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Creative Entrepreneur | Founder Filmmaking Lifestyle | Creating a digital empire on purpose & teaching solopreneurs 🚀

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@FilmLifestyle

Matt Crawford

9 months

I'm Matt. Thanks for stopping by my profile! 🤝 My background (and what I write about here): 🎬 Grew a filmmaking & video production content site to become one of the most visited in the space. Started site 2011, hardcore since 2019. That site is Filmmaking Lifestyle. 📽️…

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@FilmLifestyle

Matt Crawford

1 month

Coding isn't the most valuable startup skill. Marketing is.

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Matt Crawford

3 months

@paulg TikTok is actually banned in China. I feel like that’s quite strong evidence, also.

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Matt Crawford

7 years

Video Production Gear -

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Matt Crawford

7 months

@afonsolfm Is this satire?

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Matt Crawford

2 months

My Desk Setup Evolution. Like everyone, my desk setup has changed over the years. This is a short 🧵 with images of my various desk setups over the years and a little about their history and what I achieved with them. (you'll see in the images some random items stand the test…

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Matt Crawford

3 years

@KSorkInvestBlog @dailydirtnap It’s not “traceless.” That’s a huge and common misconception. It’s actually much more traceable than cash.

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Matt Crawford

2 months

Respect to everyone building from scratch: ❌ No rich parents ❌ No connections ❌ No assistance ❌ No excuses Just hard work, consistency, desire and focus.

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Matt Crawford

2 months

I spent over $17,547 on Facebook ads before I realized it's a money pit. That's it, that's the tweet (and advice): Facebook ads are no good.

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Matt Crawford

3 months

I’ve been a bartender, a roofer, worked in schools as a filmmaker and started & grown multiple 6-figure / year web projects 💵 As the founder of the Filmmaking Lifestyle website and other ventures, my words, images, videos and code can be found all over the internet and social…

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Matt Crawford

7 months

@vxunderground This often happens with data breaches. The breached company will release a statement (as is their duty) saying that just a small % have been affected. Next, once the air is cleared, they will quietly release a statement saying, “Actually, sorry, we were wrong: the scale is…

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Matt Crawford

4 months

@dvassallo All those people posting the ‘squalid room’ photos, it’s a form of virtue signal. They also genuinely believe it makes them ‘great’ - monk mode gone mad! Everyone knows you can have a decent living space on a small budget. You can do it anywhere in the world, with the…

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Matt Crawford

2 months

Fantastic book by the legendary Paul Graham! @paulg

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Matt Crawford

3 months

I've been working as a creator & solopreneur for 12 years now. Here's my current 14 no-code tools that I couldn't run my business without 🧵 Let's start with an absolute gem...

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Matt Crawford

7 months

Start your days with gratitude 🙏 End your days with gratitude 🧘‍♂️

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Matt Crawford

6 months

Create more than you Consume 🔥 😎

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Matt Crawford

7 months

@mattwensing I’ve noticed this a few times lately. Today, it literally told me to “consult encyclopaedias.” !! This was for a list of 500 names in a specific field. It said it would give me the first 100 but then I’d have to “consult encyclopaedias” for the rest! That would be ChatGPTs…

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Matt Crawford

2 months

Over the last 30 days, I’ve removed 8,681 of my followers. I did this to improve my engagement metrics here. As I’ve had this account for a long time (more than 10 years), I’d built up a lot of spam, fake and bot followers. Or those who are otherwise inactive and not…

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Matt Crawford

7 months

How did you guys actually get into programming, solopreneur stuff, building in public, etc? Colour me curious 🤔

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Matt Crawford

6 months

Got a new standing desk! Fits the very minimalist setup in my office 🖥️

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Matt Crawford

7 years

"If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker." - Werner Herzog

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Matt Crawford

2 months

@paulg 15 yo has better restraint.

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Matt Crawford

8 months

1. Make a lot of money on the internet. 2. Never use the internet ever again.

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Matt Crawford

8 months

What’s your favorite productivity tip? How do you save time & be more effective? 💪 🔥

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Matt Crawford

27 days

Do not be afraid to take imperfect action 👊 🔥

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Matt Crawford

7 years

"There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness." - Frank Capra

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Matt Crawford

1 month

Don’t do this people! It’s not cool. This guy is putting random people on their list and then doing a “you’re on it, but if you don’t just hit unsubscribe 👍👍” Come on.

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Matt Crawford

2 months

@levelsio I think for years in IM it’s been considered a “get the click” color. However, bizarrely, in the not so rational study of ‘color psychology’ it apparently represents: “Negative feelings connected to yellow are cowardice, illness, caution, betrayal, egotism, and anxiety.”

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Matt Crawford

2 months

@TrungTPhan Paywall journalism is one of the most annoying developments of the 22st century.

