Fortune Letters with Jim Makos

Are you tired of boring presentations that put your audience to sleep? Struggling to make your YouTube videos stand out in a sea of talking heads? In this episode, I share an eye-opening story from a friend's experience that highlights the power of using visual aids to captivate an audience. Discover how this approach can transform not only business slideshow presentations but also your video...

Episode 7: How can I afford to pay $500 for a theme for my revenue-generating website while I'm trying to  extend my cash runway , as I'm trying to recover my website from  a Google update hit ? I should be very frugal and only spend on necessities until my website becomes more profitable again. Spending a third of what my website is making per month on the looks of the website doesn’t sou...

Episode 6: In today’s podcast episode, I’ll discuss why and how I moved my most popular website, which gets more than a hundred thousand users per month, from WordPress to Ghost and whether this makes sense financially. I'll also discuss why I think my recent video on anxiety tanked and how my personal website is different from my popular one in terms of business strategy. This episode is all...

Episode 5: SEO experts now know they were right all along. This week there was a leak of a Google API document that revealed some parts of how the search engine works. SEO people were excited to finally get a peek behind the curtain. The document includes a few signals that Google takes into account when it pushes a website up or down in rankings. Yes, it includes a few signals that are a bit worr...

In this week's letter I'm going through: What I learned from recording an unscripted podcast My preproduction process for making videos What parts of a video attract the most attention How you know AI don't script my videos What are my plans A and B for recovering my website from Google Updates How my bet on Croatia to win the Eurovision Song Contest reminded me of the worst offer gamb...

I tried recording a podcast episode without a script or a bullet point list during our visit to the Greek island of Skyros on Easter Sunday. This is the result. In the third episode, I talk about the steps I'm taking to recover a website from losing its rankings following updates on the search engine, why I took a trip to Paris in the middle of a financial family crisis, and my plan for making...

In today's podcast, I talk about how walking and running burn the same calories, why no one is going to change their mind, and who's the last person to make mistakes. I also discuss nutrition and how I track calories when eating out, why I hate running, and why the iPhone and crypto have been two of my best investments! 👋 CONNECT WITH ME ✉️ ⁠Subscribe to my letters⁠ ⁠YouTube⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠Χ⁠⁠ | ⁠...

Episode 1: I go through my content creation workflow as I turn my ideas into public content on social media platforms based on my Notion template. (01:20) Creating content as a non-native English speaker (05:22) Enjoyed success in Greece (08:17) My Notion content creation template (10:54) My content's pillars/topics (14:18) My content creation process (15:28) From an idea on Apple Notes to Twi...