I am starting up a new thing on the blog and asking a question of the day to all my buds in Twitter.
To be included in the QOD (Question of the Day) all you need to do is
1) Follow me on Twitter
2) Keep an eye open for my the new QOD Post TODAY
3) Respond
4) I will handle the rest, its that easy.
So the question yesterday was:
And here are YOUR answers!!!
I have done many calls in my days on ColderICE, but none have been so painfully personal than this one. Peggy Duncan was “reading my mail” on this call! 
PEGGY DUNCAN is a combination professional organizer, project manager, and computer trainer. She uses this powerful set of skills to help busy people like you spend less time working but get more done. She’s a personal productivity expert, speaker, trainer, consultant, coach, and author.
That is a mouth full ain’t it? She is a freakin power house in a small package. How does she do all of that? She knows the secret to creating TIME.
Peggy’s known as a Personal Productivity Expert and she is the author of several books including her latest title, “Time Management Memory Jogger”. I believe she said “expert” because there was no greater term than expert in her thinking, but IF there is a “goddess” of time, she should OWN IT.
The best thing about Peggy is she has SO MUCH information on her website and her blog, to help the minions of time, like me, rise up. She will “resurrect” your schedule and heal your time wasting disease, LMBO
Listen to today’s working call. it comes with a full post and worksheets to help you get started TODAY! To get the material for this call simply go to HERE for the call material and pres the play button below. Prepare yourself to be BLOWN AWAY by this call. And listen to Peggy “read my mail” LIVE! Time to Work Smarter Not Harder…Listen NOW!!!
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Ecommerce edutainment on demandI am starting up a new thing on the blog and asking a question of the day to all my buds in Twitter.
To be included in the QOD (Question of the Day) all you need to do is
1) Follow me on Twitter
2) Keep an eye open for my QOD Post
3) Respond
4) I will handle the rest, its that easy.
So the question yesterday was:
Here are YOUR responses! (keep in mind that the timeline is always bottom up and not top down)
The week of experts is almost finished, but we WILL go thru Saturday and then Sunday is SUPERBOWL so I am not working that day. Next week at NOON everyday is eBay Week Don’t Miss IT!
We are ALL ecommerce sellers, and as such our ad copy MUST be better that just OK. It must also be better than the “other guys”. One of the MOST overlooked aspects of our business can be marketing and copy writing. To our own detriment of the bottom line YOU MUST learn to write good copy.
As a seasoned direct response copywriter, Jim Turner has created numerous winning promotional sales letters for some of the world’s largest niche market information publishers… generating $100,000’s in direct sales.
I am just checking right now how LARGE Jim’s circle of influence is! Holy cow, this dude has 13,000 friends between Facebook & Twitter followers. And WE got him today for you FREE on ColderICE.com…can you say SWEET!!!
Jim’s technique of grabbing the reader by the eyeballs and keeping them glued to the page until they buy is very much like that of a pit bull. Pit bull are known for getting a grip on their prey until they cry ‘uncle.’ So it is with Jim’s copywriting.
Jim uses his valuable experience to help sellers sell more products, both through direct mail, email and online – regardless of what you’re selling you WILL benefit from this call. Jim is a pure genius.
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My guess is that 98% of eBay NARU issues with sellers could be avoided if two things happen:
1) IF eBay had better ORGANIZATION of communication.
2) IF Sellers took PERSONAL responsibility for eBay rule compliance.
[POINT #1] Here is what I mean…The folks in the eBay Development community (whom I adore BTW) communicate to developer fantastically. Most issues with API changes are notified pretty well in advance of changes.
Long (that is a relative long) before most BIG issues of change come to the platform, the developer community is notified and kept abreast. HOWEVER on the user side, you are like a mice in a maze with moving cheese.
Who do I blame for that? Hmmmmm…I can NOT really tell you, but my uneducated guess is his name rhymes with “flusher” LMAO. If you got a title like eBay Communication Executive, then HELLO, Usher Lieberman, when sh*t stinks your nostrils SHOULD burn. SO I will point the finger at the head and HE can “communicate” to his down stream division where the lack really is.
My honest contention from HIS OWN words is that the dude could use a “mentor” on how to communicate?!? Maybe I am a complete idiot (and that is a HUGE possibility). But to take on the task of communication of this HUGE corporation, along with the challenges of communication with the large buyer community, TOPPED off with change after change that needs, at the very least, some minimal communication could be a little overwhelming for a “newbie”
Listen the the eBay communication executive “newbie’s” massive list of qualification and experience from the Auction Wally interview…WTF?
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My hope is that the new years resolution for Usher, will maybe get a coach that has some experience in communicating change or maybe hire yourself a consultant, or even find a communications MENTOR! Do something DUDE, see if we can do better in 2009. Grow…Expand…Educate yourself into the position. Become a MASTER communicator in your own right.
