Tuesday, April 29, 2014

How To Convert Ebay Surfers Into Bidders!

Do you know the phrase "A Call To Action"? Well, using "A Call To Action" on your eBay Auction could help increase your sales almost immediately. As outlined in my book "eBay Marketing Wholesale SourcePak" having the right product, at the right price is crucial. But, what else can you do to entice those eBay surfers to become a bidder? Here is one key factor anyone can implement on their auctions to help increase their sales - it's called " A Call To Action!"
Some of you may be asking "What is "A Call To Action?" Well it's a simple phrase that you would add to your auction description. This phrase should tell your potential bidder what they should do next. I know what your thinking, "Don't they know what to do next?" But really, you do need to tell people what it is you expect them to do. You can not depend on or assume that an auction surfer is automatically going to become a bidder without telling him/her what you want them to do. You need to come right out and tell them to buy. And why they should buy. Here are some examples of phrases you could use to entice that potential bidder to take action now and make a bid.

- Bid Now! Save Money!

- Buy Now and Save on Shipping!

- Bid Now! Don't Miss This Incredible Deal!

- Buy Now! Quantities are Limited!

- Bid Now! One Of A Kind!

- Bid Now! Collectors Item!

You get the idea. If you have what that surfer is looking for any of the above phrases will entice him/her to make a bid now. And this method is not something new. Retail stores have been using this for years. You know any of the big sales where the advertisement says something like "And don't wait, Quantities are Limited!" This method is time tested. Some experts report you can increase your sales by 50% simply by telling those who are just surfing your auction page what you want them to do.

You can also use more then one call to action. And use them for different reasons in your auction. Say you use one of the above. Bid Now! One of a Kind! But what if this surfer is not interested in this item for auction. Well, don't let him/her leave without inviting him/her to view your other auctions. Say something like "If you don't see what you are looking for here - please visit my other auctions" and create a link to your other auctions, possibly your "me page" which lists all the auctions you have running.

Try this method on your next auction.

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eBay is THE most popular home business in the USA, but it's not without its problems. Many have tried to succeed but have failed due to confusion over what products to sell, giant numbers of competitors, copy and picture theft from other sellers and eBay and Paypal that eat into profits.

One way to avoid this swamp, though, is to do a Joint Venture with established eBay sellers. This allows a JV partner to build her own mailing list and sell products off eBay.

There are multiple advantages to this way of doing business on eBay:

1. The biggest uncertainty for would-be eBay sellers is what products to sell. Sometimes vendors risk large sums of money on untried products, only to lose their investment, become sour and give up. With a Joint Venture there is no risk except for a few hours of time.

2. Since there are no auctions listed on eBay, no one can steal copy or pictures from JV sellers - because there is nothing to copy. In effect, we become invisible - no one even knows we exist and this hidden aspect has many advantages.

3. eBay JVs are usually done with a digital product that can be instantly downloaded. This is great for any entrepreneur because inexpensive autoresponders mean that her entire business is handled via autopilot. Contrast this with the usual way of doing business on eBay which involves mailing dozens, hundreds or even thousands of boxes.

4. eBay and Paypal have lots of rules. It's easy to break some unwittingly, and even the most honest seller does so from time to time. A JV merchant isn't answerable to eBay, however, but only to her customers.

5. A JV seller never directly lists on eBay, thus avoiding eBay and Paypal fees.

6. Successful Powersellers have large numbers of customers and there are lots of administrative details involved. Implementing a sales system can cost time and money because without attention to detail packages won't be mailed in a timely fashion, payments won't be accurate, items will be sent to the wrong buyers, and so on. A JV partner eliminates all of that because all transactions can be funneled through a hands-off system.

7. eBay selling lives or dies through the 'feedback' system. Negative feedback can kill sales instantly and lack of feedback causes buyers to hesitite and choose other sellers. Feedback is totally irrelevant to a Joint Venture seller because she is using the reputation of carefully chosen other sellers. She knows in advance that their feedback is high quality or she doesn't do deals with them.

