STAY FOCUSED ON YOUR DREAMS

Staying focused on what you want to achieve out of life can be difficult. Indecision may be stressful. Decide what you want to do and stick to it. Focus on outcome of being your own boss. Being your own boss can be very rewarding. You will not have to report to anyone, never miss your child's ball games, plays, or any other activity, nor will you have to work when you or a family member are sick. You are boss so you work when you want to and where you want to. Does that sound like what you want to do? If it does, then a home business may be right for you.

Not you will you be able to achieve financial freedom but you will have power to achieve many things you were unable to do when you were stuck working for your boss and making him money. Think about your boss for a moment. Does he drive a better car, live in a bigger house, and take nicer vacations than you? Wouldn't it be nice if it were other way around? You can make it happen by taking that first step now and becoming a Home Business Entrepreneur.

IN CONCLUSION...

Perseverance, perseverance, and more perseverance. Don't give up.

Determine your priorities. If necessary, sit down and make a list of your priorities. Do your priorities consist of being with your family, not commuting to work, working when you want to, gardening, fishing, attending your child's activities, being your own boss, financial freedom, or independence?

Stay focused on your home based business, even if you do not get rich quick it will eventually come. Keep a positive attitude and have confidence in yourself to be successful.

Sherry Starnes, Internet Marketing Entrepreneur, can help you start your own home business and guide you through the steps to becoming successful in your Home Business. She has a BS in Business Administration and Marketing and a MA in Business Education. Her 18 years of marketing experience is at your fingertips. Visit: http://www.awesomebuys2.com for your free Home Business Tips Newsletter

While benefits of these actions may not have an immediate effect, you can be sure that should I ever have another “item of interest!” these two gentlemen would not hesitate to purchase from me. They can count on me to accommodate their needs, instead of catering to my wants. Creating this type of good will instills trust, and knowledge that you have customers best interest in mind.

“Me thinketh thou doth protest too much!

Do you accentuate positive? Or, do you run on negativity? Negative Ebay feedback is a tool that everyone should use with restraint, or not at all. As a rule, I never leave negative feedback.

Unless someone has blatantly lied about your product, or attacked you personally without merit, then I would not leave any feedback in “minus” side of isle!

“Flame” wars are not pretty. I have seen a lot of unnecessary back and forth “banter” that could have been avoided, if they (the seller) just resisted urge to make their “two cents” known. Sometimes it gives customers impression that you are more concerned about arguing, then conducting your business.

I have also witnessed seller feedback that has included some pretty foul language. Engaging in this type of verbal sparring is not much of a confidence builder either.

It is more telling of what you are, then about revealing sins of your customers. Don’t go out of your way to register a negative response if you can help it. Heed sage advice that our Mother’s use to tell us: “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all!”

“What we have here is a failure to communicate!” From The Movie: Cool Hand Luke.

Communication with your customers should not amount to sound one hand clapping! Bottom line, if someone e-mails you with a question--answer it! Here is an example of type of feedback I obtained by doing just that……

“He was very Helpful and cooperative in answering questions.” Follow-up: Will DEFINITELY use his services anytime he has items of interest! Great Seller! The gentlemen who left this positive review, wanted to know about some of particulars of a “Mickey Mouse” clock I had up for auction.

His wife is a collector of all things Disney, and thought it would be a nice surprise for her birthday. The clock, to say least, was in sad shape.

It was incapable of keeping time, and only part of it in working order was second hand. I thought for sure that he would be disappointed with item despite full disclosure of all of it’s imperfections.

To my surprise, not only did I receive positive feedback, but he also told me that his wife absolutely loved it! In this instance, one man’s junk, truly, is another man’s treasure! I never thought this item was worthy of any praise! The time it took to answer his questions—all of five minutes!

I know that some of you will say that I am not being realistic. You just can’t answer e-mails all day; “I have a business to run!,” you might proclaim. If you plan on making a living on Ebay, then you better think about hiring someone to help you answer your daily inquires if it is just too overwhelming. If you specialize in a particular product set up Frequently Asked Questions to an Auto-Responder. Click here: http://www.aweber.com/

If you use Ebay on an infrequent basis, and have less than thirty listings a month, then you really don't have any excuse not to provide great customer service and e-mail communication. You shouldn’t be inundated with questions regarding that many items, unless product you are selling is technical in nature.

If you ignore your customers, they will go away. Good customer service should be woven into fabric of every good business.

I cannot overemphasis importance of this issue. I continue to be perplexed by fact that it is last on list of business priorities for some Ebay sellers!

Will good customer service and communication alone make you rich on Ebay? That would be a resounding "no".

You will have to understand your market, and provide products that Ebay community will bid on consistently.

There will be “bidders & buyers” out there that will make mistakes, and commit some auction sins! Forgive all Ebay sins and you will be rewarded with happy, repeat customers!