Yes, this program is an option for established Trading Assistants and eBay Consignment Drop Store owners. In fact it may be the very best option for your future. If you’ve been keeping up to date with the recent changes in eBay’s Trading Assistant Agreements ( REDOL requirements) you are already aware of the projected rocky road ahead for eBay consignment professionals.

The Internet Business Mentor program has been tailor made by an eBay consignment specialist for eBay consignment specialists who knows exactly what you have been doing to survive in this business. You’ve accomplished a great deal by keeping your business operating during these difficult times. The fact is clear that all of the skills and knowledge acquired as an eBay TA or drop store owner makes you a perfect candidate for this program.

Why eBay Trading Assistants and Drop Store Owners?

This program has been primarily designed to allow eBay trading assistants and drop store owners (and any Internet savvy person with an entrepreneurial spirit) to take advantage of all of the assets, knowledge, skill and experience earned in the hard years on the front line as an eBay consignment seller.

As the most experienced of online sellers we all should apply the knowledge and experience gained as eBay consignment experts towards reaching our initial goals and dreams when we decided to become eBay entrepreneurs. There is more to life than working as an eBay store consignment clerk and this program will help you realize the dreams you may have had when you made the move to eBay selling.

No one knows eBay like a consignment specialist and eBay is the most logical place for any business to start marketing online. It is not the only place however, so we will train you in methods which will show your small business clients the road to multi-channel marketing.

Every journey must start with a single step and since the first logical step for any business to enter the world of Internet marketing is eBay, and as a consignment specialist, you’ve already taken the largest step towards a better future. Your acquired skills will be an essential element to your clients understanding of eBay and your success as an Internet Business Mentor.

As you can tell from my eBay ID, allbusinessauctions, I have run my own Trading Assistant operation. I have been a Powerseller in several categories, a drop store owner, a trading assistant and I am currently a eBay certified education specialist, eBay Stores Certified designer and I speak about eBay consignment at conferences and seminars.

I had always thought there should be a way to put all of my hard-earned eBay knowledge to work for me and more importantly for eBay consignment sellers in a more advanced business method than to simply continue with the drop store consignment model. To that end, I have spent the last two years working on a system which is now working for me in Florida.

This system is totally different from anything developed by any franchise or independent eBay sales organization inside or outside of eBay. It has taken a lot of hard work for me to find the key pieces of the puzzle, but now that everything needed to make this program work for anyone has been market tested, I am nearly ready to launch the Internet Business Mentor program.

What are the details of this “Internet Business Mentor program”?

• The program I propose is simple, unique, and tailor made for this moment in time.
• You will learn how to make money with all of your experience but without having to list a single “consignment” item on eBay (unless you do so for your own purposes).
• You will become the local eBay expert and an eCommerce entrepreneur – (what you wanted to be in the first place?)
• You will not need to stock returned merchandise, Chinese knock off products or sell get-rich-quick schemes.
• Take advantage the resources and credibility (in fact, this is essential) gained while being a trading assistant and drop store owner in your community.
• No need to close your store or end your TA work (if you do not want to…).
• No competition – I can guarantee there is not any competition in your existing market – no other company is offering a similar marketing opportunity for TAs, and there is no other company capable of doing so at this time.

This new professional eBay sales strategy has been developed over the last two years for my own business. My quest began with a few simple questions…

What is the secret to profiting from eBay selling? Answer – Niche Marketing – I know you have heard this before.

We all know that selling a niche product line is the goal of most eBay Powersellers.

• How could I become a niche marketer as a Trading Assistant?
• How could I find a niche market to sell on eBay with a source of supply on a consistent basis and not be stuck with stock in inventory which for one reason or another had gone “cold” only to rot on my shelves.
• How could I put the advantages of being an eBay Trading Assistant (no inventory, no importing, no merchandising and minimal employees) together with niche marketing? I am sure most of you have asked these same questions…
• Who could I find with access to niche products?

