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Our lead story this week is about Twitter and the concern over free speech and censorship as Elon Musk endeavors to take the company private.

 

This week's tip, from Entrepreneur, is about personal branding.

 

In news, podcast advertising is expected to nearly double by 2024, Meta opens its first physical store this week in Burlingame, Calf., and Biz2Credit reports on the top small business cities in America. Other news headlines this week include Instagram testing NFTs with creators this week, Amazon recruits small “mom and pop” shops for rural delivery, Apple discontinues the iPod after 20 years, the Shoes.com website trades hands again, and a $35 thrift store find turns out to be a priceless 2000+ year-old Roman bust.

 

This week's tools are Heyday and Carrd. The "Friday Freebie" is from ahrefs – free webmaster tools. And for our "bonus" content, is about beer and alcohol consumption during the pandemic and if recession concerns will have an impact on future sales.

 

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