To avoid being taken advantage of in business you need to know the "red flags" to spot in the early stages of working with someone or a company. These red flags include too many planning meetings, reluctance to sign a contract, and trying to drive down your asking price too much. All of these point to a business relationship that will be one sided, and these initial "red flags" are a sneak preview of what working with these people will be like in the future.

Content creators are misunderstood for sure. People think that creating content on the internet is not "real" work, for example. Some think that playing videos games and live streaming them is easy. These sorts of myths could not be further from the truth. Many full-time content creators work 10-14 hours per day and often work weekends as well. When you quit your day job to become a content creator, you are likely taking on significantly more work, believe it or not.

Video games can often look promising around launch, but ultimately fail post launch for a number of reasons. In this podcast, Andrew Wall and Andrew Wall discuss the attributes and trends of successful games that you can live stream and make videos about for 5+ years to come. These such games and franchises are "forever" titles and are sometimes referred to as "evergreen". Do your research and increase the odds that your time investment will help grow your gaming channel.

Mental Health is more difficult to maintain while we are stuck at home with an unlimited fire hose of social media content shooting into our brains. The key to establishing and keeping a healthy mindset is taking breaks from your notifications and all of the people trying to pull your time and attention away from what you are focusing on. Do not disturb is one of your best tools to reduce the amount of emails, DMs, calls, and feed-based content you have to filter on a daily basis.

Facebook Gaming has been experiencing non-stop growth, but is it the best streaming platform for gaming streamers in 2020? We contrast Facebook Gaming vs Twitch vs Mixer vs YouTube Gaming in this video including the number of concurrent viewers, hours watched, unique channels, and how they have trended over time. If you are looking to grow as a gaming live streamer, you need to watch every minute of this episode.

Choosing the best game to grow your gaming channel is complicated. However, there are a number of factors you should look in to before you dive in. You should examine the game to see if it will have regular updates or is able to be modded. You should look at the marketing budget for the game, and if it is not a multi-million dollar budget, the opportunity to grow is low. Lastly, you should look at the depth of title and how long you can make content for the game before running out of video ideas.

Content strategy can be difficult, especially when you don't know which topic you should cover. The key is to look at supply of content versus demand on different platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitch. Once you have researched the market, you need to focus on what you are passionate about. More importantly, you should think about which of your interests will last 5-10+ years so you can build a sustainable audience and channels.

Failure only exists if you choose to learn nothing from it. When you try something and it doesn't work out, that is just one stage in your journey. Failing is not a reflection of your worth. Failure does not determine whether you are going to be a success in the long term, you do. If you can learn from your failures, apply those lessons each day, you will become a success... but, it might not look the way you originally intended.

Content creators need to think about where they will want to be in 10+ years with their online business. Are you really going to make YouTube videos and live stream everyday into your 50s, 60s and 70s? If not, how are you going to transition from grinding content every single day to making more passive income that you can retire on?

Quarantine makes it tough to find a new job, but in this video we talk about ways to diversify your income and secure new clients TheChattyPug submitted his video question asking how he should structure his arrangement with his new potential client he is providing graphics design services to. Should he charge by the hour, by the week, month or project? How should he handle his agreement with the client?