We all know that having a backup of our data is essential. So why is it that when you’re posting something long-form, you use an online tool/platform that could easily not save/update or store your data correctly?!

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Earlier this morning, I was in a audio room on LinkedIn. It's like Clubhouse. I won't go into it.

But it's the first time I went into an audio room, actually. And Sebastian was hosting, and there was a few other people on stage as well.

And it got to the topic, we were talking about lots of different things, but the topic got on to how often do people download their LinkedIn profile?

And I was a little confused as to why they were talking. about that, why would you do it for analytics, for safekeeping or whatever?

It turns out that Sebastian, the problem he's had is that sometimes he posts things on LinkedIn and it doesn't auto-safe.

So he's got loads of drafts and sometimes they get lost. And I was grinding my teeth to this notion that you're writing online. It drives me insane.

If I write a blog, what you should be doing, here we go. What you should be doing is writing offline. There's this whole online, offline thing.

I love offline apps. I use them, but I make sure that the critical apps that I use, critical to my business, critical to my personal life, my life in general, are offline.

So whether it's a CRM, whether it's notes, emails, anything, I don't want to be dependent on anything, but I don't want to be dependent on the internet connections, the company itself, and everything in between.

Now, obviously, I do use online apps, and I've said this before, about mission critical online apps.

But if you've got no internet connection, or the internet connection kind of goes a bit screwy and you're writing something, it doesn't auto save. because many of these apps don't autosave.

So if it doesn't autosave, you've kind of lost that information. So I always write offline. I mean, if it's a stupid little thing, I'll post it, Twitter, LinkedIn.

But there's nothing, everything that I want to keep, which is probably 90% of stuff I post, is offline first, always offline.

Because even though you can make a backup and backups are great, I mean, you've got to have backups of everything anyway.

But if you're writing on social media, don't forget, I mean, the other thing is don't forget you could be taken off that platform like any moment for any reason whenever they want you want to think about it.

Not that we're writing anything nefarious or bad, but there is that possibility.

And I don't want all my ideas, thoughts, blog post, videos, content, audience to be taken away from me just because. because I'm using an online app.

So what you do is important, whether it's for work or for personal.

So if you want to keep that stuff, keep it offline and then copy it to online. Don't create it online because that's crazy talk.

Anyway, have a great day. If you've got any questions, let me know. Comment down below. Actually, I haven't put comments on yet. That's coming. There are links here to get in touch with me.

Have a great day.

Ciao.