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Serial entrepreneur with 20+ years of building businesses. 7-figure Amazon expert, who sells products into over 30 countries through Amazon. He has been featured on Fox Business News, Inc Magazine, USA Today and dozens of podcasts around the world. His book "Primed - Your guide to building a thriving Amazon business", will be released later this year.
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Adam Hudson is a serial entrepreneur who has built several multi-million dollar companies in Australia and the United States. In 2005 Adam co-founded one of the first crowdfunding platforms in the world, which went on to raise in excess of $100M for start-ups and early stage businesses.
Adam currently owns a cloud software business, an Amazon promotions company, a homewares brand that sells its products exclusively through Amazon, and Reliable Education (an online education company that teaches students in 14 different countries how to build a profitable Amazon business via the Reliable Income Academy).
In 2012 Adam learned about the opportunity to sell on Amazon. Living in Los Angeles California at the time, he was accustomed to seeing Amazon parcels being delivered all over town and he was a big user of Amazon services himself. It was during this time that he learned that anybody could sell physical products on Amazon and that Amazon would handle all of the warehousing and fulfillment for him. Once he understood that, he soon launched and grew his own private-label brand on Amazon (all the while working full-time). Today Adam has a seven-figure Amazon business that sells products in 8 countries with no employees, no warehouses and most of his sales are made while he travels or builds his other businesses.
Adam launched Reliable Education after identifying a gap in the market to deliver hype-free business training. In his view, too many online business courses are full of false promises and half-truths – both of which sell-short the real value of building an Amazon business for the long term.
Adam is a serial entrepreneur and Amazon expert, who sells products into over 30 countries through Amazon. He has been featured on Fox Business News, Inc Magazine, USA Today and dozens of podcasts around the world. His book "Primed - Your guide to building a thriving Amazon business", will be released later this year. Adam travels extensively using profits generated by his Amazon business.
In addition to his core businesses, Adam is an active angel investor and currently holds early-stage equity in various startups.
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Amazon, Entrepreneurship, Business, Startup, Online Retail, eCommerce, Importing from China, Tech Disruption.
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Entrepreneurship; Global Travel; Helping aspiring entrepreneurs get started in business; Fascinated by Amazon and the fact it is likely to become the most valuable company on earth, as it simultaneously disrupts transportation, logistics and retail.
What's your story?
This is my story about how I built a multi-million dollar Amazon business in 3 years starting part-time around another business I owned.
California Dreaming
In 2013 I was living in Los Angeles running my own fast-growing animation company in the heart of Hollywood. The business was doing great and I had a wonderful team of talented people that I genuinely enjoyed working with every day. Life was good but like all traditional businesses, it had it's draw backs. First of all, it required people. People are expensive and they need far more than a salary to make them thrive. In order to get the best out of people, you need to invest time into training them, money into creating a nice environment and a genuine dose of love that will make them do the little things that really make a difference when nobody is watching. I was doing all that and still making a profit but I knew early on that the business would never give me the thing I craved most – total time and location autonomy. For me, owning a Ferrari was never that exciting, but having a solid cashflow that followed me around the world really got my juices flowing.
Opportunity Boxes
While in LA I lived in a high-end apartment building on the border of West Hollywood and Beverly Hills. My building was full of doctors, lawyers and entertainment people – well to-do folks who were cash-rich and time-poor. Almost everyday when I got home from work I noticed boxes outside of every second or third door that had the same black packing tape emblazoned with the Amazon logo. Upon further inquiry my neighbors they told me that they bought from Amazon because it was way easier than going to the shops. These guys were getting laundry detergent, consumables for their pets, clothing, homewares and just about everything in between. As an Australian (one of the few developed countries where Amazon doesn't have local distribution centers), I had no idea how big Amazon had become or that you could buy more than books. What I was seeing was a massive shift in the way that people buy things, but that was just the tip of the iceberg.
$100 Billion Dollar Business Partner
Here's the most exciting part about Amazon that many people are still unaware of. Anyone can sell on Amazon in America (the largest Amazon market in the world) and Amazon will allow you to ship your inventory to their warehouses and then they'll do all the shipping and fulfillment for you. Wait – what? Yes, that means that you can live in Australia, Singapore, South Africa, England or anywhere else on earth and be selling products to American consumers, getting paid US dollars and you don't need to touch your own inventory at any point in the process. Then once you've got your products selling from Amazon's US warehouses to it's American customers, you can send your products to Amazon's UK warehouses and start selling to Amazon's customers in the UK, Spain, Italy, Germany and France. In 2015, Amazon surpassed $100 Billion in sales and according to Macquarie Research they were solely responsible for 50% of all ecommerce growth in 2015. One company responsible for 50% of ALL ecommerce growth? That's truly remarkable.
