SET UP YOUR BOOKS
Keeping accurate records of your inventory costs,
selling prices, shipping and handling, overhead,
and associated costs is the foundation to satisfying
government reporting requirements, as well as to
keeping on top of the financial health of your business.
You can get professional help to set up your accounts,
use an accounting program (a popular small-business
accounting software is Intuit??™s QuickBooks Basic/Pro/
Premier??”www.intuit.com), use eBay and third-party
tools tailored to selling on eBay, or set up your own
spreadsheets, either paper-based or using a program
such as Microsoft Excel.
SET UP PROCESSING AREAS
Henry Ford revolutionized manufacturing by introducing
the assembly line. A hundred years later, you can benefit
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??? Use Google Base, a tool that lets you publish your eBay Store listings to Froogle, a
search component of Google for items for sale. Go to http://base.google.com, click
Learn More, and research information on connecting your eBay Store listings.
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from his wisdom by applying the same principle to move
your product quickly from inventory to shipment by
devoting dedicated centers to the eBay sales process.
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