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.
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.
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.
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.
So is Marlon Sanders, Ryan Deiss, Albert Einstein, You, me.
We have all failed many times.
But that’s an important part of succeeding.
Failing your way to success is the only route.
We all failed repeatedly when learning to walk, no one ever got up off the floor and started walking the first time they tried.
It’s never happened and probably never will.
It’s the same in life and business.
No one ever started and was immediately successful.
That’s not quite true, there have been a few who hit success very early in their careers, but almost all of those failed massively later because they thought themselves to be invincible and stepped outside their wheelhouse.
The real question is not will this fail, but what will I do if it does?
Successful people, however you define success, develop the attitude of Whoops, that didn’t work. Next.
They are focussed on doing their best and owning the process, but not owning the outcome.
They definitely don’t define themselves by the results of their efforts.
Just because you or I think that what we have done is the best thing we’ve done since learning to walk doesn’t mean anyone else will.
You can love the end product, but you cannot force anyone else to love it.
Just because you don’t love the end product you doesn’t mean that others won’t.
Your best chance of successfully creating something that others will also find valuable enough to pay for is to find things that they already find useful.
Work out how to make it better, easier, faster, or whatever would make it more valuable and do that.
and ask the AI to create a book, create a course, create a video series, or anything else you can imagine.
NotebookLM will do additional research, update the concepts of the book etc.
Please proof read whatever the AI tools create for you, rewrite the awkward bits, correct the mistakes and hallucinations, fact check any statements so that what you produce is worth someone else’s time and money.
It pays to remember that AI is neither artificial nor intelligent.
It’s just very good at making you think it is.
Anyway, enjoy the books you’ll find even if you do nothing with them.
Summarising the book and reducing it to it’s core principles is simple, and this works for anyone who follows through.
The Plan
WRITE down on paper in order of their importance the things and conditions you really want.
Do not be afraid of wanting too much.
Go the limit in writing down your wants.
Change the list daily, adding to or taking from it, until you have it about right.
Do not be discouraged on account of changes, as this is natural.
There will always be changes and additions with accomplishments and increasing desires.
Three Positive Rules Of Accomplishment:
1. Read the list of what you want three times each day: morning, noon and night. It doesn’t have to be aloud.
2. Think about what you want as often as possible.
3. Do not talk to any one about your plan except to the Universal Mind within you which will unfold to your objective mind the method of accomplishment.
It is obvious that you cannot acquire faith at the start.
Some of your desires, from all practical reasoning, may seem positively unattainable, but, nevertheless, write them down on your list in their proper place of importance to you.
It has to be written down because if you can’t articulate what you want then the Universal Mind cannot deliver.
Some people call the the Universal Mind God, some call it the Universe.
It doesn’t matter what you call it, what matters is that it exists in you and all around you.
Quantum physics is just beginning to catch glimpses of this, but those scientists cannot explain it either.
It’s called ’10 Commandments of Con Men, Pickup Artists, Magicians, Door-to-Door Salesmen, Hypnotists, Copywriters, Negotiators, Political Propagandists, Stand Up Comedians, and Oscar-Winning Screenwriters.’
It’s written by John Bejakovic, a marketer who’s email list I’ve been on for several years now.
He has a quirky outlook on what he does and he’s reasonably successful as
No, I’m talking about the size of your email list.
What were you thinking?
Regardless of the number of subscribers the strategy you use is more important than the numbers.
Minimum of 1 email a week, but 3 is better and everyday is better again.
The strategy is always about keeping them engaged with you.
That means you tell them stories, or you give them one actionable tip they can use right now.
Something they can relate to, something they can use, something that helps them see you as a real person with their best interests at heart.
That means that even if you do have a link to a product for sale in your emails, and you should, your subscribers understand that it’s because you genuinely believe that you think it’ll be good for them.
People will always pay for a shortcut, or something that’ll make their lives easier.
Your job is to figure out what that looks like and help them find it.
Not everyone will take advantage of that immediately, for some it’s not the right time, for others they don’t understand that they do need it, and others will never buy that item.
That’s not your problem, that’s theirs.
Your problem is finding things that will help at least some of your subscribers.
That’s what I try to do.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. That’s what the Pinterest semi-automation tool does.
It makes the chore of creating pins and uploading them every day a breeze instead of a PITA.
