Entries Tagged as 'FundRaising'

Talk For Free

With Skype you can make free calls over the Internet. Skype – the whole world can talk for free

We all like to save money and we all like to talk. But I can hear you saying yes but it costs money and even more money if they live abroad, and if you use the old method of using a telephone then yes it does. But I am going to tell you about away where you can chat and even see each other through video, and the cost Free. Yes I did say FREE.

Skype has many services and the best thing you can do is pop a long to their sites and take a look what is best for you.

For My Friends In The USA You Need The USA Skype Store

For My Friends In Europe Click Here


Very Sorry

Hi,

I am sorry to say that I have to stop comments at the moment on my blog as I am getting loads of spam. I am looking at ways of brings this back, but until then I have stopped this.

Sorry
Andrew

A Change Is In The Air

Hi,

Over the next few weeks, having taken advice from Janelle Elms of OSI RockStars I am changing parts of this blog.

For example I have bought a new domain name and will be using this for my Education Specialist Program, and  this will be a static site with just a few articles there, but the base will be the classes I teach. this will be on LinfordDirectTraining . com (This is NOT live yet).

And I have bought another name for my Trading Assistant business.  This is on Trading-Assistant-In-Staffordshire . com again as yet this is not live.

Then I shall use this blog, to post hints and tips, product sources etc, and as the two new ones will be more static I shall not have to spend loads of time on them, just updating when I add new classes etc.

Happy eBaying

Andrew Milburn

Amazon Revisted

Amazon Revisted

Hi,

This is just a quick update on the Amazon posts I did a little while ago. For those people who have gone ahead and done something well done, and for those who are still not yet decided there is still still plenty of time there is no rush at all.

I have done three posts on Amazon, I have listhem below or you can find them by clicking on the Amazon link to the right.

Part One           Part Two         Part Three

Now this update is for those who have listed items on Amazon and nothing as yet has happened, please do not worry. The Amazon site is like a bus or policeman……. For those who have no idea what I am on about we have a saying that goes there is never a bus or policeman around then all of a sudden you get one and then a few more turn up at the same time.

Now it is the same with Amazon, my sales have been low for sometime, this is my fault as I have not been listing, but I have around 50 items listed. I had no sales for two weeks then it went like this :

3 Sales Wednesday

2 Sales Friday

1 Sale Saturday

2 Sales today Sunday

Total Profit for the week from Amazon around £20.00. Not a lot, but these were mostly cheap paperback books, so I am quite happy, and that £20.00 is after all the postage and packing costs taken out.

 

Commission Selling

Commission Selling

Commission Selling is a quick way

to fill your store with stock…………

From time to time we have all said I just wish we had more stock to fill our shop and auctions with. But sometimes we just do not have the money to buy in stock to re-sell. At this point many people give up and just leave their shops partly full.

Well today I am going to share with two words. Commission Selling. Commission selling is where we go to a shop, a local wholesaler, Charity Shop and ask them how would they like to increase their turnover and profit, by doing very little work. Most places will say why yes, how can you help.

You explain how you will sell on eBay for them for a small commission of around 30%. - ( A side note here, the best places to go to first are those who have a high profit margin)

Once you have a place say yes we will give it a go, you get them to sign an some forms which covers both you and the shop. (You will either take the stock home or leave it in the shop), but you list it as normal, and when it sells you package it up and send it to the buyer. If the shop still has the item, take the paypal invoice to prove it has been sold, show it to the shop, package the item up and send it on it’s way.

Once the buyer is happy and has left feedback that they are happy, you send the payment to the shop via cheque or PayPal less your commission.

This is very simple and makes all sides happy.

Have Fun

Andrew Milburn

KeyWords

osirockstars

Keywords are one of the important areas you need to learn if you are going to make a go of your eBay business. Also to be honest if you are going to have any business at all either online or offline you need to know what Keywords your customers are using to search for you or people who sell products like you.

Once you have got the hang of keywords and how they can help you increase your business then you will see a marked increase in the visits to your sites, your eBay shop.

Most people turn a pale shade when you mention Keyword research but again it is simple. The tools you need either free or very low cost. Yes it will take time to do, but the time is well spent and you will be paid back many times as you will be targeting the market you want and not going out there and just putting up words your customers would never use.
With Keyword research you need to think like a customer and not as a seller.

Now I could go on and on about keyword Research and what tools to buy and why you should. How to make your lists easy to manage.

But someone else has done this for us, they have aimed it at eBayers and other online retailers. They have put it in easy to understand terms and through the power of online video they show us how.

This person is Janelle Elms . Janelle takes you by the hand and shows you in simple steps how to do Keyword Research.

These two classes come as part of the OSI Rock Stars package. This montly membership site contains over 120 hours of audio and video content and this grows by the week with new classes and courses be added all the time.

As well as the classes you have a very active forum, and the forum grows on a regular basis with new topics  be added as and when. The great thing about the forum is that it has members from all other the world and this means if you have a question that needs answering, you can post it and often within a few hours and in some case a few minutes you can start to see people replying to your question.

The great thing about OSI RockStars is the fact that Janelle and her team of people are all doing eBay or the other online sites. They teach you from what they have learned. OSI is not some site put together by people who do not know what online selling is. It was dreamed up by Janelle who is an active eBayer seller and also takes part in eBay live and other eBay events to train people. And all her other trainers are working their eBay businesses day in and day out.

So go on pop over to OSI RockStars by Clicking here and see how they can help you take your eBay business to the next level.

What is OSI RockStars?

osi RockStars

How often have you wanted to learn something about eBay or selling online in general and most of the time have come up against a brick wall. Well I know I have then one day I came accross a site called OSI RockStars. OSI RockStars is a site run by people who are active in the area of selling and buying on eBay on a daily basis.

Janelle Elms has been around eBay for a long time know and regularly takes part in eBay live as a trainer and other eBay events. Janelle then came up with the idea and concept of running a membership site aimed at training site aimed at taking people to that next level in their eBay business either as a seller, Trading Assistant, Education Specialist or consultant.

At present Janelle has over 120 hours of webinars and podcasts teaching you on things such as how to source products, how to work a trade show, how to get key words and the list goes on and on.

Plus Janelle Elms and her team are adding new coment every single week.

As well as these classes there is also a forum where once you are a member you can go and ask and answer questions and as there are people from all areas of the world you can post a question and within minutes you could get an answer back how cool is that.

Membership is a low monthly fee and is worth it’s weight in Gold, pop along today and take a look and see how OSI RockStars can help you in your eBay business.

AndyUk

 

Welcome

Hello and welcome to my eBay Education and Trading Assistant Site. Over the coming weeks and months I shall be adding regular content. If you wish to find out about any of the services we offer, please click on the link above in the tabs or to the left.

Thanks

AndyUk