From Zero To $1,000,000
When I first understood the massive power of this opportunity I decided to jump in with one product, a simple item in the home and kitchen category. I have it made in China and shipped directly to one of Amazon's warehouses in America. I messed up a bunch of stuff in the first year but despite that, before long that one item was averaging about USD $15,000/month in sales at a 35% net margin. I couldn't believe it. I then expanded, product-by-product, to where I am today. Today I sell 9 products on Amazon's websites in America, Mexico, Canada, the UK, Spain, Italy, Germany and France. All of them are warehoused and distributed by Amazon and every single customer comes from Amazon. I do no marketing at all outside of the Amazon eco-system. Those 9 products are on track to generate in excess of a million dollars in sales this year and I don't touch a single one of them. I simply maintain 9 listing pages on Amazon's website.
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Adam is a serial entrepreneur and Amazon expert, who sells products into over 30 countries through Amazon. He has been featured on Fox Business News, Inc Magazine, USA Today and dozens of podcasts around the world. His book "Primed - Your guide to building a thriving Amazon business", will be released later this year. Adam travels extensively using profits generated by his Amazon business.
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Dearest Huckleberry,
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The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival will donate $240,000 to a variety of New Orleans non-profit groups. The hefty donation is the latest in a series of continuing efforts to promote continued awareness of the rebuilding of New Orleans. Festival promoters Superfly Presents formed in New Orleans in the 1990s and made their name promoters concerts throughout the city like the Superfly During JazzFest concert series. Since Bonnaroos inception in 2002, Superfly and festival co-promoters A.C. Entertainment have booked at least a few New Orleans bands each year and in 2008, Bonnaroo housed its own Somethin Else New Orleans. The intimate stage was modeled after some of the Big Easys most distinctive music venues and featured some of its greatest musical talent. Fans were asked to make a donation upon entering Somethin Else New Orleans throughout the weekend. The money raised from these donations will be part of the gift that the festival is making.The city of New Orleans and its amazing culture continues to be a major inspiration for us in everything that we do, not just Bonnaroo (whose very name is Crescent City Creole slang for good stuff), Paul Peck of Superfly Productions said in a statement. Additional money for the donation was raised from the benefit concert From the Big Apple to the Big Easy at Radio City Music Hall, which was produced by Radio City Entertainment, Superfly Productions and Red Light management. The concert featured Dave Matthews, Trey Anastasio, Galactic, The Meters, Tom Waits, The Neville Brothers, John Mayer, Joss Stone and several additional acts. The donations will benefit the New Orleans Habitat Musicians Village / Ellis Marsalis Center for Music, New Orleans Musicians Clinic, NOCCA – New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts and Tipitina's Foundation.


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The fate of a project that would add a more than 50,000-square-foot Food 4 Less grocery store to East Grand Avenue in Arroyo Grande lies with the City Council after a split Planning Commission rejected the proposal.
Later this month or in early October, council members will discuss the project, which also includes a 4,028-square-foot commercial building and 4,535-square-foot restaurant at East Grand Avenue and South Courtland Street.
Planning commissioners voted 3-2 on Tuesday to recommend the council reject the project, with Commissioners John Keen and Jennifer Martin dissenting.
The Food 4 Less store became the focus for some local business owners and residents, who argued the area doesn't need another grocery store.
They're also concerned that the competition could harm nearby grocers such as the Cookie Crock Warehouse and Spencer's Fresh Market — the latter of which is located diagonally across the street from the proposed store.
A Von's grocery store is also located in Grover Beach a few blocks west of the project site; Cookie Crock is a few blocks east.
"There's only so many food dollars to go around," commission Chairman Tim Brown said Thursday.
However, Carol Florence, a representative for developer Nick Tompkins of NKT Commercial, said Food 4 Less — a discount supermarket — offers a different type of grocery store than any currently in the area.
She said revisions will likely be made to the site plan before it goes to the council.
