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This class is perfect for anyone relatively new to eBay. Using a combination of presentation and live internet demonstrations you’ll learn to:

• open an eBay Seller Account
• use online safety and security,
• do research and create listings,
• improve your listings with great descriptions and photographs,
• set pricing,
• open and use a PayPal Account,
• monitor your listings
• accept payment
• ship your items

This is not just a dry lecture but a lively discussion where you’ll get your questions answered by a National eBay University Instructor. Many students recover the cost of the class within the first month and some make much more. $20 Materials fee for the class workbook (optional).

Details:
Sat, Feb 9; 9am-1:30pm
Course# 302CP.108; Fee: $70
San Luis Obispo Campus-Room 4760

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In my [tag]eBay classes[/tag], I get some questions every time. Usually as a student gets the auction process for the first time, it dawns on them that they may be able to bid up their own auctions to increase the price. This is called [tag]shill bidding[/tag] and it's a big no-no.

I've written an article on shill bidding on my [tag]Squidoo[/tag] page. It discusses the definition as well as what [tag]eBay[/tag] does to catch shill bidders. It also mentions the punishment when you get caught. (And you will.) Take a look at my article.
photo credit: c0reyann

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The first [tag]eBay class[/tag] in the beautiful new [tag]Atascadero Community Center[/tag] on [tag]Traffic Way[/tag] will be held January 26, 2008. If you’ve never sold on eBay and would like to get started, you’ll learn all the basics at this class. It’s a little over 4 hours of instruction and during the class you’ll learn how to:

• Open a Seller Account
• [tag]Research Tips[/tag] and Create Listings
• Improve Your Listings with Better [tag]Descriptions[/tag] and [tag]Photography[/tag]
• Pricing Strategies
• Open and Use a PayPal account
• Monitor Your Listings
• Complete Transactions and Ship Your Items

If you have a basic knowledge of [tag]eBay selling[/tag] and you’d like to use eBay for additional income as a business -or- you have an existing [tag]business [/tag]and would like to develop an additional sales channel for your business, I’d recommend the Beyond the Basics class.

Class details & Registration
The fee is $72 dollars. You may register through the city at (805) 461-5000 or through their website at www.atascadero.org. Walk-ins are okay, I'll have forms available for you to sign up and pay at the class. Hope to see you there! [tags]atascadero,paso robles,morro bay,templeton,learn ebay,ebay university[/tags]

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Have you ever wondered:

• How do I get started selling on [tag]eBay[/tag]?
• Is eBay safe?
• What should I sell?
• How do I set prices?
• When should I ship the items I've sold?

I've known lots of my students to make their class fees back within their first week of selling. You could be one of the next success stories.

The first class of the new year will be at [tag]Cal Poly[/tag] in [tag]San Luis Obispo[/tag] on Saturday, January 12th. The class starts at 9AM and should run till approximately 1:30PM. The fee for the class is $65 through Cal Poly's [tag]Continuing Education[/tag] Department. You can reach them by phone to register for the class at: 866-CAL-POLY or visit their website at: www.continuing-ed.calpoly.edu/. I also offer free support via phone and internet for those who've taken my classes. Sign up today!

[tags]eBay class,eBay classes,learn eBay[/tags]

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I will be teaching the [tag]eBay Class[/tag] - Beyond the Basics, Techniques for the Serious Seller in Paso Robles this Saturday, December 1st at 9AM. The [tag]class [/tag]will be held at the Senior Center at 270 Scott St., [tag]Paso Robles[/tag].

This class is for those eBay sellers who'd like to see some significant results from their eBay sales. In this class you'll learn:

• Start a business on eBay
• Increase Sales with Proven Marketing Techniques
• Find New Sources of Merchandise
• Open an eBay Store
• Use Listing Tools to Improve Productivity
• Track Your Sales with Reports and Research

You may pre-register by calling (805) 237-3988, Monday through Friday between 9 AM and 5:30 PM, or you can visit the city's website here.

If you have questions about the class, please feel free to leave a question below in the comment box.

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I will be teaching the Basics of Selling on [tag]eBay [/tag]in Paso Robles this Saturday, November 10th at 9AM. The [tag]class [/tag]will be held at the Senior Center at 270 Scott St., [tag]Paso Robles[/tag].

