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Feb19
Will An eBay Strike Affect Your Home Business?
Yesterday many top  eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) sellers went on strike in order to protest a new fee structure and other changes that the company announced recently.

Some of the changes include: no negative feedback from buyers, a new fee structure that many sellers feel is less favorable.

In fact, disgruntled eBay sellers have started at least two websites to protest eBay's policies: Power Sellers Unite and feebay refugees. While the first site appears to be an ongoing protest to earlier eBay policies, the second site appears to stem directly from the recent changes.

You can find additional information on the eBay strike at:
Know More Media's own Power Seller King blog has excellent coverage of the strike here, here, and here. If you're involved with eBay, be sure to check Suzanne's blog for the latest scoop on anything eBay.

Will the strike work?
ebay-strike.jpg No one knows for sure, but media reports indicate that similar protest attempts in the past have been less than successful in changing eBay's corporate policy.

Before you dismiss this controversy as something that doesn't affect your own small business because you don't sell anything on eBay, let's take a look at the underlying question: what do you do when your business model depends on the actions and decisions of another business?

Imagine, if you will, that the preceding paragraphs had the words "Google" and "Blogger" in place of the words "eBay" and "Seller."  Does the eBay controversy make more of a difference now?

The truth is that all of us are dependent upon the actions of others, to some degree, for our business success. Often, those actions are beyond our control. It's called risk and it's something that every small business owner should take into consideration when doing their business planning.

What about you? What are the risk factors for your business? Have you taken them into consideration in your business planning?

Leave a comment and let us know.


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