The answer was and is right in front of all of our noses… The answer is so simple you will fall out of your chair, in fact you may have already guessed what the answer is, or you have thought about this source of products before…

This source of supply is no secret, yet no one has tapped into it. This source of untold revenue for experienced eBay sellers is available in every city and town in the world. This resource of niche marketing supply is so simple and so unique and so plentiful that I am astonished no one else has broadcast it to the world.

Maybe it is better that we keep this secret amongst ourselves as Internet Business Mentors… What do you think?

As a former official eBay Trading Assistant, Trading Post owner and master franchise representative for an eBay drop store franchise chain. I would like to weigh in on the subject of franchising and stand alone eBay drop stores or consignment locations.

My experience on both sides of the fence has revealed certain truths, and since I was at one time a proponent of the franchise model, I believe my views could be helpful to anyone considering the purchase of a new franchise eBay drop store. These views are my own opinion and do not reflect upon eBay any eBay franchise drop store chain in particular or upon eBay consignment as an addition to any other type of business. I am simply expressing my views regarding the stand alone drop store franchise model and why it has failed.

Read More: eBay Franchise Drop Stores – Why they failed

http://allbusinessauctions.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/ebay-franchise-drop-stores-why-they-failed/

The Answer is Yes!

In fact, the contacts you have in business right now are your best leads. This program is simply about talking with business owners and offering those business owners services and opportunities they may not currently have access to, at least not without your help!

Open up your contacts and use your network, that is all we ask. You will get out what you put in - just as in any business – but this can be a part time commitment. It could be much more lucrative with your full time attention, but we are not asking anyone to give up a paying job or successful business to become and Internet Business Mentor.

This is simply an additional stream of income opportunity. We will do all of the hard work for you and you will have the flexibility to move on to your next client after a deal has been made. You make the sale, we handle the technical servicing of the account.

I am in business to make money and I assume your goals are similar.  We are also in business (hopefully) because we like what we do. This is why we go into business for ourselves, so we can make money and make that money in a gratifying way.

The Internet Business Mentor idea may not be for everyone.

This is not a get rich quick scheme, a franchise with a step by step do-it-our-way or no way approach or a flash in the pan opportunity you pay out money for and forget.  In fact, you may not be interested in what we have to offer. If that is the case I will thank you for stopping by because appreciate your time and your interest in reading this website.  But before you leave, please keep in mind we are not asking any mentor for any money up front.

If the idea of offering good products and services to fellow business owners in your community is not an objectionable concept to you, I think you should stick around, read more and give this mentor thing a real good look.

We have not re-invented the wheel here, no part of our mentor tools, solutions or products are ground breaking or earth shattering concepts.   Business consulting & coaching is not a new tactic to earn a living.  What is new here is we did most of the hard work for you. We have assembled all of the tools and solutions you will need to bring success online to your clients and therefore yourself.  If you choose to be a mentor, all you will need to do is talk with local business people and show them ways to bring their products to market using methods they are aware of but have never tried because they did not have anyone they could trust to help them make the right decisions. You will then help them make the right decisions about which products and services they will need, and help them to craft a reasonable and measured plan to bring their products online.  

As a consultant you must believe in the products and services you recommend and we believe you should not recommend anything you do not believe in.  If you have never tried or experienced what our products/services/solutions can do for a business, we recommend you try them yourself (at a discounted price level) before your recommend them.  But as an experienced eBay seller or online merchant you already have experience with the products/services/solutions we provide in your mentor toolbox, then there is no need to purchase another version, copy, solution.  We will be happy to set any mentor up the tools and solutions you need to demonstrate, and prove to your mentoring clients that you are giving them sound Internet Business advise. Remember -There is no set requirement or minimum purchase for a mentor to join our program.

If that is “selling you something” we are guilty as charged – We prefer to call it something else…

Helping you to succeed as a Internet Business Mentor

Say, for instance, you could use your current business and reputation and considerable skills, both in eBay sales and marketing… And put them all in a package which will allow you the ability to spend your time in a more efficient manner.

Say, for instance, you could sign up the local Ford dealer the local electronics distributor and the local Harley Davidson shop… among many others, and help them to get an eBay operation going under their own name, their own account.

