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He made $1,200 profit at 17 — without showing up once

Brent Milne

Jun 9

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In 1946, a 17-year-old Warren Buffett spent $25 on a secondhand pinball machine, walked into a local barbershop, and pitched the owner a simple idea: let me put this in your shop and we’ll split the profits.

The barber said yes.

Buffett had his $25 back by end of day.

By the end of the week he had $125. He bought another machine.

Then another. Seven machines across seven barbershops, and he never set foot in a single one to collect the coins.

When he eventually sold the whole operation, he walked away with $1,200.

That’s a 4,700% return on a $25 bet.

Here’s what most people miss about that story.

Buffett wasn’t the one showing up every day.

He wasn’t trading his time for the income.

The machines ran whether he was there or not, and when he was ready to move on, he sold the whole thing for a profit.

Most of us are wired to be the machine.

We show up, we produce, and the moment we stop, the income stops too.

But what if you owned the machine instead?

This is exactly what I set up for myself using Claude, and I put the whole thing into a simple PDF guide you can follow in an afternoon.

Here’s how it works: you set up a Claude project that learns your niche, your audience, and your voice.

From that point on, it generates done-for-you prompts tailored specifically to your market, not generic ChatGPT output, but content that sounds like it came from someone who actually knows your audience.

You build it once. It keeps producing.

If that sounds like something worth an afternoon of your time, grab the free guide here:

https://link.ckv.to/prompt-guide

Regards,
Brent

P.S. Buffett also hired someone else to empty the coin trays.

At 17, he was already thinking like an investor, not an employee.

That mindset made all the difference.

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Two years ago this idea nearly got shelved forever

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Two years ago this idea nearly got shelved forever

Brent Milne

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a light bulb sitting on top of a reflective surface

If you’ve ever watched a deadline timer hit zero…

and then kept selling anyway…

you already know the dirty secret behind most countdown timers.

Two years ago, sitting at my desk, this idea hit me.

Six weeks later I had a working beta.

But it required multiple third-party tools, it was fragile, and the ongoing costs made it impractical to sell.

So I shelved it.

But some ideas don’t leave you alone.

This one forced its way back.

Most people think Edison invented the light bulb.

He didn’t.

The light bulb already existed.

What Edison invented was a filament that lasted, because every one before it burned out almost immediately.

It’s the same with deadline timers.

The idea works.

FOMO is real, and urgency drives sales.

But the implementation has always been broken.

Timers that reset when you clear your cookies.

Timers that keep running after the offer ends.

Timers that make your subscribers feel manipulated, and quietly leave because of it.

My breakthrough fixes the filament, not the light bulb.

It creates a deadline that’s genuinely personal to each subscriber, sticks with them across days, and holds firm, so your urgency is real, your reputation stays intact, and you stop leaving sales on the table every time a prospect comes back a day late.

And you won’t even need your card to try this out.

Click here to experience the future of deadline timers. https://wm-tips.com/free-timer/?sl=zsPwsNfS

Regards,
Brent.

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More traffic won’t fix this

Brent Milne

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There’s a belief most marketers share.

That what they really need is more traffic.

Let me tell you a story.

A marketing consultant was hired to stop a company bleeding money.

After several weeks going through the processes and books, he sat down with the senior managers and laid it out plainly.

“You’re losing $20 for every new customer you get.”

Then he asked: “How do you propose to fix that?”

One of the middle managers leaned forward and said, without hesitation, “Get more customers.”

…

The real answer?

Improve your conversions.

Then sell more to the buyers you already have.

Two steps.

That’s it.

And the first one is the most powerful, because a buyer will always buy again, as long as your products are good enough. Not perfect.

Just good enough.

But before any of that works, you need the conversion.

Which is exactly what this free plugin is built for: https://wm-tips.com/free-timer/?sl=zsPwsNfS

It adds a personalised countdown timer to any offer, the kind that creates real urgency because it’s fresh for every visitor who lands on your page, not a static date everyone can see through.

FOMO does the heavy lifting.

Your traffic does the rest.

Regards,
Brent.

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