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Dmitry:

I was researching comparisons of Terapeak vs Hammertap and came across your Power of Comparison reviews.  My first reaction was that I was very impressed with your high Google page position.  You obviously know something about SEO.

I was even more impressed, however, with your “My Story” description of yourself and what you have overcome.  You are a great example of how people come to this country and become successful.  Your tenacity, perseverence and work ethnic have served you well and will ensure your success.  Unfortunately, many Americans have either forgotten or never learned those traits.

I am in the process of trying to open an eBay store and to that end, I purchased Janelle Elms “Profitable eBay Stores” DVD course.  Unfortunately, I got through the first couple of lessons and quickly realized that without profitable products to sell, I wasn’t going to be too successful-even with the worlds most well thought out Storefront on eBay.

I’ve been a casual eBayer since 2004 but finally began to get serious about making a full time living on the web over the last year or so after being forced to leave my career because of heatlh reasons and the economy.  I previously purchased the WWB database but haven’t used it much because I’ve been selling a lot of stuff from a family estate over the last year.  Now the easy days of readily available merchandise are over and I have to find new products to sell.

Like you, I am very wary of all the scam artists.  It took me a long time to figure out who the good guys are and believe me that’s a short list.  I trust people like Chris Malta and Janelle Elms plus a few others, but that’s it.  I get emails daily from many successful on-line companies that have only their own best interests at heart.

Long story short, I’d like to know what your experience is in dealing with many of the drop-ship suppliers on WWB?  My concern is that much of their pricing is not going to allow me to enjoy decent profit margins.  I previously used Hammertap for awhile but now Janelle Elms is recommending Terapeak for product Research.  Terapeak also has this $67 book out that tells you step-by-step how to find profitable products to sell.  Are you familiar with it and is it worth the cost?  They, of course push you back to WWB for the database and Terapeak for Research.

Also, you mention affiliate marketing.  Obviously, these guys all butter each others bread and that’s fine.  You seem to be into affiliate marketing too.  Since I don’t yet have a web site of my own, can I take advantage of this via eBay Stores.  I am custom building this store to look just like a web site (not just an eBay store) and will eventually work on SEO and key word analysis to push traffic from outside eBay directly into the eBay store (Janelle teaches all this).

Again, I admire all your hard work and was hoping you could share some of these experiences with me so that I can avoid some pitfalls and perhaps speed up the process a bit.  As you’ve stated on your site, procrastination can be a big stumbling block.

Regards,

John