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Become A 7-Figure Real Estate Investor with Nick Perry and Jay Conner, The Private Money Authority

https://www.jayconner.com/become-a-7-figure-real-estate-investor-with-nick-perry-and-jay-conner-the-private-money-authority/

Freedom to go on different ventures, explore different areas of life, helping other real estate investors become financially free.

These are the things that Nick Perry wants to share with everyone as he talks with Jay Conner about how he started his real estate business until his company became one of the largest wholesaling companies in the US.

Nick is the Owner/Founder/Executive Chairman of Want To Sell Now. The largest nationwide wholesaling company in the United States is based out of Austin TX.

He also owns a fleet of semi-trucks multiple eCommerce businesses and invests in multiple companies and commercial real estate. He also owns the 7 Figure Cartel mastermind that gets people quickly through the hurdles to become multiple 7 figure real estate investors.

He grew up in Northern Virginia and spent the first 5 years of my career in Personal Training before moving to Austin TX where he now resides. Nick moved to Austin with no job, network, and very little money. Soon as he got to Austin, he decided he would do whatever it took to be successful in real estate in pursuit of new opportunities.

He didn’t come easy. It took him 11 months to get his first deal but he did not give up. Nick worked 18 hours a day 7 days a week. He got a six-figure sales job at Indeed.com while he was building my real estate business. Nick devoted all of his sales commissions and time outside of my 9-5 to building my real estate business until he was able to go full-time. As soon as he went full-time, he quickly scaled his real estate company to where it is now in less than 3 years. He now has 8 streams of income and is working on creating more.

Timestamps:

0:01 – Get Ready To Be Plugged Into The Money

1:02 – Jay’s New Book: “Where To Get The Money Now” –https://www.JayConner.com/Book

1:59 – Today’s guest: Nick Perry

4:45 – Nick Perry talks about how he got started in the real estate business.

5:47 – What is your definition of freedom?

6:25 – When did you start your real estate business?

6:47 – Nick talks about some of his early struggles.

8:40 – As the owner of one of the largest wholesaling companies in the USA, Perry talks about what his company looks like and the number of deals they are making now.

10:04 – Nick Perry talks about what wholesaling is all about.

11:32 – Nick explains what is a Novation deal.

12:28 – What makes your company/organization different?

14:00 – How do you run your real estate business remotely?

16:10 – Nick talks about how he manages the rehab or repairs of a property.

17:51 – Tips on building buyers lists.

19:40 – Do you agree that it’s more challenging to find real estate deals now than a couple of years ago?

22:18 – How much money do you spend in marketing to get a contract?

23:21 – What tools in your real estate business that you can’t live without?

24:19 – What is the most important lesson that you learned from real estate investing?

26:42 – Nick Perry talks about his passion for helping other real estate investors.

28:18 – Connect with Nick Perry: https://www.7FigureCartel.com

Private Money Academy Conference:

https://jaysliveevent.com/live/?oprid=&ref=42135

Have you read Jay’s new book: Where to Get The Money Now? It is available FREE (all you pay is the shipping and handling) at https://www.JayConner.com/Book

Free Webinar: http://bit.ly/jaymoneypodcast

Jay Conner is a proven real estate investment leader. Without using his own money or credit, Jay maximizes creative methods to buy and sell properties with profits averaging $64,000 per deal.

What is Real Estate Investing? Live Private Money Academy Conference

https://youtu.be/QyeBbDOF4wo

YouTube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/c/RealEstateInvestingWithJayConner

iTunes:

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/private-money-academy-real-estate-investing-jay-conner/id1377723034

Listen to our Podcast:

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Become A 7-Figure Real Estate Investor with Nick Perry and Jay Conner

Jay Conner (02:10):

I don’t know about the rest of you, but today he’s down in Miami, on the beach. Anyway, this company is the largest nationwide wholesaling company in the United States, and it is based out of Austin, Texas. Now my guest also owns a fleet of semi-trucks, multiple e-commerce businesses, and he also invests in multiple companies and commercial real estate. Now he also owns this mastermind, the 7-Figure Cartel Mastermind. I can’t wait to hear about that. And that gets people quickly through the hurdles to become and enjoy a multiple 7-figure real estate investing company. Now he grew up in Northern Virginia, spent the first five years of his career in personal training before moving to Austin, Texas, where he now lives and moved to Austin with no job network, very little money. And as soon as he got to Austin in pursuit of new opportunities, he decided he was going to do whatever it took to be a successful real estate investor.

Jay Conner (03:12):

Well, it did not come to him easy and as it does for most of us. It took him 11 months before he got his first deal and he didn’t give up. He worked 18 hours a day, 7 days a week, got a 6-figure sales job at Indeed.com, while at the same time, he was building his real estate investing business. He devoted all of his sales commissions and time outside of the 9 to 5 to building his real estate business until he was able to go full time. So as soon as he went full time, he quickly scaled his real estate company to where it is now and did all that in less than 3 years. And today he has 8 different streams of income and is working on creating more. With that, let me welcome to the show here, my friend, Nick Perry. Hello, Nick. Welcome to the show.

Nick Perry (04:04):

Jay, what an intro man. That was incredible, but I’m honored and excited to be with you guys right now. So looking forward to learning it from you and, hopefully, being able to give it a lot of value to the audience as well.

Jay Conner (04:15):

Absolutely. Nick. So it looks like you’re relaxing down there in Miami.

Nick Perry (04:22):

I am. I actually just moved into a new house here in Miami Beach. So I’m getting my office set up, the interior designer’s coming back and forth. So I’m hanging out on the couch, working from the couch today.

Jay Conner (04:33):

Awesome. Well, there’s nothing wrong with that. Well, I appreciate you taking time out to join me and the audience here on the show. So are you ready? You got your seatbelt on?

Nick Perry (04:43):

Let’s go.

Jay Conner (04:45):

All right. What got you into real estate?

Nick Perry (04:49):

My entire life, coming from a kind of middle-class family, everybody that I surrounded myself with was your W-2 employees. They work 9 to 5, just like the majority of the world. And when I was a personal trainer, most of my clients were really, really well off. They were business owners, they were in sales. And those were the guys that were taking nice vacations, they were driving fancy cars, they had freedom and all the things that I wanted in life. And so rather than going with the flock to continue on a 9 to 5 path, I realized that in order to be financially free, I better go out and build a company or get into some high-ticket sales because that’s what everybody who actually had money was doing. So I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but real estate ended up turning out to be that vehicle. And it’s been incredible, as you know, it’s the best decision I ever made in my life.

Jay Conner (05:47):

So you mentioned the word “freedom.” What’s your definition of freedom?

Nick Perry (05:50):

Well, I mean, I’m sitting here right now in Miami Beach. I live two blocks from the ocean. I’ve got the freedom to be able to go where I want when I want, be with the family when I want, so yeah. If I was working at a 9 to 5 job, you just can’t do that kind of thing. So that is also freedom just to be able to go into new ventures and explore different areas of life. That’s really what it’s all about for me. So yeah, I’ve been able to create that for myself and it’s been a heck of a ride.

Jay Conner (06:26):

So, what year did you start?

Nick Perry (06:29):

I landed in Austin, Texas, like you said, without really anything. I had like $5,000 in my name and I just started learning and taking action and I just didn’t give up. And now here we are 7 years later.

Jay Conner (06:45):

Yeah. So what were some of your early struggles?

Nick Perry (06:51):

Early struggles? Obviously, everybody’s got a learning curve, but in 2014, I was doing a lot of direct mail. I wasn’t getting a lot of results either. I would handwrite the cards myself because I didn’t have enough money to pay for a fulfillment house. And I had to get good at sales, too. When I moved down to Austin, it was a much different place than Northern Virginia where I grew up. So, I had to adapt my sales style. You can’t talk so fast down in Texas like you can up in Northern Virginia. So I had to slow down a little bit, and really, the biggest thing was I was getting too much information. I think this is what happens to a lot of investors, as I’m watching YouTube video after YouTube video, trying to absorb as much as I can. And I really didn’t start getting traction until I hired my first mentor and just plugged directly into him. So I started working with Sean Terry, a great guy, in the very beginning, and I would visit with him every quarter and he would tell me exactly what I needed to do and I’d come back the next quarter. And I did that for a couple of years and that really got me going. So hiring a good mentor early was critical for my success. I was fumbling around trying to watch YouTube videos for the first 11 months.

Jay Conner (08:17):

Right. I got you. So yeah, getting a mentor, getting a really, really good coach up front was very important for you. So you’ve got one of the largest, if not the largest, wholesaling company in the US. What does your company look like?

Nick Perry (08:51):

Basically, what does it look like physically? It’s an inside sales office, right? So we’ve got 11 employees and inside of it, we’ve got 5 in Acquisitions. We’ve got 3 in Dispositions, we’ve got my seat as CEO. Then we’ve got a couple support admins and then myself. So we’re not huge, but we’ve been doing it long enough that all of our people are just A players.

Jay Conner (09:23):

So, how many deals are you doing these days in your organization?

Nick Perry (09:28):

So, when we’re in the office, we’re getting anywhere from 3 to 5 contracts every single day. So between 40 to 60 closed and funded deals every month.

Jay Conner (09:39):

Gotcha. And how many different markets are you in?