8. Inexperienced sellers sometimes drag wiser merchants into price wars. In a panic over sales, they foolishly slash prices, beginning a chain reaction that results in bare bones bids that allow no one to make any money. A Joint Venture seller floats serenely above such hiccups in the marketplace.

9. Best of all, a JV seller doesn't settle for a one time sale. She concentrates her efforts on a mailing list of happy customers that she can sell to again and again and again. In this way, not only is she ensuring repeate profits, but she gets paid for creating this list, rather than having to pay someone else for names.

With its 147,000,000 registered users, eBay is the best source of targeted, Net-savvy buyers on the web. By putting together Joint Venture deals with established sellers, anyone can add large numbers of qualified buyers to their database efficiently and inexpensively.

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Ten of the best … ways to make money in an hour

Ten of the best … ways to make money in an hour

From ID parades and old mobile phones to planning meals, there are many ways to make and save money
You can earn money by disposing of your old mobile phone
You can earn money by disposing of your old mobile phone. Photograph: Chris Jackson/Getty Images Europe

1. Dig out your store cards

With purses and wallets bulging with credit cards, debit cards, work passes and driving licences, loyalty cards can easily be relegated to the kitchen drawer. But, having a quick scout around for these cards or requesting new ones could reunite you with scores of unused points that could be translated into pounds.
Most of the supermarket and high street store schemes, including Nectar and Tesco Clubcard, offer replacement cards so you don't lose out on your points. To make your loyalty cards more profitable see if you can collect extra points from other companies that are part of the same schemes, such as electricity and gas suppliers. Eon, for instance, offers Tesco Clubcard points to its customers.

2. Resist eating takeaways

A takeaway vegetable curry in a tin foil tray Planning meals in advance is the best way to make sure you don't end up grabbing a takeaway on the way home, or throwing away unused food. Spend some time each weekend working out which days you will be in and what you can eat. If you know you will be late one night, plan a meal for the night before that can be doubled up so you have a homemade ready meal to pop in the microwave.
If you're not a big cook, start realistically. Pick out some easy ideas from recipe books and foodie blogs and put the list of ingredients in your bag, so the next time you find yourself wondering what to eat when you get home you have a list of ingredients for some home cooked food.

3. Switch your bill payments to direct debit

Pile of bills Photograph: Graham Turner Switching your utility, telephone and television bills to fixed monthly direct debits could be a quicker way to save money than changing supplier. Last year a survey by Bacs, the not-for-profit body behind direct debits, said you could save as much as £230 a year by switching to monthly bill payments. Paying this way also helps with budgeting.
To encourage customers to switch, many firms offer discounts. The biggest tend to be for dual fuel customers paying by monthly direct debit – npower is giving customers a £100 annual discount for making the change, which only takes a couple of minutes. BT offers customers £1.25 off their line rental each month if they opt for paper-free billing and pay by direct debit. Don't forget to regularly check your bills for discrepancies and make sure you are still getting the best deal.

4. Renegotiate or cancel your subscriptions

newspapers Check your standing orders and direct debits to see if you are paying for subscriptions you do not use. If you are paying for magazines, TV or gym membership you may decide it is time to cancel some of these, or ask if you can renegotiate to get better value.
Cable and satellite TV companies may be able to reduce the amount of channels you receive, while mobile phone companies might offer to reduce your bill by lowering your free minutes and text allowances.
You might also be able to save money by adding to your list of subscriptions. Work out how often you buy your favourite newspapers and magazines and look into subscribing as this often works out cheaper.

5. Sell your old mobile phone

Listing, selling and posting unused items on eBay takes time, but there are quicker alternatives. If you have an unused mobile phone you could make anything from a couple of pounds to £200 depending on the model and condition by sending it to a phone recycling site. Love2Recycle and Mopay offer some of the best amounts for old phones.
Selling your phone is easy. You typically search the sites to see how much it is worth, send it off in a freepost envelope and sit back and await payment. Some of the sites offer more if you opt for high street shopping vouchers instead of cash.

