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Experimenting with AI, again.

Brent Milne

Jun 12

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Or is that still?

Anyway, this time it was Manus.ai, https://go.wm-tips.com/manusfree, who are offering 500 free credits to try them out.

So I did.

I asked Manus to write a book on programming with AI for beginners.

It’s done such a good job that I’ll be putting this on Amazon.

It did amuse me to ask an AI tool to write a book about programming with AI.

But, as they say, the simplest approach is usually the best.

Anyway, using AI for simple programs is a snap, using it for more complex programs can be done, but you need to have some programming background or knowledge for that.

Except, you can gain that quickly by asking the AI tools to explain the code.

So, we’ve talked about using AI for coding.

We’ve talked about using AI for image creation.

We’ve talked about using AI for writing.

All of these require human input to make the output good, not brilliant, but good enough to sell.

Have you thought about how you could use AI to research a subject, then summarise that subject, analyse the summary to find holes you can exploit, then use AI to write a report to sell?

Maybe this will give you some idea of the power of short reports.

https://sites.google.com/view/lowcontentbooks/home.

Regards,
Brent.

June 11, 2025June 11, 2025

Free traffic is expensive.

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Free traffic is expensive.

Brent Milne

Jun 11

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WTF?

Yes, free traffic is expensive because it often wastes a lot of valuable time for little or no return.

But, not all free traffic is expensive.

Some is valuable.

It’s a bit like the businessman who said, “Half my advertising dollar is wasted, I just don’t know which half.”

At least half your efforts to get free traffic is wasted, but you can find out which half with good tracking.

Tracking tools can be expensive, so, if you’re just starting with tracking, here are some free tools to use for tracking.

Honestly, you should track every link no matter where you put them.

Each link can be unique when you set them up carefully.

90% of your visitors will only see one link one time.

If you have a WordPress site, you can use the Pretty Links plugin.

It is basic, but does give you some insight into what’s happening.

The other link you can use is https://go.wm-tips.com/llhome, the tracking in this tool is more sophisticated.

Both of these are free and can give you some decent oversight to what’s happening with your links.

Remember that even links in PDFs can be tracked and the target page changed if needed.

Regards,
Brent.

June 10, 2025June 11, 2025

It must be “Write a crappy email month”

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It must be “Write a crappy email month”

Brent Milne

Jun 10

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Yep, I’ve scored several more in my inbox today.

No, you really don’t want to see them.

Subject lines that suggest you’ve won a prize, qualified for a PayPal payout, or already made a sale are rife.

They are also BS, sometimes phishing, but mostly an attempt to get you to buy some super, wizbang software.

It’s the old, mostly overused, and inaccurate FOMO technique at play.

You know that your subject line, sales page headline, or product name needs to stop people scrolling and get them to take notice.

It’s the same reason that the doom goblin’s supporters are reporting that she’s been ‘arrested’ by the IDF.

It’s not true, but those headlines stop people long enough to get the propaganda message out.

You don’t need to use that type of click-baity headlines or subject lines.

So here’s a way to get some to choose from.

Give your favourite AI tool your product or a concise product description and ask for 20 subject lines (or headlines) that will stop people scrolling long enough to read your message.

If you don’t like those, ask for them to be toned down or hyped up.

Ask for 20 more.

All AI tools will create as many as you want until you get one you like, and they’ll do it in seconds.

You can combine two or more to get what you want so flexibility is baked in.

Use this method for the short reports you’ll create with this info,

https://sites.google.com/view/lowcontentbooks/home.

Regards,
Brent.

June 9, 2025June 9, 2025

Never write an email like this.

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Never write an email like this.

Brent Milne

Jun 9

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I’m serious, this arrived in my inbox today.

I’ll be marking this as spam, because it’s a cold approach and it’s pathetic.

</snip>

Subject: Soaring through the Software Development Sky

Body: Hey there, Brent Milne!

Hope you’re strumming a sweet melody on this fine day. I wanted to sprinkle a bit of pixie dust on our recent conversation about venturing together into the enchanting world of software development services. Just like Peter Pan believes in the magic of never growing old, we believe in the magic of innovation and are fully committed to supporting this project’s flight. Let’s keep our thoughts high above the clouds and work together to make this more than just fairy tales. Looking forward to creating something that’ll have us flying without wings.

Catch you in Neverland,
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+1 (416) 65081195

The email address used is
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</snip>

Firstly, we have never spoken, about anything.

Secondly, they are pretending, via their email address, that they are an Australian company, but their phone number is USA.

Thirdly, WTAF? Not even my best friend would write an email so full of fluffy BS as this one.

Fourthly, that is the actual formatting used, not the best way to get attention.

They will definitely ‘Catch me in Neverland’, since that doesn’t exist they’ll be waiting a very long time.

This will be marked as spam because they deserve it.

I understand that whoever wrote this email thought they were being super clever and cutesy with all their Peter Pan references, but it doesn’t work.

What do you think?

Would you reply to this?

Never write an email like this, even to your subscribers.

