When thinking about today’s Random newsletter topic, I was going to write about something entirely different. But then I thought – hey, these are my people. This is the group I need to work these thoughts through with. So, I’m venting here in the hopes that a) you’ll find it somewhat interesting and b) you’ll […]
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Random subscriber Mark Boepple from Next New Customer sent me this Wall Street Journal article called “When to Invest In a Stupid Idea.” The author, Andy Kessler, summarizes the article like this: My advice is always to invest in the fog. When everyone else is incredulous, look for scale. Usually, no one else can see
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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
