as an entrepreneur I often have to hire
people thank you so much for taking the
time to interview with me today as you
probably know I create content for the
Internet thank you to Squarespace for
sponsoring today's video oh it says here
that you double majored in history and
hiding full well I am currently looking
for an employee who has the possibility
of bringing a more subtle historical
approach to my channel so that's cool
I'm feeling good about this the other
day I asked a potential employee for
their website so I could check out their
work you know do my due diligence and
vet process before hiring and they said
they didn't have one though we are in a
digital age where business cards and
paper portfolios seem obsolete and even
strange when people hand them to you
something about not having a website
really screamed unprofessional to me and
then I was wondering like am I being
unreasonable because there are times
that I've definitely seen websites that
are so bad it's actually deterred me
from working with the person
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and it's so easy to make a nice looking
website these days I mean I used to have
to learn code when I was a teenager so
not to sound like a stereotypical old
person but back in my day you needed to
know HTML or JavaScript in order to make
your xanga page pop I'm accessing the
schematic at the hive now firewall I
don't even need to breach it I embedded
a backdoor in the binary code on the
hardware virtually undetectable that
anyone who doesn't know that Internet
Protocol address and blackhat all right
I'm in do you want falling Sparkle cats
or neon pink font both and then I
realized what was really bugging me
it's what not having a website
represented I mean one of my core values
and principles is investing in yourself
and small business owners take the risk
of investing in your ventures again and
again and again because you believe that
it'll pay off in the long run so
someone's lack of having a website that
showcase their work subtly and
subconsciously communicates to me that
they don't think they're worth investing
in and if you're not investing in
yourself why should i and it's not just
investment in your career that I think
is important but investment in yourself
as a human being
I mean investing time into learning new
skills money into your mental health or
energy into relationships that nurture
and enrich your life and no matter how
small investing in things that are gonna
make you a better artist a more
compassionate human or just a more
joyful person and I will admit I am a
lady of modern time so I leverage my
online presence in all spheres as an
actress musician and cat enthusiast so
someone not having a website might be
more alarming to me than say a farmer
looking for a stableboy
so what's your universal resource
locator what your URL your worldwide web
address look if you don't have an HTTP
colon forward slash forward slash WWE
how am I supposed to know you're a
seriously capable stable boy
I have a giant business cart I'm Anna
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