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Saturday, 30 March 2013
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
A Basic Online Poker Strategy
Don't get me wrong, I'm a complete Fish however I have a mate who does very well on cash games and rakeback. Here is a summary of his basic rules:
- Never limp in.
- Never call unless you are in position with suited connectors or a low pair.
- Use position. Use position. Use position.
- Use blind stats to your advantage.
- Always be raising.
- If you bluff on the flop you have to keep bluffing.
- You need Hold Em Manager software (or an equivalent) to survive.
Stock Photography Basics
I've never started listing my pics on Istock as of yet as the entrance questions were too hard! Nonetheless, from my reading here are some of the key points:
- You should be uploading thousands of photos.
- Use Photo Stock Plus, Dreams Time and Istockphoto.
- Take photos associated with what is happening in the news.
- Upload funny photos at break.com
- Use 3.5 keywords
- Make more money through the referral program.
How to Become an Antiquarian Bookseller
Further to Avril Harper, I love the videos
which are regularly posted on Youtube by King Human. Once again this guy keeps
the sales patter to a minimum whilst still providing useful and usable
information. Here is a basic system he put forward once to get you started in
the Antiquarian Book Business:
1)
Go to Ebay.
2)
Go to Books – Antiquarian and
Collectable
3)
Go to Completed Listings under £1000.
4)
Find a sold item with more than 10
bids.
5)
Trawl the net to find that very product
at 50% or less of the Ebay sold price.
It’s as simple as that. It sounds too basic
but King Human shows it working in practice.
This isn’t something to pin your hopes on
but I think you should make one sale a year if you give it a bit of focus. Aim
to make £50 within a year – that might
give you the taste for it.
A Simple Ebay/ AliExpress System
Of
all the Internet Marketers that I follow, Avril Harper is probably my
favourite. Not too much B.S., not too much gloss. Her plans are really basic
step 1, step 2 stuff. Here is a plan of hers I jotted down some years ago:
- Go to www.ebay.co.uk. Click
‘Buy’ in the top right of the screen and then click ‘Browse Categories’. On the
next page choose a category, then a sub-category. Now search for Top Rated
Sellers with Buy It Now listings for products you might enjoy selling. Click on
one or two listings and study the numbers sold at the right of ‘Quantity’.
- If sales are high from one listing, I’d say 100 or more in two months is good, head over to Alibaba - www.alibaba.com - it’s one of the world’s most reliable product sourcing portals, where you can access many thousands of different products from reliable suppliers. This reliability is what makes AliExpress or AliBaba a good place to source products - the company keeps careful tabs on its product suppliers and bars any that prove unsatisfactory.
- Key the details of eBay’s top selling products into the search box of your chosen product sourcing sites.
Study the wholesale prices against those fetched on eBay to determine the likely potential profit per sale. Study discounts on products purchased in bulk, which add to your profit margins.
- Contact the sellers and ask permission to use their images and product details in your eBay listings. I’ve only been refused once.
- Choose as many products as you have time to handle and list them on eBay. Use auction listings to determine prices people are willing to pay, and how many orders ensue for specific price levels. This information helps you determine demand and profit potential for subsequent multi-product Buy It Now listings that allow you to offer hundreds of similar products inside one listing for the same price as a one product listing at auction.
- As soon as bids appear contact wholesalers and get them to put stock aside for your test marketing exercise. Most will agree as long as you tell them you’ll be buying stock in bulk later.
- When auctions end, invoice your winning bidder and send Second Chance Offers to unsuccessful bidders whose offers also generate profit for you.
- Isolate products that do make money from those that don’t - add the former to your permanent inventory and dismiss the rest.
Note: You must do constant checks on permanent inventory to ensure profits stay high. It’s also a good idea to do further checks on products that fall slightly below your profit expectations to see if changes to your listing might generate higher profits later.
- Take payment for goods sold in your test listings, buy sufficient stock to fulfil orders, use profits to pay your eBay and PayPal fees, spend the remainder on stock for future listings.
- Make replenishment of stock from profits your main priority and look for products that at least double your investment after overheads. This allows you to double your wealth every time you acquire new stock. So as long as the market for your products remains constant, or grows, you could end up with a multi-million pound turnover business in less than one year. Much less if you’re really keen.
