having the ad cancelled by eBay for policy violations that no one - not even eBay staffers - seem to understand. Once again eBay has everyone confused and upset. Same stuff, different day.

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Is The eBay Fee Increase Actually Good For Business?
by Tim Knox
This will be the fifth rate hike in as many years for the auction giant and should really come as no surprise. Price hikes are a normal course of business. It was the size of the hike that has many sellers upset.

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eBay Announces The Preview Launch of eBay Express
by Weekly Newsletter
You may remember back a few weeks ago I told you about the coming launch of eBay's new fixed price website called eBay Express, that many think is being launched to help eBay compete with Amazon and other online retailers. On Monday eBay announced the preview launch of the site with an email from Jamie Iannone, Senior Director, eBay Express...

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Buying Used Dell Laptops, PC's and Servers on eBay - How to be successful
by John Gall
Two years ago I needed a way to refresh more PC's and Laptops at my company without spending more. New Dell laptops were great but expensive and over the years we had accumulated many Latitude C series parts. The C series ran from the CPX C600 C610 C400 and C640 models before their new D line of Latitude laptops were released. The docks, drives and many other parts are usable in any of these models so we decided to take advantage of this and purchase used Dell laptops. eBay was where we sourced these. Over the years I've learned some valuable things about buying these expensive items. Here are some tips and some recommendations of sellers I've found to be very reliable.

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