Where do I get cheap shipping boxes to ship my eBay items?

That’s a question I get a lot of when teaching my eBay classes, and one of my favorites to answer, because you can actually get them for FREE.

You can get United States Postal Service Priority Mail shipping boxes at no cost, and the USPS will deliver them to your front door for free too.  That’s right, absolutely no cost to you, plus if you get them via the eBay website, they will come eBay branded.  That means that they say, “Get it on eBay” right on the box… cool right?

Another way to get an array of supplies for free is through the United States Postal Service website.  Through their website, once you sign up, you can get boxes, envelopes, priority shipping stickers, forms and much more for free.  They also have some items that you pay for that you can have delivered to your front door.  Just remember that is you do get your shipping / packing supplies through the USPS website, they are not eBay branded.

I made this short video to walk you through the whole process.  Please comment after watching it with thoughts or questions and I will help you out as much as I can.  Hope this is helpful… Enjoy!

All the best,

Ed

Hi again everyone! The first step to selling on eBay, whether you want to sell as a hobby, or you want to start your own eBay business like I have, is to register for an eBay sellers account. As an Education Specialist trained by eBay, I teach a four hour class called The Basics of Selling on eBay, and I have found that what stops a lot of people from ever selling on eBay is that they never take the first step. In this video I will hold your hand, and guide you through that first step, to get you over the obstacle that most people fail to conquer.

If this is your first time to my site, or if you haven’t done so, please sign up for my FREE eBay Training Alerts in the right hand column of this website. I will be posting more videos in coming weeks with lots of tips and tricks to help you make money on eBay, and to make you a successful eBay seller.

Please let me know if you have any questions about this video, or about selling on eBay in general, by commenting at the bottom of this post. Thanks for reading and watching, and I’m very excited to be helping you take that first step.

All the best,

Ed

Hi everyone! As you know, my name is Ed “Edward” Rubi. You may also know that I’m an internet marketer; however, unless you know me personally you probably have no idea that I am also an eBay Education Specialist trained by eBay. This means that I teach people how to sell in a live classroom setting. The classes that I teach are, “The Basics of Selling on eBay”, “Beyond the Basics”, and “eBay Stores”.

What does all this mean to you? Well, because you are a subscriber of mine I’m going to be teaching you, FOR FREE, what I teach my students in the live class. Normally, I charge $100 per person for each class I teach, or $50 dollars an hour for private lessons.

Why am I doing this? I’m doing this because I know that it’s tough times out there for a lot of people, and I just want to help you out. Ebay estimates that most people have about $2,000 worth of stuff that they can sell on eBay right now just sitting around that they will never use… think garages, closets, or where ever you store stuff.

That being said, today’s lesson is going to be how to do eBay market research, and it’s free! This free eBay research, otherwise known as a completed listings search, will show you how to find out how much those unwanted items will sell for.

In addition to the free eBay research tools, I will show you some additional options for researching your items. They are Terapeak.com, and PriceMiner.com.

Please comment below to let me know what you thought, and if you have any questions about selling, or even buying on eBay please contact me at support@edwardrubi.com.

One last thing, click this button below the video to show the video in full screen mode.

All the best,

Ed

Are you the next American Idol… of internet marketing?  Are you even an internet marketing American Idol contestant?  You may, or may not be… at this point in time.  If you are, then congratulations, that’s awesome!  If not, then what are you doing to get there?

I am a Little League baseball coach, and when I look into the eyes of the young men that I coach I see potential.  I see a clean slate that can be filled with… filled with what?  You decide.  You can be the next American Idol of just about anything that you put your mind to.  For instance, if I wanted to be the next Little League coaching American Idol I know that I would have to eat, sleep and breath Little League baseball coaching.  It’s the same with anything else you do, you have to take action and have laser beam focus.

Being an internet marketing superstar, you may think, is too hard to do, but think about this for a second.  I tell the players on my team that they have it so easy compared to when I was a kid.  If I had to research something for school, I would have to ask my mom to take me to the library, go into the library and ask the librarian for help. We would then walk over to the files where the Dewey Decimal System was located, and he or she would provide me with a list of books and the location of those books within the library.  I would then have to find those 15 books and sift through them to find just the right information for my essay.

Uh… wow!  That’s a lot of work isn’t it.  Now what does a person do if they want to do research for something?  That’s right, the Google it.

Things have gotten a lot easier for students and for us.  “Us” being the masses of people that have a goal.  Whatever your goal is, all you have to do is Google it, and there’s a 99% chance that someone out there wrote about it, or even made a tutorial video about it. My goals is to be a successful Internet marketer.  Yours may be something else, and perhaps you stumbled upon this post completely by accident.  If this was the case I hope that I have inspired you to follow your dreams and strive for your goals.  It so much easier today, because of the internet, to be successful.  You can start as an American Idol contestant and strive to American Idol stardom, in whatever field you wish.

Like Nike says, “Just Do It”.  Action + focus = progress.

The nice thing about the internet is that instead of just being an American Idol, you will actually be a World Idol, if you really want to.  You can do it.

If you are new to internet marketing, then please visit this blog often.  I want to help you, and I’ll be giving you invaluable information to help you build an internet marketing business.  Together we can achieve!

Oh, one last thought. Most of the contestants on American Idol get better each week, when pre-American Idol, most never strived. Now; however, they see what they can become, and they are taking action and are also very focused. What changed? I believe that they have the vision of seeing themselves as the next American Idol. Get your vision first, then work backwards. You can do anything!

