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This is where I share my ideas, perspectives and life experiences in hopes that you can take what I've learned so far and apply it to your own life.
My friend Gonz had some brilliant insight this morning about how Covid-19 is going to affect the clickbait industry. Here's a link to his original tweet, but I would love to elaborate on this. Clickbait is a term that bloggers and advertisers use to describe an image or any piece of content that is overly sensationalized and usually doesn't provide a lot of value. For example, the image of …
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We have no choice but to see these next few months as an opportunity. We have to keep moving forward. I am approaching this with a sense of caution. I suspect a lot of bad actors will appear, as is always the case when markets change. I am taking my own advice. Over these last two weeks, I've recommitted myself to building media and content around my personal brand. I want to be …
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This could be your opportunity to sulk. You have every right to feel down. You have every excuse to feel sorry for yourself and isolated. This is difficult. It's a perfect reason to get fat, play video games and "check out" for a bit. But you have another option. You could take your loneliness, your boredom and your fear and you could turn it into something. You could get rewards from …
I've been thinking a lot about how loneliness and depression will play a factor in the mass world quarantine. I've battled with depression, and although I haven't struggled with it much in the past 6 years, I can relate to those who are feeling down. It's not unreasonable to think that these mass quarantine measures will result in a rise of addiction, alcoholism, depression and possibly …
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Sports stadiums around the world are empty. People are scratching the itch for competition elsewhere. The worlds of esports and online streaming are seeing a steep rise in participation since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The Washington Post wrote a great article that shows the drastic increase in viewership. Twitch declined to provide any figures around a change in viewership, …
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I've always dreamed of having a membership site. I used to look up to the men and women who had successful membership sites and daydream of one day getting to that level. I don't know how the idea was planted in my head, but somewhere along the line, I decided that a membership site was the holy grail of online business. It's a brilliant business model. They create recurring revenue. They …
