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I created an eBay selling template for a client

By Dennis Guten on July 19, 2009 No Comments

Hitch and Tow LogoRecently I created a template for an eBay store for a client who also happens to be a friend. The eBay store is called Hitch and Tow and they sell hitch products and accessories on eBay. This project was a learning experience because of all the complexity involved with hooking into eBay and that user interface.

The part of the eBay selling template I created can be found by clicking on a live auction item and then scrolling down to the actual description area of the page (You will see the Hitch and Tow header in green). We also reused the template header and modified it a bit for the store header.

It was pretty challenging because you have to code for an environment that you control very little of the elements except for the template iteself, so to test it you have to actually make an auction live to see what will happen.

It also had to work within the eBay bulk program Turbo Lister, which was an additional hurdle, but it can be done. You also have to train the end user on how to work within the HTML of the template. I’m glad it finally worked out so well for my client that he currently uses it for over 200 listings and that total is growing.

Please note: The Hitch and Tow eBay store went out of business in 2010, but my link takes you to the original design I created that is still on my own GushinDesigns.com website.

Categories : Freelance, Web Design
Tags : eBay, Freelance, Web Design

When it rains it pours – A number of web design projects begin

By Dennis Guten on September 10, 2008 No Comments

This is my first post about my web design freelance experience.

I have seen over the last week an increase in potential. I kept getting these little feelers that a number of little jobs were about to start and today I find myself somewhat employed again.

Last week a referral from my sister Myra Moskowitz landed me a small job for the Dallas Jewish Community Foundation working on their web site fixing code and some design issues. I put in an afternoon there on Thursday with the promise of more later in the month after the busy/crazy period is over for them.

Last week there was another referral from my mom working for a friend on 3 small sites. I have done bit of preliminary work on that, but am waiting for the client to get me more material.

Last week I did a short software lesson with a guy I met at the Dallas eBaybes & eMales Meetup.com group I belong to. It was on a Mac shareware program called Garage Sale that I use for listing auctions on eBay. If you have a Mac and do eBay, check out the program as it has a number of excellent features. He gave my business card to a friend and tomorrow I am meeting with the friend to start a small site for an antiques business in Jefferson, TX.

And today my many emails to postings on Craigslist finally paid off. I am starting with a company in Euless, TX called TowerOS tomorrow for a 20-30 hour a week gig designing and coding ecommerce stores. The stores are ProStores, which is an eBay company.

I am also awaiting more work from a client, Joie De Deux, that I have been working for since I was still a student a few years back.

See, when it rains, it pours.

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Categories : Web Design
Tags : DJCF, eBay, Freelance, Joie De Deux, Web Design

Searching for web design, eBay opportunities

By Dennis Guten on August 7, 2008 No Comments

It’s been a while since I blogged about the “out of work, looking for work” deal, so here’s a little update.

Crazy pic of Gushin

About 6 weeks have passed since I was laid off and I have been actively searching for web design and related opportunities/positions.

I have come across some really diverse things. I have landed a freelance gig helping a small company ramp up to the opening of an e-commerce furniture store and am working a bit on that now.

I have been spending some time working on developing some phpBay Pro based sites to earn eBay affiliate income. They are WordPress blogs/sites that point to items on sale currently on eBay. If a visitor comes to your site, clicks on an auction or one of the other eBay pointer links, then a 7-day cookie is set on that computer – if an eBay auction win occurs from that computer within the 7-days, then I get a split on the fees that eBay collects for the auction.

phpBay Pro Software

It all works through the phpBay Pro WordPress plugin I purchased that calls in all the auctions based on keywords/parameters you set in the software. Pretty neat. It was only $49 and can be used on an unlimited number of sites.

As of today I have yet to earn any income from that, but I am willing to sit it out and try to build up traffic to the sites (a list of these sites are in the sidebar under “other Buford sites”).

I am currently participating in a new online blogging contest/course called the thirty day challenge. It has videos that teach you how to learn how to do sites for profit the correct way to not spin your wheels. I just started this and will post more after I get more into the course. The course is free, run by Aussie’s named Ed and Dan.

You can sign up for the thirty day challenge (30dc) yourself and try it out.

30 Day Challenge

I’m also looking into various opportunities making partnerships with business owners selling items for them on eBay. It’s amazing how many of those are out there.

Today I went to a company that had boxes of computer products (new, but pretty old), plus 23 new violins (go figure) to sell. I took home a box full of them (1 of each item) to research the products to see if they will sell.

I have answered a ton of online ads for web site design, graphic design, html, css, web optimization, seo and more. there seems to be a lot out there, but nothing has fallen into place yet.

No prob. I’ll just continue doing what I am doing and something will happen. More later.

Categories : Freelance, Job Search, Software, Web Design, WordPress
Tags : Affiliate, eBay, phpBay Pro, Web Design, WordPress
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