NFT 365 Podcast with Fanzo

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66. Why "Slow Burn" NFT Projects will WIN and Survive NFT Winter Jan 17, 2022

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It's NFT wildcard weekend and I'm decked out in my Pittsburgh Steelers jersey, Steelers hat and even my black and gold camo pants. Yes I am that guy and if you want proof see my instagram photo of me wearing a beer can helmet at the Steelers Superbowl.

But why am I sharing that in these podcast show notes?? Because I believe the art and true core values in building fans is what is missing from most NFT projects today. Even more bodly I'm going to say that most NFT projects that sellout in minutes will struggle to ever turn their NFT holders into Fans!

Which is why on this podcast episode 66 I made the bold prediction to say that projects that start out as "slow burn" projects that build that core group of fans that help design the culture of that NFT community will be the MOST successful projects a year from now. I explain why and how projects that do mint out right away can solve this problem and still empower fans but you'll have to listen to the audio or watch the video to find out those details.

Project shoutouts on Today's podcast:

Mint 365: Day 65 "Nudie Community NFT"

Slow Burn NFT projects I love:

Expansion Punks
CryptoDads
Women Rise
Alpha Girls
Meta Whips
Chibi Labs

Check out our NEW YouTUBE playlist with all of the video episodes including a couple minutes of bonus footage of each episode here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsbEjhqXX5GdB3vjqHHo0ngpUPeWFKL0T

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65. Tune out the NFT FUD and Manage the Fear Of Missing Out Jan 16, 2022

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FUD is an abbreviation for fear, uncertainty, and doubt. This abbreviation is usually used to describe a situation where fear controls the user ...

FOMO is anxiety that an exciting or interesting event may currently be happening elsewhere, often aroused by posts seen on social media.

HYPE is publicity especially: promotional publicity of an extravagant or contrived kind all the hype before the boxing match.

Now that we are clear on these 3 I want to get real with you and share how it's impacting my mental health and how we must take a step back and identify things that are impacting our energy, our emotions, and our NFT decisions.

Shoutout to Tyson Ross for suggesting this topic for today's podcast!

Use hashtag #NFT365 and tag @iSocialFanz + @NFT365Podcast on twitter/instagram so we can amplify you and hear your podcast episode suggestions!

NEW Podcast Website: https://www.nft365podcast.com

Projects Mentioned on the Podcast:

MetaWhips by West Coast Customs:
CryptoDads NFT
Fame Ladies Squad
Playboy Rabbitars

Get your #Mint365 NFTs:

SuperFANZ 365 NFT:
Founders NFT (Only 2 Left):

64. West Coast Customs MetaWhips: NFT Pimped Out thru Intentional NFT Design Jan 14, 2022

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When @Officialwcc slid into my DMs after listening to me share the #Mint365 story to let me know they loved and supported what I was doing and would love to jump on a call….

I had no clue it would turn into one of the most epic conversations around the MetaWhips NFT drop and the INTENTION the West Coast Customs team and founder have put into delivering a world-class NFT experience.

For this episode, I sat down with Kurt and Jusup on the WestCoast Customs NFT team and man was it fun to feel such alignment with a great brand, nft drop, and humans...

This conversation goes from the story of West Coast Customs using the technology of cooling of an engine to cool GPUs of a winning server to the vision many years ago to create a virtual game to what drops today 01.14 the MetaWhips NFT.

The framework for building out a POWERFUL and LASTING NFT Community is what we discussed and

Commitment to the NFT Culture and Community
Collaboration with others in the space
Connection brand mission with purpose and passion and how to represent that in Web 3.0
Employing a team and trusting them
Taking no shortcuts when it comes to the art and storytelling beyond the NFT
Focus on rewarding your Superfans and overdelivering on everything
Think beyond online vs offline and focus on the metaverse connecting the everything-verse of life in all aspects
Connect with great people so you can do great things

Beyond excited to have had the team from West Coast Customs on the show... Make sure to follow them on social media and jump on this mint as I couldn't be more excited!!

Also, stay tuned to my Twitter and Discord.gg/ADHDcoin for a Metawhips giveaway!! Ps. 1093 SuperPOWERED TRUE FANZ NFTs went out today which is super cool as WCC was founded in 1993 an is all about the number 93 as well. See more on the new podcast website: http://www.nft365podcast.com

63. Patrick Camuso CPA: NFT Taxes, Tools and Accounting Jan 13, 2022

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For those that are overwhelmed, confused and feel as those their heads are spinning when it comes to NFTS.... Thats how I feel when it comes to accounting and taxes.

