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Ebay Ebook Success Tips: New Years Resolutions!!!
I hope you all had a good break during the holidays and are now ready to get back to work. Now many of you may have set yourselves New Years Resolutions. If you haven’t I can think of a few good ones for potential ebook sellers: 1) Register as a seller on eBay - If you have been putting it off for ages now is the ideal time to register. Why? Because now not only will you have the usually things that you have been meaning to get rid of for some time, but you may also have unwanted Christmas gifts. I really cannot emphasise enough, the need to register on eBay to sell as soon as possible. Selling on eBay takes a while to master, and like many other things, practice makes perfect. The sooner you register, the sooner you can get good at it, and you will also be one step closer to starting a business on eBay. If you really do not have any physical items around the house that you wish to sell then why not try selling an ebook? You have the two ebooks I gave you when you signed up for this newsletter and both come with resell rights. Listings start at just 15p so you can experiment with selling for an incredibly small investment. 2) If you have been selling on eBay for some time, consider getting an eBay shop - At only 6 a month the benefits really are worth it. The first major benefit is the cheaper listing fees (Buy It Now Store Listing Fees start at only 5p a month). Although Store Listings don’t get as much exposure as eBay Auction and Buy It Now listings, you can use a combination of the listing types to save money, and also increase sales. Other benefits include Sales Reports Plus (which incorporate eBay fees and PayPal fees to show how much you have actually made), Traffic Reports, an actual website address that you can direct your customers to: “http://stores.ebay.co.uk/yourstorename”, custom shop pages, and much more. If you are trying to grow your eBay business aggressively, then you really need to consider getting an eBay shop. 3) If you have an eBay shop and sell on eBay, try to improve your business in some way - The improvements need only be small to be effective. For example, maybe you need to update your About Me page to reflect your business more appropriately. Perhaps you could redesign your listings so that they look more professional. Or maybe you could set yourself a goal to add a new product to your inventory every month. This last goal is a particularly good one for ebook sellers as once added to your inventory, you can have an ebook there as long as you wish without having to buy new stock. I hope that these tips help you grow your business in the New Year. Good Luck for 2006!!!

Tom Parker (Owner and Creator of The Ebook Cavern) http://stores.ebay.co.uk/theebookcavern http://www.theebookcavern.co.uk/ http://www.theebookcavernreviews.co.uk/ Feel free to use any of my articles published on this website. However, please include the signature (Name and Website Addresses) so that I get credit for writing the article.

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.

How Would You Create The Next Google Or Ebay?
Is the revolution over? Google took it to a higher level during the bust of 2000 by feeding on the pennies of millions. They were truly ahead of the curve.

So where is/are today’s silent behemoths?

You know someone’s lying in wait. I can smell the brainstorming. I have some ideas of my own. The question is, do I share? Do you share?

I want to be the next BIG THING on the internet! But alas, I’m not right now. Oh, I have my moments where I make money - http://easyincomeinfo.com -but I’m not innovating. I yearn to innovate. I loved the mid 90’s. There were new gadgets & software every 10 minutes. So it seemed. There were 20 TV shows dedicated to the new “online, Internet Wave.” Now, I’m lucky if I find one. What happened to http://CNET.com on TV?

Okay, I’m ranting. Sorry. “I want my CNET-TV!”

Back to the point. I want to be part of the next wave and here’s how I think it’s going to happen.

The next search engine will not be like today. They are getting too big. There is only so much real estate on the 1st page. (who really goes past page 3 or 4) So, search results have to be more defined. If I search for “Autism,” I’m probably looking for medical advice, definitions or places for Autistics to shine. I don’t really need to find a link for ebay. the fat needs to be trimmed away.

Communities like MySpace, are a small wave of the future but, it’s limited to it’s niche.

I would love to create a community that would incorporate the best of everything out there. Ahh, the dream.

Try a bog like http://Flarken.blogspot.com and begin the next revolution. Chime in and chime back to make thoughts flow freely again.

Make short domain names like http://Flarken.com & http://Qwangle.com that don’t mean a thing until they are brand recognized. Make your’s “Brand Recognized.”

