Who's Behind The eBay Store Success Video?

As an Education Specialist Trained by eBay, I want to give my students the most up to date, cutting edge information on eBay that I can.

I feel obligated to my students to keep up with all latest ways to make their auctions the best they can be. When students are ready, I emphasize how setting up an eBay store will benefit them - and most importantly, how to set up their eBay Stores correctly - right from the start.

Who do I trust to get the most insightful, in and out-of-the-box information on eBay? Without hesitation, the first name that comes to mind would be Janelle Elms!

The photo is of me and Janelle at eBay Live. I'm the short one.

Although Janelle has written or co-authored eBay books on many topics as you can see below, if I were forced to choose Janelle's eBay "specialty", I'd say she is the "Ichiro Suzuki" of eBay Stores.

Not only has Janelle been teaching about stores with eBay University around the country and at eBay Live! for several years, she also made a video series on the A-Z's of eBay Stores.

In this fabulous video series you really get the whole picture about setting up an eBay Store correctly. It was certainly an eye-opener for me and gave me the skills and expertise I needed to know for my students.

One fundamental fact about eBay is that it's an ongoing learning process. As eBay changes and evolves, as the international online marketplace evolves and as SEO (search Engine Optimization) changes and evolves, you need to keep up and know what's going on in order to stay afloat if you have a online business.

Selling on eBay or having a store is no longer confined to your User ID, Password and "My eBay" page.

What you learn from experience is often not information you can just read off a label. It takes time, experimentation, creativity, observation, vision and implementation. That's the kind of quality I found in The eBay Store Success Video.

To be competitive on eBay today, you have to expand your horizons to see the big picture.

Janelle's Stores Success Videos takes you from knowing nothing about eBay Stores to knowing every virtual square foot about them! In a clear and concise manner, Janelle shows you step by step how brand your store, use the Internet to create a logo, carefully choose your store categories, use all the tools your store has to offer, optimize your store for Search Engine Optimization, and link to the outside world to get 75% off your store's final value fees! You may even pick up a life lesson or two!

Here is a photo of Janelle at eBay Live! in Boston, MA in June. Surrounded by people who attended her classes, they couldn't get enough information about how to set up their eBay Stores.

For people who have had an eBay Store for years, Janelle's information hits you like a ton of bricks. I know I felt like "Where have I been?".

For people selling on eBay or thinking about opening up a store, you've got an advantage, a big one.

One of Janelle's mantras is: "99% of eBay Stores are set up wrong, learn how to be that 1%."

You can be in that 1% by going to:
StoresCoach.com

So what does Squidoo and eBay Have in Common?

--Using Squidoo is a great (not to mention groovy) way to advertise your eBay Store and Auctions to the world!

--Using Squidoo may save you 75% off your Final Value Fees on your eBay Stores!

--And so much more - the Squidoo/eBay Connection is almost better than a confection!

Janelle generously shares really great eBay strategies in a delightfully fun, informative and inclusive forum known as The Online Success Institute, aka "OSI".

Each week Janelle features eBay Powersellers, Marketing Gurus, Creators & CEO's of programs developed to help eBayers, Small Business Wizards and even Razor-sharp Legal Eagles, among others all to share their expertise, knowledge and insights about eBay.

One superstar guest was Seth Godin himself (if you are reading this, you are here now). What a treat.

After hearing Seth speak on OSI, I couldn't wait to hear his seminar at eBay Live!

Seth's seminar was eye-opening, full of creative ideas and marketing marvels, although I seem to have a bunch of mismatched sox now and the prize is on the outside of my cereal box.

After Seth's Marketing Seminar, I snapped this photo of him signing books... You know, the ones that sold out a minute before I got there!

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