Like many, I left Topps, the trading card company, for dead. I mean, who collects baseball cards anymore? By the way, I have about a thousand Albert Belle cards for sale if you want them. Well, I was wrong. Incredibly wrong. The collectibles market is as hot as I’ve ever seen it (and not just […]
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Earlier this week, Sara Fischer from Axios reported that Facebook will soon begin testing on a new, paid platform for independent writers. What does this mean? According to Fischer, the platform includes tools for journalists to build actual websites, in addition to newsletters. She also says that Facebook will underwrite some writers to help get
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Creator Coins: The Next NFTs? First…the setup. I’m going to take you back to the year 2020. Specifically, the month of March. I was working on the follow up to my first novel, The Will to Die. After spending 20 years in marketing and publishing, I planned on becoming a full-time novelist. That’s right. I
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If you are a regular reader, you already know my fascination with Bitcoin and the blockchain. Well, I found something just as fascinating. They are called an NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, and I believe these will be incredibly important for content creators in the very near future. According to Coindesk, “Non-fungible tokens (NFT) are digital
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Be Like Bezos As soon as I heard the news about Jeff Bezos leaving his CEO role from Amazon, I had the urge to read through article after article about his past. One thing that really struck me was the image above, which I tweeted out last week. “The only thing Amazon sold in 1995
Doubt. I’ve been thinking a lot about this word lately. A “brilliant” idea pops into my head. I believe it has some legs. I do a little bit of research and get excited about the opportunity. Then I start going deep down the rabbit hole. This includes talking to people in the industry, reading more
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Well, it’s been quite a week for social media. Once Twitter and Facebook announced the banning of Donald Trump on their platforms, the dominos fell. Just about every major social media platform has put a ban on Mr. Trump for “violating their terms of service.” If you’ve been on Twitter or Facebook recently, a number
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