The creation of the next big thing will come from a group of retro-thinkers who will bring us back to the original concept of the World Wide Web. FREE INFORMATION FOR EVERYONE. Knowledge is power. What is Google or Ebay doing to get back to that center now that they have mad their Billions? The next Big thing will do this & combine corporate wealth with the Free Flow of knowledge.

Create that wind of change for tomorrows kids.

Conrad Sear has been a web developer for 14 years. He now manages a startup SEO company called <a href="http://www.TrafficXTC.com" title="http://www.TrafficXTC.com" target="_blank">http://www.TrafficXTC.com</a>.(PR5) Their growing list of clients are all making to the top with his guidance. Samples-http://EasyIncomeInfo.com #1, <a href="http://AirOnSale.com" title="http://AirOnSale.com" target="_blank">http://AirOnSale.com</a>(PR3), <a href="http://MyHomeTrainer.com" title="http://MyHomeTrainer.com" target="_blank">http://MyHomeTrainer.com</a> #5, <a href="http://ChristineBoccio.com" title="http://ChristineBoccio.com" target="_blank">http://ChristineBoccio.com</a> #1

Ebay Ebook Success: Using Reviews and Guides to Promote your eBay Store
In my last article I discussed how to effectively promote your eBay store using your About Me page. In that article I outlined that it was one of the most underutilised promotion opportunities on eBay. Ebay Reviews and Guides are a new introduction by eBay, but are just as underutilised by eBay sellers as the About Me page. In this article I will discuss how you can utilise this excellent feature to promote your eBay store:

1) What is an eBay Review or Guide?:- A review is simply your own personal review of any product on the eBay market, for example a CD, DVD, book etc. You give the product a rating out of five and then write a brief personal review about what you liked, didn’t like etc. A guide can be on absolutely anything you are qualified to give advice on. I convert these newsletter articles into “Ebook Success” guides on eBay which complement my eBay store. However, guides don’t necessarily have to relate to your eBay store. If for example, you enjoy fishing then you could write guides related to fishing.

2) Why should I write an eBay Review or Guide?:- I would personally recommend writing guides over reviews. The reason for this is that when you write a review the only credit you receive is a small link to your eBay feedback profile. When you write a guide you receive a link back to your eBay feedback profile, eBay store, eBay About Me page, and some of your active listings. Anyway, whether you choose to write a review or guide, the reason for doing so is promotion. People reading your review or guide will be made aware of your eBay presence, may click on a link to one of your pages, and this may even lead to a sale.

3) What should I write my eBay Review or Guide on?:- As I mentioned earlier I write “Ebook Success” guides which are basically converted copies of these newsletter articles. However, the possibilities are endless. Just think of your hobbies, your job, or anything else which you know enough about to write a series of guides on. Everyone can write about at least ONE THING. Once you have found your topic, break it down into small, relevant guides. If you’re really, really struggling to find a topic for a guide, then write a review on a product that you own. Although the promotion will not be as great as the promotion you would receive from a guide, it still provides you with free promotion.

That’s all there is to it. Keep writing regular guides and if they are good people will rate them positively. The more positive ratings you get, the higher your reviewer rank gets. Also, the more guides you write, the more pages you have on eBay promoting your listings, your store, and your feedback. Since reviews and guides are relatively new and haven’t fully taken off yet, it’s best to get in now, while the majority of eBayers are not writing reviews and guides. That way when it takes off on a larger scale, you will already have a solid foundation upon which to build. To write your own eBay review or guide go to http://reviews.ebay.co.uk/. If you want to see view my reviews and guides for some inspiration then go to http://search.reviews.ebay.co.uk/members/ebookcavern. This is a promotional opportunity that you should not pass up. For five minutes writing, you can have a free, long term, promotional tool at your disposal.

