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Sorry I’m Late! Business Review of 2018 and Plans for 2019

January 15, 2019 By Rob Cubbon 48 Comments

Regular readers will know, I'm a lucky guy. I hardly ever had a proper "job" and I stopped working for other people over a decade ago. I have run a business since 2005. I started in London, UK, providing web and graphic design services for clients but then branched out. … [Read more...]

Notebooks And Low Content Books To Sell On Amazon KDP

December 11, 2018 By Rob Cubbon 24 Comments

If you'd told me a year ago that I'd make over $3000 a month selling notebooks on Amazon, I'd have told you, politely, to go away. But the truth is that notebooks and low content books are quite easy to sell. In order to do this, all you need is an account at KDP. … [Read more...]

How To Design Merch By Amazon T-Shirts That Sell

November 29, 2018 By Rob Cubbon 6 Comments

Merch By Amazon is Amazon's print on demand t-shirt business. Once accepted on the Merch by Amazon program, you can upload designs, Amazon will sell the designs on t-shirts, and pay you a commission. I'm going to talk about how to design Merch By Amazon t-shirts, and the niches, … [Read more...]

Moving from CreateSpace to KDP Print to Publish Paperbacks on Amazon

September 29, 2018 By Rob Cubbon 8 Comments

On August 28th Amazon announced that CreateSpace is merging with KDP Print. So, pretty soon established authors on Amazon will have to move their paperback listings from CreateSpace to KDP (or have them moved). And, if you want to sell a paperback book on Amazon you should now … [Read more...]

How To Sell Notebooks And Low Content Paperback Books On Amazon KDP

July 30, 2018 By Rob Cubbon 75 Comments

This is the most fun I've had in business for a number of years! All I'm doing is uploading a couple of files and entering text. That's how you sell notebooks on Amazon! KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) is Amazon's e-book publishing unit launched in 2007 at the same time as the … [Read more...]

My Business Affirmations

April 10, 2018 By Rob Cubbon

During the decade or so that I've been blogging I've usually steered clear from writing about "personal development". I've concentrated mainly on solid business subjects. However, business affirmations are in an interesting area where business and personal development … [Read more...]

Life, Death, and Good Deeds

February 20, 2018 By Rob Cubbon

This is a different kind of blog post. I won't be talking about business. This is personal. It's about a friend of mine who died recently. I live in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. It's long been home to a community of western entrepreneurs. The community is only loosely … [Read more...]

Possibly My Weirdest Year Ever – Review of the Year

January 4, 2018 By Rob Cubbon

My life has taken a few strange turns. I started a business in 2006 which changed my world. My marriage failed in 2012 and I left the UK for Thailand in 2014. More changes – as David Bowie would say, "Turn and face the strange". If you don't know who David Bowie is, leave this … [Read more...]

From Desperation to “Living The Dream”

November 14, 2017 By Rob Cubbon

Think that you'll never have the life you'd dreamed of? Feel like you're just not good enough? I certainly didn't. I had shitty jobs for nearly 20 years. I used to get up in freezing cold winter mornings in London and go to work on crowded underground trains. Sometimes, I … [Read more...]

Successes and Failures: Business Report Q3 2017

October 6, 2017 By Rob Cubbon

Welcome to a further instalment in my wonderful business and life! Every quarter I crunch the business's figures, work out what's wrong and what's right, and, basically think out loud on my blog. Thank you for putting up with me. This quarter has been, on the face of it, quite … [Read more...]