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Channel: Wholesale Ted
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hey everybody it's me Syria from home so
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Ted and in today's video I'm gonna tell
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you about five t-shirts that you should
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not sell for some of these t-shirts you
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should avoid them because of the fact
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that they would be doomed to fail from
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the start and if you try to spend any
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money on advertising it would be a huge
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waste other t-shirts could get you into
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potential customer service strife and
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leave you with very unhappy customers
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and for some of these t-shirts well you
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should avoid them because of the fact
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that they could get you into potential
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legal issues and end up having your
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store and your advertising accounts and
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your payment gateways shut down
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it all sounds a bit scary doesn't it
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well don't worry if you just follow
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along with the simple advice that I'll
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be giving you in this video and you can
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avoid selling t-shirts like these and to
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make the video a little bit less scary I
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decided to make it a little bit more
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interesting yes dancing is back now I
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know I've already had some dot sing
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recently and some quizzes and whenever I
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make videos like this they are a little
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bit controversial but I really like them
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so in this video we're gonna play
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another fun quiz where you can win ten
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points yay here's how it's going to work
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I'm going to show you a mystery t-shirt
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for five seconds and that time you have
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to guess the reason why you should not
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sell that t-shirt and if you get it
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right you will win ten points and also
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just FYI later in the video I have a
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huge announcement and that's something
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that I am very excited to share but for
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now it is quiz time okay so here is a
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print-on-demand shirt I created selling
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this shirt could get you into legal hot
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water so why do you think that is you've
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got five seconds to guess go
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alright times up drum roll please the
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reason why it would be a terrible idea
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to sow this t-shirt is because it
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features the typeface from the coca-cola
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logo yep
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does this look familiar to you it should
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is it's the same C that's used in the
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coca-cola logo see here's a question I
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get asked a fair bet Sarah can I use
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famous fonts from movies or TV show
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logos well that's a good question and so
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here is the strange yet fascinating
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thing about fonts and copyrights in the
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USA unlike most countries which protect
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typefaces as a work of art and gives it
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copyright protection and the USA
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typefaces do not have copyright
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protection although fonts do and yes
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they are separate things and it's
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important to know the distinction so
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let's say I went and bought this font
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gallery
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created by a font designer when I
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purchase it I am given a file which is a
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piece of software to download once I
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install the summer computer I will now
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be able to use this want this file or
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software is the font this is legally
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protected
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I can't resell it or reproduce it but
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the typeface as in the visual design of
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the letters and the numbers that design
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has no legal protection in the USA
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however the coca-cola logo is trademarks
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that means design elements from the
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typeface that it uses such as the iconic
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C's are protected by trademark this
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means that coca-cola could still come
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after you and have a great legal case if
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you try to use their typeface for most
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countries it would flat-out be illegal
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due to copyright infringement but in the
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USA it's gets you to sell not due to
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copyrights but choose your trademark
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infringement and so yes usually I'd
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recommend most people stay away from
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doing this but your risk tolerance may
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vary and as always I have to say I am
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NOT a lawyer and this is not her
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placement for official legal advice ok
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did you get it right as so
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congratulations
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you can add team points to your total if
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you didn't well no that's absolutely
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fine because with
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got another chance to win 10 new points
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okay
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this t-shirt here would not be a good
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idea to sell if you were planning on
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using Facebook Ads to be your primary
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source of traffic so why would this
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t-shirt not be a good idea in that case
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you've got five seconds go
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alright times up drum roll please the
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reason why this t-shirt would not be a
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good idea to sell if Facebook has
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forgiven be your primary source of
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traffic is because giraffes are too
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niche yep that's right while some people
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are indeed interested in giraffes there
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just aren't enough people to make the
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snitch worth your time if we come to
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facebook's audience insight tool we can
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type in giraffe and see that we get a
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very small group of people just four
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hundred and fifty to five hundred
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thousand people for this interest in the
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USA if you tried to sell this t-shirt
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then even if you initially found an
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audience of giraffe fans you could sell
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it to you would very quickly saturate
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them and the chances are your ad would
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just well fizzle out even worse because
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this audience is so small to begin with
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it would be very difficult to find sub
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niche targeted audiences to increase
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your initial ad conversions for example
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let's say we wanted the Southwest
