Making a Living from Your eBay Business, Second Edition

Chapter 30.Managing Growth

If you’re successful with your eBay business, you’ll see the sales start to grow from month to month. That’s what you want, after all; the bigger your business, the more money you make.

Managing your business growth, however, can be a challenge. It’s one thing to move from $50 to $500 of sales every month; it’s quite another to advance to the $5,000/month—or even $50,000/month!—level. As your business grows, everything gets bigger. You have more auctions to manage, more photos to take, more emails to send, more items to pack and ship. The prospect of all this extra work can be daunting, but all in all, it’s a good problem to have.

This final chapter will help you prepare for and deal with the various issues that result ...