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Do Pictures Help Your eBay Selling?
by Brian McGregor
I have to admit this is a rhetorical question. There is no question that the vast majority of items will sell better if they are shown in all their glory in the form of a picture or pictures.

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What Else Belongs on Your eBay Shipping Box?
by Kirsten Hawkins
The quickest answer I feel I should give to this question is this: not your handwriting! Scrawling addresses on boxes with a pen is extremely amateurish, and you shouldn’t do it. Print your own labels instead. But what should you put on them?

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Taxing eBay Part Deux
by Tim Knox
Several folks argued that just because their little eBay hobby generated a little cash, that didn’t make it a full blown business. It seems they consider the income from their little hobby to be financial manna from Heaven and thereby not taxable by earthly tax collectors. I’ve always been amused by folks who try to impress me with talk about their “little side business” but when the subject turns to taxes they suddenly refer to it as “my little hobby.”

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eBay Software and Services: From Analysis to Sniping
by Andy Geldman
You have probably heard of sniping and auction management, but there is much more to eBay software than that. There are hundreds of downloadable programs and web-based services out there for eBay buyers and sellers from a large, competitive, and innovative industry. This is a quick guide to the eBay software world.

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Where To Find Items To Sell On eBay
by Lewis Leake
One question that always seems to pop up is, "Where do I find products to sell on eBay?" Here are some ideas to get you started.

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Think Before You Bank on the Web
by Bill Knell
Getting a product noticed on the web can be a very expensive lesson. More then a few online merchants invested all their efforts in one online marketing plan, made money and then lost big. Others never even made it out of the starting gate. Here are some simple ways to avoid complete online financial failure:

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How to Increase Your eBay Backend Sales
by Kirsten Hawkins
It shouldn’t too hard to increase your eBay backend sales - because the chances are you currently aren’t making any! Backend sales are sales to customers who have already bought an item, also known as ‘up-selling’. These are usually easier sales to make than normal sales: in sales-speak, your existing customers are ‘warm leads’.

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Six ways to make extra money for Christmas
by Anna-Marie Stewart
Christmas time can be stressful and hard if you`re running low on cash. Here are 6 tips for making some extra money so you too can have a joyful season.

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