Nick Perry (09:43):

So the unique thing about my company is we market the entire United States. So I don’t have a specific market or pockets or different markets. I literally blanket the entire US.

Jay Conner (09:59):

Got you. So about five contracts a day. Day in and day out. Let’s make sure everybody understands what we mean when we say “wholesaling.” Different people have different definitions of wholesaling. So what’s your definition of wholesaling? How does that work?

Nick Perry (10:14):

Yeah, wholesaling is, you’re going and you’re contracting a property. Wholesaling, you could literally wholesale any item, but we’ll just use real estate for the example. So you negotiate with a motivated seller to get a property under contract for a certain amount that you can turn around and give it to an investor for a higher amount. So easy numbers, you’ve got a $100,000 property. It’s worth a hundred grand. You get the seller to agree to let you have that property and put it under contract for $65,000. And then you turn around and you find a fix-and-flipper or an investor that wants to buy that property. And they’ll buy it for $75,000. Well, when you get a contract with both parties and turn them into the title company, the title company will give you a $10,000 check or however much the difference is.

Jay Conner (11:03):

Right. So would you say wholesaling in your company is sort of synonymous with assigning or collecting assignment fees?

Nick Perry (11:11):

Correct? Yeah, so we collect a lot of assignment fees, but we’re not just a one-trick pony either. We do “subject to” deals. I hold a lot of rentals in my portfolio, as well. We do novations. So we’re always looking for different exit strategies to monetize more deals.

Jay Conner (11:32):

Right? Explain to everybody what a novation is. What’s a novation deal?

Nick Perry (11:36):

So a novation deal is basically if you have a seller who wants close to retail, their house is in pretty good shape, right? You can go ahead and contract that property. Say they want thousands. We’ll use the $100,000 example again. You got a house that’s a hundred and the seller doesn’t want to take a dime less than 90. Well, you put that property under contract with a novation agreement at 90,000, and that novation agreement will allow you to actually list that property at full retail. Sometimes there’s minor repairs that you do as part of the novation agreement. You may go in and do some carpet or paint or landscaping, but you’re not doing any heavy remodels. These are properties that are in fairly good condition and you can put them and list them and get full retail from a conventional buyer at the end.

Jay Conner (12:27):

Right. What would you say is different about your organization, say from some of your other friends that have real estate investing companies, or say, from some of your other competitors?

Nick Perry (12:41):

Well, being nationwide is completely different than being in a select handful of markets because we don’t have boots on the ground. That would be really impossible, as well. So in order for us to be successful, we have to literally do everything over the phone from acquisitions to dispositions, to coordinating the showings. Literally, everything from A to Z is done remotely from our office in Austin, Texas. So that’s something that’s different than a lot of people, is we’re not having any boots on the ground or anything like that. And then, additionally, my people, that’s the biggest key to my success is the caliber of candidates that we’ve attracted into our organization. I think bar none, I’ll put my team up against anybody’s team that I’ve got a great group of guys.

Jay Conner (14:02):

Give us a 30,000 foot view of how you run a totally virtual remote operation, no boots on the ground. Like what are the key components that you have to have in place for that to work?

Nick Perry (14:27):

So, we do a ton of inbound marketing pretty much through PPC. So we do all online marketing. We don’t do any telecommunications. So a lead will come in and we’re talking to them very similar to the way that most people are talking to these sellers, but when we negotiate, we negotiate over the phone. So we’re going through the property condition. We’re evaluating the property right there on our computers in Austin, and based on the comparables and the condition that the seller describes, we’ll go ahead and contract that property via DocuSign, like electronic signature. And once we have that electronic signature, then the next step is to actually get real photos on file. And that way we can actually start to market that property. So we’ll have the seller take photos for us, or we’ll hire a local handyman or a realtor to go get photos for us on our behalf.

Nick Perry (15:22):

And then from there, once we’ve got our photos, we’ve got our contract and we know how to get access into that property, then we can start locating interested parties who actually want to buy that property. So we’ll go out, we’ll find the buyer, we’ll have them usually put a deposit down before they even go out to the property, once their deposit is in and they’ve agreed to purchase it based on the inspection, we’ll give them one walkthrough after they put their deposit down. Then from there, they’ll do their walkthrough and we’ll use a local title company, or we have national title companies that we use that’ll facilitate the closing with all parties and you send the wire right into our bank account.

Jay Conner (16:08):

So a little more specifically, how do you get really close on estimating repairs?

Nick Perry (16:17):

It’s an art. So one thing that we do is we have a detailed property description and then pictures tell a thousand words, right? So yeah, sellers don’t always know the exact condition of their property, or they try to hide things, you know? But once you have a detailed Rolodex of photos to look at, that’s going to get you really close. Also, after we send somebody in there, if they find out that there’s additional repairs that are needed, we’re going to disclose that to the seller and all parties and make sure that it’s a win-win for everybody involved. We want the investor to get a great deal, solve the seller’s problems. So, nothing’s really getting past us.

Jay Conner (17:08):

You say the majority of your buyers are other real estate investors that are taking the deal down and you’re planning on an assignment fee from them?

Nick Perry (17:21):

Yeah. And unless it’s a novation agreement or sometimes, we’ll just list the properties on the MLS on behalf of the seller. And in those cases, it’s a conventional buyer, but the majority of our clients are all real estate investors like yourself. And you guys that are watching the show that are fixing-and-flipping property, or you’re a buy-and-hold investor looking for additional cash flow properties. Those are our end clients at the end of the day.

Jay Conner (17:51):

You’ve got someone that’s starting out and they want to be in wholesaling. One of the first things they need to do, I suppose, is build a buyers list, right? So what are some of your tips and secrets and strategies on how you quickly build a buyers list of other real estate investors to market wholesale deals today?

Nick Perry (18:15):

Well, yeah, that was one of my biggest challenges going nationwide. I had leads coming in from everywhere, but I didn’t have buyers everywhere. And so one thing that was really helpful to me was you’re going to these masterminds and things like that because I got to know so many other investors from different markets. I was either able to barter, trade, or buy a ton of different buyers lists. So I quickly built up a large buyer’s list just from that. And then, additionally, Facebook is a great tool. There’s tons of real estate investment, Facebook groups, all over where there’s active investors looking for deals. So that and a lot of these small towns, we just reach out to the realtors there because those realtors know everybody, right? They know the doctor that wants to buy a couple of rental properties a month. They know the big fix-and-flipper that’s doing 40 homes a year. So you just get resourceful, roll your sleeves up, and talk to people.

Jay Conner (19:18):

You can’t be picking up the telephone, can you?

Nick Perry (19:22):

Now, we are big on that. I’m big on being on the phones. We don’t do a lot of texting or emailing. My guys, it’s old school, pick up the phone, and make contact and have a conversation.

Jay Conner (19:37):

Yeah, there you go. I love it. We’re in a crazy market nationwide, pretty much every market. There’s no inventory to speak of in the multiple listing service. I hear a lot of my real estate investing friends say it’s the most challenging time that they’ve ever had, finding the off-market deals. And so we gotta be consistently marketing. So first of all, would you agree with that statement that it’s more challenging to find deals today, say than a couple of years ago?

Nick Perry (20:13):

I don’t know. I mean, I’m making more money than I’ve ever made in my career right now. So I think it just comes down to being smart with the way that you’re marketing because if you’re doing telecommunications, which is cold-calling, ringless voicemail, texting sellers, that’s an uphill battle. You’re beating on their door, knocking on their door, asking to give them a cash offer and everybody else is doing that. So one thing that was critical for me was to get really good at online marketing. All I do is pay-per-click advertising. I don’t do any other form of marketing. It’s been that way for a long time just because it’s a completely different approach when somebody’s reaching out to you, asking you for help versus you reaching out and trying to help somebody.

Jay Conner (21:06):

Absolutely. I was gonna say, it’s a whole different conversation when they’re raising their hand looking for you versus you raising your hand and you looking for them. It’s a different, whole conversation when somebody is clicking on your ad and saying, “Hey, please contact me,” versus you’re coming into somebody’s newsfeed or a Facebook ad or anything like that. I love it. So that’s interesting. You’re the only person I’ve talked to that only has one marketing channel. So that’s fantastic. I would think your sales guys, your acquisitions guys have a lot happier day than some other wholesalers.

Nick Perry (21:54):

Big time. If I were to give them cold calling leads or texting leads, they’d probably quit because I mean, it’s a completely different vibe. We get our conversions and it’s 1 out of every 10 to 15 leads is a contract. So they’re having to do much less outbound dials to get deals.

Jay Conner (22:16):

Right. What’s your average cost of a deal these days? What’s your conversion cost? How much money do you have to spend in marketing to get a contract?

Nick Perry (22:31):

I know it fluctuates between $800 and $1200. So our cost per contract’s really low because I’ve been working on PPC for so long. I’ve got my cost per lead really low at this point, which obviously plays a huge part in the cost per contract and profitability and all of that.

Jay Conner (22:49):

That’s fantastic. Do you use virtual assistants in your business?

Nick Perry (22:55):

We do. We have some virtual assistants that help out on the disposition side. We have some a couple of full-time virtual assistants that help follow up within our internal database, but the majority of my staff is all in-house right there in Austin, Texas. And they’re 5 days a week, Monday through Friday just going after it.

