My Ebay Beginnings…….
Continuing on with my online journey……..
In my last post I talked about how I got started on eBay. I just thought I would clarify this a little more. Getting started on eBay wasn’t exactly that easy for me to begin with, because at the time I was still trying to work out how to use the computer properly, surf the net or send emails with attachments!!!
How did I start on eBay? Truthfully I read “EBay for Dummies” and “Starting an EBay Business for Dummies.” Both of these books are written by Marsha Collier. I studied those books like I was at school! What I loved about those books was that they were easy to understand and were really basic in there step by step guides so when I was confused I was able to refer back to them. When I told my friends at the time that were a little more computer savvy than me that I was reading the dummies books, they laughed! However if you want to start selling on eBay and you don’t know where to start these books were a great beginning for me. I am sure you would be able to find copies of these books from Amazon or Marsha Collier has a website at www.coolebaytools.com. I bought my books from my local bookshop.
It wasn’t until I went to a 2 hour seminar promoting Adam Giesling (I think I have spelt his surname correct, if not I will come back and correct it later) that I realised the potential of eBay. Adam was a fascinating speaker and really spoke about the business of eBay and reaching a world wide market, he was enthusiastic, energetic and very informative. He was here in Australia promoting one of his coaching programs at the time. I didn’t have the money to do the coaching program but the information I learnt in the 2 hour promotional seminar was enough to kick my butt and get me started with the help of the dummies books. The seminar was in August 2005 and that was when I began my online journey with eBay. I read the books and started slowly step by step.
My next ’Aha’ moment that continued my online journey was reading a book called the “One Minute Millionaire” by Mark Victor Hansen & Robert G. Allen. I love reading and have read many books over the years. I actually took 6 months off work at the end of 2003 to read books that would change my life for the better, I read heaps and studied them like I had assignments to hand in! I am getting side tracked I will write about that time in another post in the future.
Getting back to the ‘One Minute Millionaire’, I read that book over the Christmas of 2006 to 2007. At the time I was 6 months pregnant and preparing for the birth of my child. My father had told me to read the book years before hand but it had actually stayed on my book shelf for 2 years before I picked it up to read it!
This book changed my perspective on everything!!!! The story touched my core and I knew I could relate to it, not that I had ever been in the position of having a child taken away from me but I think it was the fact that I was pregnant at the time and suddenly knew that I had a small child about to be born that was going to be totally dependant on me and I had to provide for her future!!!
Speaking of child she is awake from her sleep, so until next time when I tell you more of my online journey……………….
Be Good To You & Believe In Your Dreams!
Jacinta