eBay Radio Party Las Vegas June 23 & 24 2010

The eBay Radio Talk Party in Las Vegas is just a few weeks away. This is the 7th Anniversary party held by Griff (Jim Griffith) and Lee Meribal and eBetsy.

This event is held on June 23 & June 24th, with two full days of fun and informative learning experience for all new or old eBay sellers.

The group has again found special rates of $89.00 per night at the Paris Hotel, where this event will be held. Registration discount rates are from June 20th - June 25th. Spend the whole week in Vegas, or register for June 22nd - June 24th at the Paris Hotel Registration Link, or call: 1-800-266-5687 and use the group code SPEBA0 (last character is a zero).

Must register first for the eBay Radio Talk 7th Anniversary Party before registering for the hotel. Another full two days is only a few weeks away.

Here is a list of great speakers that are lined up.

• John Lawson - Making Your Business on eBay "Bigger Badder and Better"
• Cliff Ennico - Tax and Legal Answers for your business on eBay
• Lynn Dralle - Product Sourcing and Sales Strategies
• Janelle Elms - Making "Best Match" Work for You
• Marsha Collier - Why Customer Service Online is the New Marketing
• Debbie Levitt - Stores and Listings Designs that Make the Sales
• Cindy Shebley - Facebook for Business
• C.J. Jacinto - How to Be a Trading Assistant
• Melinda Jackson - Starting a Sellers Meetup Group
• Bryan Goodman - eBay AdCommerce for Your Business
• Tim Chapman - Mr. Customer Service
• The Answer Man - Answering your questions about your business on eBay
• Sponsors include: ShipRush, Doba and PageMage with more to come!
  

There will be drawings from various speakers, prizes for Best eBay Outfit…Furthest Distance Traveled…Oldest and Newest eBayer…a Griff & Lee Soundalike Contest…Speed eBaying…and a few surprises.

eBay Radio Party Las Vegas Here again

Another eBay Radio Talk Party in Las Vegas has just been announced. This will be Lee's, Griff's and eBetsy's 7th Anniversary eBay Radio Talk Party.

This event this year will be held on June 23rd & 24th, 2010.

Special group rates for the Paris Hotel has been set up from June 20th - 25th, 2010 for $89 a night.

I had the chance to attend in 2009. I know this will be another great eBay Radio Talk Party in Las Vegas.

There has not been an agenda posted yet. Once I hear more I will be posting the information.

Kijiji Classified ad changes to eBay Classified ad

For ones who know the classified ads by the name of Kijiji, it is now named eBay Classifieds.

From looking for the eBay Classifieds site it is similar to Craigslists. You place an ad by your location and list the sale item for free.

For sellers who have exisiting ads on Kijiji they will stay the same, just the name it is listed to will be under eBay Classifieds.

The eBay Classifieds team has put together some short videos that can be seem on Richard Brewer-Hay's eBay Ink Blog.

eBay On Location Kicks off first workshop March 19-20, 2010.

As most have heard eBay Live was canceled and now eBay has replaced them with eBay On Location. These are happening in four locations through out the United states. These events are full training packed days for already eBay sellers or new eBay sellers.

• Atlanta, GA - March 19-20, 2010
  

Is the first eBay On Location event. Friday March 19th, 2010 is to get signed in and receive your badge for the main event happening on March 20th, 2010.

On March 20th, will start off at 8:30am through 6pm that consist of training workshops from

• Strategies to grow your business
• Opening up an eBay store
• Art of attracting customers
• Tools to help you maximize your business.
• Reduce costs and grow your sales volume.
• How to increase sales
• 10 powerful steps to take your sales to the next level.
• Simple but effective Internet Marketing with the use of social networking tools.
• Shipping practices for customer relationship service.

Other eBay On Location events will be held at:

• Dallas, TX - May 7-8, 2010
• Chicago, IL - July 9-10, 2010
• San Jose, CA - September 1-2, 2010

Registration for the other locations have not opened up, will be coming up soon. Here you can find out more on The eBay On Location.

These eBay On Location are large and small classes, live demonstrations and a Top-rated seller panel discussion, specially designed for small business and part-time sellers. These are topped with great speakers who are very knowledge in their fields of expertize.

