Hi there, 👋
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If you switched off over the weekend, this is your wake-up call.
Consider it brain food to start your week:)
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Here are today's highlights:

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• 300+ sites analyzed: Data on the best affiliate marketing niches, assets, and monetization
• Expand your portfolio: Why and how investors should use content sites
• Unf**king the planet: New climate-tech fund
• Punks, Apes and crypto worries
• Tools: Track all your Defi & make some waves

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We're pretty excited about what we found for you so let's get into it.
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As always, thanks for being here.Juliet.
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​P.S. This is your newsletter! Tell us which story you most enjoyed and we'll bring you more like it. Thanks.
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Diggity Does It Again

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We were compelled to distract you with that title.
If it had read " The Best Niches for Affiliate Marketing" we'd guarantee 1,000s of eye rolls by now.
​This post is a data study from the inimitable Matt Diggity.
Through some combination of sorcery, endurance and analysis, Diggity has turned an ocean of data from more than 300 affiliate, display advertising, and Amazon sites sold on Empire Flippers into a useful resource for us mere mortals.
​The 300+ sites they received as part of the data dump are organized by affiliate marketing niches, assets, and monetization models.​
Diggity also compares the groups against each other to give you some niche ideas and help you choose the most lucrative affiliate niches.
The research drills down into 10 of Matt's favorite niches and covers the following:
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• Average monthly revenue
• Average # of Content Published
• Average # of Backlinks
• Average of Hours Worked/Week
• Highest Average Monthly Gross Revenue
• Lowest Average Monthly Gross Revenue

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Matt notes that there are many opportunities outside the most profitable niches so he's also provided condensed tables showing the above numbers for the remaining niches.
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​This is probably the most comprehensive data that’s ever been published about the factors at play in affiliate sites.​
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Be prepared: There are over 4500 words in this post.
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Track Your Entire DeFi Portfolio

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​Zapper is a DeFi dashboard.
If you need assistance to monitor your portfolio, Zapper will take care of your assets, debts, liquidity pools, staking, claimable rewards, and yield farming activities.Phew!
Zapper supports a long list of DeFi protocols and does not charge fees.
Like many other Web3 applications, they do not custody or control your assets and you don't share any personal data.
Yes, you can invest through the platform too.

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Domains

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👉Sell Before You Pay?

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One of the features of Dan .com is that buyers can utilize a lease to own (LTO) payment plan to buy a domain name over a set period of time.
​But, what happens if a buyer markets a domain name during a LTO deal and the seller learns about it?​
Elliot Silver took to Twitter and asked Dan .com CEO Reza Sardeha about selling domain names during the course of a LTO deal.
​Reza answered the question and provided some clarity about what a buyer can do related to re-selling the domain name before paying off a LTO domain name in full.

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NFTs Went Crazy

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➡️ One Rare Punk

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CryptoPunks and Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs have been outpacing the competition.
Obviously encouraged by the market trends, one CryptoPunk owner has listed his super-rare Punk for a whopping 60,000 ETH.​
If you have a spare ~$172M lying around then you can pick up this bearded, smoking, buck-toothed, top-hat wearing guy:

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➡️ Losing Your Ape Brain

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Just last week, we reported that Bored Ape #7090 was purchased for a record 199.0 ETH (over 650k at today's price).
Before we had finished processing the wisdom (?) of that purchase, domain investor Andy Booth announced that he and his brother, James, paid 400 ETH for Bored Ape #3749. ​
Andy Booth assured us of their sanity in this tweet:
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The Booth brothers are well known for their high risk, high reward plays in domain investing. Let's wait and see what happens with this purchase.
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​Of note:This week the BAYC project has also announced it donated over $200K worth of ether or 66.45 ETH to the New York-based Orangutan Outreach non-profit.
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Expand Your Site Portfolio

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As a follow up to their recent article on the content site gold rush, Empire Flippers dig into why and how investors can use content sites in their portfolios.
Brand aggregators are looking outside Amazon to gain an advantage and multiply the growth of their FBA assets.
​How? By expanding their portfolios to include content sites.​
When you acquire a content site that is monetized through Amazon Associates, you add a unique branch to your business model that almost no other FBA sellers have, giving you many competitive advantages.
You can tap into the Amazon affiliate reports to get extra product insights, double dip on affiliate traffic, and use the power of external traffic to boost your product rankings.
​A content site that drives external traffic isn’t prone to the whims of Amazon so your FBA business’ earnings are more secure.​
This post also outlines tactics for building the 'ultimate audience' and easy to further use your brand presence to diversify your revenue streams.
With the average sales price for a content site up 43% on 2020 prices, it might be time to get ahead of the competition.
​Recommended reading.​

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Random Tweet: CyberDog

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​OMG: What were they thinking?​
Xiaomi’s design team clearly leaned in and went full-on Robocop.And we bet the company’s heard all of your bad Black Mirror jokes by now.

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Wicked Design

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The latest free resource from WickedTemplates is Wicked Backgrounds.
Their wave designs are fully customizable and intended to attract attention.
Just choose your main color, a number of waves, the color mode and you are ready to download and go.No sign up needed.
​Launch the wave generator.​
​Here's another great resource from them: Color and typography for web developers and digital designers.
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✅ Snippets to Send You on Your Way

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🔷 Unf**king the planet: Lowercarbon Capital, a climate-tech focused fund founded by long-time investor Chris Sacca and his wife Crystal Sacca, has closed on $800 million in capital. The capital will be divided into four funds. Sacca became well-known for his early and outsize bets on both Twitter and Uber. See the announcement.​
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🔷 Crypto companies and investors are worried: Those in the crypto space worry that regulation will put new tax-reporting obligations on companies and even individual miners that have no direct role in a crypto transaction, but will need users’ data they currently do not have to give to the IRS. What the experts say.​
🔷 Crypto tax startup raises $130M: How to intelligently tax cryptocurrency transactions is a matter of national policy in the U.S. but TaxBit is forging ahead with its software solution to the problem. The company is now worth $1.33 billion after its latest round, implying a pre-money valuation of $1.2 billion. Crypto is big business, don’t forget.
🔷 SellerX lands $100M: Berlin-based SellerX, an aggregator of Amazon businesses, raised $100 million in a Series B funding round led by L Catterton. Founded in 2020, the company previously raised over $148 million in known funding. They're still shopping.​
🔷 Reddit is raising $700M: Social giant Reddit has put together $410 million of a larger round to help fuel its long-term ambitions. The company did around $100 million in Q2 revenue and will be worth ~$10 billion after it closes its latest round. It’s a lot of capital for an internet property that was once sold to Conde Nast for a sum that we are 99.99% sure was but a fraction of its current worth.

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