Fly on the E-Commerce Cyberwall

One Stop Web Support Newsletter #39 On Its Way

The latest issue of One Stop Web Support Newsletter is scheduled to arrive early Sunday morning, September 17. This newsletter contains:

1. Telling Your Stories to Make Your Sales (part 3)
2. Personal recommendations -
   Website tool - "Article Announcer"
   Auction tool - "How An Overworked, Traveling, Soggy Sandwich Eating Dental Hygienist Made up to $11,212.00 a Month--100% Online"
3. Special guest corner: Discover the Profit Models That Can Dramatically Increase Your Income and Position Your Business for *Massive* Growth (part 5) By Derek Gehl
4. Success quote by Jack Nicklaus

If you haven't signed up for my newsletter, you can do so at www.onestopwebsupport.com/newsletter-signup.htm. And I'll make it worth your while if you do. I'll give you $250 worth of free gifts for signing up!
Jeff

eBay Holiday Hot List
Want to see what eBay expects to be the hottest selling products this holiday season? Check out the eBay Holiday Hot List.
Jeff

Returned With New Perspectives
My car's transmission is fixed and my wife and I are safely home. As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I focused my time while waiting two days for repairs on looking for new perspectives. Here's what I found.

In the midst of an expensive and time-consuming delay, I specifically sought to see the good things that came from it both financially and personally. There were a bunch.

• The ONLY transmission shop in the area was only a couple of miles from where we broke down
• The motel was only two blocks from the transmission shop (how often do you find a nice hotel in the middle of a light industrial district?) making it easy to get back and forth
• The motel gave me a big break on the room price and was incredibly helpful with everything we needed
• The attached restaurant was reasonably priced to an incredible degree
• The repair shop's prices were less than 40% of what I expected
• I was able to tie up a lot of loose ends at home by phone and see things just come together without me being directly involved

That's just the highlights. Overall, I benefitted from the delay by getting a new perspective. I'm a bit of a loner. My natural tendency is to try to do everything myself. So this was a real lesson that showed how willing people are to help if I open up to them and approach them with sincerity and gratitude.

Yeah, the delay was inconvenient. But it left me with a refreshing and valuable lesson that applies to any business. Business isn't about YOU. Business isn't about what YOU do. YOU can't make things happen all by yourself. Business is about building relationships and trusting those relationships to lead to the desired results.

And that is a reminder worth far more than what my delay cost.
Jeff

Making Lemonade
You've heard the saying, "If life gives you lemons, make lemonade" (and if you haven't heard that, please come out of the cave you've been hiding in and join the rest of us).

Making lemonade is the position I'm in right now. After a pleasant visit with my daughter and her fiance as they unveiled the new performance space they just bought for her Dare to Dream theatre program, my wife and I got stranded on the way back when our car's transmission went out.

Rather than going into the whole "Why is this happening to me" deal that I've sunk into when past car problems have troubled us, I'm taking a different approach this time.

I'm approaching it as an opportunity to get a different perspective on things. I didn't expect to have much dead time this trip, so I didn't bring much work along.

So, instead, I'm filling the time that my wife is reading by doing some business research I hadn't had much time for and taking a more strategic view of where I want to go.

I've had no great epiphanys yet. But replacing the victim mentality that I so often adopt when things go wrong with an adventure mentality is refreshing.

The way I see it, I can look at this from two perspectives. I can either adopt a "Why is this happening?" perspective or a "What good can I bring out of this?" perspective. I definitely like the latter perspective better.
Jeff