"Revenue enhancement for the city is extremely important," she said. "But I also think having a good design and appropriate development is important. It's a balancing act."
The overall project is estimated to bring an additional $25,000 annually in property tax revenue to the city and $36,000 annually to the Arroyo Grande Redevelopment Agency, City Manager Steve Adams said.
According to Adams, the developer estimates the Food 4 Less will bring in $67,000 to $75,000 in sales tax annually, which is projected to increase to $134,000 to $150,000 a year in four years — an amount that some local business owners and Brown disputed.
Adams said that his staff could not verify those amounts. A brief staff analysis stated that revenue in the $100,000 range is a reasonable assumption, he said, though it's unknown how much of that would be net revenue, or revenue lost by other stores.
"Some store is going to suffer one way or another," Brown argued.
Mayor Tony Ferrara, who can't vote on the project because he lives within 500 feet of it, wrote as a private citizen to the Planning Commission and council that he opposes the approval of the Food 4 Less proposal.
"To approve this project would send a message to our existing small business community that we have no intention of honoring our previous commitments or remaining consistent with our own planning doctrine," he said.
Prior to Tuesday's meeting, planning commissioners received a petition that claims to have been signed by nearly 600 people opposing the development.
It listed concerns including traffic congestion, increased noise and harm to existing local businesses.
"I like the small community feel of our area and do not think a large store like that will contribute in any way," Tara Da Re, a Grover Beach resident, wrote in an e-mail to commissioners.
Tompkins bought the 6-acre property in 2007, and in 2009 the city's Redevelopment Agency purchased a 1.63-acre parcel from him to use for subsidized housing.
People's Self-Help Housing Corp. has purchased that parcel from the agency, and intends to build 36 below-market-price rental units.
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As soon as data rules (the backbone of a business model) are moved away from a relational style declarative constraint, you have reduced the effectiveness, meaning and integrity of your business model/database.
So called "architects" and indeed "best practice solutions" proscribe to the notion of a BLL, when in actual fact that is the databases job. What they inherently fail to understand is that a RDBMS is designed to do exactly that and most SQL DBMS will do it faster than the equivalent "code". A good case in point is the famous MySQL Foreign Key (lack of) documentation.
SQL Server 2000 goes a little way with the ability to use a UDF as a CHECK constraint. Dodgy yes but a little step forward. UDT's are good step forward in Yukon, but IMHO they have missed there chance to really make SQL Server the leader in SQL DBMS. Can you imagine the code you would save (and hence dollars) if you could enforce a foreign key constraint on a view (admittedly not very a common requirement), or disallowing an insert based on the value of another table, or disallow a delete based on the users last known insert, or n cardinality RI? At the moment this is a job for triggers, stored procedures, UDF's or heaven forbid, middle tier code.
Most arguments against BLL code in the database are speed. The same argument that IMS proponents tried to pull on Dr Codd when he formulated the RDBMS back in the early 70's. But according to people like this, speed is more important that data integrity. A bucket of shit at 1000 mph is still a bucket of shit.
Another argument is migration.. "But what happens when we have to move to a different database vendor?" In my experience, this is infinitely easier to do than to migrate a BLL to some new fad language. All you need is a good DBA and your done. More often than not it is the middle-tier which gets "upgraded" and the whole cycle of bugs starts again.
The whole fallacy of a BLL is highlighted when you have to expose your database to "foreign" processes. Instead of just opening a security gateway to the DBMS, a thousand lines of code are needed to enforce the rules again or redirect them to your BLL (If that is possible at all.. take bulk loading for example).
So who is to blame for this state of affairs?Well, I think there are 2 causes:
Practically however, there are some functions that modern DBMS's are not very good at and hence make implementation in the database prohibitive (mainly intensive mathematics). Most financial calculations perform OK and I have even seen the Black-Scholes option pricing formulae used in a CHECK constraint for a risk management database. Possibly the only need for a BLL is when you have distributed transactions across various DBMS's..
The BLL should be abandoned for a BWL (Business Workflow Layer). The BWL would take care of your business workflow.. when this, e-mail that, spam this, notify who, print this etc...
Front-end and middle-tier technology come and go but a properly designed database will live through it all...
Will you have to re-write all that business rule code the next time the "next big thing" comes along?
Let the flames begin!!
EDIT: Some horror spelling..


