Do You Need Business Bookkeeping For Your Ebay Business?

Business bookkeeping is essential on Ebay or for any online business. The mistake I made when I got started was thinking my business would not grow so rapidly, but even though it started out just as selling a few things here and there, when I found my market niches, it started to grow. I wasn't really paying attention to the amount of additional work that would be caused by my finances, but I wish I did.

Every year at tax time I'd be in a panic because I literally had a weeks worth of work to do. I know what you're thinking. . .I should have kept up with this all along. Yes, I do agree. In the beginning of my Ebay business, that would have been possible without help. But now, forget it. I am not a numbers person because I don't like to do any type of accounting. So now I let OUTRIGHT, a convenient and affordable (free if you choose it to be) online business bookkeeping service do most of my work for me. Right now I am not paying anything for this service. I sell on several different sites. Outright combines all of the figures from those sites into different categories and shows the basic profit and loss statement. I will be upgrading soon because I need some additional help.

I would encourage you, if you are just starting out, to sign up for OUTRIGHT right at the start of your business. You will save yourself a whole lot of time.

Finding People With Skills to Help You Run Your Ebay Business

You've started your Ebay business and things are going really well for you. You find that your once part-time position has turned into a full-time position. You have some extra funds and you no longer want to work a full day. Instead, you make a list of things or tasks that you would like to have others handle for you. Now you have your list, but you really don't know where to go next. The important thing isn't just placing an ad just anywhere, but on sites that are spam free and can actually provide talent for the skills you need.

There is a company that offers a unique way to find part-time or full-time talent. Everything is done online. You join for free and then make an agreement with the person you are going to hire and the company takes a small percentage (certainly less than the Ebay fees!) out of the final candidate's payment. The company name is SideSkills. It's a freelance marketplace and a great way to find talent through people you already know and by building a network of other contacts that will help you identify people who are seeking positions within the skill levels you are seeking. The site is easy to use and they offer step by step video tutorials as well to help you get started.

You should check out this site if you are looking for someone to help you in your Ebay business, to help build you a small website to help you get off Ebay or enhance your Ebay business, to help you design a logo, or write articles pointing to your Ebay products and even more. No more spam replies sent to you, only qualified candidates based on your own criteria.

Ebay - What is a True Niche Market?

If you are going to start an Ebay business and you want it to be successful, you must choose a market niche. A market niche is not golf, hunting, cars, clothing, etc.. That is a market segment. A true ebay market niche digs much deeper. Lets take golf for example. Golf is very popular and there is lots of money to be made online. If you try to compete with just "golf" being your true niche market, you will never get anywhere close to the first page of google any time soon. How about "golf clubs"? Same thing. . . it won't get you near the first page of google. How about "Arnold Palmer golf clubs?" Now you're getting closer to a true market niche.

What would you think about "Arnold Palmer golf putter"? Drilling down, down, down and making the market niche the smallest you can get it so that it still has traffic is the way to go. Find your distributor and use the right keywords to get yourself on the first page of google. Become an expert in that niche by writing articles about the putter and watch yourself get closer to the first page over time.