This TikTok has a really good visual representation of a million versus a billion dollars, which is especially relevant now that people are trying to compare Bernie’s $2.5 million to Bloomberg’s $64 billion
Under my
#WealthTax
, Jeff Bezos would pay approximately $7.3 billion, which would be just about three and a half pounds of this 58 pound mountain of rice.
That was fast: Mashable wrote an article about the rice counting!
TikTok star meticulously lays out grains of rice to depict Jeff Bezos' obscene wealth via
@mashable
Update: Jeff Bezos’ Wealth in Rice! 172 Billion = 82 Pounds in Rice where each grain = $100,000.
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Well just checking my SD card for the raw footage of my video about rice to post on YouTube and my camera cuts off after 30 minutes, so I have two 30 minute clips of me counting but not the full thing :( RIP
Would you guys still want to see the unedited 30m parts?
Another Thumbnail Test Result:
- More money = not necessarily better, feels more cluttered. Having more empty space actually won here
- Yellow text beat Red text... perhaps Red has a negative connotation? The yellow text was hard to read, as well. So that's surprising.
-
@Byron
when people ask me for the inspiration for the video I am crediting you with the original (see article). Hopefully you saw my tweet from the other day, I had no idea who made the original one I saw years ago until it was pointed out to me on twitter!
Just got a burger from an upscale restaurant. Entire plate with fries came out in less than 2 minutes. I know that's great service, but it kinda sketches me out if it comes out TOO fast. Like, is it cooked? How is it that fast?
... would you feel weird about this?
Best explanation of the TikTok algorithm summed up:
@Coachalne
on YT.
I've noticed everything through experience of what he says in the video.
Longer original YT:
Won this 1/1 Hamburger Monke from
@SolVoxelMonkes
! Lovin the art. The last 5 minutes of bidding were incredible. Love the project. Super happy overall. Thanks to
@RainneN23
for guidance and chatting with me. Reject humanity, return to monke!
At the beginning of this year I told myself I'd just be happy if my YouTube videos hit 30K views each after a few weeks. These days they surpass 30-40K views within the first 24 hours. Thankful for that
I've generated $146,836 to date in 2022 from my YouTube channel. All 100% organic.
My average views are about 15,000-20,000 per video.
Here are 8 Actionable Tips if you're looking to get started:
Little update on my title change from 4 days ago. Real-time 48h views have doubled and you can see the day I changed the title and what it did to the impressions.
Original title: Take Your Cash Out Of Banks: 5 Alternatives etc
New title: Don’t Leave Your Cash In the Bank…
I know a creator that creates his thumbnails in PowerPoint.
He screenshots the thumbnail slide then uploads to YouTube. Not even an export.
1.2 Million Subs.
The world has poured $5 trillion into
#COVID19
response. But how does that compare to what we SHOULD be spending to be prepared for pandemics? 🤔
We worked with our friend
@humphreytalks
to show you. Finishing watching the full video over on TikTok:
Minimum Wage Salary/Year:
1972: $3,200
2022: $14,500
Median Home Price USA:
1972: $26,800
2022: $392,000
Years you need to work to purchase a home in full:
1972: 8.375 years
2022: 27.03 years
This is what the younger generation will reference when it comes to "Quiet Quitting".
Another A/B Test Result. We aren't really varying it up too much, mostly just changing text for most of these (which is usually the Finance Niche Meta)
But the word "Easily" appeals to more people is what I think the tool is telling us.
My other favorite thing about the
0/ Costco loses $40 Million Dollars a year on Chicken, they also lose money on their Hot-Dog/Soda combo, and Gasoline offerings.
So how are they actually making money? It's quite genius...
In my 20s, I made a lot of financial mistakes. Mistakes that would set me back years on my path to wealth.
If you can avoid these, you'll be way ahead of the game 🏃♂️💨
Here are the 8 WORST Purchases you can make in your 20s 👇
I'm lovin the
#SlackFrontiers
virtual event! I'm more productive using
@SlackHQ
by keeping track of 10+ conversations using🧵(threads) + I have like 10 different workspaces😂! Check out new Slack platform features to level up your DigitalHQ!