6. Make sure you are claiming your full benefit entitlements

Loads of money. Photograph: Alamy The variety and complexity of state benefits and tax credits means you may not be claiming everything to which you are entitled. However, there are a couple of quick ways to check. The Directgov website has a benefits calculator, which can give you an estimate of what you are elligible to claim.
By inputting your savings, earnings and outgoings it estimates what you should be receiving. The site also has a benefits adviser, which tells you what help is available.

7. Fit water-saving devices

Man in the shower Photograph: Luc Porus/Alamy If you are on a water meter you can cut costs by installing a couple of simple devices to reduce your usage. Flushing the toilet accounts for about a third of all household water use, and several water companies offer free "save-a-flush" devices. Putting one of the in your cistern will reduce the volume of water used every time you flush.
Meanwhile, free ShowerSmart devices help cut the amount of energy used having a shower. They can be easily installed on non-electric showers to regulate the flow of water, and the makers claim the yearly savings for an average family are about £30 on gas bills and £30 water bills.

8. Do an hour's work

The government-funded service Slivers of Time Working lets you pick up work by the hour. Would-be workers register on its website and detail their skills, experience and availability, and wait for a local agency to give them a call. At the moment the site offers work in east and west London, Leeds and Cambridgeshire, but coverage is spreading as employers sign up.
When you sign up you say how much you expect as a basic hourly wage, as well as how much you would want that to rise if you had to travel to a job, work on a particular day or work at short notice. A spokesman for the site says all kinds of work is available, from answering phones in a call centre to security work, and workers can flag up when they are available.

9. Scour freebie sites

If you get carried away with freebie websites you could end up drowning in a torrent of annoying emails and strange samples. However, there are some useful freebies out there. HotUKdeals has a list of offers, which currently includes free film screenings and a voucher for a 100g Milka chocolate bar.
Many online photo printing firms give away a number of free prints if you open an account. At the moment most will charge you for postage and packing, but you could still make some good savings on your holiday snaps. Have a look at Free Photo Printing for a list of the latest offers, which includes 50 free prints from Snapfish for only 99p P&P. Other good freebies include free DVD trials.

10. Police ID parades

The Usual Suspects Photograph: Linda R. Chen/AP Police forces used to pay volunteers to turn up and stand alongside suspected criminals while witnesses tried to pick out the guilty party. Now most use video ID parades, but they still need people to appear alongside suspects. West Yorkshire Police runs the video database, which goes by the name Viper. It pays volunteers £15 for their time. Its website lists the types of people it is currently looking to film, and there is an application form if you fit the bill (boom boom).

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Don Lapre was the king of infomercials. He is no longer visible on TV, but anyone who watched TV around 1996-98 would know Don Lapre. He was visible and impressive. He is distinctly an effective salesperson and convinced his viewers of the effectiveness of his products. He was charming, enthusiastic, motivational, and exaggerated all his products to the extreme. Nevertheless, unfortunately, few people found any benefit of using his products. Don Lapre allegedly filed for bankruptcy in 1999 but recovered from it soon afterwards.

Most people who used his products claimed that they made no money with his techniques. The ones who do have the visibility figure out that Don Lapre sells products that don’t contain his secrets to effective selling. The books and courses come out sounding like one long sales letter meant to market a back-end product by Don Lapre. He is constantly hard selling but never once tells his audience what it that adds true punch to his selling success is. Don Lapre even gets several satisfied customer testimonials on his infomercial but if you look hard, enough most of those providing the testimonials are just naturally good and educated salespeople.

Don Lapre’s courses lack meat but he does have a few good ideas. Unfortunately, even though these ideas were successful in the 1980s and 90s, they are unlikely to be successful today. Placing small ads in papers, 900 numbers, government auctions and reminder services are all over dated and overused techniques. In today’s savvy world, it is hard to find anyone who will be willing to send money to anyone for a few line ad in the paper. There is nothing fresh and unique about Don Lapre except his excessively convincing infomercials.

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Monday, April 21, 2014

My Personal Library

Build Your Own Personal Development Library
April 21, 2014 by Joey Tapia
This weekend I’m organizing my ever-growing collection of personal development books and audio programs.  A good portion of my home office is taken up by bookshelves, and I’ll be adding another set of shelves today.  Even though I donate many books I’ve read, check some out from the library, and keep ebooks in electronic form, I still have a large physical collection to manage.

