I’m just a plain man when it comes to making money online; I just do what I do and try to make an honest buck wherever I can without upsetting anyone.
I’m a plain man when it comes to making money online; I just do what I do and try to make an honest buck wherever I can without upsetting anyone.
Now and again though fate steps in and sends you a prospect where you have to figure out for yourself where he or she is coming from and where in fact they think they’re heading.
I got one such prospect a few weeks ago in the shape of Rocco, a gentle giant from Brooklyn.
How do I know Rocco is a giant?
He emailed a picture of himself towering over his significant other and some friends.
How do I know he’s gentle?
Read on…
Rocco emailed me expressing interest in three of my products but he didn’t want them in digital format (which would have cost him $107 in total) he wanted hard copy.
I suggested CD formatting.
He got back to me saying, “No, I don’t want CDs, I want hard copy. I’ll pay a grand”
So now I thought, loony tunes, but I emailed Rocco back intimating that if he deposited $200 in my PayPal account I’d give him what he wanted; hard copy on all three products
I reckoned I would hear no more but the following morning on checking my PayPal account I discovered to my astonishment that one thousand dollars had been deposited.
I can’t take this man’s money I protested and I told him so.
Rocco got back to me within the hour.
His brusque message read, “I said a grand, I meant a grand, so take a grand”.
So I took Rocco’s grand.
Wouldn’t you?
I mean who wants to be emailed to death…
The moral:
Never assume you know better than prospects – or what they are prepared to pay – and why. Maybe Rocco has a sight problem beyond my ken or maybe he finds it difficult to read from a computer screen. I will never know for sure but this I do know. Rocco is delighted with the hard copy he craved.
He told me so… in yet another email.
The Timeless Secret to Creating Bestselling Niche Non-Fiction
It is quite an achievement when a niche non-fiction book remains consistently at the top of the bestseller lists for a period spanning six months; an achievement that is all the more difficult to fathom when you consider that the subject matter has nothing to do with sex, drugs, rock and roll or the like; subject matter that might even be regarded as mundane in the extreme.
The Book That Opened My Eyes To Making Money
In the days leading up to Christmas I finished reading a remarkable (yet unheralded) little book that opened my eyes to what making money is really all about.
How to Feed the Spiders and Grab the Top Spots
I did a progress check on the very first site I ever launched: http://www.writing-for-profit.com.
