Janelle Elms, the One Percent Coach has just released for pre-order the powerful eBay Stores training class. As she says, 99% of eBay Stores are set up wrong. Learn to be that 1% with over 25 hours of step-by-step training training with Janelle plus 2 Bonus CDs with over 7 hours of eBay Store reviews. 16 actual eBay stores are fined tuned and optimized for profit. Get Special pricing for a limited time on this valuable eBay Stores training.

With the upcoming changes to the Fixed Price format on eBay (I know, I haven’t covered it here yet) many rumors are going around that eBay Stores will be going away. I can assure you that they won’t. One reason, search traffic.

I know you have seen them when you are searching for products in Google.  The search results with the green URL starting with “stores.ebay.com/”. Many products sold in eBay stores show up on Page 1 of Google Search results but many more don’t. Why? Because “99% of eBay Stores are set up wrong.”

99% of eBay Stores are set up wrong. Do you want to be that 1%?” is the tag line for the eBay Stores Success Video from Janelle Elms. Before she created OSI Rock Stars, Janelle created this video with the folks at VLS (Visual Learning Systems) to help eBay Store owners get the most out of their store. More on that in a moment.

First, If you sell on eBay regularly, especially if you sell your own unique products, you should have a store. With just a basic store, for $15.95 per month, you can have;

• Advanced marketing
• Page 1 ranking on the search engines
• A profitable newsletter list that can grow with each customer
• Opportunities to upsell your products
• Consistent branding
• Your own unique URL to ALL of your inventory
• Detailed reports to fine tune your selling efforts
• An 800 number with direct access to a real person at eBay
• And, if you use it correctly you can lower your fees!

You don’t get that with the new Fixed Price format.

If you don’t already have one, get an eBay Store NOW!
Go ahead, I’ll wait here.

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Now that you have an eBay store you need to get the eBay Stores Success Video.
By itself it’s amazing enough with:

• Over 4 hours of online educational instruction
• Complete transcripts of the entire video series
• Checklists for you to stay on track with your Success
• And links to all of the tools you will need to create your Success
• Immediate LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP and access to a password-protected website ONLY for eBay Store owners who have purchased this video (known as the 1% club) AND
• The top 10 success tips from incredible gurus in their fields…Catherine Seda – seo genius, David Frey – from THE online research tool Terapeak, Troy & Sarah of Period Paper – PowerSeller with an Award-winning store, and so much more

Next you get 6 hours of Profitable Newsletter training ($297 value)

• Optimizing your profits through your newsletter list – your newsletter list is worth gold and Janelle teaches you how to take advantage of this profitable opportunity

And, if you act before Sept 18th 2008, you will also receive 10 hours of Live One Percent Success Coaching (priceless!)

• 5 weeks of personal coaching and strategy sessions LIVE – Janelle will personally walk you through the steps needed to make your eBay Store and business profitable and become part of that 1%

Get your eBay Stores Success Video and Coaching today.

Have Fun!
Mike

Using eBay’s RSS Feeds for Instant Notification.

Several weeks ago I was at an estate sale and bought a vintage Pioneer Audio Rack System with several components. When I listed the first piece, the rack shelf, I mentioned that I would be listing the rack itself in a week or so.

A couple of weeks later I got a message from a potential buyer asking when I was going to list that rack. I had to break the news to him that he had missed it. It had sold two weeks earlier. I also briefly told him how to use my RSS feed to keep informed about my new listings.That question made me realize that there are many eBay users out there, both buyers and sellers, who don’t know that eBay provides RSS feeds, much less how to use them.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. A feed is a summary of website content that updates regularly and it can be utilized to keep users informed of the latest changes. eBay provides feeds in RSS 2.0 format for search results, Stores, Announcements, discussion boards and more. Just look for the orange RSS button to subscribe.

The first thing you need to do in order to utilize RSS feeds is find yourself a good RSS aggregator or “reader”. Personally I use Google Reader but there are many others available, both free and paid, each offering its own set of features. Just experiment to find what works best for you.

As a Buyer who is waiting for a particular item or just wanting to know when your Favorite Seller lists new items there are a couple of ways to subscribe to an RSS feed that will keep you informed. If the seller has an eBay Store and has enabled his RSS feed (more on that later) you can just scroll to the bottom of any store page and click on the RSS button. If the seller does not have an eBay Store, you can add them as a “Favorite Seller” or do an advanced search for items just from that seller and then use the RSS button at the bottom of the search results page. This can be done for any type of search, by the way.

As a Seller, if you have an eBay Store you must turn on your RSS feed before your buyers can subscribe to it. If you go to Manage My Store, you will see on the left, in the Marketing Tools section, under Store Marketing is Listing Feeds. When you go into Listing Feeds you will need to choose the radio button for “Activate your Store Inventory listings via RSS” and click apply. Once activated, a RSS button will appear at the bottom of your eBay Store pages. If you do not have a store just have your buyers add you as a Favorite Seller and they can subscribe to a feed from your item listing page.

Now you can keep up to date with your Favorite Sellers and your buyers will know when you list new items.

Have Fun!
Mike