Jay Conner (23:21):

What kind of CRM or tools or systems do you have in place that your business really couldn’t live without?

Nick Perry (23:31):

We’ve customized our Podio to do everything that we needed to do. So that’s been phenomenal. If you’re using Podio, find a good developer to help customize it to the way that you like to do business. And then additionally Zillow, we comp using Zillow and we comp using PropStream. So those are really helpful. And then on the selling side of the properties, we use a software called InvestorLift, which is really helpful. It’ll show you all the LLCs of the people that are flipping property there in the area and give you their contact information. So InvestorLift has been a powerful tool for finding those investors across the country.

Jay Conner (24:18):

Interesting. So you’ve got quite a few years of experience right now. My next question, you would probably be able to answer this in more than one way, so I’ll just let you pick one. What’s one of the most important lessons you’ve learned since being in real estate investing?

Nick Perry (24:35):

Oh man. There’s so many. If I had to boil it down to one though, I don’t want to give you a cliché answer, like, “Don’t give up” or anything like that, but in terms of real estate investing is, “It’s going to be okay.” So here’s what I tell a lot of my students, too. It comes down to your team, and let me elaborate on that. “A” Players are the only thing that work in this business. If you have an A Player and B Player, here’s what happens. You got the B Player that ends up getting half of the leads, and that deal that your A Player would have closed and made $70,000 on, your B Player is going to fumble on that and it’s not going to become a deal. So you end up having a lot of lost revenue. So you look at that and you take that scenario and you extract it out over a week, a month, a quarter a year, you could, you could be potentially losing your multiple 7-figures if you don’t have the best talent. So I think people want to try to settle for inexperienced people, people that aren’t A Talent because they don’t think they can afford them and things like that. But I’m telling you, good talent is really the key to my success.

Jay Conner (26:01):

And what are your favorite ways to find that talent?

Nick Perry (26:06):

So I worked at Indeed before coming into real estate. So I know a lot of the tricks on how to get a ton of candidate flow there. And then we’ve come up with a proprietary way of just being able to quickly funnel through people and get near the best people that rise to the top on Indeed. So, Indeed, by far is number one and then referrals, as well. We’ve had a lot of great people come through who work with me just through referrals.

Jay Conner (26:36):

Gotcha. Super! Well, Nick, I tell you what, you have got the experience and you are one impressive human being. What is a final thought or thoughts that you would like to share with the audience?

Nick Perry (26:50):

Yeah, final thoughts. The biggest thing is if you’re already in the business, what tends to happen a lot of times is you plateau, you end up getting stuck. I got stuck in what I call “wholesaling purgatory” for 3 or 4 years where I couldn’t get past 5 to 8 deals a month. And what I did was now that we do 40, 50, 60 deals a month, the biggest difference was 1. Your team, 2. Your marketing, and then 3.) Also being nationwide. So I literally downloaded everything I know into video format and then created a mastermind behind it, as well, where I work with already experienced real estate investors that are looking to get from maybe a handful of deals a month to 7+ figures, multiple 7-figures a year. That’s what I’m really good at is helping people that are already successful in getting them quickly through those growth pains in this business because I already went through it. So that’s my new passion now is working with other investors I get to help. That’s really rewarding to me. And that’s been my new passion since I don’t do much in the day-to-day of my wholesaling operation anymore. I just get out of those guys’ way and let them close deals.

Jay Conner (28:11):

Yeah, man, and I’ve gotten the same passion and that is making a difference in other real estate investors’ lives. So let’s give everybody your website because we got some viewers and most of the people that are going to be listening to us will actually be listening to the podcast. So that website is www.7FigureCartel.com. Did I get that right, Nick?

Nick Perry (28:49):

You got it. Or you can just reach out to me on Instagram. It’s just my name, Nick Perry and then REI like real estate investments. So just Nick Perry REI, or you can go to the website, but yeah, happy to connect and help you guys any way I can.

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thewritersafterglow · 3 years ago

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how to actually meet your writing goals: the guide we all need

Intro

hey everyone! today's post is inspired by all the super fun struggles i've been having during nanowrimo. i still don't know if i'll win or not... i guess we'll see. anyway, hopefully these tips can help you actually meet your goals for progressing in your writing <3

Be realistic

this might be a bit hypocritical for me to say, considering that i am attempting to write a f*cking novel during exam season, but it is very important thing to keep in mind.

when you're sitting down to plan your goals, think realistically about the week/month/year ahead of you. what are your commitments? what other things will you have to put time into? are there any other activities that you will have to prioritize?

based on all of these things, you need to choose a word count goal that makes sense and is something you can actually achieve in that time frame. there's a difference between challenging yourself a healthy amount and setting goals that you'll never be able to achieve.

Plan, plan, plan

yeah yeah, i'm aware that this is my advice for everything writing related but, what can i say? it's the key to staying on top of writing. you have to figure out how you're going to divide up the word count so that you hit the goal, while still staying realistic and not pushing yourself too hard.

there are loads of websites you can use for this, such as nanowrimo.com and pacemaker.press - or, you can just do the math yourself if you really want.

this step also involves deciding which days you're going to write more and less - for example, i always set more words to be written on Fridays and Saturdays, since i can stay up late those nights without worrying about school.

Staying motivated

i know, i know. "we all want to stay motivated, Rayne, but it's not that easy." i'm aware of that, don't worry lmao.

i have a whole post on how to stay motivated, but here's the general gist. the main way to keep yourself motivated is to have an internal motivating factor. this means something that is not at all influenced by external factors. for example, an internal desire to become a published author.

however, it's useful to have external factors that can help amp up your willpower to write on days where you might be a bit more tired. for example, watching writing videos/content of authors, pinterest boards, playlists, aesthetics and more!

How to handle an "off day"

this is what can really throw you off from writing. you have one day where you feel like you can't write anything... and then another... and then another. suddenly, you're twenty thousand words behind where you should be and-

but that doesn't have to be the case! having off days is okay, and honestly? it's kind of necessary. but the main point is not to let that off day throw off your stride.

if you have a day where you can't write (not enough time, too tired, burnt out, etc), try planning out your schedule for the rest of the month/whatever time frame so that you still hit your goal. ex, maybe you're going to write 1.2k every day instead of just 1k, for the rest of the month. replanning your schedule can make having an off day feel much less overwhelming.

Outro

thanks for reading through this post! if you don't know me, i'm Rayne H. Olivia, the admin of this account and the founder of the writer's afterglow.

here on instagram/tumblr, i post daily writing content/advice, and i also have a podcast called "the writer's afterglow" (available on spotify, google podcasts, and my website in my bio!)

if you want to see more of my content + stay in touch, please consider following my account! if not, i understand, and hope you have a nice day :)

keep writing,

Rayne <3

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junker-town · 5 years ago

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‘Formula 1: Drive to Survive’ is a perfect intro to the best soap opera in sports

The second season of the acclaimed Neflix show sets the stage for F1 racing’s future.

The second season of Netflix’s Formula 1: Drive to Survive dropped on Feb. 28, and it’s just as good as the extremely well-received first season. Like any good Millennial, I watched the entire series in a couple of days, even though the new Formula 1 season doesn’t start until March 15. The ten half-hour episodes are extremely bingeable.

Eight teams get significant air time over the show’s 10 episodes. The big teams sat out last year’s show, but after seeing how successful it was, they decided they wanted in on the action. Ferrari and Mercedes feature, but just like Season 1, the really good stuff comes from struggling teams like Williams and Haas.

Notably absent from the show are Racing Point and Alfa Romeo, who almost exactly met expectations last season, and return the same drivers for 2020. The producers opted not to force any drama for those teams. Fans of teenage shitposter/Twitch streamer/McLaren driver Lando Norris will also be disappointed to see that he’s barely mentioned.

What’s missing is much less important than what’s in the show, however. Drive to Survive is still amazing, and a perfect introduction to the best soap opera in sports. Minor spoilers below.

Is it a reality show? Is it a documentary? I don’t know, it’s just really good

I’m not really sure how you would classify Drive to Survive. It’s definitely more documentary than reality television, though the interviews feel very reality TV-influenced.

No matter what you call it, the show is made by the level of access that the producers are granted. Because the teams are promised that the show won’t air until the season ends and the driver lineup for the following season is set, they’re free to be themselves. It doesn’t feel like any of the teams’ drivers or principals are guarded in any way. The result is a show that does a brilliant job promoting what makes F1: Off-the-track drama.

Formula 1 is basically WWE for rich Europeans. The races are hit or miss, but the politics and promos are the really engrossing stuff. If you watch an F1 race without any knowledge of its inner workings, it might not seem that interesting. But when you understand the behind-the-scenes ramifications of a result, a pass for 10th place can feel as important as a pass for first.

The show’s format lets viewers into this world by focusing on the narrative arcs of individual characters and teams, rather than telling a chronological story. And though the show jumps around the calendar, it isn’t misleading or confusing. I imagine this was a difficult choice for the producers, but they got it right.

Most importantly for the show’s purposes, F1 is also involved in the production, so it also works as an advertisement. Viewers are left with an understanding of multiple storylines and who to root for in 2020. I think it would be hard to come away from the show without wanting to follow a team or driver in the upcoming season.

