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Save Small Business from the CPSIA

So, what's the CPSIA?  It's the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, passed by Congress and signed by President Bush in August 2008.    How is it going to hurt small business?   Find out more here.

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Ebay - Remember Free Shipping Promo Oct 1 thru Dec 31 2008

Free Subtitle Upgrade - In addition, all sellers get a free Subtitle upgrade on their listings with free shipping listed between October 1 and December 31.

The Value Pack bundle will be 35¢ for qualified listings.

Bonanzle, Alternative to eBay Look-A-Likes

Bonanzle is the alternative to Craigslist and eBay alternatives.

Two months old, still in beta, and remarkably functional.

Did I mention how easy Bonanzle is?

Import your feedback and auctions from eBay in one click. You're done!

Import your Craigslist items in one click. You're done!

Imagine this...one screen for listing an item. Yes, Bonanzle does this in one screen. 

During an interview with Ecommerce-Guide.com, the site's founder, Bill Harding, summed up the heart of Bonanzle.com's philosophy when he said, "Do we really need five or more screens to list a single item?"

Harding calls Bonanzle 'the alternative to lookalike Craigslist and eBay alternatives.' I would agree, but the site and its services go well beyond that. The best way to experience Bonanzle is simply to log on and try it. What you will find is that Harding and his team of self-titled "action-minded experts" have managed to offer sellers more features in this one site than any alternative to date, yet keep the entire site and selling process simple, compact and super-easy to use.

EcommerceGuide.com Reviews Bonanzle

Bonanzle: The Best eBay Alternative We've Seen
By Vangie Beal
July 30, 2008

What do you get when you take the time-consuming, tedious listing process out of auction sites, toss in some cool features, such as on-the-fly image-cropping and live chat, mix it up with a price and description estimator and, really, more features than one should list in an opening sentence?

You get Bonanzle — an eBay alternative that is quite simply, the best I've seen in my four years of reviewing and writing about start-up marketplaces aimed at taking sellers away from eBay. Read More

Seller Reviews of Bonanzle at Auction Sellers Motivators

Sellers Booths that you should visit

Kolstroms Kreations

BargainBasement

Vintage Day

IC Toys

Southern Jewel Fab Finds

Planet Suze

Betty's Bargains

www.EarringStop.com Taste of Colorado 2008

www.EarringStop.com is taking the show on the road once again.

This time we will be doing the Taste Of Colorado 8/29-9/1/08

http://www.atasteofcolorado.com/

Visit us at the 25th Taste Of Colorado in Denver August 29 - September1, 2008. We are located on Colfax Ave just west of 15th St. in booth #703.

We have over 900 different designs of handmade earrings that we will be selling at the Taste.
This Labor day weekend event is immediately following the Democratic National Convention and rumor has it that 80% of the visit here for the convention will be staying over the holiday weekend. 

This is the 25th year for the Taste of Colorado to take place in Downtown Denver. 
The four-day, free admission, food, music, and entertainment Festival will take place Labor Day weekend, Aug. 29 through Sept. 1, in Downtown Denver’s Civic Center Park.

HOURS
Friday:  4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday:  10:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Monday:  10:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Admission is FREE. Music is FREE.  Tickets are sold to purchase drinks and food.

ON THE MAIN STAGE-

On Friday night Little Feat (Best known for their unique blend of folk, blues, rockabilly, country, and jazz) will be performing. - http://www.littlefeat.net/

Saturday at 1:00pm - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels - www.mitchryder.de
Saturday at 7:30pm - John Waite - www.johnwaite.com

Sunday at 1:00 pm - Herman’s Hermits Starring Peter Noone - www.peternoone.com
Sunday at 7:30pm - The Fabulous Thunderbirds - www.fabulousthunderbirds.com

Monday at 1:00pm - Heidi Newfield - www.heidinewfield.com
Monday at 5:30pm - How Big Can You Get - 100 Years of Cab Calloway Featuring Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - www.bbvd.com

Over 50 area food establishments, 250 marketplace artisans and vendors, seven entertainment stages, kids’ and family activities, educational programs, and more — all for no admission fee.

A Taste of Colorado draws more than 500,000 visitors annually

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eBay Stores and Googlebase Stores Connector Instructions

If you've been trying to use Googlebase's stores connection utility and have been getting errors, here ya go  (note: this will only feed your store items to googlebase, not auctions and not core BINs)

Auction Sellers Motivators has the step by step instructions on How to Schedule your eBay Store Items for automatic upload to Google Base:

1. Go to eBay and click "My eBay"

2. Click "Manage My Store" on the left side of the page

3. Click on "Listing Distribution" under promotional tools

4. Click "Activate your Store listings via RSS. (not sure if this
is needed for Google)

5. Click "Make a file of your Store Inventory listings available"

6. May need to wait at least 12 hours before you continue with
these instructions

View Steps 7 through 23

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