e-Commerce

The Beginning of Booming E-commerce
Believe it or not this business owner started his venture when he was a sophomore in college. "I wanted to earn some extra money so I could travel and study abroad," he recalls. "I was shopping for a memory card for a digital camera and noticed one seller who was listing and selling a bunch of these cards a day." The idea, alone, led Kossack to believe there might be a great business opportunity selling on eBay. After months of research, Kossack decided to sell DVDs on a small scale out of his dorm room.

Kossack's DVDs, video games, and books store (one that sells products below retail) only grew from there. "We have thousands of titles to choose from, ranging from hard-to-find movies to popular TV shows and new releases," explains the eBay Top Seller (a status awarded to the top 200 sellers in all of eBay). "Our DVDs are brand new and factory-sealed like you would buy it at your local retail store." In fact, during Kossack's first full year on eBay, he sold 25,000 DVDs for a total of $500,000 in sales revenue.

Speaking of the e-Commerce Biz...
Because of Kossack's e-commerce success, he's been asked to speak at eBay's annual convention and training event "eBay Live!" in front of 1,400 other eBay PowerSellers. "I came to the realization that I had developed many of my own strategies to maximize profits and minimize risk-selling on eBay that the eBay community was unaware of," he explains. "I shared how I saved thousands of dollars by switching the type of packaging materials I was using, how I kept my costs low during start-up and growth, how I recruited highly-skilled young workers to be my employees, and how I analyzed the risk of my eBay listing strategies and determined what alterations needed to be made to ensure I was reaching the maximum profit potential."

Kossack then turned his strategies into a revolutionary new guide to help other profit from eBay called "eBay Millionaire or Bust: Hidden Strategies That Maximize Profits and Create Wealth." "There is so much more to running a profitable eBay business than learning how to list and sell items," says the entrepreneur. "You need to understand the real business strategies behind selling on eBay if you want to be truly successful."

Schooling for an e-Commerce Entrepreneur
Customarily, most aspiring e-commerce pros should obtain an e-commerce degree because it's the most relevant, Kossack is currently a computer information systems major. "But to tell you the truth," he says, "I really wish I was an entrepreneurship major because that is what I am really passionate about." Still, the subject of computer information systems is quite relevant to e-business management.

Since Kossack's not directly getting an e-business degree or e-commerce degree, he's supplementing his ecommerce training by enrolling an entrepreneurship course at a different school. And he's not stopping there. Kossack realizes he has so much to learn in terms of e-commerce training, especially without the benefits of a solid e-commerce degree.

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