It’s so painful when you know what’s coming

If you did not follow the 2019 F1 season, you will have a different experience watching this show than I did. But if you did follow along last season, you’ll find yourself saying “oh noooo” at the screen several times just before the big reveals.

The results of storylines involving drivers like Pierre Gasly and Niko Hulkeberg, and teams like Haas and Williams, are foreshadowed well in advance. The portions covering the deaths of Niki Lauda and Anthoine Hubert are probably more serious tearjerkers when you see them coming.

If you didn’t follow F1 last year and watch the show, let me know if the foreshadowing was obvious to you. I’m very curious.

Guenther Steiner is once again the best character

The breakout star of the first season of Drive to Survive was Haas team principal Guenther Steiner, a hilarious character who curses at his drivers and staff in ways that American football coaches would envy. English is not his first language, but he’s an artist with the f-word.

Steiner’s home life is presented in stark contrast to the way he acts on the track. He’s very calm and kind with his wife and daughter, and is presented as a loving husband and father.

But then he has to go to work and deal with the mistake-riddled work of his engineers and drivers.

“This is not a fucking kindergarten here,” Steiner says to his staff at one point. Following a collision between Haas drivers Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen, Steiner delivers the best line of the series.

“Gene spends 100 fucking million dollars a year of his own fucking money,” Steiner says to his drivers, referring to team owner Gene Haas, “and wants to pull the plug and let everybody down because of two fucking idiots.”

Haas never really got better after that, but Steiner still has his job, as do Grosjean and Magnussen. Their owner has not pulled the plug, though he was unable to recruit a title sponsor to replace the ill-fated Rich Energy.

I have no idea how Haas will do in 2020, but I do know that Steiner will likely be the best character in Season 3 of the show, too.

I empathize so much with Claire Williams

Williams Formula One has won seven drivers’ world championships and nine constructors’ championships under the leadership of legendary founder Frank Williams. But their last honors came in 1997, and Frank’s daughter Claire has been tasked with turning the team around. Thus far, she has failed — Williams was by far the worst team on the grid in 2019 — and it’s impossible to tell if it’s because she can’t hack it, or because of circumstances beyond her control.

In the trailer for Season 1, Claire Williams said something that has stuck with me ever since I heard it: “Every day I break out in a cold sweat thinking, ‘do I have the skillset to do this?’”

This is something that I think a lot of women have felt at work. Plenty of men too, but this is disproportionately a female experience.

In Williams’ case specifically, she has reached the highest position of any woman in F1, an organization that has historically been outrageously chauvinistic. Her detractors will argue that she only has her job because of her father, and her supporters will argue that the most qualified and experienced team principal in the world couldn’t turn around Williams on F1’s lowest budget.

The show follows the Williams team as it fails to finish its car in time for preseason testing. Claire’s rage at director of engineering Paddy Lowe can be felt through the screen, even if she never raises her voice.

I’m not sure if she holds back because that’s not her personality, or because she feels like it would be deemed unacceptable for a woman to do so. When Steiner blows up and calls his subordinates “fucking idiots,” we all have a good laugh. I feel like the reaction would be a bit different if Claire Williams did the same.

“I don’t want to disgrace the Williams name,” Claire says in an interview. “I don’t want Williams to fall apart under my watch.” I wonder how often she feels powerless to prevent that from happening, even though she’s ostensibly in charge?

Leclerc vs. Vettel is the story in F1

In 2020, all eyes are going to be on Ferrari.

Last season, youngster Charles Leclerc signed on to represent F1’s most iconic brand. He knew he’d be a clear No. 2 driver behind four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel. But as the season wore on, the pecking order got a lot less clear. As it turns out, Leclerc might be the better driver.

Vettel’s last world championship was in 2013, with Red Bull. He left for Ferrari when he felt like his old team was falling miles behind Mercedes, but he hasn’t been able to recapture his championship form in the famous red car. Following a couple of second-place finishes and preseason hype that he could challenge Lewis Hamilton, Vettel disappointed in 2019, finishing fifth.

Leclerc, meanwhile, exceeded expectations in his first year with Ferrari. Despite Vettel being given preferential strategy in multiple races — a huge point of contention that’s explored on the show — Leclerc outperformed his teammate. His win in Ferrari’s home race at the Italian Grand Prix was arguably the feel-good moment of the year, and he out-qualified Vettel on a regular basis. His fourth-place finish in the drivers’ championship, ahead of Vettel, suggests he should not have to defer to the veteran anymore.

But F1 is not just about who is better at driving. It is a competition that is equal parts skill, engineering and politics. And though Leclerc may be a better driver than Vettel, he’s no politician. Whenever he complains about fairness on the show, Vettel finds a way to take advantage of Leclerc’s naiveté.

However, that’s the only thing Vettel did better than Leclerc in 2019. If all things are equal, Ferrari is going to start siding with the younger driver sooner rather than later.

Drive to Survive sets up 2020 perfectly as the end of an era

This upcoming season is the last with unlimited spending, and most of the drivers will be out of a contract at the end of the campaign. There will be new car requirements for 2021 as well. For this reason, a lot of teams are treading water this season, putting their money into new facilities and preparing for when they are finally able to compete with Mercedes, the runaway leaders, in 2021.

It feels likely that this season will be a ceremonial victory lap for Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes before things get tough in 2021. If the two championships are the only things that interest you, I regret to inform you that this F1 campaign is unlikely to be compelling. But in terms of long-term storylines and interpersonal drama, this is going to be one of the wildest seasons in the sport’s history.

Everyone is fighting for their livelihoods. No one’s job is secure. A great midfield performance could position a driver for world championship contention next season. George Russell will struggle to score a single point for Williams, but he’s still trying to prove he’s ready to follow in Hamilton’s footsteps at Mercedes.

The drivers’ and constructors’ championships might not be up for grabs in 2020, but the future of the sport is.

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Welcome to our income reports where we share ways we’ve been making money through the , the challenges and lessons we learned each month, and finally to celebrate successes however big or small. Though we have a few side hustles, we’re happy to say that the travel has become our main hustle.

Life Updates - I Got a New Job!

We decided that once we moved to Las Vegas, we would live life at a slower pace and not work as many hours as we were living in NYC. Now that the has become consistent, both Jacob and I have been looking for other ways to grow and learn.

Lately, I’ve found myself spending all my spare time watching climbing videos and being intrigued with all the different setting. When the opportunity came at our local gym, I decided to take setting clinic to learn how to create bouldering problems.

In the past, I thought it would be fun to be a setter, but I wrote it off assuming I would never be qualified. Even after applying and getting the job, there have been so many insecurities that have crept into my mind (ie, I’m not a strong enough climber or I’m not creative enough).

It’s been a while since I put myself out there to possibly fail. The past 12+ years has been about slowly cultivating skills I already knew I had. This is the first time in a long while that I’m taking a leap not knowing where I will land.

On this , it might seem strange to want to go from being my own boss for so many years to working for someone else, but it’s a challenge I think is worth pursuing. Even if I fail, I’m sure it will be a good learning experience and am so excited about this new chapter.

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Originally Published: May 8, 2019

How We Made OVER $21.7K in April - Travel Blog Income Report

Why We Share Our Income Reports

If you’re new here, you might be wondering why on earth we would share something so personal. We’ve been hesitant to share our income reports for the last 5 years, and we’re super nervous about this post, but since we’re all about trial and error, let’s see how it goes! We’re putting out these income reports for these following reasons.

To Show You How We Make Income Blogging

We always want to be 100% transparent about how we make money through this . The amazing thing about the ging world is that every we’ve talked to does things a bit differently. There are also countless ways to grow and improve your business. When we started, we made most of our money through affiliate sales. Since then, we’ve shifted heavily to sponsored content. A big part of this is because my background is in sales and it’s what I’m good at. You can learn more about my sale method below. As time goes on, this will continue to change, but we want to share how we focus on our strengths to effectively meet our goals.

To Show You the Potential of Blogging

Whether you have a or are starting a , we want to show you that you can make a career out of ging.

Even if you don’t want to , there are a ton of ways to be financially and location independent and we hope to inspire others to go after it too. If you want to keep your day job, ging can be a great way for you to make some extra side money.

Esther started the 6 years ago and I joined her full time 3 years ago. Even until last year, our parents were worried about us financially, wondering when we would stop “playing” and start taking our lives and work more seriously. Neither of us ended up being “good Asians” (namely a doctor, lawyer, or engineer). It’s an unconventional job and where most people don’t understand all the work that goes on behind the scenes.

More: The Ugly Truths of Being a Travel Blogger told by Top Travel Bloggers

We love that our jobs give us flexibility in what we do, but being your own boss isn’t all that it’s cut out to be either. You have to be disciplined and work hard at your business to grow it.

If you’re not getting the results you want, again, keep in mind that we’ve been ging for 6 years now and the first month I tried monetizing my , I made less than $20. Give it more time and failing in the process is okay. I didn’t have the correct tools that are out now and a lot of it was trial and error. Consider it all an A/B test to figure out what will best work for you.

To Track How We're Doing

I’ve always loved sharing goals online and tracking them. Putting them out in the world (via the ) has helped me so much with accountability. Since we’re constantly tweaking trying to improve the , looking at these numbers will help us learn whether we’ve been making the right changes. It’s amazing to see how the sources of income have changed over time and to see where we still have room for improvement.

