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I bought an ebook by the title of "The Silent Sales Machine Hiding On eBay". Its quite a popular ebook on Clickbank.com and the sales copy was attractive and I thought it would help me make more money on eBay.
All was good, I read the ebook and the newsletters for all the great ideas to implement on my eBay auctions.
The most irritating thing about ebooks for me is that they are really good in making big promises, giving you "step by step" instructions to apply what the information in the ebooks. BUT… That’s not always the case. So far I have yet to find a clear and precise "step by step system" that they claim in the ebooks.
In Jim Cockrum’s ebook on "The Silent Sales Machine Hiding On eBay", he recommends adding affiliate programs to your About Me page and inviting people to sign up for your newsletter. Of course he aggressively promotes his own ebook and newsletter and kindly invites us to market his stuff for a tiny profit.
The idea is fantastic but the examples he provided was simply a graphic of his product on an old eBay account he once used. There is 30 min report on how to create the About Me page. I wondered why he didn’t include in the ebook in the first place…. There were supposed to be some HTML templates provided by him, couldn’t find it anywhere…..
That’s my experience of Jim’s ebook. Wait till you hear about the phone call from someone claiming to be Jim Cockrum of the silent sales machine.
I received a phone call at about 7:00 am this morning while I was traveling on the bus to work. This guy calls up and asked me if I have received his "program". Program? I thought I got his ebook? He sounded really friendly and asked me if I have read the testimonials and web site.
He went on with a little small talk and asked me a whole list of questions on my goals, motivations, money I have, credit card debts if any, how much money I had to invest. He was promoting me some kind of coaching program. I was very skeptical and simply played along to see where he was leading me to. He seems to want to make me a success story… how nice eh?
We ended the call with an appointment with his "Senior Director" the next morning at 4:00 AM. Ha! I never received any phone call. I emailed Jim Cockrum that night and asked him for an explanation. He replied to me saying it wasn’t him and he’ll investigate this. No news from him yet… I don’t like the smell of this…..
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Ha… I know who that is. Thats one of Internet marketing centre’s telemarketers. Ive received the called as well after signing up for their free quote where they tell you whether you are qualified for their coaching programme or not..What a bunch of BS.. they take on anyone whos interested…I played and sang along with them and led them thinking that i was interested. I was at first. But after knowing the price…Holy crap … the cheapest one was $5000 ++ for a half hour or one hour coaching call held once every week,for 4-6 months .. (Cant really remember).And you get auto responder emails which includes your ‘home work’ for the week. Hmm… Cant see who would sign up for that kinda dung except for extreme newbies…