RRB Radio Makes eBayInkBlog’s Favorite Podcasts List

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Melinda

Late in January I get an update of an eBayInkBlog post, and a tweet from RBH, Richard Brewer-Hay to check it out. So I click through and was surprised to find my podcast mentioned on eBayInkBlog’s Favorite Podcasts! The River the Ranch and the Bay (aka RRB Radio) makes the list!

I cannot tell you how honored I am to be mentioned among only four other podcasts, number one being eBay Radio, with Jim Griffith (Griff) and Lee Mirabal! Wooohoooooo! Also on this list is John Lawson, of ColderICE, a ecommerce podcaster/blogger, and of course, Dave White, Host of eBay and Beyond, Basics to Business, with whom I co-host w/Kat Simpson on Monday’s 12 noon Central time.

RBH has joined our podcast on more than a few occasions and is a favorite guest. Richard also frequents our live chat room on TalkShoe of both eBay & Beyond and RRB Radio! He adds insights, asks questions, and contributes when he can join us.

On April 2, 2010 eBayInkBlog celebrated its second birthday and I’d like to personally thank RBH for a great blog, complete with his insights, honesty, and integrity. eBay Ink brought eBay into the 21st century with the latest news and happenings at eBay, his “5 minutes with,…” video segments, and behind the scenes interviews. He has set the standard for corporate social media savvy, and has become quite the corporate blogger rock star! You can always find Richard blogging or tweeting about what’s going on at eBay at eBayInkBlog.com. Thank you again for your mention of RRB Radio on eBay Ink! I hope to see you in our chat room again real soon. You are welcome to join us any time.

ebayinkblog favorite podcasts blog post screen shot RRB Radio

RBH blogs about his favorite ecommerce podcasts

I began this blog post but failed to publish it awhile back,… it’s never to late to post gratitude! Thanks again, Richard, you ROCK!

If you have not visited eBay Ink, be sure to stop by and check it out, post a comment, and sign up for email alerts at eBayInkBlog.com.

You can follow RBH on Twitter @eBayInkBlog & RRB Radio on Twitter @RRBradio.

Join RRB Radio live every Wednesday night 8 pm ET at RRBradio.com or on TalkShoe call ID 34406. You can enjoy our archives of every episode 24/7.

Jen Cano of Hammertap on RRB Radio Weds 12-16-09 8 pm ET

Posted on December 15, 2009 by Melinda

Jen Cano of Hammertap joined The River the Ranch and the Bay (RRB Radio) with “What’s Hot on eBay” and updates on where Zhu Zhu pet sales are now! This was a great show! Jen gave us an update on the famous, or should I say infamous, Zhu Zhu Pets, the adorable toy hamsters elusive to buyers in local stores as eBayers raked shelves and sold them on eBay. These darling creatures even made it on eBayInkBlog.com, as posted 12-09-09, It’s a Hamster Holiday, complete with a heat map, a visual indicator of all U.S.-based transactions that occurred on eBay from November 1 to November 30, 2009. After a few hamster giggles, Jen gives RRB Radio listeners research information on bibles that is money in the bank! Jen’s tips include, what bibles are selling for the most money, what features to look for, what is the average sell through rate (STR) for bibles on eBay, and so much more. Finally she gives tips for selling depression glass and salt and pepper shakers, and what color glass sells the best. We have had the honor of having Jen Cano on RRB Radio several times in recent months, be sure to check out the archives of 11-11-09 and 11-18-09 for more research tips, and how important research is to selling items on eBay! Click here to listen to this entire show of 12-16-09, get some giggles and a lot of great info!

EJ Bantz & Dan on IMPORTING from CHINA as product sourcing!

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Melinda

EJ Bantz is a full-time eBay seller and carries many products he imports from China. His success is great and only eclipsed by his willingness to share with others and desire to see others succeed as well. The best place to find EJ is on his new PORTAL site EJBantz.com or his facebook page where I find him often, LOL

I have truly enjoyed getting to know EJ through the eBay Radio Super-Secret-Chat-Board and it was wonderful to meet in person at the eBay Radio Vegas Convention! Was a lot of fun. EJ is so willing to share – and we just didn’t have enough time to thoroughly pick his brain in Vegas so we plan to do that tonight!

Dan is the owner of Quality Shipping Supplies (formerly LabelDog shipping supplies) – where I’ve been purchasing most of my shipping labels for a while now.

One of Dan’s new partners is Jeff Plitt of Plitt International, and he has written a book on our subject.

