by Amanda O'Brien | Feb 12, 2016 | Blog
Can you profit from a 25p item? So, let’s talk about ‘Easy Food Store’. It’s a rather grim looking building from the outside, it’s orange (goes without saying) and was recently opened in London by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou – most famously known for Easy Jet – and his...
by Amanda O'Brien | Jan 29, 2016 | Blog
eBay’s ‘Promote Your Listings’, rip off or sales strategy? You decide. For the past three weeks I have been testing the ‘Promote Your Listings’ advertising service offered by eBay. It’s still in BETA mode which means that you can only currently use...
by Amanda O'Brien | Jan 22, 2016 | Blog
Can You Successfully Sell Non Niche Products Online? To start up a successful online business you should find a niche market. This is me, basically quoting myself! And my quote is absolutely true and is in my opinion the best way to get started. However, just recently...
by Amanda O'Brien | Jan 15, 2016 | Blog
As you can imagine, eBay is a site that is firmly listed in my bookmarks and I’m in and out of the site all day everyday. Given that I spend so much time on the site – researching, listing, selling and buying too – it always amazes me that I rarely come across...
by Amanda O'Brien | Jan 1, 2016 | Blog
New Year’s Day is always very significant to me because it’s the very day that 11 years ago I decided to make some big changes in my life. If I hadn’t made the decision in 2005 to go for it and set about starting a business on eBay, I wouldn’t be sat here writing this...
by Amanda O'Brien | Dec 18, 2015 | Blog
The onset of a new year is often the time when you might start to re-evaluate your current situation, whether it’s regarding your personal or professional life and start thinking about ways in which you can make changes. I know a lot of my eTail Hub readers are keen...
by Amanda O'Brien | Dec 11, 2015 | Blog
This year isn’t quite over just yet and right now online shoppers are in the midst of a massive buying frenzy, however, as an online seller, you shouldn’t rest on your laurels as now is the time that you should be thinking ahead and planing what products to sell...
by Amanda O'Brien | Dec 7, 2015 | Blog
I made a very silly mistake Not one, but two quite notable things happened very recently. I’m not talking about Andy Murray helping Great Britain to win the Davis Cup for the first time in 79 long years, nor am I talking about the phenomenon which was Black Friday...
by Amanda O'Brien | Nov 27, 2015 | Blog, Featured
New to eBay… Small inventory… Should you wait before opening an eBay shop… or jump straight in? You may remember that a few weeks ago, the topic of my blog post was all about the complications I went through whilst trying to ensure my eBay shop name was changed...
by Amanda O'Brien | Nov 13, 2015 | Blog, Featured
Join the scrum from relative online safety and increase your Christmas sales Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll have noticed that ‘Black Friday’ has been in the news this week! Black Friday originates from the United States and is now a very popular yearly...
by Amanda O'Brien | Oct 30, 2015 | babz media td, Blog, Featured, margin
A couple of weeks ago I was browsing online, checking up on my eBay competitors, catching up with the news via several forums and generally updating myself on what’s going on in the world of online selling when I noticed a thread regarding the company ‘Babz Media...
by Amanda O'Brien | Oct 16, 2015 | Blog, Featured, store settings
Who is more clever – me or eBay? Those who have been following my eletter regularly will know that I have multiple eBay accounts – all at varying levels of powerseller/non powerseller status, and earlier this week I encountered a bit of a dilemma on a non powerseller...
