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Xavier posted an update 12 years, 1 month ago
I just saw these two e-books: Bootstrapping an Online Tea Business by Tony Gebely and Tea Company by Peter I. Wildes
Did anyone read them?
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Xavier posted an update 12 years, 1 month ago
I just saw these two e-books: Bootstrapping an Online Tea Business by Tony Gebely and Tea Company by Peter I. Wildes
Did anyone read them?
No, but I looked them up on amazon.com. Books with a print length of 21-24 pages? Looks more like pamphlets to me.
(What does not mean they are not worth it, just something I noticed)
@bram I’m not sure how Amazon calculates the pages, maybe it has a standard based on word count? In my laptop I counted 32 pages for the book, but it changes depending on how big you make the font in Amazon’s cloud reader.
Interesting. Of course we all know about Tony, but the other guy…I can’t find anything on him or about his credentials for writing an ebook about starting up a tea company.
Of course, the Wildes book goes into setting up a tea business as a brick-and-mortar type operation. I just spent $30,000 and several years of my life to earn a degree in Business Administration – if I knew that I could learn that stuff for $5.99 in 20 minutes I would have saved my money.
I do think Tony’s book would be interesting to read though. He offers a unique perspective because bootstrapping an online tea company together is exactly what he did with the Chicago Tea Garden.
Worth noting is that @riccaicedo has written a pretty good review about it on his blog, though I would still like to get some details about it. http://www.myjapanesegreentea.com/bootstrapping-an-online-tea-business
I forgot to mention that I’m probably going to buy Tony’s book this week, but might be disappointed that he didn’t talk much about his own company, which was something @riccaicedo mentioned in his review.
I am probably going to buy it too but in pdf (when I find where I can buy it in this format).
@xavier – @worldoftea is also distributing it at Smashwords where you can get it in PDF format.
link: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/211526
I must check if they take Paypal and it will be good.
Thanks.
@peter thanks for mentioning my review. Yes, you’ll find that the Chicago Tea Company is practically left out of the book.
I think that the book is intended for people with less technical experience, you are obviously more knowledgeable than many of us in terms of e commerce, SEO and the like.
Still the book offers some good insights.