Will Amazon Associates be your automatic dollar-earning hen?

Using Amazon affiliate marketing to make money has always been a very popular online earning project due to its high conversion rate. The success rate of newcomers using this channel to make money is very high.

If you feel that your development in the Chinese market is limited, then extending your business to high-income markets such as Europe and the United States will be a challenging but highly rewarding option.

Alfred has discussed earning dollars using English-language websites in the past . If you still don't know where to start, then opting to join the Amazon Associates Program would be a good direction.

Amazon Affiliate Marketing Profile

Amazon Amazon started the affiliate marketing program in 1996. It can be said to be the grandfather of Affiliate Marketing. Amazon attracts a large number of website owners and Internet marketing experts with generous commissions. Join its promotion.

With the help of these new marketing forces, it has also brought more online exposure to Amazon. Indirectly, this company's turnover has grown rapidly, and it has developed into the world's largest e-commerce platform today.

The unspeakable secrets of a novice

• Poor English, not high level – you can spend money to outsource English articles. Spend $10 per article and ask a foreigner to write it for you
• No website building – it’s easy to do with the website building software WordPress.

Why Join Amazon Affiliate Marketing

• Joining an affiliate is completely free and does not require any monthly fees
• Easy to apply - just have a website or a social media channel with a large following
• No location restrictions. Live in Asia can also operate the US marketing plan
• High return on investment – ​​the initial cost of building a website is about $300 USD (website $10/year + web hosting space $120/year + 15 English articles $150USD). As long as it can continue to operate, it will be a good long-term Source of income.
• Low payment terms – as low as $10 you can apply for payment from amazon
• For the world's largest e-commerce platform. There are everything that can be sold
• The profit sharing ratio is good. The maximum commission can reach 10%
• It is a household name in the United States and has a high degree of trust. The conversion rate of the products sold can generally reach 4~6%. It is very good in the industry.

 Disadvantages of Running an Amazon Affiliate

The tracking code (cookie) for the promotional link has a short validity period of only 24 hours:

When a netizen clicks on your Amazon promotion link, an Amazon tracking code will be automatically implanted on the netizen's browser. This tracking code is only valid for one day.

If the netizen pays for an order later, Amazon will judge whether to give you the bonus based on the validity period of the tracking code (cookie). That is to say, if the time of payment for the transaction is 24 hours later. Then this There is no commission for one transaction.

Some product categories have lower commissions:

For example, the commission for computer products is only 2.5%

 How to build an Amazon website

1. Find a suitable product category to sell

Such as fishing tools, sewing machines, coffee machines, etc. are all good objects. Of course, you can also make the category of goods larger. For example, a website dedicated to small household appliances, which covers coffee machines, juice machines, electric Different types of pots.

Generally, it is best to choose a project that you are interested in or familiar with. In this way, it will be more convenient to operate.

In addition, it is important to also take into account the profit sharing ratio of commodity items (as shown in the picture). Some categories such as personal health products have a commission of only 1%. Conversely, kitchen or car products can get 4.5% of the share. Profit bonus. The difference is huge.

2. Purchase URL

For the selection of URLs, it was very popular to use keyword URLs (Exact Match Domain, or EMD for short). For example, CoffeeMachineReviews.com, BestHairDryers.com included keywords in the domain.

The other is the currently popular brandable domain. This type of domain name is suitable for building your own brand, which is conducive to gaining popularity and becoming an authority site. Such as CoffeeFanatics.com, BeautyQueen.com.

Afu feels that there are advantages and disadvantages between the two. It may be faster to use keyword URLs in the initial stage, but the expansion of website content is often limited by the keywords in the station name. Therefore, it is difficult to develop into a large website.

As for the current popular brand-oriented domain names, the name of the website is relatively vague. Therefore, it will be more flexible in the selection of commodity types. It is not only suitable for developing into an authoritative website, but also conducive to long-term operation.


3. Rent a web hosting space and build a website with WordPress

This step is not difficult. If you don't have a website, you can refer to the WordPress personal website setup tutorial.

 4. Enrich the content of the website

Since English is not their native language, most people just choose to outsource foreigners to write like Navi4you. Currently Navi4you uses the iWriter platform to buy the articles he needs.

