Making Money Online When The Prospect Names His Own Price
I'm a plain man when it comes to making money online; I just do
what I do and try to make an honest buck wherever I can without
upsetting anyone.
Now and again though fate steps in and sends you a prospect
where you have to figure out for yourself where he or she is
coming from and where in fact they think they're heading.
I got one such prospect a few weeks ago in the shape of Rocco, a
gentle giant from Brooklyn.
How do I know Rocco is a giant?
He emailed a picture of himself towering over his significant
other and some friends.
How do I know he's gentle?
Read on...
Rocco emailed me expressing interest in three of my products but
he didn't want them in digital format (which would have cost him
$107 in total) he wanted hard copy.
I suggested CD formatting.
He got back to me saying, "No, I don't want CDs, I want hard
copy. I'll pay a grand"
So now I thought, loony tunes, but I emailed Rocco back
intimating that if he deposited $200 in my PayPal account I'd
give him what he wanted; hard copy on all three products
I reckoned I would hear no more but the following morning on
checking my PayPal account I discovered to my astonishment that
one thousand dollars had been deposited.
I can't take this man's money I protested and I told him so.
Rocco got back to me within the hour.
His brusque message read, "I said a grand, I meant a grand, so
take a grand".
So I took Rocco's grand.
Wouldn't you?
I mean who wants to be emailed to death...
The moral:
Never assume you know better than prospects - or what they are
prepared to pay - and why. Maybe Rocco has a sight problem
beyond my ken or maybe he finds it difficult to read from a
computer screen. I will never know for sure but this I do know.
Rocco is delighted with the hard copy he craved.
He told me so... in yet another email.
Jim Green is an online enthusiast and bestselling author with an
ever-growing string of niche non-fiction hard copy titles to his
credit. You can view one of the products that captivated Rocco
at this website: http://makingmoneyonline-xl.com