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    Easy Auction Business

    This formula helped me pocket in more than £175k NET PROFIT over the last 3 years by selling on eBay.co.uk. And I’m going to show You, Step-By-Step, How To Exploit This Amazingly Simple Technique and Generate Insane Profits Almost Immediately!

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    Chat With Andrew

    Would you like to Chat with Me LIVE and let me solve your problems on the go? Now you can! Introducing to you an exclusive service where you can chat with me and ask any questions and get immediate expert advice.

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    60 Day Blueprint Program

    60 Day Blueprint is an 8 week coaching program where I personally help people to build successful and profitable eBay businesses starting from scratch. Are you selling on eBay already? Even better! We’ll sky rocket your sales, revamp your strategy, improve listings and create pro quality designs in no time.

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    Second Income Generator

    Second Income Generator (SIG) video course shows you a very profitable, easy to start online business model which allows you to make substantial amount of money working part-time or full-time from a comfort of your home. Without the need of investing huge amounts of money. So it’s basically risk free. Only thing you’re investing is your TIME!

    Apr
    27

    No More eBay Fees!

    I hate paying eBay fees!

    Every eBay seller will agree on this one! But did you know that there is a simple, automated way to reduce or even eliminate your eBay bill every month? Yes! I’m talking about super profitable after sales marketing strategies online retail giants like Amazon, Love Film and Vista Print use to squeeze every penny out of their customers!

    While you’re miles away from companies like these, you can simply learn from THE BEST and effectively use same techniques to make more money for your online business. And that’s what all this is about - latest Easy Auction Business update for April is now available for EAB customers!

    In this short, 14 minute video I share with you exact same strategies Amazon and similar companies are using to reduce your eBay fees or even eliminate them altogether! So don’t delay and check out this new video now!

    If you’re not an EAB member yet, sign-up for your life-time membership and receive monthly video updates for free!

    Enjoy your weekend!

    Best Regards,
    Andrew

    Feb
    14

    EAB ONLINE, SIG 2.0 and 60DBP NEWS!

    Hello Everyone & Happy Valentine’s Day!

    This will be a short update on:

    • EAB
    • SIG 2.0
    • 60DBP

    EasyAuctionBusiness.com – since last week, EAB video course is hosted online, via a secure membership area.If you have purchased EAB video course before, you get free upgrade to this new platform. An e-mail with instructions on how to do it was sent to your PayPal e-mail address (one that you used to purchase EAB). If you haven’t received this e-mail, please get in touch with me here with a date of purchase and PayPal transaction ID.

    Not only EAB video course is now available online,  I have also added new material:

    • Brand NEW Wholesale directory covering thousands of supplier contact details;
    • 3 New Videos covering in detail Importing, one new product sourcing concept as well as Branding on a budget topic;
    • Brand new support ticket system, comments system and improved downloads/bonus area.

    And even that’s not all! From now on, each month I will add one new video to members area, so stay tuned for some regular, killer content that will help boost your eBay profits like never before! For example, in March I’ll publish a video on how to find profitable products to sell on eBay using Terapeak.com

    SecondIncomeGenerator.com – on 15th March 2012, Second Income Generator 2.0 goes for sale! Basically it will be a brand new video course covering 10 different online business concepts and will teach you how to make money online WITHOUT selling physical products. I’m really excited about this launch as I’ll share with you some of my own projects, ideas and business concepts that will blow your mind away! Initially, ONLY 100 members will be accepted. As with EAB, new SIG course will be hosted online so you’ll get instant access to materials once payment is being made.

    Remember, only 100 copies available in the beginning, make sure you sign-up on the early notification list on the SIG website!

    60DayBlueprint.com – YES, I’m re-opening my flagship, personal coaching program on 4th April 2012! Only 5 seats available this time, make sure to get on the waiting list and send in your questions prior launch day! All previous times, 60DBP was sold out within few minutes of opening making it the most IN DEMAND personal eBay coaching program in UK!

    Prior launch, new case studies will be featured showing you what previous 60DBP customers have achieved! So get on the waiting list now and stay tuned for updates!

    Lastly – Love is in the air today, so go out and show it to your loved ones!

    Best Regards,
    Andrew

    Jan
    24

    How I Made £1349 Last Month Working Just 4h!