- If sales are high from one listing, I’d say 100 or more in two months is good, head over to Alibaba - www.alibaba.com - it’s one of the world’s most reliable product sourcing portals, where you can access many thousands of different products from reliable suppliers. This reliability is what makes AliExpress or AliBaba a good place to source products - the company keeps careful tabs on its product suppliers and bars any that prove unsatisfactory.
- Key the details of eBay’s top selling products into the search box of your chosen product sourcing sites.
Study the wholesale prices against those fetched on eBay to determine the likely potential profit per sale. Study discounts on products purchased in bulk, which add to your profit margins.
- Contact the sellers and ask permission to use their images and product details in your eBay listings. I’ve only been refused once.
- Choose as many products as you have time to handle and list them on eBay. Use auction listings to determine prices people are willing to pay, and how many orders ensue for specific price levels. This information helps you determine demand and profit potential for subsequent multi-product Buy It Now listings that allow you to offer hundreds of similar products inside one listing for the same price as a one product listing at auction.
- As soon as bids appear contact wholesalers and get them to put stock aside for your test marketing exercise. Most will agree as long as you tell them you’ll be buying stock in bulk later.
- When auctions end, invoice your winning bidder and send Second Chance Offers to unsuccessful bidders whose offers also generate profit for you.
- Isolate products that do make money from those that don’t - add the former to your permanent inventory and dismiss the rest.
Note: You must do constant checks on permanent inventory to ensure profits stay high. It’s also a good idea to do further checks on products that fall slightly below your profit expectations to see if changes to your listing might generate higher profits later.
- Take payment for goods sold in your test listings, buy sufficient stock to fulfil orders, use profits to pay your eBay and PayPal fees, spend the remainder on stock for future listings.
- Make replenishment of stock from profits your main priority and look for products that at least double your investment after overheads. This allows you to double your wealth every time you acquire new stock. So as long as the market for your products remains constant, or grows, you could end up with a multi-million pound turnover business in less than one year. Much less if you’re really keen.
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Make Money From Thin Air
You may have noted that a recurring theme in my writing is to take something free (or next to free) and then sell it on by adding a little value or reframing it in some way.
Here are 2 Free products which you can sell on Ebay today:
1) Money off coupons/ vouchers. Someone recently sold a Tesco voucher on Ebay for £1.74 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TESCO-Grocery-Money-off-Voucher-7-off-a-70-spend-Valid-to-1-7-April-2013-/251246116538?pt=UK_Tickets_Trave_Vouchers_Coupons_LE&hash=item3a7f6f7eba. Money off vouchers are always to be found in the daily papers, magazines, junk mail or in the free magazines which the supermarkets distribute.
2) Ebooks. Technically you are not allowed to sell digital products on Ebay anymore but it still happens. There are many out of copyright Ebooks that sell every week. Check out "As A Man Thinketh" which is a particular favourite.
If you were to think about it there are many, many more free items which you can sell. By building up a portfolio of these you could create a small £5 a month/ £60 a year income from just this.
That's enough to cover odds and ends.
Here are 2 Free products which you can sell on Ebay today:
1) Money off coupons/ vouchers. Someone recently sold a Tesco voucher on Ebay for £1.74 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TESCO-Grocery-Money-off-Voucher-7-off-a-70-spend-Valid-to-1-7-April-2013-/251246116538?pt=UK_Tickets_Trave_Vouchers_Coupons_LE&hash=item3a7f6f7eba. Money off vouchers are always to be found in the daily papers, magazines, junk mail or in the free magazines which the supermarkets distribute.
2) Ebooks. Technically you are not allowed to sell digital products on Ebay anymore but it still happens. There are many out of copyright Ebooks that sell every week. Check out "As A Man Thinketh" which is a particular favourite.
If you were to think about it there are many, many more free items which you can sell. By building up a portfolio of these you could create a small £5 a month/ £60 a year income from just this.
That's enough to cover odds and ends.
Pat Butcher Topless!
This is one of the funniest things I've seen on EBay:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2293959/Funniest-eBay-items-sale-Nude-drawings-EastEnders-stars--topless-Pat-Butcher-pulling-bids.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2293959/Funniest-eBay-items-sale-Nude-drawings-EastEnders-stars--topless-Pat-Butcher-pulling-bids.html
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