If You Own an Online Company, You Need to Do This

Rogan-Spotify Tiff Reveals Why You Need to Own Online Real Estate Were you forwarded this email? [Sign-up to Rude Awakening here.]( [Unsubscribe]( [The Rude Awakening] If there’s anything you’ve missed as part of your membership to Rude Awakening, make sure you check out our website where you can find archives, updates, and everything else that's included in your subscription. You can access it by [clicking here now](. If You Own an Online Company, You Need to Do This - The still-living Neil Young and Joni Mitchell remove their music from Spotify. - Joe Rogan must be asking himself if the $100 million Spotify paid him was worth it. - Though Rogan had the inventor of mRNA technology on his podcast, he apologizes via Instagram in the most respectful and classy way possible. 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The total population of the Philippines is 110.8 million people. Yup, that means Covid killed 1 out of 2,062 Filipinos (over two years). Remember, we don’t do annual stats for Covid as we do for every other disease we face. But, by all means, shut the country down and starve the survivors. It’s funny because the UK, Ireland, Denmark, and even The Netherlands are loosening their restrictions. And those countries aren’t nearly as soaked with good old Vitamin D as the Phils are. I only hope Italy wakes up in time for spring. But since I’ve got my Covid swipes in already, let’s turn our attention to an ancillary, but not a trivial part of the Covid argument. That is the right to reveal your thoughts and ideas concerning the government’s response to the virus and, of course, the virus itself. For Your Online Business, Own the Space - Don’t Rent It I’m an avid reader of [Ben Settle’s Email Players](. Ben is the King of Email Marketing. He doesn’t call himself that. Everyone else does. [His testimonials]( read like a marketing hall of fame convention. It’s like how Tom Brady gets compliments from Manning, Marino, Montana, and Elway. The great ones call him great. All the time. He’s been doing this for nearly 20 years. If you’ve taken my advice in starting your own online business, you can’t do better than to at least subscribe to Ben’s free emails. Yes, you’ll wind up buying something. You always do. But that’s because what he’s selling is excellence itself. I mention him because years ago, one of his warnings was this: Own your online real estate. Sure, Ben had tried Facebook groups and other social media stuff, but it wasn’t for him. He saw the writing on the wall back then. And the question he asked himself, and then answered for all of us, was, “Do I really own my business if YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram can cancel me?” To wit, on his BerserkerMail platform - yes, Ben created his own email service with Troy Broussard - one of his sales points says: Credit: [BerserkerMail]( This is critical going forward. If you’re on any other platform than your own, you’re vulnerable. Rogan Defended Himself Like a Champion When Joe Rogan sold his podcast to Spotify in 2020, I was thrilled for him. For about 15 seconds. And then I, like so many others warned, thought, “Man, he’s not going to be able to produce the same content anymore.” That’s because Spotify is a publicly-traded company. And that means activist hedge funds, pension funds, and other investors who are riding your stock for a return will pressure management to do anything they can to raise the stock price. Not produce great content. Not produce controversial, but hard-hitting analysis of government overreach. Not be independent in thought and action. Because let’s face it. The second Rogan sold, he was no longer independent. Spotify initially said it wouldn’t tamper with Rogan’s content. And to my surprise and delight, for nearly two years, it didn’t. But when [Rogan had on Dr. Robert Malone]( who invented the darn technology and has close to 100 peer-reviewed publications cited over 12,000 times, the Twitterverse blew a gasket. Before I bash Twitter, please watch Rogan’s [Instagram post]( defending himself, his guests, and indeed, his opponents. It’s brilliantly done, though I don’t think he should have had to apologize at all. The Dumpster Fire Known as Twitter Let me get this out of the way so you know exactly where I stand. Twitter is not a microblogging platform. Twitter is a dumpster fire where purple-haired gender studies majors and soy-drenched betas vent their misery because they have $250,000 in student debt and zero income. I refuse to log on to the thing. I may have loathed Facebook by the time I signed off for the final time. But my God, I hated Twitter from Day One. I never hoped for a business to go bankrupt as I actively do for Twitter. Not even ZuckerFaceBergMetaBookVerse gets that kind of wrath from me. I don’t think Facebook is a force for good, and I believe Instagram actively harms teens. But Twitter allows linear “thinkers” to go one level down in 280 characters and assume they’ve won an argument. And that’s unforgivable. I get using it as a sales tool, though its value as such is spurious. (Watching its nearly fourfold stock rise from 2020 to mid-2021, only to get cut in half since then, has been a joy.) @jack is gone, and probably thrilled about it. But Twitter still wields a power over corporates I simply don’t get. Its users are generally life’s losers. Its investors certainly are losers. And it shows as [Twitter’s monthly users are one-ninth the size of Facebook’s.]( But when the Twitterverse whines, the corporate world sneezes and isn’t sure if it’s caught a cold. So it was with Rogan. Recommended Link [Silicon Valley insiders are delighted about WHAT?]( [Click here for more...]( What if I told you… That in Silicon Valley, DONALD TRUMP will one day go down as one of the greatest Presidents of all time? Sounds crazy. [Until you see this.]( [Click Here To Learn More]( From Hippies to Corporate Shills If you’re a Boomer, I apologize for the following sentence and exclude you from it, of course. But I’ve never seen a generation so afraid of death. So scared, in fact, that it’s happy for its grandchildren to take a vaccine for a disease that doesn’t affect them. Neil Young and Joni Mitchell were antiestablishment, weren’t they? They were the ones fighting against the bombs, the corporations, and the government. And when they went to Woodstock, they didn’t get The Clap; they got Applause! But, boy, have times changed. They’ve demanded - and had their request respected - that their music be removed from Spotify for Rogan’s “misinformation” podcast with Dr. Malone. “You can have Rogan or Young. But not both.” Really, Neil? Didn’t you once sing for us to “Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World?” I’d love to write more about Joni Mitchell, but I really have no idea about her music. I thought she was dead, honestly. I just looked her up on Wikipedia. She’s Canadian. Wow, so is Neil Young. I wonder what they think of Canada’s truckers. Probably what the ChéBeChé tells them: Sure, ChéBeChé. Sure this wasn’t about the [Covid vaccine mandates for truckers]( Wrap Up But back to Rogan and what this has to do with you. If you’ve been following the Rude’s Pillars of Freedom, you know one of them is “own an online business.” An important corollary to that is to “own the platform on which you serve your goods and services.” That is, make your website your fortress. Use email services like BerzerkerMail to make sure you won’t get canceled. Sure, use YouTube, Google, and Facebook for marketing. But email marketing is better, as you own it. And make sure you’re producing stuff that you can move to another platform in a New York Minute. Having your business crushed by the baying Leftist mob would be a tragedy for you and your heirs. Of course, if some huge corporation wants to buy your stuff for $100 million, sell it. And then, leave. With that said, Joe Rogan should never change his format or style. We’re lucky to have such a good man asking the right questions at the right time. Until tomorrow. 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