A White Christmas in
Seattle!
I'm starting to feel like
we're in Minnesota! We've had days of snow, and more is predicted tonight. The weather reporters are starting to hint that our
Puget Sound cold snap could last through the coming week. Buses are
sliding down hills and over freeways, cars are filling the auto repair
shops with fender benders, people are leaving their cars in the
streets and walking home and the airports have run out of deicer
-leaving travelers stranded.
And, once again - I
thank my lucky stars that I don't own a 'bricks and mortar' store. The
retailers are closing early today, on the last weekend night before the big
holiday.
Buster the snowplow...
Knowing that I don't have to face the morning
commute, makes me very, very happy. And watching my dogs do snow
angles and play in the snow has kept my spirits up. Buster, who seems to live for
this weather, has a new nick-name; "Snowplow" because she
dives in nose
first and scoots though the fresh powder.
As you can see we have
plenty of white stuff for Santa.
Free Quickbooks
Software
An Early
Christmas Present From Staples
Cathi Aiello from Allegro Accounting
http://www.web-bookkeeper.com passed this along:
Quickbooks Pro 2009 (Windows version only) will be "FREE" at Staples on Monday, December 22, 2009
One Day Only! http://tinyurl.com/8pu9l3
- That's this MONDAY!
This is the version recommend for eBay/E-Commerce accounting
Some conditions apply:
The regular price at Staples is $199.99
The customer will receive $40 in instant savings
The customer at the store will receive a $159.99 mail-in rebate form.
When the customer mails in the rebate form they will receive, some weeks later, a rebate for $159.99
Once the customer obtains the rebate, their base costs are zero: $199.99 - $40.00 - $159.99 = $0.
The buyer may still be responsible for sales tax at the time of purchase; sales tax is not free.
Yes! This offer also applies to orders from the Staples.com website so you don't even have to leave the comfort of your home or office.
thanks Cathi!
Profitable eBay
Stores Series
This your chance to learn from an amazing
teacher. Janelle Elms wants everyone to set up their
eBay store for maximum profitability. In this new series, Janelle walks
you step-by-step through opening an eBay store all the way through
maximizing it for best placement on Google and other search
engines. This series is getting great reviews. If your plan
is to build an eBay store in 2009 I highly recommend you grab this
series.
Janelle is offering it at a
special introductory price and including some very valuable bonuses.
This 5-part CD set includes:
Almost 20 hours of step-by-step video instructions about setting up your eBay Store for profit
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Lessons that take you from 'what to do BEFORE you set up your eBay Store' all the way to 'marketing outside of eBay'...and everything in between
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5 exclusive Interviews with leading experts: Lynn Dralle, Marsha Collier, Hugues Deriau, Andy Sernovitz and Jay Berkowitz
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Success Steps offered at the end of each 'week' – these checklists will help you stay on track and achieve success.
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Clickable links are included with each lesson so you can easily locate the products, stores, and companies
referred to during the training. No scrambling for a piece of paper to catch the website that was mentioned.
For more information -
head on over to the 1% club!
The Marketing Minute
- A Fun New Video Series
Click
here to watch the video
During eBay Live, I
asked as many sellers as possible to give me their favorite
marketing tip. Over the next several weeks I'll let them tell you,
in their words, their favorite eBay marketing tip. Watch my blog,
YouTube, Twitter,
or your email inbox for the latest video.
This weeks guest Terry Gehrke from
www.myauctionexpert.com gives his favorite marketing tip
- it's about inventory.
EBAY RADIO GROUP - JUNE
2009 PARTY
Almost Live Get Together
Lee Mirabal, Jim Griffith and eBetsy from eBay radio has started a grass roots eBay get together in June 2009. Talk is that there will be experts, parties and cheap buffets. This will be an
excellent chance to network with other eBayers. And, there is talk that if we can get together at least a hundred people, the eBay contingent will come.
First line of business: choosing which city we want it in: Las Vegas or San Diego - so go to:
http://www.wsradio.com/RADIOGROUPJUNE/ and vote.
Send Lee an email if you are interested in attending. The link is on the page.
Are you using
Twitter to market your stuff?
To see the video
click on this link
My video tip of the week is about using Tweetburner.com to track the effectiveness
of your posts. You can track many clicked on your URL, what the most
popular links were and another simple way to
make them small.
The
PhotoShop Elements Class Has A Date & Time
We've had so much interest in a Photo
Editing Class that Dany Byrne and I will be teaching an online series on
PhotoShop Elements.
This online class covers the basics of PhotoShop Elements. We'll help you get the most out of your camera and produce award winning pictures that you'll be proud to share!
This course will meet three times - January 10, 17 and 24th from 2:00 -3:30 pm Pacific Time.
We'll take you through, step-by-step the basic tools provided in PhotoShop Elements. The modules are designed to show you how to use the tools, allow you a week to get familiar with them, and then we'll move on to the next level
Free Success
With Cindy Webinar In January
Promote
Your Online Business and Build SEO Using Press Releases
It’s
time for another FREE Success With Cindy Broadcast. Save
your space by going to www.successwithcindy.com
Time:
12:00 noon Pacific/ 3:00 Eastern
Date:
Wednesday, January 7th
This
month’s topic is press releases. You don’t need to be a
‘techie’ to get maximum effectiveness from a press release. Anyone
who can email or cut and paste can improve their business using a
press release. In this informative class we’ll cover:
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Reasons
you should write a press release for your business – even eBay
sellers
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When
& what to write
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The
biggest mistakes to avoid when writing a release
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How
to write a press release
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Techniques
to maximize results
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Who
to send your press release to & where to send it
Have
you visited my blog lately?
If not, you've missed these articles:
(PS: I've added an audio player let me know what you think)
Should You Keep Listing On eBay During The Holidays?
http://clovercitysells.blogspot.com/2008/12/should-you-keep-listing-on-ebay-during.html
Ready To Start Selling Media On Amazon - but don’t know which books to buy?
http://websellerscircle.com/ready-start-selling-media-amazon-dont-books-buy/
How To Win The Amazon Buy Box
http://websellerscircle.com/win-amazon-buy-box/
Starting An Online Business Part Two
http://websellerscircle.com/starting-online-business-part/
Ready To Start An Honest Online Business?
http://websellerscircle.com/ready-start-honest-online-business/
Merry Christmas
I guess everyone was too
busy to enter last weeks contest.
However, I wanted to
share this excellent banner instructor Dany Byrne did for her
blog. She promised to teach techniques that will improve your
photos and graphics using PhotoShop Elements in our class.
I look forward to
seeing them! There are limited spaces, so I suggest you sign
up soon.
That's it for now, I
hope everyone has a festive and safe holiday.
Cindy Shebley
eBay Certified Business Consultant
author eBay Marketing Bible
www.clovercity.com
Copyright 2008 Cindy L.
Shebley Enterprises
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