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Windows and Door Arrive!...Doors Installed!!!!
The doors that I ordered were pretty much the best that Kohler could offer. The door frame is made of cellular PVC so there will never be any real maintenance issues like for vinyl clad with wood jambs where there is some risk for the wood rotting over time. The door slabs are fiberglass. In the front of the house we opted for a half glazed door since there were no windows in the main entry. In the porch, a half glazed door allows some natural light to spill from the side porch on the house. The south side of the house has a door with full glazing. The house doors are all triple glazed energlas plus (high solar gain on the south side, low solar gain on the north) corresponding to total door R-values of about 5 ( See Kohler energy efficiency ratings ). They don't really provide any information about how this is measured but I assume its measured at the center of the door since they list different U-values depending on glazing coverage. For example a door with no glazing has an imperial U-value of 0.16 but one with full glass has a U-value of 0.21 I am sure they would provide the information if I were to investigate further....and I will investigate further. I ordered the doors with triple point locking hardware in hopes that minor installation issues would still lead to tight fitting seals around the doors when the triple point lock is engaged. R-value isn't everything. A leaky door is as good as an open one. All the R-value in the world won't keep your house warm with an open door in the middle of winter.
Kohler's instructions for door installation is fairly typical. We applied a couple of thick beads of acoustical sealant on the sill pan and 6" up the door jamb. From the outside we tipped the sill of the door onto the sill pan of the rough opening and centered it approximately. We then tipped the door in place so the back of the vinyl brick mould was flush with the exterior. We made further adjustments to the centering of the sill so when the jamb was level, the door box had an even spacing with the rough opening all the way around. There is no such thing as a square rough opening so we just made sure I would have room for spray foam, backer rod, and caulking. We levelled the hinge jamb, inserted shims behind the top hinge and secured door with a 3" screw in through the hinge until the door frame was secure. It was apparent that over tightening lead to the PVC frame warping so we made sure that the shims were slightly overtightened before driving a screw into the hinge. Working Once the hinge side was completed we moved on to securing the other anchoring points. The PVC frames are only somewhat straight. Shims were used to even the reveal (about 3/16") between the PVC frame so the reveal around the door was the same as the hinge side (Photo 1-3). The install went pretty quickly and evening the reveal took some time and patience. Photo 1-1 shows one of the installed doors (front entry). In Photo 1-2 you can see the three panes of glass. This window is Energlass Plus (triple glazed) with low solar gain glass. The R-value is marginally better than the same door with high solar gain glass. Photo 1-3 to 1-5 show the triple point Trillium lockset. It is nice hardware and comes pre-installed. This set is nickel plated. There are three strikers and 3 latches; all of which are controlled by a single lever and a single dead bolt knob. The deadbolt is quick release from the inside. If you need to gain quick exit you just need to push the door lever downwards and it releases the deadbolt lock. As you engage the lockset deadbolt you can see the upper and lower parts of the door pull towards the weather stripping. I am hoping this means a tighter seal and less issues the door air seal if it ever warps since the locking mechanism will pull the door shut.
One issue with using shims is how to air seal around them. There is no real elegant solution here. you really need the shims for support but they get in the way for air sealing. My solution is to back cut the shims on a slight angle from the rough opening towards the door (Photo 1-6). I will spray foam and apply backer rod between the rows of shims and then caulk the face of the back cut shim so that no air can leak through...and then I'll cross my fingers!
NOTE: This entry has been half completed for a while and is actually supposed to be the posting after my entry here: http://flatrockpassivehouse.blogspot.ca/2017/08/windows-and-doors-arrivewindows.html
Photo 1-1 front entry door installed.
Photo 1-2 Three panes of glass! This door has triple glazed Energlas Plus.
Photo 1-3 An even reveal around a door is a beautiful thing! Also notice that there are three striker plates!
Photo 1-4. A view of the three striker plates with the door open. You can also see the Trillium triple point door hardware with 3 latches. This hardware comes pre-installed.
Photo 1-5 Another view of the striker plates
Photo 1-6. Back trimmed shim. It was the best solution that I could come up with to ensure it would fall behind the door trim and give enough space to load it up with caulk.

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Amazon Case Study #1: $234K in first year!
In this webinar, we are going to dig deep into the Amazon Seller Central Reports to find the lessons and insights that we can learn from the volumes of data that Amazon produce and how you can use that data to make better decisions and more profits in the future.
Our client, had a great first year on Amazon, but profits were not as great as expected, so we decided to dig deep into the numbers to find out why and whether the low profits were going to continue into the future.
In this webinar, we will discover:
– The primary reason why our client reached $234,000 in sales in his first year of selling on Amazon.
– How quick action over Christmas resulted in a $10,000 bonus of extra profits.
– How misreading the reason behind a fall in sales cost $2,000 in profits in one month.
– The problem with a product that is going gangbusters.
Fantastic. Really excited to be here today. Welcome. This is the first of our new webinar series. We're going to look in detail at people's Seller Central reports and find out really what information we can get from that and how to read them and what things it tells about us. I'll show you later how you can be involved. There's some really important lessons we can learn from this particular case study and I hope you'll be able to use it to find the diamonds in your business.
Bit of background on our first case study. First year of operations, got sales of $230,000 which was fantastic achievement and something he should be very proud of. Our client, he launched four products with some variations on those and then dropped one product. The reason why he dropped that one product, we'll see later. For this case study and for all the case studies, we're referring to these products as colours just to make it anonymous. We got colours, the products of red, blue and green. Now, for businesses that got more than those products, we'll add other colours. I'm not going to tell you what the products are or what category in because, to be honest, it doesn't matter. We're just looking at the numbers and how to interpret them.
