Making a Living from Your eBay Business or Google Web Toolkit Applications

Making a Living from Your eBay Business

Author: Michael Miller

What might have started as an innocent hobby after cleaning out your closets one spring is now turning into a full-fledged day (or night) job. eBay can be a great place to sell your stuff and can be a profitable business, if you know what you're doing. Making a Living From Your eBay Business is a how-to guide that will show you how you can make money from your eBay sales. You'll learn how to set up and run different types of eBay business, including official retailer, second hand seller and trading assistant, while maximizing sales and profits. Find out everything that goes into creating a business plan, setting up a recordkeeping system, filing official business forms and more important business tasks. With Making a Living From Your eBay Business, you will become an experienced business-person in every aspect, from auction management to packing and shipping to customer relations. Turn your hobby into a profitable business today!

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1	Choosing your eBay business
1	So you want to start an eBay business	7
2	The second-hand reseller	23
3	The bulk reseller	37
4	The collector/trader	49
5	The arts and crafts seller	61
6	The official retailer	71
7	The consignment reseller	81
Pt. 2	Planning and launching your eBay business
8	Researching your business model	97
9	Creating a business plan	111
10	Evaluating your funding needs	123
11	Establishing a legal business presence	135
12	Setting up a recordkeeping system	145
13	Assembling your home office	155
Pt. 3	Managing your day-to-day business
14	Buying and managing your inventory	171
15	Automating item listing	187
16	Managing customer payments	197
17	Establishing a packing and shipping routine	207
18	Dealing with customers - and customer problems	225
19	Automating auction management	241
Pt. 4	Maximizing your eBay sales
20	Improving item sell-through and selling price	263
21	Choosing the most effective listing options	273
22	Creating more powerful auction listings	281
23	Displaying better photographs	297
24	Promoting your eBay auctions	311
Pt. 5	Growing your online business
25	Becoming an eBay PowerSeller	319
26	Opening an eBay store	325
27	Other ways to sell online	335
28	Managing growth	351
Pt. 6	Appendixes
A	Accounting basics	361

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Google Web Toolkit Applications

Author: Ryan Dewsbury

“Ryan clearly understands the GWT value proposition and how GWT integrates into a diverse web technology stack–and not just in a theoretical way. With the popularity of gpokr.com and kdice.com, Ryan can speak with the authority of concrete success.”
–Bruce Johnson, creator of Google Web Toolkit
“This book distinguishes itself from other books on GWT in that it walks through the entire process of building several nontrivial GWT applications, not the toy applications that most books present.”
–R. Mark Volkmann, Object Computing, Inc.
“Google™ Web Toolkit Applications is an excellent resource for any GWT developer. Solutions to challenges commonly encountered in GWT are presented through the design and development of actual applications. The applications developed throughout the text demonstrate best practices from simple UI design all the way to custom code generation, and are presented with little pretext about the amount of Java knowledge a given developer may have. Advanced concepts are not withheld but are presented in a way that will be understood by both novice and seasoned developers alike. Good application development practices and proper Model View Controller design is reinforced throughout the book, nearly guaranteeing that the reader will come away a better programmer. “
–Jason Essington, Senior Web/Java Engineer, Green River Computing
“Dewsbury’s Google™ Web Toolkit Applications is a book for both experts and beginner programmers who want to discover this open source Java software development framework, as wellas write Ajax applications. A very detailed book!”
–Massimo Nardone, Advisory IT Security Architect

Accelerate and Simplify Ajax Development with Google Web Toolkit
Get the edge you need to deliver exceptional user experiences with Google™ Web Toolkit Applications, a guidebook that provides web developers with core information and instructions for creating rich web applications. Whether you’re a developer who needs to build a high-performance front end for Java, PHP, or Ruby applications, or to integrate with external web services, this resource from expert Google Web Toolkit (GWT) developer Ryan Dewsbury delivers the in-depth coverage you’ll need.
In this valuable book, insider Ryan Dewsbury provides instructions for using the robust tool set and gets you on your way to creating first-class web applications by providing a comprehensive overview of GWT technology. In addition, he shares his “in-the-trenches” insights on

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  Building elegant and responsive user interfaces with Cascading Style Sheets and GWT’s Widgets and Panels
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  Creating seamless user experiences through asynchronous communication with HTTP, REST, JSON/JSONP, and RPC Interoperating with web standards–such as XML, RSS, and Atom–and web services–such as Google Maps, Amazon Books, Yahoo! Search, Flickr, and Blogger
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  Overcoming browser security restrictions, such as HTTP’s two-connection limit and the Same-Origin policy
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  Accelerating development, using software engineering, code generation, internationalization, application patterns, and Java tools
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  Deploying for optimal performance with resource compression and caching
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  Building five non-trivial applications: a gadget application with a rich drag-and-drop interface, a multi-search application that makes requests to many search engines, a blog editor application for managing entries across multiple blogs, a web-based instant messenger, and a database manager for a traditional web page

This practical guide to GWT introduces you to the technology; provides techniques, tips, and examples; and puts you on the road to delivering top-notch user experiences for your web applications.