As a 'creative' or a brand, you can bypass all the payment limitations online and sell your products and services to global customers. The world is a global village now and your physical location does not have to limit whom you can sell your products and services. With the digital economy, you can set up your business so that you can manage it on the go, irrespective of where you travel across the globe. You can travel anywhere you want and run your business from there without any form of payment limitations. With a global brand, you can enrol on accelerator programs and even raise venture capital when the time is right. As a brand, have you ever tried to use some online platforms to reach global customers, only to find out that you cannot use the platform because you need to have a PayPal or Stripe account? Well, there is a way around these challenges. You can get Stripe and PayPal accounts for your brand from the comfort of your home. But you need to incorporate a US business entity - also from the comfort of your home. That is exactly what this book is all about. The book is broken down into four parts: - The first part paints a clear picture of why you need to own your brand in today's world. It will help you decide on the type of business entity to incorporate in the US - a Limited Liability Company (LLC) or a C-Corporation (C-Corp). It will also help you decide on which state to incorporate your business - Delaware or Wyoming. - The second part will take you through the step-by-step process of incorporation and post-incorporation, using a tailor-made solution that makes it all fast and easy. - The third part will cover other things you need to make the best of your US business entity. Such crucial issues as Taxation, Valuation, raising Venture Capital, tapping into the US Labour Force, Migrating to the US, etc. For all these, there are suggestions of tools that will simplify things and keep the entire process lean and agile. - An extra chapter will expose you to over 140 tools that will help you run your business on a global scale - tools spanning Marketing, Bookkeeping & Accounting, Customer Service, Tax, Legal Advisory, Team Collaboration, etc. After reading the book, you will realise that the US is very friendly to foreign-owned business entities. You do not have to pay Federal Income Tax as a foreign business owner. It costs just a nominal amount to register and manage your US business entity right from the comfort of your home. These are some of the benefits of owning a US business: - Payment gateway providers: Access to the best payment providers (such as Stripe and PayPal). - Taxes: Access to tax benefits available to foreign-owned companies in the USA. - Customers in the US: Building trust with global customers by doing business as a US-incorporated company. - Contracts: Signing contracts with US-based clients. - Venture Capital: It is unusual for American investors to invest early-stage capital into companies from other countries without a US presence. - Accelerators: Most US accelerators require startups to have a US parent company. - Immigration: Starting a business in the US makes it easier to obtain a visa or permanent residency later. - US Bank Account: With a US-incorporated company, you can easily keep your money in a US FDIC-insured bank account. - Special Services: Incorporating in the US will give you access to specific platforms or services; such as Amazon. - Simplified Bureaucracy: Business incorporation in the US is one of the easiest in the world. - US-based Talent: With a US-incorporated business, you can easily access the US talent pool. - US Physical Office: With a US-incorporated business, you can easily open a physical location/office in the US when the need arises.

No matter where you are and at what stage you are as a creative, you can begin to make money from your content. Distributing your content globally and selling your digital products to a global audience is no more a dream but a reality in today’s global economy. As a creative, your content can reach places you might never get to visit. Your content can build you into a global figure and make you money even while you sleep. It is possible to make a career out of content creation. You get to travel around the world and sell globally. Monetising your content and digital products can be quite complicated. You might have found yourself asking these questions: - How do I know what people will be willing to pay for? - On what platforms do I sell my products to maximise sales? - How do I get paid on global/international platforms? - How do I compete with all the big names in the industry? - How do I get good at selling? - How do I successfully launch my products? - Where do I start from? Monetisation is indeed complicated and that is because the internet is very competitive. This book is a comprehensive guide on how to Create, Distribute, and Monetise your content from any part of the world to every part of the world - so you can make a killing doing what you love. Be it E-books, Online Courses, Podcasts, or Written Content. This book is broken down into six parts: - The first part paints a clear picture of why content is more relevant than ever today. - The second part focuses on Ideating, Writing, Editing, Formatting, Publishing and Distributing E-books. - The third part focuses on Ideating, Creating, Recording, Producing, Distributing, and Managing Online Courses. - The fourth part focuses on Ideating, Recording, Producing, and Distributing Podcasts. - The fifth part focuses on Distributing and Monetising Written Content. - The sixth part focuses on Content Promotion leveraging diverse Digital Marketing channels - both Organic and Paid. - An extra chapter deep-dives into the process of setting up and managing personal websites without programming. The book provides a step-by-step guide on the right way to launch any digital product - E-books, Online Courses, Podcasts, and Written Content - It removes the complication around monetising your content. - It will show you how best to come up with product ideas that people will be willing to pay for. - It will show you how to get your products on all the global platforms easily and get paid on them. - It will show you the process that goes into creating any form of a digital product.

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD “Nothing short of magic.” —Elizabeth Acevedo, New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X From the acclaimed poet featured on Forbes Africa’s “30 Under 30” list, this powerful novel-in-verse captures one girl, caught between cultures, on an unexpected journey to face the ephemeral girl she might have been. Woven through with moments of lyrical beauty, this is a tender meditation on family, belonging, and home. my mother meant to name me for her favorite flower its sweetness garlands made for pretty girls i imagine her yasmeen bright & alive & i ache to have been born her instead Nima wishes she were someone else. She doesn’t feel understood by her mother, who grew up in a different land. She doesn’t feel accepted in her suburban town; yet somehow, she isn't different enough to belong elsewhere. Her best friend, Haitham, is the only person with whom she can truly be herself. Until she can't, and suddenly her only refuge is gone. As the ground is pulled out from under her, Nima must grapple with the phantom of a life not chosen—the name her parents meant to give her at birth—Yasmeen. But that other name, that other girl, might be more real than Nima knows. And the life Nima wishes were someone else's. . . is one she will need to fight for with a fierceness she never knew she possessed.