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Got access to the YouTube thumbnail A/B test beta feature.
Preliminary results below. Takeaways:
- Yellow > green text on the savings video
- Test on a brand new video only lasted 1 hours (probably because it got enough impressions to be stat. significant), other test = 24h+
I’ve been going to the same coffee shop 2x/week now for the past few months. My coffee name is Kevin and TODAY I didn’t even need to tell the guy taking my order my “name”. He just knew.
My dreams have come true. I henceforth will be know as Kevin at the Philz here 🫡
Today, I welcomed over 100 leaders in the digital creator economy to the White House.
These folks don't just embody innovation and a breakthrough in how we communicate – they’re a major share of our global economy.
They're the future. And I wanted to hear from them.
If anyone's interested in NFTs I posted my full guide on YouTube just now :) It should help you figure out the basics of buying NFTs, as well as how to tell good vs bad projects apart, and there are a ton of resources linked in the video.
Meet
@Humphreytalks
, Bankrate’s 2023 Best Personal Finance Influencer. 🎉
Yang has a knack for breaking down complex topics, like taxes and investing, in a way that makes it easy for any of his ‼️ 3.3 million ‼️ followers to understand.
Learn more:
According to the US Census, the median net worth of the Upper Class (Top 20%) is $608,900.
If you save and invest $200 per month into the S&P 500 at an 8% return from the age 25 to 65, you'll have $671,474.50.
Net worth is often more indicative of habits and discipline than
You can make money doing anything. I literally only flipped couches I got for free for a week and made $1025 profit. Just gotta hustle.
And yes I did make a video about it. Comes out this week!
3 Days into Shorts Monetization:
1 Long Form View = 250 Shorts Views
I get $15 RPM Long Form, vs $0.06 RPM Short Form.
That means getting 10,000 long views is the equivalent of 2.5M views on Shorts based on monetization only.
This will vary based on your RPM.
Planes are incredible man.
You sit in a seat for 10+ hours and all of a sudden an entire new world, culture, and language emerges.
Instant perspective. Even 100 years ago it wouldn't be possible.
Here's my Shorts Monetization tab (new in studio). You're gonna see a lot of tweets today with "omg this is terribad" but they'll leave off the grayed out text.
How often do we feel rushed in life to get our laundry list of tasks accomplished?
Practice mindfulness and results will come.
Stay consistent and when you get traction, keep building upon said traction.
Good things will come.
@naval
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got:
It told me to go slow to go fast
I think that applies to everything in life
We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully
we will get it done quicker and with much less stress
“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” - Warren Buffett
Your younger self needs to take care of your older self.
@Too_Much_Sense
Haha yeah I was thinking of making an update video. Where I compare his old rice pile (58 lbs), the difference of what's he's gained in the past few months, and then the total two rice piles. Need about 2 more bags of rice though (100 lbs)
With over 3.3 million followers on TikTok, Humphrey Yang is one of the top personal finance influencers on the platform.
He says he doesn't think it makes financial sense to live in San Francisco—even though he resides in the Marina. Here's why.
The not so glamorous part of being a creator: listening through hundreds of royalty free tracks to put in your vids.
Unless you enjoy listening to that kind of thing.
"Your password must be at least 10 characters, contain at least one upper case letter, contain at least one lower case letter, contain at least one non-letter, and not have two of the same character in a row."
This is fucking impossible
The last day of the month is my favorite (today).
That's when I total everything up for the month and put them in my Google Spreadsheet.
I total everything I've spent, all my bank balances, all my income, and my investments.
I then get to see how I've done this month 🔥
I Savings Bond Rates just went to 9.62%. That means a virtually risk free 9.62% on your money for at least the next 6 months. Caveat: You need to wait at least 1 year before you cash it out, and ideally have a longer time horizon.
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