Inside track on eBay University 2007

by Chris Dawson

This post was written in February 2007; specific information contained within it may be out of date.

eBay University is back in town (or will be soon). Our friend Dan Wilson was first to break the news with the dates for 2007 confirmed as:-

April 21st: Coventry
June 9th: London
Sept 22nd: Glasgow
Nov 10th: Manchester

As Dan hinted with only four they’re going to be bigger and better than ever this year. The “Selling Basics” course will remain as a full day stream as it was last year but the other courses change dramatically. Gone is the set structure and in comes four sets of classes with attendees able to select the topics that appeal most to them.

Now presenters will really have to make their content compelling or they’ll end up with empty rooms in preference to other speakers while the better more relevant subjects will be overflowing. I do hope they bring in a more interactive hands on approach to match the new syllabus, a workshop environment would suit some topics so much better.

Rumour has it that the eBay University team also want to bring the Nags Head community board to life in some way… well that’s easy, serve Stella during the lunch break :-p

Now for the unreleased nitty gritty of it (Please note the full agenda has yet to be fully confirmed)

Selling Basics Course

Selling basics parts 1, 2 and 3, Getting your item found and a “Power Hour” (Time to talk to powersellers)

Advanced courses

Stream 1
Safe Trading, eBay Marketing 101, Strategy and Tactics, Scale up with Tools and shops and Basic eBay Finance

Stream 2
PayPal for Professionals, Data Driven Decision Making, Tax and VAT, Branding and Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation, and Strategies

Stream 3
eBay Express and DoorOne (shopping.com), Advanced TurboLister and File Exchange, SMP, PayPal for Professionals and Safe Trading

Wow! Looks like it’s going to hard to choose between some of those streams, a good argument for attending more than one University throughout the year!

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Author: Chris Dawson
Posted at: Friday, February 2nd, 2007 at 8:30 pm
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2 Responses to “Inside track on eBay University 2007”

  1. Michelle on February 4th, 2007 4:27 pm

    Thanks very much.

    It certainly looks as though there is going to be a rather large improvement.

    Thanks fuys for the extra info x

  2. TameBay » Blog Archive » eBay does joined up advertising on February 5th, 2007 8:33 pm

    [...] It’s not just the latest eBay TV advert though, this is a long term aim which eBay have been working on for a number of years. For instance eBay University has just announced the 2007 dates, the selling basics course is firmly aimed at those who want to list their very first item on eBay. Again some attending the course may hope to go on and become full time sellers, but it’s likely that most will sell just a few items as casual sellers. The low cost you pay to attend eBay University in no way pays for the actual cost to eBay, in fact eBay subsidise each and every attendee as the cost is over double that actually charged. With thousands attending each year this represents a significant investment training people the majority of which will remain casual sellers. The upside and the reason the course is so worthwhile to eBay is that again attendees go on to buy more and more on the site. [...]

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