Of course, the more words an article has, the more likely it will be favored by the Google search engine. Generally speaking, buying an ordinary 2000-word English article usually costs $30~$40 USD. The financial burden is quite large if you buy more. Basically, the number of words in each article should be more than 500 words (about $8 USD).

Product Reviews Most Popular

As for how to write an article? Generally, the conversion rate of writing a product review article is the best. The easiest way is to ask the writer to rewrite the part of the product introduction, and then combine the user reviews on Amazon to sort out the advantages and disadvantages , for readers' reference.

The structure of the article is roughly:

• Product introduction and features
• A summary of positive user reviews
• A summary of negative reviews

When choosing Amazon products to promote, the following points are usually considered:

• The selling price of the product is higher than $50, and the commission for low-priced products is too low
• User reviews are 4 stars or more
• The number of people to evaluate is preferably more than 20 people

How to find good reference examples

To find examples of Amazon affiliate marketing sites worthy of reference, you can directly enter the relevant product name and the words "reviews" and "reviews" on Google, and it is easy to find relevant URLs. These can squeeze into the success of Google's homepage Websites are ideal research objects.

The way to search is:

• Product name + reviews (eg Wahl dog clippers reviews)
• best + product items (like best dog clippers)
• Product item + reviews (eg dog clippers reviews)

 Apply to join the Amazon Affiliate Program

The review standards for Amazon affiliates are quite loose. There are not too many restrictions on the traffic and ranking of the website. Before applying, it is best to use one or two months to write about the readers on the blog. Good content that helps.

As for the number of articles, there is no certain standard. Perhaps more than 15 applications have a higher chance of success.

The membership application website of the Amazon Alliance in the United States is https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/

The Amazon alliance is divided into many different countries. They operate independently of each other. You may wish to join the Amazon alliance in the United States first.

Then according to your own needs, consider whether to join other English-speaking countries (Canada, United Kingdom, Australia). Of course, if you are proficient in other foreign languages ​​such as French. You can also apply to join the French Amazon Alliance.


Sources of Affiliate Marketing Website Traffic

The website has enough traffic, and the income can naturally come in. There are many methods of Internet marketing, in addition to search engine optimization (SEO), the use of keywords to improve the ranking on the search engine.

You can also use some social media such as YouTube, Pinterest, FB Facebook fan page, Instagram (IG) to promote imported traffic. Among them, Pinterest brings the highest amount of traffic and is recommended by many affiliate marketers.
 

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Amazon commission payment method

Amazon Affiliate USA currently offers three main payment methods:

• Electronic Gift Card (Gift Card) – You can apply when the commission income reaches $10. Amazon will send it by email
• Checks – The income must reach $100 to apply. Checks are mailed and accepted worldwide.
• U.S. domestic bank transfer – requires a U.S. bank account to use. Generally, it is difficult for people who do not live in the United States to apply. At this time, you can consider using the free U.S. personal bank account provided by Payoneer to receive USD foreign currency.
• Forex Direct Transfer – Unfortunately, there is currently no support for TWD wire transfers.

Mistakes in Amazon Affiliate Marketing

When doing Amazon affiliate marketing, you must really abide by his Operating Agreement. There are several places where newbies need to pay special attention, otherwise they may be suspended!

• Don't put the price of the product in the promotion text. Because Amazon's product price changes frequently. Sometimes the website is too late to update, causing the price to be outdated and incorrect.
• Do not put your Amazon promotion link in the email newsletter or e-book.
• Don't buy stuff on Amazon through your own affiliate link. Maybe you think you can earn a commission. But it's against the official rules.
• It must be clearly stated on your website (disclaimer) that you are using the affiliate link of the Amazon Marketing Affiliate and get a rebate commission from it.
• Do not use third-party URL shortening services (such as bitly), or intentionally hide the destination of the link (Link Cloaking). Amazon wants visitors on the website to know exactly where to click on the link. Of course, use the official URL shortening service. Amzn.to does not have this limitation.

If you accidentally violate any of the regulations mentioned above, you will be suspended in serious cases. And the commissions that have not been collected will be confiscated.

