Auction Gold Ezine: Make Money With Online Auctions

March 3, 2005

In this issue:
* New Live Auction Genius Course Begins April 2, 2005
* An Evening With Todd Taylor
* A Friend In Need
* From Our Humor Department
* Recent Entries From Our Auction Blog

New Live Auction Genius Course Begins April 2, 2005

If you're not familiar with our Auction Genius Course, it's a series of eight lessons, lasting two hours, and they are every Saturday at 10 AM Eastern time. They are online lessons: that is, your computer sees what I do, and we are on the phone together so that you have the opportunity to ask questions.

This course is NOT about get-rich-quick-on-eBay. That's nonsense, and my students all know better than to believe in such garbage. An eBay business is like any other – a business, and those who are casual about it are almost certain to fail. In fact, I have a $0 class titled “How To Create An eBay Business Instead Of An eBay Hobby”

http://www.auction-genius-course.com/cd/freeclass/index.html

If you are serious – and willing to work – we can help.

http://www.auction-genius-course.com

We also have a CD of the live course, and if you're thinking about getting it, now is the time because ...

An Evening With Todd Taylor

Many of you know about Todd Taylor. If you do not, let me tell you about him ...

“On December 3, 2004, I walked into a hotel in Orlando, Florida and was immediately approached by a tall, husky man with an outstretched hand. He said, 'My name is Todd Taylor and I flew here from Pennsylvania just to meet you. Can I take you to dinner?'

Todd explained that he had used my eBay information to open a clothing business on eBay that was generating a SIX FIGURE PER MONTH income. Even more astonishing is that he began in May of 2004!”

That is from the front page of the Auction Genius Course and if you want to know more about Todd and his children – who are also learning to sell on eBay – you can read more about his there.

Todd has graciously agreed to a “grilling session”. You can ask him anything you want to know about the auction business – practical, in-the-trenches questions.

Date: Wednesday, March 9
Time: 7PM Eastern

This is available ONLY to Auction Genius Course students, so if you're considering joining us, do it before next Wednesday night so that you can get in on this fabulous call!

http://www.auction-genius-course.com

A Friend In Need

There is so much ... garbage ... floating around the Net that it sometimes makes me nauseous. It's all about how e-a-s-y it is to make money on the Net, and how anybody can get rich overnight. That's why this article by my good friend Chris Malta is so refreshing. Chris is a success story by any standard and I love the honesty and truth here. So, read and learn ...

A couple of nights ago, I was contacted by a very good friend whom I haven't seen in a long time, and he needed help.

This is a guy I practically grew up with. We spent a great deal of time together in our teens, twenties and thirties. We did everything together, always hung out in the same crowd, and have been best friends for what seems like forever.

You know what I mean, right? There are maybe a handful of friends in your life that you would do absolutely anything for, without question. Someone you come to know, trust, and love like a brother or sister, and that relationship never goes away, even after many years and across great distances. This friend of mine is someone with a heart the size of Texas, a sense of humor that has reduced me to tears of laughter so many times that I could never count them, and a moral quality that you only find rarely in the people you meet throughout your entire life. Through the more than 30 years we've known each other, and the more than 1,200 miles that have separated us for many years now, he is still like a brother to me. I would do anything I could possibly do for him. All he needs to do is ask.

He emailed me the other night, and said, 'I really need your help, can you get in touch with me?'

Now, this man has never said that to me before. He''s always been completely self-reliant and very proud, and I have never in all the time I've known him, heard or seen him say 'I need your help' to anyone. His email popped up at about 11:30 this past Friday night, and when I saw it, I called him immediately.

It didn't take long for us to get to the problem he was having, which is also out of character for him. He does not like to 'burden' other people with his problems, so when something's bothering him, it's usually like pulling teeth to get him to admit it. This time, however, he very quickly said, 'Man, I'm really in financial trouble. I think I only have about a few weeks before I completely 'crash and burn'. I'm going to lose everything and end up living out of my leather coat; I won't even have the car to live in!' And then he laughed, which is so like him. Always the sense of humor, even when he's at his absolute darkest hour.

