Lee McIntyre Interview

Zero to $7,230.95 in 30 Days - Lee McIntyre Interview : Former Schoolteacher Lee McIntyre reveals how he made Made $7,230.95 Online In Just 30 Days.

Lee reveals how he used ebay to sell to the education niche and now trains others to do the same.

GC: Welcome, everybody. My guest is Lee McIntyre, who is a former schoolteacher from the northwest of England in the U.K. and he’s made a big splash in the Internet marketing field over the last year or so. He is currently selling info products on eBay in the teaching niche.
He’s made rapid progress in 2007, launching several new products including his product creation membership site, Standing Start Profits, and his latest product which is an e-book called Auction Secret Profits. Lee McIntyre, thanks very much for joining us.
LM: Hi, Graham. Thanks very much for having me. It’s a pleasure.
GC: It’s great to have you. I’d like to go through some questions which hopefully our listeners will find useful with trying to build a business in eBay or just online generally. For people who haven’t heard much about you, would you mind telling us a little about your background and how long you’ve been online, also how you got to where you are now in your marketing career?
LM: Absolutely. I’ve not actually been online very long at all. It was maybe 15 months ago when I started my very first Internet business. I remember I was on holiday with my girlfriend at the time. We decided we wanted to try and start up a business, but didn’t know what we wanted to do. Setting up an online business seemed like the logical thing to do considering the skills we had.
We’re both teachers. We came back to England and thought about setting up a shop selling teaching materials. We had a look around one night and found there’s a market for these kinds of products and found there were some people already selling them on eBay. We stayed up for two days—it was during the holidays at the time. We had a shop created in no time at all and went from there, really.
GC: How did you go about researching the market for teaching products? How did you come to realize there was a market? Was it obvious to you, or weren’t many people selling these products on eBay Video Tutorials, Expert Interviews & Tips To Help You Make Money Online
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and you thought there would be a gap in the market there?
LM: I was obviously really new at the time so I probably didn’t do all of the research I should have done. From my own personal experience, I felt as a teacher that there were a lot of resources being sold to schools specifically, but we thought there was a real gap in terms of selling resources to individual teachers.
We just had a look on eBay and spoke to some of our friends and we could see that there was a market and these kinds of products were being sold. From the limited research we did and just speaking to our friends who were teachers, we saw a demand for these kinds of products.
GC: Were the products you created yourself and were selling on eBay e-books?
LM: They weren’t e-books as such. I’ve got to be careful in terms of how much I give away because I haven’t actually told people the identity of the store because if I did that I’d get lots of competition, obviously. It was teaching resources—mainly PDFs, things like posters, printable worksheets—things that teachers could use in their classrooms.
We created them all from scratch. When we had the idea, we sat up all night, researched, and came up with lots of ideas. My girlfriend and I actually sat at the computer for two days and made lots of resources. It went from there. At the time, now that I look back on it, it was rubbish compared to what I’m doing now.
GC: Sure, but you’ve got to start somewhere, haven’t you? I supposed the main thing is that you took action, which is a huge factor in being successful. You have to take the leap of faith, take action, and believe in yourself. You showed there that you spent two nights creating your products.
You obviously felt strongly about it and realized you could do something online. What happened once you started selling these products? How did things go at first?
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LM: For the first few months, it went quite well. It was during the holidays at the time and the demand for the products we were selling seemed to be quite seasonal. We sold quite a lot. After that, I got into the Internet marketing niche and knew I wanted to sell other kinds of products and expand my business.
I think I entered in to that learning cycle, which a lot of beginners do when they start off trying to market online...