Amazon Influencer Program (Amazon Influencer Program)

Due to the surge in the number of users of social media, the huge network traffic brought by it is no longer inferior to that of traditional blog sites. Therefore, under the original affiliate marketing system, Amazon has also developed a social platform KOL network. Red promotion channel, called Amazon Influencer Program.

You can apply as long as you have a lot of high-engagement followers on YouTube, FB, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.

As for the number of fans required to pass the application, Amazon has no official regulations, but generally speaking, as long as there are more than 5,000 fans on the channel, you should be able to start trying to apply.

The advantage of joining the Amazon Influencer Program is that Amazon will provide you with an official official website and storefront. In addition to being able to show fans recommended products and earn profits, you can also strengthen the authority of the Amazon platform. Exposure of personal brand.
 
Other ways to make money with Amazon
After you operate the Amazon affiliate website for a period of time, you will observe which types of goods sell well and have high profits. At this time, you may be able to slash as a cross-border e-commerce, and sell this type of things in the Amazon mall, in addition to increasing In addition to the opportunity for profit, it can also create a variety of online money-making channels.

 Buddhist SEO Optimization can also Make Great Contributions

Having a huge number of people on the Internet is often the guarantee of bringing money. And being able to get free Google organic traffic is a source of traffic that Internet money-making workers are eager to strive for. This task needs to rely on SEO (Search Engine Optimization)  search engine optimization is done.

Navidforyou used to do SEO optimization, not the so-called obedient brand, such as black hat, gray hat, etc., which are not liked by Google, have been used a lot. For
example,

• Use the software to generate a lot of fake accounts, and automatically leave messages everywhere for backlinks.
• Rent private blog network (PBN, Private Blog Network) space and place article links.
• Pay to join the link farm (link farm), do intensive web link exchange with other websites
• In its heyday, many websites of Afu ranked among the top in Google, which not only brought huge income, but also every few days a website broker would write an email asking for the willingness to resell the website.

Of course, the good times didn't last long. After the rectification of several animals such as Google Panda and Google Penguin (a huge change in Google's page ranking algorithm), many unruly websites were punished. This caused a sharp drop in page rankings. , Not only the network traffic was greatly reduced, but the profit of the website was also greatly reduced. As a result, A Fu also suffered heavy losses, and gradually figured out his own set of Buddhist SEO.

Characteristics of Buddhist SEO website optimization

The word "Buddha" makes people feel like going with the flow and returning to nature. The Buddhist SEO optimization to be discussed here inherits this essence, emphasizing simplicity and time saving, and only focusing on important operational items.

Buddhist search engine optimization is mainly doing the following three things:

1. Use the Keyword Planner to find high-value keywords (money keywords)
2. Use these selected keywords to write good articles with substantial content
3. On site SEO optimization

Generally speaking, as long as you do these three tasks well, you can have more than 80% chance to get a good page ranking. And bring traffic with high commercial value, which becomes the basis of website profit.

As for another often mentioned off-site SEO, its main task is to win the third-party backlinks. Since the operation process often takes a lot of time and energy, it is not It is within the scope of operation of Buddhist SEO. On the contrary, we will only focus on the more efficient and less time-consuming on-site SEO optimization.
 

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 What is SEO

It is not easy to learn SEO (Search Engine Optimization) well. It is not difficult to find some dozens of hours of instructional videos or books with thickness of two to three hundred pages devoted to this topic.

These reference resources for teaching people how to do SEO website optimization, because the content is too much, often make new bloggers do not know where to start.

So what exactly is SEO search engine optimization doing? Simply put, it is trying to get a web page to rank in the top 10 of the search engine ranking (SERP, Search Engine Results Pages) position (that is, on the first page of search) .

SEO beyond Google

Generally speaking, SEO in the narrow sense is only optimized for traditional search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Bing. Since Google's market share exceeds 80%, everyone's focus is almost on Google.

However, the search habits of Internet users are also gradually evolving, and many people begin to like to get answers by watching videos, so they will search for videos directly on YouTube.