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For the month of December, overall unemployment rates were mostly lower across the regions and states according to the report released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning. Unemployment rate decreases from November occurred in forty-two states and the District of Columbia. Continually, 46 states and the District of Columbia noted statistically significant unemployment rate decreases from December 2013.
As the U.S. Unemployment Rate decreased 0.2 percentage points to 5.6% in December, 19 states and one major region reported rates lower than the national figure.
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In December, the unemployment rate decreased in nineteen states with the most significant being in Delaware (-0.6%), Michigan and North Carolina (-0.4% each). The lowest unemployment rate occurred in North Dakota at 2.8%. Over-the-year, thirty states reported a reduced unemployment rate.
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The Midwest continued its streak of holding the lowest unemployment rate for the eighth straight month with 5.2% in December. The Midwest, Northeast and South saw an unemployment rate decrease of 0.2% while the West noted a 0.1% decrease. The following over-the-year declines in unemployment rates were reported for the regions:
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Better to put it in and reduce flow than not and wish you had.
Are the tree roots the problem, or is the tree's location in regards to your layout the problem. If you worked for me and you didn't want to dig through the roots, well I'd hand you a saw and tell you lunch will happen when the head is in. If the tree is an obstruction that blocks a sprinkler, than a different layout is needed. Evenly spaced heads will give you what you want.
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Meaningful action starts with silence
Two weeks before Christmas, a shopping mall, a kindergarten classroom, a hospital and a freeway were all scenes of random shooting sprees where lone armed gunmen killed innocent victims, leaving behind a wake of shock, grief and fear.
As I watched the Sandy Hook school shooting story unfold, I was brought back to a September morning one month after our wedding. As my husband and I dressed for work in our tiny apartment, we watched in stunned silence as the second of the World Trade Center towers fell.
In the days following Sept. 11, I struggled to draw a full breath as I waited, chest tight, for the other shoe to drop.
What was happening? What would happen next? Where could I hide?
As the concept of terrorism made its way back into our national discourse and collective consciousness, we saw a quick response in changes to airport security. Following the arrest of one wannabe shoe bomber, we now take our shoes off and accept long lines at the airport.
I wonder what our collective, personal and political response will be in response to this recent rash of a different kind of terrorism. This kind of terrorism has the potential of robbing us of joy and peace of mind as we are reminded that nothing is sacred and no place offers safe harbor from harm.
I was back to asking myself the same questions: What was happening? What would happen next? Where can I hide?
Like many parents, for days following the tragedy in Sandy Hook, I couldn't hold my kids tightly enough. However, they didn't understand my desperate desire to cling to them, and wriggled out of my prolonged hugs to run off and play.
So I revised my strategy and gave in to their oft-refused requests to snuggle all night long. I wanted to hold them forever.
But I found myself waking up cranky with a cricked neck because, as anyone who has spent the night dodging elbows to the eye and feet to the ribcage knows, it might sound sweet, but there's nothing restful about it.
You know what else isn't restful? Mentally wandering through all the worse-case scenarios and knowing that there isn't anything that can be done to stop the dark from falling.
That's actually good news, because instead of trying to predict and prevent madness, I can focus my energy on creating the kind of world I do want to live in. I can also continue my efforts to instill the types of values I want my boys to embrace, primarily by example.
The truth is, in addition to worrying about what might happen to them, I also worry how to make sure my kids don't become the perpetrators of such heinous acts.
It is time, way past time, for a respectful, honest conversation about gun control and mental health, and the rights of all over the rights of some. But, myself included, it is nearly impossible to have such a discourse when we aren't listening for anything other than agreement with our own passionate arguments.
One of the first things I think needs to happen in response to this unleashing of hatred is a national conversation about what's really at the root of it.
My bet is that it's not any single thing, but rather some big things we aren't addressing in a meaningful fashion. Facebook status updates aside, what are we really doing to stop the madness?
Bottom line, I think we must start this conversation differently than we usually do: silently.
From my initial response and comments I'm hearing and seeing, it seems we're coming from a reactive place of fear instead of a reflective position of understanding.
Mental illness and how we deal with it, or don't, is something we need to be talking about. Unfortunately, we're eager to sweep that subject under the rug or, we talk about in low, hushed voices.
Mental illness is an issue we need to put more of an investment into studying, treating and funding. Period.
As for the gun control conversation: could the extreme sides of the issue please stand down already? In what reality will we be able to eradicate all guns? Do we really want only the craftiest of criminals to have them?
