In this newsletter:

• eBay sellers don’t want their buyers to buy?
• Here’s some fabulous marketing – UPDATE
• Are you a non-profit, broke blogger, or hard working small business?  Get the opportunity to attend one of the incredible Word of Mouth Crash Courses taught by THE Andy Sernovitz
• Matty the More Moola is back – with tips from a Rock Star and John Jantsch (ooh, he’s a Rock Star too though!)
• Reminder – Town Hall tomorrow - http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200809.shtml#2008-09-18120759

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eBay sellers don’t want their buyers to buy – final hours

I was dotting my ‘I’s and crossing my ‘t’s – finishing touches on tomorrow’s BIG eBay Stores Success Coaching class when I decided to head over to the eBay discussion boards to make sure there wasn’t any last detail I had overlooked.  Yes, just for you I was willing to brave the eBay discussion boards – now I remember why I never read them anymore – ick.  But, I did come across this gem.  It has to be one of my all time favorite posts on eBay’s discussion boards – this was from an eBay seller…yep, don’t want those silly buyers hitting the BUY button and trying to give me money, no sir re bob.

We encourage ebay store sellers to post the new ebay store fees structure in their store listing page, so we can informed the potential buyers the fact: how much does it cost to sell thru ebay, maybe the wise ebay buyers will think twice before clicking the buy it now button, and pickup the phone…..

So, didn’t find anything else on the boards, but I have a TON of phenomenal information to help you put your eBay Store in top working order for the upcoming holidays.  I am SO excited for all of you who are joining us!!  (remember, you have until 11:59am pst tomorrow to join us – www.OnePercentCoach.com) Here is just a bit of what you will be learning in the next 5 weeks:

Week 1: Tired of having one more change happen on eBay?  We’ll teach you how to use your Store so you don’t have to worry about most of those again.

Week 2: Ready to be ranked on the first page of Google?  We’ll teach you exactly how to do this…step-by-step. (more info on why this is SO important below)

Week 3: You have a VERY powerful tool on your hands, yet you are only using a small part of its potential.  We are about to show you how to turn your profit switch to Super Charge!

Week 4: Want eBay to pay YOU to have an eBay Store?  We not only teach you how to do this, but also some pretty hot marketing ideas for your eBay Store too.

Week 5: Time to take it outside of eBay.  What does your business and marketing look like outside of this world and how can you utilize the power of your eBay Store within those arenas?

We will also be reviewing people’s eBay Stores during this last session.  Providing any final touch ups they need to head out into the profitable Holiday world with their new eBay Store.  Eeeks!  I am SO excited.

We come highly recommended…I was talking to THE eBay Store designer…Hugues of PixClinic and owner of the famous & award winning Frenchy Bee.  (who will also be one of our amazing guests during Week 3 of our training)  Hugues and his amazing designs at PixClinic have been nominated for ‘Best in Stores’ 18 times and have won numerous times.  When he heard about the eBay Stores Success Video promotion he was SO excited.  He even stopped everything he was doing and created a page on his website JUST for this course.  WOW – that was a huge honor.  He said that so many people know they want a professionally designed eBay Store – but once he uses his incredible talents to create the beautiful eBay Stores shell, his clients don’t know how to use the features of this powerful tool – the eBay Store.  You can have the most beautiful store, but if it doesn’t make you money through the correct use of its features, it won’t do you any good.

Thank you Hugues – your recommendation is a true honor.

So why the huge emphasis on Google?…Well, let’s see, besides the fact that there are over 1.5 Billion searches done daily?  Do you just want the buyer’s who are on eBay already or would you LOVE more and new customers?  Yep, thought so.  Which is why we going to devote plenty of time during the One Percent Coach – eBay Stores training to make sure you are on Google…and not on any page…and not just on the first page either.  Nope, research has found that the TOP 3 search results get 79% of the clicks!  WOW.

I was doing research on SEO and search engine marketing when I happened upon a recent study done by Think Eyetracking   They produced a Heat Map (showing where a customer ‘goes to’ on a page)  In this is a case a picture is worth a thousand words – check out the difference from just 3 years ago (2005) to now:

You can see the top 5 search links get major attention, while the top 3 is where it’s at (or more important…where YOUR PRODUCTS should be at).