Speakers at The eBay: On Locations are:

• Mike Michalowicz is founder of Obsidian Launch, also the author of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur. Mike will be hosting the workshop: The Art of (Customer) Attraction
• John Jantsch is a marketing and digital technology coach, award-winning social media publisher and author of Duct Tape Marketing and The Referral Engine. John will be hosting the workshop: I just Tweetered on FaceSpace
• Rieva Lesonsky is founder and CEO of GrowBiz Media, a content and consulting company specializing in small businesses and entrepreneurship. Rieva will be hosting the workshop: 10 Steps to Entrepreneurial Success
• Jim "Griff" Griffith is an eBay Customer Support Rep, who is the author of The Official eBay Bible and host of eBay Radio Talk Show. Griff will be hosting the workshop: Top-rated seller Secrets [Panel]
• Sarah Brubacher is a Senior Manager, and Top Seller Development with eBay. Sarah will be hosting the workshop: Strategies to Grow your Business
• Kristina Klausen is Sr. Director, and Product Management. Kristina will be hosting the workshop: The Power of Productivity
• Nick Donelson is a Senior Product Manager and in the Computer Software industry with eBay. Workshop not posted, in the works.
• Rich Matsuura is a Group Product Manager with eBay. Rich Manage leads a team of senior product managers, along with Develop and lead product strategy. Workshop not post, in the works.

So as you can see eBay is providing a full day of training workshops for the already eBay sellers, new eBay sellers or ones who are looking at selling on eBay. Which of The eBay On Location workshop do you plan to attend?

eBay's 2010 Seller Changes

The news from eBay was released a few days ago that they will be making fee changes no matter how much or how little you sell. Sellers will see the changes starting on March 30, 2010.

The upfront cost of selling on eBay will be dramatically reduced for sellers of all sizes with our lowest Insertion Fees ever. Whether you’re running a business or selling to earn extra cash, choose from a range of options designed to make your selling easier and more profitable.

For sellers who sell occasionally with listing 100 items or less per month will benefit from the New “eBay Everyday” standard rates.

• There will be no insertion fees charged when an auction item starting price is at $99c or lower.
• New, lower Insertion Fees for all other start prices.
• No fees charged if your auction item does not win.

• Auction items that do sell, seller will pay one easy Final Value Fee of 9% of the winning bid—and never more than $50.
• List in Fixed Price for 50¢ with Final Value Fees that are same as today.

Sellers who sell on a regular basis will receive the New “eBay Stores” subscription rates. With a store you will receive:

• Free pictures (up to 12 per listing), no fees charged no matter how many pictures you list on your items.
• Deep discounted fees on Auction-style listings
• List in Fixed Price with full search exposure for as low as 3¢ Insertion Fees with Final Value Fees

New Store subscribers who subscribe to any level eBay Store (Basic, Premium, or Anchor) within the Promotional Period will pay no monthly Store subscription fees through March 31, 2010.

Current eBay Store subscribers who upgrade their Store during the Promotional Period will pay only their regular monthly subscription fee.

All stores will receive full search exposure. When these new seller changes roll out store inventory format, which most know as a "Buy It Now" will become fixed price listings. This will be done to give all store owners full search exposure.

The new fee structure will apply to eBay.com, eBay.ca, and eBay Motors Parts & Accessories.

Here is a break down for the three types of stores eBay has to offer.

Basic Store - $15.95 per month

• Is good for ones who list more than 50 Fixed Price or Auction-style items a month.
• 20c fixed price on all items, with full search exposure
• New low Auction-style Insertion Fees
• Free pictures - up to 12 per listing
• 5 custom pages included
  

Premium Store - $49.95 per month

• Good for higher volume sellers who list more than 250 items per month, and sellers listing in both Auction-style and Fixed Price formats.
• 5c fixed price insertion fees
• New low Auction-style Insertion Fees
• Free pictures - up to 12 per listing
• Free Selling Manager Pro
• 10 custom pages
  

Anchor Store - $299.95 per month

• 3c fixed price insertion fees
• Free pictures - up to 12 per listing
• Free Selling Manager Pro
• Your logo in the eBay Stores directory
• 15 custom pages

The Fee Illustrator is a great calculation tool eBay has made to help you determine which type of store will be best for you, and the fees paid for quantity listed and sold each month.

The current "5 Free Insertion Fees every 30 days" fee structure for Auction-style listings will end on March 3o, 2010, when these new eBay seller changes roll out.

Keeping Focus in Running an Online Business

As you know there are tasks that need to be done daily in order to run an online business. Working from home many people loose time they should have spent working their online business. We can loose time by doing chores, reading emails, browsing the net, calling a friend or many other ways it is done.

