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Mar 26 2008

THE EBAY MONEY MACHINE

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THE EBAY MONEY MACHINE
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eBay Bidding and Buying
Bidding and Buying on eBay. Have you noticed that whenever you open a newspaper, watch the TV or have a conversation, people seem to be talking about eBay? If you’ve never used it and you’ve no idea what it’s all about, then then you will learn in the next 3 minutes! This article contains everything you need to know about the basics of bidding and buying on eBay. What is eBay? eBay is an online auction website. But it is not just any auction site,it is the biggest one in the world. If you know how an auction works, then you know how reBay works. Someone puts something they want to sell on the eBay site, and then buyers come along and place bids on it. The highest bid wins the item! It’s that simple. eBay being an online auction makes a big difference.. eBay will accept almost any item, no matter how big or small, and will then advertise it on their websites all over the world. What is Bidding? When you bid you say how much you will pay for an item in an auction. Bidding on eBay, however, doesn’t work in exactly the same way as a normal auction. On eBay, you tell the site the maximum amount you are willing to pay for each item is, and then eBay places the bids on your behalf. That means you could say you were willing to pay up to $100 for an item and only have to pay $50, if that was the highest maximum bid anyone else placed. First, the best thing to do is to go to the eBay website designed for your country. If you don’t know the web address for your country, just go to www.ebay.com and it will tell you there. On the front page you should see a big box marked ?search’: just type in anything that you’d like to buy there. Easy - of course? You should now have a list of items for sale ion the screen , together with how much people are currently bidding for them and the time when bidding ends for each item. If you click one of these, you can read the description, . Then if you are happy with the item and happy to pay more than the current highest bidder is you can bid! Bidding - How Do I Bid? 1. Scroll down to the bottom of an item’s description page 2. Type the maximum you are willing to pay (your maximum bid) into the box and press the “place bid’” button. 3. You will need to sign in once you press the button (if you don’t have an eBay username you will need to go through a quick registration process). 4. If someone else’s maximum bid on that item is higher than yours, then eBay will tell you and give you the opportunity to bid again. Otherwise, you’re now the new highest bidder! All you need to do now is wait until the end of the auction ? if someone else outbids you, then eBay will email you and you can bid again. Submitted by Barrie Segal Founder of AppealNow.com www.appealnow.com APPEALNOW.com was founded by Barrie Segal. Barrie has been described by Richard Hammond of Top Gear Fame as the UK s leading Parking Ticket expert . He has reviewed in excess of 6,000 parking tickets.

APPEALNOW.com was founded by Barrie Segal. Barrie has been described by Richard Hammond of Top Gear Fame as the UK s leading Parking Ticket expert . He has reviewed in excess of 6,000 parking tickets.