    Hello Everyone!

    This week I have prepared something very special for you – let’s put aside eBay, wholesale and eCommerce for awhile and take a look at one specific way of making money online I have been practicing with great success for the last few months. Yes, I’ll share with you exact strategy that generated me £1349 in December 2011 alone, and yes – I worked on this just 4 hours in total (1 hour every week)!

    Question: How to get extremely wealthy? As wealthy as Warren Buffett for example?

    Answer: by using Money to Make More Money!

    In some way it relates to eCommerce World as well – we buy stock for wholesale prices and sell for retail prices to make a profit. But Warren Buffett didn’t open a B&M shop or a fast food restaurant chain, no – he used money to invest in financial instruments, such as stocks and shares. I have always been interested in such financial markers, stock trading and generally, in “using money to make more money” concept. Years ago I was heavily involved in Betfair trading, which is actually quite similar to stock market day trading. But already back then I realized that day trading is not for me:

    • It was a very boring way of spending your day, glued to PC;
    • It was very stressful;
    • Potential earnings were some way limited, at least for my trading techniques.

    But still to this day, from time to time, I was looking for opportunities to invest money to make more money. With increased profits from my info products business and eCommerce stuff, I wanted to find a way I could invest my profits into some sort of financial instruments to let my money make more money, hands free way!

    Problem is that with most traditional financial investment instruments, such as stocks, mutual funds, savings accounts etc. your potential ROI is very small. Risks vary from one instrument to other but in general, in my opinion, reward for taking those risks is way too small! Invest in dividend paying stocks for 5% yearly ROI? 5% per year? I would better use that money to buy a pallet of un-branded Tablets, made in China and sell off in 3 months time for 20-30% ROI on eBay. Yes, selling physical products involve way more work than financial investments but again, 5%-10% yearly returns doesn’t sound appealing to me either!

    And then it happened – six months ago or so, when I was searching for some creative ways to invest money, I found a concept that totally blew my mind away! Same concept that few months later made me £1349 net profit in December 2011 alone!!! And today, I’ll share with you exactly how I did it… [Read more...]

    Jan
    12

    My Best Planning Tools – Pen & Paper!

    Hello Everyone & Happy New Year!

    All the partying has ended and it’s time to get back to work, yahoo!

    Right before the New Year, during the last week of December I was setting my goals and planned out year 2012 – what I want to achieve, targets to reach etc., all the usual stuff. If you haven’t done that already, DO IT NOW! I have said this many times over – without reachable goals in place it’s very difficult to work, especially on your own business, online. You really want to set clear goals and create a strategy on how you’ll achieve them.

    While doing this “planning task”, I remembered how difficult this task for me was when I first tried doing it, several years ago. Not that I didn’t know what I want to achieve, not at all! Problem was that I was busy with researching and testing various time planning tools and thought my success in reaching my goals will directly depend on what time planning tool I will use. I know it sounds funny but I believe many people are experiencing same issue. Guess what? There’s no issue to deal with in first place!

    [Read more...]

    Dec
    01

    Snap Engage – Best Live Help Software?

    Snap Engage is yet another online service offering live help/live support solution for small online businesses, mostly online shops or websites selling some sort of service. I have seen dozens of such Live Support software programs coming out recently and that only confirms that Live Support is here to stay!

    Even more -  I believe that in this day and age you simply can’t be online WITHOUT offering Live Support to your customers. People are OVER with the whole anonymity shopping thing and now demand real people, real support behind online shops! If you’re an online shop owner and not offering Live Support during business hours, you’re leaving money on the table – as simple as that.

    There was an interesting discussion about Live Chat support on TWF and most people agreed that the more support options you can offer on your website, the better. Some people may feel that phone is the only way they communicate with online sellers while others will be too shy or simply live abroad and will never pick up the phone to make that call. One way or other, live chat is a great way to get closer to your customers, wherever they’re in the World!

    So I decided to test Snap Engage Live Support Software and let you know my thoughts about it. First of all, they have a really good looking, attractive website which was the reason why I took a closer look at them in first place. Secondly, they offer free trial WITHOUT submitting any credit card details! WOW! That’s what I call smart marketing! Sign-up process was very simply and in just 30 seconds I was in the admin panel. Most companies offering free trials will still ask you to submit credit card or PayPal details and charge after X days unless you cancel. With Snap Engage you don’t have to worry about this – use your 2 weeks of free trial period and if you want, upgrade to full/paid account.

