The Ebay Millionaire or Spooked

The Ebay Millionaire: Titanium PowerSeller Secrets for Building a Big Online Business

Author: Amy Joyner

Proven strategies and the latest selling tips from eBay's most elite merchants

With an estimated 200,000 people making a full-time living selling goods on eBay, and millions more earning a part-time income, it's clear that eBay can create some impressive profits for those who know what they're doing. The eBay Millionaire profiles 25 of eBay's elite Titanium Power Sellers-those who move more than $150,000 in goods every month-and reveals the secrets to their success. Author Amy Joyner reveals the fifty top lessons for profitably selling almost anything on eBay, from how to select the best mix of merchandise, ship goods, and keep customers happy to working with wholesalers, making the leap from part-time to full-time selling, and looking like a million-dollar business even if you're working from your kitchen table.

Amy Joyner (Greensboro, NC) is an award-winning reporter for the News & Record in Greensboro, North Carolina, who has been covering e-commerce and entrepreneurship for many years. She is the coauthor of Making Dough (0-471-43209-1) and has won awards for her writing from the Associated Press, North Carolina Press Association, and other organizations, as well as three Knight Center Fellowships for business, aviation security, and military reporting.

Table of Contents:

PART ONE: Building an eBay Empire.

Introduction.

The Power of the Titanium Secrets.

Getting Started.

Sixteen Essential Steps to Launching Your eBay Business.

PART TWO: The Titanium PowerSellers.

PROFILE 1: A City Discount.

PROFILE 2: AuctionDrop.

PROFILE 3: Carsyours.

PROFILE 4: Cord Camera.

PROFILE 5: Dealtree.

PROFILE 6: Designer Athletic.

PROFILE 7: eMoviePoster.com.

PROFILE 8: eValueville.

PROFILE 9: Glacier Bay DVD.

PROFILE 10: Grapevine Hill.

PROFILE 11: Hess Fine Art.

PROFILE 12: Inventory Solutions.

PROFILE 13: 1StopAuctions.

PROFILE 14: Pugster.

PROFILE 15: Rock Bottom Golf.

PROFILE 16: SCGaynor Auctions.

PROFILE 17: Sell2All.

PROFILE 18: zTradingPost.

PART THREE: Putting the PowerSeller Techniques to Work for You.

Fifty Strategies for Successful eBay Selling.

Resource List for Building Your eBay Business.

Acknowledgments.

Index.

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Spooked: Espionage in Corporate America

Author: Adam L Penenberg

Imagine your main business competitor building a satellite-equipped "war room" to secretly monitor your new ventures. Imagine your classified product prototype mysteriously landing on the market under the brand name belonging to your archrival. Impossible? This isn't a story line from the latest spy thriller, it's modern-day corporate America. Spooked thrusts readers into a clandestine world-where business means war and information is worth stealing.Through narrative accounts of corporate spies within companies such as IBM, Microsoft, and Motorola, Spooked dramatically brings to life one of America's fastest-growing industries: Corporate Intelligence. In this page-burning exposé, Adam Penenberg and Marc Barry uncover and describe in thrilling detail the alarming regularity of espionage in industry. They offer an unsettling portrait of America's publicly traded companies, and unravel the truth and hypocrisy behind the multi-billion dollar corporate intelligence industry.

Publishers Weekly

Paranoia levels will shoot through the ceiling among those who read this riveting report on the growing number of companies that spy on their competition in the U.S. Penenberg, an investigative journalist for Forbes, and Barry, founder of a corporate intelligence agency, argue that, in an environment of blistering competition, the edge belongs to the company with the best information on its rivals. In-house spy units, Penenberg and Barry claim, are cloaked behind doors with division titles like external development, market research and strategic marketing and, therefore, can't be accurately counted. Nevertheless, they contend, a clear indicator of growth in the new corporate-spy industry is the emergence of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, which sets ethical guidelines and standards of conduct for the industry and reportedly has 7,000 members. In the tradition of John le Carr , the industry has already developed its own colorful lingo for its various types of snoops, ranging from "the librarian"Dwho only searches publicly available sources of informationDto the "trade-show cowboy," who assumes a false identity to skulk around conventions. Penenberg and Barry report hair-raising tales of corporate skulduggery in loving detail, including how companies like Motorola and Avery Dennison have reaped huge benefits from their corporate-intelligence investments. Agent, Lisa Swain. (Dec. 18) Forecast: With publication coming on the heels of the recent break-in at Microsoft, and a New York Times Magazine excerpt scheduled for December 3, Penenberg and Barry's deeply intriguing book is bound to get a lot of play and should wind up as one of the season's must-have reads. Marketing to both the business set and fans of cloak-and-dagger will enhance sales. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

Business 2.0

A page-turner that details the current frenzied state of industrial thievery....Spooked successfully sheds light on a subterranean sector of the New Economy. Think you told your secrets to a venture capitalist? Think again.