With so much misinformation and in many cases the wild wild west feel of the web 3.0 arena of the metaverse, cryptocurrency, creator coins and NFTs it's no wonder the haters have so much to talk about.

For this episode I brought on Patrick Camuso, CPA who was the First CPA Firm To Accept Crypto to break down all things accounting and taxes and I really loved how open he was and his true knowledge of this space.

Asked a wide range of questions including:

Can we pay our accountant in ETH?
Whare the best tools to track our taxes or should we be tracking them ourselves?
What is a taxable event in the blockchain world?
What should we be factoring in when it comes to airdrops like $GAS, $SOS, and the newest $WTF?
What are some things we can do to make our CPAs ' lives easier during tax season?
How do DAO's factor into this taxable event and business case?

As we like to say on the show DYODR (Do Your Own Damn Research) I will also say Get Your Own Damn CPA but I think you will have an entirely new perspective on what to be thinking about when it comes to taxes and accounting for your crypto portfolio:

NFT Project highlight: https://opensea.io/collection/womenrise

Tools mentioned on the Podcast:

CoinTracker.IO: https://www.cointracker.io/i/9oYphExjbmuy

Zerion: https://zerion.io/

This was recorded on Twitter spaces so make sure to follow me on Twitter so you don't miss future live interviews at: https://www.twitter.com/isocialfanz

Follow our Guest: Patrick Camuso:

https://camusocpa.com/

https://twitter.com/PatrickCamuso

62. Removing the friction of NFTs with the "Law of 62" Jan 13, 2022

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Do you need to own 62 NFTs before the friction and chaos of Web 3.0 and decentralization aren't overwhelming?? Maybe??

But the Law of 62 is much more than that and I believe it actually starts with self-awareness

The most transformational area of focus we can have in 2022 IMHO is self-awareness. For me, self-awareness is the key aspect of building a team, being a part of a community, and even launching a project.

Which thankfully over the last 3 years I've spent a lot of time on self-awareness which I share on this podcast episode and by doing so it allowed me to bring on my media partner Mile62 in the fall of 2021 to embrace this web 3.0 movement.

Funny enough I never really asked why the company was called Mile 62 but with today being episode 62 the team dropped in the origin in our discord and that's the inspiration for this episode.

--- From the discord from team Mile 62

I’m going to take this opportunity to share a story. My biz partner at Mile62 @thenftmiyagi and I named our company after our mentor Charlie Rocket (@charlie on IG and an absolutely amazing and inspiring human being…go follow him!) who we both were working with at the time.

And it originates from Charlie’s principal on what he called “The Law of 62”…

This is basically the fact that it’s 62 miles from earth's surface to space. Now then, when traveling to space, the first mile, even for a rocket, is always the hardest mile! It takes the most energy to LAUNCH and generate MOMENTUM to get going. Then, as the rocket ascends and gets closer to Mile 62, it goes faster and faster as it now has momentum pushing it ever closer to space.

To mile 62. Now once the rocket reaches mile 62, it’s smooth sailing. No more friction or gravity holding back! It can now move effortlessly!

Charlie connected this with things he was discovering in his own journey and how anytime he did something, whether it was helping his artists like 2 Chainz sell ugly sweaters, put out EPs, etc. 62 times consecutively (or around that number) that massive breakthroughs always happened right around that special number. TL;DR

- Things become easier after doing them 62 times. There is less friction and more momentum! Things come easily now!

Here's to 62 more straight days of NFT 365 Podcast!

Links: Check out Mile 62 Media: https://mile62.media/

Fanzone Discord: http://Discord.gg/adhdcoin
ADHD Coin: http://ADHDcoin.com
Fame Ladies Squad NFT: https://www.fameladysquad.com/
World of Women NFT: https://worldofwomen.art/

61. How to Research NFT Founders to Avoid the Rug Pulls and Hacks Jan 12, 2022

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First off the recent rug pulls and scam artists taking advantage of people in the NFT space recently is very unsettling and it hurts me deeply. The truth is we have to remember we are all HUMAN and it doesn't mean you are dumb or should give yourself a hard time if you are rug pulled or scammed it's the bad people doing bad things we must focus on.