    Being a Live Support software company, Snap Engage teaches what they preach – they have online support agents online at any time! Well done! [Read more...]

    Nov
    09

    How to Handle Black Friday’s Orders?

    Wow, it’s already November and Christmas is right around the corner!

    Before we start gift wrapping up our Christmas orders, another important day of the year is coming along – Black Friday (this year it’s on 25th November). If you don’t know what Black Friday means to online retailers, check out Black Friday’s page on Wikipedia. Obviously, this is more important for people selling to the US market BUT I believe that anyone can learn a thing or two from year’s hottest online shopping day.

    For us, online retailers, it’s important that we’re well prepared for Black Friday and can handle un-expected, large volume of orders. I can’t imagine a bigger disaster than to see customers who want to buy something from you but you can’t serve them for one or another reason! So let’s get started and prepare our online shops for Black Friday’s & Christmas shopping madness!

    As an example, I can use one of my online shops – recently, we got some un-expected media coverage and from usual 10 orders a day, we went to 80+ orders, in a matter of few hours time. This is how it looked in real time:

    Now, we were totally prepared for this so it didn’t cause any problems for us That’s why I want to share with you a list of things that you should implement in your online business to be ready for such large number of un-expected orders. It can happen to any of you – someone could mention your online shop in a blog or your press release could get featured in Yahoo News or Google News. If you’re not ready for this, your reputation can suffer greatly and you can waste great, FREE marketing campaign! [Read more...]

    Nov
    03

    Fulfilment Houses: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly!

    Hey Everyone!

    After last week’s post about how to start from scratch, I’m back with a new and quite lengthy post about fulfilment houses – something every online shop owner should consider using (if it’s suitable for the business model of course).

    Just what exactly are fulfilment houses?

    Fulfilment houses such as Shipwire and Amazon Fulfilment Web Service are third party services that take care of fulfilling client orders on the business owner’s behalf. Fulfilment houses take charge of receiving the products from the supplier, housing the said inventory, receiving the orders from the business owner’s clients, and packaging and shipping said orders to the latter.

    And depending upon the agreement between the business owner and the fulfilment house, the latter can very well take care of processing payments and the after-sale support such as handling customer complaints and accepting, even re-stocking, of undamaged return items as well.

    The Good

    Fulfilment houses certainly offer a lot of advantages for the small business owner: [Read more...]

    Oct
    26

    It’s NEVER Too Late! (I messed it all up AGAIN)

    People make mistakes. I’m not an exception and this is THE DAY again I’ll admit from the bottom of my heart – I have made a mistake, literary – messed it all up! (this is not my first time either, lol)

    It all started with the brand new TheWholesaleForums skin saga – the whole thing just reminded me how several years ago I invested more than £10k in a project that miserably failed. I lost my money just like that. It was an online website/service AND it was all my fault because I didn’t conduct a proper market research prior started working on the project.

    Surely, with today’s experience I would never even started that website but back then I simply thought something will work as expected because I want it to work. because I thought that’s how it should work. In a word - I WANTED to believe it’s going to work, without any proper market research, surveys, testing etc.

    But guess what? I didn’t spent months on that project, spending even more money or wasting more time – I just accepted the loss and moved on. I saw that the whole idea, concept is wrong and won’t work – and it won’t change because of my good intentions or plans I had lined up.

    Did I gave up? NO! I faced reality and moved on. And that’s something I really believe in – sometimes in life it’s better to accept loss and just move on. Sometimes quick fixes doesn’t work. Sometimes you just have to let things go. Be it a business, website, relationship or a badly started craft project.

    So, today I realized that my whole information websites BLOG concept doesn’t work. At least it doesn’t work as good as it should, as good as I was intended it to work in first place. I’m talking about LACK OF FOCUS! Do you know how many blogs I currently own?

    12… maybe even more, I can’t even remember all of them. Some I haven’t updated for months. Some – have old skins, some – haven’t been moderated etc. etc. In  a word – it’s a TOTAL MESS and it can’t continue like that. I have very limited time each day to spend on this stuff and if I have to divide my attention to 12 blogs, several newsletters, video newsletters, multiple forums etc., it simply can’t work.

