Betty (not Barbie), arrested for being too drunk to drive, called Ken for help. Ken had been her drinking companion, but he couldn’t drive her home because he failed the sobriety test when he staggered into the Police station. Why she called him the Police couldn’t work out because she had a
It never ceases to amaze me at the massive range of behaviours humans can exhibit.
I understand that IQ is not an accurate measure of common sense, which I have always maintained is badly named.
There is no evidence of it being common.
The media, politicians, salespeople, and scammers all prey on that lack of common sense.
They all understand that most people do not engage in deep thinking and are easily swayed by glib sound bites and feel-good statements.
I think the tide is turning, though, and those who wish to mislead us will find it far more difficult in the future.
In some ways, I don’t like the increasing levels of distrust that we all experience, but it has become more necessary as a small percentage of humans have preyed on our trust to steal from us.
The methods they use are the same ones you can use to persuade people to buy things through your sales letters.
As long as you’re providing value, it’s better that they buy your offering than get ripped off by a scammer.
The method might be the same, but the outcome is very different for the buyer.
You can learn how to honourably offer useful products to your visitors with these simple steps.
The last ten days have been trying. Our son and his family flew in from Melbourne ten days ago. Their kids are a three-year-old and a seven-month-old. The three-year-old is going through that stage of asserting her independence at every stage. Everything is a negotiation.
Not long ago in the United Kingdom, a woman became Prime Minister. She had some big, bold ideas she was sure were going to save the world. Well, Britain, at least. Her time in office lasted just fifty days, and one newspaper, betting on the length of her tenure, procured a lettuce, betting that it would outlast her.
Not long ago in the United Kingdom, a woman became Prime Minister.
She had some big, bold ideas she was sure were going to save the world.
Well, Britain, at least.
Her time in office lasted just fifty days, and one newspaper, betting on the length of her tenure, procured a lettuce, betting that it would outlast her.
The lettuce won.
Now, I’m not about to get all political on you here, but what’s supremely clear is that Liz Truss (for it was she, in case you hadn’t guessed) failed in one HUGE way.
She failed to persuade.
She failed to persuade the markets, many colleagues and a lot of the British people.
For us as marketers, failing to persuade will not get us kicked out of the group.
It will cause us to waste time and perhaps money because we won’t make the sales we think we deserve.
Most affiliates do not make enough money to quit their day job, but they could.
All they need to do is modify the way they do things.
Starting with building a bridge page to send all their traffic to.
This is not a sales page; it’s a page that persuades the visitor to click on a link that will give them a taste of what’s on the sales page and collect their email address.
Then, you lead them to the sales page and allow it to do its job.
To create the right sort of lead magnet, you will need to study the sales page and any affiliate materials provided by the vendor.
Take one aspect of that sales page and materials and create an overview of that aspect.
Walk them through the problem it solves and what the benefit to them would be.
Make the graphics match the sales page.
You need to have coherence between what they start with and the sales page they end up on.
You’re persuading them through small steps to a purchase.
Yes, it will take some work, but not much, and the results will be worth it.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. If you’ve previously had problems persuading people to buy your products, you might need to have a templated process to follow that works.
Everybody knows that passive income is the name of the game, right? Running any sort of business, even if only 2 hours a day, isn’t passive income. Real passive income involves owning assets like rental properties or investing in businesses that pay dividends—anything where you don’t have to do anything after spending some cash.
Everybody knows that passive income is the name of the game, right?
Running any sort of business, even if only 2 hours a day, isn’t passive income.
Real passive income involves owning assets like rental properties or investing in businesses that pay dividends—anything where you don’t have to do anything after spending some cash.
Most people do not have the resources to buy those assets, but your online business could do that for you.
At some point, you’ll want, or have, to stop doing anything online.
If you’ve structured things correctly and used the income to purchase those passive income-generating assets, stopping will not affect your income.
A friend of mine bought a magazine business very cheaply because no one could figure out what to do with it.
He boosted circulation by improving the magazine’s quality, giving away advertising and pushing it to as many related groups as he could find.
I thought he was nuts, but he proved me wrong.
Within a year, he had raised the magazine’s profile so much that he could employ half a dozen people to manage its sales, design, print, and distribution.
When all his costs were covered, he employed a manager and went travelling with his family.
That is almost passive income.
You can search for Horse Deals to find out more about his business.
In my Australian search, he has the top ten listings in Google and three more in the next ten.
That’s a dominant position in anyone’s language.
Thats how you build a digital asset and a passive income.
OK, how do you get there faster?
Well, you can go to Flippa and buy a website that has existing income.