In this episode, I highlight our 60 days of buying an NFT every day for 365 days and the full thread can be found here: https://twitter.com/iSocialFanz/status/1460291837764284417?s=20

Project #60 we minted: @satoshibles Monsters! https://twitter.com/iSocialFanz/status/1480738891107864578?s=20

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60. Brand NFTs: Think CoCreation and Amplification Instead of Ownership Jan 10, 2022

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It's fun to put on my brand hat as that is where I've spent most of my time in marketing working with B2B brands to embrace emerging technology such as Google Hangouts, Twitter Chats, Meerkat/Periscope and Blab Live Streaming, Social Audio and now Web 3.0.

In past brand episodes, I explained how Playboy Rabbitars set the new bar for brand projects and how impressed I've been with TimePieces NFT rollouts. But in most cases I believe brands have dropped the ball in regards to launching NFT projects which is why I make the argument on this episode that:

Brands SHOULDN'T launch their own NFT projects... Rather I give them multiple other use cases and scenarios where brands can co-create, amplify and even leverage employee advocacy to embrace the NFT disruption but without the need to own the NFT project or the NFT collectors.

Special shout outs to: Meta Athletes NFT: Dropping phase 1 mint on Jan 11, 2022. https://www.metaathletesnft.com/

59. Why we can't TRUST NFT Data in 2022 Jan 09, 2022

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without context....

This is nothing new but it something massively important for us to remember in the NFT space. Data without context or more than one data point is just numbers. In some cases, NFT projects are using the public transparent to build trust while in other cases some projects are using the fact that we are leveraging data against us by manipulating the data with free mints, having friends or co-founders make big NFT purchases and this trend won't stop any time soon.

So it's up to us to understand the importance of not just trusting the data or trends that we see at face-value as we must go deeper in the data and go beyond what one tool or platform is telling us about an NFT project or how many mints have happened in the last 30 minutes.

More to come on this topic but take this as a PSA today and as Spider-man was told... "With great DATA comes great responsibility!"

58. Think Like a Poker Play Instead of a Crypto Investor Jan 08, 2022

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In a past life I was a sponsored semi-professional poker player based out of Talking Sticks Casino in Scottsdale Arizona playing in the WSOP and WPT for 5 years.... I was sponsored as the "young kid" yet I sucked at online poker... Why? My talent was reading body language and studying the other humans at the table leveraging social engineering and my hyperfocus to think differently and play mostly from my gut... Which lets face it thats much harder to do when you're multi-tabling online games on Full Tilt or Poker Stars. In this NFT space there are many places where poker experience comes in handy and as I shared on a past episode with "reading non verbal cues on Opensea" it can show up in many different ways.

In this episode I focus on:

Trusting your gut and taking action in some cases just to test your theory
Study what others do and use that against them.
Be the one that manages your focus and works harder than everyone else.

Projects mentioned on this episode:

Crypto Holdem: https://cryptoholdemnft.com/

Typical Tigers: https://www.typicaltigers.com/

Club GG Poker: https://www.clubgg.net/

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57. Kevin Smith MLBer: Empowering Athlete Led NFT Education: MetaAthletes Jan 07, 2022

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In today's episode, I sit down with MLBer Kevin Smith of the Toronto Bluejays and the founder of MetaAthletes to talk about the project and the future of athletes and NFTs.

This project stands for everything I believe in and I was excited to make this the first NFT project that I joined on as a partner and as you'll hear in the interview this is built around the foundation of building a team, speaking the love and helping each other grow. It's also what inspired me to share this quote: "Your NFT utility can be to simply help the industry you are in grow together and learn together"

That is what MetaAthletes is doing with founders Kevin Smith and Drew Cohen and you will want to for sure check out all their content and their first phase mint on Jan 11, 2022. The mission behind MetaAthletes:

We are pfp collection set to reimagine the way athletes interact with their fanbase. Meta Athletes will serve as a digital mastermind or meta-mind community by generating a platform for professional development for high performers.

Holders of our token will benefit from exclusive access to our partner athletes and access to their coaches/resources. We will also be providing digital and IRL events to strive for a high level of networking benefits for our holders. You might even get a signed bat or puck. The last pillar of our brand is revolved around the shared mission spread across our community of love and growth. One of our core values will be empowering our community to be a beacon of positivity and love.. so that’s why you’ll see a lot of with our brand.

Links to check out:

Website: https://www.metaathletesnft.com/

Discord: https://discord.gg/MVRQGxCm3p

Twitter: https://twitter.com/metaathletes?s=21

Playbook: https://www.metaathletesnft.com/the-playbook

*This was recorded on Twitter spaces so if there are some audio issues I do apologize and will work to clean those up in future interview slots!