{"id":193,"date":"2019-12-18T11:52:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T19:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedombyamazon.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2019-12-18T11:53:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T19:53:01","slug":"q4-update-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freedombyamazon.com\/blog\/q4-update-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Q4 Update &#8211; 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our Q4 (4th Quarter) is moving right along. We&#8217;re ahead of last year for December, the Quarter, and finally for the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve sold in new Categories, with new SKUs (Stock Keeping Units), and old stand-bys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of our new stuff hasn&#8217;t done much. That&#8217;s the risk we take trying to expand business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How to improve? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We didn&#8217;t do any PPC (Pay Per Click) advertising, so there&#8217;s that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also haven&#8217;t cross-listed on our eBay or Etsy accounts. That&#8217;s in the plan for the coming year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re old and retired, so we don&#8217;t want to make our business a J-O-B. We still love to travel and take care of our farmlettte here in Oregon&#8217;s Wine Country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, the plan is to just add a few hours a week to grow the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How did your Q4 go?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks,<br>John L<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Q4 (4th Quarter) is moving right along. We&#8217;re ahead of last year for December, the Quarter, and finally for the year. We&#8217;ve sold in new Categories, with new SKUs (Stock Keeping Units), and old stand-bys. Some of our new stuff hasn&#8217;t done much. That&#8217;s the risk we take trying to expand business. How to &#8230; <a title=\"Q4 Update &#8211; 2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/freedombyamazon.com\/blog\/q4-update-2019\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Q4 Update &#8211; 2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3,16,20,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buying-right","category-improving","category-marketing","category-multiple-streams","category-planning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aoKM-37","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":157,"url":"https:\/\/freedombyamazon.com\/blog\/gearing-up-for-q4\/","url_meta":{"origin":193,"position":0},"title":"Gearing Up for Q4","author":"John Larson","date":"October 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Q4 - 4th Quarter - The Big Party - Saving the Year... 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