Monday, September 28, 2009

Chicagoland eBay Sellers Group - Nov 4 Dinner with Griff

This is an invitation to all eBay sellers to join our MeetUp group. The goal of our group is to bring eBay sellers and potential sellers together to learn from each other’s experiences. We enjoy hearing about each others interests and discovering new ways to research and sell products. We all have something to contribute to help us all succeed. Come out and bring your ideas. Let's help each other out! We meet the second Thursday of each month at Panera Bread in Elk Grove Village, IL. To sign up for our group, please go to www.MeetUp.com and search for the Chicagoland eBay Sellers Group or use this link:

http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/940/calendar/11343212/

We will host a special dinner/presentation with Jim Griffith (Griff), the Dean of Ebay Education on November 4th at Charlie's Charhouse in Elk Grove Village, IL. You must be registered with MeetUp and RSVP and pay in advance to attend this event. Due to our contract with the restaurant, we cannot accept any walk-ins. Please see this event for more information:

http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/940/calendar/11195298/


This promises to be an exciting evening. Griff has worked for eBay since 1996 and was the 6th employee of eBay. He is an advocate for eBay sellers and hosts eBay Radio program on wsradio.com. He will be coming from eBay headquarters in San Jose, California to talk to our group and answer questions. Please come and join us.

Charity Bra Auctions - Bling My Bra

Support Breast Cancer Research during October 2009 – Breast Cancer Awareness Month


Starting this Thursday, September 24th, a network of eBay, Bonanzle and Internet sellers have organized a “BLING MY BRA” campaign to raise money for breast cancer research during October 2009, which is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.


We will be running an eBay auction per day of “Fantasy Bras”: creative confections with themes that are beautiful, funny, and inventive, created by artists and craftspeople celebrating the military, their favorite hobbies (such as bowling and offroading), Moms, eBay, comic books, baseball, and Halloween, among other themes. (Pictures available upon request.) Some notable eBay and internet celebrities joining the action by donating Fantasy Bras include the original motivator, John “ColderIce” Lawson of eBay store and website 3rdPowerOutlet and the ColderIce Blog; Janelle Elms, visionaire of the Online Success Institute and OSI Rock Stars (http://www.osirockstars.com), an nationally renowned eBay and Internet educator; Paypal Jason of eBay and PayPal, host of PayPal Radio and Comic Book Talk Radio on http://www.wsradio.com/; and eBetsy, an eBay celebrity, eBay Education Specialist, and Contributing Editor to eBay Radio. Auctions will be listed by eBay seller WOADIELAND, Beth Cherkowsky of Levittown Pa, through her eBay store HYPERLINK "http://www.depressionglasswarehouse.com" http://www.depressionglasswarehouse.com.


All proceeds – 100% of the sale price — of these auctions will go to Susan G. Komen For the Cure – Headquarters, certified by eBay Giving Works since 2003, MissionFish nonprofit ID 939.through Giving Works. (More information about eBay Giving Works is available at HYPERLINK "http://givingworks.ebay.com/about.html" http://givingworks.ebay.com/about.html).

Awesome eBay class in Bridgman, Michigan

We had another wonderful opportunity this past weekend to teach the Basics of Selling on eBay to the Bridgman Public Library in Bridgman, Michigan. We are continually impressed with the excitement and the desire to sell on eBay. Once again the library charged a minimal fee for the class which included a delicious, home-made lunch. The community room at the library was perfect for our class with plenty of room. We enjoyed so much meeting community members and hearing their stories and sharing their interests. Thank you to Denise for setting up this day and thank you to all who came to the class. We wish all of you great success selling on eBay. We understand we will be scheduling another class at this library. Please contact Denise Malevitis at the library to let them know you are interested. Their phone number is: 269-465-4663.