Today’s YouTube has become the second most-used search engine in the world besides Google, and the platform itself has gradually developed a set of different SEO ranking methods. In addition to creating eye-catching videos, YouTubers also need to create I optimize my video creations for search engines, hoping that potential viewers can quickly find their videos through the search box.

In addition, in Europe and the United States, if you want to buy something, you often go directly to the Amazon website to do product search. Therefore, the search traffic on the Amazon website has become a battle channel for merchants on the platform. Searching for well-ranked stores is almost making money. guarantee.

In fact, many high-traffic e-commerce platforms (such as Shopee) or social media have their own set of internal search ranking mechanisms. If they can be researched and used effectively, they can bring in many potential customers. Internet traffic .

How to do SEO Search Engine Optimization

Although several different search engines have been mentioned above, this article will only focus on Google's SEO, after all, it is currently the leader in this field.

Operating website SEO can be roughly divided into two major areas: on site SEO and off site SEO. But before operating, you must first make enough effort on the content of the website.

Content is King

Good articles can be said to be the backbone of SEO optimization. In addition to making visitors willing to spend time reading and increasing dwell time on the page, high-quality content is also easy to be reposted or shared on the Internet. Comes with many backlinks, which indirectly also help the page's ranking on Google.

Keywords are the determinant of SEO success or failure
If you are a freelance worker who helps people optimize their SEO websites, then the ranking of keywords will become an indicator of work performance. As long as the planned keywords are squeezed into the first page of Google search, you will be able to successfully ask customers Paid.

What are the keywords (keywords), in short, the query words that everyone enters in the Google search box.

From the point of view of SEO, writing good content is only half the battle. If the keywords are not well mastered, the page may not be visited by people, which means that there is no network traffic.

Inappropriate keywords often lead to the following two situations:

• Your article topic is very unpopular, very few people are searching, and your page is uninteresting
• The topic of the article is very popular, and many people are writing it. Although the search volume of the keyword is very large, because of the fierce competition, your page ranking becomes very low, making it difficult for visitors to find it.

Kind of keyword

Just mentioned that keywords play a very important role in the process of SEO search engine optimization. Now let's take a look at the types of keywords that are often encountered:

1. Primary keywords – also known as seed keywords. These are the words that need the most attention and play in the entire web page.

2. Long tail keywords (long tail keywords) – are words that extend from the main keyword. For example, if the main keyword is "make money", then the long tail keywords can be "how to make money at home", "make money by filling out surveys" "

3. LSI keywords (LSI, Latent Semantic Indexing) - literally translated as "latent semantic indexing". Simply put, it is a word group that is highly related to the main keyword. Generally, when doing Google searches, web pages At the bottom of the page will appear some Google suggested search terms, these are so-called LSI keywords.

When we write articles, we must properly place the above three types of keywords in the content, so that search engines can smoothly include and index these word groups, and become an assistant for search rankings.

In addition, the length of the article is preferably more than 1,000 words. Articles with fewer words often have insufficient depth of content and fewer opportunities to use keywords, so it is not conducive to obtaining good Google rankings.

How to Choose Money Keywords

A keyword with a lot of traffic will not necessarily make money for your blog. We also need to determine where the search intent of the keyword is.

For example, the two keywords "buy a coffee machine" and "how to clean a coffee machine", the first one has the commercial motivation to pay for it, and the gold content is very high. The latter one just wants to know the cleaning method of the coffee machine, and does not spend much money The intent of shopping. So is a keyword that will not make money.

Keywords with high gold content can bring buyer traffic, increase conversion rate, and bring more potential revenue to the website.

As for how to find this type of keywords, in addition to relying on your own experience and judgment, the amount of keyword advertising unit price (CPC, Cost per Click) will also be a good screening method. And this type of data can easily is easily available from the Keyword Planner (more on this later).

Generally speaking, the ideal main keywords of web pages should meet the following three conditions:

• More than a thousand Google searches per month
• low competition
• Gold content is high

In practice, in order to save analysis time and accurately identify keywords with high potential, most of them will use keyword planning tools to help.

