Product Description

New ways to make big money in online sales! EBay is still the world's most popular auction site, but it's not the only one. The savviest PowerSellers are finding new places to sell online. Selling Beyond eBay offers powerful strategies for targeting not just more buyers, but the right buyers. By taking advantage of specialty sites, other auction sites, and online storefronts, sellers can dramatically increase their profits. This book gives them:

* descriptions and reviews of hot auction sites and marketplaces like uBid, iOffer, Yahoo!Auctions, Overstock Auctions, Bidville, Bid4Assets, ebid.tv, and Amazon * profiles of successful sellers using these sites in addition to (or instead of) eBay * step-by-step instructions for creating and managing online storefronts * options for combining online storefront sales with eBay auction sales * details on how to expand sourcing options in order to sell more merchandise

There's more than one way to sell online. It's time to start Selling Beyond eBay!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #102631 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780814473498
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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From Booklist
As first to market, eBay certainly dominates the online auction space. Challengers have come into the fray, only to fade into obscurity. The competition just pales in comparison when it comes to market exposure, features, and ease of use. Holden is no stranger to eBay, having written seven books on the subject, but he notes that in terms of growth, eBay is not the shooting star that it once was. Sellers are complaining about the increased competition, fee increases, and the overreaching power that eBay holds over its members. A successful online business shouldn't have to depend on a single service provider such as eBay for its success, particularly when small infractions of eBay's complex rules can shut your business down in a flash. Holder reviews a number of competing services, such as iOffer, which turns the table on the auction process and lets buyers place offers below the seller's asking price; Yahoo! Auctions, which is poised to become the dominant auction seller in Asia; and Overstock.com, currently gaining exposure with high-profile TV ads. David Siegfried
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About the Author
GREG HOLDEN (Chicago, IL) is the author of seven books about eBay and online auctions including Internet Auctions for Dummies, Cliff's Notes Guide to Buying and Selling on eBay, How to Do Everything With Your eBay Business, and PowerUser's Bible. He has been interviewed by The New York Times, Parents Magazine, Lifetime TV magazine, Entrepreneur, and others.

Customer Reviews

Life after Ebay, but don't leave them out
I purchased this book after being suspended from EBay after being a member since 1999, a powerseller, and with a rating of over 5,000. I learned an expensive lesson and gathered great infomation due to suspension, but especially form this book. I'd recomend every Ebayer and anyone wishing to sell online to purchase this book. As I said I've been an EBayer since 1999, and learned so much from this book. I have been re-instated on EBay and this book and my suspension has given many tips,and information that has also helped changed the way I will things from now on. At 1st I was so angry at EBay that I had inquired about Amazon, Yahoo, Craigs list to name a few of other popular auction sites, I even started the process to open one with Amzazon, and will probaly eventually be listing on this site as well as others. I learned you can't put all you eggs in one basket, always needing a back up plan, and must always follow rules,read and understand policies, and make sure to always be up to date all the time. I opened my own web-site which I probaly would have never done if it wasn't for the suspension and this book. After reading this book I read that many other sellers of EBay have opened their own web-site, but many have also kept a presence with EBay, because they are the largest and most popular online site of its kind, no one even comes close.I'm continuing my reading of this book and have already highly recomended it to others. What would happen if EBay did not exist anymore? EBay fees just went up again, to some as high as 33%. It is and has become extrmely differcult to make money online, so it is important to do your homework to be successful.Before my EBay site went down I had been paying monthly fees of around $700 and at the rate I was listing that amount would have easily gone much higher. Now I have decided that I will have auctions in several areas, and sites, but most of all have my site up and it will soon become profitable.The money I was paying for fees, by splitting it up to mantain a web-site easily makes it work. I have learned all this and much more from this book, every reader will get something from this book, and for many it may change your life for the better.So I highly recomend this book to all and can't wait for an
Luke T Renchan

e-selling overview
An easy read. Definitely worth the money, for the websites I might never have found otherwise, & the interviews w. ebayers
who've found success combining ebay w. other e-selling methods

Another fine internet small business book
Speaking of Ebay, SELLING BEYOND EBAY: FOOLPROOF WAYS TO REACH MORE CUSTOMERS AND MAKE BIG MONEY ON RIVAL ONLINE MARKETPLACES by Greg Holden is another fine internet small business book which will reach small sellers and pros alike. Understand how competing auction and non-auction sites like Overstock, Bidville, Yahoo and eBid work, learn how to partner a small store with a big name, and locate new product deals using SELLING BEYOND EBAY, which include includes profiles of successful seller techniques both inside and apart from Ebay.