One more strike-thorugh on the to-do-list: niche chosen.
We will attack the wedding market, as we will offer the wedding etiquette 101. Why the heck wedding etiquette? Well, first of all, people who are that crazy to get married are most likely also crazy enough to buy wedding etiquette books and secondly, women shortly before a wedding are dumber than any other living species so they probably fall for this offer even more. Right, that is sarcastic, but true nonetheless. At least we hope so.
Viral Marketing Technology
As we are not grandmasters at programming, we needed to get the software required out-of-the box and customizable.
First of all, there is now a software called “super squeeze page generator” coming into play, which I bought for 12 US-$ (instead of 137 US-$, the usual retail price that will kick in any minute again, RIGHT…probably NOT). This was one of the ugliest packaged softwares I have ever come across, as there was even a thumbs.db still included (remnant of acdsee when indexing folders) and some files were named “copy of …”. As expected, the script was NOT working, but from a first look at the software it seemed to me, that the package could be worth the work to get it working and i dug myself a bit into the code. So, I am proud to say, that I injected the sql-statements into MySQL manually, corrected some wrong path-definitions, got the database working and finally got the script into production. Great me.
So, what does this package basically do? It is the basis for our first list. There will be nothing else than the namesqueeze page for the next week or so, as H. and I start to build up attention. We will attract subscriber to the pre-launch phase by offering them a 5 part ecourse on wedding etiquette. This way, we can keep touch with them. The first part is getting sended to them after sign-up for the pre-launch and over the course of the next two weeks they get part after part and finally the upgrade offer. This software will help us, to get the mail-addresses and their interests, as there is a 5-topics poll included.
The next package is the copy of the 15k-challenge script, which I will be testing in-depth by tomorrow, as I am simply too tired today to do anything in that direction. I was just finishing the customization of the script as it required me to activate some more paypal stuff, that I had not done before so I learned a new lesson again. But as I could test the script before buying, I am very convinced about the quality and am looking forward to get this going tomorrow.
eBay is…well, I do not know what to say
eBay called me again. Only this time at 5:49 a.m. Now, do not get me wring. I would probably have gotten the call, if I would have heard it. However, it was on my mobile and i switch my mobile off, when I am sleeping. And anyway it was not anywhere near the time I gave them at which they should call me. I gave them a 16-hours window already and they even managed to miss that one.
But at least, they seem to be as frustrated as I am, as they made an alternative suggestion. I shall change my voice message on the phone into saying who I am and what my number is. Well, I did so, and this will be quite funny tomorrow, as the mobile is first of all my business mobile and now quite some people will call me tomorrow and instead of getting my name, when they will be diverted to my voice mail, they will be hearing my voice but saying the name of R. Now, normally they would probably think, that they dialed the wrong number, but R. is an external consultant for our company, so quite a lot of people know him. I will have to answer quit some questions why I changed my voice mail into pretending I am R. but we need to get over with this. I WANT TO TRADE
So, hopefully by tomorrow our import business or better to say export business is open.
Have a good night, I certainly will.