Send one of these to your subscribers instead.

https://sites.google.com/view/lowcontentbooks/home.

Regards,
Brent.

June 8, 2025June 8, 2025

Most people trying to make money online make nothing.

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Most people trying to make money online make nothing.

Brent Milne

Jun 8

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That’s harsh, but true.

The question is why?

Most people trying to make money online do most of the things required.

They become affiliates for good products.

They build an email list, sometimes.

They build a Facebook page, or an alternative.

They’re active in communities.

They often have been around long enough to know what to do, and they do it.

But, they often stop doing the activities and bounce from one thing to another.

Most of these people are not stupid or lazy, but they get frustrated when they don’t get any results fast enough.

And that’s the bulk of the problem right there.

When you read the back stories of successful online marketers you’ll find that they often had some small win very early in their efforts.

Why is this different?

They got some proof relatively fast.

Even if it was only a few dollars it was validation that they could make money online.

My first income online was a cheque for $1.25.

The bank wanted $6 to convert it to Australian dollars so it wasn’t much good, but it was still validation that there was money to be had online.

The difference is in the belief that you can make money this way.

And that’s the real difference between those who make money and those who don’t.

Not everything you do will make money.

When the first 3 – 5 things you do don’t make anything the belief flips from yes to no, and the universe delivers what you believe.

What you need is a simple way to flip that back to yes.

With everything else you know, this is the simplest, and fastest, way I know about how to flip that switch.

https://sites.google.com/view/lowcontentbooks/home.

Regards,
Brent.

June 6, 2025June 7, 2025

The easiest products to create and sell.

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The easiest products to create and sell.

Brent Milne

Jun 6

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Everyone who wants to make money online or offline need to choose products that have a decent ROI and are easy to obtain, for them.

It helps if there is an unlimited supply and there are no faults or problems for the customer so there are no refunds and no customer complaints.

Looks like the ideal business, right?

Correct.

Online there are two products that you can create in an afternoon, if you’re slow, sell well, and have almost no customer complaints.

Online, some people complain anyway, refund them and block them.

Those two products are checklists, and case studies.

You can make both of these with AI if you want, although the case studies require you to do some research first so you can feed the AI tool with the real data.

Can’t have them thinking for themselves here, they’ll make up something that sounds great but is all fiction.

Actually, just thinking about that a little.

You could create a book of fantasy case studies.

If you made them outlandish and humorous the book would probably sell well.

In the same vein, an outlandish and humorous book of pointless checklists would also probably sell well.

It’s not the product or the niche that’s usually important, it’s thinking differently about it.

Finding an angle that no one else is using.

Structuring the content in a form that’s not the normal way to deliver it.

If everybody is making PDF lead magnets, make videos, or audio books, or Google Docs, or anything else you can think of.

The different structure attracts attention.

Attention brings followers.

Followers bring money.

Attract attention, give value.

Here’s one way to do that.
https://sites.google.com/view/lowcontentbooks/home.

Regards,
Brent.

June 5, 2025June 6, 2025

Turning $1 into $2 is the goal.

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Turning $1 into $2 is the goal.

Brent Milne

Jun 5

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If you can get back $2 for every $1 you invest in your business, you’re running a very successful business.

I’m calling everything you pay for an investment.

To put this into perspective.

Are the big supermarkets successful businesses?

Most people would say yes, definitely.

Most of those big successful supermarkets make about $1.04 for every $1 invested in running the business.

What about the banks, are they successful?

Most of them get a net return of about $1.02 for every $1 of investment.

Yes, I know these businesses make a lot of money, but they cost a lot of money to run.

Let’s take something smaller.

House flippers buy a house for $100,000, they spend $20,000 on renovations and sprucing it up.

When they sell it, they’re usually pretty happy to get $150,000 for it, a net profit of $30,000 – a 20% ROI.

Most Internet Marketers make a much higher return on their investments than those billion dollar companies, or even the house flippers.

Many marketers are making returns far in excess of a simple $2 for every $1 in costs, but even that is 100% ROI.

As long as you don’t expect to make $10,000 overnight you too can get returns of 100% or more on your investment online.

And you don’t have to risk a single penny on crypto-currencies.

If this is something that inspires you, see if this fits the bill.

https://sites.google.com/view/lowcontentbooks/home.

Regards,
Brent.

June 4, 2025June 4, 2025

Marketing with intent beats mud throwing.

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Marketing with intent beats mud throwing.

Brent Milne

Jun 4

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Many marketers, or at least some who think they’re marketers, work on the mud throwing method.

They leap around from one thing to another, never giving anything time to start working.

They’re the ones who demand a refund for your latest brilliant product within 24 hours of buying it.

They’ll often claim that “it doesn’t work”.

Nope, nothing will for them.

In 20 years time they’ll still be buying, from those who still let them, and demanding refunds.

If they’d just taken one of those products and worked it for one of those 20 years they might have been able to spend the next 19 years cruising the World.

So what’s the difference between those people and the ones who do succeed?

It’s all about the intent.

