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Thursday, April 1, 2010
eBay Radio Party Las Vegas Here again
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.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Kijiji Classified ad changes to eBay Classified ad
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.
Friday, March 5, 2010
eBay On Location Kicks off first workshop March 19-20, 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.
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.
Friday, January 29, 2010
eBay's 2010 Seller Changes
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.
- 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
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
- 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
- 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 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.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Keeping Focus in Running an Online Business
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.
Once you start doing things you need for your online business, these list on the calendar will become a daily routine.
Friday, October 30, 2009
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.

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.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009
eBay Blogs going Away
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.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
63rd Annual Navajo Nation Fair
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.
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.
Friday, August 28, 2009
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:
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.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Finding Items to Resell
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
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Get eBay Fee Credits with eBay Referral Link
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.
Friday, August 7, 2009
The Virtual Meetup Online Classes
Help of a Sticky Note Can Get You things for Free
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.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
eBay Exhibits Savvy 2009 Holiday Gift Trends in NYC
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.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
eBay Partner Network (EPN) No Longer Allowed 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
Friday, July 31, 2009
Holiday Seasons Coming Makes Good Sales
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
Thursday, July 30, 2009
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.
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