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Is Selling Your Business an Option?
Many of us are online entrepreneurs and our business is us…our brand, what we love, and we wouldn’t want to sell. But I also know plenty of us sell parts of our business when the timing is right or think about doing it. That could be niche sites that no longer interest us, FB pages, Kindle pen names for series you don’t want to do anymore, domain names etc. One of my new streams of income is Merch by Amazon, where my partner and I design T-Shirts to sell on Amazon and receive royalty payments. We can create them in all kinds of niches and for businesses too. We are…
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World Egg Day Recipe For Success
World Egg Day Recipe For Success Today is World Egg Day that is celebrated around the globe to bring awareness to the nutritional aspects of eggs. It was first established at the IEC Vienna 1996 conference. It was decided to celebrate World Egg Day on the second Friday in October each year. So today is the day to appreciate eggs! I love eggs! Fried, scrambled, soft boiled, poached, deviled and in a variety of other ways. Eggs are especially wonderful to cook with in a variety of recipes. You might be asking “what does this have to do with marketing and creating an online income.” Well, just like the many…
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New Access to Amazon Associates Program
Amazon Associates Program One of my business models is building niche sites and I am an affiliate for the Amazon Associates Program. This means when I recommend products I use and love that are available on Amazon I get a commission from Amazon when people buy items through my links. This doesn’t cost the consumer anything extra. For the past few years quite a few states in the US couldn’t participate in the program because they wanted Amazon to collect the sales tax when customers bought things on their site and Amazon wasn’t cooperating. My state, California, pulled out of the program a few years ago, which meant I couldn’t…
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Special Peek Tour of Amazon
How Selling On Amazon Works from the Inside Many people are curious how selling on Amazon works. I sell on Amazon using both Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) and their merchant fulfilled (MF) process. A seller who uses MF finds a great product to sell, lists it on Amazon, and when it sells Amazon notifies you, the seller, and you ship the item yourself. When a seller uses FBA, you find great products to sell, list on Amazon and then ship the items directly to Amazon to let them do all the fulfillment… packing, shipping to the customer, and handling any returns. These are just the bare bones basics and it…
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Penny Saver Is Back
Penny Saver is Back Part of my business of selling on Amazon is garage saling and the Penny Saver is back! This weekly circular was one of my favorite resources to find great garage sales. The Penny Saver came out every week and was delivered to my mail box on Wednesdays so I had plenty of time to plan for my weekend garage saling. I could later easily file the circular with all the addresses circled that I went to and then calculate my mileage for my log as a business expense. The Penny Saver closed their doors in California in May of 2015 and laid off over 700 employees.…
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Merch by Amazon
Merch by Amazon’s New Exciting Opportunity Amazon is always changing and growing and one of their newest services is Merch by Amazon. It is a self service program where you design T-shirts and then Amazon produces them, sells and ships them to their customers. This can be an amazing new opportunity for you to grow your business whether it is an online business of yours or you help offline clients. See their quick video intro here. Why was it created? The program, started about a month ago, was originally geared towards app and game developers. Amazon owns Twitch, a live streaming video platform, that primarily focuses on video gaming. Merch…
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Amazon Raises the Free Shipping Minimum
This week Amazon made a major change that will affect how much a buyer will need to spend to qualify for free shipping. If you are a Prime member this will not affect you. Prime members pay $79 a year and receive free two day shipping on millions of items and other perks with their membership. If you are not a Prime member you may be frustrated by the increase. It seems like everything is going up these days! This price change comes just ahead of the busy holiday shopping season. No surprise here! The minimum order size needed to get free shipping has been raised from $25 to $35…