Yes! Blogging is easy and fun. What do you blog about? Pick something that you know a lot about. Pick something you talk a lot about. Whatever you decide, you just put it in a blog post and keep doing it on a regular basis. Run out of steam on what to say next? Join groups online related to your topic and you will find plenty of inspiration there.
Do you keep up with local/national/global news reports? Do you have thoughts and opinions on that? Blog on that! Do you buy magazines? Use those for fresh subject matter to blog on. If you can think, form an opinion, and talk about it, then you can blog about it. If you know anything about anything, you can blog about it.
Now sign up for Google Adsense, or some program like that, and put the code into your blogsite. Google will help you with training videos and articles on how to do all that. They even tell you how to bring more traffic to your site (blog). When you see that you are earning money with the ad program(s) you will be glad you thought to do that for yourself.
Now just keep doing what you've done and before you know it, you could be a pro blogger and quit your day job. You might pick up a copy of a book on blogging for even more tips. I like this one: "Blogging for Dummies". It's pretty simple and straighforward and it will give you plenty of ideas on how to get started. I borrowed it from the library, and ended up reading it all night. It was that good.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
auction format
It's at this point that most people decide to give Ebay a try. I mean, we all know of somebody that supposedly makes money on there all the time. Right?
Let me clarify a few things here. First of all, I do believe that there are people selling things on Ebay every second, 24/7. Ebay is still around because of this. They get paid whether your item sells or not. And they give you options on how you want to go with your listing. It's not Ebay's fault if you don't sell your item. They spend a lot of money getting people to show up on their site, so if your item doesn't sell its not because of lack of traffic on the site.
The problem is there are umpteen thousand items on there just like yours. You have to make sure that your item gets noticed. There are ways to help that process along.
Keywords. The better you are at using good keywords, the more likely your item is to show up in the search engines on Ebay. So, if Jack and Jill are looking for a diamond tennis bracelet and you have the right combination of keywords in your listing they just might take a look at yours before they decide which one they want to buy.
So, if they did see your listing, I hope you had the good sense to include some great photos of that tennis bracelet. Give her an idea of what it will look like on her wrist. Show them that this is THE ONE they are looking for. TELL them what they need to know as far as quality, carots, etc. GIVE them some kind of guarantee. Make them feel good about buying it and you just might be the one they buy it from.
You have feedback, yet? It makes a difference. Especially if you expect someone to buy a diamond tennis bracelet from you. Get real, would you buy one from someone you didn't know anything about? Wouldn't you want to know that they had a good reputation from other buyers? And wouldn't you want to hear it from the buyers themselves? That's what feedback is there for. You earn it by buying and selling items. It goes both ways. So, if you are the kind of person that returns an item after you wore it, and it has make-up stains on it, then your feedback will be pretty bad. People will not be too quick to buy from you if you are known to be like that. THink about it.
Ok, real quick now. Most buyers on Ebay don't want to wait 10 days to buy your item. They will buy the one that is going off auction today more often than not. So, you pay extra to give people time to see your item and then the bids start coming in the last day or two. It's up to you, but I would go with a shorter time frame more often than not. Experience taught me unless its an exceptional valueable item, don't spend the extra money on the 10 day auction.
Before you list the item, pretend you are going to mail it and then find out exactly how much it will cost you to mail it and if the package you put it in is good enough to pass the post office inspection. If you don't do that, or something like that, you will lose your butt on that deal. I promise.
Don't like the fact that someone could bid one dollar on your diamond tennis bracelet and win the auction? heh heh heh That's okay, Ebay gives you tutorials for free on how to handle these things before you list any items for sale. I highly reccommend you read all of them before you go broke selling your items on Ebay. Ok?
Other than that, good luck, and be yourself. You just might make some money on Ebay. But don't quit your day job until you know for sure how to do it consistently.
Let me clarify a few things here. First of all, I do believe that there are people selling things on Ebay every second, 24/7. Ebay is still around because of this. They get paid whether your item sells or not. And they give you options on how you want to go with your listing. It's not Ebay's fault if you don't sell your item. They spend a lot of money getting people to show up on their site, so if your item doesn't sell its not because of lack of traffic on the site.
The problem is there are umpteen thousand items on there just like yours. You have to make sure that your item gets noticed. There are ways to help that process along.
Keywords. The better you are at using good keywords, the more likely your item is to show up in the search engines on Ebay. So, if Jack and Jill are looking for a diamond tennis bracelet and you have the right combination of keywords in your listing they just might take a look at yours before they decide which one they want to buy.
