Excel is very much the battle axe of the information age. White shirted warriors slog it out across the battle field of cells and pivot tables. Anyway I am getting overexcited.  Here is formulas for calculating eBay final value and listing fees Listing fee =IF(D3<0.99, 0.1, IF(D3<4.99,0.15,IF(D3<14.99,0.25,IF(D3<29.99,0.5, IF(D3<99.99,1.30)))))/E3 Where D3 is the eBay starting or fixed [...]

Two new marketplaces have come to my attention, one of which might even have legs.   Wigix is a new marketplace which aims to work like a stock market matching buyers and sellers.  As a seller you state a price you are willing to sell at and this is displayed to buyers who are looking for that [...]

  Alongside my new online baby shop, I have launched a networks for parents called Hello Baby Network. The site is run using ning.com, a service which allows people to build their own social networks.  The idea is to provide a build a social network around the shop allowing customer to meet people [...]

There has been news in several of the dailys including The Times about an eBay strike on 1st May.  The main issues seem to be as follows: Changes to feedback.  In the future sellers will not be able to leave negative feedback for buyers End of level playing field.  eBay is going to start giving volume sellers [...]

eBay cross promotion rules are one of those features which it is easy to ignore. These rules define the items which are shown in the cross promotional box underneath each listing, showing other products which the seller has for sale. eBay does not make it obvious how to change these rules and I suspect that [...]

I have recently been thinking about how best to set up my email thought outlook having read the 4 hour workweek.  In the book Timothy Ferriss suggest answering your emails only twice a day, which I think is a great idea, the problem is that I want to be able to send emails more requently [...]

Today I changed my brower homepage from the BBC to Google. I reckon that every time that I see the BBC site I have to read at least one story.  Estimated time saving:  15 minutes per day x 20 working days = approx 0.5 days month No TagsIf you found this post useful, why not buy [...]

I (well not me personally), have created an listing template for my new eBay business, Hello Baby.  I thought I would go through my design rationale and invite comments:   Features: Two column design.  Although I think the proponents of three column listing and shop designs such as Frooition do an excellent job for a very reasonable price, [...]

Anyone who reads my blog regularly might have noticed that it was briefly taken over by a turkish hacker. Mr Hacker, Ha, Ha, very funny, please don’t do it again.  Thanks to Sam from Arena Flowers for letting me know   No TagsIf you found this post useful, why not buy me a coffee!

Running a business without Microsoft (tags: microsoft ubuntu skype) No TagsIf you found this post useful, why not buy me a coffee!