This class is perfect for people who've only bought things on eBay and would like to begin selling. Or maybe you'd like to [tag]make some extra money[/tag] before the [tag]holidays [/tag]by [tag]selling [/tag]a few things from around the house. We'll cover all the steps to create your eBay listings, and I'll share a few extra insider tips with you to give you an edge over the competition. I look forward to seeing you there!

You may pre-register by calling (805) 237-3988, Monday through Friday between 9 AM and 5:30 PM, or you can visit the city's website here.

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I just received an email that made me feel like a proud papa. After attending both my eBay Basics and Advanced classes, a married couple have just seen their first batch of eBay listings close with sweet success. I suggested they start small and work their way up, and that is what they did. Neither of us had any idea how quickly things would go up though.

Applying what they learned

I suggested they start somewhat small, price their items low to encourage bidding, use sharp photographs and concise descriptions. I also suggest honest shipping prices and a good return policy. They did all those things, and had great success. They are not the only ones. Others have sold hundreds in their first month, just selling things from around the house. eBay classes work. This couple spent a little on fees for the classes at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California and they've become profitable already. Keep an eye on this seller, they have lots more where these items came from! Congratulations davisvintage!

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I'll be teaching an [tag]eBay class[/tag] here in my hometown of [tag]Atascadero[/tag], California beginning Monday, November 5th. This is the Basics of Selling class which is great for those who have yet to sign up for [tag]eBay[/tag]. It's also helpful for those who've only purchased items and would like to begin selling. This time of year is especially hot on eBay and if you'd like to take advantage of it now is the time to learn. It's not uncommon for students to make their tuition fee back within their first few sales. Some make lots more! One lady I taught in San Luis Obispo sold over $1000 on eBay in her first month - and that was just stuff from around her house.

If you’ve never sold on eBay and would like to get started, you’ll learn all the basics at this class. It’s a little over 4 hours of instruction and during the class you’ll learn how to:

• Open a Seller Account
• Research Tips and Create Listings
• Improve Your Listings with Better Descriptions and Photography
• Pricing Strategies
• Open and Use a PayPal account
• Monitor Your Listings
• Complete Transactions and Ship Your Items

If you have a basic knowledge of eBay selling and you’d like to use eBay for additional income as a business -or- you have an existing [tag]business [/tag]and would like to develop an additional sales channel online, I’d recommend the Beyond the Basics class.

Class details & Registration
The class will be in two parts (Monday, Nov. 5 & Monday, Nov. 12) and each session begins at 6:30PM and lasts till about 8:30. It will be held at the Atascadero Lake Pavillion located near the Atascadero Lake Park. The fee is $72 dollars. You may register through the city at (805) 461-5000 or through their website at www.atascadero.org. Walk-ins are okay, I'll have forms available for you to sign up and pay at the class. Hope to see you there!

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As many of you know I live in one of the most beautiful places on earth, [tag]Atascadero[/tag], CA. Lots of oak trees, hills, vineyards (and wine), and the Pacific ocean is just about 20 minutes away. I have traveled all over this country and I still prefer to spend a day here over any other place.

[tag]Local eBay Classes[/tag]

There are over 11,000 [tag]eBay [/tag]users in the area of Atascadero. Many are still interested in starting. I get many questions and requests for coaching in the local area, and now classes are scheduled to answer those requests. Working with the [tag]City of Atascadero[/tag] through their Community Services Department, summer classes are scheduled to begin next week, right here in Atascadero at the Atascadero Lake Pavillion. They are as follows:

July 16 & July 23

• [tag]eBay Basics of Selling[/tag]
  • 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM - This class is conducted in two parts over two consecutive Monday evenings.
  • Registration is $69 and class materials $20 (optional workbook)

  This class is for the beginner. You may have a few things around the house you’d like to sell, but you don’t know where to begin. You’ve found the answer!
  If you’ve never sold on eBay and would like to get started, you’ll learn all the basics at this class. It’s a little over 4 hours of instruction and during the class you’ll learn how to:

  • Open a [tag]Seller Account[/tag]
  • Research Tips and [tag]Create Listings[/tag]
  • Improve Your Listings with Better Descriptions and Photography
  • [tag]Pricing Strategies[/tag]
  • Open and Use a [tag]PayPal account[/tag]
  • Monitor Your Listings
  • Complete Transactions and Ship Your Items

The workbook offered contains over 180 pages of information from the class as well as the presentation itself. It's a valuable tool to keep you going after the class.

