The Complete Idiot's Guide to Live Auctions


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A $227.5 billion enterprise around the world, live auctions feature everything from cars to homes, fine art to coal. The only book of its kind, this guide will show how lucrative, fast-paced, and exciting this business is. It covers rules, lingo, setting up an auction, hiring professional auctioneers, and how the most popular auctions work.Expert author team- a veteran business author and the National Association for AuctioneersDetailed run-down of every aspect of live auctionsResource section with auction house listings




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Online Auctions


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Explains how to select an auction site, buy and sell on eBay, use HTML to design effective item lists, and submit winning bids while avoiding scams and pitfalls.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Internet Privacy and Security


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Discusses how to set up defenses against hackers and online con artists, encryption methods, anonymizer software, spam, viruses, identity theft, firewalls, and ways to safeguard online purchases.







The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Internet


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An overview of the Internet explores such online fundamentals as getting connected, searching the Web, contributing to newsgroups, FTP, Gopher, chat groups, e-mail, multimedia, MP3, and online security.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fixing Your #$%@ PC


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Explains how to troubleshoot hardware conflicts, repair Internet connections, resurrect deleted files, recover from system crashes, repair damaged disks, and unfreeze a frozen system




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a Home-Based Business, 3E


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A successful career—at your own front door! For anyone who wants to make extra money, escape the corporate rat race, or just take more pleasure out of working from home, small business guru Barbara Weltman shows readers how to make their dreams come true. Completely updated, this guide explores the ins and outs of seed money, its impact on the home and family, the best business for each individual, and much more. • Features the most current information on everything from Internet businesses to taxes and guerrilla marketing • Includes in-depth resource and web sections, as well as a listing of the 100 best home-based businesses to get into and how




The Complete Idiot's Guide to eBay, 2nd Edition


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Experts explain "the new eBay®" . . . eBay® users, new and experienced, also need a clear, convenient reference for optimum results. In this revised edition, readers will find: • Tips on how to set up an account • Buying and selling • Protecting one's identity • Finding the best deals • Making fast and profitable sales • Revised version includes major changes to eBay® as of July 2009, which change users' experience • Authors deeply involved and influential in the eBay® community, as sellers and educators • Tens of millions of people use eBay® every day and three quarters of a million people earn their living with it




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting an Ebay Business, 2nd Edition


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The buck starts here! eBay® is the Internet's premier auction site and everyone's favorite place to shop. It's also the place to start a business and make money from the comfort of one's home. Completely revised, this new edition will help readers create the eBay® business they dream of. There is also new and updated information on: - The basics of eBay®, the auction process, and the essentials of getting the business down on paper-including recordkeeping, accounting, taxes, insurance, legal issues, and other essential details - Determining what to sell, how to price it, and working with services such as PayPal® - The ins and outs of the biggest growing areas of eBay business-sourcing, wholesaling, and fixed price sales - Cutting through the competition, improving profit margins, changing strategies, improved advertising and promotions, and more




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting an EBay Business


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So, you've got eBay ambitions. Do you want to become a full-time seller or make money from a side business to supplement your existing income? Whatever your ideas, you're not alone. Millions of new sellers will list their wares on eBay® this year alone. But putting an ad on eBay is no guarantee that your item will sell - 39 percent of all listings never sell - or that your online business will succeed. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting an eBay Business, Second Edition, is a step-by-step guide to creating the eBay business you've dreamed of. Not only will it help you understand what's involved in selling with eBay, but the authors also walk you through the best ways to establish and grow your online business.