{"id":4,"date":"2008-06-02T13:41:42","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T12:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dave-nicholson.com\/blog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2008-06-04T15:04:33","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T14:04:33","slug":"five-steps-to-finding-a-helping-hand-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dave-nicholson.com\/blog\/five-steps-to-finding-a-helping-hand-on-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Steps to Finding a Helping Hand on eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you want to find someone to help you getting started on eBay, there is an easy way to do it: find a mentor. <\/span>An eBay mentor will guide you through the process of your first couple transactions, giving you hints and tricks that only the eBay professionals and top sellers know. <\/span>Here are five steps to finding a great mentor that can help you through a difficult beginning on eBay. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Step One: <\/span><\/strong> <\/span>Take a look at the eBay seller\u2019s listings. <\/span>By looking at eBay seller\u2019s listings, you are going to get a good idea of who is a good seller and who isn\u2019t. <\/span>If you want a good mentor, you should be looking for someone who specializes on selling at eBay. <\/span>This means that they won\u2019t have an outside job, and can answer the detailed questions that you have easily. <\/span>If you are going to go with a mentorship program that includes books and worksheets to do by yourself, you want to make sure that this program is going to be useful for what you’re selling.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Step Two:<\/span><\/strong> <\/span>Once you have found out a person or a program, you’re really going to want to check the feedback of that person. <\/span>If the mentor is a person, they should have consistently good feedback and if it’s a program, they should be able to give you a couple of email addresses of some of their success stories. <\/span>Checking up on a person or program is an important (but often overlooked) step.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Step Three:<\/span><\/strong> <\/span>After you have found a program and checked to see that is legit, you are going to want to find out about any guarantees that the program offers. <\/span>A lot of them will offer a money back guarantee if you don’t double the amount of sales or if you are unsatisfied. <\/span>Make sure you find out if your program offers any of these options. <\/span>If it doesn’t, you are going to want to make sure that it really is the right one for you. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Step Four:<\/span><\/strong> You probably should make one final check to see if the program is legit. <\/span>Enter the name of the program or the person that you’re going to work with into Google and see what it comes up with. <\/span>Sure, the mentor program may have a fancy website, but if there are a lot of angry people saying that the program didn’t work or that it is a scam, it’s better to make a second check than it is to lose your money. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Step Five:<\/span><\/strong> <\/span>Buy the program and to enjoy yourself. <\/span>You are probably going the learning a lot and you should take your time and make sure that the information really soaks in.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Finding a mentor on eBay is simple to do, but finding a great one is a bit more difficult. <\/span>When you choose an individual or a specific program, it pays to do a little research before plunking down your hard earned cash.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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