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$50K/Month Helping Indians Brag
Lokal App: News, jobs, and classifieds for 500M+ native language speaking Indians. Monetizes by enabling users to celebrate and brag for $27-$70 per post.
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Before you start a business on Amazon…
Listen to Season 1 of this podcast 🎧 Especially the episode entitled, “Is Amazon Too Big? We Ask Its Sellers” The blurb… In less than two decades, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos scaled an online marketplace for books into the world’s most valuable company. But at what cost? From Prime and HQ2, to the growing adoption of smart…
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So Good They Can’t Ignore You
That’s the title of an excellent book by Cal Newport 📖 The words come from comedian Steve Martin, who gives the following advice to aspiring performers… Nobody ever takes note of [my advice], because it’s not the answer they wanted to hear. What they want to hear is “Here’s how you get an agent, here’s how you…
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6 Myths About Freelancing
Freelance designer and writer Cameron Chapman debunks them here 👈 Regarding #3, Cameron writes… While you don’t have a boss in the traditional sense as a freelancer, that doesn’t mean you don’t have the equivalent. In fact, as a freelancer, you have two bosses: your client and yourself.
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Resources For Learning SEO
First: a new YouTube series by Ahrefs 📹 That series is of course heavily focused on using the paid Ahrefs tool, but even without that you’ll learn a lot from watching the videos. Second: this learning roadmap at learningseo.io, which points you towards free resources for every stage of your journey 🗺 Third: this article from Nick Leroy, who…
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Saying No To Everything Else
Struggling to find time to build your business? ⏳ You could do what Steven Pressfield did, after years of struggle, to finally write his first book… He created a situation with no escape. He rented a cabin, brought his typewriter, and shut off all other options. He said, “I didn’t talk to anybody during that…
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NFT Boom Times
NFTs are blowing up! Digital artists are making millions in minutes. Investors and creators are flocking to platforms like Nifty Gateway for a piece of the action. 🚀
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Selling Tradelines For $1000/Hour
This is one of the more interesting passive income hacks I’ve come across. From Side Hustle Nation… Tradeline selling is the act of adding a stranger as an authorized user on a credit card, allowing them to increase their credit score by “piggybacking” off your credit. The stranger never gets access to your credit card and…
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19-Year-Old Gaza Girl Lands Google Gig
Fascinating story of a young woman in Palestine who learned programming mostly from online courses and recently landed internships at Google and Repl.it. I chose Google because they will send me to Europe for the internship. Having the chance to spend the summer in Europe will be life-changing for me. I’ve never been on an airplane…
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Time Billionaires
Paraphrasing Graham Duncan on the Tim Ferris podcast… People don’t really understand the difference between billionaires and millionaires. A million seconds is 11 days. A billion seconds is slightly over 31 years. 20-year-olds probably have two billion seconds left. But they aren’t relating to themselves as time billionaires. A good reminder that time is our most…
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The Algebra of Wealth
According to Scott Galloway: wealth = focus x stoicism x time x diversification. The full article is well worth a read 🤓 An excerpt… Successful people often unwittingly head fake young people with the humblebrags of “follow your passion” and “don’t think about money.” This is (mostly) bullshit. Achieving economic security requires hard work, talent,…
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7 Things To Know Before Starting a Blog
This article by Spencer Haws is a must-read if you’re an aspiring blogger. Key point… If you are expecting to make a bunch of money in your first 3 or 6 months, you are in for a surprise. You often don’t get the marshmallow for a year or two after consistent effort and hustle. If you…
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How To Succeed When You Can’t Focus
Stephen Duneier tells you how in this TED Talk… He’s rarely been able to focus on one thing for more than 10 minutes at a time. But with some clever hacks and smart decision making, he’s been able to achieve some incredible things. If nothing else, watch the 2-minute stretch about tennis superstar Novak Djokovic starting…
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This Digital Flower Sold For $20,000
See the image here 🌷 This kind of digital art is called an NFT. NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are one-of-one collectibles on the Ethereum blockchain. Where cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Litecoin are fungible tokens, in the sense that each coin is interchangeable with any other, NFTs are unique assets that can be anything at all. From…
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$300,000 a Year Via Upwork
That’s Sam Hill’s story on the Tropical MBA podcast 🎧 Sam used to be a senior associate at PwC, hired out at $350/hour. To get his first gigs on Upwork, he charged only $45/hour. The universe doesn’t care about your corporate controller or that you were a consultant or investment banker or whatever. Like that is a…