The reason we decided to look at this product line was he was expecting to make a bit more than what he actually did when we ended up doing his financials for the year. His important issue here is, one, it's important to not just leave it to the very end of the year because you can't do those changes or we can't look where things are different. We'll go through some of those things along the way. There's information in here that, along the way, he could've made different decisions on.
We've come up with, a few clients have been coming to us recently and they've said, "Okay, can you do my years' worth of accounts." They're not in a great position where if we spoke to them six months ago, they could've done things to address it. The important issue here was whether the low level of profits was going to continue into the future and what we can learn about those decisions he made in the past with the benefit of hindsight. Could he have made better decisions? How we can use those numbers if we see similar things happening in the future, what can we change now, make it a better result. In the end, he was doing pretty well. There was a couple of accounting issues we looked at and he had the one product which resulted in some lower profits but, anyway, we'll get to that.
What we asked him to download was some business reports. These are in Seller Central. One of the difficult things about these reports is you can't get them through the APIs, which makes it slightly difficult. The first one we looked as is under business reports by date, sales and traffic. This is just all your products into one and we sorted it by month to make it easy. You can go down by day or by week. The essential columns that we wanted to get from this were the date, the sessions, the units ordered; the total order items, so the number of orders; and total ordered product sales, so it's a dollar figure; the average selling price and the unit session percentage.
We download those and open them up in Excel, but that only gave us the reports for all his products because we wanted to go down a bit deeper and see what the differences were in the other … Whether there were some products that were doing really well, and some products that were doing badly. We then had to go in and get the products by ASIN, which is the detailed page sales and traffic reports. Again, essential columns, we wanted the date, the sessions, the units ordered. I think in Seller Central, you can select which columns you show. I think there's a little thing on the right hand side where you can select, "I want different columns to be selected". Ordered product sales, average selling price, units session percentage … With this one, we had to select each month and then download that for each month. We've looked at for a financial from July to June. We had to go through and then put those in Excel and then start sorting them.
Let's look at the big, top level overview of the key numbers. We had sales per product. The black line is total sales and I've excluded the orange product, which was dropped, which is not really important for what we're looking at here. Since January, the sales have been growing at ten percent per month, which is fantastic and is primarily due to that blue product. We had this big jump in December over Christmas so we'll have a look at why that's happening. Just a thing to remember, sales don't just happen. They're a function. For a sale to occur you've got to have someone coming to visit your product page, which is "sessions" and I believe "sessions" is better than "page views" in terms of looking at this; and the conversion rate, which is someone's got to come to your page and they've got to accept your offer, buy your product. The conversion rate, which is the unit session percentage in the Seller Central, now we'll go over what that means and how important a number.
Sales is also a function of price so we can't just look at sales in isolation. We need to look at sessions and the conversion rate. Let's look at the sessions. I'm going to put a trend line in here, we've got total sessions. We can see that sessions have been steadily increasing. We've got a great increasing sessions along the way. I'm just wondering whether anyone can guess why the sessions have dropped in May, in particular for the blue product. Just use your question and answer section to see if we can guess why the sessions have dropped in May.
Okay, U.S. tax year. The issue was … Exactly, ran out of stock. At this point in May we ran out of stock and we can see that the sessions have actually recovered but that line should probably have been a bit higher if he didn't run out of stock. It did return, still getting similar levels of traffic but perhaps it could have been higher if he didn't ran out of stock. The other products we've seen, we're seeing this decline in the red product in the sessions and a slight decline in the green product. That's not traveling too badly, we've got a little bump there, et cetera. We'll come back to this bump in sessions in relation to a Christmas period. The sessions have been growing at fourteen percent since January so it's a healthy level of growth.
If we look at the conversion rate, I believe the conversion rate is your most important number so in your Amazon reports, that's a unit session percentage and I've included the graph in this one for the orange product, which has dropped. The interesting thing about this graph is we've got this blue product, which is basically converting at around twenty-five percent, kind of bounces around that period so it's around twenty-five percent. We've got the green product which is kind of settled in about the eighteen percent mark. Red's got problems. I spoke to the client about this and he said, "Yes, there is." He did have some quality control issues in relation to the red product which he's now addressed and that was part of the reason why we're getting this declining trend.
From day one, they're all pretty good conversion rates except for the orange product. It started at five, by November it increased to ten percent, got to eighteen and started to drop back. That's the primary reason why he dropped this product. It just wasn't converting and, as such, he didn't order anymore. The conversion rates on this product really, over this later period, he's selling very few. It doesn't make too much difference there. Partly, it was a seasonal product as well. It was causing, basically, drag on his cash flow so he didn't order anymore of that.
As a note, the successful clients that we've got have all got … These ones who have increased their Amazon businesses significantly, have all got conversion rates over twenty percent. If you're not got a conversion rate at that level, that's what you need to be focusing on a regular basis. It should be your prime focus.
Let's look at the price. The price of these products, he does actually test his product pricing on a regular basis so he's always fiddling with it. You can see that, in relation to these products, red's kind of bouncing around a bit. Blue, which is a high seller, he's kind of just keeping it fairly stable level. Green, he's kind of mucking around and seeing where it relates to him. We'll look at green more in detail because there's some really interesting things that he's done in the green product that resulted in some massive profits.