Be the trainer who gets it right
There are many roles a business leader must play. One very important role is the role of Trainer . At every level in every organization there are goals to be met and processes to complete. You could say every step that is taken to reach every goal requires a certain behavior or set of behaviors. To put this simply, an organization has to do a lot of the right things at the right time to be successful. This means each person has to do enough right things in the right timeframe. This requires a trainer at every level. Someone has to figure out what needs to get done to achieve every step along the way. Someone has to figure out how to teach people to recognize when to do what. And someone has to train people how to do each thing and how to know when it is done right. So the business leader must work as a trainer at a very personal and individual level. At the same time a business leader is the trainer of an entire organization. In order to approach an organization in a manageable manner, you should see your organization as a living, breathing, feeling thing that has tendencies, direction, momentum, drives, fears and motivations. Wherever you are in the chain of command or in the network of talented individuals, you are responsible for being the trainer of the people who you depend on. This includes the people who report to you, the people you report to and the people you collaborate with. It is not always easy to train people, is it? For some reason, I have always been a trainer. There was a time I was called Tron the Trainer . My early interest in life was music. I was so interested in pursuing music that my guitar teacher began giving me his youngest and most inexperienced students to teach. I was a freshman in High School who was a trainer of new musicians. This situation worked out great for everyone. I knew enough about training beginning guitar players, because my teacher had given me a good system to work with. I taught a group of songs that involved certain chord changes, rhythms, strums, figure picking patterns and solo lines that were designed to cover all the basics. By the time the students started getting so good that I was no longer qualified to take them to the next level, my teacher took over their lessons. This was a great arrangement. My teacher got to take over a steady stream of students who were already committed and playing at an intermediate level. This allowed him to have some fun and make some great progress with his students. I got to make a great income as a guitar teacher. Most of my friends were working as stock boys and grocery delivery boys making next to nothing. My students got some great basic training, because I was motivated to be a great trainer of musicians and build my little music business. A year or so later I met my brother s neighbor who was a trainer of protection dogs and police dogs. I had always been fascinated by German Shepherds. I guess Rin Tin Tin had made a mark on me as a child. I had also seen a working German Shepherd dog trial in East Germany on a family vacation when I was 11 or 12. I was mesmerized. I know; who takes their family to communist East Germany for a family vacation? Well the Jordheims would. My mom had grown up in the area that became East Germany and we went back to see old friends and the old family home. This is a whole other story for another time. Anyway I know wanted to become a dog trainer. And that s what I did. I found anyone who could teach me. It was a good time for my pursuit. There were many German Shepherd enthusiasts trying to establish the German working dog sport called Schutzhund in the U.S. Local dog clubs would bring over trainers and trial judges from Germany for seminars and working dog tests. I went to every one I could. I soon realized I needed to speak German to get the real story from the experts, because many of the translators who I encountered did not know dogs or dog training and much was lost in the translation. I knew a little bit of German from my mother and got serious about it. I studied it in evening courses and made it my minor in college. I traveled to Germany to seek out the experts I had met and met many more. It wasn t long before I spoke and understood German well enough to pass for a native. I became a favored apprentice to a few old masters and became the translator of choice for dog clubs in the U.S. who wanted to bring over the old masters and the new innovators of dog training from Germany for seminars. I had a blast. At the same time I became sought after as a trainer in my own right. I trained many people how to train their dogs and helped many dog clubs develop top notch training programs. I helped people with many, many breeds of dogs gain Shutzhund titles and I was on the training team of the 1981 US National Schutzhund Champion. I was selected as the Team Captain to lead the U.S. team at the 1982 European Schutzhund Championship in Salzburg, Austria. We had a very respectable finish. I had a great time. As you know, one thing leads to another and before long I was using my trainer skills in the world of B to B sales. I had taken a job with the Great Bear Spring Water company in New York City after college and quickly learned some great selling systems and methods from my supervisors and co-workers. Since I thought like a trainer, I revamped the system and ultimately taught my system to others in the company. We had great successes with it. Ask the people at Beatrice and KKR. These were two companies that profited greatly from our work. I later found a use for my trainer skills with Culligan Bottled Water. I saw that the local Culligan dealer in my adopted home town of Columbia, MO