Showing posts with label Squidoo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Squidoo. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Selling - - on Ebay, Amazon, and Etsy, and a podcast list.



So far, Amazon has been my biggest selling site.









But Ebay and Etsy might catch up, once I have listed enough things on those sites.

I hope to start with Playing Cards soon, but want to re-join a fun Card Group first.

Right now, I sell mostly books. And book sets. Some I have read, but some not. I have some art on Etsy too, and hope to get back into that soon again too.

It was fun writing on Squidoo. But the owners decided to close it up years ago. I just now got rid of my Squidoo website. I was not posting on it, so it really didn't matter. I don't see the site coming back anytime soon.

Seth Godin was one of the owners, I think. He has gone on to write more books. I'll bet the site was making money, but I'm just guessing. For those who were not there, this was a fun article-writing site that shared revenue with writers. It had a great Member Area where you could learn more about it too. Some of my fellow writers and sellers there are now on Facebook OR are selling on their own websites now.

I have subscribed to several podcasts about selling, that have some great ideas they share. One recent idea was to try out new products from other people's stores, and see how they sell. A somewhat obvious piece of advice was to research what is selling well on other sites. This can be done online and you don't need to have much expertise to do it. Much info. is online about this. (Market Research).

See also what is NOT at Amazon yet, and get your foot in with a product, and see what happens. I have heard somewhere that Amazon will eventually try to get into your same market, so you need to keep looking and seeing your opportunities.

(So, it seems worth a try.) More on that later.

The usual Ebay advice I have seen is to get rid of things at your house first, then decide what to buy and sell at a profit. There is still opportunity out there, because the big companies do not have a monopoly on everything - yet!

I thought MAYBE that having my own selling website would be an option. But I think unless I am selling a LOT at once, it probably would not be a good idea right now.

Also, listing, listing, listing is a good idea until you get maybe at least 100 items on each site. THEN you can decide if things are working for you. Because until then, your items will probably not get much attention.

Another new item - good vs. bad. GOOD: Corel has made a MAC version of Corel Draw and more. BAD: It costs $500. Darn.

Here are a few podcasts I am listening to for online selling advice:
The Amazing Seller
Selling on Ebay
Selling Online Today
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Building Billion Dollar Companies
Reezy Sells Podcast
The Unstoppable Entrepreneur Show
There are many more - - also Writing ones.  

Join me on Twitter at @scholarsgrants, @betsyanne or @nontrads
Onward and Upward!

And be sure to visit my other blogs and sites:

My selling site: The Best Books and Collectibles

The Nontraditional Student website and The Nontraditional Student blog


Saturday, July 03, 2010

RocketMoms on Squidoo

RocketMoms - what a neat group!

Well, I'm in for Session 8. Of RocketMoms. RocketMoms is an invitation-only group of Moms on Squidoo that help each other make Squidoo lenses. For me, Rocket Moms helps by giving me an assignment AND a deadline.

Here is one of their logos:












Before I got an invitation to join RocketMoms, I joined Squidoo and made some easy-to-make lenses. Squidoo makes it easy to make lenses (like web pages) because they have ready-made modules you can use.

You can join Squidoo with my link. It is here: Join Squidoo. I believe I made more than 5 lenses before I got my invitation.

How to request an invitation to RocketMoms: (from Bonnie) If you are wanting to join a free session, you can do so by going here to this page. Then click on the link at the top right that says "Join a Free RocketMoms Session".

This session, RocketMoms is making a cookbook. It will be added to during the whole session. Here is that link:
http://www.squidoo.com/the-2010-rocketmoms-cookbook. I found out today my Vanilla Ice Cream lens was added. I am so happy about that.

Here are some other RocketMoms sites you can check out:
The RocketMoms main site - the Ning Group
RocketMoms on Facebook (Session 8)
The RocketMoms blog
RocketMoms on Twitter
RocketMoms Squidoo Page 

And come visit me on Squidoo. I have a lens that can help new Squidoo Lensmasters called Free Squidoo Secrets: My Beginner's Guide to Squidoo and a lens that shows many of my lenses I have already made. It is here: 
http://www.squidoo.com/betsyanne

Wish me luck! And I wish YOU luck too. And I hope to see you on Squidoo soon!

-Betsyanne (Lizziebeth on Squidoo!)

My Squidoo pages
Join Squidoo with my link!

My Personal Page and blog
The Nontrads site and blog

Join me on Twitter as @betsyanne or @nontrads
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009

I'm Squidoo-ing my Squidoo page!

SQUIDOO-ING MY SQUIDOO PAGE!

I made a new Squidoo page today. Now I have to figure out how to make my photos smaller. Anyone out there know how to do this? I might have to go to the Squidoo site and ask that.

Here is the new address for my Squidoo page:
http://www.squidoo.com/lizziebeth

I actually had fun doing this page, so I will go back and do some more, I think.

If you have not made at least one Squidoo page, I invite you to do that using my intro link:
Join Squidoo