Stop Renting Digital Real Estate: Build Your Brand on Your Own Domain

Platforms like Substack and Medium have made publishing easier than ever—but if you rely solely on them, you’re renting space on someone else’s land. Owning your own domain gives you independence, credibility, long-term control, and many other benefits:

1. Professional Credibility and Branding

  • A custom domain name projects authority and legitimacy.
  • Think about it—who would you trust more: smithlaw.medium.com or smithlaw.com?”

Pro Tip: Journalists, lawyers, consultants, and authors who use custom domains are taken more seriously than those who don’t.… Read the rest

GETTING REAL ABOUT THE FISCAL CHALLENGES AHEAD

The source for this is a website called U.S. Debtclock.org. It allows you to look at the picture of America’s economy in 1980 and today. To add drama, it does it much as the other debt clocks you can find on line where the debt we owe as a nation expands by millions every hour. I can’t vouch for the accuracy of the data but as I analyzed it with other statistics I have seen it “feels” accurate.

We take … Read the rest