I hope you'll join me for this class. To register you can go online at the City of Atascadero's website, or call them at: 805-461-5000. On August 13 & 20, I'll be presenting an advanced selling class entitled Beyond the Basics - Techniques for the Serious Seller. This may also be found on the City website. As that event approaches, I'll post more details here.

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eBay Live! Boston is poised to begin tomorrow morning. Today was the end of the eBay Developers Conference and several other classes were held as well. Among them were Education Specialist who received additional training and had their annual dinner.

I'll be teaching several classes this year. If you're attending please join me for any of the following seminars:

Enhance Your Business with Skype - Friday, June 15th 9:00 AM

This seminar discusses the features and benefits of Skype. Skype is especially valuable to small businesses helping them save on phone charges and facilitating conference calls both domestically and internationally.

Design a Professional About Me Page - Friday, June 15th 4:30 PM

In this class we'll discuss the benefits of having a great eBay About Me page. Not only will it help your business by building trust with your customers, it can be a way to drive traffic to your listings on eBay as well as your off-eBay website.

Blog to Boost Your Business - Saturday, June 16th 3:00 PM

This seminar will be presented by my friend Mikal Belicove of Doba, and myself. It discusses many aspects of blogging and how it can help and even hurt your business. We'll discuss the various blogging platforms, as well as how to figure out what to write about. We give enough tips, tricks and strategies that even a beginner will have an idea of how to begin blogging.

Hope to see you over the next few days! Enjoy eBay Live!

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[tag]eBay Classes[/tag] - The Basics and Beyond

eBay's [tag]Education Specialist[/tag] program has helped many thousands get started selling online. eBay classes are more available than in the past when people had to wait for eBay U to come to town. But how did those Education Specialists (Trained by eBay) get those classes on the calendar? It's pretty easy to get trained and begin teaching, but it takes a little more work to get the venue, dates, and students. How did you get started? To whom did you speak about classes? Are you all signed up as an Education Specialist but have nowhere to go?

Learning from Others

I used to teach more large groups with [tag]eBay U[/tag] in the days before the Education Specialist program. I like teaching hundreds at a time, and I liked [tag]eBay University[/tag] handling all the arrangements, all I had to do is teach and travel.

Now though, I have to find my own venues, set dates, decide on pricing, teach, handle some of the marketing, make sure books are available, and more. Some of the more active Education Specialists (one was my friend Jack Waddick) gave me some advice, which I could never seem to put into practice. I almost needed someone to hold my hand and walk me through it.

It also seemed that when watching the Education Specialist discussion boards on eBay no one really wanted to share too much information. Advice is often given at a high level, a little too vague for me I'm a bit thick-headed. eBay people tend to be a bit guarded about their strategies when selling, and I think it carries into other areas. Well, I think it's okay to share this info as it may help others get ideas. So I'm going to be very detailed about how things are going locally for me.

After Dinner Conversation

After filling up on Thai food with some friends recently, we ambled out of the restaurant and met a lady with a beautiful Boxer. Being a cat person, I was less than thrilled my friend decided to stop and talk to the lady about her dog. Turned out though, she was someone for whom I'd been searching. She ran the [tag]community calendar[/tag] in my town, and she opened a door for me.

I'm in the process of booking classes for summer and fall. I was frustrated at not knowing exactly who I should speak with to get local classes booked. I have heard many other Education Specialists have the same problem. The guide we've been given gives great concepts and is extremely helpful after you've booked a class. My problem was getting the first [tag]local classes[/tag] once I moved to a new area.

Starting Points

It's turned out many communities have programs through City Hall offering continuing education or [tag]adult education[/tag]. If you march down to City Hall you can just ask who handles those classes. There is usually a few papers to fill out and possibly even a short interview to check on your qualifications.

In my small community there were classes being held on such topics as cooking, dance, learning Italian, and many more. When I mentioned my class to the people at City Hall (more than one City Hall) they wanted to be the first to enroll.

I chose the dates and gave a description of the classes. We also discussed the money. The city supplies the room, the internet connection, and they'll even print up to 50 handouts for the class. They also handle the marketing through a quarterly catalog that is handed out to kids at school to take home. In addition to that, they have a website where people may enroll. I thought it was nice as well that they distribute press releases to the local media. For all of this the revenue is split 70/30 (the city keeping 30%).