To your success,

Ed Rubi

I’ve been away FAR too long, in an actual LIVING NIGHTMARE, but YES now I’m BACK!  (Brace yourself for where I’ve been, why I went, and my ANGER over the whole thing!)

Have you ever been, or are you currently, at a job that you just can’t stomach?  Yeah, I was recently there too.

Back in October I got a call from a neighbor who told me that he needed some help with a project that he was working on, and he asked me if I would be interested in making a little cash by helping him with this project.  He told me that the job would last a couple of weeks.  The project finally ended this year on January 15th… because I had enough.

I had to carpool about one hour each way to get to the job site.  I had to work for a supervisor, not my neighbor, that kept pulling me off of incomplete projects, so that I could start and not complete more projects.  Awesome! (I mean that with as much sarcasm injected into the word as possible)

That’s NOT the worst of it.  This “supervisor” had a breakdown at some point, and started watching pornography online while sitting in the hotel room with everyone standing there.  Oh, I forgot to mention that the people running

Wow guys and gals!  We, the students of Dean Holland’s, Starting With Marketing Academy are already on module 5, called, ” World Wide Winners”.  Time just rushes by, doesn’t it?

In this module Dean taught us how to branch out across the internet to start getting some outside exposure for our blogs.  Previously, I mentioned that, “blog hopping” was a way to get people coming to, and commenting on your blog by getting your URL in the comments area of other blogs for other visitors to see and click on. We started blog hopping amongst our own Starting With Marketing group, and now we are going to branch out to other blogs in our same niche.

When you submit a comment the form will ask for your name and URL.

Once you submit, your name becomes a clickable link back to your site or blog.

Dean reminded us that first impressions are everything.  Have you ever been to a blog that looks great, only to find nothing in the comments section?  What most people assume is that the blog is no good, the content must be terrible and they leave without giving the blog a chance.  So what we have done within our Starting With Marketing group is create interest in our blogs by leaving comments for each other, so that people stop, read and realize that our group actually does have interesting things to say.

Hi everyone!  This module, like the other modules, was excellent.  Dean does a great job with the instructional videos and again with the follow-up webinars.  Here’s the scoop for this module.

Module 4, List Lingo, consisted of 14 videos.  Seems like a lot, but they were all short and to the point.  The first video is worth mentioning as Dean Holland stated something that may come as a shock to some of you.  Have you ever heard the saying, “The money is in the list”?  Well, it’s not.  Dean mentioned that although it’s great to have a list of subscribers, you have to nurture a relationship with them.  Give them value (for FREE) and don’t just try to sell to them all the time.  The money; therefore, is in your relationship with your subscribers – HUGELY important.

Another video in this module taught us about the power of AWeber.  AWeber is an email auto responder that automates several tasks for you.  These automated tasks include, collecting names and email addresses for you,

My friend Huddson Lee from Dean Holland’s, Starting With Marketing Academy tagged me to come up with the following list. I have to admit that it was tougher than I thought to come up with 25 things, but I finally did it. Thank you Huddson for picking me as one of the people to do this, sorry it took me so long, but here it goes.

#1.  I was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico on February 12th, 1968.  Lincoln’s Birthday; that explains my brilliance and modesty.

#2.  Like Dean Holland, I’m an only child.  Always wanted siblings, but never happened.  It’s funny, but usually people with brothers and sisters wish they were the only child.  For Dean and I it’s the other way around.  We wanted siblings.  Go figure.

#3.  I cannot stand rude people!  My mom always taught me to say, “Please and Thank You”.  My momma raised me right.  Thanks mom.  See, I “thanked” her.

My mom enjoying Thanksgiving

#4.  I worked retail security for several years and have arrested several violent shoplifters.  One of them stabbed me twice in the arm, bit me 4 times and slashed my hands when I tried to arrest him.  He got 15 years in prison because it was his third strike.  I considered him rude.

Way rude!

Hello, and thank you for visiting my blog again. Today I have a cool twitter tip for you, that involves using a third party tool called twello. By the way, sorry about the long blog post title. I didn’t know how else to put it, but you’re going to love this twitter tip anyhow.

If you go to twellow and sign up for your free account, you can easily find people using twitter that have the same interests as you do. You can even find twitter users that live in the same geographical area as you do.

The video below explains everything you need to know. Please leave me a comment if you have the time to do so. I hope you find this tip helpful, and please contact me with any questions that you might have. I would love to help you out.

Thanks again,

Ed

Camtasia is a screen recorder software used to make professional looking videos. I love watching videos created with Camtasia Studio. When I first found out what this program was that everyone was using, I told myself that I had to have it. Unfortunately, Camtasia was out of my price range at around $300. But fear not, Ed Rubi and Dean Holland’s Starting With Marketing clan is watching out for you.

The current version of TechSmith’s, Camtasia Studio is version 6. The version that I used to create the video below was Camtasia Studio 5. It has everything that I need and I’m looking forward to making many more videos in the future. The cost? $59.95 plus a $3.95 transaction fee. That’s a savings of $236.09 over the current version of Camtasia Studio. WOW!

Furthermore, it took me about 10 minutes to learn to use Camtasia thanks to a video that I found on YouTube. Just do a search on YouTube for, “How to use Camtasia Studio 5″, and it will be the first result.

Well, we all like to save money, so there you have it. I hope this helps you, and I look forward to seeing your upcoming professional looking Camtasia Studio videos.

All the best,

Ed