A good keyword planner usually has the following important features:

• Keyword Analysis – Including monthly traffic, judging the unit price of keyword advertising with gold content, SEO competition difficulty, etc.
• Analyze your own or competitor's website's popular pages and related SEO data - website authority (DA, Domain Authority), monthly traffic, keyword distribution, etc.
• Keyword ranking of a single page, estimated traffic, number of backlinks, number of social media shares.
• Check the overall SEO optimization of the website and provide suggestions for improvement

At present, most of the easy-to-use analysis tools require payment. For the free part, you can refer to Google's official keyword planner (Google Keyword Planner). However, the disadvantage is that the data on monthly keyword traffic and competition are very general. It will be less efficient.

Recommended keyword analysis tools

1:Ubersuggest

This is the keyword tool provided by the world's top Internet marketing expert Neil Patel (Top 25 of Forbes) , this SEO planning tool is still free at present, but due to the huge operating cost, it has gradually shifted to Paid membership is available. But the free version can still make multiple free inquiries per day.

2. KWFinder

The evaluation in the industry is also good, and the analysis data provided is relatively concise.

3. Ahrefs

This is the SEO planning tool currently used by Afu, which can run very detailed analysis data for websites or keywords. However, due to too many functions and high fees, newcomers may find it difficult to use.

Through the keyword planning tool mentioned above, you can find the ideal primary keyword and related keyword groups in a short period of time. As the content basis for writing articles.

On-Site SEO

The optimization projects on the website are very trivial, and there are many details to be noticed. Fortunately, many of them are only one-time settings, and the time spent is limited. Here, I will apply the spirit of Buddhism, and introduce the simplified version of the internal optimization projects of the website as follows:

• The main keyword should be on the title, and the words should be eye-catching, making people want to click to read
• In the Meta Description part of the article, in addition to containing keywords, the copy should also be able to quickly capture the interest of visitors
• The primary keyword should appear in the first chapter of the article
• In addition to the main keyword, some long-tail keywords and LSI keywords should also be appropriately added to the article.
• The frequency of the keywords should be appropriate, too much will have the opposite effect
• The main and subtitles of the article can use relevant keywords
• According to the importance of the title, apply the appropriate HTML tags: h1, h2, h3
• Contextually relevant pages, to create internal links
• According to the needs of the article content, make external links with relevant high-weight websites (such as WikiPedia)
• Do a good job of image SEO optimization – image file alt text (Alt) in HTML tags uses keywords
• In addition to short URLs, it is best to include keywords
• Use mobile-friendly responsive web pages (RWD, Responsive Web Design)
• Use a thumbnail tool (such as iLoveIMG ) to reduce the size of the image file to speed up the display speed of the web page
• Website using SSL security certificate
• Choose a good web host to make your website more responsive
• Off-Site SEO

In this field of search engine optimization, the main task is to find high-weight related websites for backlinks (external links). In the eyes of Google, this type of link means that people like and recommend your website. If the other party's The higher the authority (weight), the better the ranking of the web page.

In addition to linking through forums or social media, the commonly used (white hat, white hat) methods often use communication channels such as Email to directly contact other webmasters to seek their consent to join external links.

As for how to find a suitable backlink website, there are many techniques and means, but Afu's Buddhist SEO only recommends building a few on relevant forums, social media or blogs in the first few months of the website's opening. Backlinks are fine.

Another reason to emphasize is that if the content of the webpage itself is good, others will take the initiative to link to your website. If the content is not good, it will be very difficult to get backlinks from external sites.

SEO Hacks for WordPress Blogs

At present, more than 35% of the websites in the world use the WordPress website system, so it is often the preferred website building software for building personal blogs.

WordPress itself is an SEO-friendly software. For bloggers, in addition to the above-mentioned SEO operation items, several free plug-ins can be used to enhance the execution.

Highly rated are:

1.Yoast SEO

This plug-in can automatically adjust and suggest the SEO optimization method of web pages, so that your website can better meet Google's indexing needs.