The important thing is to always be kind of testing where there's market … The markets are moving, people are coming in, people are going away. The other thing we've found is by looking at … We've developed a spreadsheet that enables us to analyse the jungle scale data and put it into graphs. What we did is we graphed … I think there's another video on it that we looked at the garlic press example … Where products, within any niche, there's usually some low-priced ones and then some higher priced ones so within a niche there seems to be a band of people who are selling products at a premium price and a bunch that are selling at a discounted price and the people in the premium price don't have to sell as much and they're probably making about ten times the profit. If you have a look at our website, there'll be another example. Look for a webinar on that one where we looked at the pricing issues. Someone's asked, "What are the best ways to get your conversion rates up?" Probably not the best person to ask on that but it's something you should always be testing. There's lots of information out on improving your conversion rates, images, titles, bullet points. We'll go a bit more on that a bit later.
Gross profit, in terms of percentages, his gross profit rate's pretty good throughout most of his products. His orange product was a problem because he was basically trying to get rid of it but what we've got here is a big jump through the December period where he's taking advantage of Christmas selling and he's basically been testing his products around through this. We'll look at some of those along the way. The red one's obviously, he's kept it at a higher price but the conversions have been suffering a bit there which could be due, not so much to the price but, due to the quality control issues. The gross profit rate that he's got is kind of averaging in this twenty, thirty to forty percent rage. I should have the percentages across there. If he's got … Which enables him to fund growth.
If you've got a really low gross profit rate, in the ten to twenty percent range, it's going to be very difficult for you to fund your growth organically. You're going to have to keep on putting more money in. His sales are growing at ten percent per month so he needs the level of gross profit to be able to fund that organically rather than having to pull in his pocket and get more money out of the mortgage or whatever it happens to be to fund the business. Each time you buy more stock, you've got to buy, effectively, he's buying, each month, you've got to buy ten percent more than last year. If you're unsure about your cash flow, I'm sure most of you would have but, go to "www.dolmanbateman.com.au/amazon" there will be a link there to our cash flow spreadsheet but stay tuned because I've got another version of that coming out which is far more detailed and far more useful.
Gross profit by product, the issue we can see here is come back to this period in December. We've got a high degree of reliance on the gross profit so he's basically getting five thousand just from the blue product and about seven and a half thousand per month in gross profit. Amazon businesses have very little other expenses, maybe a thousand dollars a month in other expenses. He is spending a bit in advertising. We've got this high degree of reliance on the profit from one product and we've got this declining trend that we're seeing from the green and red products.
Let's have a look at what we found. We've been through the overview. Let's look in a bit detail because questions arise and let's look at some of the relationships that we can see along the way. There are some important relationships and what we can see from this is important. The first one is sessions to conversions. Basically your sessions will follow your conversion rate, both up and down. He's got a pretty good conversion rate. He's got a twenty-five percent conversion rate in relation to the blue product, which is driving a lot of the growth.
The thing to note here is all these products are on the first page of his main keyword term. They're not, however, in the first two or there so if he got to that point there could be other … A bit higher, as well. These products, he's not at the lower end of the price range. There is some products where he is probably double the price of the lowest price competitor but he's still on the first page of each one. Your conversion rate is your most important number. It's what we call "forward looking KPI".
By looking in Facebook and other things like that, you'll see people complaining about, there was one the other day, their sales are falling and they don't know why. Look back into it and it's basically their conversion rate's been falling and their sessions have been following with it. They've gone from quite small changes to quite drastic changes as it goes on. These things, we'll deal with how these work in the multipliers. We'll look at it a bit further. Basically, if you've got a higher converting product then Amazon will start to rank you, make you better. If your conversion rate is better than your competitors, then Amazon optimizes the traffic to your listing. They'll place your product higher in the listing. They'll place your product on other competitor's product pages, "People also bought:" or "You may be interested in:".
The good thing about Amazon businesses is that you don't have to optimize the traffic. Amazon's doing that for you. If you're having an e-commerce store, then you've got to do all this optimization of traffic yourself. Some of you may have e-commerce stores and you've got all this traffic coming to your site, then you're going to be putting the best-selling products on the front page but that requires work to do that. Amazon's already doing that for you.
From what I understand of the product search algorithm that Amazon have is, first, they find all the products that fit best into that search term and that's your backend keywords, the keywords you're using in your title, whether or not they use them in your bullet points, et cetera. They'll get all the products that they believe fit into that best fit for that search term and then they'll rank those products that return the best margin to Amazon. They'll have an algorithm or a formula that basically is very similar and it's very similar to a lot of other businesses. It's a gross margin return per session.
Within that, it's obviously … They want to put the products that will most likely convert, people that haven't bought within three minutes or whatever the period is or added it to the cart within that period, then they know that they're going to lose them. They want to put the most likely products that are going to convert and earn them a commission plus their FBA fee, et cetera. Within that, there is also, within that ranking algorithm, there will also be a sales history but what we're seeing is, say you've got a promotion on, giving away products, you've got a high conversion rate because of that, Amazon will give you the benefit of the doubt to see whether your product sticks with these free conversions and, obviously, high conversions with the free giveaways, et cetera. Then they'll start to drop off if, organically, they can't generate their own level of sales. The best-selling products and the ones that have the growth, and we'll see this a bit later when we have a look at some of these figures, is those with the best conversion rates.
Let's look at the green product. Again, it's on the first page and there's some interesting graphs in this. We can see this is the pricing conversion rate graph and you can see it started in September. If we look at it, there's a gap here so he's testing prices. We've got prices dropped here and the conversion rate's gone up. We'll look at what that meant later. Then he's increased his price slowly and we've got this conversion. It's interesting to tell and we'll look at another product where he's got these … It's something you need to look at on a regular basis to see whether what the relationship between pricing conversions is for your business, for your products. In some cases, you might see that, as your price increases, your conversion rate goes up because of perceptions of quality, et cetera. We're looking at, now, a conversion rate, it's about eighteen percent on the conversion rate. He's kind of mucking about with the prices a bit there but it tends to stabilize a bit.
