posted on June 15, 2006 07:15:09 PM new
it's here - http://vintage-postcards.blogspot.com/ - sometimes we discuss postcards and...sometimes not! i can't figure out how to get a subscribe box up at the top right. if anyone knows how, i'd love to know.
posted on June 15, 2006 07:57:40 PM new
Good for you! I have started two of them and never have found the time to go back before I forgot the password! LOL
How do you find time to sell AND blog??
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posted on June 15, 2006 08:07:39 PM new
hi Neglus,
well, writing comes easy to me i guess, am a published author and photo-journalist in a previous lifetime. selling is another story - i lost my mojo after the SIS debacle and have never gotten back up to my previous listing level. in part, that's because i'm sidetracked putting shopping cart technology on my web site this summer, in part because i'm doing an oral history project for someone this summer and in part it's from laziness, lol. i really need to put some new stuff up - i've actually had pretty good sales for the last couple of weeks but my stuff is getting pretty picked over right about now.
i now what you mean about too much to do - it's 10:30 p.m. here. i got my keywords in my blog/figured out where they went, never figured out the subscribe box code, have about 50 cards sitting here to scan for the history project, plus over 100 for our own collection that i haven't gone through plus 4 stacks of ebay cards to list. AND i was going to a postcard show this weekend, until i decided enough was enough and i was staying put and trying to catch up. i would really like to spend more time outdoors this summer than i am, so something in the above is likely to get axed.
and this is with hubby doing the bookkeeping and packing. i would never even get out of this room if he didn't do that!
posted on June 15, 2006 10:18:55 PM new
I started a blog too for my online business. I think it makes a lot of sense. I've found a key component to being sucessful is building a relationship with buyers and turning them into repeat buyers. Blogging is a great way to make your business more personal. I get a lot of comments from my customers that they appreciate actually buying from a person, and not just a commercial entity.
posted on June 16, 2006 08:58:55 AM new
Be very careful that you are 100% familiar with the rules for posting to an Ebay blog. Auctionbytes had an article a couple weeks ago, indicating that these blogs would be closely watched by Ebay for compliance with their rules. Among other things, don't even think about trying to promote your web site, or any non Ebay venue in one of these blogs. Your Ebay listings and store items are about the only thing that will be permitted.
If Murphy's law is correct, everything East of the San Andreas Fault will slide into the Atlantic
posted on June 16, 2006 10:38:48 AM new
hi sparkz,
mine isn't an eBay blog.
i signed up for an eBay blog in case i want it but doubt if i do. i feel like eBay blogs and eBay wiki are just half-witted attempts to capitalize on internet trends (blogs and wikipedia) without doing it in the spirit of things (uncensored and factual). it doesn't sit well with me that eBay and their greed wants to try to turn great ideas - blogs and wikipedia - into something they can profit from. i just don't have the stomach to use eBay's versions - and my blog is a bit politically incorrect at times as well.
but i wish anyone else well who wants to have an eBay blog.