One needs to treat their home business as if it was a business you drove to daily. One needs to stay focus in order to complete tasks, and goals to run a successful online business.

Just like if you worked outside of the home their are tasks needed to be done or the business will fail. In order to succeed in working from home I have found certain steps that makes it easier to stay focus and complete my tasks that are needed to be done daily.

• Buy an alarm clock or a digital timer to set by your computer. I like the digital timers that have dual settings. When I first started out I set it for it to go off every one and half hours. Then I would set the second time to go off in 15-20 minutes for a break.

• Buy a calendar or a planner for tasks. If using a calendar make sure you have one with large enough daily squares to write in. One can print calendars or planners for free from online.

If you plan on work your business 6-8 hrs. Jot done tasks to be done each day.

• Spend one hour in the morning reading and answering emails pertaining to your online business.
• Put in your weekly agenda one hour on your social network places, like Facebook or Twitter. This can be done daily or as many times a week you prefer.
• List your products on your site. May be one hour in the morning, then one hour in the afternoon.
• Joining in a webinar or learning course pertaining to your online business.
• Doing paperwork, accounting info needed.
  

Do not forget to take 15-20 minute breaks, with your breakfast and lunch included. I recommend doing a 15 minute stretch in the morning, then one in the mid afternoon. This is really needed due to we are sitting at the computer, while working your online business.

Once you start doing things you need for your online business, these list on the calendar will become a daily routine.

eBay Sellers Gone the Extra Mile for Breast Cancer Research

eBay Sellers Gone the Extra Mile for Breast Cancer Research


October has been the month for Breast Cancer Awareness month. All over the world people are raising money in the month of October to help fight against breast cancer.

eBay has been supporting Breast Cancer during the month of October.

At eBay Giving Works you can buy, sell or donate to a nonprofit organization.

eBay is not stopping at the end of October. eBay Giving Works is giving an eBay Sellers Special with only 5c to list items with eBay Giving Works from Oct. 27 - Nov. 15th.

Many eBay sellers have come together to help raise money for October's Breast Cancer Research foundation. Many have been giving up to 100% of their proceeds to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Cancer Foundation.

eBay sellers have gone into great depth to bring other eBay sellers, online sellers, businesses, and people together making or donating bras to help fight against breast cancer. All that have supported the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation have worked very hard in the month of October.

eBay seller "Woadieland" has been putting into auction "Bling My Bra" bras from other eBay sellers, and online site sellers that they have hand made. They started on September 24th, 2009 for raising money to help support the Breast Cancer Research Foundation Center. As you can see they have already sold many of "Bling My Bra" auctions since their campaign started.

100% of their proceeds are going to Susan G. Komen For the Cure, certified by eBay Giving Works, Mission Fish from these auctions.

eBay Seller "Eyez2blues" is having great success to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. They have brought people from all over the world donating bras for their "Women Take Their Bras Off For Charity! 90% To Charity!" auction that will end on Nov 02, 2009.

This auction has over 162 bras that have been donated by organizations, men and women from the USA and other countries from all over the world. This is their 3rd Annual Women Take Their Bras Off charity auction, where 90% of the proceeds will be donated to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation through eBay Giving works, Mission Fish.

The month of October is almost to it's end. Continue through out every month of the year to help support the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. The fight will continue to help save women all over the world be cured from Breast Cancer.

eBay Blogs going Away

eBay announced they will be discontinuing eBay blogs as after October 31, 2009. If you have been posting on eBay blogs they will all be removed and no longer accessible.

If you are wanting a copy of them best to post them into another blog or copy and paste them into another format so you may save them for further use. eBay is encouraging you to print out or save your blog entries before they close this section of our site.

63rd Annual Navajo Nation Fair

Window Rock is located in the far North, East corner of Arizona. It is the seat of government for the Navajo Nation, which is the largest Native American tribe in the United States.

Every year in September is the Navajo Nation fair. The first Navajo Nation fair was held in 1938. This year marks it's 63rd year for the Navajo Nation fair.

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This year the Navajo Nation fair is held from Wensday, 09/09/09 through Sunday 09/13/09

There is so much to do for the whole family. Arts & crafts, baby contest, free BBQ, exhibits, concerts, horse racing, parade, Pow Wow, rodeo, traditional song & dance, fry bread contest, carnival.

On Friday, 09/11/08 at 9:30pm is a live concert with Bucky Covington, a country and western singer.

