10 Most Popular Scrapbooking Website

Scrapbooking become more and more popular in Asia. Many of them use this method to collect memorable memories for special ocassions like wedding, birthday, chritsmas, etc...

Click here to see the 10 most popular book scrappping website:

http://www.lovetoknow.com/top10/scrapbooking.html

Scrapbooking is one of the easiest business to be started at home. If you are planning to start a small business online, scrapbooking business can be one of your consideration.

Do you hear about "addicted to scrapbooking.com"? This is the most largest online store selling all the items related to scrapbooking. Together with "addicted to rubber stamp.com", both are from the same owner, supply all you need for a scrapbooking project.

For those in malaysia, you can visit www.blog.smidapaper.com which has a store in Island Plaza, Penang.

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Increase sales on eBay - Good Quality Photos or Images

When discuss about how to increase sales on eBay or other auction sites. One of the points that will never be neglected is to include photos of the items you put on auctions. A photo worth thousands of words. Now peoples won't even look at your ads if without any photos. Even ads with photos, many of the customers also might neglect it. You are competeting against millions of seller out there. The question is how you are going to make your ads stand out from others?

A quality photos with high resolution certainly helps.

Avoid using the picture from official product sites. Many of the sellers out there might done it this way. If your listed items are hot items, when buyers browse through the pages with similar items, they won't even notice yours. If they noticed, they will click on the items which listed the most or they will choose to buy from a seller that higher feedback scores.

Always try to take your own pictures. Even the photos is not taken as what the professionals have done, at least it is different from other sellers and it shows the buyer that you actually own this items.

Use a digital camera which has at least 3.2 Mega pixels. Take it from a closer looks and try to catch it from different angles to allow buyer to have a overview on the product they want to buy. Here are some software of websites that might can helps to increase the photos quality or enhance the presentation of your photos.

1. www.bighugelabs.com

Compared to Photoshop, this is a lot easier and useful to edit a photo. There a lots of functions provided by this web page and you can make use of this function to make your photo looks more professional. Below is the screen shot of how the web page looks like.


Here is one of the function called 'mat' which can create a frame for your photo. See below for an example.

Before

After

2. Jpeg enhancer v1.8

This is a simple and yet powerful program to enhance the quality of the photos. Most important it is free. You can download on www.cnet.com.

JPEG image is a compressed file. It compresses images so that they consume only a small amount of disk space (e.g. compared with .bmp), but also damages them with "blotchy look" and "JPEG artifacts". Still, most graphics editors have JPEG as a default format, and almost all digital photo cameras save images in JPEG format.

Here is a screen snap shot that shows how it works.



3. Irfanview

Irfanview is another picture editing software. No cost and easy to use. Try it out yourself.


To avoid seeing your photos appear in other people listings, you might consider to add watermarks or your name on the photos.

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eBay Secret: How to make profit from other seller listings?

Everybody knows that we can make profit if we make listings on eBay and if the items listed are sold. But, how many of us know that we still can earn money without any listing on eBay? Additionally we also can make profit from other sellers' listings even from your competitors.

This is what the eBay Affiliate Program try to introduce to you.

This is another source of income especially for those who already has a website or going to set up one. For those eBay seller who own a eBay store also can make use of this program to generate a side income besides of own listings.

In general, for those we own a website, it works in 2 ways:

1st Method: Revenue Share
Online shopper --> Visit Your Website --> Enter eBay Website --> if shopper buy --> Get Paid

2nd Method: ACRU
Online shopper --> Visit Your website --> eBay Website --> if shopper subscribe to eBay --> Get Paid


For the first method - Revenue Share
If your website can direct someone to eBay site and he/ she buy something from eBay then you are entitled a percentage from the total revenue what eBay gained. The percentage you might get is varies from the price of the item sold and it also different from each eBay site. The more percentage you can get if the item closed in higher price.

So, from here you know what to do. Just refer to the hot items like mobile phones, computers and laptop accessories and you will get a higher chance to get paid through your links.

For the 2nd method - ACRU (Active Confirmed Registered User)
If you can direct a non eBay user to registered as an eBay user you can get some commission if he/she place a bid or buy via BIN within 30 days. At the same time you also entitle a percentage from share revenue. Sound easy?



eBay even set up a tool to help you to create banners or links.

According to the eBay Affiliate Program, it is categorized in 4 business model:-

• Paid search
• Paid placement
• Ad-Network/ Sub-Affiliate
• Natural/ Website

For more details of each definition of the 4 business models above, you can refer to this website - www.ebaypartnernetwork.com. You can also find how you get paid for each of the business models under different eBay sites.

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