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    Boring post about a 23yo gal who is starting her journey! :)

    INTRO 
    Congrats on catching the entrepreneurial bug! You're already way ahead of most. My advice to you: order as few of your Alibaba-sourced, private label product as you can and slap up a basic product listing on Amazon, Ebay, Etsy, or Shopify to see if it sells. Validate your idea as quickly and...
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    Can you solve this Amazon Seller mystery?

    This is sound advice. I need to start thinking more big picture and long-term and less day-to-day. Looking at month-to-month sales is a much saner way to go. Thanks for the reminder. Getting those "you've made a sale!" alerts is really addictive, though!
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    Can you solve this Amazon Seller mystery?

    Thanks for great heads-up! I just installed the Helium 10 extension on Chrome. Works a lot like Keepa. I think I'll explore their other tools as well.
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    Can you solve this Amazon Seller mystery?

    Thanks for the perspective. I got one sale on that product today, so that's somewhat of a relief. Maybe it was just an anomalous slow period. I haven't been monitoring ranking that closely. I'm still looking for an alternative to Keepa, now that they charge for historical ranking data. What do...
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    Can you solve this Amazon Seller mystery?

    I started an eCommerce business last year. Currently, my primary channel is Amazon. I have 3 products I'm selling through Amazon FBA. I plan to expand in the near future to Etsy, Ebay, and Shopify. My execution thread is here. I've run into a weird problem that I'm hoping one of the Amazon...
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    Is CENTS Destructive to Action?

    GOLD! MINDSET 
    Here's a great example of someone taking action, not overthinking, not worrying about CENTS for now: How To Make $1,000 Starting A Shopify Store From Scratch
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    Car Accident App(Need Feedback!)

    At the risk of being pedantic, don't call it a car "accident." Call it a "crash." Accident implies no one was at fault. But almost invariably one driver or other is at fault in a crash. That's what the police and the insurance companies want to determine when they investigate. I suggest this...
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    [Progress Thread] Amazon FBA

    EXECUTION 
    An update on my Amazon FBA launch: I now have a few dozen units of my brand's 2 products at the Amazon warehouses. The brand is in Health & Beauty. For now, I'm making the products in my basement. I've been running Amazon PPC ads for each product with a budget of $10 a day. The ACOS is not...
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    Is your business idea a monster that eats people to poop out money so you can be okay?

    IDEA MINDSET 
    This applies to how I thought about business ideas for a long time (means-to-endism). Does it sound familiar to you as well? View: https://youtu.be/jO6JjQ8TJSc Source: Michael Neill. He's a "transformative coach" and author of Creating the Impossible and The Inside-Out Revolution.
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    Children's Book Publishing... WOW?!

    HOT! 
    I'm working on a middle-grade novel (the category for ages 8 to 12) called Prezzemolina, or, The Little Parsley Girl. The novel's based on a classic Italian folk tale. Here's the jacket synopsis: Prezzemolina is a headstrong loner who feels cursed by her weird name, which her struggling single...
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    Writing my first Non Fiction eBook

    EXECUTION 
    Your rigor is really impressive. Regarding ASO consulting: if you can position yourself as a top expert, I wonder if you'd be able to charge an hourly rate well over $100, maybe even $200, especially if you can prove a track record of ROI. But, sure, competing on Fiverr or Upwork for keyword...
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    Writing my first Non Fiction eBook

    EXECUTION 
    I'd agree with you when considering other products. But my sense is that most readers expect books to cost around 5 to 15 bucks, unless the book is in a special category, like textbooks or coffee table books. It'll be intersting to see how your pricing experiments play out. And it really...
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    Writing my first Non Fiction eBook

    EXECUTION 
    Congrats on finishing your ASO book, @Vaughn. It sounds like it has a lot of promise. You might try looking for a nonfiction book editor on Reedsy.com. It's basically Upwork exclusively for book publishing. Also consider experimenting with your price. If you lower the price to say, US$9.99, you...
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    ZF's progress thread

    EXECUTION 
    Glad you like the idea. I don't think it's crazy at all. A website is a sales pitch, is it not? And the sales managers at those factories are people too. People respond to stories. You'd position yourself as their guide to increased sales.
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    ZF's progress thread

    EXECUTION 
    Here's a suggestion: Offer to improve the website copy for suppliers on Alibaba who serve Anglophone customers. Most of their websites suck, and they're turning off prospects. It'd be a small investment for the factories with a potentially big payoff in sales. Also, read and master Donald...
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    Money-Chasing Burns Bestselling Author...*Poof!* His pen name is gone.

    MINDSET 
    I'm glad to hear some measure of justice has finally been served! And thanks for the rep, @ChickenHawk. It's much appreciated.
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    [Progress Thread] Amazon FBA

    EXECUTION 
    This is a continuation of a progress thread started on the inside. If you're an Insider and are curious, you can read that thread here. I launched a second brand on Amazon selling two products in one niche. I sent in 5 units of each product and ran ad campaigns on a set of targeted search...
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    I did it again... A tale of addiction to the slowlane (and detox)

    MINDSET SLOWLANE 
    You could also try reedsy.com. It's a freelance marketplace like Upwork, but exclusively for self-publishers.
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    Buying "As Seen On Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS" Logos

    As other posters have mentioned, you don't need this service to claim that you're been seen on those major news outlets. You just need to publish a press release with any one of the dozen top PR distribution services. Those press releases get picked up by the syndicated networks. They're added...
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    Plush toy from design to prototype. Go with China or any other recommendations?

    SOURCING 
    Or you could see if the supplier has something similar in their catalog and have them modify it. That would reduce the cost of the prototype.

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