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Matt Crawford

5 years

**Announcement – FREE Filmmaking / Video Production Training** I’m writing to you today about the release of an awesome FREE Filmmaking / Video Production training I’ve put together. 😎

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Matt Crawford

7 months

Start your day with intention 😎 End your day with reflection 🧘 Fill in the moments inbetween with action 👊

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Matt Crawford

6 months

Who’s the most positive go-getter you are friends with on X? Feel free to tag them! Or hit me up in the DM. 🔥 Looking to connect with more people pushing things forward!

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Matt Crawford

7 years

"Always remember, your focus determines your reality." - George Lucas

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Matt Crawford

2 months

You've got to stop hoping to blow up overnight. Instead, start building an audience. Things take time but will come.

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Matt Crawford

2 months

I left client work behind in 2019. Here's how it often used to go: Client... Budget: 🐴 Expectation: 🦄

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Matt Crawford

2 months

What’s the best book you’ve ever read? 🧐 I’m always looking for recommendations 👇

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Matt Crawford

7 months

Remember that someone can always do it cheaper... But can they do the project to as high standard as you can? 🤔 Quality and skill is everything.

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Matt Crawford

7 months

Anyone else have that feeling where you increasingly look at your To Do list and think: “I can do nearly all of this with ChatGPT” Seems like every month, I’m able to tackle a higher % of my To Dos with AI. Funny feeling 🤔

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Matt Crawford

7 years

"The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle." - Steven Spielberg

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Matt Crawford

7 years

"I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker." - Paul Schrader

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Matt Crawford

7 months

@paulg History is full of complicated, conflicting geniuses. I think the modern mind has been trained to believe that all geniuses (and people of consequence) need to be morally perfect. That’s just not the truth, looking at history.

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Matt Crawford

16 days

If you've made $500 online, then you can make $1 million. Just keep building 🔥

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Matt Crawford

7 months

Do not be afraid to take imperfect action 👊 🔥

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Matt Crawford

7 months

I have a rule: if in doubt, always buy that book! 🔥 If I ever see something I want to read, I just buy it. Even if it’s a “maybe I’ll get into that” case. This rule has never done me wrong and has helped me grow massively 😃

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Matt Crawford

7 years

"Pick up a camera. Shoot something." - James Cameron

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Matt Crawford

6 months

Everyone always says SEO takes time and they don't like it because, "SEO is slow." But, actually, if you're doing it right, results can be quick. Very quick.

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Matt Crawford

7 months

Man, anyone else finding ChatGPT 4 is quite clunky and slow lately? I guess it's due to all the (re)new(ed) interest lately. I'm finding mine is just slower and not as efficient. Plus, the new version where everything is built-in, it is tending to randomly search the internet…

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Matt Crawford

7 months

- Strategy is your game plan. - Execution is your play. - Feedback is your scorecard. Craft your approach, deliver with precision, and always seek ways to level up ↗️

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Matt Crawford

7 months

I can't give you a formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time 😎 👏

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Matt Crawford

7 months

@levelsio The French writing online is roughly equivalent to us British on holiday! The amount of times I’ve observed a fellow Brit brazenly avoid any effort to even try talking in the native tongue! 😂

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Matt Crawford

1 month

What’s the best investment you’ve ever made? (can be anything) 👇

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Matt Crawford

2 months

People say: - Twitter is saturated - YouTube is saturated - Google search is saturated I don't believe the online biz world is saturated. I think that's something people use to make excuses. We're just getting started 😎

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Matt Crawford

14 days

I’ve put together a life-changing PDF guide: 100 Books That Will Transform Your Life What’s inside helped me: - Increase focus, clarity & productivity - Grow my bank account - Transform my personal & professional life Books on: - Personal growth & development - Health &…

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Matt Crawford

6 months

☕ Starbucks sells experience, not just coffee. 👟 Nike promotes victory, not just shoes. 👸 Disney offers magic, not just entertainment. Takeaway: Top-tier brands offer a vision, not just items 🚀

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Matt Crawford

7 years

"One day people who didn't believe in you will tell everyone how they met you." - Johnny D…

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Matt Crawford

8 months

Wow 🤨 I used to ask this question all the time when starting out... "If other people are doing it, why can't I?" It used to grate at me... Make me uncomfortable. I think about this a lot. If you're just starting out, what's stopping you? What's getting in your way?

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Matt Crawford

6 months

In 2024, my account here will switch from general online business to being more zero-ed in on content marketing for startups and solopreneurs. As someone who has built large content sites organically to multiple hundreds of thousands visitors / month, I feel very at home talking…

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Matt Crawford

7 months

Action removes doubt 🔥 😎

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Matt Crawford

6 months

Just a reminder that things change. Fast. And if you don’t respond to technological change, you will be run over by the ever-turning wheels of history. Below: Clifford Stoll, writing for Newsweek in 1995 about online shopping! 😂

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7 years

"Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing." Will Rogers

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Matt Crawford

2 months

Hung some of my wife’s original artwork in the office today 🤙

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Matt Crawford

7 months

𝕏 can be a little odd sometimes. I must get at least 10 random requests/asks/pitches per day on here. I have never asked anyone for anything on here. Just been genuine, asked questions, shared learnings. Offered value where I can. I find it a little bit cringe that people…

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Matt Crawford

2 months

Freedom is what everyone wants. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through consistency.