You set these “clients” up with an eBay stores graphics package very similar to this or this and a software package which handles inventory, is web based, user controlled, and yet allows you as the Internet Business Mentor, the ability to monitor all listings from all of your “clients” from a single console.

Do you think you could sell the local business people in your area the advantages of joining the e-commerce world and eBay with your help and guidance and training for their employees to do all or most of the work you are doing now?

• Do you think you could “sell” them on a program where you do not need to ask for a piece of the pie (i.e. your not asking for a commission on each sale generated)…
• Do you think you could convince business owners in your area that eBay is the most powerful lead generation and seo optimized advertising opportunity available for their business?
• Do you think it would be a better, more efficient, and profitable use of your time to sell one local business owner a week, rather than list 30 items per day in your own store?
• Would it be great if you could continue with your own store, while starting a new and exciting program like this?
• Do you think your “client businesses” would be more inclined to buy an entire web marketing package from you, rather than some local web designer who has no idea about online marketing, or eBay?
• Would you be interested in developing a steady subscription based and/or retainer based monthly income from your clients? A set cost to them which would be music to their accountants ears? A set cost you determine and can negotiate for yourself, knowing your costs from the supplier…
• Do you think your clients would purchase add on services from you such as web hosting, PPC campaign development, product photography services etc?
• Are you aware of any other company or designer in your area which could offer your clients so much in one package yet allow them to choose each service they need on a ala cart basis?

This letter looks good even to me… maybe I should put it on the IBM website… LOL

Let me know your thoughts, thanks…

It is what you do with that traffic that counts.

What do you do with the traffic eBay sends your way?  What could be done with that traffic to improve any business?

What advanced methods available are you using to direct eBay traffic to your own purpose?  Would any business owner in your community be interested in learning about these methods?

I have read many of the recent threads in the eBay discussion groups and it occurs to me a lot of honest hard working people in the eBay consignment business are looking for a better and more profitable method beyond simple eBay sales to provide a return on the honest sweat equity investment in an increasingly more difficult business model.

Many of the proposed plans and options offered in the forums and on other web pages are less than an ideal solution for eBay drop store owners. The gamut runs from drop ship opportunities or wholesale importing and warehousing of second run or no name merchandise… to investment “opportunities” in returned and seconds electronics merchandise which in the end may cost you time and exposure to the high risks of returns. 

Suggestions of “patent pending”  co-op arrangements or systems between drop store owners have been suggested.  Some posters in the discussion groups claim software is the key to increased sales. Photo editing tricks have even been suggested as a route to success. All the photoshop tricks and shortcuts in the world do not make a business plan (Unless you happen to own Adobe).

Networks of consignment stores, selling unions, and co-ops all sound like workable solutions, (until you dig into the nuts and bolts and try to understand what it will do for you). Every consignment store operator has developed their own system of processing product, taking photographs, writing descriptions, and shipping sold items. It will be difficult to find other members of your network or co-op who will do things just as you think it should be done… and visa versa… So how will a co-op really work? Advertising share plan?

In the end, you became an independent business owner because you do not want anyone telling you how to run your business.  Not a franchise, not eBay and not the drop store owner down the street. 

The question is still out there, what can we all do to take all of this eBay knowledge we have each earned in years behind the consignment counter and put it to use for our own advantage? 

How can we make all of our experience and knowledge pay for our own future, instead of eBay’s?

What if a business plan was available which offers the eBay consignment specialist an opportunity to step back from consignment operations… Using eBay as a tool rather than a task master, using eBay as a starting point rather than as the entire package. Offering the vast advantages of Internet marketing to other business owners in your community who do not have the background, knowledge, skills or access to internet based selling solutions you control and can offer…

Would you be interested? 

Interested in using eBay, and eCommerce solutions as your tools of the trade.

How? 

Use the contact form below to set up a personal interview… 

• Do you have previous experience selling products on the Internet via online auctions or through your own website?
• Have you ever worked at or owned an eBay Trading Assistant Business or eBay Drop Store?
• Are you familiar with fellow members of your community, local business people and entrepreneurs who would like to know what you know about the internet or eBay or both?
• Have you ever thought about how much easier it would be if someone had shown you how to sell online?
• Do you think you could explain why online marketing is important for any business?
• Do your friends ask you about web 2.0, blogs, ebay selling, or the difference between a server and an isp?