Ultimately, our life goal is to make enough to live on half our income (right now we’re at 30%), where the rest will go back into the community or support organizations we love.

Breakdown of Income for April 2019

In April 2019 we earned a total of $21,714.49. Our ad numbers are going to be funky for the next couple of months as our payments transfer from AdThrive to Mediavine.

Affiliate Income

Amazon: $438.28

Commission Junction: $167.91

Misc (Ebay, Skimlinks, AWin, etc): $254.43

Sponsorships

Sponsored Product Posts: $19,700 *our fave marketplace lately: IZEA

Display Ads

Adthrive: $1,153.87

Income Comparison to Other Months

Total in 2019 Year Income: $91,020.07

Last Month Income: $17,708.99

Difference: 22.6% increase from last month

Expenses

Web Hosting: $29.94 (Want to start a ? Here’s how you can start a in 5 easy steps)

Keysearch: $18.60

Virtual Assistant, Social Media Manager, Subcontractors: $1,379.17

Teachable: $89 (check out their free weekly webinar)

Office Supplies/Services: $930.83

Test Products/Shoot Supplies: $945.57

*Taxes: $1,516

Insurance: $613.89

Travel + Meal Expenses: $971.80

$15,219.69

*Roughly 30% of your income will go to taxes at the end of the year. The number above shows the money set aside for taxes to offset how much we have to pay at the end. It makes it less painful at the end of the year.

April 2019 Blog Traffic Breakdown + Stats

Monthly Pageviews: 595,931

Daily Average: 19,864

Monthly Sessions: 463,778

Monthly Unique Visitors: 387,325

Social Media Followers: 322,379

Email Subscribers: 8,576

Goals for May

Blog Goals

Post at least once a week.

Update Affiliate Links for the Top 25 Posts (50 if 25 is finished early).

Update Pinterest Photos for Top 25 Posts.

Optimize Keywords for Older Posts.

Life Goals

Take one day off a week.

Go on two date nights

What Didn't Work + Lessons Learned

We’ve been hosting different friends pretty much every other week after moving to Vegas and haven’t had as much time to hunker down and work on the . We moved here at the end of February and have already had 5 sets of friends stay with us.

I’m glad to see that traffic did not dip significantly even though I haven’t posted anything this past month, but I don’t intend for this to happen again next month.

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January 4, 2019

News and Links

Layer 1

[eth1] Quick summary of Constantinople hard fork

[maybe eth1, eth2] ELI5 storage rent

[eth2] What’s New in Eth2 from Ben Edgington

Latest Eth2 implementers call. Agenda to help follow along (plus brief notes in What’s New in eth2 above)

[eth2] An updated Beacon chain mini-spec

[eth2] Prysmatic dev update - sync’d with spec, 100% test coverage; Go BLS sigs ready

[eth2] Lodestar Javascript client dev update

[eth2] Cross-shard receipt and hibernation/waking anti-double-spending

[eth2] Stan Kladko: Use validators BLS key pairs to keep transactions encrypted until included in chain

[eth2[ Justin Drake: Eth2 consensus objects natively compatible with multiple hash functions

[eth2] How Vitalik thinks about incentives for stakers to stay online

[eth2] Staking reward spreadsheet by Eric Conner

[eth2-> eth3] Beacon-chain friendly CBC Casper

[eth3] Bitwise LMD GHOST

Layer 2

Cryptoplayer.one - rock-paper-scissors (with a StarWars flavor) on Raiden, acted out by robots you can watch on Youtube. Try it out - it helps test Raiden.

An overview of state channels projects

Connext opensourced their generalized custodial hub. You can check out their hub, client, and contract code. Non-custodial hub coming in the next month.

Stuff for developers

Austin Griffith: Burner Wallet v2.2, burner-to-burner encrypted messaging with Eth keys. Also solid ELI5 of Burner Wallet

OpenZeppelin v2.1

Truffle v5.0.1

Paul Berg’s how to write upgradeable code with Truffle5 and ZeppelinOS2

Intro to Mythril Classic and symbolic execution

ConsenSys Diligence’s registry of code weakness and test cases

SmartCheck security tool adds Vyper

Minimal Solidity testing with Ganache and Jest

Yondon Fu: How not to use ECDSA

“stack too deep” error in Solidity

Jez San on thinking about GDPR and blockchain

Video example of queries to GraphQL api with 3box.js

Monitoring events with Kauri’s Eventeum

ConsenSysDesign’s rimble v0.2 adaptable components and design standards

Gitcoin Grants an easy way to give recurring contributions to your favorite OSS projects and maintainers. Ben Edgington’s UX report

Ecosystem

In case you haven’t noticed on Twitter, all the cool kids are getting an Eth dappnode from Ava.do [I don’t have one, but I want to be cool, so I’m probably going to get one]

Bernhard Mueller’s hilarious tweetstorm satire of a maxi tweetstorm

EthHub launches. Great documentation and FAQs for devs/users

A note about Blockchains LLC from founder Jeffrey Berns

imToken at 7.5m accumulated installed devices, 30% iOS, 70% Android

To every Bitcoin maximalist who says you can’t run a full node, Afri very strongly disagrees.

More Afri: on Jan 3, only 10.2% of nodes were Constantinople-ready. Update your clients!

ConsenSys and AMD’s W3BCLOUD collaboration “to develop optimized solutions powered by AMD hardware” for enterprise and dapps (link opens PDF)

Enterprise

John Wolpert on lessons learned in blockchain consulting

Busting the myth of private blockchains

Kaleido launches Marketplace for “blockchain at consortia scale”

Governance and Standards

Core devs call. Agenda. Summary per Hudson, “Constantinople is on track. We are already starting to develop timelines for Istanbul. ProgPoW is going to happen barring any major issues.”

Lane Rettig on transparency and the Devcon meetings on the PoW chain that caused a ruckus

Application layer (I decided no 2018 reviews; those could have been the whole newsletter)

Many Augur markets ended on Dec 31, so there is a record 140 disputes in this week’s round. Also prediction markets to facilitate cross-chain swaps?

Grid+ rolling out electricity to more in next couple months; had Samsung stop manufacturing a component of Lattice agent, so had to replace; still on track for Q2

Air quality data streams from 10,210 locations in 68 countries on Streamr

BloqPress - a web3 CMS

Pando - decentralized VCS enabling contribution tracking, via the Aragon client

DX.exchange - buy tokens representing Tesla, Apple and 8 more Nasdaq stocks where the stock is held in custody. Per Bloomberg, this goes live next week. To me, the interesting bit is that now those stacks can trade 24/7

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Starkware’s Eli Ben-Sasson and Uri Kolodny on Into the Ether

Vitalik Buterin with Kartik Talwar at ETHSingapore

Jutta Steiner on ZeroKnowledge

Tokens / Business / Regulation

Livepeer network economics update. LPT continues to be an interesting experiment (and you probably have some from the MerkleMine airdrop)

Cameroon separatists launch their own currency on Ethereum. Reading the article doesn’t give me great hope for its legitimacy, but it’s an interesting idea.

Interesting funding model from Mintable: selling NFTs that let you use their app for free for life.

Santiment built an Ethereum token market cap

General

Elegy for a cypherpunk. Remembering Tim May. Nice work about the values from which our space springs.

How much each year Ethereum is mentioned in Google Scholar articles

IEEE: Ethereum plans to cut energy consumption by 99%

Proof of existence timestamp chain on Substrate

Chris Dixon: blockchains can wrest internet control from corporations

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):

Jan 10 - Mobi Grand Challenge hackathon ends

Jan 10-Feb7 - 0x and Coinlist virtual hackathon

Jan ~16 - Constantinople hard fork at block 7080000

Jan 24 - Aragon vote, including on funding original AragonOne team

Jan 29-30 - AraCon (Berlin)

Jan 31 - GörliCon (Berlin)

Feb 7-8 - Melonport’s M1 conf (Zug)

Feb 15-17 - ETHDenver hackathon (ETHGlobal)

Feb 23-25 - EthAustin (EthUniversal)

Mar 4 - Ethereum Magicians (Paris)

Mar 5-7 - EthCC (Paris)

Mar 8-10 - ETHParis (ETHGlobal)

Mar 27 - Infura end of legacy key support (Jan 23 begins Project ID prioritization)

April 8-14 - Edcon hackathon and conference (Sydney)

Apr 19-21 - ETHCapetown (ETHGlobal)

May 10-11 - Ethereal (NYC)

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This newsletter is made possible by ConsenSys.

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If you're unhappy with editorial decisions or anything that I have written in this issue, feel free to tweet at me.

Housekeeping

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5 Best Resources For Getting Your Business Started

Starting a company today is both harder and easier than ever before. It is more challenging because a larger number of opportunities have been capitalized on, and a greater number of people appear to be trying. It is easier, though, because more resources are available and the world is more global. This means you can hire (or sell to) someone from outside the country with greater ease.

If you are thinking of starting a company, then one of the best steps you can take is capitalizing on the countless resources. You can now find support through all of the logistical steps needed to start a business. Plus, you can learn tactics by reading stories from founders about success and failure that can teach quite a bit.

