Would you sell your gold jewelry? Or should you wait?

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You probably know that there is a limited amount of gold in the world, with bits being discovered here and there, especially during the Gold Rushes. However, gold is costly to mine these days. Recently frothy prices for gold have encouraged owners of old jewelry to profit by selling their gold. It’s vital if you are considering to cash in some of your gold, that you pay attention to what you’re doing.

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When getting ready to sell your gold it is always best to start by getting multiple estimates. You are trying to sell and make a large profit while the buyers are also looking to resell and make an ever bigger profit. Pawn shops will give you free estimates!

Aside from the pawn shop if you have an older piece of jewelry that you are looking to have scrapped get it looked at by some type of antique dealer as sometimes there is history in an item of jewelry and it may have a larger face value than if it were to be turned into scrap.

Once you have a few estimates in hand decide on what sale price you are going to settle on and then where you can take your gold: to an online bidder or a “cash for gold” type of business. Before selling your gold to any company be sure to check their standing with BBB so that you can avoid getting scammed. Unfortunately the market of buying and selling gold is full of scams and you need to be weary of all processes.

Make sure when selling your gold that the buyer weighs it in grams and not in pennyweight as this will give you a worse deal. When you finally choose a buyer be sure to ask for his credentials to be sure that the dealer is licensed by the state to buy the gold and you should also be asked for your identification. If these two things do not happen, you should probably choose another buyer just in case. If you are tech savvy, you could also sell your gold online on Ebay.com in a special section just for this type of sale.

Gold is being bought and sold at high prices these days so selling gold jewelry should get you a pretty penny! And don’t be rushed into doing anything, by anyone. It’s never in YOUR best interest to make a financial decision quickly. Never.

Needing a little inspiration!

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I’ve become a fan of Pat Flynn’s podcast at SmartPassiveIncome.com. So I thought I’d write him a letter as a way of finding I hope a little inspiration!

Dear Pat,

Been listening to your podcast and reading your website. I’m in a bit of a quandary… let me explain.

I built two popular websites but each in turn was decimated by Google’s rankings over the years. I first built a Blog that was based on Wordpress. Though I wasn’t wildly successful, I managed to keep it going… learning WP all the time! But because I was earning some $$$ from blogging by doing paid blogs and advertisements, I got slapped around by Google ages ago. This was before I learned about keywords, etc.

Then I built a new HTML site for coffee, and thanks to Google built up 50K pg views a month, before the current Penguing/Panda shenanigans killed off my site, and took away many good pages and rankings. It earned some good money, hundreds of dollars, too.

Now I’m kind of not sure where to turn or what to invest in next. I’ve become fearful of doing anything online, but I love running websites, writing stuff, and sharing my own (perhaps unsophisticated) insights… The fact that I’m back to writing stuff is helping me alleviate three years of frustration, and opportunities have come in from other areas as well.

But I lack focus, am fearful of Google, wary (and weary) of putting too much precious time into something that doesn’t work. Pat, do you have any suggestions how I can bootstrap myself out of this situation? I’d love to have your insight!

Best Wishes

Kenneth

What’s the point? Just drop the BizXPress Plugin

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Brainstorm It is available direct from the site, nor is the documentation, support team, etc. The only thing you don’t get that is included on the wordpress admin menu: a feed to their forum. Just go to their site, and avoid this plugin altogether.

The plugin is unnecessary and useless, unlike the bizXpress tools, which are of good value. However, once your free trial ends, the plugin is without any function whatsoever.

What surprises me though: why there is no ability to login via the WordPress Panel, no API that allows interaction between WordPress & Sitesell directly, and one wonders why (when so many other plugins have some kind of API that pull data etc, directly into wordpress and/or make services available within WordPress… ) BizXpress is unable to do this. Each link you click forces you to open another window, taking you AWAY from your wordpress install.

For BXP to work as SaaS properly, it needs to get over that, and treat wordpress users as an end in themselves, not a means to get more traffic Sitesell’s sites. There are plenty of other plugins that already do this. Provide an API that inputs chosen KW directly into the WordPress SEO plugins, help users with choosing their keyword data, … all those things that Sitesell used to be good at. That’s what would make this a valuable plugin.

As it stands, BXP (as a plugin) is nothing less, nothing more than a collection of links. And whether or not this comment stays here, users will find this out when they try it out. I did.

BTW, Jetpack gets updated and is shown in the WP updates section ANYWAY. That is not a good reason to keep a useless plugin.