Need More Buyers? Expand your audience at eCrater.com What is eCrater? eCrater is a 100% free marketplace providing an amazing opportunity for sellers to diversify and find a whole new audience. It’s both somewhere sellers can build their own ecommerce stores, and somewhere they can simply list items for sale just as they [...]

Calling all US sellers… have you been paying your taxes? Hopefully it won’t come as news to you that when you are making money – whether it’s on eBay, on another auction site, or even at a flea market, you should be paying taxes. Too many sellers simply ignore the fact that they owe the IRS [...]

Things to sell on eBay: 3 Hot Niches for 2010! Looking for some hot things to sell on eBay? Or maybe something to expand your product range this year? Coming up with things to sell on eBay isn’t always easy: it takes time and persistence to come up with something that can compete with [...]

PayPal’s New $20k 21 Day Hold Policy Well, that’s it. Looks like I won’t be using PayPal anymore. According to a letter to the editor of AuctionBytes, PayPal has a new policy in the pipeline which will allow them to hold payments received by account holders. This will affect all those who put less than [...]

Get Set for More eBay Changes in 2010 According to our friends at eBay, every new year means new policies, and 2010 is no different! Last year, eBay brought us some big changes including those made to search results and how our listings will be ranked, compulsory shipping insurance and new PowerSeller requirements and [...]

The Year of the Goal: Bring on 2010! Happy New Year! It’s the year twenty-ten, and while we don’t yet have flying cars and space suits instead of jeans, what we do have is a great opportunity to make this year a highly profitable one! I hope everyone had a great Christmas, and a [...]

Hey Everyone! So here at SaleHoo we’ve decided to hit the year off with a bang! We’re giving away three massive prize packs worth over $370! Each prize pack includes: Lifetime Membership to SaleHoo (worth $67) Full Access to Sky High Auctions (worth $267) A copy of the Auction Inspector Software (worth $39.95) What we want to know… Here’s how the contest [...]

Christmas! Wow, is it already that time of year when Santa comes to visit? For many of you, I know it has probably been your most crazy time of year – hopefully you’ve been raking in those extra Christmas sales. They definitely don’t call it the ‘silly season’ for no reason! It is time for [...]

Feel the love this Valentine’s Day and get passionate about profits! Holy cow! I just read that Valentine’s Day is America’s most gifted holiday next to Christmas. Is anyone else as surprised as I am? This Christmas has been flat out here in the SaleHoo office, dealing with all that comes [...]

Great news for online sellers! Online shopping is more popular than ever! According to InternetNews.com, 2010’s ‘Cyber Monday’ may hit a record-breaking high! The Associated Press have reported that Cyber Monday traffic is up this year, giving us online sellers something to smile about, and a bit of hope as we enter what will [...]

Shopster Review – Are they worth the membership fee? After such a passionate response to my review of Simplx (thanks to everyone who emailed in your stories and shared comments on the blog), I thought I would treat all our members who have been asking questions about Shopster to an unbiased and well-balanced [...]

How to take fantastic photos for eBay (and get your listings noticed!) They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and on eBay, that can certainly be true! We all know that taking great photos is key to getting more buyers interested, and making more sales. Recently however, when I [...]

Hey you! Motivation Techniques for SaleHoo Lurkers! Hey you! Yes, you, lurking around my site, reading all these fabulous blogs, and picking through the supplier directory, but never actually doing anything useful like, oh, I don’t know, selling something on eBay! We have set up this amazing and easy-to-use site so that absolutely anyone can [...]

We have had a lot of questions recently about Simplx.com. Many of our inquisitive members are curious about what Simplx has to offer, so to help cure your curiosity, this week we did a little investigative journalism and reviewed Simplx.com – a drop shipping service offering product sourcing and profit making solutions. What is Simplx? Simplx [...]

Going Beyond Buying Online: Trade Shows Imagine if you will, an oversized showroom filled with eye-catching displays, free giveaways and hundreds of eager product suppliers, all enthusiastically vying for your attention and offering the best prices possible on the latest products out. As amazing as it sounds, it’s really not that far-fetched, it’s [...]

The #1 Rule of Online Business Could following one simple rule completely transform the way you do business and increase your profits? Yes! Can you guess what it is? If you think it’s offering the latest products or spending thousands on marketing, you are wrong! (Although these can certainly help) What if I [...]

Here come the profits: Wedding niches! Did you know that the average cost of an American wedding is around US$30,000? And that Americans spend over US$50 billion on weddings each year? That’s a lot of zeros! However, the average cost of a wedding has plummeted as a result of the recession, meaning that [...]

5 Steps to becoming a PowerSeller Are you ready to become the next eBay success story? Wanting to leave your day job behind and move on to making serious cash from home? Join me as I reveal the five key steps to becoming an eBay PowerSeller. What is a PowerSeller? PowerSellers are quite simply [...]

How to Import from India With its rapidly booming economy and huge population of over 1 billion people, it’s no wonder that India is the new darling of wholesale importing. If you are keen to expand your product range and take advantage of this expanding market, keep reading! Why Import from India?   Like China, India’s [...]

What is a Customs broker? A Customs broker works on behalf of importers and exporters to help them deal with the logistics and legalities of importing and exporting goods. To become a Customs broker, they must first take and pass a heavy duty Customs Broker License Examination. What do they do? Importing from abroad isn’t [...]