Welcome To All The 2008 Garage Sale Challenge Participants

The 2008 Garage Sale Challenge blog will be the venue used by all participants in the Challenge to post their weekly or bi-weekly updates during the course of the Challenge which will officially begin on May 1, 2008.

Each participant will need to register here so that I can activate you as a contributor so that you can post your updates to the blog. Once you have registered, please leave a comment to this post stating that you have done so. When you do, I’ll receive an email notification and I will activate your contributor status within 24 hours and leave a comment informing you that your contributor status is live.

Prior to the actual start of the Challenge I encourage each participant to make at least one post telling a little about yourself. Feel free to include whatever information you are comfortable with sharing, but you should at least include your personal goal for the Challenge, whether you will be using eBay, Amazon, or both as a sales venue, and where you plan to obtain Challenge inventory from – garage sales, thrift shops, auction sales, or a combination of two or more.

I’ve set up individual categories for each participant using your first names. Through out the Challenge all your posts should be put into your individual category.

Prior to the start of the Challenge I also encourage you to make as many test posts as you wish to acquaint yourself with the posting process and to make yourself comfortable with the posting process.

Over the next three days, I will write some short tutorials about how to write a post, how to include active links to your auctions, how to include photos if you choose, and a few other tips to make the whole process as easy as possible. These can all be found under the Tutorial link at the top of the blog.

Any further question you might have can be asked either in the comment section below or by emailing me at theauctionrebel@gra.midco.net