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Chrissie Abbott

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Happy Tuesday, everyone. Hope you had a great Cyber Monday interacting with #brands.


Cyber Monday comes for us all. A reality of working on the internet is that eventually you will be selling … some version of yourself. This is the part of the job I am not very good at. While I’ve found I’m reasonably adept at shameless self-promotion across social media, I’m still sheepish when it comes to asking people to pay for my work. But here’s the deal. Starting tomorrow, ’s free trial period for is over, and most of Galaxy Brain’s editions will be for paid customers only. If you’re new here in

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