| Steps Newsletter - an ETN Covers Publication Featuring this week: Squidoo Stamps Group Colorano Christmas Collection & misc topics |
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Volume 2 Issue #50 December 18, 2007 |
| Table of Contents This Past Week. Recent & Future eBay Listings: Squidoo Stamps Group Colorano Christmas Collection Poem: Two Inches by Robert A Swart Court Jester: The Definitive "Why did the Chicken Cross the Road?" Contact us: (Send jokes, Humorous stories, comments, etc.) |
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| This Past Week: I had a great week since my last newsletter. I hope you did as well. Made a few forays into my neighborhood mall, the Mall of America and to the former local champ, Southdale, with few acquisitions. After all it's not shopping day yet, aka Christmas Eve. Went to an enjoyable Christmas party with my fellow Toastmasters last Saturday. If you are either terribly afraid of or enjoy the prospect of public speaking, I recommend Toastmasters. Great environment in which to conquer fears, and learn valuable skills. And you can't help but make friends. I have been negligent in advising my newsletter readers that I am running a sale this month. If you buy three or more covers from my eBay store, eBay auction or my Ship cover site, I will pick up the shipping and handling charges. Free Shipping and Handling on all non bulk lots till the end of December when you buy three or more lots. Much of my time lately has been focused on my non philatelic pursuits. It's Christmas time and I have been experimenting with pay per click advertising using Google, Yahoo, MSN and others. I'm still in the learning stages, but have done quite well, particularly with a campaign focusing on products from the Discovery Channels online store. My best seller has been the Planet Earth Series DVD's. They made it on Oprah's list and sales have been brisk. I started by promoting Meerkat Manor after being captivated by the show a couple of months ago. While my sales of Meerkat did okay, the landing page also showed the Planet Earth product so I decided to promote that as well. I'm glad I did. I've also been having success with the Amazon Kindle, although it's harder since they are only taking waiting list orders as their first production run was immediately sold out. This newsletter is intended to capture the journey I am on, which includes non philatelic side adventures. But the major focus will remain on the philatelic front. I welcome your feedback on content and format or anything else for that matter. Let me hear form you. etn |
| Recent and Future eBay Listings: A lot of material is currently online. At the time of writing this I have over 400 items listed on eBay auction as well as a ton of stuff in my eBay store. The mix includes some higher value Artcrafts, a blizzard of better used UX's with various varieties and usages. I'm still pushing my Magazines of course and have many listed on auction. This week I added a ton of Nuclear Submarines . Then in keeping with the season I searched my entire inventory and came up with just about everything I could find with Christmas in the title. You will find that was quite a bit. Of special note is a Colorano Silk Cachet Christmas Maxi-Card Collection , but I discuss that below. You can find all my current eBay auctions and my eBay Store items in my store by searching the following link. I also have a significant collection of ship covers that dwarfs my eBay store at |
| It turns out I have next to nothing in my inventory readily identifiable as being from
The above cover was launched not just because it is the There's a lot of dolphin food listed I hope those of you interested will take a good look. See all my eBay Ship covers. Next week, I will dig though my inventory to see what I can find from etn |
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| Squidoo.com As you know, I have generated a number of Squidoo lens over the past year. Just as I am prepared to crank this newsletter out each week full of error and faults, I haven't waited to understand the best way Squidoo works before I dove in. I'm no slave to perfection. My strength and weakness is in my willing to push ahead beyond my limits and my willingness to not have to do everything right. Let me tell you why I like Squidoo, and then let you know about the Squidoo Stamp and Coin Group, and finally why I think you should do a lens of your own. Squidoo was set up to make it possible for anyone to easily create meaningful web pages on anything they had a little or a lot of knowledge about. If you have a collection of any type, you have some knowledge that caused you to organize it in a certain way. That's all that is required, a tidbit of organized knowledge. It's set up so that if people want to build their sites to earn money, they can. In fact, it's encouraged that you do so for charity even if your site is a purely non-commercial effort. Now frankly, I've made less than $20 off my Squidoo sites in the past year. So it's not just for money, but rather as a place to display material and showcase our hobby. That said, I understand that others who take the time to design and build their sites properly are doing extremely well. My efforts will improve over time in quality and hopefully financially. Most importantly, Squidoo offers a free open format for anyone- whether interested in profit or not - to share their accumulated knowledge in what ever field they may choose. I show philatelic topics and would like to encourage you to do so as well. I'd love to see examples of your collection. Show me your favorite covers. Tell me a story about some aspect that I could refer to and learn. You don't need to do a 16 frame exhibit or have material to win the World Series of Philately. (Although if you have such an exhibit, why not make it available for the public to see, admire and learn from?) Recently, as I was exploring Squidoo more I came across it's Stamp and Coin Group. I applied for membership and now several of my various philatelic lens are officially members of the group. Unfortunately it is a very lonely place. There are only 17 lens and some of these are on coins. I want you to consider learning how to join us. It may require learning a new skill or two, but basically it's all very simple. It's a busy time of year, but if you have some time, check out Squidoo. Check out my simple lens. See how all you really need to learn is how to take a few pictures or scans and tie them together with a bit of narrative. I think you will find it fun, and a great way to share your hobby. etn |
| Colorano Christmas Collection This week I am featuring a Colorano Collection of Christmas Maxi Cards. This collection includes an early pre-silk cachet from 1965. Colorano did not start their famous silk cachet line until the American Wool issue of 1971 (Scott 1423) Prior to 1971 they produced a line of maxi cards for almost six years. These pre-silk maxi-cards are not all common. From the beginning Colorano made maxi cards, so when they started their silk cachet lines they continued with the maxi cards along with traditional first day covers. In my experience there are far fewer Colorano Maxi-cards than covers in the secondary market. As such this collection has a scarcity factor going for it. The The collection I'm offering is starting at $250. I expect it will sell at the minimum bid to the person who sees the beauty and value of this collection. It is almost complete for the period 1971 to 1995, and has a pre silk Christmas Maxi Card. It is thematic, and as such will always command a collector interest. It includes pioneer cards from a modern classic first day cover producer. Any missing elements, while they may be difficult to readily find are findable and not so dear as to be out of the question financially. These would display nice in vario sheets in three ring binder. The auction closes Wednesday. If necessary, I could priority or next day mail if you want to give a philatelic gift appropriate to the season. Just email me that you need it for Christmas, paypal me and I will hand carry it to my neighborhood post office. The first scan shows five cards, the 1971 and 1972 Colorano Christmas issues and the Pre-silk card. They are worth the asking price by themselves. The remaining 9 scans of 8 cards each are gravy. Early Silk Coloranos from 1971 and 72 retail from $25 to $300 each. Although over a decade old I think the values are appropriate. Far fewer people subscribed to these in the early years, and their desirability continues to grow. The values I quote are from 1995-96 Colorano's catalog. Considering it's over a decade old, the values may be a bit higher today.
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http://images.marketworks.com/hi/33/33063/fdc7968m.jpg| Two Inches? Sitting on thin ice hoping it will freeze |
| Court Jester: (My humor file needs help. Send me suggestions, I need them. ) Why did the chicken cross the road? Well, it depends who you ask: PAT BUCHANAN: JERRY FALWELL: DR. SEUSS: ERNEST HEMINGWAY: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: GRANDPA: ARISTOTLE: KARL MARX: SADDAM HUSSAIN: CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK: FOX MULDER: FREUD: BILL GATES: EINSTEIN: BILL CLINTON: GEORGE W. BUSH: LOUIS FARRAKHAN: THE BIBLE: COLONEL SANDERS: ---------------------------------- |
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