The costs are controllable, the income is regular, and the scalability is up to me.
Consider this example.
I build a simple two-page website for an underserved and very niche product.
I make a couple of short videos that I post to YouTube, Vimeo, TicTok, Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, and X.
These bring me enough traffic that the site makes a steady $30 monthly, and grows my subscriber list.
Now I can scale this up.
I can add a product for sale.
I can find influencers with an audience and pay them in commissions to promote the site.
I can add more videos, a PDF to document sharing sites, an article to the article sites, answer some questions on Reddit, Quora, any other forum or Facebook group I can find.
Soon the site might be making $30 a week heading to $30 a day.
At some point I might find that I cannot find any more traffic for that niche.
There’s nothing stopping me from a little rinse and repeat in another niche, etc.
Some niche sites will grow much faster, some will grow more slowly, but if you’re not doing anything much you’ll only find the great ones accidentally.
I’m not saying that you won’t get lucky with your first attempt, I am saying that it’s unlikely.
Bouncing ideas off some of the people you’ll find here https://go.wm-tips.com/asal might make all the difference.
Click it, there’s nothing to lose and much to gain.
What is relevant is what you, personally, are doing with those sites.
If you look at those you can see that I’ve done stuff all to them for years.
Since I’m kicking you in the pants, I’m also kicking me in the backside because I too have spent far too long playing around instead of even doing the simple things I know to do.
These two, and others are going to be my new IMMs (Internet Money Machines).
But then, it takes slow, focussed, persistent action to implement and grow that idea.
Here is where hurry slows you down because you get scattered, unfocussed, and distracted.
You try to do too much too fast and nothing works because you don’t stick with anything long enough.
You spend too much time trying to take less time.
That ‘aint never going to work.
So, slow down.
Allow your projects to mellow, to ferment, to grow at their own pace.
You’ll not only feel less stressed, but you’ll come up with genius ideas in the process.
It can help to talk with others who will understand what you’re attempting to do.
You might pick up a few good ideas here, https://go.wm-tips.com/asal, or at least be able to bounce your ideas off some very clever and experienced people,
These people will not steal your idea, but they just might help you clarify it.
Every day 100,000 domains expire for whatever reason.
Sometimes the owner forgot to renew, some have given up their sites because they lost interest, or didn’t know how to monetise them.
That’s not you though is it?
You know that you can find a domain name in a niche you like, find what pages were already on it and recreate those pages using AI, then monetise the site. What to know the really great thing about this?
Once you have it rebuilt and making money it’ll only take an hour or so a month to keep it going, and you’ll start getting traffic and income instantly.
There are many places to find expired domains so do a search, check them out and be patient.
All it can do is search large amounts of data and cobble together an output. Any search process including the most sophisticated version of AI with the fastest processors and LLMs cannot find new information.
They can only find existing information.
AI may produce faster and more extensive searches and may find correlations that human efforts could not identify in a lifetime but that’s all still existing information.
In short, AI has no creative capacity.
It cannot “think” of anything new unlike humans who create new formulas and works of art routinely.
In a recent experiment a supercomputer and a group of first grade children were given a ruler, a teapot and a stove and asked to draw a circle.
The computer “knew” that the ruler was a draftsman’s tool not unlike a compass and promptly tried to draw a circle with a ruler.
It failed.
The children glanced at the teapot, saw that the bottom was round and used it to trace perfect circles.
This is an example of adductive logic (also called intuition or common sense) at work, which children have, and computers do not.
The idea of children outperforming a supercomputer might cause investors to ask just what they are getting for their $400 billion (and counting).
In sum, AI will never be superintelligent, expenditures have hit the wall of diminishing returns, AI offers no creativity at all (just fast searches), and children can outperform the fastest machines when the task calls for intuition.
I’ve said for years that all any computer can do is add 1s and 0s extremely fast.
Most of them wait really fast for you to do something.
However, when you don’t need creative ability from your AI tools, but just to do things reliably and fast.
They are really great, like all computers, at doing the boring, dull things consistently.
Just like a VA that you might hire in some third-world country, you have to give them clear instructions.
When the annex is erected on the caravan there are a couple of small flaps that attach via velcro to the flexible part of the pop-top.
This material is vinyl on our van, others are canvas.
On out last trip, last week, the wind was strong enough to tear the loop part of the velcro from the vinyl.
The double-sided tape of that strip wasn’t strong enough.
So I asked ChatGPT how best to fix it.
After a bit of chatting we came to the conclusion that Selleys Kwik Grip would do the job.
Off I trundled to the local Bunnings store and purchased the adhesive.
Back home I prepared the surfaces, added the adhesive, and replaced the loop strip.
All of the required steps were provided by ChatGPT.
Tomorrow I’ll check that the job is done, but it seems OK at the moment.
All pretty simple really, except ChatGPT was able to tell me which aisle and bay the Kwik Grip would be found, and it was right.
There is no YouTube video that could have told me that.
The Google search AI result might have done that for me, but it would have taken several searches to get there.
Using ChatGPT for this was like chatting to the helpful people at Bunnings, but easier.
I read an article recently that suggested people are abandoning the search engines for AI searching, and I can understand why.
When anyone can use a simple tool like this to get answers to most problems they have quickly and easily it would be easy to think the writing is on the wall for Google.
1. Build a simple 1-2 page site (30 minutes with AI tools) 2. Target ANY sub-niche with traffic from Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest 3. Monetize EVERYTHING (don’t just rely on one affiliate link)
Your page should have:
Genuinely useful content
Multiple affiliate links in the text
AdSense or banner ads
An exit popup
Why this works: Most sales pages convert at under 10%. Why not make money from the other 90% who don’t buy?
The best part? If one site dies, who cares. Build another one. With AI, you can build 3+ per day without breaking a sweat.
