Hey, hey, eMarketers!
Here's a quick trivia before we start:
What if you saw this major opportunity to join a really good business opportunity but you needed $10 and you were broke?
On top of that, the offer was limited to a couple days, there was nobody you could ask and had to come up with the dough by yourself, what would you do?
Would you:
- Do nothing about it?
- Sell something to get the cash?
It's known for a fact that most people would do the first.
However, if you really wanted to join, you'd start by selling something you had. And since you're on the computer already, why not take a few happy-snaps and post an ad on eBay or Craigslist?
Of course you could do that... but those 2 and more are victims of their own success: it takes too long for someone to notice your ad and actually contact you.
Since it would take ages for you to sell something on the internet and the clock is ticking, you have to think outside the box... which is your computer.
Now, that brought me a thought: If McDonalds can't go to Mohammed..., then I guess Mohammed just has to go to McDonalds!
That is... instead of you waiting for the customers, you go and meet them. How? Here's how...
I took a test today and decided to sell some semi-new computer parts I had in my possession.
I sent some emails to stores and but didn't just stood there to see if they'd reply. After some browsing I found a company that would actually buy my stuff.
But it was accross the city... So, I proposed to myself: "I'll limit myself to use only 3€ (around $4) and see if I can do it!"
Train tickets were $3.60, but here in Lisbon, they're measured maily by time. They allow you to go back to the point of origin if you get back to the station 30 minutes before the ticket expires.
I got in at exactly 5p.m. and the ticket would expire 2 hours later.
After some time I arrived in the area, I began searching for the pawn shop. Not knowing the exact location I asked around and eventually found it. ;-)~
I brought a USB drive and some other things and named my price, $14. The guy at the counter rejected most of the things but offered me $10 for the drive.
Since I was in a hurry because I needed to get back to the station, there was no time to negotiate and after checking out legal stuff, we completed the transaction.
Before I left the store, their clock was marking 6:18p.m..
That gave me little less than 10 minutes to run about a mile!
It had been a long day, so I was tired, still am actually but I managed to reach the station 3 before the ticket expiry time.
Doing the math that tells me that I had a $6 profit, not bad, eh?
But that's not the whole story. I checked my inbox and had no reply from the guys I sent the emails to.
If I had stayed at home waiting for them, I wouldn't have earned any money.
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What I meant will all this is.. you may not have the money, but you do have ideas and nowadays, you can convert ideas into $$$. You just gotta give it a try.Don't just stay in front of your computer all day long, go out there and try to get things done! :-)~
Love ya,
Wilson.
