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.
Reportedly, the last words of Ned Kelly before he was hanged in 1880 at the age of 26. He had been convicted of the murder of three police officers. Ned Kelly is perhaps the most famous of Australia’s bushrangers. His first arrest was at age 14, but the charges were dropped due to lack of evidence.
Reportedly, the last words of Ned Kelly before he was hanged in 1880 at the age of 26.
He had been convicted of the murder of three police officers.
Ned Kelly is perhaps the most famous of Australia’s bushrangers.
His first arrest was at age 14, but the charges were dropped due to lack of evidence.
Some people see him as a hero who stood up against the injustices by the authorities against his family, while others see him as a criminal and murderer.
The situation he is most famous for was his last stand against the police at Glenrowan, Victoria.
Famous because he wore homemade armour as he walked into a hail of gunfire.
It was a good idea but not implemented well because Ned was wounded and captured.
It was a fair fight.
There were 30 police to the 4 in the Kelly gang.
It’s not sure how the others died.
The police set fire to the Inn where they had taken cover.
The plan was to smoke them out, but they died instead.
Perhaps by suicide, perhaps due to the fire, perhaps from the police gunfire.
None of the police were killed, but some were injured.
An old military adage is that if you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn’t plan your mission properly.
We visited Glenrowan today, where the celebration of Ned Kelly is about the only thing the town has going for it.
I don’t doubt that Ned wasn’t an upstanding citizen, but there is a possibility that he might have only been a minor criminal and, therefore, could have been a politician if the police hadn’t hammered his family quite so much.
Life was tough enough in Australia in the 1800s but especially hard for the Kelly family.
Ned’s father was a transported convict and died after a 5-month prison term with hard labour for the minor infraction of being in possession of a hide believed to be stolen.
Ned was 12 then, which is a tough thing for a kid to accept.
When you believe yourself to be a victim, and you behave as a victim, you can never escape that world.
For every person like Ned Kelly, there is another who went through similar hardships but didn’t end up on the wrong side of the law.
99% of the time, that’s because they refused to be a victim.
What has happened in the past does not have to determine the future.
The future belongs to those who shape it by their daily actions.
To shape your future to one of financial security, you’ll need to take some action daily.
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Have you ever considered what could happen if bribing officials became more competitive? Some departments might offer special deals. The police might offer 1/2 price fines plus one ‘get out of jail free’ card for minor crimes. These are some of the dumb things that wander through my head when driving long distances.
The stats vary a bit from year to year, but overall, the statement is true, and it usually takes between 5 and 7 years. The question is, why? The answer is that most of them had no previous experience managing any money, let alone a windfall like a lottery win.
Yes, it is possible to make a million in a relatively short time online, but it is unlikely.
Not because you’re stupid but because you don’t have the experience yet.
You get experience by doing.
Make landing pages and send traffic.
You don’t really need any product initially.
You can offer something and find out if people will subscribe to it.
The next page can say, “This is a marketing test. When we have sufficient interest, we will send you a link to download it. If you choose to unsubscribe immediately, an email with an unsubscribe link has been sent to you.”
Alternatively, you can use AI to create a helpful lead magnet.
If no one subscribes, you have lost nothing but the time spent creating the landing page and whatever the traffic cost.
This is no different from those web pages that say, “Under Construction.”
Some of those domains never get any content.
You have to do something, though, or nothing will happen.