When you buy one of those with money you made with your online business, you are building digital assets that you can keep or improve and flip.
Building a money-making business is only the first step to a life of financial comfort.
I was playing around with CoPilot today and asking it to write the same article in different styles. It was supposed to be about getting free traffic from Pinterest, but it went nuts and produced this when I suggested a creative style. This is the original prompt:- Can you write a short post, approx 500 words, as an example of a how-to-post on the subject of getting free traffic from Pinterest?
I was playing around with CoPilot today and asking it to write the same article in different styles.
It was supposed to be about getting free traffic from Pinterest, but it went nuts and produced this when I suggested a creative style.
This is the original prompt:- Can you write a short post, approx 500 words, as an example of a how-to-post on the subject of getting free traffic from Pinterest?
The prompt that got this response was:- OK, let your creativity soar with this attempt.
And the response is:-
Ah, the canvas of creativity awaits! Let’s unfurl the sails and embark on a whimsical journey. 🌟
The Tale of the Quantum Quokka
Once upon a pixelated time, in the quantum hinterlands of Cyberspace, there existed a peculiar creature: the Quantum Quokka. Picture a fuzzy marsupial with a penchant for entangled eucalyptus leaves and a mischievous glint in its pixelated eyes.
Chapter 1: The Uncertainty Principle
Our hero, Quok, lived in a superposition of states. By day, it was a mild-mannered quokka, nibbling on ones and zeros. By night, it donned a tiny cape (made of recycled code snippets) and became the Quantum Quokka—a defender of digital justice.
Chapter 2: The Schrödinger’s Inbox Dilemma
One fateful morning, Quok received an email. The subject line shimmered like a quantum mirage: “URGENT: Your Reality Is Collapsing!” Intrigued, Quok clicked. The message unfolded like a nested loop:
“Dear Quantum Quokka,
The fabric of our virtual existence is unraveling. Bits are bleeding into bytes, and emojis are gaining sentience. We need your help. Only you can restore order to the tangled web.
Sincerely, The Cosmic Code Compiler”
Chapter 3: The Quantum Quest
Quok adjusted its pocket protector (a relic from the ’90s) and set off. Its mission? To find the elusive “Wavefunction Widget” hidden deep within the Quantum Forest. Legend had it that this widget could collapse realities, debug glitches, and brew a mean cup of chai.
Chapter 4: The Feynman Feyn-ds
Along the way, Quok encountered quirky companions:
Heisenbird: A feathered friend with uncertain flight patterns. It squawked quantum riddles and left breadcrumbs of uncertainty.
Schrödinger’s Cat: A feline philosopher perpetually trapped in a box. It purred paradoxes and pondered existence over tuna sandwiches.
Werner the Wormhole: A wriggly wormhole with a penchant for puns. It offered shortcuts through spacetime but charged in quarks.
Chapter 5: The Widget’s Whimsy
At the heart of the Quantum Forest stood the Wavefunction Widget—a glowing orb of indeterminacy. Quok whispered the magic incantation: “Ctrl+Alt+Collapse.” The forest quivered. Bits jittered. And reality hiccupped.
The widget revealed its purpose: to weave together fragmented narratives, to pixelate chaos into coherence. Quok accepted its destiny. With a click, it collapsed the multiverse, merging cat videos, conspiracy theories, and forgotten AOL CDs.
Epilogue: Quantum Quokka Chronicles
And so, dear reader, the Quantum Quokka returned to its inbox, sipping chai and debugging glitches. It became a legend—a fuzzy footnote in the cosmic codebase.
Remember: Creativity, like quarks, dances in uncertainty. So go forth, my fellow wanderers, and pixelate your dreams. 🌌✨
Disclaimer: No quokkas were harmed in the making of this tale. Quantum physics, however, might need a debugger. 😜
I love the story.
It’s useless as a blog post promoting free traffic on Pinterest, but it is delightfully quirky.
I detest the imposition that the woke idiots wish to push onto the 90% of the population who are not stupid. I received an email today telling me that I need to be more ‘sensitive’ in my writing so I don’t offend anybody. That email offended me, so I wrote back to let them know.
There is no possible way that I would even consider any of the steps suggested in that blog post.
I did suggest that if they choose to reply to me, they should address me as My Lord or My Master.
The number of people on the planet who do have an issue with their biological sex/gender is less than 10% of the population, other than those who are leaping on the bandwagon to protest.
I always thought it was pretty easy to identify what sex/gender you were.
All you had to do was have a look in your underwear, and the answer was usually pretty obvious.
