From the category archives:

SELLING

Breaking eBay

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What started out as a wonderful buy and sell marketplace for the unique and unusual has been tweaked beyond recognition. Year by year, change by change, small sellers of vintiques and collectibles get squeezed out in favor of high volume sellers selling 50,000 packages of imported socks in a single fixed price listing. I guess [...]

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Dissing Etsy Sellers

I Heart Etsy

There was a op-ed floating around online a few weeks ago dissing Etsy sellers as delusional housewives wanting to get-rich-quick. I thought I had bookmarked the article, but now I can’t find. The gist of the ridiculous point being made was that the webmasters behind Etsy are scamming poor, stupid women into thinking they can [...]

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How I Got My Work Into Stores

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This informative guest post was written by Etsy seller PlumeAdore ***************** For those wanting to get your products in stores and grow your business with some wholesale work, here is what I’m doing. In under 3 weeks, I’ve gotten 5 wholesale orders (ranging from $250-$850 in size) and have 4 more appointments coming up next [...]

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Ecommerce: Lesson 3

Thomas Edison

Lesson 3 isn’t strictly a lesson on Ecommerce as it is a lesson for LIFE in general. There is something to be said for dogged-determination. That stubborn stay-the-course-at-any-cost commitment no doubt was behind many a historical success story. What we rarely hear about in the history books, though, are those who plowed on to ruin. [...]

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