He's working full time, so it wasn't like he was out of a job. He just has some heavy financial obligations that are getting the better of him. I immediately asked him how bad it was, and how much I could loan him to keep things afloat, but I realized the answer an instant after I asked the question. He absolutely refused to take a cent from me, no matter how many times I insisted.

Instead, he said 'I need you to help me get something going on the Internet so that I can start bringing in some money right away'.

Now, he has followed my career and my business very closely over the years. We've talked about it many times on the phone, and in person when I've gone back to New York to visit. He follows my company's progress with great interest, and always asks about it. He knows that we've helped literally tens of thousands of people to find a path to real success in online business for free through learning about ECommerce.

Having read some of my material over the years, he also knows that I always tell people that it does not happen overnight. Still, though, he was hoping that there was some secret formula I could give him. Some hidden, arcane, insider knowledge I had that would help him make money instantly. Even as I was repeating that caution to him, he asked me several times if there was something I could tell him that would make an online business work immediately, so that he could put money in his pocket right away. That was also out of character for him, and I knew at that point that he really was desperate.

It was just about heart-breaking to have to say to him repeatedly. 'It won't work that fast....it won't work that fast...it won't work that fast...'. I wanted so badly to help him, but I knew for a fact that what he was so desperately hoping for was not going to happen that quickly, no matter what I did, or what anybody else could do.

We came to an understanding that it was possible for him to start building a real business at a very small expense, and start bringing in some money within a few months. I showed him our web site's Resource Center, and told him to start reading. He wrote me back yesterday to say that he was working through the learning process, and I could tell that he appreciated the reality check.

I wasn't sure I should write this Article, because I didn't want to violate a confidential issue between myself and my good friend. However, I thought it was very important to write, because in a minute it's going to illustrate a point that very much needs to be illustrated. So, I wrote the article, but out of respect for my friend I have been very careful not to mention even his first name, the details of his financial problems, and have said nothing that could identify him to any of our mutual friends and acquaintances. There were many people in that crowd we both hung out in, and many of them are still good friends to this day. I am confident that not a one of those mutual friends will figure out who I'm talking about, unless he tells them.

So, to the point. If there was ever anyone in this world that I would do anything I possibly could for, anytime, it's the friend I talk about in this Article. I can't express to you in words how badly I wanted to push a magic button somewhere and make everything all right for him. While we were talking on the phone that night, I turned it over and over in my mind, trying to think of some connection I had somewhere; some string I could pull, some person I could talk to for him that would make his decision to save his financial situation by starting an online business easy for him. Every time I thought of something that would help, I realized that the information I was thinking of was already in our web site's Resource Center, in the Articles I have written over the years, in the other ECommerce sites we recommend, in the Radio Show Archives we have, etc., etc., etc.

The point is that there is no magic button, no easy program, no simple step by step method to start making money immediately on the Internet. There are a lot of people out there who will tell you that those things exist, and try to sell them to you. Put very simply, they are liars, and they make me very angry in a situation where they've fooled my friend, who is in desperate need, into thinking that they might be for real. You see, he had been reading about a few of those programs online, and I had to 'talk him down of the ledge' the other night because he was so desperate that he was considering wasting the little money he had left on one of those 'simple systems'.

So, I don't care where you get your information; whether you get it from us, or somewhere else. I will not turn my friend's situation into a commercial for my business. What I want you to really, really understand is that REAL SUCCESS in ANY business, be it an ECommerce business, a retail Sporting Goods store in your local mall, or a tanning salon for light-shelled sea turtles, DOES NOT COME OVERNIGHT, EVER.

It is a methodical learning process, not a winning lottery ticket! If you do not spend the time to learn that process (from the relatively few honest people online who really are telling you the truth), then you will NOT succeed. You may make a few bucks a month, but it won't be something you can support yourself or your family with.

I've been in this business for a very long time, and myself and my partners are very successful in it and very knowledgeable about it. It's what we do, every day, and it supports not only our families, but the families of all our employees as well. How did we do that? We learned it, carefully and methodically, over time.

You can do the same. The only thing you need to remember is that you need to take your time and learn. Don't believe those 'instant success' jokers for even a minute.

I'm telling you for a fact that if a Magic ECommerce Success Button existed anywhere, I would have pushed it the other night for my friend.

Written by Chris Malta of Worldwide Brands, Inc
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