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December 22 · Issue #63 · View online |
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Build your brand and eat like a king forever. Ignore your brand and starve like a mendicant waiting for scraps.
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"I am 29, have a useless degree, in debt, want to change career, and completely lost. How can I manage to pursue a new and great life?"
I’m 28, dropped out of journalism school, still have student loans, and was completely lost until around 2011.
It wasn’t until 2014, I really started to taste the elixir of paying the bills by doing things I love for a living.
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Fuck College. Get Money.
If you’re neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
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Is $5000 a lot to charge for a sales page? Here's what people said.
What should you charge for a sales page? What should clients expect to pay for a sales page? In this post, see how marketers reacted to a $5000 invoice.
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Buffer has a growth problem and this is what they should do about it
Do you have a New MRR growth problem? In this post I show that Buffer’s MRR growth is becoming stagnant and explain what Buffer should do about it.
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Aristotle’s Timeless Advice on What Real Friendship Is and Why It Matters
At age 17, Aristotle enrolled in the Platonic Academy. He would stay there for 20 years. Founded by the father of Western philosophy, the Greek philosopher Plato, Aristotle was the most promising student around.
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Death By 1,000 Apps: Why Tech Is Actually Making Us Less Efficient
HubSpot conducted a survey of marketers and salespeople to see if technology is actually helping them be more productive or if they are just wasting their time.
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How to use money to buy back your time
As your business grows, your time becomes increasingly valuable. So why are you still doing stuff you could easily outsource?
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The Behavioral Economics Diet: The Science of Killing a Bad Habit
Diets don’t work. Studies show that temporary fixes to old habits actually make people gain weight.
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Buying Blogs, Selling Blogs: How I Built My Blogging Business
You can make a good amount of money from blogging. Learn how to build a blogging business and sell blogs for profit.
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How To Build A Stronger Brand For Your Business, Blog, Or Career
Learn how to build a stronger brand for your business, blog, and career. Once you have a good brand, life gets much easier.
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The presence prison
As a general rule, nobody at Basecamp really knows where anyone else is at any given moment. Are they working? Dunno. Are they taking a break? Dunno. Are they at lunch? Dunno. Are they picking up…
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Everything you ever wanted to know about making your first product
Business is a choose-your-own-adventure… which can leave you completely overwhelmed when rolling out your first paid product.
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Content Trends: Preferences Emerge Along Generational Fault Lines
Messaging apps have over 5B monthly active users
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Big data shouldn't drive all of your decisions
Correlation does not reveal the one thing that matters most in innovation.
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Social and media will split
“As users migrate to these closed systems, they’re also shifting away from the type of broad-based algorithmic feeds packed with news and media content that were the hallmark of first-generation social media.”
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Want Proof That Patience Pays Off? Ask the Founders of This 17-Year-Old $525 Million Email Empire
Ben Chestnut and his team at MailChimp built an amazing business and became Inc. ‘s Company of the Year. It only took them 17 years.
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Impatient With Colleges, Employers Design Their Own Courses
Technology companies and other employers are crafting their own curricula and sharing them with colleges and universities.
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Prescription Drugs May Cost More With Insurance Than Without It
Some consumers are finding they can get a better deal on prescription drugs by leaving their insurance cards at home.
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LOL -- People Are Flooding LinkedIn With Strange Stories. We’re Calling Them Broetry.
LinkedIn power users are gaming the social network with elongated self-help posts that look like poems.
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18 iPhone X Tips And Tricks You Should Know About
If you recently purchased an iPhone X, then you might be wondering how some of the features work. Here is a list of 18 iPhone X tips and tricks you should know about.
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The Grand Tor: How to Go Anonymous Online
You may already be familiar with TorBrowser. But the anonymous internet has a lot more to offer.
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Design Systems Handbook
Your guide to design systems best practices. Learn how to design, build, maintain, and implement design systems–from design leaders and world-class teams.
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Full Stack Marketer 2.0: Full Stack Marketing Course by Yours Truly
Version 2 of my course is on Product’s Popular Upcoming Products. Subscribe if you’re interested. =) <3
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