Setting Your Ebay Business Up For Growth

Terry Gibbs
Interviews
Joe Kennedy

Joe Kennedy is the author of The Small Business Owner’s Manual: Everything You Need To Know To Start And Run Your Own Business. During this interview, we didn't talk much about eBay. Instead we talked about how to run and grow a small business that sells on eBay.

This interview is designed to help eBay sellers become business owners. I've priced it at 99 cents to make it more accessible to eBay sellers who are just starting to make the transition from being an occasional seller to running a business.

Start growing your eBay business while increasing your profits to create the business you want... The business that suits you.

Here's some of the things you'll learn while reading the interview:

• How a Unique Selling Proposition (USP) sets your business up for growth.
• How to stay focused on your business's strengths and avoid tangents.
• Why focusing your business on buyers rather than products increases your profits.
• How to align your business with your passions so you enjoy yourself while making money.
• Why specialization creates bigger profit margins.
• How to create a business plan to map out your growth. (This isn't a 200 page document prepared by an MBA, it's six simple questions that define your business and buyers.)
• Why adding value to the transaction increases your profits and protects you from competition.
• The difference between a contractor and an employee. Screw this distinction up and you rick betting hit with big tax bills and penalties.
• The importance of concentrating on profit margins rather than volume of sales.
• How to design your business around your strengths.
• How to find professionals (accountants, bookkeepers, lawyers etc. . . ) to help you understand your business.
• And much more. . .

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