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empire,someone plays too much AOE2?

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I just found this, Yana! So nice to read more about you. You’re the best! 💕💕💕

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Thank you so much, Deni!🤗🥰

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Yes!!! Hein, so cool to see you here! Let’s rock!!

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Hey Yana, you're the bomb! And yes, AI will rule! Go with the flow, or drown, right? Down right! 😃

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I'm excited to be part of this Journey with you Yana!

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Luca, it’s so nice to have you here! Thank you so much! It’s exciting for me too, lot’s of great new things to come!

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Hi, Yana. I will follow you here too. I read your work on Medium since 3 months ago and I can confirm everything you said. I saw how you grew and what you can do for others. Believe me, she’s the best.

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Thank you so much!! I'm trying :):)

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Hi Yana,

Looking forward to this. I think my biggest obstacle on writing is how to monetize it properly to make a semi-liveable, modest income.

Plus while I have some tech skills, I have large gaps too.

Valerie

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By the way, what kind of technical skills are you struggling most with?

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That's a difficult question to answer Yana. It would be more of the newer technologies, I really don't know until I get into them and see. I'm older so maybe its a generation gap of sorts, tech wise.....I have the ability to learn for sure, but learning is getting more difficult.

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Got it, maybe I can create some guides, like step by step guides for the tools I use? Would that help?

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Thanks, Val!! For sure I'll be covering this part! Stay tuned :) I look forward to discussing it further with you :)

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Thanks Yana. Plus, ways in reality that an average person can truly make money online, without spending a ton. Over the years I've done alot, ebooks (and had them translated to foreign languages), KPD books, stock photography, graphics selling on Creative Fabrica, print on demand on 4 major sites, tried Etsy for a year solid, but couldn't make that one viable (graphics and knitted items, separate stores), a blog that never went anywhere, so I closed it, now writing on Medium. So, I've learned alot of skills over many areas over the years, but nothing that could make anything real serious....

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Alright! This is exactly what I plan to share here. I was trying to do the same for years, since 2010 to be precise. I also did stock photos, POD, KDP, also Amazon, Affiliates, NFTs, YouTube and Medium and failed few times there. And I even invested building some brands and e-commerce sites with blogs too. It took me a lot of time (and money) to understand that I was looking in the wrong direction. So I changed it this year, and now I started getting some meaningful results on Medium and two Affiliates. There are few things I realised which made the difference, which I’ll exclusively cover here.

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We share the exact same interests, it is as if we are writing soul mates.

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Yes!! Let’s keep in touch here too!

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Well, I guess we have alot in common on some of those fronts. I started in about 2005, but I was working full time at that time as well. Oh, I forgot I tried NFT's too, and just this year made a couple of YouTube videos, and realized I really didn't like that process at all. I had no patience for learning video or video editing, and just didn't like it. I look forward to your content.

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Videos a tough I admit, but I have now two ways to make the process digestible for people like us (not liking the process). There is a huge potential I believe, will share that too!

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Looks intriguing! Looking forward!

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Thank you so much!

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Welcome! I've followed and recommended you!

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Great, thank you so much! I also followed you and will recommend!

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You're welcome! I often contribute to CREATIVETECH on Medium. We're all friends there!

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Yes! The community we created there is doing great! Thank you so much, means a lot!

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