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Pretty good, as being stuck indoors all day allowed me to start learning from business books and YouTube videos.
This reminds me of a somewhat relevant story.
I remember about 2 years after COVID I had a genius idea to sell masks on eBay.
I went to a wholesale website here in the UK.
I managed to secure 1000 masks for £50.
5p per mask!!!!!
Bargain.
It ships to my house.
Oh boy, I am gonna be RICH!
I slap them on eBay, use some copywriting and sales psychology strats like urgency/scarcity.
The description looks SLICK.
The title looks like a Mr beast youtube title.
The images look good.
(this was before I knew about ecom sales funnels.)
I hit LIST NOW.
... eBay tells me price gouging isn't allowed on essential items...
Even though COVID was long gone at this point.
So now I have 2 boxes of 500 face masks chilling in my house.
I'm waiting until the next pandemic.
Here is a picture of a box taken a moment ago :/:
This reminds me of a somewhat relevant story.
I remember about 2 years after COVID I had a genius idea to sell masks on eBay.
I went to a wholesale website here in the UK.
I managed to secure 1000 masks for £50.
5p per mask!!!!!
Bargain.
It ships to my house.
Oh boy, I am gonna be RICH!
I slap them on eBay, use some copywriting and sales psychology strats like urgency/scarcity.
The description looks SLICK.
The title looks like a Mr beast youtube title.
The images look good.
(this was before I knew about ecom sales funnels.)
I hit LIST NOW.
... eBay tells me price gouging isn't allowed on essential items...
Even though COVID was long gone at this point.
So now I have 2 boxes of 500 face masks chilling in my house.
I'm waiting until the next pandemic.
Here is a picture of a box taken a moment ago :/:
