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Posted By: MaaMaw In Response To: Re: ebay business/course (Bluto Samartino)
Sunday, 1 January 2006, at 8:29 a.m.
> I stopped reading it about 3/4 of the way through as I knew at that
> point I was not going to read anything new
A big assumption when you only had 60-or-so pages to go, but to each his own.
> many, many other ebooks and courses on making money on ebay,
Me too, though probably not as many as you have.
> I can tell
> you that the same exact info can be had for free and for MUCH less cost.
It's like Corey Rudl's magnificent Internet Marketing Course...
With weeks or months of research, you probably can ferret out a lot of the information found in this course, but (a big BUT coming up)...
There is also tons of advice I have never seen anywhere else, and beyond that, what I found most fascinating is the way this course stresses the importance -- indeed, the absolute *necessity* -- of doing certain things that many, if not most, experts tell you not to bother with. In my admittedly limited experience, I have found that I do *much* better when I "do" than when I "don't").
Back to "weeks or months of research" --
Like everything else, when you set out to learn about eBay, you'll find yourself buried very quickly in mountains of information, much of it completely useless.
In order to make use of that information, you must have a way to separate the good from the bad (and there's plenty of bad; like every other area of "making money," everybody and their grandma slaps the "Guru" title on their forehead). Unless you're psychic, that means testing everything you read and drawing your own conclusions (and testing to figure out which guy really knows and which guy blows hot air is quite different than testing two different marketing campaigns or two different prices or whatever).
Once you have that figured out, you have to put it all into some kind of usable, step-by-step format. I don't know about everyone else, but I don't have that kind of time. Besides which, when I get buried by information, I tend to lose sight of the goal.
> Is it a bad course?
No, it's a spectacular course (in my opinion, of course).
> Not sure about that.
I am :-)
Luv,
MaaMaw
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