So, if they did see your listing, I hope you had the good sense to include some great photos of that tennis bracelet. Give her an idea of what it will look like on her wrist. Show them that this is THE ONE they are looking for. TELL them what they need to know as far as quality, carots, etc. GIVE them some kind of guarantee. Make them feel good about buying it and you just might be the one they buy it from.
You have feedback, yet? It makes a difference. Especially if you expect someone to buy a diamond tennis bracelet from you. Get real, would you buy one from someone you didn't know anything about? Wouldn't you want to know that they had a good reputation from other buyers? And wouldn't you want to hear it from the buyers themselves? That's what feedback is there for. You earn it by buying and selling items. It goes both ways. So, if you are the kind of person that returns an item after you wore it, and it has make-up stains on it, then your feedback will be pretty bad. People will not be too quick to buy from you if you are known to be like that. THink about it.
Ok, real quick now. Most buyers on Ebay don't want to wait 10 days to buy your item. They will buy the one that is going off auction today more often than not. So, you pay extra to give people time to see your item and then the bids start coming in the last day or two. It's up to you, but I would go with a shorter time frame more often than not. Experience taught me unless its an exceptional valueable item, don't spend the extra money on the 10 day auction.
Before you list the item, pretend you are going to mail it and then find out exactly how much it will cost you to mail it and if the package you put it in is good enough to pass the post office inspection. If you don't do that, or something like that, you will lose your butt on that deal. I promise.
Don't like the fact that someone could bid one dollar on your diamond tennis bracelet and win the auction? heh heh heh That's okay, Ebay gives you tutorials for free on how to handle these things before you list any items for sale. I highly reccommend you read all of them before you go broke selling your items on Ebay. Ok?
Other than that, good luck, and be yourself. You just might make some money on Ebay. But don't quit your day job until you know for sure how to do it consistently.
The truth
One of the biggest money makers today is selling information on how to make money online. I should know. I have paid a lot of money to learn how to make money online.
It began with a simple letter that came in the mail. In it was a promise that I could make 6 figures a year in no time doing something simple. That one course cost me several hundred dollars.
It's not that I haven't put what I learned to good use. I have. But, I'm not making 6 figures a year at it. No way! That course taught me that it wasn't that simple. It even said so in the book. If they would have said that in the letter, I never would have bought it.
Now I know that they all operate on pretty much the same principal. They get you in with a promise of fast, easy money, and then they let you know that actually its not that simple. You need to know more than what you paid them for. And if you don't already know it, they just happen to have another course for you to buy.
You learn something with every course. Useful information. But not enough on its own to make 6 figures a year. It's really not that simple. The more you know, the more you need to know. At some point, you might even know enough to be able to legally sell the secrets to making money online. At that point you will certainly be raking in the big bucks.
Meanwhile, it takes time to learn it all. And money, if you want all the info upfront. But you want to know the biggest secret of all? You can get all the information you need for free. The problem is knowing what to look for, and getting someone to guide you in the right directions to get that information for free.
But its out there. On the internet. Today. For free. And I'm here to share with you what I've learned along the way. If you get impatient, you can always pay somebody for it. Good luck with that, and maybe one day I'll see you on tv selling the secrets to desperate people, knowing full well that they will have to pay you a whole lot more than you said and that they will most likely not be raking in the dough over night. Or perhaps you'll do what I'm doing and give it away for free because you know exactly how it feels.
It began with a simple letter that came in the mail. In it was a promise that I could make 6 figures a year in no time doing something simple. That one course cost me several hundred dollars.
It's not that I haven't put what I learned to good use. I have. But, I'm not making 6 figures a year at it. No way! That course taught me that it wasn't that simple. It even said so in the book. If they would have said that in the letter, I never would have bought it.
Now I know that they all operate on pretty much the same principal. They get you in with a promise of fast, easy money, and then they let you know that actually its not that simple. You need to know more than what you paid them for. And if you don't already know it, they just happen to have another course for you to buy.
You learn something with every course. Useful information. But not enough on its own to make 6 figures a year. It's really not that simple. The more you know, the more you need to know. At some point, you might even know enough to be able to legally sell the secrets to making money online. At that point you will certainly be raking in the big bucks.
Meanwhile, it takes time to learn it all. And money, if you want all the info upfront. But you want to know the biggest secret of all? You can get all the information you need for free. The problem is knowing what to look for, and getting someone to guide you in the right directions to get that information for free.
But its out there. On the internet. Today. For free. And I'm here to share with you what I've learned along the way. If you get impatient, you can always pay somebody for it. Good luck with that, and maybe one day I'll see you on tv selling the secrets to desperate people, knowing full well that they will have to pay you a whole lot more than you said and that they will most likely not be raking in the dough over night. Or perhaps you'll do what I'm doing and give it away for free because you know exactly how it feels.
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