#make-money Business

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Title: The Unconventional Tale of a Pricey Twitter Handle: Elon Musk's $44B + $69B Investment

Subtitle: The Journey of a Twitter Handle, Elon Musk’s Extravagant Spending, and the Evolution of a Social Media Giant “Embrace the Unexpected ✨” http://@mj06092000 Date: July 26, 2023 Introduction Social media has become an integral part of our daily lives, and Twitter is undoubtedly one of the most influential platforms. Among its vast user base, there are some who stand out more than…

[trans-pilled]

genuinely cannot imagine dickriding the watcher guys the way some of you have been. like they made a bad business decision! they alienated their audience! they made jokes about "eating the rich" and then one of their owners turned around and bought a tesla! they said they'd pull all their old content off youtube and then immediately backpedaled and started gaslighting the people who noticed it! they're just guys on the internet, they're not your friends and they are not anti-capitalists. they just want money and they don't care about their primarily young/international/non-wealthy audience.

[kagoutiss]

pelican town, ‘72

[moonsnqil]

aftg au where andrew is a burnt out musician who's sick and tired of writing/playing shitty music bc his label says it sells better. he meets one deaf neil josten at some no-name pub on the east coast. he's a little mesmerized by the way neils hair catches in the bar lights and how his eyes track the woman playing bass on stage. andrew offers to buy him a drink and then he offers to blow him. it's a no but at first neil looked at him confused and andrews about to start wondering how someone who looks like that would be confused about an offer like that but then neil asks him to write his question down. he does. (there's something humbling about writing a proposition down). neil says no but they trade notes back and forth until the line of indie artists waiting their turn for the stage dwindled into nothing. the last thing andrew writes is his phone number. they talk, well, they text. neil doesn't know him, not the way magazine covers and top 40 radio hits know him. to neil, andrew minyard is just a guy that plays the drums and occasionally writes lyrics. one day, when he asks why neil loves watching him play his drums so much, why he goes to indie night at the pub when he can't hear the words they sing, neil tells him that he likes the thumping in the ground. it steadies him, calms him down as if his ear was pressed to someone's heart. he likes the way the artists lose themselves to their music in a way so obvious. its with neil peering into andrew's grand piano, his eyes watching the hammers pop, that he remembers why he started making music in the first place and for the first time in months he actually wants to compose something

[scarlettohairdye]

PSA to printed zine makers

As a 37 year old who's been running a sole proprietorship for the last 10+ years, I just want everyone who is planning to run a fandom project that involves accepting money for printing & shipping costs to know that you're actually running a small business and you need to plan for taxes. It doesn't matter if you don't make any profit: that is business income and the IRS will see it as such if you get audited.

If you only take enough money in to cover the cost of printing & shipping then you can write that off as a business expense and probably not pay taxes on it, But in order for that to fly you actually have to do business accounting, especially if you're doing it at scale. Like, you can probably skate by without reporting a $500 project; I absolutely would not fucking risk it with a $5000 project.

Back when I was producing shows there were years when I was where I made $20k in ticket sales only to turn around and immediately pay $18k to my performers. I only made $2k for myself, but I had to report the entire $20k, because it was ALL INCOME. (I only paid taxes on the $2000, because that's how writing off expenses works!)

Yeah this is boring grownup shit and I'm getting my boring grownup fingers all over your fun fandom, but boring grownups doing boring grownup things are the reason fandom spaces exist at all (paying for servers is deeply boring), and I'm way more fun than an audit

[choccy-milky]

the place me and my roommate were supposed to move into today was so disgusting and uninhabitable we just took our stuff and left and now we're gonna be staying at airbnbs and hotels until further notice/until we can find a new place hopefully quickly...........im in my homeless drifter era y'all!!!😍😍so if im not as active then thats why LMFAO

1 like = 1 prayer

[amayassm]

well, about that.

[blueskittlesart]

hey actually i do feel like i should make this post because people are so often surprised when I mention that my instagram is monetized. any business account (you can tell that it's a business account because the bio has a subtitle labeling the type of business they are) that has over 10k followers on instagram is eligible for reels monetization and any account with over 15k is eligible for post monetization. There is no requirement to disclose whether or not any given post is monetized, and every post is monetized by default when you opt-in to monetization. be cognizant of what you see and what you like. the payout system is engagement-based and rewards ragebait and engagement farming. and if you are a small artist or content creator, DO NOT let large business accounts repost your work without compensation. they are making money off of you and hoping you won't notice.

[starryfictionalgirl]

Watcher announcing they’re leaving YouTube and putting all their new content behind a paywall via a new streaming service in a nutshell:

[hamoodmood]

The vibe I wanna give off

[theambitiouswoman]

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Title: Rethinking Modern Society: A Vision for Positive Change

Introduction:In the ever-evolving landscape of modern society, there is a continuous call for improvement, innovation, and adaptation. As we reflect on the current state of affairs, it becomes evident that there are numerous areas where change could foster a more harmonious, inclusive, and sustainable world. This blog post delves into some key aspects that demand attention and proposes ideas for…

[sforzesco]

hey! hi! the cartoonist cooperative has an e-sim drive for gaza, offering art for e-sim donations (instructions etc in the link)

[elftwink]

to preface this post i am anti-advertising i think we should explode the entire industry but it's sooo funny when you people make posts like "and they don't even work!!" like. sorry to be the bearer of bad news but yes they do. that's why we have to put up with so many despite everyone hating them and thinking its annoying. because they actually work really well and make a shit load of money

[blogtocomplain]

excuse me?

if you're an orphan of the early development of Wish, I'm so sorry for you, just skip this post or you're suffer terribly.

walking by some portfolios out there, I found THIS

Disney has had a Star Boy 3D model for Wish and yet it was SCRAPPED

(credits to Dylan Ekren, the man responsible for 3D modelling of King Magnifico)

[barbwritesstuff]

I've already talked about this a wee bit on my kofi page, but I thought I'd post something here too.

I haven't been writing very well this last month. I think it's all the grey, cold weather. That usually knocks me down a peg. Plus, I'd really hoped to have another manuscript finished by this point in the year... and I don't.

I'm feeling a little disappointed in myself.

Which is silly! I know I don't always have to be super productive all the time. It's fine if some months are slower than others. And yet, no matter how silly those feelings are, I'm feeling them. It's frustrating because I WANT to write. I WANT TO WRITE SO MANY THINGS! I HAVE SO MANY IDEAS! But sometimes the words come at a trickle instead of a flood, and that's fine, even if it's annoying.

That's why I haven't been responding to many asks and why some of the weekly Thicker Than updates have been a bit short. I hope you can understand, and I hope no one is disappointed in me.

I'm being easy on myself, eating a lot of yummy food, and dreaming of summer.

Still stupidly excited to talk more about Of Monsters and Mainframes and to really dig into Thicker Than - Chapter Eleven. Both those things have one very wonderful thing in common with each other: Werewolves.

So you can see why I'm so keen.

💙