If any of these situations sound familiar… if you are a former eBay seller or current eBay trading assistant looking for additional income or a new career we think you could be an Internet Business Mentor.

What is an Internet Business Mentor?

Business Coaching and Consulting have been highly paid lucrative careers for decades. Business owners, corporations, entrepreneurs all know the value of learning from a professional with experience and knowledge they do not have. We have applied this basic truth about mentoring, consulting and coaching to the world of Internet commerce.

Why eBay Trading Assistants and Drop Store Owners?

This program has been primarily designed to allow eBay trading assistants and drop store owners (and any internet savvy person with an entrepreneurial spirit) to take advantage of all of the assets, knowledge, skill and experience earned in the hard years on the front line as an eBay consignment seller.

As the most experienced of online sellers we all should apply the knowledge and experience gained as eBay consignment experts towards reaching our initial goals and dreams when we decided to become eBay entrepaneurs. There is more to life than working as an eBay store consignment clerk and this program will help you realize the dreams you may have had when you made the move to eBay selling.

As you can tell from my eBay ID allbusinessauctions, I have run my own Trading Assistant operation. I have been a Powerseller in several categories, a drop store owner, a trading assistant and I am currently a eBay certified education specialist, eBay Stores Certified designer and I speak about eBay consignment at conferences and seminars.

I had always thought there should be a way to put all of my hard earned eBay knowledge to work for me and more importantly for eBay consignment sellers in a more advanced business method than to simply continue with the drop store consignment model. To that end, I have spent the last two years working on a system which is now working for me in Florida.

This system is totally different from anything developed by any franchise or independent eBay sales organization inside or outside of eBay. It has taken a lot of hard work for me to find the key pieces of the puzzle, but now that everything needed to make this program work for anyone has been market tested, I am nearly ready to launch the Internet Business Mentor program.

What are the details of this “Internet Business Mentor program”?

I will share many details with you when you contact me here, but for now here are some of the highlights.

• The program I propose is simple, unique, and tailor made for this moment in time.
• You will learn how to make money with all of your experience but without having to list a single “consignment” item on eBay (unless you do so for your own purposes).
• You will become the local eBay expert and an eCommerce entrepreneur – (what you wanted to be in the first place?)
• You will not need to stock returned merchandise, Chinese knock off products or sell get rich quick schemes.
• Take advantage the resources and credibility (in fact this is essential) gained while being a trading assistant and drop store owner in your community.
• No need to close your store or end your TA work. ( if you do not want to…)
• No competition – I can guarantee there is not any competition in your existing market – no other company is offering a similar marketing opportunity for TA’s, and there is no other company capable of doing so at this time.

I have developed this new professional eBay sales strategy over the last two years for my own business. My quest began with a few simple questions…

What is the secret to profiting from eBay selling? Answer – Niche Marketing – I know you have heard this before.

We all know, selling a niche product line is the goal of most eBay Powersellers.

• How could I become a niche marketer as a Trading Assistant?
• How could I find a niche market to sell on eBay with a source of supply on a consistent basis and not be stuck with stock in inventory which for one reason or another had gone “cold” only to rot on my shelves.
• How could I put the advantages of being an eBay Trading Assistant (no inventory, no importing, no merchandising, and minimal employees) together with niche marketing? I am sure most of you have asked these same questions…
• Who could I find with access to niche products?

The answer was and is right in front of all of our noses… The answer is so simple you will fall out of your chair, in fact you may have already guessed what the answer is, or you have thought about this source of products before…

This source of supply is no secret, yet no one has tapped into it. This source of untold revenue for experienced eBay sellers is available in every city and town in the world. This resource of niche marketing supply is so simple and so unique and so plentiful that I am astonished no one else has broadcast it to the world.

Once you join our team or when you contact me for details, I will be happy to share it with you.

This is the first of many articles which will explain this exciting new opportunity… This website is currently under development so please check back later if you have just found this site. We will be sure to update the program as fast as possible…

Looking forward to sharing more with you soon!