Jeff ‘s company specializes in providing expertise to people and companies, large and small, that want to take advantage of the opportunities in China.

After many years of experience working with the Chinese, Jeff decided to write a book, Sourcing From China, a Guide for Small to Medium Businesses, detailing the process from beginning to end.

Jeff talks about everything from deciding if China is right for you, to finding factories, to negotiating prices, to sampling, to placing orders, to getting the product through customs, to finally getting it to your warehouse. Skid quantities, container quantities, shipload quantities, Jeff walks you through the process. You can purchase the book on Dan’s site Quality Shipping Supplies,

So the plan for tonight is to open up the floor and let YOU ask the experts. Have you ever considered importing? or thought about it? here is your chance to ask your questions!

Sourcing Products at Garage Sales, Thrift Stores, Yard Sales, Auctions

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Melinda

Our First Guest tonight is a repeat offender, I mean guest, LOL. We had so much fun with Julia Wilkinson that we asked her to come back for this episode to share her top tips for Garage Sale Product sourcing. Click on the house to visit Julia’s site Yardsalers.net where you can purchase a copy of her newest book, “Big Bucks Flips”. If you love the book – Julia has arranged for you the opportunity to become an affiliate and make a commission for recommending it.

Tonight we plan to pick Julia’s brain for her top tips to Source Products at local Garage sales for YOUR eCommerce business.

Our SURPRISE tonight is a regular Contributing Editor, PHAEDRA, our Bonanzle Brainstormer. Phaedra has a TWITTER contest for a FREE Seminar with her – be there and have your twiter fingers limbered up!

Tonight we have TWO special guests.

Guest #2 is Lynn Dralle – AKA The Queen Of Auctions. Click on her photo to visit her website where you can see her latest book, pick up a copy of a FREE eBook about “100 Best Things I’ve Sold on Ebay” from Lynn. You can also join her membership club, The Queen’s Court from there.

Tonight we will be picking Lynn’s brain about HOW to source product for your eCommerce business at Garage Sales around town!

Tonight is EPN Squidoo news & THE Janelle Elms of OSI Rock Stars!

Posted on August 5, 2009 by Melinda

Tonight’s guest is Janelle Elms, Founder and Visionary leader of OSI RockStars.com. Just click on her picture to visit the site, sign up for her wonderful newsletter – the last one was reminding us to get our Halloween items up and marketed for the Holiday and included LOTS of great ideas about how ‘ordinary’ stock items could be marketed for Halloween! In addition, just for signing up, you’ll get her 1% stores mini-course via email. Janelle is truly a visionary in so many ways. I’d love to talk to her about the beginning of her career – her top ten lists (I.E. Things I did right, Things I did wrong), etc. There are SO many things I wan to ask, LOL

But for tonight we are going to focus on you and getting your business set up and ready for the upcoming season. Janelle is going to explain what a ‘marketing calendar’ is tonight and how to use those concepts even if you aren’t running a Wholesale Product business to make sure YOU are ready for the buseiset season of the retail sales year!

In other Big news Tonight! eBay has changed some rules for EPN (eBay Partner Network) and it affects how and IF you can use your EPN affiliate account to make some extra $$ on Squidoo. Our very own Giant Squid, SUSAN52, will be counseling us tonight about how this affects all the RRB squids – and everyone else also. Remember, we have our own Squidoo group you are welcome to join to help promote your lenses. Call in or chat and ask Susan about that!

Bring a friend tonight to Talkshoe’s eComemrce version of The View and climb up on stage with us all . . . . . the ladies will be rocking’ tonight! Might even hand over the mike for a minute or two to any man brave enough to chime in . . . umm . . . John, Dave, Wally, Barry . . . up to the challenge?

Richard Brewer-Hay & Outright Accounting

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Melinda

The one, the only, Richard Brewer-hay of the EBAYINKBLOG will be live tonight to answer YOUR questions about eBay. Tonight’s show starts only EIGHT minutes after Town Hall so come on down and get started! We have reserved THIRTY minutes just for you to CALL IN and talk one-on-one with the eBay guru or to type your questions into the unmoderated chatroom!

To Join us – go to RRB RADIO and get ready. You can listen through your computer by clicking on the link and then clicking on the ‘join in’ button, or you can call in and listen through your phone by calling 724-444-7444 and entering Call ID 34406. If asked for a PIN number – simply enter 1.

If you have a question for RBH, please sign up for a talkshoe account before the show at TALKSHOE. Because of some recent podcrashers we’ve had to block Guest accounts from participating in the chat or speaking. You are welcome to listen as a guest, but we will be taking questions from registered users!

