Before I tell you more about running your eBay business, I’d like to comment about an email I received from a reader. Basically the email has to do with the fact that my articles don’t really offer in depth information; I agree. Two things though: I’m writing these articles during my spare time. If try to go too much in-depth, I’ll miss spending time with family and friends or give up my other hobbies…I’ll rather not do that. Plus, I don’t want to write a lengthy story and have you fall asleep before you get to the end. Secondly, my goal is to provide you, readers, with enough information to boost your interest. Interest, motivation and success go hand-in-hand. If you want to accomplish something, you must first develop your interest. Once you’ve developed your interest, you’ll feel much more motivated to begin your quest.
If you are seriously thinking about running your eBay business, then go to eBay. Browse through the different stores and products. Sign up for a free account and purchase something; may I suggest a how-to eBay book. Use search engines to find eBay forums and join one so you can participate with your questions and comments. Better yet, open a seller’s account (it’s free) and begin your selling. One more thing: If your question is where to begin? My answer is to start where you are; a journey can’t begin until you take that first step.
Continuing from my last post; once I downloaded, cropped and resized my photos, I made sure to save them to my PC for easy access when uploading them to my eBay listing. However, I did tell you I’m a computer junky and as such, I understand that computers and hard drives tend to fail from time to time, usually when one least expect it. You don’t want to go through the motions of prepping your photos, just to end up telling your customers that your computer ate them. So the obvious thing, at least to me, is to create a back up. There are many ways to back up your photos, but may I suggest online photo storage.
First thing is to check with your ISP (Internet Service Provider). Most ISPs offer customers a reasonable amount of free file or photo storage. You can also use a search engine to search for, you guessed it, free online storage. If you are a Google blogger, as I am of course, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this, or even if you are not, you can sign up with Picasa, http://picasa.google.com/. You can currently get up to 1024 MB of free online photo storage. Since you followed my previous advice and resized your photos to fewer than 50K, the 1024MB of storage space will be sufficient for you to freely store thousands of photos.
Another convenient option with Picasa, and other online photo storage providers, is the ability to share your photos. You can send your friends a link to your photo albums so they can view or even print your photos. Conversely, you can add a link to your eBay listing so prospective customers can have a better ‘picture of your pictures’. By the way, this is within eBay policies; so be assured you are not breaking any eBay rules. Here’s a link to a web album I’m currently using to maintain photos for my eBay listings, My eBay Album, pretty neat, isn’t it?
Well, enough about photos. See you next time. Until then, happy computing to all!!
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