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Posted By: MaaMaw In Response To: Re: While we're dipping our toes in the water... (Terry)
Sunday, 10 July 2005, at 1:15 a.m.
> The silent sales book does not tell you to email everyone who bids on your
> auctions. It teaches you how to build relationships with eBay shoppers by
> diverting people from within your auctions to your website.
> There was another ebook a few years ago with the advice to capture emails
> of all bidders and subscribe them to your list. I don't want to mention
> the name here, but the book wasn't Jim Cockrum's silentsalesmachine.
I was thinking of the other book (I can't even remember the name of it, but I know I read it and deleted it long ago). I just reviewed Jim Cockrum's book again, and he is very careful about Ebay's rules.
I'm not sure at what point my brain scrambled the two books, but scramble them it did. In fact, I had intended to try the techniques in Jim Cockrum's book if I ever slowed down long enough, then I merged the two and the rest is history.
> People then find or invent reasons and then spread them like missionaries.
> That is what is happening here. There are some posts along this thread
> with information, but many of them read as a testament to failure.
As a testament to our *personal* failures with Ebay. There is nothing wrong with that.
> Combine them together and there is a flock united around the common theme
> of "There must be something wrong with the system, not with me or my
> application."
I don't think anyone here said there is something wrong with the system.
I think everyone with a negative attitude has said the same thing I said -- that THEY PERSONALLY have not done well with it or THEY PERSONALLY cannot be bothered running 1,325 auctions and nickle-and-diming their way to the top.
I personally know a lady who doesn't do *anything* beyond buying and selling what you see in her Ebay listings. She doesn't have a web site. She doesn't have a mailing list. She told me she doesn't even keep track of her income and expenses so she has no clue what her actual profit is. She is a Power Seller. She is thrilled with a $1 profit on an item. I am not (unless it's an e-product). She doesn't mind packing and shipping tons of tiny things every day. I do.
Believe it or not, we're all smart enough to realize that 63 bzillion people can't be wrong. I'm quite sure every person who expressed an opinion here knows that there are people making a bundle on Ebay.
Thanks for straightening me out on the two books. I'm looking forward to delving into Jim Cockrum's book again, and it might end up in my Toolbox after all.
I am not looking for "something for nothing," and neither is anyone else who replied to my question.
I am, however, rambling rather badly so I guess I should shut up now. (I slept less than 4 hours last night, and here it is 1:11 a.m. and I'm still up.)
Luv,
MaaMaw
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