One thing that you really must be doing is building an email list from your visitors and then email them every time you post something new.
Then choose one platform to collect your visitors from.
Each post gets repurposed as content on the platform you’ve chosen so people there can click through to your blog.
How often do you create new content?
2 – 3 times a week is usually enough depending on the platform as long as you’re consistent.
That’s the key though, consistency.
If you wish to go down the video path post the video on the post the video is created from for bonus points.
Anyway, that’s the simplistic way to get started blogging successfully in 2025.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. If you’re looking for a platform that’s simple to use and where you can get started for free this one can build bridge pages, funnels, blogs, email lists, and communities.
I suspect that office spaces will shrink because of this as companies will understand that they don’t need as much floor area.
I also think that more and more work will be sent off-shore from first-world countries as companies realise that workers are cheaper elsewhere, but I don’t think that’ll happen for a year or two.
Mainly because there will have to be extensive training to get the same standard of work being done.
That is not to disparage anyone in a second or third-world country because I think they have the same potential, but they haven’t had the exposure to the same influences or perhaps education as they grow up.
That makes a difference.
Will it happen?
I don’t know, it’s just a thought I’ve had for a while.
What do you think?
Regards, Brent.
P.S. What will the kids who won’t be getting jobs in their countries do for a living?
They’ll all want to work on their computers from home, or the coffee shop, or the beach.
Anywhere they have an Internet connection will do.
Some will build blogs, some will create courses, some will become affiliates.
What they will all need is an audience to promote stuff to.
That’s what an Influencer really is.
Someone who has an audience.
Currently the best known Influencers are celebrities, but that’s changing as the rest of us wake up to how profitable and simple it can be.
I’m pretty sure I can make it work, but it would be considered fraudulent.
The thing is that people I’d be defrauding are mostly spammers so I’m conflicted.
Is it a crime to scam the spammers?
In the CPA game there are people who will pay you a small fee every time someone you send puts their email address in a form.
With a small piece of Javascript on a website it is possible to fill in the form and submit it.
I have a list of over 1 million email addresses, many of which are probably not legitimate, but most of them would still be live.
I can buy visitors for very cheap, but most of them will not fill the form, so the fraud comes in by inserting an email from my list if the visitor doesn’t.
Obviously, you could not do this for every visitor because a 100% submission would be a flag, but you could do around 10% without it being obviously fake.
I know I could make this work and it would make money, but it is fraudulent and my ethics prevent me doing this.
It comes under the heading of “Just because I can doesn’t mean I should.”
One of the emails I read had an interesting take on using ChatGPT.
The author speaks and reads Japanese, but because he lives in Australia he doesn’t get to practice as often as he would like.
Now he asks ChatGPT to repeat his prompt in Japanese then answer the prompt in both English and Japanese.
What it can’t do is speak the Japanese so he can practice the pronunciation.
There is a section of ChatGPT that will take an audio input and respond with an audio response.
I tested earlier today and it won’t take a text input but you can use the audio component of ChatGPT to converse with it in another language.
Even if your language skills are lower than mine, which are almost non-existent, it will pace itself to your level and guide you through pronunciation and learning stages.
Access that by clicking the button to the right of the microphone symbol on the right hand end of the prompt input.
When you close it you’ll get the text of your conversation.
Can some one who is bilingual test how accurate it is and let me know please?
What value they give their audience, and what they think their worth is.
If you’re just pushing products for the sale rather than what it can do for your audience they won’t buy.
If you don’t think you deserve to make a living online then you won’t.
However, if you push the idea of making a living online out of your head and work on providing excellent value to your audience you just might surprise yourself.
Lead magnets need to be as good as any product you want to sell, and they need to be the best you can produce.
Even when you’re using PLR you need to stamp it with your personality and make it better than the way it started.
Value does not mean putting a higher price on it, it means making it a better product so the perceived price is higher.
Using PLR is an excellent way to get started on a product, but you must rejig it somehow.
Using as it comes is the #1 error most PLR buyers make, but it is possible to take even ordinary PLR and rework it into something that prople will snap up.
Quite a lot of the output from the AI tools does appear to be out of left field and intuitive, but any Human with the same information could come up with the same ideas.
In reality, many Humans come up with far more intuitive ideas because they drag information from non-related sources which an AI tool is unlikely to do.
That does not mean that you should avoid using any of the AI tools.
On the contrary, you should use them as the tools they are.
All smart marketers will be using AI to help them get more done faster, but they will mostly not replace their brain with an AI brain.
That’s what the lazy marketers will do, and they’ll wonder why it doesn’t work as well for them.
Remember what I wrote at the start of this email.
People with AI skills will take the jobs, not AI itself.
That’s where you need to be, the person with the AI skills.
I can’t answer that one for you, but I can for me.
If you started your internal reply with “I hope…” it probably won’t happen.
The answer needs to start with “I will…” to have any chance of you getting there.
You do not have to tell me where you’ll be because that’s up to you.
Once you do know where you’ll be in 2026 the next step is to break that down to a daily or weekly activity goal.
You must know what you have to do today and tomorrow to get there.
Then, you must actually do those activities.
The best way to make that happen is to mark big red crosses on a big paper calendar every day you do the activity.
There’s nothing nicer than seeing an unbroken line of crosses for months knowing full well that each cross takes you closer to where you’re going to be.
Here’s a little trick I picked up a few years ago that helps make sure you get things done.
Start.
It might be a book, a blog post, a video script, an email, etc.
Starting whatever it is and then leaving it because you don’t have enough time to complete it right now is a great motivator.
This causes cognitive dissonance which brings you back to complete it as soon as possible.
But saying to yourself that you don’t have time to finish it so you don’t start is a sure way to make sure you don’t get it done.
Almost none of us have hours of uninterrupted time to get those things done so utilising this trick helps keep you focused and on track.
