eBay 4 Beginner’s Meeting
6/25/06

www.JanelleElms.com
consulting@janelleelms.com

Personal Coaching
Personal/corporate – in person, email or by phone
$500 an hour – 2 hour minimum

 

 

Upcoming Classes & Tour Dates:

  • September 22 – Portland, OR

  • October 24th – Vancouver, BC

  • October 19th - NYC

  • October 26th – Seattle, WA

Next Meeting:

 

Women of Intention Network (WIN) meeting – 2-5pm Crossroads Mall Community Room (inside mall, across from Hallmark)

  • May – 9th (Tuesday)

  • June – 28th (Wednesday)

  • July – 26th (Wednesday)

  • August – 15th (Tuesday)

eBay 4 Beginners meeting – Crossroads Mall Community Room (inside mall, across from Hallmark)

  • June – 25th – 12:30-3:30pm (Sunday)

  • July - 15th – 10am-1pm (Saturday)

  • August – 12th – 10am-1pm (Saturday)

www.JanelleElms.com/newsletter - to be notified of upcoming meetings

www.JanelleElms.com/free-ebay-meetings - to download the monthly outlines of each meeting

 

 

Topics:


1. eBay Live Update – Vegas Baby!


Classes


Extracurricular Activities
Next year’s eBay Live – Boston, June 14-16, 2007


2. HTML class – Lisa Stephens of Somersault Media (www.janelleelms.com/smedia) teaches you how to make your listings and Store look more professional – making you more money.

 


Introduction to HTML (by Lisa Stephens)

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is made up of a series of tags. Tags occur in pairs and are surrounded in < > characters. For instance: <p> .... </p> is a paragraph tag. Any text that occurs between the start and end tags is in the paragraph.

Tag sets can be thought of as containers – they contain text and images and other tags that are treated as a group.

Tags are not case sensitive. So <p>... </p> is the same as <P>...</P>.


HTML documents are arranged in documents with the following series of tags: 

<html>
            <head>
                          <title>Page title goes here </title>
            </head>
            <body>
            </body>
<html>

Common tags:

 

Paragraph <p> </p>

Line break <br>

Heading <h1> </h1>

 

Unordered List <ul>
                                 <li> </li>
                        </ul>

Ordered List <ol>
                              <li> </li>
                     </ol>

Anchor <a> </a>

Bold <strong> </strong>

Italic <em> </em>

 

 

Links use the anchor tag together with a hypertext reference or “href”. For example:
<a href=”www.somersaultmedia.com”>This is the text that will be underlined</a>
Here we see the basic anchor tag along with the URL we want to navigate to. The href can be a document, a sound file or another web page that we want to load. The text that is between the two <a> tags will be underlined by default. We could also put an image reference inside the <a> tag to create a linked image. For instance:
<a href=”http://www.somersaultmedia.com”>
<img src=”http://www.somersaultmedia.com/mylogo.gif” <a> 

 

Another type of link is a named anchor link. These are used to scroll a web page to a particular location. An anchor link uses a ‘name’ attribute instead of href. For example:
<a name=”myAnchor”>Text goes here<a>. Here the name ‘myAnchor’ is assigned to this particular anchor. This tag is inserted at the location in the document we want to scroll TO. To call this anchor, we create a link somewhere else in the document and give it the anchor name. For instance: <a href=#myAnchor>This links takes me to the anchor</a>. Here, the link is as described in the bullet above, but instead of a URL for the href we use #anchorName as the argument.

Image tags are used to insert graphics into a web page. The basic tag format looks like this: <img src=”http://myimagefilepath.gif” alt=”This is descriptive text”>. There is no closing tag for images. Here we see the image tag and the src attribute set to the URL location of the image. The alt attribute holds text that will appear when the mouse hovers over the image. Much of the time developers leave the alt tag empty, but this is an ideal place to use keywords and up the search engine optimization of the page.

 

3. Sourcing - do you know what the buyers are demanding? Learn today!
“Fish do not want pizza” – www.janelleelms.com/terapeak - 1 month free trial
Pulse.ebay.com
www.ebay.com/sellercentral


Trends


Trade shows - http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?threadID=2000151008 


4. Open Question forum - ask the PowerSellers anything

 

5. Seattle eBay Store Sellathon

 

 

Resources (find these resources and MANY more at www.JanelleElms.com/ebay):

www.auctionbytes.com – THE eBay newsletter to signup for…Ina provides you an option for two – pick both…they are free and fabulous!

www.JanelleElms.com/webmaster - Marcus is a GENIUS, inexpensive and oh so quick. Use him for any technical web stuff you might need.

www.JanelleElms.com/terapeak - A research tool that allows sellers to utilize marketing trends on eBay to more effectively price and position their listings. Receive a 2 week FREE trial of powerful researching. 

www.JanelleElms.com/endicia - Endicia Internet Postage lets you print postage for all your mail. All you need is a PC, an Internet connection, and a laser or inkjet printer. Receive a 30-day FREE trial. 

www.JanelleElms.com/vistaprint - receive 250 free business cards 

www.uShip.com - A shipping marketplace that saves buyers of large items a significant amount compared to FedEx, UPS and traditional freight quotes. 

www.WorldwideBrands.com/ebay - The ONLY Directory Publisher of Drop Ship and Wholesale Product Sourcing information on the Internet that is Certified by eBay. Entrepreneur readers receive $10 off the sourcing products of their choice. 

www.WhatDoISell.com/ebay – What Do I Sell is an interactive membership website that specializes in teaching online auction sellers creative, professional strategies and techniques for selecting products to sell on eBay, locating legitimate suppliers, and how to effectively sell in the eBay Marketplace. 

www.LogoYes.com/ebay - LogoYes is the only website that lets you create your own professional-quality logo online in minutes. No design experience or special software is required, and the process is fast, easy and affordable. Receive your own pre-sized logo for your eBay Store and end-of-auction email as well as 250 FREE business cards. 

www.elance.com – Complete your business needs by using this easy, quick and cost-effective outsourcing service. Projects include copyediting, html templates, logo design, and more. 

www.platinumpowerseller.com/ebayu - PowerSeller Mike Enos offers a FREE newsletter packed with tips to assist in your eBay success. 

www.JanelleElms.com/mpireresearcher - Ready to change the way you do business? No more jumping from one application to another. No more re-entering information. With Mpire, daily, repetitive tasks are fully automated. Gain more of your time back. All the functionality to run your entire business including accounting, in ONE complete, easy to use business solution tool. Check out the new research tool!