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# Published - Section Overview
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# Core Purpose:
#   Articles and long-form writing authored by Cedric Ancellin, reproduced
#   verbatim. This section grows over time as new pieces are published. It is
#   the thought-leadership record, referenced from Cedric's personal profile.
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# Verbatim reproductions: text is preserved as published (including original
# wording and typos), and these files are exempt from the em-dash rule.
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# Governed by ../LAWS.
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summary: >
  Cedric Ancellin's published writing, reproduced verbatim with a short summary
  and the original source for each piece. New articles are added here as they
  are published.


articles:
  - title: "Growing Your Bottle Service Revenue"
    published: "2017-06-22"
    platform: "LinkedIn (Pulse)"
    file: "published/growing_your_bottle_service_revenue"
    source_url: "https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/growing-your-bottle-service-revenue-cedric-ancellin/"
    topics: ["bottle service", "nightlife commerce", "deposits and payments", "PCI compliance", "3D venue maps"]
    summary: >
      How UrVenue built the systems to sell and manage nightclub table service:
      why a 20 to 30% deposit beats full prepayment, PCI-compliant tokenized
      PreAuths, 3D venue maps, and the efficiency and revenue gains for venues
      (nearly 8,000 online payments and over $20M processed in 2016).


see_also:
  personal_profile:
    $ref: "https://zc8.com/profile"
    note: "This writing is thought leadership under Cedric's personal profile."
  urvenue_section:
    $ref: "https://zc8.com/urvenue/overview"
    note: "Several articles relate to UrVenue's products and history."


implicit:
  - "Each entry links to a verbatim file under published/ and to the original source."
  - "More articles will be added; keep the verbatim files faithful to the originals and always cite the source URL."