Wringing My Hands - Again

A common theme for me, as you know, is my struggle to quit trying to get things right long enough to just do the darn whatever-it-is. I remember sharing a quote that said in effect the perfectionist will tweak and worry and never get anywhere, while the successful person just goes for it and fixes stuff later if necessary.

Well, I got slapped up the side of my head with a reminder of that today when I went to eBay to see what one of my favorite sellers was doing about getting digital products online to sell.  Turns out, as of today, he has 188 items listed, all ebooks on CD, and he’s sold more than 50! So while I’ve been diddling, worrying about trying to put packages together, worried that buyers wouldn’t see value in buying just one book on a CD, he’s been making money. (Check out seller PlanetSMS with the advanced search option).

Once again, that quest for perfection bit me in the behind! I need Nike’s slogan “just do it” tattooed somewhere!

This also points up the fact that there just aren’t that many ebook sellers who have made the transition to physically delivered products. Now, John is a PowerSeller, and has great feedback, so I’m sure that plays a part in the number of sales he’s making. But more importantly, he took the new eBay regulations in stride, figured out how to make them work for him, and he’s off and running.

So, I’m going to pull myself together and get these things going. I only have three listings in my store, two of them compilation packages, which I’m going to pull. I finally realized that I have all the listing stuff saved and will just have to do a bit of tweaking to get them slapped into TurboLister and posted in my store and for auction.

What a dope I am! Almost two full months of stewing, considering, investigating, yadda yadda yadda. No more! I’m off to get those darn things up and selling for me.

Stay well.