The main functions are as follows:

• Improve the SEO exposure of web pages to facilitate search engine indexing
• Be able to find out the deficiencies in SEO optimization of web pages, and provide timely suggestions to solve them.
• Monitor the appearance density of keywords in web pages to avoid using too many or too few times and affecting search rankings.
• Automatically generate XML sitemaps to facilitate web pages to be quickly crawled and logged by search engines.
• For pages with English content, the readability analysis of the article will be provided
• Simple and easy operation interface

2.WP Super Cache

The display speed of web pages is also one of the important factors affecting Google ranking. In addition to choosing a good web host, the use of website caching technology can also effectively improve the response speed of web pages. This very popular WordPress plug-in provides The following important functions:

• Backup slow WordPress PHP dynamic web pages into static web pages (html), providing the host with fast reading
• It can compress the file of the web page to be smaller, and speed up the transmission speed
• Support Content Delivery Network (CDN, Content Delivery Network) service, which can effectively use the network host in close distance to read the backup webpage faster

Another recommended website cache plugin is W3 Total Cache

The overall function will be more powerful than WP Super Cache, but the setting is relatively complicated.

Get the number one ranking on Google

The spirit of Buddhist SEO is to use the least amount of time to achieve the best search ranking results. However, if you find a web page article that is very profitable, it is a pity that you have not been able to get the top few Google search rankings (the first place is more Good), then you might as well take the time to operate off-site SEO (off-site SEO), so that your revenue has the opportunity to go to the next level.

The focus of off-site SEO is to build backlinks (Link Building), adding backlinks to other people's online media and pointing to their own web pages.

Common practices are as follows:

Comment on online forums, social media or other people's websites
Contribute to an online magazine or seek to have a guest article on someone else's website
in conclusion :
The operation items of SEO search engine optimization are complex and numerous, and it is not simple to be able to fully penetrate them. Many Internet marketing companies make a lot of money by providing SEO website optimization services.

Afu's Buddhist SEO mainly emphasizes selecting good keyword groups first and using them to write high-quality articles. Then, focus on on-site SEO optimization projects.

Although it seems to be too streamlined, it is like the resource allocation problem of the 80/20 rule . If you focus your energy on the most important SEO optimization projects, you will have the opportunity to obtain a significantly advanced Google page ranking score.

Digital Logic Design Online Course

Digital Logic Gates

A digital logic gate is an electronic component that implements logic on an input signal and then outputs a specific output. They serve as the basic building blocks of any digital system, regardless of complexity. Digital logic gates can be divided into two types.

Basic Door

A NOT gate has one input and one output, and the output always inverts (ie, negates) the input.
An AND gate can have multiple inputs, but the output is limited to a single input. If all inputs are high here, the output goes high. Otherwise, the output is low.



The OR gate is a multiple-input, single-output gate, which has the same output as logic '0' when all inputs to the gate are low. For the remainder of the input combination, the higher the input, the higher the output logically.

The NOT, AND, and OR gates are spare gates that are used to realize Boolean expressions. This is called the base gate.


Universal Gates

A NAND gate that is a multi-in, single-out logic gate when an AND gate is used with a NOT gate. This gate keeps the output low only when all inputs are at a logic high level. On the other hand, for other input combinations, the output of the gate is high.
The output here is at logic level '1' only when all inputs to the gate are low. All other combinations of inputs become logical zeros at the gate output.
NAND and NOR gates are considered general purpose gates because all logical functions can be realized using these two gates.

There are also two more gates, XOR and XNOR are used extensively. An XOR gate can have any number of inputs while the output is limited to a single line. For 2-input XOR gates, the output is high only if the inputs are not identical, and the output is low otherwise. For example, if both inputs are 0 and 1, the output is 1. Otherwise, if the inputs are 0 and 0 (or 1 and 1), the output is 0. When XOR is used with a NOT gate, an XNOR gate is created that complements the operation of the XOR. This means that the output of the XNOR gate is high for the same input and low for the non-identical input.

Digital logic gate transistors, diodes and other basic electronic components. However, it can be used commercially as an integrated circuit (IC) using TTL (transistor transistor logic) or CMOS (complementary metal oxide silicon) technology.

