Archive for the 'eBay' Category

Is There no Alternative to PayPal?

As someone who makes all (or virtually all) of his income online, I am dependent upon PayPal. It is the online currency of the internet, for better or worse.
The frustrating thing is that there is NO alternative to PayPal. Not a real alternative, anyway. Why? Market share.
According to eBay (who owns PayPal), over 90% of [...]

6 Reasons Your Business Should Sell on eBay (part 2)

NOTE: This is article 2 of 3.
6 Reasons Your Business Should Sell on eBay (part 1)
In a previous post, I mentioned six reasons you should have a strategy for using eBay to build your business. Today, I take the first three reasons and expand on them. After my next post, where I expand on [...]

6 Reasons Your Business Should Sell on eBay

NOTE: This is article 1 of 3.
6 Reasons Your Business Should Sell on eBay (Part 2)
Unless you have been in a cave for the last 10 years or so, you have probably bought or sold something on eBay. What started off as a hobbyist site to sell your odds and ends has become big business, [...]

A Sample of One

Hughism: Most people take a sample of one.
I once knew an older gentleman who had been fairly successful in real estate. He had bought apartment buildings over the years, leveraged them well, used the rents to pay down the mortgage and now had a large income stream every month that surpassed his needs by [...]

Do You Squidoo?

I like the bald guy. I have read pretty much everything he has written, and his blog has made it through every purge of my feeds I have ever had. So when he got behind the founding of Squidoo, I looked into it. Hard. And I just did not get it.
(For the uninitiated, Squidoo lets [...]