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Carving out her own niche in a crowded field, Erina has found a balance that works. With a focus on trendy junior fashions she has built an online business that offers a selection affordable, popular, clothing.

As I move around the ‘net visiting various blogs and forums I hear a lot of complaining about eBay search, the feedback system and DSRs. Most of it is coupled with comments about poor sales, high fees, and general business failure. I simply don’t agree with most of it!

There’s a lot of hype around about mailing lists. You’ve seen it. The sites that offer guaranteed success if you just build a gigantic list, or the spam mail that offers six secrets that make the gigantic list possible. That one usually comes between the other gigantic offers. And it seems the same kind of people get caught up with idea that size is critical. But are these mailing list offers all they are put up to be? Does size even matter?

For most people selling online, the holiday season, which is typically said to start sometime after Labor Day and certainly by the beginning of October, is the prime time for their business. Searches for the terms “holiday gift ideas”, “holiday gifts”, and “Christmas giftds”, among others, explode in numbers during this period. In early October the number is up 40% over the previous month.

The Wiz is teaming with a group of vintage clothing and accessories sellers to offer a search engine optimization (SEO) and social media marketing (SMM) program to help promote their businesses. The program is available to all sellers of legitimate vintage clothing, as well as vintage hats, vintage belts, vintage gloves, vintage scarves, vintage purses, vintage shoes, vintage jewelry, and other vintage apparel and accessories regardless of where they sell.

Participants can be selling on eBay, Main Street Mall Online, Etsy, Ruby Lane, Bonanza (formerly Bonanzle), other venues, from their own website, or any combination of sites. The program includes a significant package of SEO reporting and analysis, as well as extensive social media marketing activity for each member of the program.

By Shakira N. Smith

The auction powerhouse, eBay, is one of the greatest avenue to make it big in the industry of online selling. eBay has been the top site to visit when it comes to auctions and it has remained the top site for customers who are in search for anything and everything. There are several selling strategies that you can make use of in order to attract more customers to your site or to your page. Today, we will try to cover as many selling techniques you can use, whether you are a newbie or a veteran seller.

Many discussions have been held about the benefits of taking pictures of your clothes on a live model vs. a mannequin. Everyone has an opinion, and when it comes down to it, the choice is yours. Personally, I have a mannequin named Goldie that I love! I use her almost exclusively for my older, more classic vintage from the 30s thru early 60s. Goldie has a gorgeous figure, she doesnt talk back to me, she is always on time, she mostly stays still when I tell her to and, most importantly, she never has a blemish!