MySpace for Dummies 2nd Edition or eBay PowerSeller Practices for Dummies

MySpace for Dummies, 2nd Edition

Author: Mitch Maxson

MySpace has more than 100 million active users. For many of them, MySpace is their central hub for connecting and communicating. They come to meet new people, keep up to date with family members, learn about new products and services, or catch up on the latest news. They come to check out blogs or to share their music. Don’t you just love the MySpace community?

What — you don’t have a MySpace page yet? Well, we can fix that!

Whether you’ve just decided to join MySpace, need to give your profile more pizzazz, or simply want to find out as much about MySpace as your teenager already knows, MySpace For Dummies, Second Edition has what you’re looking for. Find out how to get started, use MySpace safely, customize your page, start a blog, showcase your skills, and lots more. This friendly guide will help you:

• Open an account and set up your profile
  
• Turn on and use the MySpace safety and security tools
  
• Find and add friends to your profile
  
• Stay in touch by e-mail, bulletins, and profile comments
  
• Sell, buy, and market on MySpace
  
• Show off your talents as a filmmaker, author, comic, or musician
  
• Upgrade your profile with photos, music, and a whole new look
  

Everything’s arranged to help you quickly find what you’re looking for. With MySpace For Dummies, Second Edition, you can easily make your MySpace experience truly exceptional!

Table of Contents:

Pt. I MySpace overview and basics 7

Ch. 1 Diving into the MySpace pool 9

Ch. 2 Enlisting in the MySpace army 23

Ch. 3 Staying safe on MySpace 43

Pt. II The MySpace community 57

Ch. 4 Friending the MySpace way 59

Ch. 5 Staying in touch via MySpace 79

Ch. 6 Blogging on MySpace 105

Ch. 7 Keeping up with MySpace 121

Ch. 8 Staying on schedule with MySpace 131

Ch. 9 Getting in with the in-crowd 145

Pt. III Customizing MySpace 163

Ch. 10 Your MySpace photo album 165

Ch. 11 Sound and movies 177

Ch. 12 Customizing your MySpace page 187

Pt. IV Capturing your audience 205

Ch. 13 Marketing the MySpace way 207

Ch. 14 Rockin' in the MySpace world 219

Ch. 15 Finding your place on MySpace 241

Pt. V The part of tens 267

Ch. 16 Ten MySpace tools for staying safe 269

Ch. 17 Ten ways to keep away from MySpace bad guys 275

Ch. 18 Ten MySpace resources 281

Ch. 19 Ten other social-networking sites 285

Index 291

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eBay PowerSeller Practices for Dummies

Author: Marsha Collier

With over a million copies of her books in print, Marsha Collier is the leading eBay author in the world. Her books help eBay users get started, find bargains, make their first purchases, sell their first items, and start generating a steady income on eBay. This book, eBay PowerSeller Business Practices For Dummies, shares the techniques you need to know to either achieve the coveted PowerSeller status on eBay, make your PowerSeller-level business run more smoothly, or simply employ the tips the site's best sellers use every day. A PowerSeller herself, Marsha has done the research and developed tried and true techniques for boosting your sales and keeping them at high levels. Best of all, she breaks all the practices down into short, step-by-step tasks that don't require a lot of time to accomplish, leaving you more time to build your business!

The book breaks PowerSeller selling into:

• Powering Up: Understanding how to use eBay's tools and community to get sales up to PowerSeller levels

• Hitting Your Sales Targets: Establishing a strategy for choosing the items that work for you, buying items for resale on eBay, and creating a business plan that incorporates marketing, shipping, eBay Stores, and expanding into a separate Web site.

• Build Better Listings: Upgrading your HTML and photography skills to build sale pages that command buyer confidence

• Become a Model Seller: Enhancing your customer service skills from packing and shipping to insuring items to communicating with buyers

• Manage Your Business: A crash course in accounting, including the uniqueissues with operating an online store

The book also includes a CD-ROM that includes samples of Marsha's 5-DVD video training kit, "Your eBay Business Plan;" trial versions of helpful software from DAZzle, Fast Photos, and QuickBooks; and tools created by the author to help you better operate your business including a fee calculator and list of sources for wholesale merchandise.