If you haven’t already signed up for the eBay Stores Success training, please do so asap.  We have monthly payment options set up at www.OnePercentCoach.com

Here’s some fabulous marketing – UPDATE

So we mentioned CJ’s great eBay Guide work in our previous newsletter…here is refresher of that article:

Reviews and Guides are one of the many ways you can do some incredible marketing (plus they can also be used for fabulous eBay Store Custom Pages).  One of our Rock Stars and fabulous education specialist is a top 5000 reviewer on eBay.  Check out her latest Guide that provides information as well as a sense of security/confidence to buyers of this item.  AND, no big surprise, guess where you can find these ornaments?  Yep, in CJ’s eBay Store XOXmas!  Nice job CJ!

Check it out: Christopher Radko mouth blown glass Christmas ornaments

Today I just received this fabulous update from her – you SO Rock CJ:

I wrote a guide last night, about 12 hours ago, then asked a few of my friends, family and students to vote on the guide…using Google this morning, it’s the first item on page 2, bet I am on page one is less than 24 hours..  I used the third most popular Google search keywords to judge my success…

eBay Guides - Christopher Radko mouth blown glass Christmas ornaments

Sep 17, 2008 … What is a Mouth Blown Glass Ornament It’s an old European tradition. The Victorians, especially, wanted hand blown or mouth blown glass …
reviews.ebay.com/Christopher-Radko-mouth-blown-glass-Christmas-ornaments_W0QQugidZ1000000000… - 41k - 19 hours ago - Cached - Similar pages

search no 11 of 20,400 …awesome…thanks to you Miss Elms, without your words of wisdom I never would have found this powerful tool.  thankyou thankyou thankyou…I love you bunches

CJ

Are you a non-profit, broke blogger, or hard working small business?  Get the opportunity to attend one of the incredible Word of Mouth Crash Courses taught by THE Andy Sernovitz

Love Andy Sernovitz and his Word of Mouth teaching.  He has an incredible book “Word of Mouth Marketing” as well as a great blog to follow – Damn, I wish I had thought of that (great post today btw).  We have been blessed to also have him teach at eBay Live as well as on the OSI show.  Now Andy is doing these incredible training classes called “Word of Mouth Crash Course”.   In one day you will learn about blogs, buzz, viral marketing, word of mouth marketing and so much more (also the networking is off the hook!)  If you use the code “weloveonlinesuccess” when you register, Andy will give all reads of the Success Newsletter $250 off their registration.

But wait…he just sent me this email about another option – a scholarship – how fabulous is this?  Remember when applying to the program who your audience is…I’m guessing you will have better success if you focus on what you could do to help promote Andy’s course, not why he should give you a scholarship, yes?  Here’s his email:

Hi Janelle -

Thanks again for blogging our last Word of Mouth Crash Course.  I just wanted to give you a heads up that the next round of scholarships are being given away for the fall classes.  Please pass it on to any worthy non-profits, broke bloggers, or hard working small businesses. More at http://events.gaspedal.com/scholarships.

Andy

Matty the More Moola Cow is back

Welcome back all you brilliant Moooola savers!   Boy are you fabulous at saving.  Even Janelle’s favorite business mentor is talking about ways to save:

7 Time-tested Ways to Dig Out from a Recession - Although I would say that these would be great anytime, not just now.

We also received a great email from Carla, one of the OSI Rock Stars, with some more great information on cutting those corners.  Check out these great tips:

I am very interested in the savings stuff you have been talking about. I am, according to everyone who knows me, the coupon queen around here. I send out an email to friends/family and anyone else every other week or so with freebies/good deals (like free mag subscriptions, samples and more). Couple of sites you might want to check out that are great:

www.hotcouponworld.com (free), www.startsampling.com (free), www.freesamplesite.com/ydf (free) and the best one of all is www.refundcents.com which costs $12 a year for online http://www.refundcents.com/Subscriptions.asp - they have printouts of how to work the deals, centsible chat is great to find out what deals work, there is a free grocery board that is new (see from the home page). This site has saved me thousands of dollars in the last few years. I have been doing freebies and such since 1999 and even couponed in college in the early 80’s so I have been at it a long time!! I’ll be glad to add you to my email list if you want.

Carla – OSI Rock Star

Send YOUR moola saving tips to Matty@osiRockStars.com

Chat soon,

Matty

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