Communication to Buyers is the Key

Communication to Buyers is the Key.

eBay gives you emails that you can create to send to your buyers.
To find these eBay buyers emails to create you will need to follow these steps.

1) My eBay
2) Selling Manager
3) Sold
4) Buyers Email
5) Manage Email Templates

Once you have clicked on a Sold item you will see next to the users ID is there email address. Clicking on their email address will bring you to Email Buyers page, as I have shown in the picture.

Here eBay has created seven email templates that you can customize to your preference. Here you can read more about Editing eBay Email Templates.

These are:

Winning Buyers Notification

Payment Reminder

Payment Received Notification

Request for Shipping Address

Feedback Reminder

Shipping Notification

Personal

In these you can edit the subject line, along with the email body to suit your needs. At the closure add your name, username and a link to your products or your eBay store. You may not add links to outside of eBay.

Once you have created your emails templates they can be used to send to each of your buyers.

I write to all my buyers. To send an email to a buyer click on their email address provided in your sold items. Here will bring up the list of your email templates from a drop-down list for you to choose the one needed.

The most common eBay emails to my buyers I use I have listed below with a short description of what I added when I created my eBay email templates.

1st email - Payment Received Notification
Thank you for your purchase and your business. Your payment has been received. Your package will be shipped out within 1-2 days. Once I ship your package out I will send you another email with a tracking number for your package.

2nd email - Shipping Notification
Your eBay package has been shipped. I give them a time frame when it will be delivered. What carrier I used and the tracking number. Add once your package arrives and you are satisfied with your purchase, please take the time to leave a feedback. If not satisfied with your purchase please contact me before leaving a feedback. I carry 100% feedback, cause I do care about my customers.

3rd email - Feedback Reminder
This one I prefer not to use Feedback Reminder as the subject line. I have changed this subject line to state : eBay Delivery Status for xxxx. In the xx I have a link to the item title.
After 14 days I do not receive a feedback I write 3rd time asking them if they received their package. Or letting them know they had received it and I noticed you did not leave a feedback. If you are satisfied with your item you purchased from me. please take the time to leave a feedback. If for any reason you are not satisfied please contact me before leaving a feedback. As you can see I carry 100% feedback, cause I do care about my customers.

Once you customize the eBay email templates it is quick and easy to send messages to your buyers.

Finding Items to Resell

Some people will go from yard sales looking for bargains and not knowing what they are going to find. It is best to search online or in your local newspaper first. This will help you locate the specific items you are looking for.

When searching for garage, yard sales use keywords of garage, yard, rummage, community, church, neighborhood, large. Or you can use specific keywords for the items you are looking for.
Places to search for garage, yard sales are:
Garage Sales Yard Sales
Craigslist

Thrift stores is another great place to find items. I have found left over Estate items usually will go to thrift stores. If you donate to a thrift store I have found most give you a coupon to help save on your next purchases.
Here are a few thrift stores that are pretty common through out the USA.

Search these Thrift stores by entering in your zipcode.
Goodwill Thrift Store Locator
St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Stores Locator
Salvation Army Thrift Stores

Estate sales are another good way to find items to resell. Craigslist you can also find Estate sale under garage sales.
Estate Sales Network is located throughout the USA. Subscribing to them will send you a weekly update of Estate sales in your surrounding areas.
Estate Sales Network

If you sell books, DVDs, or any kind of media items Book Sale Finder is a good one that will send you updates of sales in your area.
Book Sale Finder

Sunset Treasure Nook eBay Store

Get eBay Fee Credits with eBay Referral Link

eBay already promotes your items through search engines.You need to go a little bit further to get more exposure. Promote your eBay store or listing on social marketing groups like facebook, twitter and forums.

When promoting your eBay store or items outside of eBay make sure to use the Store Referral Credit You can save up to 75% of your Final Value Fees back when you drive qualifying traffic to your eBay Store from a location outside eBay with the Store Referral Credit.

Learn more about the qualifications and review the Frequently Asked Questions . At the end of your eBay store link or an item in your store you want to promote add ?refid=store. This is how mine looks when I am promoting my eBay store with a referral link.
http://stores.shop.ebay.com/Sunset-Treasure-Nook?refid=store

When you go to your My eBay page, My Account, Seller Account here you will see credits. This will show you the credits you have received and how they were received.. You can also check prior months. Always best to download or print out a copy for your tax records.