had a fledgling operation at a time when the demand for five gallon bottled water service was about to take off in smaller markets and outstate regions. I showed how my sales system worked and boosted their business. I acted as trainer for the route drivers, the sales rep I hired and for the entire organization as we created the best bottled water franchise in the whole Culligan system. We had the highest concentration of bottle cooler rentals per capita than any dealer in the 900 plus dealer network. Because of this success, other bottled water companies looked to me to help as their trainer. I shared my system and they saw their businesses boom, too. The success of the bottled water division was one of the big reasons that Culligan was able to sell at such a respectable multiple when The Vivendi Group took over the company. One of the threads you notice in this story of Tron the Trainer is the value that good training brings. This is particularly true when the training involves selling better, creating friendlier customer service models and creating profitable enterprises. None of these things happen without a good eye for training, a good system for training, people who are trainable and people who can be the trainer. So how do you master the training aspect? First of all, it doesn t matter whether your training subject is a single individual, a department or an entire corporation. Allow me to use dog training as an analogy. How do you think you get a dog to jump over a hurdle, pick up an object, bring it back to its handler and sit in front to present the object? First your dog has to have the right temperament. In this sense, Temperament is a combination of brightness, courage, handle-ability, spirit and drive. If your dog has no desire to work or to work with a handler, you can forget the whole enterprise. If your dog is too sensitive to take a correction or to handle frustration, you can also forget it. If your dog cannot get over and forget a bad experience, forget it. If your dog doesn t like to carry things or chase things, again you can forget it. My point here is that you have to have the right dog for the exercise you are teaching, or make sure you are teaching an appropriate exercise for what suits the dog s temperament. OK. Let s assume your dog likes you and you like it. It likes to chase and carry toys. It likes to interact with you and forgets bad experiences. For example, the other day you accidentally stepped on its toe with all your weight and made it yelp. Half an hour later you stepped on its toe by accident again, but this time with very little weight and the dog did not even react. First you have to teach the components of the exercise. This exercise involves: 1. Sit by your side and stay in spite of interesting distractions happening 2. chase an object 3. jump over an obstacle going away from you 4. pick up an object without playing with it or rolling it around in its mouth 5. bring the object back to you quickly 6. jump over an obstacle coming back to you 7. sit in front of you when you call it to you 8. sit in front of you holding an object calmly 9. releasing the object when you tell it 10. returning to a ready position , sitting at your side and staying If you think you can just toss out an object and say fetch it and the whole thing just happens, you need to stop drinking so much alcohol on your lunch break. Each one of these components has to be taught as a separate exercise. It has to be repeated and refined. It has to be taught correctly and consistently. It has to be exactly clear to the dog how and when to do each component. This can take months to get the components working well. Then you have to begin to mix components so the mixture flows well in the dog s brain. The connections have to be clear and you have to help the dog every step of the way. You are giving corrections and making adjustments. You are giving encouragement and trying to keep it fun. You have to celebrate the small successes. You have to know when to stop training and relax. You have to know when to play. Some days you work on tying all the pieces together. Some days you work on individual components trying to perfect them. You have to recognize when your dog is being lazy and either motivate it or force it into action. You have to recognize when you are being a poor dog handler and giving mixed signals, weak cues and confusing body language. You have to know when you just need to take a day off and do something else, or do nothing. You need to spend a lot of time thinking about training and only a short time doing actual training. You need to examine every training session and see what you can learn from it. You also need to set up the conditions under which the training has to take place. Then you have to train under those conditions. The result is something like this: when you walk your dog out onto a grassy area and have it sit 10 or 15 feet back from a hurdle, the dog knows exactly what is coming. It sits by your side until you say Fetch and then it runs through the whole routine. It looks easy to the spectators. All they see is the whole picture. They see it in one fleeting motion and think they can duplicate it. This is why well run businesses are hard to duplicate by competitors. This is also why people who are sloppy and lazy dog trainers get terrible scores when trial day comes. They thought it would be easy, but in the end the dog was only confused and frustrated. So the dog tips the hurdle going over, plays with the object before picking it up, goes around the hurdle coming back to its handler and then drops the object at the handler s feet and starts sniffing the grass. Which kind of organization would you prefer?