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t-shirt which by the way wouldn't really
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be a good idea because it looks terrible
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but regardless that's not the point
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so who would be our audience people that
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like giraffes and are involved in
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environmentalism if we come and create a
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dummy advert on Facebook and try to
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cross the giraffe niche with something
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relations such as targeting people
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involved in environmental organizations
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we only hit 33,000 people with their
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targeting way way too small but you know
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it would be a much bigger better niche
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giant pandas the fan base for this is
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much bigger if we come to the Facebook
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audience and site tool and type in giant
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panda we'll see that we've reach a much
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bigger audience 3.5 to 4 million people
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instead now only is that a large amount
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of people to scale out to but if we try
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to narrow our audience down to people
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that are interested in giant pandas and
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in environmental organizations
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we'll hit at least 100
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thousand people which should be your
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minimum target for an initial ad did you
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get a right if so congratulations you've
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won ten points now I sit at the sales
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video I have a big announcement so let's
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do it now
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course the dropship club is no more and
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it has instead being replaced with our
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how to get free traffic with Google
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using SEO even if you've got a low
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starting budget a lot of people
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understandably ask me Sarah what's the
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difference between your free videos on
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YouTube and your premium videos inside
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the clubhouse well here is an example on
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this channel I have a free SEO tutorial
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it's 34 minutes long but my SEO training
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videos inside the econ club house they
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are over two hours long so if you want
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pass in the video description below for
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now they're back to the video and your
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next chance to win ten points okay here
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is the t-shirt this shirt would not be
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okay to sell on eBay why would that be
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you've got five seconds to gifts go
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alright
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drum roll please the reason why this
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would not be a good t-shirt to sell on
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eBay
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is because of the fact that it is drop
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shipped from Aliexpress yep see here's
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the thing a lot of people ask me Sarah
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can I drop ship from Aliexpress on eBay
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and while it isn't inherently bent or
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anything as I see it in this video it is
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not a good idea despite that a lot of
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people still ask me about what I think
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about aliexpress drop shipping and eBay
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well I can tell you my opinion it's not
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changed here is the thing like most
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online marketplaces sellers have a
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love/hate relationship with eBay
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we love that we have to do minimal
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marketing to sell our products on eBay
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because millions of people just go there
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every day and that is not to be
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underestimated because for most stores
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50% of their revenue usually goes
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towards marketing and so even though
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eBay charge fees these don't come close
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to traditional marketing costs on the
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other hand eBay also has thus seller
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performance standards if more than 2% of
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your transactions result in customers
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winning an eBay dispute your account is
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in serious trouble and here's the
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downside to drop shipping with
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Aliexpress sure the items are very cheap
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but on the other hand shipping is going
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to take two to three weeks for customers
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and the longer shipping takes the
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fussier customers can get if you're
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selling in your own store especially if
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you're using stripe with Shopify
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payments you can handle XE customers if
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you had an upfront shipping policy by
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pointing it out but on eBay they are
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notorious for siding with customers even
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when the customers did not fairly
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deserve to win the dispute and so drop
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shipping homes from Aliexpress onto eBay
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is not something I would recommend but
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honestly there is a much bigger reason
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that I would avoid selling this item on
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eBay because he would be drop shipping
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it from Aliexpress and that's because
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I'll express suppliers like this one
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here are often selling the item on eBay
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themselves anyway because they are
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producing the item themselves they can
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sell them for the same or similar prices
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to the cost on Aliexpress but on eBay
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and while i 100% believe that you do not
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need
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to compete on price and you can list
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your items for higher prices than your
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competitors if you differentiate
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yourself from them it is very difficult
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to meaningfully differentiate yourself
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from the supplier so no I don't
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recommend drop shipping on ebay stick to
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drop shipping in your own store where
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it's a lot easier to differentiate
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yourself instead so did you get it right
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if so congratulations you won 10 points
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if you don't get a right though that's
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okay because you've got another chance
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to win this one's gonna be a little bit
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easier so this time we're gonna be
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playing for 5 points instead all right
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do you see the stay shoot here it would
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be a very big mistake to add this
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product listing to your store and sell
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it if you had previously added this
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t-shirt product listing to your store
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can you figure out why this would be a
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big mistake you have 5 seconds to guess
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go alright times up drum roll please the
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reason like it would be a mistake to
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list this in your store if you had
