[Nfb-krafters-korner] EBay_ Reflections from Lynda

[River Woman]

I want to add to Joyce's information about eBay at Convention. It is 
WONDERFUL - and I really want to encourage you guys, if you are at all 
interested, to learn about eBay. I just love doing it, but it is a STEEP 
LEARNING CURVE to do it successfully.

For those interested, you can have a look at what I have put together so far 
for my eBay store. I currently have 95 items listed in it and my goal is to 
have 200 items listed at all times. But the things is, I keep selling the 
things, so that is a good problem to have.  My focus is on HEALING ARTS 
GEMSTONES, Fine Art, and HANDMADE JOURNALS, and VINTAGE collections. I gave 
my store the name _The Zen Meditation Garden_ but that may change as I try 
to think of something that would be better and fit my theme of merchandise.

I have to say that after the training we had in Baltimore I really struggled 
with it. I was listing and working hard, but nothing was happening enough to 
make it worthwhile for me.

Finally, by April,  I just about gave up as I had worked very hard and had 
very little to show for my hard work.  We had the training, and then, we 
were left to struggle it out on our own.  This was discouraging to say the 
least. I felt lost at sea, adrift. There was no follow-up after we left 
other than a couple phone conversations between ourselves. We needed HELP 
from someone who was successful at eBay but that was not what we had afte we 
left the training sessions.

Finally, a month ago, we were put in a mentoring program and I am in a group 
of 8 of the 16 people who attended. All 8 of us will reach the goals, or 
have exceeded the goals we have set for our business.  This has made all the 
difference.

 In the past 30 days I have sold nearly as much as I had sold in the 
previous 120 days total. The mentoring has been the KEY to doing this 
program. Without it, I would not be doing eBay at all by now because I was 
not having results that would motivate any sensible person to continue on 
with it.

In the future, if they continue to do this program, I think it is essential 
that the mentoring start from the get-go - so that all of the people who 
participate have the help that they need once they leave the initial class 
room experience. This program is not EASY, and it takes an enormous amount 
of WORK - I am working it about 10 - 12 hours a day presently to get the 
results I am looking to achieve. It has started to work for me, and I can 
now begin to see that it WILL really GO if I keep my nose to the grindstone. 
I really love doing it but it IS a JOB, for sure. I am a workaholic by 
nature, so this is a great business venture for me, but without thepersonal 
one-on-one mentoring, I would not be doing it at all by now. I want to see 
some money come back to me, not just keep going out - I like rewards for me 
efforts and I expect them.

OK, here is my store link so you can get an idea of what I have been doing. 
Right now, I am working on editing the "Custom Pages" to get them to all be 
alike. This will take me a few more days to get done - but it is a good 
start.  ANY suggestions you have for me are MOST welcome - I am struggling 
my way through this just like everyone else. And, it IS a STRUGGLE for all 
of us.

http://stores.ebay.com/TheZenMeditationGarden

Lynda River Woman
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
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Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 6:49 AM
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] EBay at Convention


>I just wanted to give yu a little more update on EBay and Florida
> Convention.
>
> Sunday afternoon I believe will be a hands on class for EBay.  They  are
> suggesting you bring a lap top if you have it as computers are  limited 
> in
> the number they will have.  I have also seen email that they would like 
> you
> to register for this particular seminar.
>
> They will be having EBay discussions on Monday, Tuesday and  Wednesday.  I
> know on Wednesday it was in the evening like the same time  the Krafters
> Division is going on.  Thursday I heard in the afternoon in  the main 
> session
> they will have 2 people from the EBay Pilot program talking  along with 
> our
> leader of the Pilot program Mary Ellen G.
>
> EBay will have a table or a few tables in the exhibit hall, too.
>
> So that should give you plenty of opportunities to get some  information.
>
> I have been very busy with the Pilot program and I am hoping to reach my
> goal in the next few days of listing 100 auctions on EBay.  I have done 90
> and plan on going over the 100 mark by tomorrow or Monday.
>
> Linda has done an excellent job being on the Pilot Program and has just
> recently opened her EBay store.  I heard she is the first to open an EBay
> store.  We have one of our coleagues  that has just hit the Top Seller 
> status
> and for that you have to have X amount of listings and sold $3000   with
> excellent feedback ratings.  My hat goes off to the folks in this  Pilot
> Program that have been working hard to meet their goals.  We are all 
> working with
> the frustrations of EBay website not playing nice with our screen  reading
> programs and with our constant feed back to the experts hopefully EBay 
> will
> work to make it better for our adaptive equipment.
>
> PS.  They said that you need a lap top if you want to participate in  the
> class on Sunday.  That Braille notes and that will not work.
>
> Have a great time at Convention.
>
> Joyce  Kane
> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
> Blindhands at AOL.com
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