Let's look at the blue product. Again, this is on the first page and we're seeing and interesting correlation between the conversion rate and price. Through here, we're seeing when the price was higher he was actually getting a better conversion rate. We've also go the question of, what is the volume on there? We're not seeing this inverse relationship too much on this product. This product is basically double the cheapest product on there. The cheapest product is ranked a bit higher. This is on the first page. He's still getting a twenty-five percent conversion rate. He's not in the top five but fairly close. Again, I mentioned before, within any product, any niche, there appears to be two segments and the high price segment will make ten times more money than the low price segment and, quite often, will have similar volumes as the lowest price.
Let's look at the benefit of hindsight. Could we have made different decisions along the way? It's always good, the benefit of hindsight makes it easy. What can we learn from these figures? Let's look at something, firstly, that went really well. Christmas bonus, this is the green product. It basically started in September, now October. By November, we've got six thousand dollars in sales. In December, it jumps to basically twenty-nine thousand in sales so massive jump in sales, a $23,000 increase. Drops back again after the … This is not a Christmas product. It's not something like Christmas tree decorations or something like this.
Let's look at the four factors that made this a massive month. First, we ended up with this double bonus along the way. We ended up with conversions increasing from 20% to 29% so we've got a 45% increase in conversions. We also ended up with a massive jump in sessions, so this number of people visiting his page, from a 1000 in October to 2000 in November to 4000 in December. Between November and December, we got, basically, 100% increase. We doubled the sessions in December. In November we've gone from 2000 sessions with a 20% conversion rate, which equals 400 units. We'll go to this. In December, he's gone 4000 sessions with a 29% conversion rate. If we add those two together, we'll have a 20% in conversions and a 29% increase in sessions. It's 49%. It actually led to 1060 units so 190% increase in the number of units sold. We ended up with this double bonus.
There was another bonus in relation to this and as the conversion rate increased and he was always testing price, he started putting up the price over Christmas. It's something to remember, that if your conversion rate is over 20%, you should be testing whether it should be increasing the price, as well, just to test where that particular market is. We ended up with the price going from basically around $17.50 to $25, which is a 42% increase in price. Fantastic thing there. We end up with 190% increase in the number of units and a 42% increase in price which led to a 380% increase in sales.
Sales went from $6,000 to $29,000. In fact, it multiplies again because we got a 380% increase so the profit went from, basically, $2,500 in November to $17,500 in December. We've a $15,000 increase in profits, 600%. The gross profit rate increased from 43% to 60% in that period. By looking at these numbers and understanding where things were going, he's got his Christmas bonus. This is a massive increase in the level of profit of his business. One way to look at it is he's made more in that one month than the whole year put together.
We look at the sessions increased by a 100%. Conversion rate increased by 45%. The price increased by 42%. Gross profit rate increased by 40%. Add it all together and you'd say, "Okay, well that's a 227% increase," but it resulted in a 600% increase in profits. These type of numbers are really what you should be looking all the time. I've given another webinar in just how these multipliers work around and, just by small increases in each of these multipliers, you can have a massive impact on your bottom line. The successful businesses are looking out for always increasing these figures and making sure that if they're increasing one, they're not taking it away by decreasing another. For Amazon businesses, you really need to be looking at that conversion rate. It's just so important because what happens is you increase your conversion rate and the sessions will start to follow.
Let's look at another issue that appears to happen on the way. We're looking at January. We've had this exceptional month in December and then in January the sales have fallen back to $2,500, so from $30,000 down to $2,500. If we remember, it's kind of painful. You're seeing potentially this great product that you've got all disappearing at once. Just remember sales is a function of three factors: sessions, conversion rate and price. Over that time, he's boosted his price to $25 and then brought it back to $15 after the Christmas period. The reason for the decrease wasn't necessarily his conversion rate or the price or anything else. Just the number of sessions dropped for this product, the number of people visiting the pages. I don't believe anything really happened to the product itself and its ranking. Just less people wanted that product in January.
The principal reason, we have got a decrease in conversions there, but the principal reason appears to be just sessions have fallen, more than anything else. There seems to be a bit of a delayed reaction here in that the sessions have fallen. He's looked at what's happened and he's dropped his price again. The reason probably wasn't his price issue as the major factor but it's a bit of panic along the way. The principal reason was post-Christmas falling in sessions. We can see that there is a difference here. We had picked up a bit of … There is a conversion rate boost, so he's dropped his price down to basically$12,000 and we have got a bump in the conversion rate long the way. That's kind of continued but he's bumped that up.
The important thing to consider here is the gross profit. Basically, we're looking at this low level of profits in January but that's primarily due to the fall in number of sessions and we've got, even though his conversion rate's gone up, we've only made $1,000 on that month, which is pretty poor. He's then increased his price over the next few months to maintain his gross profit level. We're looking at that continue along the way. There's an issue here, of course, in terms of his pricing but he's kind of always testing where that is.
Let's look at the future and what we could see in relation to this business and what issues we've got. The first one is we've got this declining conversion rate in relation to the red product, which is obviously concerning and he did identify that it was some quality control issues, which he's now addressed. The conversion rate on red seems to be improving. That red product is getting down to the danger zone where it will just start falling away in terms of traffic. The green product seems to be fairly stable, sitting about 17% – 18% and the blue product is a very good 25%. With the sessions, we've got this great trend. Remember, sessions are increasing by 14%.
