The Friday Review March 27th

Go, Go, GO! is the best way to summarize this week. I was reminded at how the Internet really makes it a ‘small world’ – my business meetings and interviews were truly international. I spoke to Jamie in the UK and David in Scotland and Sharon in Florida (OK that’s not international to everyone – LOL, but it is a looooong way away from WA State)- it’s amazing how Skype and Go to Meeting software make things like that so ordinary.

This weeks roundup:

Classes, classes!

Tuesday Dany Byrne, Product Development Specialist at the websellerscircle, Janelle Elms visionaire from OSIrockstars.com, and I gave our first in the “moving outside of eBay” classes. It was an amazing class on the power of building a business plan, the perfect place to open the series.

I also had the pleasure of interviewing Sharon Ware, eBay Certified Store Designer and Business consultant from Dandelion Consulting. She showed us around eBay stores and gave us some valuable tips on how to maximize your eBay store branding. The video will be up in the membership area soon. (Remember access is still free – so join and watch as soon as you can).

I also had a chance to interview the wonderful Jamie Parkins from Vzaar.com. He showed us around – including how simple it is to add a video to eBay, blog and other websites. The vzaar video service will give your auctions, websitess and blog posts a professional look. Another great benefit to the Vzaar player; no links to direct viewers off your page at the end of the video, like YouTube does. Again, the interview will be up in the membership area soon. I highly recommend you check it out – video is the next big thing on the net and as a seller you don’t want to be left behind.

I’ve been playing phone tag with Phaedra Stockstill Owner/http://www.bonanzle.com/attheboutique and Ecommerce Educator and co-host of http://brainstormingbonanzle.com - she’s a Bonanzle expert – we finally had a chance to talk. What a wonderful conversation we had. I’m pretty excited about the BonanzleUps - they sound like a blast. I hope you can make it to one. She also agreed to show us more about using Bonanzle, including the batch editor sometime in April.

Dany and I talked to David at membergate.com and got the low down on hosting videos and setting up the membership area. I’m getting pretty excited. We’ll be running the latest version of the membergate software that has advanced Web 2.0 functions. The forums will be very easy to navigate, member bios will function much the way they do on facebook and the member area is going to be simple and clean for easy navigation. Plus, we’ll finally have an easy way to have affiliates, something I’ve had many requests for but its been hard to accommodate.

That’s most of what I managed to do along with packing and shipping (sales seem to be picking up again), blogging, consulting with a favorite client and preparing taxes.