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listed the previous listing it's because
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you reused the exact same model for both
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of these t-shirt designs so for those of
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you that don't know I created these
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photos using an ethical playset in my
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recent video I gave a short tutorial on
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how to use it and if you want to check
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it out for yourself I'll have a link to
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that video in the description below
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place that allows you to create
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lifestyle mock-up pictures for your
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t-shirt without watering the shirts and
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yourself to take your own photos and
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this is extremely extremely important
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for any wannabe t-shirt stores out there
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because a lifestyle picture like this
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can be used in an advertising campaign
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and it's going to be way better
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99.99999% of the time then the product
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on white background picture that most
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print-on-demand providers give you
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lifestyle photo apps like this are one
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of the secret tools you could say of
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successful print-on-demand stores
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however there are a lot of beginners out
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there that make a big mistake see
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they'll find a picture they think looks
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good on one of these apps like this and
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go awesome
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and then proceeded to use it throughout
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their entire website on each of the
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different t-shirts and you know what
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this is a terrible idea why because now
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customers know that you did not take
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those photos the only way this person
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can be in the exact same post with the
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exact same lighting is funnily enough if
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you photoshop the design on now that's
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certainly not the end of the world which
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is why this is only worth five points
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but you know one of the really nice
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things about having customers think that
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you took the photo is that it makes your
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store look much bigger than it actually
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is it makes it look like your store is
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big enough to justify having its own
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photo shoot and you ruined that when you
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reuse the same photo and so if you are
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using a lifestyle photo app plate place
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it or smart mock-ups then make sure that
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you vary up the pictures and actually
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here is a really great tip to increase
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your authority even more search for
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pictures that reuse the same model now
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I'm not sure if other competing services
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like smart mock-ups have this feature
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they very likely do but I know that
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place it does what you do is you come
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and click this button here when you do
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that place that will show you all the
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photos they have featuring this model by
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picking different photos featuring this
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model for each of your t-shirts it makes
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it look like you had an actual photo
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shoot with him and it adds authority to
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your store so what I recommend that you
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do is you go there and you choose a few
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models that you like and then you reuse
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them and different pictures and poses
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and that way it's going to make your
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store look like it is already
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established and successful so did you
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get a right if so congratulations you
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won five points now if you didn't don't
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worry because we've got one more chance
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to win points this time we are playing
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for 50 whole points okay
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so here is a print-on-demand provider a
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lot of people don't know about
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CJ dropshipping they have some pretty
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low cost items such as this t-shirt that
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has a base selling price of three
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dollars and fifty cents but you know
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what it would be a big mistake to go and
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Salvas t-shirt on the online marketplace
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it see what
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a place that many successful t-shirt
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stores have popped up on such as this
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one here selling designs with print on
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demand services and they have made
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hundreds of thousands of dollars why
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would it be a mistake to sell this
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t-shirt there you have five seconds to
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gifts go alright times up drum roll
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please the answer for 15 points is that
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the service provider there in China see
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here's the thing about it see originally
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it was a marketplace for handmade items
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only over time though they started to
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allow sellers to work with ethical
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production partners they used to audit
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them although now they no longer do
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however a lot of Etsy buyers still very
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much care about this and due to many
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factors a lot of people have very
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negative ideas and beliefs about ethical
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standards of warehouses and
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manufacturers in China and so when an
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Etsy user receives a t-shirt from CJ
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drop shipping and seize the package was
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from China you risk them being
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unimpressed and potentially leaving
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negative feedback that's why when it
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comes to its si I think it's a smart
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idea to avoid foreign manufacturers and
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try to stick to local manufacturers
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instead and as a bonus several of these
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local manufacturers have integrations
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with Etsy to automate your store and
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production as well turning it into a
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source of semi passive income another
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good reason to choose them as well so
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how many points did you win let me know
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in the comment section below and if you
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would like even more free training on
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setting up a successful print-on-demand
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t-shirt store then be sure to download
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our free ebook the six zip sets
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six-figure online stores follow to make
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over ten thousand dollars a month and
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you can get that free e-book for
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yourself by clicking on the link in the
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