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Matt Crawford

7 months

If you can't explain what a product does in one or two paragraphs, you will have trouble explaining it to the masses. And selling 😜

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Matt Crawford

7 months

Spend 80% of your time taking action and 20% learning 🔥

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Matt Crawford

7 months

You know you’re behind on goals when your housekeeper mentions that you haven’t ticked anything off whiteboard list for a while! 😂

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Matt Crawford

6 months

Startups are the ultimate delayed gratification business 🔥

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Matt Crawford

7 years

"Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard." Geo…

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Matt Crawford

7 months

Are you a writer? 🤔 😂

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7 months

Your competitors are nowhere near as strong as you think they are 😎

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7 months

@NickADobos Is anyone actually finding the Custom GPTs useful so far? I was pretty hyped for them, but in general they don’t seem to do anything specific that vanilla GPT 4 doesn’t do. And, yes, I’ve created my own, too. Also, right now servers seem to be taking a pounding and everything…

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Matt Crawford

7 months

"Curiosity has created more opportunities than hard work ever will" 🔥

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Matt Crawford

8 months

What's your favorite Project Management Software / App? Notion? Trello? ClickUp? Asana? Monday? Or are you an Airtable person? Let me know if there's something else I should be checking out? 👍👍

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Matt Crawford

8 months

The one thing that most drew me to indie hacking is the freedom 🚀 The best thing about being a solopreneur and indie hacking is that I can wake up in the morning and say, “I want to work on this today.” I had a dream about a new feature for one of my sites, and now I get to…

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Matt Crawford

2 months

2019. This is our second house and by this point I had a really cool 3rd floor office with an amazing view out of a skylight. The only issue with this office was that it got crazy hot in the summer (it was a loft/attic conversion). Still on laptop and now have an iMac. Got…

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Matt Crawford

6 years

Indie Film Promotion: The Plight of the #indiefilm producer of the future: #filmmaking #filmpromotion #moviepromotion

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Matt Crawford

7 months

Legends, myths, and tales have shaped cultures. Your product's story can be more potent than any hard sell. Frame your offering within a compelling narrative and captivate hearts. A story's charm is undeniable.

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Matt Crawford

7 months

3 types of people you need in your network: 1. Doers (Copywriters, Salespeople, Marketers) ✅ 2. Systemizers (Processes, Efficiency, Automation) 📝 3. Dreamers (Visionaries, Builders, Disruptors) 🤔 Impossible to lose like this.

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Matt Crawford

6 months

I remember years ago when I was out for dinner with some friends. Conversation got around to work, as it so often does, and I was asked, “why do you work so much?” 🤨 I think I replied with something nonplused like, “well, I’m just pushing things on here.” But what I really…

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Matt Crawford

8 months

What do you do / offer that nobody else does? 🧐 👇

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7 years

"A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper." - Robert Bresson

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2 months

Marketing is essentially scaling trust.

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7 years

"In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light." - David Fincher

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6 months

Do you think you're now unemployable? 😉

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5 months

Why didn’t I start contributing on Twitter/X earlier!?

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7 years

"When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process." - Oliver Stone

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7 years

"It is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people." - Akira Kurosa…

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What is your most leveraged tool / app in your marketing toolbox? ⚡️ 🦾

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7 months

The problem isn’t usually the problem. The problem is often how you think about the problem 🔥

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7 years

"The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts." - Steven Spielberg

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7 years

"Creativity takes courage." Henri Matisse

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Matt Crawford

6 months

One of the worst things you can do as an entrepreneur or indie hacker is to make things that people don’t want.

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Matt Crawford

7 months

As I'm known as a content site guy, how about 5 things I always try to do with my site content & SEO in each article: Most important tip of all comes first? Ready!? 🚀

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Matt Crawford

7 years

"For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accid…

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5 months

Happy New Year all! 🥳 🎉

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Matt Crawford

1 month

You can only pick only one: A = 850 credit score B = $3 million cash C = $2,000 a week for life Which one would you choose? 🤔

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Matt Crawford

7 years

"If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed." Stanley Kubrick

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2 months

2015. My really hillybilly homemade standing desk. I created my first eBook, my first course and a site that earned me my first 6 figures per year with this laptop. I always travelled all over the UK & Europe editing wedding films & corporate videos with it. You don't need a…

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Matt Crawford

2 months

Massively powerful habit: Use the 1st hour of your day to: - Build ✅ - Write ✅ - Add value ✅

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Matt Crawford

6 months

The more you know, the less you value what you know 👊

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