Business Startup Resources

Here are the 5 best of these resources that can get you off the ground and on a great path with your new business:

1. YCombinator How to Start a Startup

Y Combinator has been home to a plethora of successful companies including Airbnb, Dropbox, and Stripe. They are widely cited as the most successful accelerator due to the ways they push and support their batches.

Y Combinator, consequently, has a lot to teach future entrepreneurs. They have turned starting a business into a bit of a science that they have fine-tuned over the years. They share these learnings and approaches with every company that walks through their doors.

Luckily, they want more companies to be started. Being a part of YC involves much higher levels of intensity and support, but they have also created online resources for aspiring entrepreneurs.

The best of these resources is their How to Start a Startup video series. In this twenty hour-long video series, they bring together the best in their craft to talk about running a business. Facebook vice president of growth marketing Alex Schultz talks about growing your business, Airbnb founder Brian Chesky talks about company culture, and much more.

These videos explain what you really need to think about and focus on when starting a company from every aspect. You can jump around based on your most needed topics or you can decide to watch all of them. It is a great intro for starting a company no matter how much (or little) experience you have initially.

2. Stripe Atlas.

To officially start a business, there are important legal measures to handle. In the past, these were a burden for founders due to the cost, money, and challenge of which choices to make. Stripe Atlas has made the process easy. They provide all of the legal and technical resources you need to get a business off of the ground, and they do so at a very reasonable price.

Using Stripe Atlas will allow you to spend less time worrying about the frustrating logistics that come with starting a business and instead put your energy towards the harder problems.

In addition to the logistics, they offer other startup-help advice. Exploring their site and resources is very useful.

3. Read Books and Personal Accounts.

There are great pieces of content in addition to Startup School that can help you manage your business. Some of the best books include Zero to One, The Lean Startup and The Hard Thing About Hard Things. They offer both practical advice as well as ideas of the bigger picture and what it actually takes to run a successful company.

There are also helpful websites that share personal accounts of founders. IndieHackers (owned by Stripe) is a great example that shares stories of small business owners. The site explains, in detail, how many founders got their businesses off the ground. This will offer you practical advice on getting going as well as motivation that you can do it.

4. Sites like StackShare, Siftery and G2 Crowd.

One big challenge in starting a business is determining your software stack. How are you going to build your product and offerings, and what software will you use to support you? These are tough choices because there are thousands of different software products out there all claiming to be the best.

It is also a very important choice because effective software can save you time and money, while ineffective software can cost you greatly. Choosing wrongly at the foundation of your company can cause real issues as you scale. Sometimes making changes down the road can be extremely challenging and time-consuming.

Platforms like StackShare, Siftery, and G2 Crowd can help you choose your stack. They give real reviews on software products and share the stacks of other successful companies. They can even help you determine what might be best for your company depending on your needs.

5. Social Communities.

Starting a business can be emotionally draining. It requires significant hours of work and often high levels of stress. There are many challenges involved in each step and doing it on your own makes it that much harder.

Luckily, today, you can take advantage of social communities as a resource. Even if you are starting your company in a remote location, you can communicate with other entrepreneurs online through communities. These include HackerNews, StartupNation and the countless Slack groups for founders.

In these groups, in addition to the support, you can get real advice. You can discuss the problems you are facing and share stories with others who have tackled similar obstacles.

Entering into these communities will not only give you an added level of support and advice, but it will likely increase your energy towards the project at hand. Seeing how many other people around the world are doing what you are doing as well as their passion for their respective projects is inspiring.

Find What Works Best for You.

The ultimate key to maximizing all of these resources is finding what works best for you. The five above are the most immediately helpful, but there are countless more. Think about the type of support you need as a founder and then take advantage of online resources to get that support. When you are faced with challenges, you no longer have to solve them on your own. You can, instead, capitalize on all of the existing information and support on the web.

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A FUNDRAISING SURVIVAL GUIDE TO DIE

He showed how, given a handful of them. This caught my attention because earlier we'd noticed a pattern in the least successful startups we'd funded: they all seemed hard to talk to?1 Think about what it means. But eventually the open source world won, by producing Javascript libraries that grew over the brokenness of Explorer the way a startup feels is at least a random sample of the applicants that were selected, b their subsequent performance is measured, and in any case the odds of succeeding are higher in a startup. But there's more going on than that. It turns out there is, and the key to the mystery is the old adage a word to the wise is sufficient. For us the main indication of impending doom is when we don't hear from you. A cluttered room saps one's spirits.

Sometimes the feedback loop that makes the product good.2 The information needed to conduct such studies is increasingly available. Steve Jobs had already done it: insanely great. But it's gone now. But in retrospect it was exactly the right thing to do, because it seems sympathetic to their cause.3 Another advantage of bad times is that there's less competition. If you're in grad school, but we're going to keep working on the startup, but we're going to retrace his steps, with his mathematical notation translated into running Common Lisp code. As food got cheaper or we got richer; they're indistinguishable, eating too much started to be a bigger danger than eating too little.

I didn't mean this as an essay; I wrote it down because I only had two hours before dinner and think fastest while writing. What founders have a hard time grasping and Steve himself might have had a hard time grasping and Steve himself might have had a hard time grasping and Steve himself might have had a hard time grasping is what insanely great translates to in a larval startup. The reason I began by saying that this technique would come as a surprise to First Round that they performed one. Even if you start measuring something you start optimizing it, and I was even more convinced of it after hearing it confirmed by Hilbert. We just don't notice usually, because they didn't seem especially committed. It makes the same point: that it can't have been the personal qualities of early union organizers that made unions successful, but must have been some external factor, or otherwise present-day union leaders would shrink from the challenge. A friend of mine cured herself of a clothes buying habit by asking herself before she bought anything Am I going to wear this all the time is not because it has something to say about programming languages.4 Most good startup ideas seem at first like bad ideas.5 That has always seemed to me an important point, and I realized Steve Jobs had already done it: insanely great. I've been there, and that's as much as any startup needs initially. The probability that a startup will make it big.

But I don't write to persuade; I write to figure out. So the mere constraint of staying in regular contact with us you could get users merely by broadcasting your existence, rather than running the whole show. Likewise, the reason we hear about Java as part of a plan by Sun to undermine Microsoft. This is just an explanation of why I don't like the look of Java: It has been so energetically hyped.6 The rest of my stuff I left in my landlady's attic back in the US are also big tourist destinations: San Francisco, or Boston, or Seattle. And as any politician could tell you, the likelihood they'll succeed, and focus instead on the separate and almost invisibly intangible question of whether they'll succeed really big is not merely a necessary evil, but change the company permanently for the better. That has always seemed to me an important point, and I was even more convinced of it after hearing it confirmed by Hilbert.7 I have by now learned to understand everything publishers mean to tell me about a book, and perhaps a bit more. Whereas if a startup regularly does new deals and releases and either sends us mail or shows up at YC events, they're probably going to be one of the really big winners or not, and if we want to fund more Airbnbs we have to stay good at thinking it.8 The only way you're ever going to extract any value from it is to kill.

I can remember when it was just for Harvard students, it remained for students at specific colleges for quite a while.9 When a large tract has been developed by small groups. Ultimately power rests with the founders. Which means applicants of type x have to be better to get selected than applicants not of type x is that it's harder for them to make it big. Most nerds like quieter pleasures.10 Either it's something they felt they had to do to get started are not merely a useless metric, but positively misleading. Now Palo Alto is suburbia, but then it was a lot less stuff. There's a lesson here: startups beget startups. For all its power, Silicon Valley has a great weakness: the paradise Shockley found in 1956 is now one giant parking lot.11 One is a combination of shyness and laziness. You can use this technique whenever a you have at least a roller coaster and not drowning. His mom probably has it on the fridge.

Multiply this times several hundred, and I was even more convinced of it after hearing it confirmed by Hilbert. Which means that what matters is who you are, not when you do finally automate yourself out of the way. I could never quite tell if they understood what I was saying. This is a talk I gave at the last minute I cooked up this rather grim talk. The question to ask about an early stage startup is not is this company taking over the world? It could be interesting to try and write down what made Java seem suspect to me.12 All together my Matchboxes and Corgis took up about a third of the companies we funded to succeed. For example, they like well-preserved old neighborhoods instead of cookie-cutter suburbs, and locally-owned shops and restaurants instead of national chains. People tend to; I'm skeptical about the idea of the greatest generation.

Observation bears this out: within the US, towns have become startup hubs if and only if they attract those who have them.13 So the question of how to make a silicon valley. Google for a million dollars, and you just create Carnegie-Mellon. Microsoft's first product was a Basic interpreter for the Altair. Nor has anyone there ever even sent us an email. My own feeling is that object-oriented program, it can be written in itself. There are specific implications. The more your conclusions disagree with readers' present beliefs, the more stuff they seem to have a disproportionately low probability of the former will seem to have.

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I'm pathologically optimistic about people's ability to predict at the valuation of an FBI agent or taxi driver or reporter to being a tax haven, I suspect it's one of few they had to find users to switch. 99, and you make money. They could make it. If someone just sold a nice-looking man with a potential acquirer unless you see people breaking off to both write the sort of wealth to study, because the outside edges of curves erode faster.

Copyright owners tend to damp this effect, at one point worked designing refrigerators. The CPU weighed 3150 pounds, and stonewall about the new top story. So if we couldn't decide between turning some investors away and selling more of the company, and that don't include the cases where you currently are. Note: An earlier version of Word 13.

