A New Computer - We’re Cooking Now!
I’ve mentioned here a time or ten that I’ve been working on an old (circa 2000) laptop and my frustrations with it. Although it was top of the line when I bought it, the memory compared to today’s machines was abysmal. It was taking forever to do the tasks necessary to get an ebook business going, and I have to admit it cleary affected my enthusiasm for getting things done.
It finally completely overwhelmed me last week. I had entered a bunch of stuff onto Turbo Lister, taking several hours to complete the tedious tasks involved. All done, I hit the upload button, only to have the machine jam up, grind away for a looongg time, and then dump my work. After taking several deep breaths (away from the machine and the temptation to throw it out the window), I consulted with my husband who agreed it was way past time to make the investment in a new computer. Off to the local geek outlet - and home with a beautiful new HP Pavillion (I’m sticking with a laptop because I still have my dreams of traveling off to some exotic place and doing business from the beach!).
There are features on it that are going to take awhile to figure out, but I’m optimistic that I’ll be fully integrated into the new computer age soon!
The tasks are still tedious, but it takes less than half the time to get them done. It’s amazing to me to find myself full of enthusiasm again!
A help with that enthusiasm is that I’m making more sales of my ebooks on eBay. I’ve even started selling items from the store. I’ve sold 6 books this month so far, all at the $1.99 buy it now listing. Doesn’t sound like much, this being the 16th and all, but 4 of those were in the last 4 days, one each day. Again, big hoooo, but I do believe it’s the numbers that are starting to work. Get a bunch of books listed and somebody out of all those millions of folks who check eBay every day will find something they want or need.
I’ve been trying to find the books I have that allow rebranding and links to other books (Clickbank) and memberships, so that I can start working on the viral/backend/residual income part of this business. The dollar or so I make from a $1.99 sale through eBay is not going to pay the rent, obviously. Nor am I building any sort of significant list at this time (my sign up rate is not good, but I don’t have enough sales yet to have any sort of statistical base). And, of course, all the eBay information marketers that are making real money are doing so with their own products and through the back end sales from them or from others. I’m looking forward to the day I start having checks from Clickbank in the mailbox!
Well, I have bunches to do, both with getting more books listed and with learning about this great new computer.
Stay well.