    Take a look at this list:

    http://www.easyauctionbusiness.com/blog/

    http://www.chatwithandrew.com/

    http://ecommercemagnates.com/blog/

    http://spicyauctiontemplates.com/blog/

    http://www.secondincomegenerator.com/

    http://www.60dayblueprint.com/news/

    http://andrewminalto.com/

    Now, these are the best looking blogs and websites I’m not ashamed of showing you (yes, there are more!). In addition – I also have EAB video newsletter, Chat With Andrew Q&A sessions, CWA videos, eCommerce Magnates video newsletter and what not! BRRRRRRRRRR – it’s scaring s**t out of me!

    And then there’s YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Linked, Google+ (I haven’t even started to use, SHAME ON ME!). It’s simply too much. No one can manage so many different blogs and online diaries with a punctual regularity, while bringing best possible content out there for you – my loyal subscriber & blog reader!

    So I have made a decision - I will publish all content – newsletters, articles, videos, tests etc. on just one website – and it will be this, AndrewMinalto.com blog. From now on, I’ll leave all other blogs alone, probably put a re-direct to this blog so that new people can found me easier.

    It’s not only a decision about cutting on platforms I use to communicate with people, it’s also a re-branding for my whole info products business model AND the only way to publish higher quality content, on a regular basis in future. That was actually my MAIN REASON why I’m doing all this – I want to publish high quality, useful content but I can’t do it in 10 places simultaneously.

    I’m NOT closing or discontinuing any products or websites in my network, not at all!

    This all re-vamp is based around all the blogs I have, not websites and products. It’s totally cool that I have a separate website for each product or service, they work totally ok. Blogs are giving me major headache and the way I communicate with you, hence this consolidation.

    Yes, I have lost time, money and resources by “diluting” my efforts across so many blogs BUT as I said – I’m ready to take that loss, change direction and look forward to a brighter future! In up-coming weeks I’ll upgrade this blog with some nice community plugins so that you can make most out of it and basically will concentrate my content creation efforts on this ONE blog! Let’s see how it all turns out in a year or two.

    If you have any comments at all – feel free to post them below this post – I would LOVE to hear your thoughts about this whole situation! (I’m sure, many of you can relate to this somehow). By the way – my yearly subscriber survey is coming up soon with great prizes – so stay tuned by subscribing to RSS feed or follow me on Twitter!

    For The Brighter Future!

    Andrew

    Aug
    25

    How To Choose a Good Shopping Cart?

    With shopping carts it really is – You Get What You Pay For.

    Free or open source shopping carts will never offer you range of tools and features more sophisticated, hosted solutions offer for a reasonable monthly fee. Even then, how to know, which cart is best for your situation?

    What you expect a shopping cart will do for you? This will be a unique list, based on your business specifics, size, location etc. There are hundreds of functions to think about. However, I believe these 13 are crucial to ANY online shop:

    http://eCommerceMagnates.com/13-must-have-shopping-cart-features/

    In this month’s eCommerce Magnates video newsletter I undercover 13, must have shopping cart features! Yes, there should be 23 or even 33 but we have to start somewhere, right? If your shopping cart lacks any of these 13, you should seriously consider alternative shopping carts.

    Enjoy your Bank Holiday Weekend!!!

    Thanks,
    Andrew

    Aug
    09

    Twitter & eBay Business – How To?

    Twitter. Twitter. Twitter.

    Everyone talks about it, many have heard about it, only few use it’s full potential.

    Most people have simplified Twitter for business use and that’s the biggest failure – you can’t expect for it to work by simply tweeting about your sales offers or special promotions. Well, you can do that but don’t expect huge response. Unless you’re running a coupon site or Daily Deal site of course.

    Twitter, just like Facebook is a COMMUNITY and that’s how you want to treat it. In this week’s ChatWithAndrew.com Q&A session, I have put together 8 Golden Rules to Follow when promoting your eBay business:

    http://www.chatwithandrew.com/8-golden-twitter-rules-to-follow-promote-your-ebay-business/

    Enjoy & Tweet!