Sean Ogle

So I lost my passport in #Japan this week...this is what happened. youtube.com/watch?v=Qfmvex…

@joelrunyon @ImpossibleHQ @braunhagey This makes me so happy. Congrats dude!

"It always seems IMPOSSIBLE until it's done" @ImpossibleHQ

@Travis_Jamison @morganhousel I love this. Have noticed the same thing. And every time I think about doing something that may benefit me financially, but risk the independence I’ve built, it always gives me pause. And every time I go back to the thing I’ve valued most for over a decade: freedom.

I was just reading @morganhousel's fantastic list of very bad advice (link below) One stood out: "Don't pursue status at the expense of independence." I see this one far too often, and usually from high-income earners. They're so thirsty for validation that they sacrifice what others would actually respect in exchange for a short-term eyebrow raise. In my mind I have an example. An acquaintance who has moved into a solid income bracket but has zero substance to show for it. He bought a brand new Mercedes and a $20k Rolex, yet I know he has zero savings and is in debt. He wants validation from me and those like me so damned bad, but misses the fact that the shiny toys don't matter. In fact, the richer you are the less you usually care about those toys and trinkets. The rich might have the toys, but it's because they are fun or a they enjoy great craftsmanship, but it's much less about impressing others. Do you think Bezos notices your Rolex? I'm speaking in averages, but I've found that those at the top are far more impressed with the non-financial. Living an interesting life. Art. New Ideas. Unique knowledge. A few years ago I was at a special intimate investor event. Everyone sitting at the table were self-made millionaires. As we were going around talking, I was surprised that the only thing about me that people seemed even remotely interested in was that I spent a decade in Asia. Not my businesses, not my assets, and definitely no simple trinket of status. When I see people trading their independence for a useless status symbol I want to grab and shake and shout: "I promise this isn't what you want! Focus on independence and living an interesting life!" But alas I rarely do.

We launched the @GolfNApp on the App Store just 5 weeks ago. In that time: • 8,000+ downloads • 2,075 rounds logged • Rounds Played on every continent • Now averaging 200-300 downloads per day just in the USA and UK 1/x

@MattGiovanisci Me. I’m people.

People are SHOCKED to find out that I've been publishing a daily Money Lab podcast episode for over a year.

Our message to Google is simple: remove the site-wide classifier that is being used to punish small, independent websites. If you feel there are major issues with our sites, at least give us a manual penalty and explain why. But as it stands right now, there are thousands of legitimate websites providing immense value that are essentially being shadow banned for no apparent reason (other than to benefit a handful of major corporations that Google is financially tied to). We aren’t asking for preferential treatment. We just want to compete on an equal playing field against the big sites, letting the users—rather than Google’s AI algorithm— decide what constitutes helpful content. There are dozens of ranking factors that can assess the user experience like time on page, bounce rate, etc. If we are going to lose to the big guys, it should be based on our own shortcomings, and not a side-wide classifier. No company should be able to flip a switch overnight that can decimate the livelihoods of thousands, if not millions of people. It’s not just site owners who suffer from these decisions; it’s all the writers, editors, web designers/developers, SEO folks, and virtually everyone else in the online space. All we ask is that you make this online ecosystem a fun and fair place to compete again. Give us the opportunity to make amazing content and be rewarded for our efforts. Without small, niche sites, the online world is going to become an uncreative, myopic place. Just a handful of large websites will dominate the information on the web, ultimately leading to less helpful content for consumers. If Google truly values diversity (like it says it does), then it shouldn’t be shutting out the voices of niche sites & small bloggers through a site-wide classifier. Please open your hearts and do the right thing. 🙏 @googlesearchc @JohnMu @Google

@HuuVanTran @NicheSiteLady Fwiw, I setup 4 quizzes 10 months ago and have got about 20k subs from them. Email open rate is still over 50% from that list.

@NicheSiteLady If people took quizzes, I wonder if they are happy to receive newsletter emails (especially the daily ones). It could be not so quality subs.

I just got 64 email subscribers for free. 🔥 This is the strategy I'm rolling out to repeat this daily...

@DJohanson @darwinruiz_ @parkerworth Long live the fedora!

@darwinruiz_ @parkerworth @seanogle The fedora will follow me forever!

This is Derek Johanson. His course CopyHour made multiple 7 figure writers. Here are 5 powerful lessons from Derek to help you write 7 figure copy in the next 90 days:

Awwww! You’re the best!

If you read one thing today, make it this.

I’m not necessarily a @Beyonce fan, or a country music fan. But Cowboy Carter is the best album I’ve heard in a very long time.

@LFroment Wonderful choice :)

@LFroment AWWWWWW YEAH.

@pearsonified Congrats!!

@MattGiovanisci All day everyday

Is anyone still using the WordPress Classic Editor?

Hey @portlandgeneral, our power has been out for 5 days now and we still haven’t gotten any estimated time of it coming back on or any notifications of any fixes. Should we expect this to continue?

@MattGiovanisci !!!

The Money Lab Podcast is BACK! But I'm doing something a little different this time. If you're interested, search your favorite podcast app to find out. Oh, and Happy New Year 🥳

@BarrettABrooks NERD

I am that nerd who gifts people books with thoughtful, personalized notes on why I think it’s the book for that person in this moment.

@Jamie_IF Agreed on all of this…wild to see how objectively unhelpful so many serps have become over the last 6 months…

I'm seeing soo many "best X" product SERPs that are just absolute garbage now Mostly it's Google ranking the manufacturers top for loads of these keywords So instead of seeing product comparisons, it's just the reader being shilled that manufacturer's product Which is an objectively worse experience for users, because the manufacturers are objectively NOT objective. 🤦‍♂️ An email software company should not rank #1 for "best email software", and a laptop manufacturer should not be able to rank itself for "best laptops", etc. But since manufacturers and e-comm are so so favored over content sites now, Google is just giving top positions to the most biased sources, just to push affiliates down? I'm sorry, but my article with 5+ real product reviews, with in-depth comparisons over which is best for each segment and use case, and an intro that immediately answers the "what is the best X" for every segment ... is a better article than a manufacturer that has 700 words of unhelpful intro into what X is, how to choose X, and then eventually just shills you their product But for some of these keywords it's just impossible to rank ..and it's not like a "I'll try improve my content" thing, just a "I'm a sub-DR80 content site, so there's no surmounting this" thing. ALL my competitors are down too - nobody is up! Which is obviously frustrating Never going to give up, and we're still doing decent traffic and cash. Not trying to complain. But I can see why everyone's going parasite, because Google doesn't want to rank good content from smaller brands -- it'd rather rank biased producers of products than actual third-party reviewers of those products lol

@JepsenThomas @Jamie_IF Would be interested in an audit…

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@dvdaltizer @max_fosh @HHillierSmith @kurtisconner Been fun to watch your thumbnail journey! Just curious, how much do your charge for thumbnails? Is it by thumbnail, as a package, hourly?

Five months ago, I started making thumbnails for hire. I never thought it would become a career path I love this much! Here are some of my favorites: