The 20 Second Commute: advantages and disadvantages of a home-based business
Thinking of starting a home-based business? Great idea. Here’s why. I have a friend who used to spend two to three hours a day in her car just to get to her place of employment which was only 20 miles...
View ArticleNot so amazin’? A brief introduction to selling on Amazon
You don’t chat about Amazon very often, Karl! That’s true. We’ve often looked at selling on eBay in our blogs but we’ve rarely mentioned selling on Amazon so I decided it was time to fix that. For some...
View ArticleSize does make a difference: shoe size and selling online
Selling shoes online can be really difficult. One of my customers was telling me recently that shoe size differs so much between make and style, that it can be really hit and miss to sell successfully...
View ArticleCool hunter? Meet the new eBay Collections!
If you’re a fan of Pinterest then you’ll be pleased to discover that eBay is revamping its UK website so that it includes a range of new features that will compete with other websites such as Pinterest...
View Article14 Tips for Setting up a Market Stall Business
If you’re considering going into business for yourself, you may not know where to start. A great many of our Wholesale Clearance UK customers own their own market stall and this is the backbone of...
View ArticleHow to make a million on eBay
Before I start, I have to say that if it was that easy to make a million on eBay I would have already done it, right? I haven’t, so maybe it isn’t possible for everyone. However, it certainly has been...
View ArticleSelling on Facebook for Beginners: Part 1
Selling on Facebook? Hmmm. I have to confess that I haven’t done it. I’ve spent the past hour trying to find out how to open a shop and failing miserably – it doesn’t appear to be intuitive. I went to...
View ArticleSelling on Facebook for Beginners Part 2: Facebook Advertising
In our last blog we looked at Facebook advertising and setting up your presence online using a Facebook page. If you regularly use the Facebook page you created and engage with people you will...
View ArticleSelling on Facebook for Beginners Part 3: Targeting other pages
In the final part of our mini-series regarding selling on Facebook, I thought I’d tell you about something several of my most successful customers have done. This is probably the easiest way to...
View ArticleeBay launching new seller performance standards in February 2016
From 20th February 2016 eBay will be updating their seller performance standards. This may or may not be a good thing, but it certainly leads you to wonder why they have decided to do it now. According...
View ArticleCar boots: a trader’s dream or nightmare? Part One
Car boots: a trader’s dream or nightmare? Part One Getting up at 5am is never a good thing, but car boots are an area of business often ignored. We look at whether car boots could increase your...
View ArticleCar boots: a trader’s dream or nightmare? Part Two
Car boots: a trader’s dream or nightmare? Part Two (Click Here for part 1) Following on from Part One where we looked at why you should consider car boots, we now look at what sells. What sells at car...
View ArticleParty Planning for the 21st Century
Bringing Party Planning into the 21st Century Mention party planning and people will automatically think about Tupperware or Ann Summers. Party planning seemed to be a chance for a bunch of women to...
View ArticleTo Market, To Market…
To market, to market, as the saying goes… or does it, with the birth of the internet, pound shops, and discount stores has the market become non-existent? Actually it seems to have done the opposite,...
View ArticleTop Tips for Tantalizing Buyers on eBay
Now that we have all finally settled into the New Year, perhaps it’s time to try your luck with auction sites if you haven’t already. eBay is the biggest of these and dominates the market but there are...
View ArticleOur Tips for Starting a Market Stall Business
Entrepreneurs have to start somewhere, don’t they? Did you know that Marks and Spencer started life on a market stall in Kirkgate Market in Leeds and look what happened to them! They now have over 1000...
View ArticleDiversifying your stock offer
In these difficult economic times, running a small business can be extremely hard work. In spite of news items suggesting that online retail sales have rocketed (Retail Gazette for example, reports...
View ArticleTen terrible mistakes you should avoid when selling on eBay!
People assume that selling on eBay is a walk in the park, but actually if you want to be successful, you do have to work very hard at it. Sourcing items, researching prices and creating listings can be...
View ArticleHere comes the bride: selling for the wedding industry
We are currently acting as broker for a rather fabulous Joblot of mixed wedding accessories see http://www.wholesaleclearance.co.uk/one-off-wholesale-lot-of-mixed-wedding-accessories.htm which includes...
View ArticleGet off of my cloud! Targeting the festival goer
It must be summer. How do I know this? Well besides the fact that Wimbledon is entering its second week, my nose won’t stop running and all around me I can hear people roaring “Waaaachhoooo!!” Hold...
View ArticleIn for a penny, in for a pound: the rise and rise of the Pound shop
I was having a conversation with a friend of mine the other day who owns a sweet seaside gift shop that sells a wide range of mid-priced gifts. She mentioned that without the cheaper pound shop lines...
View ArticleBuild a bonfire, build a bonfire: discounting items for sale on eBay, the...
So that might be the longest title I have ever used in this blog but I wanted somehow to get a link in to bonfire night given that it’s November the 5th, however tenuous it might be. But in my mind the...
View ArticleRedundancy: happy ever after for entrepreneurs!
According to the Office for National Statistics, the number of people out of work fell by 18,000 to 2.49 million in the three months to August 2013, while the unemployment rate of the economically...
View ArticleLinkedIn for SME’s: Useful or not?
It was announced yesterday (13/06.2016) that Microsoft is to purchase LinkedIn, the professional networking website, for $26bn (£18bn), which equates to $196 a share. That’s a lot of money. Apparently...
View ArticleWhat’s being sold in Rio? The Olympics 2016
To be fair, I haven’t managed to catch a huge amount of the Olympics yet: a) because there hasn’t been much on so far (it’s the first Sunday as I write this) and b) because I fell asleep in front of...
View ArticleShhh! Heard about Shpock? New rival to eBay?
You may have come across Shpock or at least heard of it before. They have run a few ad campaigns on TV although it seems to have been fairly low key thus far. However, word on the street is good –...
View ArticleThe ten most expensive things ever sold on eBay
I clicked through on a viral clickbait post yesterday, the kind I normally regret clicking on as soon as my laptop starts whirring and grumbling because of all the pop-ups and stupid ads, but became...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Selling Guide for Small Businesses
We have decided to start the new year by introducing the ultimate selling guide for small businesses. Wholesale Clearance UK is a family firm, and we recognise the complexities, pressures and...
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