And, on the extreme other side of the debate are those advocating for all to be armed. Really? Perhaps I should start packing pistols in the boys' lunch pails. Middle ground, people. We need to find it.
But we can't until we start naming the values we agree on. For instance, those who want a gun in every teacher's waistband and those who want to eradicate them entirely have something critical in common: a desperate desire to protect children.
Before we can tackle these big issues, I think we need to look at how we foster connection and our sense of community. What do we have in common, and how can we build on that?
I submit that at the root of our collective chaos is spiritual bankruptcy. By which I don't mean we all have to recite the same prayer at the table, but how many of us are even sitting at a table to eat with other people? How many of us say any kind of grateful blessing before meals, or ever? How many people are completely isolated, left to fend for themselves and feeling no connection with others, much less something bigger than ourselves?
To accomplish that, we must stop pretending to have all the answers. We have to stop laying the burden of blame on every obvious target. We must, instead, look within to contribute to changing our culture from one of entitlement to one embracing gratitude and life itself.
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SURFACING; New Neighbors On a Chic Street In Istanbul
By KAVITHA RAO
Published: July 15, 2012
NISANTASI is Istanbul's trendiest shopping district, as well as the birthplace of the Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk. And Abdi Ipekci Caddesi is its most glamorous street, though, like much of Mr. Pamuk's work, it has a dark side. It is named after Abdi Ipekci, a Turkish journalist assassinated here in 1979 by Mehmet Agca, who later tried to kill Pope John Paul II; a memorial marks the spot where Mr. Ipekci was gunned down. Today, though, Istanbul's fashion set flocks to the international names on the street, including Prada, Cartier and Louis Vuitton. In recent years, many high-end local designers have set up shop in alleys off the main street -- perfect destinations for shoppers tired of tacky tourist trinkets. KAVITHA RAO
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lira.; Urart: Abdi Ipekci Caddesi, 18/1 (90- 212) 246-7194 urart.com.tr This jeweler offers modern versions of traditional Anatolian designs in gold, diamonds and silver. Intricate, 18-karat gold earrings with Byzantine
motifs are particularly covetable. From 250 to 40,000 lira.; Arzu Kaprol: Tesvikiye Mahallesi, Atiye Sokak No. 9 (90-212) 22529 arzukaprol.net This Turkish designer's creations play with texture and shape;
celebrity fans include Meg Ryan and Gisele Bündchen. Sheer pleated blouses (750 lira; $415, at 1.8 lira to the dollar) work as day or evening attire.; Armaggan: Abdi Ipekci Caddesi Bostan Sokak 8 (90-212) 291-6292
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UN Targets Americans' Right to Bear Arms
The purpose of having the most powerful military in the world is so that second-rate countries can't deprive us of the God-given rights enshrined in our Constitution, such as the right of self-defense — or can they?
You are only strong to the extent you are not turned against yourself. Who is going to prevent authoritarian collectivists from also-ran countries from telling us whether we can exercise our Second Amendment rights when our government is run by their allies and our enemies?
Fortunately, there is a simple three-step solution:
1. Vote anyone likely to collaborate with UN despots out of office.
2. Withdraw from the UN.
3. Bulldoze that hideous domino looming over Turtle Bay into the East River, preferably with the dictatorial moonbat bureauweenies still inside.
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Bharti Airtel to name Manoj Kohli as managing director
In a major top-level management restructuring, Bharti Airtel is set to appoint Manoj Kohli as its managing director to revive its mobile business.
Bharti Airtel's founder Sunil Mittal, who is currently its chairman and managing director, will become executive chairman of the company, after Kohli moves to his new role.
Kohli currently heads the firm's international operations as its chief executive officer and is also a joint managing director of the company. A company veteran, he is currently based in Nairobi, the headquarters of Bharti Airtel's African operations.
In a filing to stock exchanges, Bharti Airtel said the board changes will be considered at the company's board meeting on February 1.
Gopal Vittal, the new CEO of Bharti Airtel's India business, will be named joint managing director. He was named chief executive after the firm's India CEO Sanjay Kapoor stepped down two weeks back.
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Bharti Airtel is also grappling with uncertain regulatory environment and bleeding business in Africa.
The company is scheduled to announce its financial results for the third quarter of 2012-13 on February 1.
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