I first learned about the practice of building a personal development library from Brian Tracy, who recommended it on one of his audio programs.  When I was 21 years old, I decided to take his advice and begin building my collection, and I’m glad I did.  While reading is a great habit, we forget most of what we read anyway, and life often goes in cycles.  I bought a number of books to help give me grow my games business when I started it in 1994.  Those same books are now useful to me in building my personal development business.  If I didn’t have the books as part of my reference library, I wouldn’t have remembered to apply those ideas.

Brian Tracy recommends marking up each book as you read it.  Highlight anything that strikes you as significant.  Then you can pick the book up again years later and review all the key points in a matter of minutes.  I didn’t do this when I first started, but I wish I had.  It’s much faster to review a book when I’ve marked it up with my own notes and highlights.

Building your own personal development library is easy.  You can get a cheap 4-shelf bookshelf from an office supply store like Office Depot for about $50, and it will store approximately 150 books.  When you buy an empty bookshelf, it will create a void that you’ll want to fill, and slowly but surely you’ll fill it up.

I don’t recommend retaining every book you read.  A lot of books aren’t worth keeping.  If you’re certain you’ll never refer back to a book again, get rid of it.  Give it to someone else, resell it, or donate it.  Only keep the books you feel are worthy of your collection.

Why bother to build your own collection?  The best personal development books contain solutions to universal human challenges, such as how to overcome procrastination, how to get organized, and how to motivate yourself.  Often when I face a new challenge, I recognize that it’s a specific instance of a general pattern whose solution is already known.  If I can properly diagnose the general problem, I need only look up the solution.  The field of personal development isn’t as exacting as mathematics or computer programming, but there are some solutions that do work well.  Most importantly, you want to build a collection of solutions that work for you personally.

Good computer programmers do something very similar — they build up an awareness of algorithms to solve known problems.  A large part of programming is figuring out how to define a new problem in such a way that it can be solved with a pre-existing algorithm.  For you non-programmers, an algorithm is just a fancy word for a problem-solving method.  Think of it like a recipe.

An important lesson novice computer programmers learn is, “Don’t reinvent the wheel.”  If a good solution to your problem already exists, just copy the existing solution, and don’t design your own solution from scratch.  This assumes your goal is to solve the problem efficiently, not to use it as a learning exercise.

Personal development is the same.  Don’t reinvent the wheel.  Many people struggle with common problems like procrastination, fear of public speaking, or various addictions.  Yet in many cases there are known solutions to these problems that are sitting in books in a local bookstore or library.  The challenge of course is finding the right book.  It’s not a matter of me telling you what to read because different solutions work for different people.  Plus it would be very time consuming because in order to recommend the right book, I’d have to diagnose your problem accurately and that can take some time.  People often mis-diagnose themselves when it comes to personal development problems — often what you identify as the problem is merely a symptom of a larger problem.  So the ultimate solution is for you to dive in and start reading and experimenting.  It’s time consuming, but in the long run it will eventually work.

Save the books whose solutions and ideas actually work for you, and add them to your collection.  If they work for you now, they’ll probably still work for you 10 years from now, and you’ll be glad to have those solutions handy when you encounter a similar problem down the road.

Currently I have hundreds of items in my personal development library.  I have a small bookshelf within arm’s reach for the books I reference most often.  Then I have hundreds of other books, tapes, CDs, and videos on shelves a few steps away.  And finally, I have boxes of items archived in my garage.  If you think about it, this is very similar to a computer’s memory architecture.  My small bookshelf is like my cache memory, the rest of my office shelves are my RAM, and the garage is my hard drive.  This weekend I’m going to try to move most of the items from the garage into my office, so I can have faster access to a larger number of items.

