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Welcome to Payout Magazine!        and after that show: AWSummit’s Thomas
                                                                                  Skavhellen.
                                               Well, we’re not only in a maelstrom of
                                             madness, we’re also in a hurricane straight   Then there’s one of our Payout Innerviews,
                                             outta hell!                          here featuring Bruce Friedman from AdultB2B
                                                                                  and a lucky bugger who could be said NOT
                                               I’m grumpy. Can you tell?          to have noticed the pandemic pandemonium
                                                                                  so much since he works from home... except
                                               Never realized travelling and taking photos   for the travelling to shows. Yes, he misses the
                                             and oh so much else was in the blood now... I’m   hugs too!
                                             like a junkie in withdrawal. I’m taking pictures
                                             of my food all the time, acting like a dictator   Then there’s something you could call a
                                             with my dogs... is this what happens when   little self-analysis in the form of an article that
                                             people go crazy? Cabin Fever? Soccer player   could help you wake up out of those “useless”
                                             cannibalism?                         minutes and sometimes hours of scrolling
                                                                                  Twitter or Facebook and into a rationalization
                                               Luckily  luckily  hopefully  this  will  all  end   called “content marketing” lol.
                                             soon, and we’ll go back to almost-old-normal.
                                                                                    Another  thing  that  can  drive  a  person
                                               One of the things that keep me sane and   crazy in the middle of this quarantine is how
                                             help me stay anchored to reality are the not-  everything is “social” - social media, social
                                             so-old-after-all (although they seem so long   networking, social engineering, this, that,
                                             ago) photos I took at the most recent shows,   blablah... sigh. Luckily, we have the sane voice
                                             like my XBiz Los Angeles (from this year!?)   of 7Veils Media’s Alex Lecomte who has
                                             photo-memories included in this issue, and   scribed us something that helps ground the
                                             working on Payout.                   word into work reality, so... enjoy.

                                               So what else can we offer to distract you,   Now, I’m a man who wears many different
                                             maybe pull ourselves out of our despicable   hats (not because I’m crazy yet, but if you follow
                                             daily doldrums?                      my Facebook account you’ll understand, in
                                                                                  between meals), so I have to be off to deal with
                                               Well,  the  industry  has  started  putting  on   some bar owner stuff, so hoping we can meet
                                             Virtual Trade Shows! Because, you know,   in person again real soon, I’ll let you immerse
                                             Coronavirus. And Payout Magazine has been to   yourselves in the pics and words within these
                                             the first three: LALExpo Virtual, and Webmaster   pages until they become reality once again...
                                             Access online. And we’re lucky enough to be
                                             able  to  offer  you  an  exclusive  overview  and
                                             retro-view of the very first industry convention  MikeB
                                             of its kind- AWMeetup, by none other than the   michael@howlingdogsenterprise.com
                                             guy who was everywhere there before, during   www.payoutmag.com


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