This will be a very quick post as I am going away for the weekend.  I’ve just created this quick video which is my entry to On of Alex Jeffreys Coaching Competitions.  We have to create a video which mentions our name so hopefully I remembered to say mine is Keith Purkiss , website (Mine is Coaching With Keith.com)
and also we had to mention Alex Jeffreys and his website MarketingWithYou.com .

This is only my second video and you will spot a few mistakes and see that I had to read some of it from notes, but come back again soon and see how much I improve!

Speak to you all soon, and if you havent made a video yet make sure you do soon!

I’ve also recorded an interview with copy writing expert Randy Smith and uploaded part 1 to Youtube. Part 2 with be included in my eBay coaching course.

As most people reading this will know I am on Alex Jeffreys coaching course and he had offered a prize of $1000 for the best video.   This is my trial run, I will have to make a lot more before I have one I’d want to enter with.  I’m 99.9999999999999% sure I won’t win it but didn’t somebody say it’s the taking part that counts?

Also I was at Lee McIntyre’s workshop in Manchester on Friday and Saturday and he insisted we all stretch ourselves and move into areas that are uncomfortable for us.

So last night I made my first audio (which is just a test one) with the help of David Chamberlain from the coaching course, and also my first homemade video (actually I made about 10 and believe it or not this is the best one – I’ve destroyed the rest as they were REALLY bad)

My Audio Test
Play the audio here

I searched Google for free skype recording software and used this one:
https://extras.skype.com/2082/view

My Welcome Video

For the video I used a camcorder that outputs MPEG files and YouTube wouldnt upload it.

I used a tool found by Marcus Passey

http://www.brothersoft.com/download-formatfactory-98431.html

and converted to MP4. The MP4 file didnt work either, so I used the software again to convert to AVI and finally got it to work.

Now I just have to create one with some useful content.

Later In This Post

I’ll Create Your Product For You – Suggest A Script Competition

How I Created A Product In 7 Days and built a list of over 150 people

But First:

How I Got 1000+ Backlinks To My Blog

I checked the total backlinks to my blog today and it had reached 1003.
In the process this boosted my ranking for “Alex Jeffreys” into the top 20 and it’s still going up.
4 weeks ago I was 104th and had 276 backlinks.

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In This post

1) Building The Business
2) How I Get My Traffic (Alex Jeffreys Competition)
3) Networking Again

BUILDING THE BUSINESS

Following last weeks suspension from eBay on Wednesday this weeks was bound to be better.
eBay allow multiple accounts and I have access to a few, but only the main one has a shop (store) and selling manager pro.

I have decided to leave eBay until the suspension is over and concentrate on Amazon.
For a few years this has been a much bigger source of sales than eBay but had been dropping.
The contribution margin* on our mail order sales from Amazon was fairly low so my first step was to increase prices by about 20%.
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Normally I would not make this type of post but I know one or two other students have had some tough times too and commented about it. Also Alex Jeffreys advised us to explain our current position on our blogs so that people can follow our progress.

This is not the type of blog post I’d ever planned to make, but so here goes.
(I may still change my mind and remove this post)

Everyone has good and bad days, but Wednesday 29th July was my worst in ten years of running businesses online.
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