Hello everyone...

For the longest time I have thought that a JV that makes hundreds of thousands of dollars is the only kind of success... but, sometimes it is a process and in that process - the little successes can be just as inspirational, right?

Last October I was promoting (for the second year) my Holiday Toy Guide for ebay sellers. I had incredible feedback on the report and knew it was good - I just needed to figure out how to get some of the "big guys" to take notice. I started posting on every board I could think of - looking for tips to do just that. One day, I practically fell off my chair when one of the biggest people known in the ebay world emailed me to promote my product! This guy had a nice list of over 90k! I was thrilled... but, was also very uneducated with how to treat the relationship. Turns out, it didn't bring in nearly as many sales as I had hoped - and O only sold a little over 500 copies.

Fast foward 6 months.

At the end of May, I had promoted a big guys product that was ebay related and made one big sale (my list is VERY frugal minded LOL)... anyhow, money was tight and I hadn't received my commission on the sale. I emailed the guy and we figured out the mess up. Then, I got an email from him suggesting we talk about my holiday toy guide. Well, I had put together a summer guide that he wasn't aware of (I really only promoted it to my own list). He interviewed me about it and promoted the summer package. Pretty soon, I had 4-5 other big guys knocking at my door wanting to promote it too! I am very excited about this because although the summer guide was just $20... I now have some nice JV's ready for this year's Holiday Toy Guide which will have a higher price point.

I'll have to share the end of the story in December... but already, these little steps have been a success story to me. Sometimes the success comes overnight - but, it seems to me that usually there is a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes to prepare for that overnight success.

Jenni