Resources for Online Business Owners
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Listed below are resources I have found valuable for running my online businesses. Listed below are resources I have found valuable for running my online businesses. For eBay  Register as an eBay Seller - If you plan to sell items on eBay, you will need to register as a seller. It takes just a minute. It helps your credibility if you choose an ID that relates to the product you are selling.
 Square Trade - Placing the Square Trade seal on your auctions shows buyers that you are a serious seller and interested in customer satisfaction. This service has helped me more than once settle a customer dispute to everyone's satisfaction.
No matter how customer-friendly you are, sometimes customers will file a dispute without giving you an opportunity to resolve an issue. Square Trade will ensure that you have a chance to fix the problem and ensure that your eBay Feedback will not be affected by an unreasonable customer.  Auction Know How - Learn to sell items on eBay with this course taught by Sydney Johnston the Auction Queen.
 Automate your eBay business. This software will upload your auctions, track your sales, send email to the winning bidders and more. Either Website Sales or eBay Sales
Collecting Payments from Customers  PayPal - I recommend using PayPal whether you have a merchant account or not. Many customers feel more secure using PayPal, and many international customers prefer PayPal. In addition, PayPal offers credit card options whether folks have a PayPal account or not.
 Merchant account with authorize.net - Authorize.net is one of the most-used merchant account providers and integrates with most shopping carts. If you use Marketers Choice for your shopping cart, you can sign up for an authorize.net account withing the shopping cart.
Shopping Cart  Marketers Choice (also known as 1Shopping Cart) is the shopping cart services that used by many website owners, and offers the widest variety of services you will need to serve your customers and track affiliate sales.
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resources available. Learn to sell on eBay -- Your well-loved, and no-longer-needed quilting books, fabric and supplies can be turned into money on eBay. Learn how. This is Sydney Johnston's, the Auction Queen, course.
 Yanik Silver's Instant Sales Letters. Stop Writing Sales Letters The Hard Way! How To Create Powerful, Money-Making Sales Letters For Your Business in Just 2 1/2 Minutes…Without Writing! The Ultimate Copywriting Workshop - Are you ready to master the single critical skill to putting words on paper or on the computer screen that can have people send you money...anytime on command? Public Domain RichesHere's the quickest and easiest way to create your own information product you could start selling for hundreds of dollars.
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aweber.com - Unlimited autoresponders and email marketing. Take a test drive of the system before you invest. This is the system I use for TheQuiltingCoach.com email correspondence.
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Equalizer - Get free targeted links to your website in days
Search Engine Optimization -- Written by a master; using this step by step guide will improve your search engine rankings and get more
traffic to your site. FREE resource - pdf file.  Track Your Website Traffic - Tracking your website statistics using this online tool makes it easy to understand what is going on with your traffic and where it is coming from.
Using this tool, you will know whether your carefully-placed articles are generating traffic or you have others referring folks to you. You will also know where in the world your visitors live and how long they stay when they visit your site.
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