Croda's Inscription Gold Guide - paid version, only $5

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Paid Guide FAQ

Where can i purchase it from?

gumroad.com.  the link to the site is: Croda's Inscription Gold Guide

for only $5


How does this work?

1) Click on the link above - it will take you to my page on gumroad.com to purchase the guide

2) Click the "I want this!" button then you will be guided to complete the transaction securely via credit card through gumroad.com

3) You will then be shown a link to download the pdf, and the link will be sent to you by email.



What is gumroad.com?

It is one of the many sites that creators can use to sell their digital creations.  The gumroad.com FAQ is here


Have there been any independent reviews of your Guide?

yes:

Critical Goblin did a review

Hunter Mastery did a reciew



What are the full contents?

1. DESCRIPTION OF INSCRIPTION

2. GOLD MAKING POTENTIAL

3. ANALYSIS OF THE MARKET

4. What changed the prices of glyphs after Patch 4.0.1?

5. LEVELLING

6. HOW I OPERATE IN THE INSCRIPTION MARKET
6a. My use of addons
6b. How i am set up
6c. What do i stock?
6d. When do i mill and craft?
6e. How i price my items – glyphs
6f. How i price my items – scrolls
6g. How i price my items – Runescrolls
6h. How i price my items – Certificates of Ownership
6i. How i price my items – Darkmoon Cards
6j. How i price my items – off hands
6k. My routine – for glyphs, darkmoon cards, scrolls, runescrolls and certificates of ownership
6l. My routine – for off hands
6m. My routine – for surplus inks
6n. Other items which i tend not to deal in
6o. How I compete
6p. How I deal with a serious new entrant:
6q. How i deal with an existing competitor that turns aggressive
6r. What i have on my snatch list for inscription

7. ADVANCED STRATEGIES
7a. The starting point
7b. The Glyph Wall –what is it and what is its purpose?
7c. The Glyph Wall –how to combat it
7d. The Auction House Camper - what is it and what is its purpose?
7e. The Auction House Camper – how to combat it?
7f. The Pricing Trap strategy – what is it and what is its purpose?
7g. The Pricing Trap strategy – how to combat it
7h. Hello there stranger!- what is it and what is its purpose?
7i. Hello there stranger!- how to combat this
7j. Who are my Competitors Secret Alts?
7k. Getting the Drop on your Competitors
7l. Never Buyout items to reset the price

8. THE OFF HAND MARKET
8a. An Overview of the Off Hand Market
8b. Book of Blood
8c. Lord Rottington's Pressed Wisp Book
8d. Faces of Doom
8e. Iron-Bound Tome
8f. Twilight Tome
8g. Rituals of the New Moon

9. MINIMISING THE COST OF THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS
9a. Lowering the cost of glyphs – looking at the manufacturing process
9b. Herb Prices for Scribes
9c. Ink prices for Scribes

10. MARKET OBSERVATIONS
10a. Forcing a competitor to leave the market
10b. Stable markets is what every scribe wants.
10c. Sales on a sustainable basis
10d. Who is the Market Leader?
10e. Sunk Costs
10f. Cash Margins vs Profit Margins
10g. Measuring Gold per Hour
10h. All counter strategies lower profits for a while
10i. By what amount to undercut
10j. Why have a high fallback price
10k. Do i worry if my competitors know my minimum posting price?
10l. Some Glyphs are being undercut, some are not!

11. PREPARATION FOR NEW PATCHES
11a. What to do before Patches and New Content
11b. Better safe than sorry – have backup Addons
11c. Loading out of date addons.

12. COMING BACK AFTER A BREAK

13. GENERAL TIPS FOR SCRIBES
13a. Books of Glyph Mastery - a form of insurance
13b. Casandra Downs in the Twilight Highlands
13c. Dust of Disappearance
13d. Alt posting location
13e. Setting up a Guild Bank
13f. Checking for Recipes on the Auction House
13g. Checking to see what recipes you still have to collect
13h. Podcasts i listen to
13i. Post Patch work –reset your Auction House data
13j. Better safe than sorry
13k. Skipping items to post
13l. Loading out of date addons.
13m. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (have a backup market)

14 REFERENCE DATA
14a. Herbs to Glyph Conversion

15 SCIBE'S GLOSSARY

16 BLOGS I READ (which have been updated in the last 3 months)

APPENDIX
A A bit about myself
B Why did i start gold making in World of Warcraft?
C Guide FAQs


What are the differences to the Free Guide?

there are graphics to give added clarity to the text.  For example, graphics showing what i enter into Tradeskillmaster to price my glyphs.


added new sections on:

8. THE OFF HAND MARKET
8a. An Overview of the Off Hand Market
8b. Book of Blood
8c. Lord Rottington's Pressed Wisp Book
8d. Faces of Doom
8e. Iron-Bound Tome
8f. Twilight Tome
8g. Rituals of the New Moon
9. MINIMISING THE COST OF THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS
9a. Lowering the cost of glyphs – looking at the manufacturing process
9b. Herb Prices for Scribes
9c. Ink prices for Scribes

11. PREPARATION FOR NEW PATCHES
11a. What to do before Patches and New Content
11b. Better safe than sorry – have backup Addons
11c. Loading out of date addons.

12. COMING BACK AFTER A BREAK

16 BLOGS I READ (which have been updated in the last 3 months)



and some additional information in:

7. ADVANCED STRATEGIES
7j. Who are my Competitors Secret Alts?
7k. Getting the Drop on your Competitors
7l. Never Buyout items to reset the price

10. MARKET OBSERVATIONS
10h. All counter strategies lower profits for a while
10i. By what amount to undercut
10j. Why have a high fallback price
10k. Do i worry if my competitors know my minimum posting price?
10l. Some Glyphs are being undercut, some are not!

and some additional General tips


and its a nice pdf to print out.






3 comments:

  1. as i said on the Free Guide page, i bought your guide and it is the best guide i have ever read. worth much more than $5. I am half way through it and i love skipping to various sections to get new ideas. this is brilliant!

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  2. I purchased your guide last week and could not put it down. It was a great read on its own!

    I have learned loads - and have already put some of the ideas into practice.

    This is truely more than worth the $5 i paid!

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  3. i have been a long time reader of your blog and bought your guide. must be the best guide i have ever bought. well written and very informative. as the other posts say, well worth the $5.

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