Branding and positioning
“Hey Michael,
I know you hired me to write the entire website content, but the elephant in the room is actually technical not the content itself.
For instance, the loading speed was 14.8 seconds when I tested it on mobile (using PageSpeed Insights and GTmetrix). My premium SEO tool also shows your website currently ranked 543 out of 706 active sites in your region for core visibility metrics.
Digging deeper, I noticed the primary CTA button at the top right-hand corner of the website is too small and low-contrast, thereby affecting the click-through rate on desktop and especially mobile. You might have also recorded a huge churn (bounce rate spike) since the turn of the year. This is largely due to the main call-to-action being placed at the center of the website (instead of above the fold in a high-visibility position) and the testimonial section moved down below the fold (instead of right after the hero section where social proof has maximum impact).
For the blog section, the core/compact keywords are still relevant, but I strongly advise we update the titles, meta descriptions, and content accordingly to score high on recency signals and E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness). Google is now heavily rewarding fresh, authoritative content in your niche.
I’ve prepared a short Technical + Content Optimization Roadmap (just 2 pages) that outlines:
• Immediate fixes (most can be done in 1–2 days)
• Content updates that will directly improve dwell time and conversions
• A revised structure for better user flow
Would you like me to send that over now, or shall we hop on a quick 15-minute call this week so I can walk you through the findings with screenshots?
I’m confident these changes will deliver a strong ROI on the content work we’ve already done.
Looking forward to getting your site performing at its full potential.
Best regards,
Omoalhaja Abiola”
And the client replied with “Is $10k enough to get all of these done. We need this done ASAP”. This was in 2019 btw
Using the doorway to master that defensive geometry. 🚪📐 No fancy gym needed—just pure, gritty technical work to nail those slips, bob-and-weaves, and angles.
Leveling up the head movement. 🥊🔥
Mastering defensive geometry. 📐🥊
When they’re pressing hard, don't just back up straight. Hit that check hook, pivot out to take the angle, and get your head and base completely off the center line.
CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) is a globally recognised professional certification focused on investment analysis, portfolio management, and financial markets.
You don’t need a finance background to start. Candidates come from engineering, accounting, economics, and other fields.
What matters most is discipline, consistency, and commitment to the curriculum.
If you’re just getting started in capital markets, you can begin with CIS (Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers) as a foundation before progressing to CFA.
You don’t need to be a tech bro to buy a good laptop.👇
Most sellers will throw around big grammar like:
Core i7, 13th Gen, SSD, NVMe, GPU, VRAM…
and confuse you into overspending.
Simple breakdown:
• Core i3 / i5 / i7 = Laptop power level
i3 = basic use
i5 = best for most people
i7 = heavy work like editing/gaming
But here’s the real trick…
Generation matters more than i3/i5/i7.
A 13th Gen i5 can be faster than an old 7th Gen i7.
Read that again.
That “cheap Core i7 laptop” some sellers hype?
It may actually be old, slow, and a bad deal.
Then storage:
• HDD = very slow
• SSD = fast
• NVMe SSD = lightning fast
Rule of thumb:
Never buy a laptop with HDD in 2026 unless you enjoy suffering.
Bonus Windows hacks many people don’t know:
• Win + V → See everything you copied today
• Win + Ctrl + L → Live captions for videos/audio
• powercfg /batteryreport → Check real battery health
Bottom line:
Stop buying laptops because of sweet mouth marketing.
A modern Core i5 + recent generation + NVMe SSD will serve most people better than an ancient “Core i7.”
Laptop sellers won’t tell you this.
Now you know😁
EAs work closely with the key decision maker - the CEO.
So if you impress them, it catapults your career.
Oando Marketing had a crisis in 2009 and the Oando Group leadership cleared the leadership of that subsidiary.
Yomi Awobokun, Wale Tinubu's EA, was then sent to the marketing subsidiary to be the CEO.
He moved from EA to CEO of a subsidiary within a short period.
I have several other examples.
