How Windows Azure avoided a HailStorm of criticism - ZDNet UK
Microsoft’s HailStorm prompted an avalanche of criticism when it was proposed seven years ago, but developers seem to have few qualms with Windows Azure, which incorporates many of the same notions. With Windows Azure , Microsoft not only controls

How to Buy, Sell, and Profit on eBay: Kick-Start Your Home-Based Business in Just Thirty Days

How to Buy, Sell, and Profit on eBay: Kick-Start Your Home-Based Business in Just Thirty Days

A lively insider’s guide to starting a successful small business selling items old and new on eBay, written with personal anecdotes, well–kept secrets, and insider tips by Adam Ginsberg, eBay’s most successful private salesperson.

This is the insider’s guide to making money on eBay. Adam Ginsberg is the most successful seller on eBay, moving around a million dollars’ worth of merchandise every month. Not only will he impart his personal secrets on how to sell on eBay –learned through years of experience – and his tips on expanding your small business using eBay as a global market, but he’ll also give fun side–notes and anecdotes, keeping the book lively and making it a fun and interesting read.

This book will be a must–have for all current and aspiring eBay sellers, all small–business owners, and anyone who wants to learn how to start a million–dollar company.

Customer Review: Fundamental, “Good Tips” book
I think that this book provided some good tips and a basic general understanding of how ebay and the ebay community works. However, specifics are not present. For example,I would like to have read more information about international and domestic shipping and about drop shippers. It has the normal motivational spillage thats in all these type of books. It is a easy read.

Customer Review: This book will explode your sales on eBay!!!
Adam is the eBay expert! He learned from experience and you get to benefit from that experience and make money sooner and make more per product as a result of Adam’s book.

I have read his book and taken his course and I continue to learn from Adam. One of the hardest things in marketing is to sell to someone that you don’t get to meet, learn about them, pick what things are important to that customer and explain how your product would benefit them. On eBay you have to rely on your product page on eBay to say it all. Adam tells you how to set it up, what to include and what not to do.

Once you sell your product you have to have systems in place to deliver the product and to have all of your eBay business parts working properly. I am the author of Turning Your Dream Business Into Your Bread & Butter: Recipes for Running a Successful Business from Scratch and this book has over 500 strategies, in an easy to read format, to help eBay business owner be successful and stay in business. It is a desk reference that can be used to start your business or be pulled down off the shelf when you have a business challenge and want to look up how to fix it.

So after reading How to Buy, Sell, and Profit on eBay: Kick-Start Your Home-Based Business in Just Thirty Daysyou need to read Turning Your Dream Business Into Your Bread & Butter: Recipes for Running a Successful Business from Scratch, the two together will take your eBay business to the next level and keep it there.

Ellen Springer, MBA, CPA
Turning Your Dream Business Into Your Bread & Butter: Recipes for Running a Successful Business from Scratch

What to Sell on eBay and Where to Get It

If you want to build a profitable–and consistent–eBay business, you need to start with strategic product sourcing. What to Sell on eBay and Where to Get It reveals the same techniques used by the most successful e-commerce entrepreneurs and by major retail chains to determine what products will sell well and which suppliers will deliver those products for the best price.

Learn to generate product ideas, research your markets, diversify your product line, and build a direct supply of inventory. Using the proven strategies in this book, you’ll be able to find the products that will fuel your business for the long term and skyrocket your sales!

Customer Review: Another $$ Black Hole
Don’t bother, folks…it’s another one of those “how to do it” books that offer a compendium of vague principles and “ideas” that you can find all over the web in free articles, a million other books (some of which you probably already own), with some plugs for the authors’ sites thrown in. There’s absolutely nothing more here.

(As an aside, one of the authors’ sites violates several very basic and well-known marketing principles, so we might question her expertise, and it gives a “suite number” in the mailing address, which appears to be a mailbox rental place when you Google the street address. If so, “box number” would be a bit more straight-up, no?)

…and take the good reviews with a grain of salt. I suspect many were written by folks with an agenda of one kind or another. I don’t find any agendas in the negative reviews, however, as none of them that I’ve read are selling an alternative. I wish they were!

Customer Review: Oh Thank you!!
Thank you so much for taking the time to write these reviews, I was about to purchase ! Thanks for saving my money!!

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Around the World, Consumers and Businesses Turn to VeriSign(R) for - MSN MoneyCentral
As consumers wrestle with Internet security concerns in the face of recent high-profile account break-ins, more online businesses than ever are shielding their customers from e-criminals with identity protection services from VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ

The eBay Seller’s Tax and Legal Answer Book: Everything You Need to Know to Keep the Government Off Your Back and Out of Your Wallet

Anyone running a wholesale or retail business must deal with legal and tax issues, and those who sell on eBay are no exception. Yet many eBay sellers remain ignorant of the consequences they may face if they disregard certain basic rules. Packed with stories of actual eBay sellers, this helpful guide takes readers through the most common eBay transactions, pointing out all the legal and tax issues they may encounter along the way. Readers will get practical advice on:

* whether their eBay selling qualifies as a “business”

* illegal practices to avoid

* what taxes must be paid and what they can and can’t deduct

* spelling out a refund and return policy

* knowing when a bid becomes legally binding

* resolving seller-buyer disputes

* protecting themselves when buying inventory and hiring employees

* trademarking a business name and web address

* customs, duties, and other considerations when selling internationally.

Complete with sample contracts, forms, checklists, and disclaimers, this is a book no eBay seller should be without.

Customer Review: Full of Valuable Information
Cliff Ennico has written this book to be not only packed full of great legal information and tips, but his humor throughout the book made it fun to read. I am so glad I bought this book before I got too far into ebay (or any other online selling) because it answered so many of my questions regarding tax issues. Buy it, use it, and keep it handy! Definitely worth every penny paid!

Customer Review: New Store? How to stay out of trouble.
My husband and I are thinking of starting an eBay store. We have been buying and occasionally selling since 1998. When you set up a store, you are creating a BUSINESS. There are rules that must be followed to stay out of trouble. This book says it all. A must for the serious seller.

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EBay plans to ban sale of ivory items in December - Courier-Post
The policy will go into effect in December and will be enforced starting in January, eBay Inc. said Monday. “We simply can’t ensure that ivory listed for sale on eBay is in compliance with the complex regulations that govern its sale,” Richard Brewer

eBay Contributes To Elephants’ Cause, Issues Ban On Ivory Products - Eflux Media
eBay took an important step toward contributing to the effort of animal welfare organizations of saving the elephants, by announcing a ban on the sale of ivory products, which will be fully implemented by January 2009. The International Fund for

EBay to halt ivory sales on websites - Los Angeles Times
Reported from San Francisco — EBay Inc. will halt the sale of ivory on its websites, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday, after an investigation by an animal welfare group found the online auction giant was listing thousands of animal products taken

EBay to ban sale of ivory products - Chicago Tribune
SAN FRANCISCO—EBay Inc. will halt the sale of ivory on its Web sites, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday, after an investigation by an animal welfare group found the online auction giant was listing thousands of animal products taken from

eBay bans ivory - ITWeb
[ Johannesburg, 22 October 2008 ] - International online auction site eBay will institute a global ban on all ivory products that will take effect at the beginning of next year. “Global demand for ivory has long been a significant factor in the