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.
I suggest that if you do want to get as much free traffic as possible to your website then downloading and reading both these books will be an excellent use of your time.
The Internet only works on links.
These books lay out exactly how to get links and visitors for free.
Some of the sites mentioned don’t exist anymore but there are plenty of substitutes for you to use.
It’s the principles that are the most important here, and they remain the same as they were when the books were written.
Remember that some of the methods used were abused by lazy marketers and Google stomped on them at the time.
By making sure that any page you create has useful content for people you will not get a Google stomping.
The big secret seems to be making all pages and mini sites able to stand alone as legitimate pages even though they have links to your main site.
They must have a purpose beyond passing visitors to another website.
Have a read of those books and tell me what you think.
I’ve spent the day watching cricket and attempting to sort out my domains.
I’m not certain that I’ve found them all yet, but I have found 50 so far.
There would be more than that as sub-domains.
The reason for doing this is that it’s part of my business plan for 2025.
I’m going to follow the information in the books Nothing but Net and Revenge of the Mini-Net.
These are the original blueprints for building an unstoppable traffic machine.
It’s not so much about building a PBN as it is about building multiple small 5 – 10 page websites in the same niche that can stand alone and also link to the main site.
Each page focusses on a single keyword that is not the focus of any other page.
Each site has a tightly grouped set of keywords.
All the keywords are in the same niche which makes linking to the main site a logical thing to do.
You could build a massive site with all of those pages in their own category but building a site like that still concentrates the activity to one domain name.
Diversifying the categories to their own website on their own domain spreads the net wider.
I’ll be using AI extensively to build out the pages and automating as much as I can.
While I won’t be identifying the domain names I will be documenting the activity in the members area here.
Most people will not develop genuine passive income, but some will.
The reason is that most people don’t understand what it is.
Hit songs, best-selling books, real estate, shares in profitable businesses, etc. are all examples of passive income.
Art collections, precious stones or metals, cryptocurrencies, etc. are not.
Those things might grow in value, but they do not produce income.
Your definitions might vary from mine, but as far as I’m concerned passive income is anything that pays money into your account that you don’t have to do anything else for.
Essentially, anything that you’ve done or paid for once that continues to generate an income.
It is possible to create this while you work for a boss, but most people don’t do what’s required.
