eBay AboutMe Page - Finally

I don’t know what my problem’s been with getting my about me page done. Reading too much, I suspect. Trying to see what others have done. Trying to figure out how to make a really GOOD page - whatever that is.

I did spend a lot of time looking around at other AboutMe pages on eBay, and I finally figured out that just getting the darn thing up is what’s important, and try to provide something at least a little bit interesting so people would read through and maybe sign up.

Here’s what I ended up with: SmilingPartners AboutMe. It doesn’t have bells and whistles, not even a picture at this point, but I do get that little pretty icon next to my name. And there is a place for people to sign up.

I had some trouble getting it set up at eBay. First off, there’s just the trouble with finding the link to the page to get set up. You can go to another seller’s about me and scroll to the bottom to get the link, but if you don’t know another seller’s id, one with an about me page, your kind of left in the dark. I finally went to the help page, then about me help, then to the bottom of that page.

Then I tried to use their template and inserted the code I needed for my sign up form. Got to the end and clicked the submit button. Nothing. This happened a couple of times. Finally, I figured out to open my nvu html editor, made a page inside a table, and that was successful. Still don’t know what I was doing wrong, but it’s done now, and done before I threw my laptop through the window!

I think I’ve talked about nvu before. It’s a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) editor for building html pages. It’s free, and if you don’t have an editor, you should get it. Google nvu, download and install it, and then google nvu training or nvu instruction. I know there are all kinds of marketers out there telling you that you don’t need a web page, and you may figure out how to make money without one (just not as much as the rest of us). But you will be surprised how handy it can be to have some familiarity with html and site building. Promise yourself a few hours to at least investigate.

I can finally take AboutMe off my to-do list. Now I’m heading to TurboLister to try to master that. If successful I’ll have a few books actually listed for auction today!