This device is 'positive' or 'negative' logic. In a positive logic device, the high voltage level is considered a logic '1' and the zero voltage is a logic '0'. On the other hand, if the device operates as 'negative logic', the high voltage is considered logic 0 and the low voltage is considered logic. All voltages between 2 and 5 V are considered high for TTL, while between 3 and 18 V for CMOS. Likewise, all voltages below 0.8V are considered logic '0' for TTL and '0' for CMOS, which is less than 1.5V.  To overcome this, it is expected that this device will not be affected by external noise.

Technology Development Support Project For SMEs

General Provisions

1. "Management Organization" refers to an organization for the efficient management and management of technology development projects such as on-site evaluation, investigation and progress check.

2. "Specialized Institution" means an agency designated by the Minister of Small and Medium-Sized Venture Enterprise to perform tasks such as planning, evaluation and management of technology development projects.


3. "Host Organization" means an organization, organization or enterprise that conducts the technical development of the technology development project task.
4. "Joint development institution" means an institution, organization or corporation that has the same authority and obligation as the competent authority and performs joint development with the competent authority.

5. "Participating Enterprise" means a small and medium-sized enterprise that takes part of technology development expenses and participates in the task for the purpose of utilizing the results of technology development.

6. "Contracting Research Institute" means an organization that commissioned and executed a part of the technology development project task from the host institution as stipulated by the Convention.

7. "Executing Agency" means any organization, corporation or enterprise participating in the Technology Development Project.

8. "Problem Task" means a task that is suspected or suspected to be a cause of suspension or inaction, violation of the regulation or violation of the agreement.

9. "Evaluation Committee" refers to a committee for evaluating the assignment, selection, phase, final evaluation, progress check, integrity test, amendment / termination of the agreement, and problem task.

10. "Committee on Sanctions" refers to a committee that deliberates on subjects such as problems, fees, settlements, and refunds, as well as the scope and scope of sanctions.

11. "Development Period" means the period from the start of the project to the end of the project.

12. "Assignment Task" means an assignment submitted by an organization, organization or company to the SME Technology Development Task Management System (hereinafter referred to as the "Integrated Management System") in order to receive the task selection evaluation.

13. "Support Project" means the project selected for the support of the technology development project.

14. "Checking Progress" means reviewing and confirming the contents of the progress report such as the achievement of the project, the progress of the project, and the details of the expense of the project based on the date of the report.

15. "Step Evaluation" refers to the evaluation process for determining whether to continue to support the technical development results after reviewing and deliberating the technical development report and the next step business plan.

16. "Final Evaluation" is a final evaluation of completion or incompleteness of the development project through the holding of evaluation committee for each project or technical field for the project whose development period or technology development has been completed. It is possible to distinguish the success of commercialization.

17. "Completion Task" means a task that has been judged as "completed" by the final evaluation of the tasks whose development period or technology development has been completed.

18. The term "Technical Fee" means the fee for the completion of the final evaluation of the technology development project pursuant to the provisions of Article 3, Paragraph 1, It refers to the amount paid to the owning institution.
19. "Intellectual Property Rights" means rights related to patent rights, utility model rights, trademark rights, design rights, copyrights and other intellectual property rights, which are defined by law or are legally protected.

20. "Performance Utilization" refers to the act of pursuing technological and economic benefits by utilizing the tangible and intangible outputs resulting from the performance of the project.

21. "Research misconduct" refers to the act of conducting research and development in a fraudulent manner, such as forgery or alteration of R & D data or results, plagiarism, or display of unjustified authors.

22. "Technology Development Fee Point System" (hereinafter referred to as "point system") refers to real-time R & D fund management and management system introduced in order to prevent the misuse and abuse of funds in violation of research purpose in advance and to ensure transparency of the flow of funds.
23. "Online Evaluation" refers to the selection of SME technology development support projects. Selection of evaluation committee, operation and notification of results to enhance expertise, fairness, transparency, and convenience of evaluation. Evaluation method to perform overall assessment procedure using online evaluation system .

24. "Industry-University Cooperation Coordinator" refers to a person who has completed the training of cooperative coordinator for industry-academy and research and passed the qualification examination.

25. "Challenges" refers to the tasks recognized by the Minister of Small and Medium-sized Venture Enterprise in accordance with Article 13-2.