Sounds like BS, but it’s true, and I’ll share with you how in a moment. But first, an update from the road. We are currently in Biloela, a small coal mining town in rural Queensland. We left a bush camp at Woodgate this morning and basically drove straight through.
Sounds like BS, but it’s true, and I’ll share with you how in a moment.
But first, an update from the road.
We are currently in Biloela, a small coal mining town in rural Queensland.
We left a bush camp at Woodgate this morning and basically drove straight through.
If I could find the sweet-spot of speed I wouldn’t attract the entourages that I currently do.
On many of these roads overtaking is challenging and the trucks find it harder than most.
Here in Australia, especially in the more remote areas the trucks are huge.
Do a search for images of road trains, B-Doubles, and B-Triples to get an idea.
Then consider that the roads I’m driving on are only two lanes, one in each direction, with no centre barrier.
These behemoths are travelling at 100kph (60mph), and don’t want to slow down because it takes time to speed back up again.
No, I’m not scared of these vehicles.
The drivers are all professionals, and drive on roads like these every day.
I give them as much help as I can, and most of the drivers recognise that and acknowledge what I do.
Other than keeping an eye on what’s going on ahead and behind me on the road I also have a lot of time to think because my wife is usually engrossed in an audio book.
Today I was thinking about how to create products faster and I pondered something that Britt reminded me of, thanks Britt.
The best product to create is a short course.
There are several reasons for this.
You’ll be more likely to get their real email address because fake ones don’t work for multiple days.
The subscriber is likely to open more of your emails as you notify them of the next days content.
When you deliver the notification with a link to click to the content you’re also training them to click your links.
If the course is free your subscriber rate should be higher, but you get at least the length of the course to encourage them to buy something, hopefully longer.
Many people will still struggle to put a short course together, but I have a solution for you.
This training shows you, step-by-step, how to put together a product that you know will sell using AI to help.
It’s a simple process to expand the work into a 5-day course.
Either split up an extensive product or create 5 complementary products using the same process.
This seems to be the biggest mistake the less successful marketers make. Other than your email list, which you should be building regardless of your traffic source, most marketers keep testing different traffic sources. I get it, I’ve done the same thing.
One platform that has punters from every niche is YouTube.
Many marketers confuse YouTube with the Google search pages, it doesn’t work the same at all.
Google makes more money by keeping you, and me, stuck in the watching vortex.
“Ooo, that looks interesting.” Click.
To that end they monitor what you watch and deliver more of the same or similar with the occasional outlier that other people in your demographic have watched.
We all like to think we are individuals, but Google knows that people who watched that video are likely to watch this video.
For the canny marketer though this works in your favour.
Without any black-hat tricks or SEO you can set your videos up for a better than average chance of success.
It’s all about the thumbnail and title.
The thumbnail attracts attention, the title entices the click.
You do that by looking at the top ranking videos in your niche and creating thumbnails and titles that fit in the group of what people are already clicking on.
Now it’s up to you to deliver content that matches them so the watcher doesn’t click away in the first 2 seconds.
This will help you find the people in your niche who need your product the most.
Many of you may have looked at the price of Bitcoin, currently $91,688.37 each, and thought, “That’s out of my reach, I’ll wait until it’s cheaper.” I admit that I have thought exactly the same, until this week. Honestly, I don’t know if Bitcoin is a
Honestly, I don’t know if Bitcoin is a saviour or a Ponzi scheme.
It could easily be either.
My concern is that, since Bitcoin has only been around since the GFC, it has never been in a crash, and I don’t know if it would hold up or crash as well.
However, with the concept I learned this week I will be investing in Bitcoin, in a small way, in case it really does take off and hold its value for the long term.
The concept is ideal for highly volatile markets such as cryptocurrencies.
It’s called Dollar Cost Averaging.
The idea is that you buy the same dollar value of Bitcoin, or any other volatile product, on a regular basis.
That could be weekly, fortnightly, monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, or any other interval that suits you.
Sometimes you’ll get less for your money, sometimes more, but you’re averaging the cost over time.
Because each Bitcoin is divisible by 1 million bits, called Satoshis, even if one Bitcoin costs $1m you’ll still be able to buy 1 Satoshi.
The smart way to invest is to use money that you get for free, so you don’t impact your current financial situation.
According to the latest surveys people in general have very little trust in authority. I suspect that is because those in authority have abused our trust repeatedly over the last 10 – 20 years at least. It’s distinctly possible that we didn’t get enough accurate information before then to realise that the abuse has been going on for much longer.
As an example, the argument against nuclear energy is how long the waste is radioactive for.
The usual statement is 10,000 years or so.
While that is true it’s also misleading.
Nuclear waste is only dangerously radioactive for about 1,000 years after which it’s about as dangerously radioactive as your granite kitchen bench top.
Is it possible to safely store nuclear waste for as long as required?
Yes, it’s surprisingly easy to do so.
So, can you trust my statements above?
I say yes, but you should do as Kissinger once said, “Trust, but verify.”
A quick YT search will give you more than enough proof.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. While on the subject of trust, it always pays to click any link I give you to verify what I tell you about the product at the end of it.