Do leave a comment on how you feel of this this article lesson.

The Virtual Meetup Online Classes

If you sell on eBay and want to learn how to advance in your sales or you are already there and would like to help others with advice I recommend you joining. I am apart of this Virtual Meetup Online Class that is held by Danna Crawford.

Help of a Sticky Note Can Get You things for Free

As alot of us have subscriptions to articles that appeal to us. I just read the article from Frugal Hacks that I found very interesting to share.

Never leave home with out a sticky note pad. Keep a pad of sticky notes in you vehicle, never know when they may be helpful for finding resellable items.

In this article Frugal Hacks had noticed a yard sale that she stopped by, but to find no one around. She got out a sticky note and wrote note with her name, phone number and explaining that she was interested in some of the items she had seen.

About half an hour after I arrived home a stranger called and said she found my note, she was done with the yard sale, and a local second hand store in town was coming to pick everything up, if I got there first, I could take whatever I wanted, it was all free.

She headed back to the left over yard sale and brought home:
To read all she brought home go to Frugal Hacks Stick-It-Note

Hope you find this article as interesting as I did. Please take the time to leave a comment on my blog about this article.

eBay Exhibits Savvy 2009 Holiday Gift Trends in NYC

On August 5th, 2009 PSFK attended a special event in NYC’s 57th and 5th ave shopping mecca which exhibited gift trends for 2009 based on items bought from eBay.

For ones who do not know who PSFK is, PSFK is a trends research, innovation, and activation company that publishes a daily news site, provides trends research and innovation consultancy and hosts idea-generating events.

This event is for magazine and other print editors who then create stories and reports for their publications. Over 70 editors attended.

It wasn't open to the public and it wasn't promoted or advertised. This was an invitation only event for selected invited magazine editors. The promotion comes when they all write pieces for their publications on eBay for the Holidays. This has always been a very effective promotion tool.

Go to eBay Exhibits 2009 Event to read more about it published by PSFK.

eBay Partner Network (EPN) No Longer Allowed on Squidoo

eBay Partner Network (EPN) will no longer support individual affiliate links or campaign IDs posted on Squidoo.

EPN and Squidoo will be splitting affiliate profits. If you have the old EPN affiliate link you will need to remove it from your Squidoo lenses and update it to the new one coming up soon. If eBay finds these EPN links and reports them to Squidoo, your lens could get locked.

This change is not only just on Squidoo. They are for all community sites like Hubpages and Typepad and may also effect blogger or wordpress, though this has not yet been announced.

About Squidoo Affiliate revenue (ie, referral income--like Amazon and eBay and CafePress). This is directly attributable to the lens that generated the revenue, and is not pooled with the whole co-op. The lensmaster gets a straight 50%. You may read more about these changes on Squidoo MoneyFAQ

This was talked on TheRiverTheRanchandTheBay by Kat - KatsKloset. More discussion can be hearded on the recorded version TheRiverTheRanchandTheBay

eBay Starts Testing 'Top Rated Seller' Badges

eBay Starts Testing 'Top Rated Seller' Badges

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Holiday Seasons Coming Makes Good Sales

The Holiday Seasons are coming up quick. 2009 is already half way over.
There is Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas to start looking for items for these holidays to sell for. Since I shop in thrift stores alot I am starting to see half price Christmas items.

I recently sold CAMPBELL'S SOUP KIDS A Hearty Christmas Ornament 1996. This one I picked up at a thrift store Christmas in July sale was regularly priced at $1.96. Since it being a half price sale I paid $0.98c for. I listed it new in box, since it was in the original box and this Campbell's soup ornament seem like it was never used.


I listed it on eBay on Auction for 7 days. Started off at $7.99. It sold for $15.70. Another good profit on a pick up for under $1.00

Collectible Coffee Cups, Mugs

Coffee cups, mugs are great items to sell on eBay.

Look for coffee cups, mugs with advertisements, events, foreign countries, USA states, china replacement cups, .
These are easy finds in yard sales, thrift store and Estate Sales.

Starbucks coffee cups, mugs can bring in $9.99 on up.
I had recently bought this Starbucks mug at a thrift store in their $0.10 isle.



It had sold on eBay's Auction with a 7 day listing, starting price at $7.99. Title I used to list this, "STARBUCKS Coffee Cup Mug 9 oz Open Handle 2007". It had 9 watchers, with 4 bids sold at $12.70. Not bad profit for a 10 cent purchase.