We've got blue increasing at a great level. There's nothing wrong there. We've got the drop in sessions there due to they ran out of stock. Green's kind of holding its own a bit and red's obviously falling away. We just looked at this, we can look at it and say, "Okay, he's got an 18% conversion rate and the sessions are kind of stable. They're kind of moving around a bit. At 25% conversion rate, his sessions are increasing and at 13%, the sessions are falling." What it's meaning is that if you've got a product that is in the 20 to 25% conversion rate, Amazon's going to start sending you all the traffic.
Remember, Amazon is growing anywhere between 25% to 50% per annum so it's continuing to grow and if we just look at this, it'd be interesting to see if we're seeing other numbers in relation to this. I know some of our clients with very high conversion rates are seeing great benefits along the way. Their traffic just keeps on growing. It'll be interesting to see at what point you're getting the stable conversions or where you're getting this decline in conversions. If you've got conversion rates that are low, under 10, you're going to find it problematic in terms of everything else. Just remember, it just means someone with a 20% conversion rate compared to someone with a 10% conversion rate, their advertising is going to be half the price. They're at a significant advantage with that so you should always be kind of concentrating on improving your conversion rate.
If we look at the pricing issue here, the pricing going forward, he's starting to drop back a bit on prices but he's kind of testing where that market is. Probably a question of whether it needs to start competing but he does bounce that around. I would be concerned if those prices continued to have a declining trend. Before we dealt with the Christmas one where it was this multiplier effect of increasing sessions, increasing conversion rate, increasing prices, increases gross profit leads to an exponential growth, it also works in reverse. You don't want to be in the position where you've got all these multipliers decreasing. The first month it might not be too big but it starts getting exponentially bigger and you can see your business disappear quite quickly. Sales, we can see the combination there. A decline in gross profits, he's knocked off his price to a decline in sessions and we've got this declining price that's kind of showing up through there. The blue product, obviously going very well. We're seeing an increasing trend there, other than the May period.
The other issue is we've got this high reliance on the blue product. He's got a high degree of reliance on one product for basically most of his profits, which becomes concerning in terms of you running a business and looking at having everything reliant on one thing. If you're looking at all on Amazon, you're all dependent on Amazon and one product into Amazon. He's actually gone out and looked at other products along the way. This declining red has been addressed and that's been fixed up by improving the conversion rate, getting a better product, getting some better reviews in there as well as the blue product's just going well. There are always going to be challenges along the way.
What can we learn from this? Your conversion rate's your most important number. I can't say that enough. Everything derives from it. He removed the unprofitable product. It was kind of the orange product. It started off at 4%. It never got any good. The product was starting to be discounted, lowering gross profit. It was limiting his ability to grow and generate cash flow. The average gross profit at the moment is 33%. It's showing a declining trend which would start to affect his cash flow and his ability to keep growing, especially with the growth showing at 10% a month in sales. When you're looking at declining sales, I saw someone come up with this in relation to why their sales were falling, it's always a function of sessions, conversion rate and price. It's just a question of where the problem is. It will usually be in either sessions or conversion rate. It's one of the first things we go to. If you're looking at why your sales are bad or what you should do, it's just is it sessions or is it a conversion rate issue? Because Amazon takes care of the traffic, if you're running an e-commerce store, you've usually got either of two problems. You've got a conversion rate issue or a traffic problem but Amazon's got mountains of traffic. For Amazon businesses it becomes a conversion rate issue.
We've talked a bit about past KPI's so there are things that are looking in the past, what's happened up till now. A past KPI is sales. That's where what sales we got last month. If you're looking at what's happening, where your business is going, you start looking at the forward KPI's and that's going to be the trend in sessions and conversion rates. The reason if you look at sales just in itself, you're looking at the … You don't know whether it's a sessions or a conversion rate issue. I remember one of our clients very similarly and their sessions were slightly decreasing, showing a declining trend. Not much but they had an increasing conversion rate. Their sales hadn't actually changed but it was a reason for concern is, "These sessions are starting to drop off. What's the reason for that?"


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- sassypackrat said...
What going on Cindi? Are you o.k?
- January 24, 2012 at 8:03 PM
- oldblackcatboo said...
oh, I'm fine....
It's just sometimes hard to work for someone that is condescending and sarcastic to me all the time.
That, and I don't feel like I'm living my life to the fullest that it could be. But in these hard economic times, it's best not to be rash.
Still...I have a lot to think about.
But thanks for being there Jen. XOXO
- January 24, 2012 at 8:13 PM
- An Urban Cottage said...
That is a little bit of an ominous post so I'm glad you explained.
There's a lot of stories in those eyes of Blue.
- January 24, 2012 at 8:32 PM
- oldblackcatboo said...
Sorry, didn't mean to be so cryptic. it's just that somedays that crap is easier to take than others.
The funny thing is that Blue, who loves most people, pulls on his leash and barks at him when he sees him!
...you can fool some of the people but you can't fool Blue!
- January 24, 2012 at 8:43 PM
- sassypackrat said...
Glad you are o.k!
- January 24, 2012 at 9:18 PM
- yoborobo said...
Hi Cindi! I was worried at first, too. I'm glad you're okay (and Blue, too!). I hope you can zen your way through work, and that it doesn't get to you too much. Hang tough, sista! xoxo
- January 25, 2012 at 9:01 AM
- Mary Helen-Art Saves Lives said...
You are in my prayers and working with a mean spirited person guard your heart. Peace, Mary Helen Fernandez Stewart
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- How does Varicocele lead to infertility?
- So how and why does varicocele occur?
- How does varicocele detected?
- Is Surgery Really the answer to varicocele?
- Now how to heal varicocele naturally?
Does Varicocele lead to infertility?
