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I am again running into issues where my online life and money making ventures are affecting my offline life.  I see so many opportunities that I find myself over extending.  Bought 2 new projects in the last week and will not really have time to promote them properly, and therefore they will most likely just sit until I find the time. 

 I can’t really complain, I am currently making enough money to pay for my “hobby” and then some so the only draw back is the time, and unlike some any income that I make is secondary. 

That is good to get off my chest, not sure why you would like to know, but hey isn’t this what a “Blog” is for

If you have an auction site business or ecommerce web site, you are probably dealing with many items each day that need to be shipped.  Shipping items can take a lot of hard work and can be very time consuming.  If you want to save valuable time each day while increasing your businesses organization, you should look into shipping software.

There are several types of shipping software available and most software is very easy to use and affordable.  Many people love the convenience of shipping software.  Most shipping software integrates with payment processors such as Paypal and can automatically print out shipping labels for items that were sold.

Another great shipping software feature is that you can buy postage online and print out shipping labels which include the postage fee.  These shipping software options allow you to print out professional labels with postage already paid for the item.  Many shipping software programs can even mask the amount of postage you pay on the label, so the sender doesn’t know exactly how much you paid for shipping.  This is a great feature for Ebay sellers that charge for handling and other services in their shipping fee.  So if you are looking to automate your ecommerce or auction site business, use shipping software to save time and money.

With so many ecommerce web sites out there and strong competition in each category, it is very important to keep your focus on the customer.  Many people are so short sighted on making a profit, that they forgo the most important part of the business equation-the customer.

Most online web developers spend lots of time and money building a web site as well as attracting web visitors to their web sites.  Once a visitor lands on your web page, don’t throw all that hard work away, keep your focus on the customer so that they stay longer, hopefully buy a product and become a return visitor.

Everyone has probably landed on a web site that is out to make a quick sale with no respect for the visitor.  You probably encounter pop up ads, an overload of flash advertisements and a mouse trap that makes you close your browser window just to leave their web site.  Most visitors would run from a web site like this, let alone purchase an item.  So if you are a web designer, create a web site that accommodates your visitors, treats them fairly and has a long term philosophy to build a relationship with visitors and offers a fair product.

Looking for a way to make your auction site business more efficient?  There are many tools available that can help you automate your auction site business, fast easily and affordably.  Here are some tips on automating your auction site business.

There are three main ways to automate your auction site business, listing software, payment processors and shipping software. Listing software can help you list your items no matter what day or time it is, even in the middle of the night.  Listing software is mainly for power sellers that sell more than a few items each day.  There are a few great listing programs, one of them is from Ebay and is available for free.

Payment processors are software that helps you check out your customers quick and easy and makes sure that payment has been sent.  Payment processors contact your buyers once an item is sold and walks them through the payment process as well as the feedback process.  If a payment is made, it can also integrate with your shipping software.

Shipping software is necessary to print labels, calculate shipping and keep track of tracking numbers for customer’s shipments.  Shipping software can save you valuable time and energy.  So if you want to grow as an auction site seller, look into automating your auction site business.

Well I thought that I was going to take a break until April. Well I got bored, not that I don’t have anything better to do, but it is still crappy out. However the time off did help me realize that if I think long term everything will go much smoother. So here is the plan, develop what I have, spend all money I make in advertising and enjoy. I needed the break in the first place because I was getting myself freaked out over basically nothing, so now I am going to limit my work time and spend more leisure time.

The project that I am working on at the moment, and my last new project till the spring, is my small hosting service called Bluenoser Hosting. I am basically going to offer basic and starter packages with PHP etc just to cover my costs, and maybe even pay for my websites server space. When I finially have the site complete I will post an advertisement for it here.  It is going to be a very simple site since I want to make it as easy to use as possible.

After that it is going to be on to my two arcades, maybe I will actually make some money on them instead of it simply costing me BW

And as aways I will be posting anything interesting that I read here, and will continue to work on my directory lists