It's A New Year! Will 2025 Be A Good Year?
Politics-aside, I'm looking forward to 2025 and it being a much better year for business than 2024. Here's hoping.
First off, Happy New Year!
Last year, 2024, was a strange year. Most of my new business didn't get started until Q2 and even then it was a slog.
This year is looking up, so far. I have two deals ready to launch in January and a few to finish up and move on to the next stages.
I'm not a big believer in New Years Resolutions. I've always found them arduous to keep. But I am looking forward to some New Years goals.
- Network more effectively – This means only belong to networking groups that have produced quality leads (closed or not).
- Capitalize on the online space – This year I want to make a conscious attempt at mixing online and offline events so that I can meet more people and possibly help/work with more folks.
- Grow Podcast Mastery – I started my podcast consultancy (a sub-brand of Goldstein Media) a few months before the end of the year. I'm looking forward to systematizing it and growing it. I really enjoy helping people use podcasts for both enjoyment and for business.
- Read more books – This doesn't necessarily mean more business books or more fiction. It means just actually make a conscious effort to sit down and read, to give my eyes a break from all the blue light.
- Continue Entrepreneur's Enigma and even figure out a cadence to bring back a short season of Digital Marketing Dive with a new co-host (about 10 episodes).
- Quell and organize my newsletter subscriptions – I collect newsletter subscriptions like they're going out of style. I need to figure out a good way to consume them without being overwhelmed by them.
What are your New Years Goals? Hit reply and let me know
The Latest From The Entrepreneur's Enigma Podcast
Web Jawn
Tianna MarinucciTraveler. Foodie. Writer.
A good retrospective about podcasting in 2024.
Tim Chambers
A buddy of mine and the administrator of the Indieweb.social Mastodon server has some predictions for 2025 and the open web. A good read.
Joost de Valk
This view is shared widely in the WordPress community and needs to happen for the success of the project.
Karim Marucchi
Karim Marucchi, another WordPress thought leader, has similar thought to those Joost de Valk shared.
Taco
Taco is a great guy and has been involved with WordPress for quite a while. His metaphor for community is quite apt.
Zack Whittaker, Carly Page
A recap of the poorly handled data breaches of 2024. I feel like this is going to be an annual story going forward.
Ivan Mehta
Bluesky is iterating and now is trying out trending topics. This will be even neater when the platform decentralizes. If it ever does.
Jack Ellis
For Database geeks everywhere, co-founder of Fathom Analytics, Jack Ellis, deep dives into how Fathom Analytics is getting even faster.
Todd Jones
Worth a read. Todd E. Jones is a great writer too.
Paul Sawers
Where the moolah is coming from for Bluesky!
Zero-read content will be the #1 buzzword in 2025. Older generations - the main consumers of written content - are shrinking every year, while newer generations hate reading... Technologies are evolving to save people from reading, and this is a rebellious trend. 1/2 #SEO
— Mike Blazer (@mikeblazer.bsky.social) 2024-12-26T10:48:02.035Z
Kerem Gülen
This is going to get interesting.
Nick Evershed
Well this isn't a good way to start a search product, now is it?
Jason Barnard is brilliant. And yes, focus on Entity SEO as much as GEO/AIO and SEO.
Barry Schwartz
It's always good to look back at what the Google did with updates over the past year!
Yea, podcasts are going visual, via Video, but there is still a need for the RSS feed and audio. So don't neglect that side of things and just feed the YouTube beast.
Samantha Cole
AI is everywhere! Even in doilies! Geezus
Not surprised. This was totally on my bingo card.
🎙️New Offering: Podcast Coaching 🎙️
I've been podcasting since 2010. During those 12+ years I've learned a thing or two about the ins and outs of the industry and approaching it the right way.
I've recently decided to offer podcast coaching as a service to share the knowledge that I've accumulated over the decade-plus in the industry.
Web Finds & Other Cool Stuff
Meco is a newsletter inbox meant for reading newsletters and that's all! It gives the user an innovative interface to read to newsletter and keep the ones that resonate. Check it out!
Today’s #SidewalkFriends sketch. An orange plank of wood on the sidewalk was the inspiration for this orange carpenter.
— Doctor M. Popular (@docpop.org) 2024-12-25T01:06:50.516Z
This is so geektastic and amazing. I can't get over the amount of the workmanship. All out of manila folders!
That's It For This Week! Keep Rocking It!
-Seth
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