If your intention is to build a successful income stream, and you work at it with that intent, you will build a successful income stream.

There was a post in the Warrior Forum, back when it was worth being in there, that talked about how one marketer spent quite a bit of his time working on his one big project.

But he also set aside and hour a day to work on a simple side hustle.

After 6 months the big project still wasn’t complete, and the side hustle was bringing in a steady income.

His comment was that he was wasting his time on the big project and he had determined to expand the side hustle into multiple hustles instead.

Think on this.

If you build one simple one or two page website and set up an automated traffic stream for that, it’s possible to make $10 – $50 per day.

That’s $300 – $1500 per month, or $3,600 – $18,000 per year.

One of these should take you less than a week to set up including getting the traffic started.

In 2 – 3 months you could have multiple income streams and be banking some serious coin.

That will only happen if you work with the intention of making it happen.

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. You can find out more about how and why working with intent works here https://www.amazon.com/Thought-That-Counts-David-Hamilton-ebook/dp/B003JQLEMU?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.oSo01Vd_Yp5luvMHeQMwYX0Y4cm-Siuh0UvyX9dMDHsIGDp2dkFvqpKvq_KEgpPZivzIQcoaVcPfU2PEg6h6LGRhg5qeFhHaiQp9MUCtWWViyl8BMArcQ3nKd4Pw0XqZYTMzfxWUAgn_FJoIvnJUS3pw0fsqbquYV3xIUtQ6M6s_lLF3quulKGQycyb2v5NOlJpCE_DTrN7dfy6o2Dpvn_NyS_a2f2S_p6iM8xi_CB8.a_leWDDJNGhzZI8k1O4N4UzBUnM1i-2lVEQqFQ31yYM&&sr=8-8&&&&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl.

June 3, 2025June 3, 2025

Why Vibe coding is not the cash cow claimed.

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Why Vibe coding is not the cash cow claimed.

Brent Milne

Jun 3

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I write code.

Mostly for myself, sometimes for free , sometimes for sale.

I’ve been doing this for 40+ years.

I’m not a professional programmer because I’ve never held a programming job.

Vibe coding is a hot topic right now because some people have figured out that AI can write code.

Yes, it can, but it’s about as good as a junior programmer.

If all you want to do is write little, simple plugins, or build websites fast, even little desktop apps, it works well enough.

But, if you want to write what I’m dong at the moment, you’d better understand what the code says.

You’ll need to hold the AIs hand because it’ll make stuff up, yes, even in your code, break working code because it ‘forgot’ what variable name it had used 20 times before.

It’ll rewrite an entire 500 line block of code in 300 lines by leaving out critical stuff.

Vibe coding is great fun when you play around with it, but not so much fun when you have to fix something.

The conversational prompts sometimes need to be extensive to make sure nothing else gets broken.

If you don’t understand the code you can’t do that.

On the bright side, you can learn to code by vibe coding.

Just ask the AI to explain the code as it goes.

Instruct it to put comments in the code like real programmers do because we don’t remember why we did some things.

OK, I’ve got to give you this vibe coded AI game to play with, https://blog.wm-tips.com/lasermaze, just don’t spend too long on it.

Regards,
Brent.

June 2, 2025June 2, 2025

The mindbody connection, proved by science.

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The mindbody connection, proved by science.

Brent Milne

Jun 2

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Quite by chance I’ve read several books lately on meditation and mindfulness.

The current book is quite fascinating and confirms what I’ve believed for many years.

It’s called It’s the thought that counts and is written by David R Hamilton PhD. https://www.amazon.com/Thought-That-Counts-David-Hamilton-ebook/dp/B003JQLEMU?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.oSo01Vd_Yp5luvMHeQMwYX0Y4cm-Siuh0UvyX9dMDHsIGDp2dkFvqpKvq_KEgpPZivzIQcoaVcPfU2PEg6h6LGRhg5qeFhHaiQp9MUCtWWViyl8BMArcQ3nKd4Pw0XqZYTMzfxWUAgn_FJoIvnJUS3pw0fsqbquYV3xIUtQ6M6s_lLF3quulKGQycyb2v5NOlJpCE_DTrN7dfy6o2Dpvn_NyS_a2f2S_p6iM8xi_CB8.a_leWDDJNGhzZI8k1O4N4UzBUnM1i-2lVEQqFQ31yYM&&sr=8-8&&&&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl.

David is/was a scientist who studied drugs and medicine.

In the book he talks about why placebos work, why people with healing hands can really help others heal.

There is so much in this book that relates to your well being, your relationships with others, your ability to build a successful life or business that I think I’ll have to read it several times.

He also touches on something that’s fascinating.

He talks about memories being a whole body thing, not just your mind.

Kind of like a hologram, you remember those?

They seem to have dropped out of favour, but the idea was that any part of a hologram contains the data for the whole image.

If you’re bodymind connection is like that we need to work out how to access everything.

Anyway, grab it and devour it.

The book is cheap, but the value is massive.

Regards,
Brent.