Want to know how Tom Parker runs <a href="http://stores.ebay.co.uk/theebookcavern">http://stores.ebay.co.uk/theebookcavern</a> whilst automating 95% of the tasks? Then visit <a href="http://www.theebookcavern.co.uk/">http:www.theebookcavern.co.uk/</a> or send a blank email to <a href="mailto:newsletter@theebookcavern.co.uk?">newsletter@theebookcavern.co.uk</a> and find out all the secrets. Please include this bio when reprinting.

Do You Know What eBay Buyers Want?
Wouldn’t it be great if you knew what eBay buyers were looking for. You could quickly identify potential markets for the goods your selling or even new opportunities for your eBay selling activities.

How would you feel if I told you that you can find out exactly what buyers are looking for and it doesn’t cost you a dime!

OK the experienced eBay sellers amongst you will in all probability, already know what I’m about to share with you (mind you a friend of mine who sells quite a bit on eBay didn’t so who knows!) but for those of you that don’t you should find this very useful.

Log in to your eBay account and instead of going straight to your ‘MyeBay’ page look down the menu items on the left hand side of the home page until you the ‘Want It Now’ link which for UK eBayer’s is in the ‘See Also’ section of the menu at the bottom. OK go ahead and click the ‘want It Now’ link.

So that you can get a feel for what you about to be able to do scroll down to the ‘Browse Want It Now’ area and click on ‘Baby’ for example.

What you now have in front of you is a list of postings made by eBay buyers looking for specific things, with info on how many responses they have had and when they made the posting. Click on a few and see what they are about.

OK now go back to the ‘Want It Now’ page and instead of clicking on a category type in a keyword for something you are considering selling. Hopefully you will get a list of postings up of potential buyers if not try another keyword.

Now think about this for a minute - what have you got here in front of you. Well, the way I see it we have a goldmine of information and here’s why. Not only can I find buyers looking for what I’m selling I can get a feel for how much interest there is for what I’m selling by the number of postings. But there’s more I can also see what keywords potential buyers are using which I can incorporate in to my listing tiles and finally I can also check out the competition by looking at postings with responses to see what is being sold and by whom.

Right that’s should be enough to get your creative juices going. Have a go and see how you get on and remember if your looking for good information on eBay selling check out-

http://www.need2knowabout.com/ebay.htm

Anne
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How to Make Money for ebay beginners
Make Money on Ebay for Beginners

Ebay has been around for almost 12 years now (9 years mainstream). Every day people sign up and expect to make a lot of money on ebay as beginners selling their items online. 90% fail, because they don’t have a startup plan. The biggest problem is not having enough positive feedback. Once a potential bidder sees that you do not have a high ebay feedback rating, they will immediately think that you are a beginner or even worse a scam artist. Here is a tip for you to make money as an eBay beginner :

“It is not necessary to have an ebay feedback of 50+ to start selling, even if you are a beginner in auctions.

I would suggest that you buy 10 ebooks on ebay for around $2 each (from a DIFFERENT seller each time) and once they have emailed you the eBooks, you immediately give a positive feedback for them.

After that, you email each and every one of the ebay sellers and ask them to also exchange a positive feedback for you. That should give you a +10 Feedback within 2 days. Not bad for a beginner.

Then you start selling some low valued items for around $3 each … That way you are sure that ebay buyers will bid on your items, even though you have a low positive feedback and are a beginner. After selling the 10 smaller items, you should have a +20 feedback within 10 days, depending on shipping time. Again, not bad for a beginner

Now if a potential buyer checks your feedback, they will see a +20 feedback (100%) and they will also notice that NOT all of your feedback are from sellers. The potential buyer/bidder will read positive feedback comments from previous buyers and be more comfortable. They can trust you. Trust is the most important factor on ebay. Remember that the buyer is not able to see you or the item face-to-face, so reading positive reviews from other people will make them feel at ease and they won’t even care that you are an eBay beginner.

Now you can start increasing the quality of the items you are selling and be sure that there will be more bids on your items. When you started out a couple of weeks ago as a new ebay beginner, there was the same amount of potential buyers looking at your eBay auctions, but they were not comfortable enough to bid on your items. But now you have given them reason to trust you as an eBay seller (remember the +20 100% feedback ?)”

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