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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 –…

That’s the story of @Keondra.K on TikTok, who works at a homeless shelter for $18/hour to make ends meet 🤔 From the article, right after noting that TikTok is valued at $75 billion: “Influencers are producing free content for a commercial platform that is making money off them. The platform is extracting the value of their…

According to this article, that’s a thing now 💻 Three sites that connect virtual babysitters to parents: Sittercity, VeeBee, and Virtual Babysitters Club. From the article: VeeBee and Virtual Babysitters Club lists prices for individual sitters while Sittercity lets parents pick a price range but an explainer page for paying virtual sitters notes that the average cost of a…

Pro freelancer Morgan Overholt tweets: I just hired a guy on @Upwork who tells me he is not only an Upwork newbie – but it’s his FIRST DAY on the platform. Goes to show you – you don’t have to have a ton of Upwork experience, you just have to prove you’re the right person for the…

Noah Kagan gives Neville Medora some clever tips for growing a YouTube channel in this video 📈… Noah also makes a point about podcasts in there that I found interesting: the trouble with podcasts is that people rarely discover them by accident. In that way, they’re good for developing a deeper relationship with an existing audience, and…

That’s according to a recent article in Wired, based on interviews with several current and former dropshippers 📦 Key quotes: Ellie still runs an e-commerce business selling plastic-free products, but now holds her own stock in a warehouse. She says she can’t imagine ever going back to work for a company, but she wouldn’t do dropshipping…

Sean Ogle runs through them in this video… There’s a car enthusiast, a photographer, a video gamer, a cocktail fanatic, and a food vlogger… all doing what they love 😍 and earning good money from it 💰 Unclear how much money they’re making exactly, but given their subscriber numbers you can bet they’re doing pretty well off ad…

This sounds like a good way to overcome procrastination and get work done. Basically, you message a buddy and say… A: Hey, want to do ‘hours’?B: Sure. This hour I’ll read over the Smith contract and try to get it sent off.A: OK, In this hour I’ll fix the bug where there’s trash html in…