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  1. hestati

    How To Fake A Best Seller

    PUBLISHING 
    I know it doesn't apply to the books, but here's how I'm approaching it for my product. Say I want 20 reviews. I post to review group but say "hey, tell me how much you want to pay for this item and what kind of review you will leave (text, pics, video)." I then choose the top paying. This way...
  2. hestati

    How To Fake A Best Seller

    PUBLISHING 
    Yes, but the problem is, 1-2 stars reviews are often fake too :(
  3. hestati

    How To Fake A Best Seller

    PUBLISHING 
    Yes I know. I think it's total scam as well. But what pisses me off even more is what they did to someone I know. He had a product and was selling about 3-4 a day from the start with no reviews, just PPC. When someone would receive the product, 7 days later he would send a message saying...
  4. hestati

    How To Fake A Best Seller

    PUBLISHING 
    Yes, Amazon has updated their TOS to prohibit excessive ranking manipulation. Now, no one has idea what it means and being in a FBA sellers group with thousands of members, I never heard anyone getting banned for it (yet, most people there give away 100-200 units). I think Amazon has a stupid...
  5. hestati

    How To Fake A Best Seller

    PUBLISHING 
    @Vigilante and everyone else What do you guys consider fake reviews? Review that is verified but says "got item for a discount" is fake? I'm asking because one of my competitors has 337 reviews and 330 say "got item for a discount". I find it's excessive in a niche where even national brand...
  6. hestati

    $3,000 to $1,000,000 in 15 months: HOW TO DO IT

    IDEA 
    @biophase yes, you can buy for 2 and sell for 14 this is what I'm doing now with private labelling. I buy for $3.5 and sell for $22. But after I add air shipping, duties, inspection, shipping to Amazon, Amazon fees, wire transfer fees, other fees I'm forgetting now each piece becomes $13, so...
  7. hestati

    $3,000 to $1,000,000 in 15 months: HOW TO DO IT

    IDEA 
    Buy toys from where? China? Ship by air? Sell on Amazon in 2 months for 7x profit? There is no such a profit margin in wholesale business, uneless you sell drugs and even then I'm not sure. @daivey I'm not even gonna bother to read your message. Good luck with your real estate business in...
  8. hestati

    $3,000 to $1,000,000 in 15 months: HOW TO DO IT

    IDEA 
    Well, this is not a business plan so yes, I do ignore duties for the sake of simplicity. Let me put it this way, you most probably will not be paying duties most of the time, uneless you go to some anal countries like Canada. If you're talking about income tax, then it will apply any way...
  9. hestati

    $3,000 to $1,000,000 in 15 months: HOW TO DO IT

    IDEA 
    Not only you have no idea, you also have no tact. I lived in Latin America for 7 months, I bought emeralds in Bogota with no much knowledge on the subject (few reads and few leads) and sold them in the US later because it turned out that it's too expensive to make custom jewelery for my wife...
  10. hestati

    $3,000 to $1,000,000 in 15 months: HOW TO DO IT

    IDEA 
    Oh yes, let's listen to the expert here, sure you must have an idea right? Oh wait, uou have no idea. Nevermind.
  11. hestati

    $3,000 to $1,000,000 in 15 months: HOW TO DO IT

    IDEA 
    @Andy Black Don't get me wrong, this question was to just get my mind working hard. I did pick a direction and working on my fastlane project right now. I'm not looking for "get rich in month" scheme. @biophase Emeralds is what I would do because I've been to Bogota and saw it myself...
  12. hestati

    $3,000 to $1,000,000 in 15 months: HOW TO DO IT

    IDEA 
    I actually never watched gem hunt. Problem with flipping cars, how muxh can you make with 10k initial? Say you're VERY lucky, you buy a car and it sells the next 2 days, netting you 1k. Not enough time. Plus, cars are not liquid enough. There may be no deals today, or if there are, the guy is...
  13. hestati

    $3,000 to $1,000,000 in 15 months: HOW TO DO IT

    IDEA 
    Guys, new challenge for you. You have until the end of the year (so 2.5 month) to go from 10k to 100k. Your expenses are paid so you can play with all 10k. You can't do anything illegal, but can do "grey" things (for example gambling at the illegal casino). Again, no borrowing, no OPM. I...
  14. hestati

    Just a scenario, how would you make 100k in 2 months?

    LANDFILL 
    Challenge your mind. You wake up tomorrow and all you have is $10000 and they tell you MUST make 100k before thr end of the year, i.e. in 2 months, you have no choice, you would die otherwise. You cannot do anything illegal, but otherwise you can do whatever you want. What would you do to make...
  15. hestati

    Craigslist, why so popular?

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Sucks though. I'd much rather use Kijiji, but they really tried with a huge marketing budget in US and couldn't compete. Maybe one day someone will be able to come up with something innovative...
  16. hestati

    Craigslist, why so popular?

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    I had to deal with Craigslist recently. Why is it so popular? Design from 1990s Horrible search functions Spam Shady postings The website is not pleasant and yet everyone uses it. What's the secret behind it's popularity? When I lived in Canada, we had Kijiji, much better than craigs, yet in...
  17. hestati

    Homejoy Is Shutting Down At The End Of The Month

    HOT! 
    I agree that you disagree :). Homejoy was solving a problem of finding a cleaner quickly, but yes, there was no need for it later. In fact, I thought about booking Homejoy and if the cleaner is good, hiring them to work for my other customers. Uber is a new concept. I don't like them for many...
  18. hestati

    Homejoy Is Shutting Down At The End Of The Month

    HOT! 
    Homejoy did so many things wrong, this was just waiting to happen. Customers were not happy, "contractors" were not happy. Now, here's the problem. I hear you when you say "cut out the middleman". At the same time, this "middleman" gets you customers and this is freaking expensive. Middleman...
  19. hestati

    To Put Prices on a Website or Not - Service Business

    MARKETING 
    Doesn't work this way with expensive items. He doesn't sell 200/week, and if he sold 1 5k packages one week and 2 3k packages the next week, what will this tell you? What if he got 50 calls when not listing the price and 10 calls when listing, but no one bought, what does it tell you? In this...
  20. hestati

    Any REAL info on promoting on Instagram and Pinterest?

    SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING 
    Sorry for a stupid question, can someone please tell me how curating on Instagram works? Their rules don't allow you to post photos that do not belong to you. So if I just find a nice pic, I can't re-share it, unlike tweeter or facebook. So how do you find content to curate. Maybe I'm not...
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