Comments on: Four Hot Product Launches That Will Inspire You In 2008 http://www.startbreakingfree.com/221/four-hot-product-launches-that-will-inspire-you-in-2008/ How to Quit Your Job and Start Your Own Business Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:08:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Andre Wilson http://www.startbreakingfree.com/221/four-hot-product-launches-that-will-inspire-you-in-2008/#comment-931 Andre Wilson Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:22:52 +0000 http://www.startbreakingfree.com/221/four-hot-product-launches-that-will-inspire-you-in-2008/#comment-931 Five years ago I saw some laser crystals in the store of Bill Clinton and Elvis, and thought to myself, “wouldn’t it great if people should put their own pictures in a laser crystal cube”. After doing a lot of research, I learned that it was possible to do. So I set out a goal to make this service available to people by starting my very first online business, selling laser crystals. My company is called MyCrystalPortrait.com It was a lot of work to get to the point where I am actually doing business online, but giving people the opportunity to put their image into laser crystals is very rewarding. It really took one year of hard work and preparation to get up and running. The first thing I had to do was to purchase a machine from China, then I had to learn how to use the machine, and then develop a web site. Marketing the site has been a big challenge. One of the techniques I have been using to push some of items and drive traffic to the site is to sell discounted crystals on ebay. I wasn’t sure what the market would really bear when it came to pricing the crystals, but after selling on ebay, I got a pretty good ideal. I am also using web logs to learn who comes to the site and from where, this has been a big help. I took a seminar class with Mary Gillian, at EEI, entitled “marketing online”. She said I should create a blog, which was a lot of fun except I am the only ones reading it (LOL). So far it has been more work then money, but I am enjoying myself. Five years ago I saw some laser crystals in the store of Bill Clinton and Elvis, and thought to myself, “wouldn’t it great if people should put their own pictures in a laser crystal cube”. After doing a lot of research, I learned that it was possible to do. So I set out a goal to make this service available to people by starting my very first online business, selling laser crystals. My company is called MyCrystalPortrait.com

It was a lot of work to get to the point where I am actually doing business online, but giving people the opportunity to put their image into laser crystals is very rewarding. It really took one year of hard work and preparation to get up and running. The first thing I had to do was to purchase a machine from China, then I had to learn how to use the machine, and then develop a web site. Marketing the site has been a big challenge. One of the techniques I have been using to push some of items and drive traffic to the site is to sell discounted crystals on ebay. I wasn’t sure what the market would really bear when it came to pricing the crystals, but after selling on ebay, I got a pretty good ideal. I am also using web logs to learn who comes to the site and from where, this has been a big help. I took a seminar class with Mary Gillian, at EEI, entitled “marketing online”. She said I should create a blog, which was a lot of fun except I am the only ones reading it (LOL). So far it has been more work then money, but I am enjoying myself.

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