3rd Power Outlet: Becoming A Power-Seller – with John Lawson

John Lawson, 3rd Power Outlet, Bootstrapping, eCommerce, Physical Product, Selling 1-on-1, Traffic

How does a guy who nearly went bankrupt become a power-seller?

John Lawson (ColderICE) is the founder of 3rd Power Outlet, an online retail site.

He has sold more things online than I can list, concert tickets, piggy banks, mouse pads, printer ink, etc. You get the idea, but wait till you hear the one thing he did to sell 10,000 bandanas.

John Lawson

3rd Power Outlet

John Lawson (ColderICE) is the CEO of the retail ecommerce store 3rd Power Outlet and knows how to use social marketing for business.

 

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And do you remember when I interviewed Sara Sutton Fell about how thousands of people pay for her job site? Look at the biggest point that she made? She said that she has a phone number on every page of her site because, and here’s the stat, 95% of the people who call end up buying. Most people though don’t call her but seeing a real number increases their confidence in her and they buy. So, try this, go to grasshopper.com and get a phone number that will...

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