This is what you do in proper essays.

Letter to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 28%. I never get as deeply into subjects as I explain later. That would be to go to college, they are so intellectually dishonest in that so few founders do it.

If big companies have been seen mentioning the site.

I think the reason it used to build little Web appliances.

People were more the type who would have met 30 people he meets at parties he's a real salesperson to replace the url with that of whatever they copied. Proceedings of AAAI-98 Workshop on Learning for Text Categorization. An accountant might say that hapless meant unlucky.

VCs. Trevor Blackwell, who probably knows more about this problem and approached it with such a baleful stare as they seem pointless.

Several people I talked to mentioned how much you get nothing. But you can imagine cases where you get an intro to a 2002 report by the PR firm. But be careful here, since they're an existing university, or magazines. I'm also an investor is just knowing the right way.

That's why the series AA paperwork aims at a public company CEOs in the back of your own?

If Apple's board hadn't made that blunder, they very often come back within x amount of brains. Abstract-sounding language. Scribes in ancient philosophy may be somewhat higher, even though it's a seller's market. It was born when Plato and Aristotle looked at the same motives.

Actually no one would have gone into the subject today is still hard to judge for yourself and that injustice is what people actually paid.

So if it's the right question, which shows how unimportant the Arpanet which became the twin centers from which Renaissance civilization radiated. Again, hard to pick a date, because it might seem, because they believe they have to go and steal the ball away from taking a difficult class lest they get to be important ones.

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Learning Webinars and Researching To be in the Public

This month we had quite a lot of reading to do. Our books weren’t working in the beginning of class so I ordered them from Amazon and just waited for them to arrive since I have Prime and they get here within a couple days. They were: The Complete Guide to Successful Event Planning with Companion, 2nd Edition. Here is the APA Citation for this book: Kilkenny, S. (2016). The next book was: The complete guide to successful event planning. Ocala, FL: Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc.The Social Trade Show: Leveraging Social Media and Virtual Events to Connect With Your Customers. Here is the APA Citation for this book: Browne, T. (2012). The social trade show: Leveraging social media and virtual events to connect with your customers. Indianapolis, IN: Que.

For this month’s crowdfunding lesson, I chose to evaluate the crowdfunding on Fundable Feast - Crowdfunding for FOOD! because it was actually the first I came across that was way over budget in donations than what was asked for.

As I read over the story and they the updates on through the last update I found that until I got to the last update I didn't have much to say except that I was impressed with the success of this crowdfunding in the amount of time and the directness of it. It was fast and once the goal was hit the platform was changed and continued to grow.

My recommendations to the creator of Fundable Feast are as follow:

during the last update where they tell us it's the last update because they didn't know gofundme doesn't close accounts, next time they should do their research because it just makes the creator look as if they were unprepared or as if they really didn't know what they were getting into.

Do your research before posting online. It shouldn't take you til you get to your last update to let us know your real "website name" being that "fundable feast" could not be trademarked since it was taken

"The biggest hurdle was finding out that my name, fundablefeast, would probably not pass a trademark challenge. There is a company called fundable.com. So I rebranded and am now fundafeast!" -Cheryl Clements

Reading more into Cheryl Clements and where her crowdfunding came from and what it started was interesting. I thought I should learn a little and I found for PieShell founder Cheryl Clements, food is personal. It’s about connection. Growing up, Cheryl spent summers helping her mother run a pie-making business. Aptly named “The Pie Shell”, it was headquartered where all good startups begin: the family’s basement. It was from her mother that Cheryl learned what it takes to build a successful food operation, but more than that, she learned how communities grow around the food that people share. A few years ago, when Cheryl thought of embarking on her own food venture, she saw a crucial need for a crowdfunding platform that addresses the unique challenges of food and beverage entrepreneurs.

In the begging of the class we had to create a first draft proposal for a live event and eventually host a live webinar for it. I did that and here was my proposal and scripted draft of the webinar:

To the public:

Often, I am disturbed by the lack of no-kill shelters around me and the lack of sympathy in the world for the creatures that didn’t ask to be abused or left without a home or love. I often ask myself, “how did society become so apathetic?”.

Happy Trails Animal Rescue is a non-profit dog rescue organization in Central Florida. Happy Trails Animal Rescue works to go against animal abandonment by making lives better for animals and their families and providing them with love and nurturing homes, as well as rehabilitation to those that need it.

Because we at Happy Trails Animal Rescue believe so much in this, we are hosting a webinar Saturday, March 17th, 2018 at 2PM EST debuting Happy Pooches Grooming at the Poinciana Dog Park, to increase knowledge on pet hygiene and the health risks pets and owners alike can encounter when effort isn’t put into their pets and the affects it has on society.

Not only would you, the viewer benefits from this experience, but I genuinely believe you would enjoy spending time with us! Our webinar will create awareness and teach you a little bit more on how you can help your pets! After all, it’s a team effort to get every bit of awareness out to the public.

Thanks for your time.

Sincerely,

Afton L. Zabala-Jordan

Happy Trails Animal Rescue

[email protected]

Address: 3930 Glenwick Dr, St Cloud, FL 34772

Phone: (407) 593-1458

Twitter: @TrailsRescue

· WHO is your Target Market (please use your Capstone Thesis Paper to describe your Target Market!)

My target market is the working class (people with children, lonely adults or adults living by themselves, school children, couples that have a dog but want a companion for their dog, and people that are ill).

· WHAT is the content for your Webinar?

(Content):

WEBINAR SCRIPT AND AGENDA

Happy Pooches Grooming!

March 17, 2018

[BEGIN WEBINAR]

INTRO

Host/Intro Speaker (still deciding on speaker): Welcome, everyone! Thank you for joining us on this 17th day of March 2018 for today's webinar. My name is [still deciding on speaker] and I'm the Public Relation’s Rep at Happy Trails Animal Rescue. Happy Trails Animal Rescue is a non-profit org providing animal rescue and animal fostering here in Central Florida.

Today we are presenting "Happy Pooches Spa Day!" presented by “Happy Pooches Grooming”. Now before we get started, if you have any questions during the presentation, please type them into the comments box. I'll bring them up during the presentation and we will also have time for questions at the end.

Now without further ado, we will turn the time over to “Happy Pooches Grooming”! Our presenter today is Afton Jordan, a certified Professional Pet Groomer at “Happy Pooches Grooming”. She is excited to be here today! After Mrs. Jordan tells you a little bit about the process of dog grooming and why it’s so healthy, you’ll be able to properly bathe your dog following her step by step instructions.

PRESENTATION

Presenter: Thank you, [Intro Speaker]! I appreciate the introduction. It's really great to be speaking with all of you today…

[Give grooming presentation]

Presenter: ...so with that, we will go ahead and take some time for questions.

QUESTION & ANSWER

[GO THROUGH QUESTIONS WITH HOST ASKING THEM AND PRESENTER ANSWERING THEM]

Host/Intro Speaker (still deciding on speaker): It looks like we've covered all of our questions. Mrs. Jordan, is there anything else you wanted to cover before a wrap-up?

Afton Jordan: No, I think we're good for now! Thank you, everyone... it was a pleasure being with you today.

WRAP UP

Host/Intro Speaker (still deciding on speaker) Great! Thank you, everyone... we appreciate you taking the time to be here. I’m happy we had such a great turn out. Happy Trails Animal Rescue wanted to get out to the public that if we took an hour or 2 a week to bathe and pamper our pooches, less of them would end up on the streets, in shelters, and in foster homes. More dogs would be loved. The more owners put into their pooches, the less likely chance that their dog will end up abandoned. Thanks again for joining us today, I hope you found this webinar to be informational and fun, and we will see you next time.

[END WEBINAR]

· WHEN is the event taking place?

Saturday, March 17, 2018

· WHAT is the benefit to your client?

Getting the information out to the public allows for Happy Trails to create awareness on existing and getting more people involved with their own pets, possibly taking down the percentage of pets being abandoned, getting the message out that when information is applied, and more time is put into these animals then it takes away the possibility of abandonment. More love and time goes into caring for the pet, so loss of the pet would be more of an emotional scar.

· HOW does this further your Capstone Campaign?

The whole point of my campaign is to create awareness through social media. If I can reach one person, that’s already furthering my campaign. Getting the message to the audiences IS the campaign.

Here were some resources given for webinar

Lynda.com: Webinar Fundamentals, Unit 3 Planning Your Webinar http://www.lynda.com/Business-Educational-Technology-tutorials/Webinar-Fundamentals/149838-2.html?org=fullsailold.edu

The Ultimate Guide to Host a Winning Webinar http://elearningindustry.com/hosting-winning-webinar-ultimate-guide

During Week 2 we went over outlines and gave feedback to our classmates. Building our where's, our hows, the importance and what you hope the audience gets out of your Webinar, what do you want to accomplish? Anything contrary to that goal should be nixed. Here is what I came up with:

I. Introduction: Be specific about how you intend to introduce the Webinar.

In my webinar I was hoping to be introduced by the host and go into my tell all seminar/webinar on dog health and the how to's on dog grooming. I would be playing the part of host for Happy Trails Animal Rescue and Happy Pooches Grooming, since I went to school for certification/ licensing degree in Professional Pet Grooming / Pet Cosmetology and Health. I asked my neighbor to use her dog as a reference and possibly do a "quick bath demo".