MORE EXCITING News and a Special offer for LISTENERS only!

Outright Software – which offers FREE online accounting programs, is giving away some very special presents that start with a B – but to win – you must be listening tonight AND you must have a twitter account – so be ready, Freddy!

David Montague, Julie Wilkinson, Kristen Rice

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Melinda

Have we got a line-up for you in tomorrow’s show! First we’ll have Julia Wilkinson, author of the award-winning “eBay Price Guide.” and “What Sells on eBay for What”. Julia is also a serial blogger, LOL and has several blogs. Her Amazon author blog can be found by bringing up either of her books on the amazon site, but for good measure, it’s at: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593270550. (Scroll down to amazonConnect”).

She also has a TypePad Blog, “Bidbits” which can be found at this link : bidbits

Julia also runs the site Yardsalers.net where you can subscribe to her newsletter. Julia will have a FREE giveaway for one lucky listener so please Check it out!

Next up we will have David Montague, President & Executive Consultant www.ecsop.com & www.fraudpractice.com. David is the author of, “Fraud Prevention Techniques for Credit Card Fraud”. David will be talking to us about the new IRS reporting requirements that will affect us all soon.

And then we have a wonderful Return guest that we all enjoyed so much last time. Remember Kristen Rice, Founder & CEO – Seller Sourcebook. Kristen is coming to share about product sourcing in remarkable places in YOUR OWN TOWN.

So please tune in and we promise to make it an hour of education, conversation and FUN!

Michael Miller “Selling Online 2.0″

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Melinda

Author Michale Miller’s New book, “Selling Online 2.0 – Migrating from eBay to Amazon, Craigslist and your own eCommerce Website”, could be the THEME of this show, LOL.

So when I stumbled across a little news item about this amazing book, I immediately contacted the author to see if we could arrange an interview for our listeners. He agreed and will be on The River the Ranch and the Bay Podcast tonight at 8:08 PM (EST). So click the link and come listen!

While Michael is on the show, one lucky listener will win a free, autographed copy of his book. Click on the book photo to visit a page with a complete description and table of contents from the book, as well as information about the 90+ OTHER books Michael has authored.

Read more below about this man and his amazing career. He is an accomplished author, musician and model builder, with over 90 NON-Fiction books to his credit, along with many more he has contributed to. Michael is a drummer also!

Michael Miller received a Marketing degree from Indiana University in 1980. After graduation, he worked for seven years in his family’s retail business, then spent twelve years in various positions at Macmillan Publishing. In his last position as Vice President of Business Strategy, he helped guide the strategic direction for the world’s largest reference publisher and influence the shape of today’s computer book publishing market. Mr. Miller formed The Molehill Group in January 1999, and is now a full-time writer.

What’s Your END Plan?

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Melinda

This post was just forwarded to me by a friend:

The Future of the The Auction Rebel Website
Posted: 05 Jul 2009 09:50 PM PDT
Hello all, this is Gary’s son Mike. I have been trying figure out everything dad had going on online and it seems as though there were a few projects in the works but this was his baby that he tended to every day.
For the short term, 1 or 2 months, this site and the garage sale challenge site will remain up and running. Please feel free to use the forums and continue with your own garage sale challenge.
The long term has yet to be decided, I know that I am no auction rebel and am sure that all of you would fit that title more then me. Therefore I would like your feedback, thoughts, ideas about what the fate of theaucitonrebel.com should be. Is the site useful as is or does the information get outdated like dad’s computer that I’m typing this on? No idea is a bad idea, well except if you suggest I take it over, we will all go broke then since I don’t have dad’s eye for buying the 25 cent item at a garage sale that will sell for hundreds or more online.
I look forward to hearing your ideas and thoughts.
Thanks,
Mike Hendrickson
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Many of us were saddened last week when we heard of the passing of ‘The Auction Rebel’ from our midst. This stark reminder of our own mortality happens more and more frequently, it seems, as we age. It started me thinking, again, about the ‘end plan’ I have for my business. A wonderful Mentor, Janelle Elms, first brought this concept to my thoughts and I’ve returned to it again & again. Right now the practical matters are foremost in my mind. I guess I don’t want to leave these type of decisions to my family to decide while they are dealing with other pressing matters. . . . . although from the above I can only say that Gary’s son seems to be right on top of everything and handling it wonderfully. What are your thoughts? What are your plans? NONE of us are guaranteed tomorrow.

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