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Congratulations to John – the winner of my complete “Done For You” ebay auction package! I’d also like to say a huge “THANK YOU!” to everyone who took part by bidding and helping to make my auction a big success! As I mentioned in my email on the 18th I used a WordPress plugin to [...]

I get a lot of emails from subscribers who love the Prints Make Profits business model and are desperate to get started making real money with the idea but lack the confidence to buy a vintage book, pull it apart and list the plates on ebay. If this is how you feel then read on [...]

NOTE: click on all images to enlarge There is no mystery – you need only four things to be successful on ebay: #1 The right niche. #2 The right category. #3 The right keywords in your title. #4 The right image. Combine all 4 correctly and you will hit a home run just like in [...]

If you have been following me for any length of time you will know that I am a HUGE fan of Steve Poke’s ebay business model! Steve’s idea cleverly solves the main barrier to long term success on ebay – mass competition. He does this by creating his own UNIQUE products! Recently Steve emailed me [...]

Recently I chatted to Andy Lawrence from wholesale-help.com about how I got started on ebay and how I became a full time internet marketer. This is the first time I’ve been interviewed online and I share a lot of stuff that I have never discussed before. You can listen to the audio recording of our chat by [...]

This is the scary sight that greeted me when I visited one of my web sites last week  click on the images to open and enlarge them in a separate window Shock turned to panic when I began to check my other sites and found that every one of them had been hacked too. Thankfully, [...]

Last year I bought a book through Amazon called “White Ear and Peter” which was published in 1912 and illustrated by the famous English sporting artist Cecil Aldin (1870 – 1935) see the detail – all images will open in a separate window if you click on them The price of £21 sterling (including shipping) [...]

A word to the wise about ebay. The true value in ebay isn’t the ability to reach a global market to sell your stuff, the real value is in using ebay as a massive lead generating tool for your business. Let me explain; have you ever seen auctions for items that are priced so ridiculously [...]

The easiest way to increase your sales is to sell more products to your existing customers – this is far easier and cheaper than attracting new customers. The problem with ebay businesses is that ebay considers your buyers as THEIR customers. They know that if you as an ebay seller could communicate freely with your [...]

New Year – New Start! Welcome to my first post of the new year! The first month of the year always feels like a fresh start, we all start the month with an extra bounce in our step as we look forward to all of the exciting opportunities that a brand new year brings! The [...]

It’s that time of the year again, my children are getting excited as they write their Christmas wish lists to Santa, the year is nearly over and I’m wondering where the time has gone to! We have been working on a couple of reports that I think you will find helpful. The first is called [...]

Simple Traffic Solutions is a traffic generation course created by John Thornhill. Everybody who aspires to earning money online NEEDS traffic and this is equally true if you have your own websites selling your products or you use an ebay store. You can, of course pay for your traffic but this is a bit of [...]

As you know I spend a lot of my time researching eBay’s completed listings (exactly as I demonstrate in my ebook Prints Make Profits) looking for popular vintage print niches. I am constantly astounded at the range and number of different niches on eBay – I discover something new and potentially profitable almost every time [...]

Two of the most popular print niches on eBay are horses and dogs and today I want to introduce you to an artist who specialized in humorous cartoons featuring both! Norman Thelwell (1923-2004) was an English artist best known for his comical cartoons featuring pony club girls and their fat ponies! Born in Birkenhead, North [...]