Hi guys, Neil Waterhouse
Received an email from Kirk Waters saying
Hi Neil, hope you can help.
I’m 65 years of age with very little eBay and computer knowledge.
Am I still able to build an Bay business from scratch with next to no existing knowledge?
Well Kirk, absolutely yes
you can build a full-time eBay business
even if you have no eBay experience
and very little computer knowledge.
The fact that you managed to send me this email
means you have all the knowledge required to get started.
I remember back when the email starts taking off back in the 1990's.
Anybody with a knowledge of how to send an email
was sort of some kind of a computer guru.
Nowadays, we just take emailing for granted
In fact, 5 year old kids can do it now.
None of us were born with any computer knowledge
or knowledge of building eBay businesses.
In fact, having no knowledge can sometimes help
as you’ve not had the opportunity to learn
like bad or outdated habits.
The good thing is you don’t need to be a computer expert
to build an eBay business
and you certainly don’t need to go back to university and spend years getting a degree.
And you also don’t need to waste time trying to figure out
what other people have already figured out before you.
It’s amazing how many people think they need to be a computer genius
to run an eBay business but this is simply not true.
Just like you don’t need to be an electrician to
or electrical engineer to turn on a light switch
or a mechanic to operate a motor vehicle.
Owning an eBay business is all about running your eBay business
and not about being a computer programmer.
If you need a computer programmer,
you can very easily hire one from three dollars per hour
however that’s for another video.
The secret to building an eBay business,
if you want to call it a secret is like
most things in life…is to simply…. get started
and all….the questions… then all answers
will almost magically appear.
Let me explain.
Like with many things in life, questions often cannot be answered
with the current knowledge a person has.
Let me say it again
often a question cannot be answered
with the current knowledge a person has.
Let's say, someone wakes up tomorrow and decides
decides they want to quit their job and grow mushrooms commercially for a living
but they’ve never grown mushrooms in their life
and they have absolutely no idea how to get started.
So, what their options?
First they could say “they have never grown mushrooms before therefore they will never be able to do so ”
Or “they could lie in bed and try to figure out how to grow mushrooms commercially by themselves.
Or they could find somebody who is growing mushrooms commercially for a living
and ask if they can help them.
Or “they could pick up a book or White Paper written by somebody who successfully grows mushrooms commercially.
Don’t get me wrong here though
I’m not trying to flog you one of my books so I
make my couple of dollars profit for book sale.
The point I am trying to make is
with growing mushrooms or building an eBay or any other business,
is you don’t need to reinvent the wheel trying to figure out
what other people have already figured out before you.
Whatever question may arise,
somebody has almost certainly been there before you
and figured out the answer.
You know, just like making a cake,
You can either figure it out yourself or simply follow a recipe.
But always take advice from somebody,
who is at where you want to be.
In regards to building a full-time eBay business,
the path has been well and truly trodden before you.
There are now over 500,000 full-time eBay sellers out there
so there is an answer to pretty much every single question you can come up with.
You just need to get started so the first question appears
It's about those baby steps
one baby step after the other
If you’re building an eBay business, or almost any other business,
it is all about going as far forward as you can with your current knowledge
then when your progress is halted due to a question,
it simply requires some research to find the answer.
And there's always an answer.
The secret to success with most things is just keep figuring out all the questions
and not giving up in favour of the next shiny new object.
Or as Winston Churchill quoted,
Never never never give up!
Many people ask me why I donate my time doing presentations
to the eBay and Amazon groups around Australia
and my answer is always the same
I learn from them
Sure I share my experiences in the presentations
but very regularly people in the audiences will also share their experiences and reveal something they are doing new
which is working, you know, or something they've figured out which I've never seen before.
That’s why these groups can be so beneficial to everybody.
I will put up a page at the end of this video with links the groups.
As anybody with a full-time eBay business knows,
we all kinda work underground in the trenches hiding behind our keyboards
and it’s always great to socialise with other people who are doing the same thing.
So bottom line Kurt,
anybody who can read… can build a full-time eBay business from scratch.
Just get started, get your first question
and through a little bit of research, the answer will almost always magically appear.
And often very quickly.
Building a full-time eBay business is all about those baby steps.
We've talked about it many times before.
That's all for this week.
Please leave a comment for me below.
Until next week
List more, sell more
This is Neil Waterhouse.