Creator of @in30minutes @easygenie & Lean Media framework. #MIT #IDG #KLF #台灣
Joined June 2016
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"First, the most important guiding principle for any independent publisher should be to have control over its own destiny and maintain as direct a relationship as possible with its readers. Amazon is terrible in this regard."
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Amazon is indexing your book for "semantic understanding." Is your book the best answer to a reader’s problem or need? Book descriptions need to be optimized accordingly.
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"Thousands of Amazon customers will buy from the brand “FCNATIHN” not because of its brand proposition or intrinsic value, but because the brand owner outside of Shenzhen dumped $5,000 into Amazon sponsored product campaigns this month." leanmedia.org/the-amazon-bra…
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Ian @ Lean Media retweeted
New Marketplace Pulse data: across nearly 100,000 U.S. TikTok Shop sellers we track, the top 1% drive 60% of GMV.
That's more concentrated than Amazon, where it takes the top 1.6% to reach half.
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Saw her on SNL earlier this year and was impressed. Solid songwriting and performance chops.
Jun 12
swing through Newbury Comics for Olivia Rodrigo's new album 'you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love' ♥️
#oliviarodrigo #newmusic #vinyl #cds
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Three decades later, you *still* can't paste an ISBN with dashes into Amazon's search bar and get the correct book.
The ISBN is one of my titles, not the 2 books shown in the results.
Amazon can't parse the ISBN unless dashes are removed.
#BrokenAmazonTech
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I get asked from time to time about reputable book contests. This is the go-to list from @IndieAuthorALLI, which also identifies some of the questionable contests.
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Another day, another Amazon error, this time in Vendor Central.
Never ends.
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Big changes for Rufus coming to the Amazon ecosystem. Some accounts may see the Rufus branding replaced by Alexa.
It's also possible to conduct *some* Rufus searches right in the old Amazon search bar on the app, but not the desktop version.
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LinkedIn is getting serious about AI slop, recognizing that AI posts, essays, and comments kill genuine engagement. It claims a 94% success rate identifying slop.
Concerned about edge cases, though. Example: non-native speakers using AI copy editor.
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No Prime Day deals for customers this year.
The only "eligible ASIN" is a low-selling, low-margin product which I would be selling at a loss and few would buy.
Heroes are not eligible. Waste of time to even dangle this in front of sellers.
And: more proof Amazon 'AI' is BAF
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When Gemini is wrong, sometimes it won't give up.
Wasted a ton of time trying to create random samples in Klaviyo from its advice. Utter fail.
#aifail
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Ian @ Lean Media retweeted
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Meta gave zero updates about the AI bot hacking incident until it got to the press. And when they do, it’s just tucked as replies under someone’s tweet
Congrats on laying off T&S and automating the accounts support with gullible AI bots tho, hope you liked that promo packet.
Jun 1
Even my Instagram account got hacked
The password got changed without my knowledge and I was getting different password reset attempts throughout yesterday. And I got repeatedly logged out from the IG iOS app
Quite concerning
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No, @AlibabaGroup, I am not receptive to being "groomed" for money or for anything else.
And screw your "confidential information" disclosure that I never consented to when your team decided to spam me.
And where's the required opt-out link?
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Author: I need you to fix my ads. They're not working the way they should.
Me: Not surprising. Your Amazon listing needs work. You need to fix that now.
Author. No! I already hired a marketer and someone to do metadata. Just evaluate my campaigns. Tell me what's wrong!
Me: 🤷♂️
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I advised a traditionally published author about optimizing Amazon Ad campaigns.
The author said that ad support from his publishers was very limited, as they have too many other titles in the pipeline.
The author opted to pay for ads out of pocket to get more visibility/sales
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On ~1 million extra ISBNs in 2025:
"Serious publishers need to perform serious due diligence to catch writers misrepresenting AI-written works as their own. There are parallels with the even older problem of plagiarized content making it into print."
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One of the many folks in and around Boston who heard and felt the mystery explosion.
It's been stormy all day and we thought a tree hit the house. Went outside, walked the neighborhood, nothing.
FB is lit up wondering what the heck we all heard, hoping it's not a disaster.
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Via the experienced New England weather forecaster @growingwisdom. The spot on the map is 30 miles from our home.
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