The arterial and venous system bring and send blood to and from the scrotum. This blood has to be pure for the good production of sperm. Now, when the venous system fails to send back the blood due to a Varicocele, there is more impure blood in the testis and this is bad for the production of sperm. Thus, the sperm count reduces eventually causing infertility in the long term. You can read about this in detail in this article.
So how and why does Varicocele occur?
The veins are responsible for sending back blood to the heart so that it is purified. But for the blood to go to the heart, the blood has to travel upwards from the scrotal area. To make sure the blood travels in the upward direction, the veins have uni-directional valves. Now, modern lifestyle causes a lot of toxicity from the cells gets accumulated in the blood leading to imbalanced pH. This altered pH and toxins give rise to the formation of free radicals, that accumulate around those valves. This accumulation of free radicals and toxins around the valves leads to improper functioning and this causes an obstruction in the smooth blood flow. Because of this, blood starts accumulating in the veins. Eventually, the accumulated blood causes the vein to 'varicose' and forms Varicocele.
As you can see, this is not a one day process. It takes months or years for the veins to stop working properly and the varicocele to develop. And this is mainly caused due to an improper lifestyle. That's why, varicocele is a lifestyle disease.
How is a varicocele detected?
An ultrasound is used to detect a varicocele. However, you should also get a sperm count analysis done along with an ultrasound as this gives a better insight on how severe the disease is. There have been many reported cases where a varicocele was incorrectly diagnosed as a hernia, epididymitis or a hydrocele. Thus it is very important to diagnose the disease correctly. Remember, a correct diagnosis is half the cure.
Is Surgery Really the answer to varicocele?
Varicocele treatment can only be done by surgery according to modern science. They also believe that varicocele cannot really be cured and has a very high recurrence rate upto 35%. You can read the study here
There is actually a term for such varicocele – recurrent varicoceles. Note that a surgery also does not ensure relief along with the recovery period of three – four weeks. More than the varicocele, the damage done to the vas defers leads a permanent reduction in the production of sperm, which later has more drastic consequences. The final math is upto you to decide whether surgery is really the solution. You should be aware that there are varicocele treatment without surgery options available.
Varicocele Treatment without Surgery
To heal varicocele naturally without surgery one has to take care of two things. First is your lifestyle – so that the varicocele does not increase further. Second is to get rid of the free radicals that cause the valves to function improperly. To do this, Grocare has three medicines – Oronerv, Acidim and Activiz. Acidim helps alter the pH around the valves such that the free radicals become weak. Activiz helps the region to get rid of the toxins from the area and Oronerv ensures that blood flow remains smooth. This process is slow because the medicines do not affect the area directly.
This being a holistic approach, the medicines will help the arterial and venous systems gain strength. They will help manage the pH of the entire body in such a way that the body itself gets rid of the toxins inside. This method is very effective because its your body that is doing the actual healing from inside. The medicines just give it a big support. That is why, once you are cured, you can stop taking the medicines because the body itself gains enough strength to prevent the disease from recurring later on.
But remember, the medicines are only 50% of the varicocele treatment. The rest of the 50% is your lifestyle. Unless you follow a healthy lifestyle, your body will not stop developing the varicocele and the medicines will only prevent the varicocele from growing in that condition. Thus to stop it, you need to follow a healthy lifestyle.
Oronerv contents:
Commiphora mukul is known for its Anti-inflammatory and Analgesic (pain-relieving) effects. Therefore, it is useful in Arthritic pains and helps in reversing the degenerative changes that occur in joints and bones. It regulates the Thyroid gland, which in turn regulates metabolism and corrects Thyroid imbalances. It also acts as a blood purifier and increases blood circulation throughout the body.
Pluchea lanceolata possesses Anti-inflammatory properties, which alleviate muscle and joint aches. As an Antioxidant, the herb scavenges Free Radicals in the body. It also acts as a Nervine Tonic.
Withania somnifera acts as a Nervine Tonic & also possesses Anti-inflammatory properties. It is widely used to boost the Immune system and promote overall well-being. It is a powerful Antioxidant, which scavenges Free Radicals in cells that are responsible for premature Ageing.
Paederia foetida contains essential oil which has Anti-inflammatory and Antispasmodic properties, which help alleviate the pain associated with joint ache and Rheumatism. It helps in increasing Blood circulation.
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Acidim contents:
Ipomoea turpethum is well known for its Purgative & Laxative action. It also possesses potent Anti-inflammatory, Analgesic & Anti-arthritic effects. It also has mild Anti-secretory, Anti-helmintic, Ulcer protective, Hepato-protective & Antibacterial activities. It has proven anti-hyperglycemic (Anti Diabetic) activity.
Eugenia caryophyllata has Anesthetic and Anti-inflammatory properties that are helpful in alleviating joint aches and pains. It also has Anti-emetic (prevent vomiting) and Carminative property (relieves gas and flatulence).
Cyperus rotundus has potent Gastro protective, Anti-inflammatory and Antispasmodic activity. As an Antioxidant, it helps in detoxifying the body. It is also used in treatment of Skin diseases because of its Astringent property.
Embellia ribes has potent Antacid and Anti-flatulent activity. It helps in increasing Blood circulation throughout the body. It is also useful in treatment of Migraines, Headaches and Dizziness.
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Activiz contents:
Semecarpus anacardium has powerful antioxidant, antiatherogenic, antiinflammatory, antimicrobial, CNS stimulant, hypoglycemic, anticarcinogenic and hair growth promoter. It is recommended as a rejuvenative and is very helpful in treatment of piles.
