AI Will Make Product Placement in Books Easy, South African Publisher
Good day,
Today, I’m writing to you wearing my hat as Publishing Director at Bula Buka Publishers to share insights on the intersection of books and AI.
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Inflation Calculation is Fake… and why Economists Watch a Lot of Porn
I have two new books out: Money is Biological and 90 Days to Create & Launch: It is the Easiest, Cheapest, and Quickest Time in History to be an Entrepreneur and Innovator.
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Let me start with some goofing around.
You can pass this section.
Read moreCelebrity Business Class 3: MacG’s Grandeur Gin and Chillers Punch Spirit Cooler (Analysis per the CMIAM)
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I’ve written liquor business analyses before about Bonang Matheba and DJ Zinhle’s respective liquor business ventures – visit the links for those articles.
In this article, I explore the advantages of choosing liquor as a business product for MacG’s Grandeur gin and the subsequent benefits of launching the Chillers Punch spirit cooler. A spirit cooler blends spirits and various flavors.
We will use the ‘Convenience Metrical Interest and Advantage Method’ (CMIAM) to provide an understanding.
Read moreDepressed and Suicidal? Do the Silent Prayer
Hey, welcome to this post.
Firstly, you are going to be alright. Your feelings and situations are going to get lighter soon, and I empathize!
Read moreHow to Register a Trademark in South Africa Quickly | 90 Days to Create &Launch Book | #CreateAndLaunch Challenge
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First and foremost, this article is not legal advice but rather my assistance to help you register a trademark with the little money you have.
I recall MacG revealing on Podcast and Chill that he registered a trademark for his Grandeur gin for about R15 000, including lawyer fees. It does not have to cost you that much. Stay with me here.
Read moreHow to Sell on Amazon from South Africa: Costs, Selling Globally | 90 Days to Create & Launch Book | #CreateAndLaunch Challenge
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The global online marketplace Amazon.com has officially launched in South Africa. This means that anyone in South Africa can sell physical products through Amazon to customers both within South Africa and internationally where their courier services reach. Essentially, you can sell globally from South Africa.
This marketplace allowing South Africans to sell globally is a first for the country. It’s a significant development.
Read moreHow to Sell on Takealot? | 90 Days to Create & Launch Book | #CreateAndLaunch Challenge
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It’s easy to sell on Takealot. You don’t have to stress. Check out my other article on why you should sell on Takealot.
To get started, you simply need to input the required information and upload a few documents. Here are the requirements:
Read moreWhy Sell on Takealot? | 90 Days to Create & Launch Book | #CreateAndLaunch Challenge
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As Andrew Tate famously described, money is like a “river” that is “always moving.” If you get closer to the river, you might get wet (make money in this case). Just like someone opens a shop in a busy part of town, Takealot is the busy part of town in the city called the internet in South Africa. You just might get wet on Takealot.
Here are a few reasons to sell on Takealot:
Read more: Why Sell on Takealot? | 90 Days to Create & Launch Book | #CreateAndLaunch Challenge- Thousands of people use it. They have established a relationship with and trust it.
- They have established pick-up points for their thousands of customers at convenient shopping centers. They charge only R25 for this delivery option, making them the cheapest in the country.
- If you sell products similar in type or brand name (e.g., soap), you would want to sell them at retailers like Pick n Pay, Shoprite, and Clicks, right? Takealot is your Pick n Pay, Shoprite, and Clicks. This is essentially Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG, a fancy way to say it).
- As I mentioned at the beginning, it’s where buyers are. It’s an option worth exploring. You want sales, so you have to explore it.
Not all my businesses’ products sell on Takealot. Our clothes at 94 Brands Shop don’t sell anywhere but on our site. They are bespoke, and our customers wouldn’t want to buy some of them on Takealot – not all. On the other hand, my books and those we publish at Bula Buka Publishers sell on Takealot. Even some of the bookstores that sell our books sell them through Takealot.
3 African Proverbs for Dealing with Stress
From my book ‘Introducing Ubuntu Stoicism: Gain Joy, Resilience, Productivity, and Defuse Anxiety.’ Available on Amazon, my blog (South Africa) and all South African bookstores (Exclusive Books, Bargain Books).
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Number 1: Teeth do not see poverty.
Think about it. A smile is a smile is a smile, and it is a good thing. So, smile. Be a force of meditative smiles to yourself. Smile by yourself, brother, and sister.
Read moreWhy is it the cheapest, easiest, and quickest time in history to be an entrepreneur? | 90 Days to Create & Launch book
This is a chapter from 90 Days to Create & Launch book. Find it on Amazon, my webstore (if you’re in South Africa), Takelot.com, or in South African bookstores (Bargain Books, Exclusive Books, Protea Books, etc.).
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The following serves as a great example to illustrate what prevents people from starting or adopting an “execute at all costs” mindset.
I had the opportunity to speak at an event called Business Insights Circle in 2022. After my talk, I had a conversation with a young man who expressed his desire to start a t-shirt brand.
Read moreAnother way to understand what prevents you from starting | 90 Days to Create & Launch book
This is a chapter from 90 Days to Create & Launch book. Find it on Amazon, my webstore (if you’re in South Africa), Takelot.com, or in South African bookstores (Bargain Books, Exclusive Books, Protea Books, etc.).
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The following serves as a great example to illustrate what prevents people from starting or adopting an “execute at all costs” mindset.
I had the opportunity to speak at an event called Business Insights Circle in 2022. After my talk, I had a conversation with a young man who expressed his desire to start a t-shirt brand.
He believed that he needed R5000 to begin with three designs and produce fifty-plus units for each design.
Read moreWhat is barter trading? Quotes defining barter from the book “Money is Biological”
This is an excerpt from my book “Money is Biological: Exploring Money’s Emergence, Evolution, Innovation, and Future.” It’s available on Amazon.
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- Barter becomes emergent and natural when cooperation extends across tribes and nations.
- Fundamentally, barter is the starting point of money and incorporates other inventions we’ve mentioned, such as clay tablets, paper for cash or gold certificates, metals for coins, blockchain for cryptocurrency, and Hindu-Arabic numerals, etc.
- Thus, barter is inherent in credit money and all later forms of money (commodity, fiat, and crypto).
- Instead of stating it was a transition from barter money to commodity money, I infer that it was the evolution and stacking of commodity money into barter. All forms of money that emerged along our evolutionary path, such as fiat and cryptocurrency, stack into barter. Barter took on a different manifestation.
- Money, in its evolutions and representations—commodity money, fiat, and credit (to be explained in the following chapter)—is barter. Different methods and inventions of representing barter are added, stacked, or infused to make it more agile.
- I infer that mere cooperation between tribes or animals is a semblance of a credit system. It is bartering (the overarching term) that will be paid in the future through cooperation. Animals protect their packs all the time (give out credit), and the others reciprocate when necessary (pay back the debt): elephants, orangutans, orcas, lions, wolves, polar bears, emperor penguins, dolphins, chimpanzees, bees, birds, mice, kangaroos, hyenas, and cheetahs. Baby animals learn this and reciprocate when they are older. It’s how they repay the debt (credit) to their tribe.
- The need for bartering came first and naturally in animal cooperation and reciprocation. By bartering cooperation, they established a not-so-explicit credit system.