Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
Google will show you plenty of theories and pointers for writing the perfect Craigslist ad. And Amazon has a few books on the subject as well (for instance, Make Money Posting Ads on Craigslist).
But I’m going to show you a real live unique Craigslist ad-in-the-making. I hope to list it there within 24 hours (just in time to sell the car this weekend, you know).
The rest of this post is The Ad itself. Read it. Study it. Learn from it. And Read it all
I’ve heard so many good things about Blue Host that I finally decided I would switch my domains and sites to them.
Several weeks ago I started the registration process to open an account. I got to the end of one form and there sat the empty checkbox in front of a statement saying I’d read and accept their various terms of service.
I hadn’t.
So I put the process on hold and started wading through their long TOS. So many convoluted sentences to struggle through! I took days at it because too much of that kind of tedious, complicated reading at one time is just too much at one time.
Eventually I came to this:
Subscribers may not post or disclose any personal or private information about or images of children or any third party without the consent of said party or a parent’s consent in the case of a minor.
I used to live in Woodburn (Oregon), so this is primarily for you.
But if you live and/or work in any Woodburn (Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, etc), it could be primarily for you as well.
This has to do with my Web-ancient, well-seasoned domain, woodburns-own.com, and its current website, Woodburn’s Own. Read it all
I wondered if I could sell a digital image on eBay for a dollar.
No, it’s not worth my time. Except as a toe-in-the-water experiment.
After getting things ready, I noticed this: Read it all
Right now I have ten listings on eBay, with treasures-or-trash-or-both ranging from vintage player piano rolls to a coffee mug for a son-in-law to a banjo music box.
Now I have another idea (which I’ve already posted to Facebook and Google Plus).
Put a bunch of stuff together in a single listing and give people choice at a set price. Read it all
Two weeks ago I took you on an eight-lesson cruise around eBay: Seven Things I’ve Learned Selling on eBay.
Now I’ve reeled in six Musings of a Flopping eBay Fish Seller.
1 Don’t Mess With Low-Profit ItemsRead it all
The Web is awash with hints and tips for eBay sellers
I have my own Greenhorn’s eBay Seller’s Tricks, cooked in the boiling, bubbling cauldron that’s eBay. So let me scoop out a few ladles of it for you…
1 Reward Prospective Bidders With a Good Offer — That’s right, reward. Why should anyone want to bother being the first bidder on your item? So entice someone to bid first — make your entry-level bid Read it all