Ebay Ebook Success Tips: Avoid Spoof Emails!!!
August 31, 2007
Ebay Ebook Success Tips: Avoid Spoof Emails!!!
by: Tom Parker
One of the things I have noticed as I have increased my sales volume on eBay is the increased volume of spoof emails I have received claiming to be eBay or PayPal. They do this to try and gain access to your eBay or PayPal account, and sometimes even to try and get your bank details. I therefore felt that my next article should be on spotting and avoiding spoof email as it will surely be a problem that all you ebook sellers are going to have to deal with too.
Spotting spoof email can initially be quite tricky. After all the address appears to be a PayPal or eBay one and the often use eBay and PayPal graphics to make the emails look even more authentic. However, once you have had a reasonable amount of spoof email come your way, you soon realise that they all generally stick to the same format. Below are some of the most common spoof emails.
A Questionnaire for Businesses
August 30, 2007
As best you can, answer the following twenty-five questions. There’s no scoring. But you’ll know whether you should be satisfied with your answers, or not. If you aren’t, perhaps you have some work to do.
1. What are the benefits you offer?
2. What do you think motivates your clients to buy? Are they driven by Fear of Loss, Desire for Gain, Self Preservation, Safety, Health, Security, Recognition, Power, Net Profits, Increased Sales, Lower Costs, Knowledge, Self Actualisation, Social Status, Riches, Popularity, Self Expression, Acceptance, Prestige, Success, Pleasure, or a combination of a few of these?
3. Why do you think your best/favourite clients purchased your service/product? (What benefit(s) attracted them?)
4. Have you asked your clients why they purchased from you.
5. How does your service improve the life or work conditions of your clients?
6. Have you written a profile of your best clients?
7. Have you identified where to find the greatest concentration of your best prospects?
8. Have you identified a list of prospects similar to your best customers?
9. Considering all the potential prospects you’ve identified, with which ones could your service/product make the biggest difference?
Writing Goals Down Ties Them Up!
August 29, 2007
Writing goals describes the act of inscribing on a surface characters or shapes that convey thoughts and ideas in relation to that goal. Why is this mechanical act of writing goals so important in the achievement process?
Also, what is the best way to approach writing goals for maximum effect?
Words are an integral part of the thinking process.
Words convey images, pictures, feelings, emotions to the mind.
Say to yourself silently “STENCH” and then follow it quickly with “FRAGRANCE” and you will be aware of the different reactions those words produce in your mind.
Here is an interesting observation:
We can be thinking ’something’ without realizing fully what that something is.
It is intangible, it is not clearly defined in our mind.
But now, start putting that thought into words, try expressing it and an amazing thing starts to happen.
By clothing it in words, that abstract thought now takes on body, shape, form, substance.
It is no longer just a thought! It becomes something which motivates us, or creates a gut feeling inside.
Just try it and you will see how it works.
How Small Business And Nonprofits Can Afford Multimedia For The Web
August 28, 2007
Multimedia is everywhere on the Internet, whether in the form of floating ads at major websites, streaming video or animated presentations. Of course, there is a good reason why multimedia has become such an integral part of the web experience: it’s an effective tool for capturing attention or provoking visitors to buy or contact the site owner. For these reasons, many educational institutions, businesses, and other organizations desire multimedia presentations. Unfortunately, at first glance multimedia, often appears prohibitively expensive for small businesses and non-profits. The following represent a number of ways to control the high cost that typically accompanies multimedia production without losing quality. We believe these suggestions will ensure that you save money but still feel good about your investment.
Let’s begin by understanding the components of professional multimedia production, which include creative development, actual production, and various stages for revisions.
Identifying Potential in Ourselves and Others
August 28, 2007
If there is someone nearby as you read this look in their eyes. Look closely and you will see great potential inside this person regardless of how "successful" or accomplished they are. If you are alone, get up, find a mirror, and look in your own eyes. There is great potential there too!
If you don’t believe this premise - that great potential is inside each of us - there is no reason to continue reading. Why? Because this article will give you concrete steps to help you recognize and find that potential in yourself and others.
If you don’t believe it is there, it will be pretty hard to find it.
(Ok, I’m glad you are still reading!)
Identifying Our Own Potential
I know you may be reading this thinking about how you can coach, mentor and lead others ? and you really are more interested in focusing on others. This is admirable and we’ll get there in a few minutes, however in order to help others most effectively, we need to know how it works ourselves, and by working on ourselves we are in an even better position to help others.
