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Episode-2612- Ariana Marshall on Income though Amazon Print on Demand Publishing

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Today we are joined by Ariana Marshall to hear about how she started a business with Amazon’s print on demand services. In November 2017, Ariana sold her first apparel design using the Merch by Amazon platform, and a few months later published her first “low content” book on Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing.

She had NO graphic design background when she started. She’s learned much from this endeavor, including basic graphic design, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, video editing, Pinterest marketing, and Amazon sales research. She is a stay at home mom with an MBA, PMP and a handful of other pieces of paper, and she says that none of those had anything to do with her ability to grow income online. Persistence and willingness to learn new things (and fail) have been the most important qualities.

Ariana’s other interests are travel (mostly vicariously at this point in life), horses and doing a little more vegetable gardening every year. She’s 44 years old and lives in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland. Born in Germany to a Foreign Service family, and serving in the Peace Corps as a young adult, she has lived in several countries and a number of U.S. states.

Before settling into suburbia, she worked in international trade as well as once upon a time was a wrangler on a dude ranch, an independent gubernatorial candidate’s campaign manager, and a traveler on the old Silk Road. She began her online presence with a unfocused attempt at a blog.

While not successful, that led to learning more about ecommerce and online business. Join us today for a great discussion on building income streams through Amazon MBA and KDP, regardless of where you live.

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Episode-2612- Ariana Marshall on Income though Amazon Print on Demand Publishing — 6 Comments

  2. Ariana, curious if your daughter is Randi? My best friend’s wife Golly was training jumping/dressage in NOVA until about 5 years ago.

    Awesome show!
    Dillon Allen

  3. Hi Dillon, no my kids aren’t riders (yet?) It’s a small horse world though!! Thanks for listening, I hope you got some ideas / inspiration 🙂

  5. Light bulb! 

     

    Great episode, another separate revenue stream to add!

     

    Another free graphic design resource is PhototPea , the entire program is online.

     

    A paid program that is the next step up is Corel Paint Shop Pro at $20-30, no subscription. I’ve been using it since 2003, have the current version, and it has way more functions than I’ll ever use.

     

    Now, if all you need the additional graphic design power for is logo design, then I’d pay someone else to do it. Just like Jack has said before. I’ve spent WAY too much time trying to design a logo that I wasn’t happy with in the end. I recently used AnyTask for my blog/ youtube channel logo. Paid $10 to someone in Indonesia, had 6 drafts to pick from the next day,  and then had multiple versions of my logo to use the day after. One thing I thought was cool was although I paid USD, they were paid in crypto.

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