Perfection at eBay Live!
I’m back from Boston and eBay Live! this week.
The conference was great! Lots going on, here are some photos and some highlights:
My book eBay Inventory The Smart Way for sale in the eBay Live! Book Store.
Doba booth filled with people. Met lots of new people, caught up with lots of others.
Adjusting my mic on stage at the 2nd session of our presentation on Product Sourcing that I do with with Lisa Suttora from What Do I Sell and Rob Cowie from Worldwide Brands. Why am I adjusting my mic you might ask? Well, Tuesday night last week I went to a Boston Red Sox game. Major league ball players (and probably others too) get what they call walk up music. As the batter approaches the plate, they play a clip of song of the player’s choice. Some pick country. Some pick rap. Some pick rock. No one picks Celine Dion. Anyway, I’ve always wanted walk up music. I present last, and I worked with the AV guys to play my walk up music so I could warm up for my part of the presentation. And during the walk up music, I jumped off the stage and onto the chairs in the front row to get people a bit crazy. And my mic fell off. Not sure if most people get crazy enough at a presentation such that their mic flys off and about puts out their eye, but that’s how I roll. Especially when my walk up music was the first 30 seconds of Guns and Roses Welcome to the Jungle. 
Q&A after the presentation is over.
Perfection. Let me explain. We have a 90 minute session. We present for 60 minutes, 20 minutes each. And then do Q&A for 30 minutes. I started my watch timer for us keep track of time while at the podium the second Lisa started talking. She finished, then Rob went and finished. As I was closing my presentation, I said, “Now we’re going to take some questions.” and at that second, without looking down, I stopped my timer. It shows 1 hour exactly. 60 minutes to the second. If my watch would have tracked hundredths of a second, it would be to the hundreths of a second. Folks, last time I checked, that’s pretty spot on. That’s perfection.
I’m looking forward to eBay Live next year in Chicago. Maybe I’ll see you there.
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