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    How to Build and Grow a Newsletter as a Business Model

    GOLD! HOT! PUBLISHING 
    Once upon a time I custom-coded a solution in WordPress. It wasn't technically a newsletter but it incorporated email announcements with the posts. It was paid subscriptions though. I posted content onto the site, and anyone could read a certain percentage of the beginning of the...
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    What business would you launch, If you got laid off due to C0VlD-19?

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE 
    Regulations maybe? My sister was in the same boat and tried to transition to freelance headhunter, but the mindset is so completely different from corporate to freelance. She was in way over her head and way past her comfort zone. Jumped on another corporate job as soon as she could and is now...
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    Photos from the Bunker (Our Fastlane Photo Journal)

    HOT! 
    Drove this ~2500 miles and got home last weekend :D
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    Programming Side hustle?

    Once upon a time I paid the bills as a web developer (front and back end) for clients, then later as a script developer. I've also created/programmed websites of various types (interactive, automated, databased, etc.) to resell. I agree with the advice to start with Upwork/Fiverr type places if...
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    Services I Overpaid For

    I've been travelling across country a lot the last few years, and one of my "side hustles" is commercial photography. Specifically restaurant menu photos and real estate. When I know I'm going to be near a city area for a few weeks or more, I turn on my calendar and let an agency start...
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    Youtube / Social Media - What separates the average creator from the one that gets people hooked? This is something that has fascinated me.

    SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING 
    FWIW I generally like youtubers that teach or show something I'm interested in. I completely detest talking head videos and consider them a waste of time and bandwidth, but I will watch someone showing a time lapse of replacing their RV dinette with a couch for instance, or driving on a road...
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    Free Copywriting Service!

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE 
    For more practice after those-- especially if you can't get stats from them-- pick an affiliate product. Pick one in a niche you want to write in. Write your best sales letter and test it against theirs as the control. Measure and track all results. Tweak and change until yours beats the...
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    The "Half Baked" Ideas Thread

    HOT! IDEA 
    I was on a cross-country roadtrip the entire month of May, traveling with my 67-year-old aunt, and came up with a couple half-baked ideas. 1. Personal cleansing wipe dispensers in public bathroom stalls. Whether plain flushable wipes, or specialty "feminine" and "male", individually wrapped and...
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    Domain scabs

    INVESTING RANT 
    Creating something out of thin air is what many businesses do. It's often referred to as product creation. If someone wants what you created, you obviously created some level of value to someone. Creating a domain name is no different than creating a unique business name, tag line, or...
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    Domain scabs

    INVESTING RANT 
    in·vest [inˈvest] VERB investing (present participle) expend money with the expectation of achieving a profit or material result by putting it into financial plans, shares, or property, or by using it to develop a commercial venture. "the company is to invest $12 million in its new...
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    Why I despise Pickup Artistry, and how to have a fulfilling sex life.

    PEOPLE HOT! 
    FWIW (and this may be better in a separate thread) I feel like the segregation just contributes to the problem. Gender is not a business skill. When you separate the boys from the girls, you encourage the boy talk/girl talk that is not conducive to the business world. No one gets checked for...
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    Does anyone else find social media boring?

    SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING 
    Agreed. The pictures are licensed through agencies and/or to publishers, and sometimes sold as prints, so the YouTube would mostly just be a fun thing for road trips that could also double as a marketing tool when desired. Google has a habit of routinely slashing and trashing momentum every few...
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    Does anyone else find social media boring?

    SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING 
    I've kept FB strictly to family and real life friends from the start. I originally joined as a way to keep in touch with my kids when they were first deployed overseas. Once my aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. also joined, I discovered it was the easiest way to distribute family pictures each time I...
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    Credit Spread Math?

    INVESTING 
    Thank you both. I'm practicing loss discipline and don't always release early enough, but it's better than losing 100%. I rolled this particular trade into a new $55 credit.
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    Credit Spread Math?

    INVESTING 
    For those of you familiar with credit spreads, I could use a little help. I can't seem to quite get my head around figuring profit and loss. Do you base your figures on the amount of risk/collateral, or the total spread? I *think* if I look at it like investing in inventory, I'd base everything...
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    A Warning for Young Guys: Money is NOT the way to solve your Girl Problems

    HOT! 
    Yes, just haven't had a lot of time for an extensive reply. On your comment above: A woman's value--in the dating marketplace or otherwise--is not determined the minute she's born. She has just as much unlimited potential as a man does. If a woman wants to be a mother and a wife, she learns and...
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    A Warning for Young Guys: Money is NOT the way to solve your Girl Problems

    HOT! 
    Wow. Aside from some of your other posts in this thread, the above is an excellent example of a BOY needing to learn how to communicate and understand as a MAN.
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    Anybody reading fiction??

    HOT! 
    Starting the second book in the Coyote series by Allen Steele. I bought the ebook versions of the entire series back when Palm Pilots were still a thing, and just recently started listening to the audible versions. I'm also a major fan of the entire Dune series, and Stephen King's The Stand is...
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    What book are you reading? Right now. Post up!

    NOTABLE! HOT! BOOKS CHAT 
    Great thread. Currently listening to: Market Wizards - Interviews with Top Traders, Jack D. Schwager.
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    Your worst entrepreneurial failure... details please!

    NOTABLE! 
    Today, absolutely. Back then there weren't all of the outsourced resources. And 99.9% of the junk was from people looking for the free service. Not paid. Still doable, but I didn't know better at the time.
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