In this case what you’ll get is a simple way, using AI, to create simple niche landing pages, a simple email sequence and a way to get traffic to those landing pages for free.
Retirement plan A isn’t working as it should, so I’m going to tell you about plan B. But first, let’s see what’s wrong with retirement plan A. This is the one that we have all been told works, and it did, until about 1960. The plan was you got a good education, got a good job, bought a home, had a family, owned a nice car, had nice holidays, and retired with a nice lump sum or a comfortable income.
Retirement plan A isn’t working as it should, so I’m going to tell you about plan B.
But first, let’s see what’s wrong with retirement plan A.
This is the one that we have all been told works, and it did, until about 1960.
The plan was you got a good education, got a good job, bought a home, had a family, owned a nice car, had nice holidays, and retired with a nice lump sum or a comfortable income.
This was the 9-5 40 year plan.
Inflation and greed killed it.
Inflation destroyed your savings, crashed the stock market and stole your retirement funds.
For some, that pushed them into poverty from which they never recovered.
Some went back to work and survived, but retirement was never supposed to be like that.
The retirement plan was set at 65 because most people were dead by 75 and there wouldn’t have been any strain on the retirement industry funds.
But we are stubbornly living much longer.
My father told me once that he had been retired longer than he had worked.
How are your savings supposed to keep you financial in situations such as that?
We rely on the stock market, which is fraught with danger.
Greedy people manipulate the market for their own gain.
They manipulate the savings of those retirees for higher fees with no care for their customer.
Not all of them, of course, but the stories abound.
That’s plan A.
If you’re lucky, you’ll either miss the next market crash, or be able to recover when it happens.
Use the information I gave you in the last email, “Instant free traffic from YouTube”, to find the keywords in your micro niche to target your traffic getting videos.
Link to your micro niche website which uses the same keywords in the articles, and link to relevant products.
Add Adsense to your micro niche pages.
You can easily put up one of these sites a week including 10-20 posts and almost as many videos with the help of AI.
Each of these sites should bring you between $20 – $100 a week for years.
Most of them won’t need any more maintenance, once set up, except for updates.
Most of that can be automated.
Because you are diversifying the sites across hosts the chances of losing any of them is much reduced and easily replaced minimising the impact on your cash-flow.
Two months of consistent work can set you up for a nice steady $500 – $3k per month.
When you want more, build more niche sites, there are thousands to choose from.
Why use YouTube for traffic rather than the Google SERPs? Because YouTube is a search engine where SEO is almost irrelevant. Think about it from their point of view. They want people to stay on their platform so they can show them more ads. To keep people on YouTube they
Why use YouTube for traffic rather than the Google SERPs?
Because YouTube is a search engine where SEO is almost irrelevant.
Think about it from their point of view.
They want people to stay on their platform so they can show them more ads.
To keep people on YouTube they tempt them with more videos, down the right-hand side, relevant to the viewers interests.
They also try to match the videos to your search term.
OK, so how does this get you instant traffic?
Step 1: Search YT for your keywords.
Step 2: Look for relevant videos for which there are more views than subscribers.
Step 3: When you find three of these you have the right keywords to make a video around.
What this shows is that there is more demand than supply, so you add to the supply with your video based on the same keywords and Google will show your video in that right-hand column.
Now this is where your thumbnail and title count.
Get them right and you’ll get traffic instantly.
Base them both on the videos you found.
You can’t copy them but you can use them for inspiration.
Of course you can copy those thumbnails, paste them into ChatGPT and ask for a similar thumbnail.
Ask ChatGPT to summarise the videos and give you an overview script to use.
As we travelled today we saw very few other vehicles. We thought the camping grounds would be deserted. But when we pulled into our campsite this afternoon there are approximately 50 other caravans, campers, motor homes and people in tents. Tonight we are in Goondiwindi, and tomorrow we move on to Esk.
Like most zoos, there were good bits and poor bits. It must be difficult to keep these enclosures in good condition. I’m sure the animals are less excited to see the people than the people are to see the animals. It definitely looks like it. Most of the animals were
How about you, you, you? Yeah, sorry. But we are going to the zoo tomorrow. We are in Dubbo tonight, and tomorrow, we’re going to their open-range zoo. We’ll spend quite a bit of time there if it’s anything like the Monarto zoo outside Adelaide. People tell me it’s the best there is, but people will always tell you stuff like that when it’s in their backyard, so perhaps take it with a grain of salt.
We are in Dubbo tonight, and tomorrow, we’re going to their open-range zoo.
We’ll spend quite a bit of time there if it’s anything like the Monarto zoo outside Adelaide.
People tell me it’s the best there is, but people will always tell you stuff like that when it’s in their backyard, so perhaps take it with a grain of salt.
Everything is subjective.
What I like and what you like may overlap, but they will never be 100% aligned.
That’s possibly the biggest problem in all Human-to-Human communications.
Alan Greenspan said, “I know you think you understand what I said, but I’m not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant.”
Today, we drove from Albury to Parkes, about 5 hours driving. Parkes is the home of the radio satellite tracking station that featured in the movie, The Dish. We’re going to visit it tomorrow. However, this email is not about that; this is about one of the strangest names for a Shire I think I have ever seen.