My American colleagues laughed when I brought jollof rice to the office potluck.
I was the only Nigerian in a team of 25 in California. Someone whispered
“Is that spicy ketchup rice?”
I smiled and kept quiet, but inside I was embarrassed.
By lunchtime the entire tray was gone.
People kept coming back for seconds, asking for the recipe, and one girl said
“This is better than my grandma’s jambalaya!”
My boss even joked that we should make it a monthly thing.
That day taught me something powerful… what feels too different or too much in our culture is often what people love most about us.
Stop shrinking your flavor to fit in.
my pro tip to get references is look into any great movie/show credits and look for the names of the art departments one by one and look into their portfolios
way better than pinterest in my opinion djjsks
Commercial VPNs route your traffic through shared IP addresses. thousands of users on the same IP. those IPs are public, known, and listed. The government can block them the same way Netflix blocks them, one IP list. done.
A self-hosted VPN is different.
Your server. your IP. nobody else's traffic on it. there is no list to add it to. the government would have to identify and block your specific home address or VPS individually. that is not scalable. that is not what mass VPN bans do.
here's how to build one in under 10 minutes.
you need:
— a $5/month VPS (DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Vultr — any will work)
— Docker installed
— 10 minutes
step 1: get a VPS. pick any provider. Ubuntu 22.04. the cheapest plan works.
step 2: install Docker on it.
curl -fsSL https://get[.]docker[.]com | sh
step 3: run WG-Easy. one command:
docker run -d \
--name wg-easy \
-e WG_HOST=YOUR_SERVER_IP \
-e PASSWORD=your_password \
-p 51820:51820/udp \
-p 51821:51821/tcp \
--cap-add=NET_ADMIN \
--cap-add=SYS_MODULE \
--sysctl="net.ipv4.ip_forward=1" \
--restart unless-stopped \
ghcr[.]io/wg-easy/wg-easy
step 4: open your browser. go to YOUR_SERVER_IP:51821. log in. click "new client." download the config. import it into the WireGuard app on your phone or laptop.
that's it. you now have a private VPN that:
— nobody else uses
— isn't on any blocklist
— costs $5 a month
— logs nothing unless you tell it to
— uses modern cryptography the NSA currently cannot break
WireGuard is built into the Linux kernel. 4,000 lines of code. fully audited. faster than OpenVPN. no configuration mistakes that accidentally weaken your encryption.
They cannot ban your server.
Here are some of degrees they added, according to China’s Ministry of Education;
Area and Country Studies
Carbon Neutrality Science and Engineering
Marine Science and Technology
Health and Healthcare Security
Intelligent Molecular Engineering
Medical Device Engineering
Medical Devices and Equipment Engineering
Spatiotemporal Information Engineering
AI Education
Intelligent Audio-Visual Engineering
Digital Drama
Low-Altitude Technology and Engineering
Embodied Intelligence (at multiple universities)
Intelligent Visual Engineering
Intelligent Marine Equipment
Biological Breeding Technology
High-Power Semiconductor Science and Engineering
Electronic Information Materials
Football
Sports and Health Preservation
International Cruise Management
Air Sports / Aviation Sports
Etc.
For those confused by Obsession's massive success let me break it down for you the best I can. Curry barker has essentially tapped into the genz female lizard brain with this movie.
The same female lizard brain which ranks nice guys worst than actual rspists and criminals. Why is it so? I don't know but every girl has her Bear and has utter unrealised hate against them which never gets released
But here in the movie their greatest horror fantasy of loving a loser and him being actually bad gets realised and their unrealised hate gets a channel. Thats why you have seen 160,000,000 women write the same essay on the movie.
This is a generational movie because it's the first time a genz director has used his street knowledge subtly and made millions off of it.
If you’ve been working in a particular field for long, but you don’t have a degree in that field.
You can actually convert your work experience into credits and use it to do something like direct entry into a University and complete a degree in 2 years.
Degree with @AltSchoolAfrica is coming.