Pueraria tuberosa possesses anti-ageing properties. It also helps to rejuvenate the male reproductive system and increases quality and quantity of semen. This helps to increase sperm count and sperm motility. It is known to reduce dryness of body and ease bowel movement.
Sesamum indicum has laxative, emollient and demulcent properties. It is rich with antioxidant components and has antibacterial and antifungal activity. In addition it works as a stimulant and also has aphrodisiac action.
Asparagus racemosus is known to possess excellent antioxidant activity. Apart from that it is also Nutritive tonic, rejuvenative, aphrodisiac, laxative, antispasmodic, antacid, diuretic, anti-tumor, demulcent property.
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I'm studying essayist Junko Sakai's best selling essay, Howl of the Loser Dogs. I became interested in Sakai's work five years ago, when I read about her book in an American newspaper. In her book, Sakai uses the term "loser dog" or makeinu to describe women over 30 who are unmarried and don't have any children. This is seen as unnatural in traditional Japanese society, which brings up women to believe that their greatest happiness lies in being married and raising children. However, nowadays in Japan more and more women are continuing to work into their 30s and delay marriage, or even refrain from getting married at all. Japan's current "childless society," a result of its near zero-growth birth rate, is often blamed on the country's unmarried women. In her essay, Sakai criticizes these traditional ways of thinking about women. She believes that women can be happy even if they do not get married or raise children.
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• 1966: Junko Sakai is born in Tokyo
• 1985: Japanese Equal Employment Opportunity Law is passed
• 2000: Sex and the City television show begins satellite broadcast in Japan
• 2003: Sakai's Makeinu no Toboe (Howl of the Loser Dogs) essay is published in Japan
• 2004: The word "makeinu" becomes one of the top ten winners in the annual Japanese "Prize for New and Popular Words"
• 2005: Rika Kayama's Kekkon ga Kowai (Marriage is Frightening) book is published in Japan
• 2008: Makeinu no Toboe television drama broadcast in Japan
from Junko Sakai's book Howl of the Loser Dogs (pgs. 193, 197):
There is a certain stock phrase that really stabs at the heart of any unmarried woman over 30 when she hears it. No matter how beautiful, smart, stylish, rich, or successful at her career she is, if a single woman hears someone utter, "You certainly can't be very happy as a woman," she is unable to come up with a response to this.
Single women are considered to be unhappy as women because they are not married, myself included. They are blind to the criticism that "they are unhappy as women," and that's why they remain single.
As for my current lifestyle, my job is fun and I have a lot of good friends. Since I get to eat the things I like, read the books I like, and go to my favorite places, I am first of all happy as a human being. However, I sort of understand that "happiness as a human being" seems like giving up on one's "happiness as a woman" to the rest of the world for some reasons.
"Japanese Women Live, and Like It, On Their Own" (Washington Post, 2004)
Newspaper article about Junko Sakai's Howl of the Loser Dogs and the increase of unmarried women in Japan
" 'Loser Dogs' and 'Demon Hags': Single Women in Japan and the Declining Birthrate " (Oxford UP, 2006)
Review of Howl of the Loser Dogs that contrasts it with 2004's Women who are Becoming Demon Hags
Japanese webpage about Sakai's various published works, including Howl of the Loser Dogs
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When Christopher Seddon popped into a Waitrose store last May on behalf of his housebound 89-year-old mother, he was only planning to buy a few items to get her through the week. After paying, he was stunned when two policemen seized and handcuffed him in front of watching shoppers. He was then forced to spend six hours in a cell at the local police station before being charged with stealing £102-worth of meat.
Over the next three months Seddon, a published author who lives in north London, says he spent £9,600 on legal fees and expert reports to prove that it was a case of mistaken identity and clear his name. Eventually the case against him was dropped, and Waitrose offered £500 to say sorry because he is a "valued customer" – but he says the incident has left him thousands of pounds out of pocket and he describes the way he was treated as "nothing short of scandalous".
Seddon's nightmare began when he made his twice-weekly visit to see his housebound mother who lives alone near the Waitrose store in Chesham, Bucks. Each week he shops for her, but as he left the store on that fateful Saturday afternoon he was confronted by two police officers. "They seized me, then handcuffed me with my arms behind my back, stating that they were arresting me on suspicion of shoplifting 17 days earlier, in spite of the fact that on that day I hadn't even been in Chesham. The security guard thrust a mobile phone in my face [with a CCTV still on it] and screamed 'do you deny this is you?' at me. All this was going on in front of dozens of shoppers."
He says he was not allowed to call his mother, who he knew would be distressed when he inexplicably failed to return. He was held at Aylesbury police station for more than six hours.
"Despite the nightmare of the situation I assumed that I could clear up what was obviously a case of mistaken identity – but I was wrong. When I was eventually questioned, I was shown CCTV footage from the afternoon of 11 May showing a bald male aged about 60 concealing £100 of meat products in a bag and leaving without paying. I was told that I had been identified as the offender by the security guard from a CCTV still he had downloaded to his mobile. But on that day I was working on a book at my north London flat and, ironically, visited the Waitrose store on the Holloway Road."
In a statement given to the police after Seddon's arrest, the security guard claimed Seddon had also visited the Chesham store just a few days earlier and become nervous when he saw he was being watched. He said he then saw Seddon run from the store.
Seddon believes the police were greatly influenced by this claim. He says the CCTV evidence, not available at the time of his arrest, shows that while he was in the store at that time, it did not show him running away.
"I had come into the store for a bacon and egg sandwich for lunch, saw that there were none on the shelves and decided to go to Sainsbury's instead. I left at a normal pace and never noticed the security guard. I even complained about the lack of bacon and egg sandwiches on Twitter. But the police believed the security guard's account of me running from the store, as well as his claim that I was the man shown on CCTV stealing meat products, and charged me with the earlier theft."
