Social Media Escape Club
Having a lot of social media followers or fame doesn’t guarantee it will sell. The singer Billie Eilish, despite her 97 million Instagram followers and 6 million Twitter followers, sold only 64,000 copies within eight months of publishing her book. The singer Justin Timberlake sold only 100,000 copies in the three years after he published his book.... See more
Elle Griffin • No One Buys Books
You don’t need to be showing up everywhere. Nor do you need to be showing up all the time.
How Slowing Your Social Media Down Could Change Your Business
If you’re just posting and platforming because you feel like you should , then the point is to help tech billionaires buy more super yachts.
Courtney Romano • Hey Coco: Am I undisciplined?
I didn’t mind social media when it was just one aspect of the internet, and it was largely just for that first word, “social.” But it slowly became the everything place, and now it’s bite-sized versions of news, art, ads, politics, obituaries, health advice, crimes against humanity, kittens, low-rent humor, messages from friends, soft-core porn, go... See more
Ben Cooper • Investment Strategies — Radical Face Dot Com
We’re playing and creating together in real-time. Not only that, we have to work, and it’s this effortful, again, can’t-quite-put-your-finger-to-it thing of having to give of yourself, that creates a strong community.
Amelia asked me what I am orienting to in my practice and everything in my body said I was turning toward other things, none of it included Instagram. And saying out loud - I don’t feel good there is what sparked my exit.
Off The Grid
How can I possibly sell art and “non necessities” during this time of great crisis? I try to remember that just as the world needs doctors and nurses and electricians and plumbers and farmers we need art.
Marketing in a Broken World
Having a style collapses hundreds of future decisions into one, and gives you focus.
Style Is Consistent Constraint