Book, Teach, Repeat

Once you've gone through the process once, it's pretty much the same at the next town. Just be careful you don't overbook yourself or saturate your area. Keep the classes at a reasonable size and that should not be a problem.

Can you make money?

Lots of people ask this question. If you work, you may be able to make some money doing this. Do the math, if you can get 10 people in a room and clear $50 per head that's $500. Let's say you do that once per week. A couple thousand dollars a month is a nice income (second income?) in many parts of the country. Add to that a little one on one [tag]eBay coaching[/tag] and a college course and you may actually make a living at this.

Other Areas to Try

How can you take this to another level? In most of my cases the city allows me to offer a small discount to certain groups. This is where you can help fill your classes. You can approach the Chamber of Commerce, Senior Groups, Church Groups, etc. with your classes and give them a discount, or even offer to customize your presentation a little to meet their specific needs. This is basically a second-tier of marketing on top of the City's efforts.

Wrapping It Up

Doing the detective work to find your community's educational classes is really quite easy. I have no excuse for not figuring it out sooner. Once you find the right person, they'll likely help you through the rest of the process. Since the lady I originally dealt with knows her counterparts in neighboring communities, and knows about their programs, I got a lot of help right off the bat.

You can do it too. I know there are some Education Specialists that go to the trouble of qualifying, and they don't press on with the work of booking their first class because they don't really know how to start. Hopefully my experience will help a little.

[tags]learn ebay,one on one,ebay class[/tags]

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How are people hearing about your classes? Usually if you’re teaching through an education program through a city, college, or university they provide a measure of marketing for you. Can you add to that? Is it worth it? Where are some good places to add your eBay classes to grow your attendance?

Expanding Your Reach for Free

There are several ways to expand your current marketing efforts. This can be accomplished inexpensively or even for free. Once you’ve honed your message, there is no need to rewrite it for every single place you post it. Some areas you should consider are:

• Craig’s List – Free to list, and a vast audience

• TV and Radio Station Community Calendars – Free to list, and gets you some potential television exposure as a local eBay expert. Look on their websites

• Online event calendars – Often free to list and becoming more popular as a destination for people searching for activities.

• Your eBay Store’s Custom Pages – You get five free pages with a Basic Store subscription, use them to advertise your classes or website

• Blog, blog, blog. – Write about your classes in an off-eBay blog.

• Google Calendar – You can create a calendar of events using Google Calendar. Just add your classes as you would on any calendar, make sure the calendar is set as Public so people can find it. Once they find it, they can add it to their own calendar and sign up for your class.

Is It Worth the Effort?

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[tag]Designing eBay Listings[/tag], About Me Pages, Stores and Blogs

With millions of people "designing" [tag]About Me page[/tag]s, Listings, [tag]eBay Blogs[/tag], and [tag]eBay Stores[/tag] lets face it - there are some ugly ones. Really ugly ones out there. Not only ugly but annoying. I don't mean to be mean, but just because you can use 15 colors in one [tag]eBay listing[/tag] doesn't mean you should. At the end of this post I'll give you a couple of pretty good ways to [tag]choose a color scheme[/tag] for your pages on eBay.

One thing I try to teach in my eBay classes is to present yourself professionally if you want people to buy from you. What does professional mean to you? Well, somehow it has become this to a lot of people:

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Yesterday the [tag]California Association of Nonprofits [/tag]opened registration for a 3-part webinar called eBay as a Fundraising Tool. The course begins March 1st and is an exclusive offer for CAN. Registration is open now. To register for this course, visit: http://www.canonprofits.org/ebay/

This course is specially designed for non-profit organizations and will greatly help them in their efforts to raise funds by using eBay to turn in-kind gifts into cash. [tag]eBay Instructor[/tag], [tag]Steve Lindhorst[/tag] will be presenting the course and will teach organizations to avoid common mistakes and optimize your listings for greatest returns. Additionally, he will discuss ways to encourage donations via eBay through [tag]Giving Works[/tag], eBay's dedicated program for charity listings where sellers can choose to support nonprofit organizations.

Visit here to see full details of the course.

[tags]GivingWorks,fundraising[/tags]

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