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This Reddit post lists some sites that will pay you to be part of mock online juries 👩🏽‍⚖️ Things to know:

Mark Zuckerberg went live on Tuesday to announce Shops, which basically allows businesses to sell products direct from Facebook pages and Instagram profiles 🤑 Do you know any local businesses that are already on Facebook/Instagram and looking to sell more online? Could you help them get set up and optimized on Shops?

Three historic companies that usually sell products via regular stores and supermarkets: But now, due to coronavirus, all three are selling direct to consumer via the internet. No coincidence that ecommerce platform Shopify is booming right now 📈 Even famous brands like Heinz and Heineken using it for their online stores. At the risk of sounding like a broken…

Four upcoming online chess tournaments will have $1 million total prize money 💰 Seeing that news this morning sent me down an esports rabbit hole. This site shows you which esports players and games earn the most money. Overall it looks like esports hasn’t been immune to coronavirus: total prize money for last month was down 57% compared…

This video from James Jani should be required viewing before spending a small fortune on any online course… In particular, be wary of anyone marketing a course by showing off a dream lifestyle, or telling you that success is easy to achieve. I’ve reviewed quite a few expensive courses now and these are the only two…

Scott Young writes: Success largely boils down to a simple distinction. It’s glaringly obvious once you see it, but also easy to find ingenious ways of ignoring it: do the real thing and stop doing fake alternatives. Consider one person who wrote to me saying she turned down a job working in French. She didn’t feel…

Shopify recently launched an app that allows you to browse all the stores on their platform. Ciarán Oglesby of Oglesby Media shared the following inside FBB: I was able to find tons of shops in Ireland and across the world that use Shopify that I never knew existed within seconds of opening the app. If you are looking for…

Search Engine Land reports: Over the past past week, data released by Adobe, Shopify and PayPal reflect the scale of e-commerce gains and even “Black Friday” level traffic and transactions. Does this mean you should start an ecommerce business? Only if you’re willing to grind it out for a year or more before seeing a decent…

According to Cybersecurity Ventures: There will be 3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs globally by 2021 Ethical hackers can command high rates in this industry – up to $500,000 a year – but there’s also plenty of opportunity there for non-programmers. Conor Walsh, for example, earns much of his $3000/month as a cybersecurity ghostwriter 🔒✍️ He wrote in our FBB group this…

According to Tim Ferris, that might be Kevin Kelly. KK recently turned 68 years of age 🎂 and and published 68 bits of unsolicited advice that are well worth reading. Quoting a few of his gems related to business: Pros are just amateurs who know how to gracefully recover from their mistakes. Experience is overrated. When hiring, hire for…

Conor Walsh argues that it can: Could I have successfully transitioned to rewarding, meaningful, and occasionally fascinating remote work without giving up alcohol? Possibly, but not likely. Through sobriety, I’ve finally achieved the most essential qualities for working remotely… I quit drinking alcohol back in 2010 – right before I started my online business –…