MikeHo

Joined 15 years ago

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I'm an ambitious and motivated 19 year old entrepreneur based out of Vancouver, British Columbia. I am always looking to meet new like-minded individuals, drop me a line!
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Comment · 14 years ago
Great article, and great quote. I would definitely recommend reading the whole book Winning by Jack Welch -- I personally just finished it. It provides great insight to management and the behind-the-scenes look of GE at an executive level.
Comment · 14 years ago
Ego is often mixed up with self confidence, I agree that people should not themselves too seriously and to realize that in the grand scheme of things, we are all so insignificant individually.

Being a good listener is so essential in communication - We've all been on the other side of feeling disregarded in a conversation because of a distraction, text, time, wandering minds -- it's disrespectful and works in negative ways.

Comment · 15 years ago
Comment · 15 years ago
Sort of off topic, but is there anyone else getting a lot of telemarketed automated calls recently --- any correlation with the sony attack?
Comment · 15 years ago
The buying / selling process is fairly complex and I have training material prepared from start to finish provided in mind that the person has zero previous knowledge of the topic. -- included in the 2 day training

For the nature of the business I'd think a longer support is crucial though as many new obstacles and situations arise that cannot be predetermined. -- hopefully this will not come back in the long run to burn me for offering such long support.

I've moved on to other projects and haven't had time to deal with AdWords and was short staffed so I halted SEO -- on average with minimal input time it generates about $3-4k a month.

If you do a simple google search "Buy WoW Account" all sites on the right hand side - sponsored ads are earning bare min. $10,000 / month net.

No matter how good an account is -- Level 85 accounts we purchase between $60 - 250. $60 account usually sells for $199.99 and a $250 account would sell for $500-600 -- this is the general case with all websites.

With SEO having us on the first page of "Sell WoW Account" keywords at rank 4 from the top -- we were receiving roughly 50-100 "Sell Account Requests" -- at the time we were only picking the best deals.

Monitor a site like "www.vbarrack.com" -- a full company which employs more quite a few employees. There turnover is roughly 40-50 accounts a day with an inventory of a quarter million - half a million dollars in just World of Warcraft accounts alone.

Comment · 15 years ago
Sheer brilliance :)
Comment · 15 years ago
Similar to Vevo on youtube..
Comment · 15 years ago
I was going to suggest going to a car lot and offering a price of -%15 of asking price provided the vehicle is between $30,000 - $50,000.

However, an offer although verbal, is legally binding, and should the sales person accept the offer... trouble can arise.

Comment · 15 years ago
Business Law is flawed for those under age of majority...

I've had numerous start ups and successful ventures since the age of 12, and to date (I'm currently 17), it's always a burden to know I'm held back from incorporating etc.. as nothing I sign is legally viable.. therefore making it hard for me to play by the rulebook.

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