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Welcome to Payout Magazine!
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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