For the reasons I already mentioned, I don’t usually recommend specific books unless they’re really good.  However, there are some authors I can recommend whose books and audio programs I found valuable.  These include:

    Anthony Robbins
    Brian Tracy
    Stephen Covey
    Deepak Chopra
    Wayne Dyer
    Earl Nightingale
    Denis Waitley
    Harvey Mackay
    Jay Abraham
    Napoleon Hill
    Dale Carnegie
    Og Mandino
    James Redfield
    Eckhart Tolle

Often when I find an author I like, I’ll read several books by that author in a row, sometimes every book they’ve written.  This immerses me in the author’s mindset, and I absorb their philosophy much more deeply.  When you read an author’s collected works, you pick up subtleties and nuances that you’d otherwise miss.

Set aside some space in your bedroom, living room, or office, and begin building your own personal development library.  If you’re a human being, you’re going to face recurring human problems.  Don’t reinvent the wheel.  Build your own reference library of solutions that work for you.  You’ll be glad you did.

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Welcome to BizOppsReview - Your Guide to Business Opportunities I've previously made the claim that business opportunities can be placed into one of 6 categories:
(1) Information publishing
(2) Betting and gambling
(3) Financial trading and investing
(4) Affiliate and commission based opps
(5) Property
(6) Outright scams
There are probably a couple more but I am struggling to think at the moment - these 6 pretty much cover most of the industry. I guess you could add eBay into the mix and other retail opportunities.
Now, information publishing can be extremely lucrative. You only need to look at marketers like Andrew Reynolds, Stuart Goldsmith and Nick Laight to see that. All of these people have made millions from newsletters and courses.
Newsletters give you a list of customers - this leads on to seminars and other products.
Of course, all three of those men are extremely good copywriters and have crafted their trade over the last couple of decades.
There's no doubt most reasonably intelligent people could emulate them if they had:
(a) An interest in the subject
(b) A burning desire to write good copy
(c) The discipline to spend years practicing the art of copywriting.
Some of us have to realise that we have none of those three traits.
Yes, I have made money from information publishing - mainly from writing reviews and articles, selling resale rights products and publishing information on websites.
However, it quickly became a chore to do this and it was obvious that this wasn't the way to go for me.
Therefore I have to cross information publishing off the list of my future plans. It won't be a major component of my future money making endeavours.
Next we come to betting and gambling.
Now this is an attractive prospect. Place a bet, it wins and the money you "earn" is tax free.
Sounds great.
Of course the problem is - what do we bet on?
I tried laying horses using one system - it didn't work very well.
After a year of running the system my bank was about 3% up. Pretty poor really.
More recently I tested a betting advisory service that gave one low-risk, low-odds bet once per day.
Unfortunately the tips quickly removed 35% of my betting bank. I got a refund within the 30 day guarantee period.
It's obvious that there are some people making money from betting but are these just the people selling systems?
Or are the real winners the people who have a slight edge over the bookmakers but the discipline to rigidly follow a money management plan and slow eek money out of sporting events?
I'm adamant that there must be some people out there who make a living purely from betting. I know that there are people who trade on Betfair horse racing markets and are able to make money consistently.
There must also be someone out there who can bet on single events and have enough winners to cover the losers and leave a little profit on top.
This is what I'd like to develop - a slow, boring, profitable system that doesn't take a great deal of time to run.
A small test I am running at present shows some promise in the popular "lay the draw" method of betting on "in-play" football markets on Betfair. It takes discipline and is likely to take a while to build up profits but I'm seeing some small, regular profits.
If this method ever builds up any real cash – or it can be boiled-down to a series of “do this, do that” instructions – I’ll give more details.
Financial trading and investing:
Spread betting is very attractive - the rewards can be big and any profits are tax-free. Of course, it's also a very quick way to lose a lot of money if you get it wrong.
Again, like standard betting, this is a slow-burner.
Day trading isn't likely to be much fun unless you have a huge passion for it, for the same reasons neither is forex trading. Do you really want to watch a screen all day waiting to see an indication that you should enter a trade?
Boring.
However, I can see some promise in longer-term trading i.e. holding a position for weeks and months - exactly the way that Vince Stanzione suggests that you trade.
Likewise investing, by which I mean buying and holding shares and other assets - antiques, classic cars, stamps, coins, perhaps even domain names.
Investing is something that everyone should be doing constantly.
A good idea may be to make money from information publishing, gambling, forex trading or whatever but use some of the profits to invest in shares or another type of asset in order to see growth over a number of years.
For most, that's too slow but I can really see it as an excellent way to build some real wealth.
Affiliate marketing:
Well, this is an excellent way to make money as it removes all the problems of having to deal with customers.
Contrary to what most will say, you don't need to have an "email list" to whom you sending offers and receive commission. The main method I use is to provide excellent information on various websites and then include recommendations for products that tie into the information.
If you provide good info then search engines will provide visitors.
Get it right and it is a simple but effective cash cow with very few headaches - for example, you won't need a "helpdesk" for dealing with customers because you won't have any.
Add pages regularly to your website and it works in the background for you, making you money whilst you go off and do something more exciting.
Adsense would be included in this category.
Onto property.
Like investing, property opps are usually always going to be long term projects. Try and shortcut the process and you may just end up in over your head - like Greg and Andy did on their way to bankruptcy.
Yes, invest in property and look forward to long term gains but look at other opps too for some quicker profits.
Always remember the value of property will go up and down. This isn’t easy to remember when prices are storming upwards. I admit that I was completely carried away in the last housing boom – I just hope my memory is good when the next boom occurs.
Finally the outright scams.
Scams are always going to be around and they'll always be a group of scumbags looking to draw people into their latest pyramid scheme.
Do some due diligence and think carefully before you hand over any money.
No-one will give you money for nothing and there is always a catch.
For example, cash-gifting opps tend to be popular due to the inherent laziness of the general public. People fall in love with the idea of receiving envelopes of cash through the mail.
Some people do receive envelopes but the vast majority lose money. In addition, it’s an illegal practice in the UK. But the promoters will never tell you that…
Nobody cares about your money as much as you do so make sure to do as much research as you can about an opportunity before you part with any cash.
Ben
17th February 2011



