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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled Starting an eBay Business For Dummies about with the genre: Business & Money, Processes & Infrastructure.
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conversations.value: An ideal way to launch your very own home-based business
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conversations.value: Provide the first five paragraphs for the book.
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conversations.value: Starting an eBay Business For Dummies
  The more items you sell, the more confusing things can get. As you build your eBay business, the little side table you use for storing eBay merchandise isn't going to work. You have to start thinking industrial. Even part-time sellers can benefit by adding a few professional touches to their business areas.
  In this chapter, I emphasize the importance of setting up and organizing your back office — essentially the daily, practical, behind-the-scenes details that keep your business running. Organization will save you huge amounts of time when it comes to fulfilling your orders. I cover everything from stacking your stock to keeping inventory to indispensable packing materials and online postage services. Organization will be your byword. Dive right in. The sooner you read this chapter, the sooner you can build your eBay back office and get down to business.
  Whether you plan to sell large items or small items, you need space for storing them. As you make savvy purchases, maintaining an item's mint condition will be one of your greatest challenges. Organized storage is an art in itself, so in this section I cover the details of what you'll need to safeguard your precious stock.
  Before you stock the shelves, it helps to have some! You also need a place to put the shelves: your garage, a spare room, or somewhere else. You have a choice between two basic kinds of shelves:
  Search eBay for shelving (steel, plastic) to find sellers offering this kind of industrial shelving. The main problem with ordering this product online is that the shipping usually costs more than the shelving.
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conversations.value: Stephen personally operates all functions of his eBay store, with marketing support from his wife Kris. He's hands-on all the way, from packing all the art (guaranteeing a safe delivery) to answering all e-mail requests, questions, and comments.
  Robert McMahan was (and is) a talented freelance New York photographer. Originally from Los Angeles, he began shooting pictures in 1991. Since 2001, he has concentrated most of his work in the area of journalism. He continues to build a body of travel, scenic, and holiday images, which lead to many photographs for sale. As with many other people living in New York on September 11, 2001, his life was changed by the events of that day. Heading down to the twin towers with his camera, Robert caught a now-famous photo of firefighters entering the smoke and dust of the collapsed World Trade Center. The image is named "Walk of Courage."
  Photography is his passion, "be it on the street capturing the often-overlooked moments of everyday life, or in the lab producing the most stunning print possible." That's what Robert sells on eBay (see Figure 18-6). He sells quality photographs from both the Robert McMahan Collection and his RMP Archive Collections, producing high-quality prints of some of the greatest documentary photos ever taken.
  He stocks more than 5,000 historic and documentary photographs by hundreds of photographers, as well as photographic greeting cards and note cards. (I bought a set of his stunning holiday cards.) His customers include museums, archives, galleries, publishers, collectors, and interior decorators. All his prints, unless otherwise noted, are glossy, chemically processed lab photographs. He's proud of the prints and says they are the sharpest, brightest, most stunning photos available anywhere.
  A while back, I needed a rubber stamp or two for my business and didn't have time to go out to a printing store and place an order. I thought that surely someone on eBay must sell custom rubber stamps! I was right. That's when I met Jeff Stannard of Melrose Stamp Company. He specializes in self-inking custom rubber stamps and also sells stock design stamps.
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conversations.value: He specializes in self-inking custom rubber stamps and also sells stock design stamps.. That's when I met Jeff Stannard of Melrose Stamp Company. I thought that surely someone on eBay must sell custom rubber stamps! I was right.
  A while back, I needed a rubber stamp or two for my business and didn't have time to go out to a printing store and place an order. He's proud of the prints and says they are the sharpest, brightest, most stunning photos available anywhere. All his prints, unless otherwise noted, are glossy, chemically processed lab photographs.) His customers include museums, archives, galleries, publishers, collectors, and interior decorators. (I bought a set of his stunning holiday cards.
  He stocks more than 5,000 historic and documentary photographs by hundreds of photographers, as well as photographic greeting cards and note cards. He sells quality photographs from both the Robert McMahan Collection and his RMP Archive Collections, producing high-quality prints of some of the greatest documentary photos ever taken." That's what Robert sells on eBay (see Figure 18-6)."
  Photography is his passion, "be it on the street capturing the often-overlooked moments of everyday life, or in the lab producing the most stunning print possible. The image is named "Walk of Courage. Heading down to the twin towers with his camera, Robert caught a now-famous photo of firefighters entering the smoke and dust of the collapsed World Trade Center. As with many other people living in New York on September 11, 2001, his life was changed by the events of that day. He continues to build a body of travel, scenic, and holiday images, which lead to many photographs for sale. Since 2001, he has concentrated most of his work in the area of journalism. Originally from Los Angeles, he began shooting pictures in 1991.
  Robert McMahan was (and is) a talented freelance New York photographer. He's hands-on all the way, from packing all the art (guaranteeing a safe delivery) to answering all e-mail requests, questions, and comments.Stephen personally operates all functions of his eBay store, with marketing support from his wife Kris
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conversations.value: An ingenious invention, a powerline wireless extender uses your existing home powerlines to carry your network and your high-speed Internet connection. You access the network by plugging a powerline adapter wired to your router into an electrical outlet on the wall. Then another little box can be placed farther away in your home to broadcast an additional wireless signal. Standard powerline networks have been around for a while; this is the second round of technological advances for them.
  Hooking up a wireless powerline extender is so easy that it's a bit disappointing — you'll wonder why it isn't more complicated. Most installations work immediately right out of the box. Hooking up the wireless/powerline network goes like this:
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conversations.value: An ingenious invention, a powerline wireless extender uses your existing home powerlines to carry your network and your high-speed Internet connection. You access the network by plugging a powerline adapter wired to your router into an electrical outlet on the wall. Then another little box can be placed farther away in your home to broadcast an additional wireless signal. Standard powerline networks have been around for a while; this is the second round of technological advances for them. 
  I have a powerline wireless extender, so I can bring my network out to the garage and to far points in my home. 
  Hooking up a wireless powerline extender is so easy that it's a bit disappointing — you'll wonder why it isn't more complicated. Most installations work immediately right out of the box. Hooking up the wireless/powerline network goes like this: