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Crypto Optimist vs Skeptic
I enjoyed this conversation between Ezra Klein (the skeptic) and Katie Haun (the optimist), as it tackles the topic of crypto critically and without hype. They also avoid getting bogged down in technical explanations and instead focus on “what crypto can do, what the world will look like if it works.” It’s like listening to two…
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Top Paying Tech (up to $109,824)
Stack Overflow published the results of a survey back in May, with insights from 80,000+ developers. Most interesting to me is the section about top paying technologies, based on average annual salary 💰 The top 3: When respondents were asked how they learned to code, the most common answer was from free online resources (videos, blogs, etc).…
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7 years and 3 weeks
A quote from Steph Smith’s Doing Content Right… There’s a video that I love, where Steve Allen asks Jack Kerouac about his bestseller. He asks, “How long did it take you to write ‘On The Road’”, to which Jack replies, “Three weeks”. But when Allen asks, “How long were you on the road for?”, Jack says, “Seven years”.…
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How To Get 1 Million Subscribers
Fascinating article by Simon Owens: How many videos does it take to get to 1 million YouTube subscribers? He crunched the numbers on 10 channels that recently passed 1 million subs – an admittedly small sample size – and found… It took an average 492 videos for a creator to hit 1 million subscribers. The lowest…
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Listen While You Work
MyNoise.net has a bunch of free background sounds to help you work, sleep, meditate, etc. iMissTheOffice.eu provides soothing office background noise. Choose your number of colleagues, turn various sounds on and off. If you prefer listening to music 🎶 while you work, here are 3 of my go-to’s on YouTube:
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Creator Coins 101
Brian Clark delivers a good intro to creator coins 👈 Creator coins are a custom-branded form of digital currency. Effectively, this means you can create your own cryptocurrency and develop a virtual economy around your digital business. One interesting example is The Tilt newsletter, which pays you $5 USD worth of their $TILT coin when you subscribe, and…
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Online Game Pays More Than Uber
I mentioned Axie Infinity a few weeks ago, an NFT-based online video game that’s especially popular in the Philippines 🇵🇭 Coinbase reports: some players in the Philippines are earning 5–10x what they were making from their previous jobs. New homes have been purchased, charitable acts have been made, and even shops are accepting SLP as payment. Unfortunately Axie Infinity…
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8 ways to pre-sell your product
Failory lists them here 👈 I love that they provide real-world examples – mainly SaaS and digital products – such as…
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He sold $35,000,000 of dog ramps
Ramon van Meer tells his story on Twitter. Dog ramps are ramps that help small dogs 🐶 get onto a couch or bed. Ramon bought the business 2.5 years ago for $300,000, and has since scaled it massively. He gives some compelling reasons for buying an existing business rather than starting from scratch… 1. For me,…
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$10k/month Podcast Production Agency
AwesomePros.co is a podcast production agency handling show notes, editing, and social media promotion for clients. Co-founders Pete and Brian grew it to $10,000/month.
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Four Percent Review
Insights for Four Percent Group, Vick Strizheus 4% challenge affiliate marketing training. Essential info, hidden costs, red flags, alternatives…
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The Key To Online Success
Gumroad found 102 creators who have sold $100,000+ worth of digital products and asked: what is your single best tip for success? Lots of good advice in there, but perhaps more interesting and inspiring is seeing what each of those creators have sold to the tune of $100,000+. For example: The variety speaks to how much opportunity there…
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Top 12 Reasons Startups Fail
CB Insights analyzed 110+ startup failures and came up with this list. The top 3 reasons why: The second one is probably the most important to watch out for 👀 As Paul Graham wrote back in 2006… In a sense there’s just one mistake that kills startups: not making something users want. If you make something users want,…
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How to Become an SEO Expert
Learn how to become an SEO expert in 2021. Ahrefs video covers keyword research, on-page SEO, link building, and technical SEO. Link building is challenging but lucrative.
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Serious Money on Substack
Several examples of successful Substack newsletters 📬 mentioned in this Fortune article… Of course, those newsletters are in the minority. Uri Bram, himself a former Substacker, is quoted in the same article… “Most people are struggling… Most newsletters are not doing well. They’ve got a smaller audience. It’s really hard to grow. You try so much…
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