Tron Jordheim is a <a href=http://www.tronjordheim.com/>Speaker</a> . He writes articles about <a href=http://www.tronjordheim.com/name.asp>Speaking engagement</a> and speaking engagement. For more editorials about speaker in Columbia Missouri are accessible on the net.

Starting a Successful E-bay Business
So you’re looking to start an E-bay Business, are you! With more than 430,000 people in the United States alone working full or part time on E-bay, it may be easier than you think to start an E-bay business. If you feel E-bay is just for selling novelty items, or a low value trinket type outlet, you should look again. An E-bay business can sell anything from trinkets to antiques all the way to automobiles. Some of the most popular of the thousands of categories are automobiles and auto supplies, consumer electronics, computers, clothes and accessories, books, movies and music. E-bay was started in 1995 and has become the world’s biggest online auction site, selling all kinds of products and services. There is about 1,000 dollars in sales every second. There are 135 million registered users in 32 countries. So you can see how your E-bay business can have a huge exposure. Before you start an E-bay business you should decide if you want to be a full time business or just a part time hobby. Do you want to work from your home or set up an outside office to work from? Do you want to work on your own or do you want to have employees? Do you want to become a Power Seller or a Trade Assistant? Actually, it’s really difficult to decide all those things in advance. But you can set them up as goals in your business plan. It really is best to start small. This way, you can decide if you like the challenges enough to go further. There will be many disappointments, but look at them as the learning process. Make no mistake about the fact that it’s become quite difficult to make big easy profits. So Ok it’s easy to start, but you will work hard to find the key to success. It is a good idea to practice before officially beginning an E-bay business. It’s advisable to first do a few purchases of some things you could use around the house. Give feedback after a successful buy. Note the different experiences you will have with each different auction. This could teach you a lot before you begin selling. Then, you can start selling. Try different headlines and descriptions on a small scale. Practice taking pictures and try different listing formats. Just sell one or two items at a time at first to get comfortable and confident. This should improve your chances of success for when you take your E-bay business to the next level. Getting set up with an E-bay business just takes a few minutes. You will need to fill an application online, and supply your name, address, telephone number, a credit card and or a checking account. This is used for identification, as well as payment purposes. When setting up your E-bay business you should also open a PayPal account. This is the largest worldwide payment service. PayPal was purchased by E-bay when they saw how popular the payment system became. It allows people to use credit cards or their checking accounts to pay you, as well as simplifying your purchases. The fees are very reasonable, and it eliminates the need to have a costly merchant account. When you set up your E-bay business, remember to set up your “About Me” page, which is a free E-bay feature that allows you to promote your business and yourself. When you start your E-bay business and succeed in making regular sales, you may want to register with Federal, State, and local tax authorities. You also may want to form a corporation or LLC to protect yourself from any legal liability. By now you should have signed up for at least 6 online newsletters specializing in E-bay and Auctions in general. From these, you will discover sources for finding products to sell, and especially, some drop-shippers. Your E-bay business should now something to specialize in. This can be the most difficult challenge you will face with your E-bay business. You need to pick something that you know about, has a profit potential, and is not hard to photograph or ship. Before you put something up for sale look to see what similar items sold for and ask, can I make money with this? A key point to remember is that what ever you offer must fill a need. You must do your research for every item you consider selling. If your E-bay business makes your purchasing task simple and uncomplicated, you have a much better chance of success. In other words, if you find a niche, then specialize. This means your E-bay business should sell like items. If you sell CD’s, then having CD racks or players would be a good combination. The more compatible items you have on sale, the better your chances of success. People would much rather purchase what they need from one supplier that they have learned to trust. After you have gotten comfortable with auction formats, and other aspects of your E-bay business remember not to get complacent. You will want to read about any new features, keep in touch with your customers, and also be aware of what your competition is doing. Now you’re making enough sales to require you to automate. Don’t underestimate the value of simplifying your work through automation. And, you must keep growing by learning and changing to better formats. That’s the only way to take your E-bay business to its full potential and maximize you’re earning potential. Set your goal to becoming a Power-Seller. by Fred Farah

Fred Farah is a successful business man bringing you valuable information about <a href="http://www.bestaffiliateproducts.com/auction-niches.html" target="_blank">Auctions and eBay at Best Affiliate Products</a> My goal is to help you succeed, and the information here gives you a running headstart setting up an online business using eBay Auctions.

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