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Coaching Case Study!
Name: Tracey Edwards
Niche: eBay
Website:
www.tracey-edwards.com
Product:
Auction Classified Cash
From Tracey
When I first got the email from John
regarding his coaching program, I had been selling eBooks and digital products
on eBay for over twelve months and doing pretty well at it.
At first I wasn't sure if the coaching
program would be right for me, not because of the cost - I actually thought the
$500 was good value compared to some community college courses I had been
looking at - but because I thought it might be a bit too basic for me. However
since I hadn't yet created my own product, and I trusted John, I decided to give
it a go. I got up very early (I'm in Australia so it was released very early
morning here) and was one of the first people to sign up.
Over the next few weeks I started to get
very excited, I had chosen my niche product - I was going to write a beginners
guide to selling eBooks on eBay via digital delivery, set up my blog, and was
busy writing and putting the finishing touches on my eBook. I was really proud
of what I'd done and thought that I had created a great product.
We had just reached the week where we had
to apply to Clickbank for approval when eBay made that fateful announcement that
you could no longer sell ebooks except as classified ads, so immediately my
eBook became obsolete overnight. Not only that, but like many other eBook
sellers, I got a 30 day suspension for feedback manipulation - what the!!!
I was feeling pretty devastated and spent
the next week sulking and complaining to anyone who would listen. After about a
week of moping I was reading John's blog and I had a light bulb moment when he
talked about looking for the positives in this. I was doing what many other
internet marketers were doing by complaining when what I should have been doing
was taking some initiative and action!
So the next few weeks I spent most of my
time researching classified ads on eBay. I wanted to find out: what were
they best used for, how to use them most profitably, which ads got the most
traffic - basically everything I could to making a successful classified ad.
I knew that I was getting behind in my
coaching lessons, as most of the other students were already promoting and
getting sales on their products, but I was determined to research my new eBook
thoroughly.
By the time we had reached Week 15, I had
just completed my second eBook on classified ads on eBay and
Auction Classified Cash
was born.. That meant that I was
about five weeks behind - so I had some catching up to do!
Luckily I got approved by Clickbank
quickly and so I spent the next fortnight completing the course step by step. I
think I did 6 weeks of coaching in just 2 weeks! But I did catch up and I was
really proud of what I had accomplished in such a short space of time.
I couldn't have done any of this without
the coaching program and John's encouragement. It certainly wasn't too basic
for me after all - it was the perfect level of coaching in just the right order
as you needed it.
By the end of the sixteen week course, I
had created two products (even though only one made it to sale), learnt a lot
about internet marketing, and also learnt a lot about myself - not a bad
investment if you ask me!
Tracey
www.tracey-edwards.com
Auction Classified Cash
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