Congratulations! You’ve decided to embark on a career as an online retailer. And with Doba as a resource, it will be simple to set up a website, find product to sell, and start filling all those incoming orders, right? Not so fast, bucko. It’s absolutely true that you can be a successful online retailer using [...]
With Memorial Day weekend just around the corner, and with much in the recent news for most Americans to be thankful for, things are shaping up for a pretty memorable Memorial Day come May 30. In this week’s post, I will share a personal story that I hope can illustrate the connection between patriotism and [...]
Mother’s Day has certainly taken center stage, but it’s most important to begin making preparations to promote Father’s Day. In this post, I will highlight products and ideas that will help spark your marketing creativity to make the most out of Dad’s Day. Father’s Day is an opportunity for children to thank Dad for putting [...]
In my last blog entry (see: eBay Product Spotlight: “Weather” Or Not, Here They Come!), I pontificated about the weather and how it can affect consumer’s shopping habits and the products they ultimately purchase. Today I will expand on that concept, taking a more in-depth look at the types of products consumers are interested in [...]
The weather is changing and so is the list of needs and wants required by your customers. In this blog post, I show how you can help consumers change with the change — and put some coin in your pocket while you’re at it! It’s a beautiful day in Utah today; the sky is blue [...]
In this week’s eBay Product Spotlight, I will discuss a few opportunities that occur with the birth of every newborn, but may not be on the mind of most online retailers. Collectively, I call them “newborn opportunities.” I’ve been thinking a lot about newborns lately, especially since my wife and I are expecting our first [...]
Since the last eBay Product Spotlight, we have crowned Auburn University as the BCS National Champions, and we are just two games away from finding out who will battle it out in the Super Bowl. This means football fans are getting serious about supporting their favorite teams, even if they are not considered contenders for [...]
Unless you lack passion for the pigskin or you’ve been under a rock since fall, you have a general idea of what’s going on in the world of football this season. We’ve got two big games in the future that will determine the champions of the National Football League (Super Bowl), and NCAA College Football [...]
The holiday season is not only upon us, it’s right in our faces. Relatives are flying in, there are after-work trips to the mall, decorating, online shopping, cleaning, wrapping, letters to write and even more online shopping. What your customers need is a break, and being an online entrepreneur, you have the power to save [...]
Everybody’s mind is on the holidays. Gifts, decorations, meals, parties. Your first inclination is to concentrate on finding such items in our product catalog and promoting them on your sites. But keep this in mind: While everyone else is concentrating on gift ideas, a lot of people are still trying to maintain the items they [...]