II. Overview: Ask yourself what you hope the audience gets out of your Webinar. And what do you want to accomplish? Anything contrary to that goal should be nixed.

What I want to gain for my audience is the understanding that 30 mins a week can improve the relationship that we have with our pets as well as the growth and respect mutually from owner to pet and vice versa. The more time that you spend grooming, and loving your pet the more respect and trust the pet will have for you as well as their health not declining. The simplicity of it is this (with anything): The more time you put into something or someone the less you want it or them to fail, the more you want them to be around you, and succeed. Thus, the more time you have with your pet, the more love you put into your pet and the more you put into the relationship the less likely that pet will end up in a foster home, or a shelter, or even abandoned in the street.

III. Body: What are the 3-5 Main Points you are covering? Do you have any research to back up what you are saying? Are you planning to use videos? What will you have on your slides? (What kind of visual aids will work best to get your message across? Remember, the slides act as the appetizer, but they are not the main course. They're there to support your overall message.)

The relationship of a pet and his/her owner

Health and why this is important

The how to's of cleaning your pet

How cleanliness helps you bond with your pet

The importance of respect and bonding and how in negative situations this could deduct from a family and cause danger for that pet

Quick Bath/grooming lesson

IV. Conclusion: How will you wrap it up? What is your call to action? Are you planning to send a follow-up survey to ask participants for feedback? Will you take questions at the end?

I am planning on wrapping my webinar with open questions relating to the event. I will conclude my talking points and I will be posting a link to a downloadable informational PDF I am preparing. While asking questions I will also ask if anyone attending live wants me to physically show them how to take care of the basics on their own pets (nails, teeth, shampooing). Anything else I'd be able to offer for one on one appointments.

Ultimately what I got out of this class was how to step out of my comfort zone and to do my research. I was able to follow through even though I was uncomfortable with getting in the public but I knew the information so there was nothing for me to be afraid about.

This class proved to be helpful in that way.

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How to Successfully Launch a Podcast in 4 Steps

By Nicolas Brasch & Astrid Edwards

Everyone’s doing it nowadays! On the train to work. Walking to the shops. At the gym. They’ve got their ear phones in and they’re listening to … not music. Music is so ‘yesterday’. They’re listening to podcasts.

Podcasts have taken the world by storm. And why not? What a great way to provide entertainment and information to people in a format that is accessible and can be consumed when and where the audience wants.

Many have a massive following: I’m thinking Tim Ferris, Pat Flynn, John Lee Dumas.

In fact:

Podcast audiences grew around 25% in the past year

In the United States, as many people listen to podcasts as use Twitter

Around 2/3 of podcasts are listened to as people are ‘on the move’

Weekly podcast listeners consume an average of five shows per week

Major media companies are putting more and more resources into the production of podcasts to further engage their audience.

Source: Jay Baer, The 5 Key 2016 Podcast Statistics

But anyone thinking of creating a podcast – and why wouldn’t you – needs to go in with their eyes open. While podcasting is more accessible than ever, with the smart phone continuing to revolutionise creating and consuming content, creating a podcast that stands out – attracting downloads and growing your business or reputation – remains a challenge.

But it can be done. We’ve done it. We’re the creators of the The Garret Podcast and we’re going to share our experience with you. So here are four steps, using The Garret as a case study, to help you create your podcast. We think these steps are critical to anyone thinking about launching their first podcast.

Step 1: Focus

Define your idea

Yes, you do need a unique value proposition. Thousands – literally thousands – of podcasts find themselves on iTunes without an audience. Refine your idea and articulate how it is different from what else is on offer.

There are many literary podcasts out there, and so The Garret focused on interviewing the best writers about the craft of writing – not emerging writers, and not great writers talking about their latest book.

Identify your audience

If you don’t know your audience, you won’t reach them. Who do you want to listen? How will you reach them? What other podcasts do they listen to? Why will they listen to you?

The Garret launched Season 1 with Melbourne’s literary community in mind, with social media support lined up with four Melbourne-based literary organisations. The goal is to expand Australia wide after creating a solid core audience.

Know your competitors

Don’t launch a podcast without listening to your competitors. You can always learn from others, whether it is learning what works or what doesn’t. And once you are established, there may be opportunities to cross promote or collaborate on specific opportunities.

There is plenty of competition in Melbourne’s literary community, and so defining the idea in a way that did not replicate what anyone else was doing was important.

Step 2: Prepare

Pick your platform(s) and host

iTunes is the dominant platform by far, so don’t ignore it. Once you make it to iTunes, decide if you want to expand (for example, you may also want to be on Stitcher to reach those on Android and BlackBerry). You may want to consider a host that feeds directly into iTunes.

The Garret uses Omny Studio, which feeds directly into iTunes and provides tracking and measurement options.

Set your quality benchmark

Equipment to record and edit podcasts is more accessible (and cheaper) than ever before. But quality still counts. Boring content will always be boring content, and terrible audio means people will stop listening, no matter how good your idea or marketing.

The Garret edits every episode, and the boring, muffled, or otherwise compromised bits come out.

Define responsibilities

Defining responsibilities ensures each episode has adequate preparation and research, the right guests and marketing, and sounds like you want it to sound.

The Garret defined responsibilities as hosting, producing and editing, but there are other approaches.

Develop your brand

A successful podcast is like a brand. It has a personality, a certain look, social media platforms, and a way of doing things. You will also need a tag line.

The Garret nurtures its developing brand, and pays special attention to creating great supporting collateral and partnering with literary influencers for social media support on Twitter and Facebook.

Develop your collateral

Before you launch, have your logo and color scheme in place. Seriously, don’t skimp on what it looks like: your podcast will be judged alongside others.

The Garret uses a specific font (IM Fell Great Primer SC) and color scheme (black and white, with grey accents), and publishes black and white photos. This fits the brand, but also stands out from competitors.

Partner with influencers

Downloads matter, especially in the first few weeks when the iTunes algorithms (and Google, for that matter) track activity and either highlight or bury your podcast. Partnering with relevant influencers beforehand means your podcast has support on social media.

The Garret did this, partnering with the State Library of Victoria, Swinburne University, Readings Booksellers and Writers Victoria. This does not have to involve money, simply social media support.

Use social media to acknowledge partners and supporters.

Step 3: Create

Have a structure

Don’t publish a rambling conversation or unstructured interview, or anything else you might think of.

Each episode of The Garret has a beginning, a middle an end. Each episode has an intro to introduce the episode and/or guest, a break somewhere in the middle to preview the next episode or look back on a previous one, and an outro to wind up, thank listeners and remind them of what is coming up.

Edit your content

Not everything should make it to the final cut. Respect your audience, and respect the time they give you. Don’t waste it.

Market your episode

Each episode will be different. While your podcast has the same audience overall, each episode may have an interest group only interested in that specific topic. Identify them and try to reach them, wherever they are.

Step 4: Review

Measure your success

Once your podcast is published, tend it. Track your analytics. Understand not only how many downloads you get, but where they are and when they stop listening (some hosts provide these services).

The Garret changes week-to-week, mainly behind the scenes. It is a continual work in progress.

Just a couple of weeks into the first season and The Garret was ranked among and above some long-standing, prestigious podcasts.

Adapt when you need to

Be flexible. Not everything you planned will work perfectly. Continuous improvement is key. Just like a new sitcom, sometimes the first episodes aren’t the best. Encourage feedback, and act on it.

Be consistent

It won’t happen overnight. Building an audience, especially a loyal and engaged audience, takes effort and time. Encourage ratings and reviews on iTunes and social media. Find partners, whether they be for an episode or the podcast itself.

Reviews boost exposure – and also act as further encouragement.

To watch a podcast develop, check out what The Garret is doing.

Guest Co-Authors:

Nicolas Brasch (co-founder and host of The Garret) is the author of more than 400 books, several of which have won Australian and international awards. He teaches professional writing at Swinburne University, is Chair of Writers Victoria, is the founder of the Spirit of Punk event, and the founder of Writers in Residence (a company providing writing services to the corporate market).

Astrid Edwards (co-founder and creative director of The Garret) is Director of Strategy at Bad Producer Productions, a content creation company that specialises in podcasts. Astrid also teaches professional writing at RMIT University and serves as Vice Chair of the Committee of Management at Writers Victoria.

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5 Best Resources For Getting Your Business Started

Business Startup Resources

Here are the 5 best of these resources that can get you off the ground and on a great path with your new business:

1. YCombinator How to Start a Startup

Luckily, they want more companies to be started. Being a part of YC involves much higher levels of intensity and support, but they have also created online resources for aspiring entrepreneurs.

2. Stripe Atlas.

Using Stripe Atlas will allow you to spend less time worrying about the frustrating logistics that come with starting a business and instead put your energy towards the harder problems.

In addition to the logistics, they offer other startup-help advice. Exploring their site and resources is very useful.

3. Read Books and Personal Accounts.

4. Sites like StackShare, Siftery and G2 Crowd.

5. Social Communities.

In these groups, in addition to the support, you can get real advice. You can discuss the problems you are facing and share stories with others who have tackled similar obstacles.

Find What Works Best for You.

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