To clear up any misconceptions, sex/gender is determined at conception and is identified at birth or before.
Only a man can be a Transgender woman.
Cosmetic surgery does not change your chromosome makeup.
Suppressing a child’s hormonal development is child abuse.
The woke movement is wrong on so many levels.
It’s time to make a stand against it before they destroy the country.
I apologise if I have offended anyone, but perhaps you should examine if you are offended on behalf of another person or yourself.
If it’s on behalf of anyone other than yourself, you do not have that right.
Seriously, nothing is as hard as you think it is. Unless you’re thinking about string or quantum theory because they are as hard as you think they might be. But for most of the remainder of the things in your life, you’re probably overthinking it. It’s especially true for making money online.
I see FB posts from people claiming to make thousands monthly who have little grasp of spelling or grammar.
Some claim to have left high-paying and intellectually challenging jobs, such as Baristas at Starbucks or waiters, because they now make more money online.
Why do these people make more money than you online?
They’re not overthinking things.
They have been told what to do, and they do it.
You don’t have to emulate them; just stop overthinking things.
Step up to the plate and swing for the bleachers.
Swing enough times, and you will hit a homer.
In the meantime, you’ll get to first or second base.
Solve a problem that people have and let them know you have a solution.
I think I’m now immune to FOMO. So many of the emails in my inbox include some variation on “Only one hour before it closes” or “Last chance to get …” I don’t open them anymore. Mostly because I’ve already checked out the product and decided against buying it.
So many of the emails in my inbox include some variation on “Only one hour before it closes” or “Last chance to get …”
I don’t open them anymore.
Mostly because I’ve already checked out the product and decided against buying it.
If I open the email, it’s because I want to buy it but decided to wait, but usually, if I wanted to buy it, I would have already done so.
The funny thing is that if you go to some of those “last chance” sales pages after the end date, you can still buy them at the original price even though the countdown timer is now at zero.
Not all of them, to be sure, but enough of them that the FOMO thing no longer works.
I will not use fake scarcity on you.
Nor will I remove a product from sale unless it doesn’t sell, in which case there is no point leaving it online.
I refunded the buyer, which surprised them, and removed the product from sale.
AI has made that product redundant, so it will probably never return.
There is one marketer who uses FOMO brilliantly.
He offers one of his products for sale for a few days and then takes it off the market.
In six months to a year, he’ll offer the same product again for a few days and then remove it again.
People on his email list are now trained to buy when the product is available, if they want it, because they know that they might have to wait a long time to get another chance to buy.
He is the only marketer who works this way as far as I know.
His name is Tony Shepherd, and you can get an insider’s view into his business and how he runs it here: https://go.wm-tips.com/asal.
When you join his insiders club, he will show you everything, but he also explains each step in each product he creates because each product reveals a little more about how he does things.
No other marketer will let you inside their business like Tony does.
You know that you need to be working on something if you want to make more money, so here’s a little checklist you can use when you’re not sure what you should be working on to further your goals. It’s really simple. If you want to make more money:
You know that you need to be working on something if you want to make more money, so here’s a little checklist you can use when you’re not sure what you should be working on to further your goals.
It’s really simple.
If you want to make more money:
1. Make more offers… 2. To more people… 3. More often…
That’s it.
If you only have one product, you can create multiple offers for it to change it up.
Different bonuses, etc.
Feature different primary benefits, etc. Or expand your service and product catalogue if you want.
Grow your list of prospects, audiences, and followings.
Use content and incentivise them into subscribing or agreeing to further contact.
Always be putting stuff out there that is designed to draw more people in. Message existing prospects frequently.
This is who you make those offers to.
If you feel like you’ve maxed out one channel – if it grows automatically and makes new offers daily, for example – then pursue a new niche and start again.
Perhaps I’m getting too far ahead…
If you focus on doing one or more of those three things every day, you can only grow.
Look for ways to automate those tasks, and you’ve got some of that there “passive income” people wish for.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. Here is one way to quickly create more offers to the same subscribers.
The timeframe is different, but that’s about all. When you write an app, you’re looking to solve a problem. It might be to automate something, or it might be to create a tool. It’s the same with an online business. Most of the products you create or market as an affiliate are trying to solve a problem for the client.
P.S. Gene is still running his special for the domain name email.
The last one I got had 245 domain names for immediate registration.
The list included gems such as an arthritis one, a golf one, a weight loss one, some for local businesses, etc.
Of course, I can’t show you the domain names, as that wouldn’t be fair to the subscribers, but I can say that those I mentioned were still available at normal domain name prices when I wrote this email.