Will You Be an Internet Success Story
August 27, 2007
Will You Be an Internet Success Story
by: Raymond Johnston Jr
The internet has completely changed the business world. It has changed the whole concept of how to be successful in a home business. It has also provided the opportunity for many to give up the 9 to 5 world and seek their dream on the internet. Some have made this transition seem easy and others continue to struggle.
Have you been thinking about making this change? Do you have what it takes to make this a successful move? Let’s take a look at a few of the things that ultimately decide who makes the grade and who goes down with the ship.
1. Work at something you enjoy. There is nothing quite like enjoying your job. It puts a whole new perspective on the world. If you like what you do, working becomes a pleasure instead of a chore. Some of you are probably thinking, yeah right, work is not something to enjoy but rather just a pain that we have to endure.
Testing Your Way To Prosperity
August 26, 2007
I have always enjoyed talking to a Realtor friend of mine about his Father-in-laws business. His business is Gold Mining and he has been involved in it full time for nearly his whole life. My friend has a good relationship with his Father-in-law and often spends time helping him in this business and has learned a lot about prospecting and mining and the other facets of this extremely risky industry.
One of the interesting things that I learned from my friend is that gold mining is a lot more complicated than it seems. You don’t just go find nuggets and start digging, at least, not any more. There are very few places where gold can be found in large enough nuggets to make this an effective option. In most instances the actual gold is very fine, often almost too small to see, or is embedded in some other rock.
You don’t just sift through the dirt and pick out the chunks of gold. Instead you have to dig up tons of earth (sometimes as much as 2 tons per ounce of gold), crush it and run it through several physical and chemical processes in order to extract the small amount of gold from the rest of the dirt.
Success at Work : People Skills : Networking
August 25, 2007
Getting along with your co-workers is critical to yourhappiness and success at work. You may find yourselfspending more time with your co-workers than with yourspouse and family. Each individual in an organization isjust a small cog in a big wheel. Without the assistance ofco-workers, you will find your assignments much moredifficult.
The first step toward getting the assistance of yourco-workers is to accept others uniqueness andidiosyncrasies. People come from many different nationalorigins, races, genders, and ages. Corporate America callsthis “diversity”.
You may think an individual with a different race ornational origin is peculiar or has strange habits. I findthat all people, regardless of race, national origin,gender, or age, want the same things. All people want asafe place to live and employment that gives them theability to provide for themselves and their family. Whata boring world this would be if we all dressed the same,acted the same, and had the same ideas.
If you have an attitude of discrimination against aco-worker because of their national origin, race, gender,or age, I’m not going to try to change your mind. I WILLadvise you that if you want to succeed at work, you betterat least act like you are on the diversity bandwagon.
Is Your Life Ready For Groundhog Day?
August 24, 2007
In the hit comedic movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray’s character, Phil Conners, is caught up in a time warp, doomed to live the same day over and over until he gets it right. Hilarious as the ensuing mayhem may be on the big screen, it is a poignant and not too thinly veiled metaphor for how most of us live our own lives - mindlessly occupied with our own issues and concerns, stumbling through life (often over the toes of others) with little if any conscious direction or critical thought. In the end, we keep on running into the same scenarios and problems over and over - not because we’re caught in a time loop, but because we’re caught in a life-loop. We haven’t made the grade, so we can’t graduate beyond our current situation.
One of the solutions to this is to create what I call a “Groundhog Day” Proof Life. Think about it for a second. What if today (or any day lately) was the only day you got to live. Would that be okay with you, or would it be a wailing tragedy? There are 5 steps to creating a GD Proof Life, and I’ve outlined them below.
Are You Marketing Backwards?
August 23, 2007
Marketing is like rowing a boat. When you know how the pointed bow moves smoothly forward through the water encountering the least amount of resistance. Rowing backwards, the square stern of the boat pushes against the water, requiring more effort and increases the risk of having a wave come over the transom (back) and swamping it. Yet most people market backwards, trying to grow their business while pushing against the greatest level of resistance.
Wouldn’t you like to market your business so that it moved easily forward?
What’s the first thing most people do to increase sales of their products, services? They put together a description of their credentials. Then they pick up the phone, run an ad campaign, send out a brochure and or build a web site and ask people to buy.
Do you know anyone who has used this approach?
Have you tried it yourself?
Were you happy with the number of new clients and customers you attracted?
