"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.
Making Money via Ebay
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"She's Out of Your League"
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
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"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"
I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.
diablo
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Good idea, and one I've used before. 99% of yard sale stuff is crap, but there's always that 1%. Stay away from big, bulky items that would be hard to ship. It's sometimes profitable to visit thrift stores and church sales - many times they'll have name-brand clothes (Abercrombie, etc.) that can be purchased for a dollar or two and resold for much more. I found one church sale that had about 20 pairs of A&F cargo shorts & jeans for $1 each. I sold them on ebay for about $13-16... making a nice 1300%+ profit on each. Another idea is to be an eBay seller's assistant. Many mail places (ones that take your package and ship it via FedEx, UPS, USPS, etc) will allow you to put a banner in front of their store advertising your business. For example, a "LET US DO YOUR EBAYIN' FOR YOU! (555)555-1212" is particularly effective. Charge 30% and you're set.
As for buying in bulk and reselling for less, I'd be hesitant - I'm a member of Rio Audio's ebay powerseller's private auction site where you can purchase lots of mp3 players (such as a lot of 20 Rio Nitrus 1.5gb, etc) but I've found the profits don't usually justify all of the work you do.
diablo
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I could have sworn I practically wrote a book not but 2 posts above this one.
Oh wait, I did.
I'm Joe Dirt
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There are places opening up now where you drop off anything you wanna sell and they sell it for you and keep 20% of the cut.
The reason why this is so popular is that buyers are weary of buying stuff with someone with no feedback. And if you already have positive feedback and lots of it you are more likely to get a larger price for an item and more likely to sell it in the first place.
Also a lot of people don't wanna bother making a whole e-bay account and going through validation processes and learning how it all works just to sell an old clock or something.
So you could offer a service where you sell for the best price possible any item people bring you, give them the money, and you keep 20%.
"I just moved here from Florida."
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
In short: TOO MUCH BS TO DEAL WITH.
People want something for nothing.. Hell, they want you to give it to them for free.
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Something that you are interested in and knowledgable about. Then put in some hard work, learn aout marketing, research suppliers and get best discounts etc, etc.
"I just moved here from Florida."
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
I mean, seriously if I think about the time when I was reading all those magazines about shares and reading stuff about it on the internet, that would have been more than dry I guess, but because I had my own money on the line it was interesting...and I think starting your own business, selling stuff online and figuring out how to make the biggest profits might indeed be pretty interesting..but the downside of it, is probably that working in a big company wouldnt be as interesting and youd definetly have to start in a company where youre not your own boss, so you can get enough money...and later on success with your own business is still not granted..