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Business Consultation
Helping you achieve your business aspirations. No BS. Real changes & fresh ideas that can take you to where you want to be, from someone who understands and has been there himself.
Sometimes trying to achieve your business goals can be clouded by the day to day operations or technical difficulties. Matthew can help you with mentoring or one-on-one business consulting. Matthew is extremely skilled in both eBay and Amazon marketplaces and has worked for two auction management companies.
Matthew has a Business Consultation page and you can contact him on his dedicated Contact Matthew page.
Do You Tell Your Buyers What to Do?
I’m writing a chapter for my book on this very topic at the moment, however I feel is important to raise the question with you before its published. Telling people what to do can be seen as impolite, but guiding the user to complete an action that you’d like them to complete is something quite different, specially if you conduct it nicely, you’re just leading them to complete an action you’d like … [Full Article >> ]
A Question For You!
Well its about time really! Its why I have been quite quiet here for past week or so. I’m about 9,000 words in and half way through the table of contents I first wrote a few weeks back. Yep that’s right I’m writing a book, well two actually. No one section of the first book is complete enough to share properly and I’ve not hammered down what I am going to call the … [Full Article >> ]
Barcodes, GTIN’s,UPC’s, EAN’s, ISBN’s, JAN’s & ASIN’s Explained
Barcodes, these can cause confusion, especially if we account for all the different names they can be referenced as and even the term barcode isn’t technically correct, GTIN is. As such this article aims to dis-spell the myths & confusion around them and give you the 101 on the different variations, what they are and how they’re used. For the purpose of this article, I’m going to broadly call all GTIN … [Full Article >> ]
The Top 8 Pitfalls of Using 3rd Party Software To Manage Your Business
“I thought using 3rd party software to automate my online business was one of the best decisions I ever made?” I asked myself this question back in November last year, since then certain events have happened and I strongly feel that adding software to manage repetitive parts of an on-line business is a sensible move. This is to the point that it doesn’t matter which tools you use, as long as they’re automated and take less … [Full Article >> ]
5 Questions for Dzine-Hub – A Professional eBay & Web Design Company
Following on from the two part series “Why buy a professionally designed eBay listing template?” for which you can read part 1 here and part 2 here, I thought it would be a brilliant idea to interview a company that specialises in such designs and share with you first hand the experiences and feedback from such a provider. Introduction I’ve got 5 brilliant questions for Abbas from DZine-Hub.com lined up, … [Full Article >> ]
When Was The Last Time You Bought From A Competitor?
Seeing what your competition are up to is always a enlightening experience. You’re able to reverse engineer what their processes are and what the product quality & service is like and to gauge how you compare. Real Example One of the businesses that I’m working with as part of ProjectE had an action last week, which was to investigate a potential competitor on a new marketplace. What was found is … [Full Article >> ]
Solid Advice from 250,000 Feedback eBay Seller Bamford Trading
It’s fantastic to see John & Gill from Bamford Trading being featured on eBay’s SellerSphere this month. Both John & Gill have covered several key elements that should be considered when running a successful eBay business. The original article is eBay focused however we should take note of the breadth of Bamford trading sales channels, as eBay is only one part of the multi-channel approach: eBay As focused in the article, … [Full Article >> ]
What is An eBay Listing Template?
In this article I’ll be covering what an eBay listing template is, examples of such listing templates in action and finally why you need one, even if its a really simple one. What is an eBay listing template? So what really is a eBay listing template then? In its shortest form, all it is is a template (think of a set of of guides or like drawing some pencil lines … [Full Article >> ]
The Difference Between a Private & a Business eBay Account
When registering on eBay for the first time, you may not have realised that there are two different types of account that you can register for, these are: A private eBay account A business eBay account You can switch between the two, but its hidden in the depths of eBay and if you are to be starting your business, you need to know the difference between the two and why … [Full Article >> ]
Roles Within an Online Business (And Why You Should Delegate)
We are expected to wear many hats in a business, in Michael Gerber’s book eMyth Revisited (aff link), there are three core hats that are detailed, the technician, the manager and the entrepreneur. However in reality, there are many more and my point of this video is that we cannot wear them all, all the time and as such delegation and outsourcing is really the only way forwards to keep … [Full Article >> ]
The Top 10 (or so) LastDropofInk Articles of 2011
In this article I recall my top 10 favourite and most notable articles of 2011 and provide a reflection on each of them. 2011 saw myself and the LastDropofInk site go through some major changes, the site got a complete redesign in August and that dead mosquito was finally laid to rest and a new shiny design was put into place. This also saw me step into the world of video … [Full Article >> ]
3% of Sales Coming from the EU? Say Hello to the EU VAT Bomb
If your business has been happily taking orders from around the EU and even if this is as low as 3% to one EU country hot-spot for a £1M turn over business, then you could be sat on an awkward issue regarding VAT. This was another one of those ‘ah-ha moments’, although quickly followed with ‘wtf’ and ‘omg’ that’s going to be fun. In this article I do my best … [Full Article >> ]
Urgent: Dealing Amazon Pending Orders
Firstly apologies, I’ve know about Amazon’s pending orders for a long time now and they can be dangerous. I should have considered their impact at this time of the year earlier. I never suggest anything as ‘urgent’ that I cover here, but this is the exception… What Are Amazon Pending Orders? Amazon pending orders are orders that have one or more issues with either the customer or the payment for … [Full Article >> ]