Business Opportunities are rife almost wherever you look. But which ones are worthwhile?



 If you want more detail, good or bad, about the most popular and widely advertised business opportunities available then you are definitely at the right place.
On the whole you will find that a lot of schemes which you can class as a business opportunity are worthwhile but, on the other hand, there are many advertised which are full-on scams.
If you are looking for home-based work then you are very likely to have come across hundreds of adverts promising riches beyond belief. Many "get rich quick" schemes aren't worth the paper they are written on but the good news is that some are worth their weight in gold.


Our aim on this site and through the completely free Business Opportunity blog, is to provide fair, accurate and honest views about as many opportunities as we can.
Make no mistake, some schemes can and will make you money if you put in the work - even the more expensive ones.
This site works as follows:
On the left you will find many links to popular Business Opportunity providers and companies. Each link will aim to show you:
(a) Details of the author, company and websites associated with the scheme
(b) A little background about each one
(c) Opinions taken from various sources
(d) The price of the each product they offer (where known)
(e) The likelyhood of success
(f) Suggestions of cheaper or better opportunites which provide similar information
It is our intention that each individual company is treated fairly and the information provided represents a fair description of their services and reputation.
Some points to remember about Business Opportunities:

  • Some, if not all, will require you to pay an upfront fee for the information

  • All Biz Opps are created to make the author/original company money. What you have to decide is whether the information or services provided will make you money

  • The price of any particular opportunity does not reflect the value. Some incredibly cheap opportunities can be very, very profitable. On the other hand, some expensive ones can be dire.

  • Many biz opps have a limited life span. If you are thinking of buying, for example, an ebook about eBay written in 2002 it may well be very out of date. Online businesses like eBay change rapidly. Methods that are profitable one year may be useless the next.

  • No matter what you are told in the sales literature, all businesses require hard work to be profitable. There is no easy way to make money.
If you wish to add any feedback about a particular scheme or want to suggest any you are interested in, please use the Feedback form found to the left to email your suggestions. Any relevant feedback will be added to the site and the author credited.
Thanks for visiting, I hope you find some useful information,

Joey Tapia






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