Powersellers Blog

Source: Entrepreneur.com
One of the tough realizations you’ll face as your eBay business grows is that if you’re lucky, it’s going to grow way past your ability to “do it all” yourself and there’s going to come a time when you need some help.
Taking on employees is a big responsibility. Once you hire someone, they count [...]

Source: eBay
Formerly known as Seller’s Assistant, Blackthorne is eBay’s all-in-one desktop software that has been redesigned and improved to give Sellers more power, more customization and greater flexibility in managing their growing business.
Blackthorne is available in two versions: Blackthorne Basic and Blackthorne Pro. Click here to go to the eBay Blackthorne home page.
Blackthorne Basic
Ideal [...]

Source: Entrepreneur.com
While brick-and-mortar retailers may not immediately think of eBay as a viable selling option, Janelle Elms thinks every retailer should have an eBay presence as a way to unload inventory, beef up sales and even drive traffic into local store locations. Elms, co-author of eBay Your Business: Maximize Profits and Get Results, lives in [...]

Source: eBay

eBay University is coming to Anaheim, CA and Memphis, TN on Saturday, October 1st. Don’t miss your opportunity to learn all about selling on eBay from the experts – right in your hometown. Choose from one of the 2 courses being offered at both sites below to get started selling or increase your sales.
Attend [...]

Source: Yahoo! News
eBay Inc. has been very, very good to San Francisco-based SquareTrade, which verifies the reliability of sellers on the online auction site — 60,000 of them since launching five years ago, according to CEO Steve Abernethy.
SquareTrade also arbitrates online transaction disputes, working in five languages and 120 countries. And it vets Google Adwords [...]

Source: Automobile Magazine
Jean Jennings of Automobile Magazine has written a very interesting article about eBay Motors on the magazine’s web site.
Jennings herself went through the process of selling her small trailer online and details the process using eBay using CarAd software.
Check out the article here and get some great hints and tips for selling [...]

Open Source & the eBay Community Codebase
This workshop will be held on Monday, July 25th, from 14:00 PDT to 15:00 PDT. The eBay Community Codebase provides developers who are interested in creating open source software applications that use eBay or PayPal Web Services a place to share development resources. This includes a shared code repository [...]

Source: eBay
Practical eBay Photography
This workshop will be held on Monday, July 18th, from 13:00 PDT to 14:00 PDT. This workshop will concentrate on a practical approach to eBay photography. eBay member camerajim will present step-by-step solutions for photographing everyday items, and will touch on the problems sellers face with challenging subjects such as jewelry, glass, [...]

Source: The Mac Observer
Equinux…released version 2.0 of iSale, the company’s eBay sales tool.
Free for all registered users, this upgrade improves the Category Browser, enabling users to search for items and save oft-used categories as favorites. The Category Browser also now displays the file path below its window, allowing users to jump to the eBay [...]

Source: eBay
eBay University is coming to Washington, D.C. on Saturday, July 23rd. Don’t miss your opportunity to learn all about selling on eBay from the experts – right in your hometown. Choose from one of the 3 courses below to get started selling, increase your sales, or build a business on eBay.
Attend the Selling Basics [...]