Read more RICHARD'S BLOG How to Profit by Cracking Amazon’s Code I have just returned from a rare trip to the cinema, and am still stunned by the sheer brilliance of the film The Imitation Game, in which genius British logician and cryptologist Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) helps crack Germany’s Enigma Code during World War II. I love dramas from...
Read more RICHARD'S BLOG How to Profit From Old TV Adverts I much prefer technology which has the capacity to capture the passage of time in a continuous stream, rather than through a series of individual snapshots – so for me, a short home movie trumps flicking through a series of holiday snaps any day. I fondly remember as a...
RICHARD'S BLOG How to Give Your eBay Listings an Edge (for prints) An email flooded in last week, from a member asking how they could create an eBay listing for their prints, in such a way as to make it stand out from the crowd. I thought my reply would be worth sharing with all the Profit box members: My advise...
Read more RICHARD'S BLOG How to Earn Cash From the ‘Fairs Circuit’ ‘Oi, you… turn that bloody Alarm off!’ These, and a few other choice words, were not the only things that were ringing in my ears on that very early, wet and windy Sunday morning. ‘I’m trying, I’m trying‘, I retorted, although I knew that no one would be able...
Read more RICHARD'S BLOG Finally… Money-Saving Solutions to Printer Ink Cost Misery! Home office printers have, frankly, been the bane of my life for years! They are either too large and bulky, or too slow and noisy. The paper feed can jam, but only at the most inconvenient moments, and given the fact that they mostly resemble black builder’s skips, they...
Read more RICHARD'S BLOG My Current Hot Best Selling Products I want to give you a quick snapshot of what’s working well for me at the moment; or more to the point, which products are currently earning me a good income… right now! You know what they say: ‘If you want to succeed, copy someone who is already successful‘...
RICHARD'S BLOG How To Remove Those Pesky Dried-On Labels Here are a couple of labour saving tips for removing stubborn price and labels, prior to sale: Paper products Flimsy Paper – When removing dried and hardened labels from flimsy and brittle paper you have to be very careful. Any kind of scratching or rubbing will quickly create a tear....
Read more RICHARD'S BLOG A cool new FREE tool from Amazon… Last week I spoke about how Amazon has plans to back selected budding authors, to the tune of $1,500 + 50% royalties – revolutionary! But Amazon hasn’t stopped there. They love to put user-friendly tools in the hands of their customers (they are extremely customer-orientated, which I love) and...
Read more RICHARD'S BLOG Your Opportunity to Be a (Paid) Published Author This is a brand new opportunity for all budding authors – hot off the press, so to speak. Come on, admit it: haven’t there been times when you’ve wanted to put pen to paper and write that great novel? They say that everyone has a story in them and I...
Read more RICHARD'S BLOG The Most Profitable Book Genre of All With all the different media which I now deal in, it’s sometimes easy to forget where it all started for me. I opened my Amazon trading account in January 2007 and for a long time focused almost entirely on buying and selling good old-fashioned physical books. Oh I wish...