If you listen to the clip, I think even Wally was a little shocked by his lack of experience and his answer…Wally says”OK…” LMBO.
The great Gordon Ramsey (Hell’s Kitchen) says that to be successful you must “focus in on the wrong and FIX IT, do not IGNORE it” and that should be for all of us. No matter if you are the executive in eBay or in your own Mom and Pop operation, that is what we must do. So now, that brings me out of issue 1 and on to 2
[Point #2] If you want to be successful in your business then the FIRST thing you must do is take PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY for YOUR business. HELLO?!? I don’t know how so many sellers that run businesses take almost ZERO responsibility for their own ignorance.
Here is what I mean…eBay inherently covers their “ass”-sets constantly on EVERYTHING they do. They have one of the MOST comprehensive help pages of any venue ever. They have communication feeds, rss, chat board, user groups, blogs and ON and ON with GREAT information.
My guess is they have one hell of a writing staff and they (the help topic writers) must bang there heads up against the wall daily thinking NO BODY READS OUR STUFF!!! I am sure that has to sound familiar to sellers, who write sale terms and customers/buyers NEVER read them!
Well those same sellers, then turn around and NEVER read eBay communications, or seek them out. I am NOT one of those people. I am constantly LOOKING, searching, reading and trying to FIND information. Knowledge is POWER and if you lack it, you are powerless…hence the cry of may eBay sellers “I feel powerless”. Well part of that is because you give your power away, because you wait on information to come to your front door and knock on it, WTF?!?
NOT GONNA HAPPEN EVER! Get that out of your head and out of the way for your success. There is a saying…”SEEK and YOU shall find”…that saying is 1000% true. So you can either embrace that, or sit there on the carpet and kick, scream and flail your legs like a 2 year old. That is your ONLY two choice so chose wisely.
But OF COURSE after all of this in-depth and inept grade school thinking, John Donahoe reminds me that I am SOOOOO wrong!!! Their current strategy is working ya’ll 
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Ecommerce edutainment on demandI woke up this morning and was looking through my hundreds of emails today. One line in my emails stood out. I saw the king of all geek bloggers name Robert Scoble in my stream of daily fodder.
Well my eyes about popped out of my head to see this:
LMAO, but I almost spit out the morning coffee! For a guy like me to be given a spot in his Twitter files, was like finding the Golden Ticket to the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory!
I know it is not like that big for some, but for me it kinda made my freakin’ DAY! Now I am not any longer just one of the millions and millions. But in my mind, suddenly I got this velvet rope feeling for a tech geek like me.
I am now is a club of 55,612 of “US” that when we see that finger pointing picture…In some weird, odd, satisfying, geek fan way, I feel like he is point at me…well me and the other 55,611 other folks. 
Look Mom, I am one of those 55,612. Thanks Robert Scoble, from one of your tech geek fans!!!
We are doing EXPERT WEEK all this week at NOON. Be sure to check ColderICE.com every day at 12:00 Noon eastern for some KILLER content to grow your business!!!
— John
Our week together has been a veritable Business University, has it NOT?!? Now lets get into completing our degree. Next phase? It MUST be the process of the relationship, that great concept that Dwight Miller spoke on and the upmost importance of it. Now let the TOP strategist, mentioned in yesterday’s call with Giovanna Gargia, is here TODAY. The queen of relationship blogging will tell us how to crank up our blogging.
For those "in the know" the name Liz Strauss of Successful-Blog.com has the ability to make a room gasp and swoon, LMAO. Seriously, when Liz talks people don’t just listen, they CAPTURE it and internalize it. Liz KNOWS the what we all need to learn to be successful.
According to EatonWeb, "Liz Strauss is perhaps the most influential relational blogger on the Internet." Her blog – Liz Strauss at Successful Blog – has been called both a destination and an event. At it’s second anniversary it had 50,000 comments, now it’s pushing 70,000. Find out why people say, “You’re only a stranger once.”
Liz works with businesses, universities, and individuals on their products and social web strategies. She has worked over 20 years in print, software, and online publishing, and strategized with publishers in Europe, Australia, the UK, and Ireland.
Liz has worked with entrepreneurs, small businesses, companies in crisis (HELLO!?!), and corporate giants. She was recently a featured speaker at the Cass Business School of City University in London and will return in the fall to give a presentation and seminar for students at Oxford University.
OXFORD, dang it, OXFORD!!! And right here today on ColderICE for FREE?!?…You need to get a clue and LISTEN NOW!!!
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Ecommerce edutainment on demandOk, ya’ll know I am slow and I don’t play with Wallstreet stuff, I’m just a small town “Tasty Freeze” kinda folk.
LMAO, I am going to have to let this one sink in a little before I make any comment. But right now, I am in a state of ummmmm….awe at this video?!?
Maybe it is just me? Could be?
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