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The Amazon Terminology Cheat Sheet
Owning and running an e-commerce business involves so many moving parts and unfamiliar lingo, it sometimes feels like you’re speaking another language entirely! From the marketing terminology to knowledge about fulfillment practices, there are thousands of words that go into building your own online company.
By Seller's Choice9 years ago in Journal
Essential Business Based TED Talks
Everyone in the business world needs to pay attention to TED Talks. This website provides a host of insightful videos offering academic lectures on various topics in an understandable package. Each video presents incredible statistics, arguments, and studies to better the business savvy of every human being who watches it. Collected here are some incredible TED Talks for any business person looking to better the workplace environment and best advance their bottom line.
By Anthony Gramuglia9 years ago in Journal
How To Win Amazon’s Buy Box - Top Tips & Secrets
The Buy Box: the lifeblood of your Amazon shop. This paramount “buy box” can make or break your sales and profitability. So, you’ve optimized your Amazon listings using our top 8 “SAO techniques,” but still your products seem to be dragging behind your competitors. The reason for this? You’re probably losing the Buy Box.
By Seller's Choice9 years ago in Journal
The Introductory Guide to Online Marketplace & E-Commerce Platform Selling - Part 1
If you’re building a home goods or lifestyle e-business, the multitude of online platforms can be overwhelming. How do you know which platform will best reach your target audience and have the highest success rate?
By Seller's Choice9 years ago in Journal
Trials and Tribulations of Starting Out as A Freelance (Copy)Writer
So, you are starting out as a freelance writer. The first thing you have to realize is that the ascent is on: "starting out". It really doesn’t matter whether you have the natural talent for writing, or if you have done some writing beforehand. You could have even been a journalist under a full-time contract or a PR person, or you could have done a lot of writing in your civil service job. Still, it was your dream that one day you could start out as a freelance writer. Fiction, non-fiction, ghostwriting, within a time frame and from a place of your choosing. To be a writer and your own boss at the same time, what more could you want?
By Ljubinko Zivkovic9 years ago in Journal
The Minimalist Guide to Formatting Your eBooks
First and foremost, most, if not all, of this information can be found or gleaned from the Smashwords Style Guide by Mr. Mark Coker, and/or the Amazon guides in their authors' community forums at the following URLs respectively:
By Made in DNA9 years ago in Journal
Run Your Own Newspaper (Part 2)
My excitement at becoming a Media Baron soon turned to fear… what now? Well, the beauty of a takeover means almost everything is in place, the only missing ingredient is your own X-factor. So here are the pieces of the newspaper production puzzle that I inherited and put in place:
By Robert Bayley9 years ago in Journal
Run Your Own Newspaper
I was recently watching a European Champion's League game on TV in my local social club when I got a tap on my shoulder. A guy I'd met, but rarely spoken to, started talking about the local newspaper and how he couldn't run his own business and the newspaper at the same time; the upshot was he asked me to take over the newspaper. 'It's yours if you want it,' he said. After the initial surprise I rapidly became taken with the idea, especially when he talked about advertising revenue paying for the running costs and, if there was enough money left over, paying for my efforts into the bargain.
By Robert Bayley9 years ago in Journal
What It Takes to be an F1 Star
The purpose of the post is one of my long-time passions, Formula 1 motor racing. I've written at length about this absorbing sport on my personal site, and so it seems like a good topic to cover as the 2017 season prepares to get underway. F1 is a combination of man and machine, the fine-tuning of delicate cars that are designed to be glued to the road by sheer downforce, driven by the most confident of racers, the very best of which are almost arrogant in their self-belief.
By Ben Berwick9 years ago in Journal
