It involves not acting like an admin Currency collecting has a lot of gatekeepers. Extremely well-formed opinions end up masquerading as indisputable fact, and it can be off-putting. I’ve found that it extinguishes beginner enthusiasm. The experience I had with other groups turned them into arch-enemies and I do everything I can to maintain an … Read more
From my experience building a 22.8k member group from scratch A thriving Facebook Group has some of your best supporters who can become clients or paying customers. This doesn’t happen overnight, of course. Like anything built from zero, it takes time and effort. Five must-dos from my experience My Facebook Group Cool Serial is now … Read more
Sharing is caring, so stop your staring … When my wife and I are on our phones, I can tell when she’s diving into the comment section on an Instagram reel. I hear the reel restart. And again. And again. And maybe a third or fourth time. The better the comments, the more times I … Read more
I just signed up for Kick over the weekend, but some principles apply everywhere A poker player advertised his Kick.com channel in the game chat over the weekend. He’s trying to go from $50 to $10,000 in six weeks, and he’s livestreaming as he plays to work toward this. I may have heard of Kick … Read more
And it takes a lot of the pressure off Somedays, I see so much potential in others it physically hurts. Friends, acquaintances, even family members who have so much to offer and so many ways that they can help. Some of them work extremely long days for an employer, or work for themselves and are … Read more
And what it all but demands that you do A Medium writer with 10,000 followers or more didn’t start there. When they signed up for Medium, they had no followers, no reads, no subscribers, no income, no nothing. It didn’t stay that way, of course. Let’s look at what happens when I publish an article. … Read more
Decent results without spending a ton of time Recording videos yourself is a skill you develop with practice, just like anything else worthwhile. The first videos you create will likely take a lot of time to record and edit. (Heck, it may take a while for you to get used to hearing your own voice … Read more
Will the dip in earnings be worth it? Google AdSense has long been a simple way to monetize websites. It goes something like this: Back in my blog’s heyday, I earned $600+ in one month with AdSense. One glorious day, I earned nearly $100. Ninety-nine dollars and change. Then came Auto Ads. For most of … Read more
When it’s so easy to do better Paul Metcalfe surprised even himself when he sold a directory site. Here’s what he did: Paul woke up and the $1000 was on the way. This all happened over a few days. What a clean, quick, tidy, and profitable exit for a week’s work! Let’s contrast this with … Read more
YouTube, blogs, and Medium all can do the same thing. Some twenty years ago when I started learning how to make a buck on the Internet, I used traffic exchanges. I signed up for several of them in rapid succession under a veteran marketer whose name was Tony. After about five of them, he sends … Read more