As a result, Seddon says he was forced to hire first a solicitor and then a barrister at a cost of £6,000 plus VAT. Knowing that he had been in London when the theft took place, but living alone, he had to employ a mobile phone expert to provide evidence to that effect. He also employed a CCTV specialist, John Kennedy, who made his name in the Jamie Bulger case in which CCTV footage was central to the conviction of the boys who abducted him.
Kennedy's report states clearly that Seddon was not the person who had stolen the meat, and that the security guard's claim that Seddon had run from the store was not true. It lists several key differences in the look of the two men, and even notes that their jackets were of different colours, contrary to what the guard told police. The expert report suggested that the photo of the thief on the security guard's mobile phone was distorted in the act of downloading it. The image was compressed and the aspect ratio changed as a result, it said.
After Seddon had paid for all this, the case was dropped the day before it was due to be heard at High Wycombe magistrates court on the instruction of the Crown Prosecution Service. But Seddon says he has since been told by his solicitor that he will recoup no more than 20%-30% of his costs, leaving him substantially out of pocket. "Having cleared my name I approached Waitrose with my expert report, naively thinking that it would be horrified by what had happened and would offer me compensation for the inconvenience, distress and financial loss, as well as take urgent steps to ensure that such an incident could not be repeated," he says.
Instead, he says the supermarket spent two months fobbing him off before concluding that its security guard had done nothing wrong.
"They offered me a derisory £500 as a 'goodwill' gesture to a 'valued customer'. Their emails throughout were headed 'Waitrose customer feedback' as if the whole affair was of no more consequence than an unsatisfactory purchase from the bakery. If a security guard cannot distinguish between running and walking then it is a matter of significant public concern that they continue to be employed as a security guard," he says.
A spokesman for Waitrose declined to offer an explanation as to what had happened. Instead, he pointed us towards Thames Valley police. "We are very sorry to hear of the distress Mr Seddon has experienced. You will need to speak to the Thames Valley police press office about the decisions taken. We are continuing our conversations with Mr Seddon and the third-party security company with whom we work so, as you will appreciate, it would not be appropriate for us to comment further at this stage."
Seddon says questions remain as to why he was treated so badly. At a meeting last week with Thames Valley police, which is still investigating his complaint against the force, Seddon says he was told by a long-serving officer that he had not ever heard of a comparable incident.
Seddon is still furious at his treatment at the hand of the store, and is considering legal action. "If Waitrose will not accept responsibility, then sooner or later it will happen again to somebody else. For my part, I would have been better off accepting a police caution for a crime that I did not commit and paying Waitrose for £100 of meat products that somebody else stole. It is morally repugnant that I should be left thousands of pounds out of pocket when I have done nothing wrong," he says.
Thames Valley Police said that as it had received a complaint in relation to this investigation it would be inappropriate to comment further.
A barrister's view
Christopher Seddon's treatment at the hands of both Waitrose and the police shows a gap in the law: a completely innocent person can be arrested and prosecuted and may not be entitled to any compensation, not even all of his legal costs, writes barrister Richard Colbey.
When police make an arrest they are not liable for the consequences if they act on reasonable suspicion. There are sound public policy reasons why they should be free to do their job without worrying too much about the consequences, so long as they behave reasonably.
Here the report by the security staff gave them that suspicion and meant they were duty-bound to question Seddon, and entitled to arrest him. Marching him away in handcuffs was unnecessary and apparently deplored by a more mature police officer, but it was not unlawful.
Had the security guard effected the arrest the situation would have been different. There is not the same public interest in "citizens' arrests", and civilians have no protection if they arrest an innocent person, however reasonable the suspicion.
In 1992 a Marina Davidson was accused, wrongly, of stealing from Woolworths in Bangor. The court of appeal said that a security guard, and hence a Woolworths employee, could only be liable for an arrest if it was effected by the police – ie, if they had given some direction or made a direct request or encouragement that the arrest should be made. There the court of appeal decided that the store detective had merely made a report – but the guard in Seddon's case may have overstepped the mark.
Also it is possible that Seddon could claim slander, but that is a notoriously difficult and expensive cause of action. He would have to show the guard acted maliciously as, otherwise, what the guard said to the police would be privileged and also that he suffered "serious harm" – a somewhat vague statutory hurdle introduced in 2014 to discourage the proliferation of defamation claims.
A person acquitted of a crime will usually be able to recover his costs from public funds, but only at fairly derisory legal aid rates. These will be nothing like £10,000 even for a trial that goes ahead, and are typically hundreds, rather than thousands, of pounds.
The Law Society advises solicitors to warn clients where they are incurring costs that are unlikely to be recoverable, and if Seddon's solicitors had not given such advice then it could have taken a hit on much of the difference between its bill and the amount recovered.
• Update: Christopher Seddon has confirmed that his solicitors did advise him that he may not be able to recover all his legal costs of defending himself. The barrister's view was amended on 28 November 2016 to clarify this point.


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I have to speak and write Spanish fluently. I have to not only speak the highly enunciated, more acceptable Spanish, but also my broken and street Spanish–to be taken seriously both in academic spaces and in my hood.
I have to speak and write English, perfectly. I have to be fluent in the big-words-nobody-can-really-understand-what-I-am-saying-except-a-select-few-elites English to even make it into any respectable college programs or programs that will pay a full ride so I'm not debt-ridden my entire life. And I have to be able to code switch back to my hood English, where my accent gets to come out and tongue gets to rest a bit–to be relevant.
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