This time of year is cricket to the max in Australia.
We have test matches against international teams, one-day games and 20-20 games against those same teams.
And we have our internal Big Bash 20-20 competition.
Cricket every day on the TV, sometimes local so I can go to the ground and watch there.
I don’t actually do that because it’s so much easier to see what’s happening on the telly.
What this does mean is that my productivity levels drop to almost zero, and my wife gets to watch far more cricket than she would like.
I won’t bore any of you with results or who is playing who because those who do follow cricket will probably know, and those who don’t won’t care.
What I would like to point out is that the players earn extremely well at international level, but they’ve been training for a sporting career since they showed interest at around age 5.
It’s about the same for all international sports people.
It takes them 10 – 20 years to get to the elite level and only a small percentage of those who want it get there.
But they all train as hard and for all those years to give themselves the best chance.
In all sports there is the elite squad, then the secondary squads, tertiary squads, etc.
Every level has a different pay structure, and it drops rapidly through each stage, down to local players who play for the love of it.
There is little difference in business regardless of if it’s online or off.
The biggest difference in online business is that anyone who really wants to be in the elite squad can get there because there is no arbitrary limit to the number of people or an age limit.
Most people won’t want to put in the work to reach that level because they’ll be satisfied with the income at a lower level, and there is nothing wrong with that.
You’ll find people at all levels in this group, https://go.wm-tips.com/skool, and any of them will help you level up should you choose to.
As AI developers and users find more and more ways to innovate and accelerate what they do, the traditional job market will shrink.
That means most of those already in college are unlikely to find work in their chosen career.
It’s already becoming much harder.
What I think will happen is that those who do not want to become tradies will need to become creators.
This will become the new “Traditional Path” over college.
You will not turn 18 and pick a college for 4 years.
You will pick a niche and create content around it.
Think about it…
The bare minimum investment to college is:
*4 years
*40 hours a week
*$40,000 per year
That’s over 8,000 hours in investment and $160,000.
If you put that much time into building your own business, not only will you learn infinitely more from pure experience rather than classroom bullsh*t and indoctrination from Leftist propaganda.
But you’ll have a profitable business, growing email list and leveraged internet attention that is either already paying you more than an entry level job or will be soon.
I’m so bullish on the Creator Economy — not just for 18 year olds — but for everyone…
That I’m betting on it over the entire traditional copywriting industry as well.
Instead of chasing a job or career, you could build your own email list and sell your own stuff.
But…
This is not about becoming an “Influencer”, it’s about becoming a person of influence.
Anyway, as i said, most of those graduates (about 2 million every year) will be looking to supplement their incomes when they don’t get the job they expect.
That’s a seriously good and evergreen target market.
These people are technology aware, they all have computers and mobile phones, and they all have keyboard skills.
What can you offer them?
Where do you find them – Facebook, X, Instagram, Pinterest, etc. – where else would you expect to find them?
None of them are SEO optimised, none of them have any paid traffic going to them, none of them have hundreds of links going to them, and none of them are getting content added regularly.
Honestly, they are all just experimental and a bit rubbish.
My next project, after the Auto-Blogging one, will be to add monetisation to those websites.
That seems to be a project for the Christmas – New year break.
What this proves is that you don’t need to be flashy, or noisy.
You just have to do more than I have, which shouldn’t be hard, and do it consistently.
When your site gets to the level of visitors these have, getting $0.01 per visitor equates to $1,600 every month.
Getting $0.01 per visitor is easy. It’s not much harder to get 100 times more than that.
Isn’t that worth a little of your time and money?
Are you prepared to leave $20,000 on the table every year for doing almost nothing?
“Consistent mediocrity gets you further than rare flashes of genius.”
I have no idea who said that, but it’s true.
Look at the YouTube channels that are making money, or the TikTok accounts, even the influencers on any platform.
Most of them are not geniuses of any sort, but they are there posting something every day.
Go back in their accounts and look at their first attempts, yes, they may have thousands of view on those now, but I bet they didn’t for perhaps the first 20 or 30 times they posted.
If you want to make a million bucks in a year, let’s just break it down properly.
A million divided by twelve months is $83,333 per month.
That divided by thirty days is $2,777 per day.
Now, there are a few ways to hit that number:
Sell eighteen products at $150 each per day.
Get eleven new subscribers at $25 per month every single day.
Land one $5,000 client every other day.
Or some combination of those.
There you go, simples.
OK, let’s look at the realities of that maths.
Let’s assume that you’re an expert at conversion.
Let’s assume that you convert 10% of the people who show up on your sales page, and that your offer is a no brainer.
To get eleven new subscribers means you need to get 110 new warm prospects on that page every day. To get eighteen sales you’ll need 180 new warm prospects every day. The reality is that you’re more likely to convert at around 1% so multiply those warm visitor numbers by 10.
Of course you can, but it might take a bit of work.
Where are you going to get those warm prospects from?
YouTube or TikTok are probably your best bets, but it might take a few months to get sufficient traction to get enough views to get the click through.
You’ll probably need to be getting 11,000 to 20,000 daily views to get sufficient click throughs to get that volume of traffic on your page to make those sales.
Can you make at least one new video every day to post to YT and TT?
Sure, AI can help with that.
There’s your plan for the next 6 – 12 months.
The only thing that’s hard about that is sticking to the plan when it doesn’t look like it’s working.
