eBay Radio Party in Vegas, Baabbee

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.

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  John Lawson - Making Your Business on eBay "Bigger Badder and Better"
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  Cliff Ennico - Tax and Legal Answers for your business on eBay
• Lynn Dralle - Product Sourcing and Sales Strategies
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  Janelle Elms - Making "Best Match" Work for You
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  Marsha Collier - Why Customer Service Online is the New Marketing
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  Debbie Levitt - Stores and Listings Designs that Make the Sales
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  Cindy Shebley - Facebook for Business
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  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.

A new "DEAL of the DAY" site!

Woot.com, amazon's Daily Deal, ebay's Daily Deal and now . . . . . a Cow?  A Cow? Yep, a COW!  introducing . . . Matty!

THIS is Matty and Matty now brings you a Fantastic new Daily Deal Site, just in time for Christmas! So add Matty's site to your Daily Deals Checklist and Bag more Deals!

 

Matty's site is "More Moola Deals"

Yet another benefit of being a Member of OSI Rock Stars by Janelle Elms is participation in this new site! thanks, Janelle!

Should you Open an eBay Store?

eBay Store Subscription Page

Should you or shouldn't you? Open an eBay store, I mean. Many eBay experts or gurus would tell you no, or to wait until your inventory reaches a certain number.  I used to be one of them. However, a special lady has really changed my mind and opened my eyes to the incredible VALUE of an eBay store. Janelle Elms, of OSI Rock Stars  has taught me many, many things. To date, this shift in how I see an eBay store is probably one of the top three. 

I've been 'shopping' for an ecommerce store for several years. I've had an Amazon webstore, an Auctiva eCommerce store, a BISI store through InkFrog, a MailCar store, an independent site through GoDaddy and probably several other efforts I don't remember, LOL. John Lawson, on his BS Walks show today encouraged us to get thoroughly comfortable marketing and selling on eBay before we 'took off the training wheels' and started an ecommerce site. I think John is 150% right and I'm not sure if it would ever be necessary to take them off!  Building your own ecommerce site isn't easy at all and of the many places I've set up, NONE are as cheap as $15.95 for the features you get with an eBay store. If you click on the photo above and look at the list of features, you will be amazed. Another of the Big, Big problems with your own store is driving traffic. Granted, with eBay store items not appearing in search currently, you won't get the same volume as on an eBay core item listing, but you will still get some directly from eBay. For the rest of the traffic, it will be up to you to drive that. eBay provides some help for its store owners in that you have a well built SEO friendly website. You provide the keywords, and eBay inserts them correctly in the coding. You also have a free newsletter program included. And here is the BEST bonus - Five Free 'Custom' pages that you can fill with all the content and keywords that the search engine spiders love, love, love. So if you are thinking about an eCommerce website, don't count eBay out. Remember, you can always buy any domain you want and forward it so www.myownstorename.com would forward to your eBay store and no one would ever know :)

eBay's On SALE! Did you know?

Did you know that eBay is in the middle of a sale on Auction listings?  Well, neither did I and that's another blog post (eBay's struggles to communicate with their sellers!). But thanks to an alert friend who passed on the information, I now know that ebay is running a 33% off sale on ALL auction listings - doesn't matter the starting price, or the category!

So if you have some items you were planning on listing at auction instead of Store, or Fixed Price, well, NOW is the time!  The sale was announced on the eBay General Announcement page and runs through October 11, 2009. You can visit THIS PAGE for all the details, exclusions, etc.


Janelle Elms, of OSI RockStars, is a great source to stay up-to-date with eBay announcements on her twitter account. the announcement was posted at 12 PM PST and you can see that Janelle had it out there right away! 

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2:55pm, Sep 25 


Now trust me, I could turn this into another post about managing your twitter account - cause I PROMISE you, Janelle is way too busy to sit by the computer and post each and every ebay announcement as they come out. But, just join Rock Stars and you can take the class about putting twitter on automatic pilot too, LOL

Come One, Come All to the eBay Radio Party in Las Vegas, June 24-25, 2009

Attention, eBayers! Bummed out because there's no eBay Live! 2009? 

Let us ease your withdrawal pains!

Coming up on June 24-25, 2009, is the eBay Radio Party at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in vivid Las Vegas. Why? To celebrate the 6th anniversary of eBay Radio, and to give all of us eBay Radio fans and groupies a chance to get together to meet, greet, network, learn, and grow our eBay businesses!

The festivities will include 2-3 hours each day of live eBay Radio broadcasts with cohosts Jim "Griff" Griffith and Lee Mirabal along with presentations by:

* Marsha Collier - author of eBay For Dummies and coolebaytips.com - "eBay Sales Tips & Strategies"

* Lynn Dralle - The Queen of Auctions - "Sourcing Products At Garage Sales"

* Janelle Elms - Visionaire of the Online Success Institute and the OSI Rock Stars - "How To Set Up 

An eBay Store"

* Melinda Jackson - Assistant Organizer of the Dallas eBaybes & eMales - "How To Start An eBay 

Sellers Group"

* Carolyn "CJ" Jacinto - Certified eBay Business Consultant, eBay Education Specialist, eBay Trading Assistant, and Stellar Seller - "Packing & Shipping"

* Debbie Levitt - President of AsWas, eBay Certified Service Provider, eBay Stores Certified Designer, and eBay Education Specialist - "Growing Your eBay Business With Marketing, Strategy, & Software"

* Jason "PayPal Jason" Miner - Community Education Specialist and Host of PayPal Radio

* Cindy Shebley - author of Easy Auction Photography, Certified eBay Business Consultant, and eBay Education Specialist - "Photography for eBay"

* Ian Aronovich - President of GovernmentAuctions.org - "Product Sourcing at Government Auctions"

And eBay Manager of Community Input Garnor Morantes will be there, along with some eBay colleagues, all of whom will be available for a Q&A panel.

We also be playing eBay Scrambulous and Speed eBaying, and there will be prizes for the best eBay outfit(s), longest term eBayer, newest eBayer, and furthest distance traveled. And let's not forget the Griff & Lee Sound-Alike Contest, complete with on-air auditions!

You can sign up for the party at http://www.wsradio.com/vegas. That gets you on the mailing list, and there's a link from there to register at http://www.brainfoodradio.com/vegas. Registration is just $50 from now through April $30, then it goes up to $60 from May 1-31, and it's $70 after May 31. Cancellations will be refundable up until June 1.

The sign-up page at wsradio.com/vegas also has a link for hotel reservations at the Rio — only $69/night for a Deluxe or Premium 2-room suite (depending on whether you want a mountain view or a Strip view) including up to 3 days before and 3 days after the event! Or you can call toll-free for reservations: 888-746-6955, group code SREBAY9.

We've got more than 270 names on the sign-up list with more than 100 people registered so far, and we plan to cap the event at 250. So register today to ensure your space, and get your hotel reservations now so you can take advantage of the cheap group rate. 

To find out more, keep listening to eBay Radio (http://www.wsradio.com/ebayradio). You can listen live —Tuesdays from 11am-2pm PDT, Thursdays from 3-5pm PDT — or via the archives 24/7, or tune in as a podcast anytime. 

Hope to see you in Vegas...and bring your eBay party spirit!