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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Brent Milne

Aug 12

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It seems that most people don’t think things through.

Case in point, the latest push to ‘protect the children’ from out governments.

Forcing Internet websites to restrict access to ‘minors’.

It’s far too easy for anyone to lie about their age, and provide proof, to bypass any restriction.

It’s easy to use a VPN to bypass local restrictions and appear to be accessing sites from a more relaxed country.

So that means that the legislation can’t, and won’t, work.

But, there’s another issue here.

The sites want everyone to prove who they are, which means that even more data is collected about you.

Not by the government, but by some third-party company, probably not in your country.

What could possibly go wrong?

There has never been any sort of data breach where people’s information has been stolen and sold has there?

An then there is the hypocrisy of the legislation.

Some countries want to ban under 18s from sites deemed inappropriate for their tender minds, but they’re old enough to join the military, police, etc.

They’re old enough to drive and vote.

They’re old enough to have sex, but not old enough to watch other people having sex.

So, is this new crop of legislation for your and your kids protection?

Or is it more about gaining more control over your movements?

This is what China is doing.

You have three ways of playing this.

Take the risk and comply with all requests for data with the truth.

Scrub your data from the Internet as much as possible, and create a new persona for your Internet activities.

Leave the Internet entirely, and never go back.

It’s not so much about not trusting your government, but is about not trusting any site that stores your data to be 100% secure.

Spoiler alert: Nothing is 100% secure, even if it’s not connected to the Internet.

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. It’s not paranoia if they really are after you.

My way of taking some precautions are to have access to secure email, secure web browsers, use a VPN, use a different persona for most of my activities.

The next step is to make sure you have a at least one other way to make money than the one you’re using right now.

To do that you’ll need to change some of your habits, and this will help you https://getupnote.com/share/notes/Nfn4ZrxerSOt6nHjocGVteZvec12/225967f2-60ba-47a5-bbb0-d35017a7bb5a.

Yes, a raw link, not a landing page.

August 11, 2025August 12, 2025

Instant product from your web browser.

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Instant product from your web browser.

Brent Milne

Aug 11

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I have now switched to Dia for all my web browser needs and closed all other browsers.

https://diabrowser.com/invite/Q0CH9E

I don’t know if you can get access through the link above, but give it a try and at least get on the wait list.

That’s not an affiliate link, it’s a free web browser.

For a quick overview of an earlier version you can watch this 3-minute video

Now to give you the payoff for the subject line.

Dia has an AI tool built in that can access any web page you might have open, including videos.

Let’s say you want a useful, targeted product for something you’re promoting as an affiliate.

Go to the sales page for that product.

Ask the Dia chat to create a checklist for the product.

Make a PDF from that, or just copy paste it into a Google doc.

Instant product to offer as a bonus.

Perhaps there are multiple review videos for a product.

Open each of them in a new tab, open the sales page in another tab.

Ask the chat to search all of those tabs and identify what’s missing that could be useful for buyers.

Create that product to offer as a bonus, or stand alone product.

Yes, you can do similar with other AI tools as plugins for your web browser, but they can only use the tab that you are looking at, not any of the other tabs that may be open, but not in focus.

Regards,
Brent.

August 10, 2025August 11, 2025

Don’t buy this AI product.

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Don’t buy this AI product.

Brent Milne

Aug 10

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If your books are selling well, or you haven’t written one yet, you don’t need this product.

This email isn’t for you.

It’s for those who have written their book, it’s published, but not selling.

Could it be that the cover isn’t catching the eye of the scroller?

Until you test you will never know.

And yes, you can change your cover image if you want.

However, if you want to start with a better cover, or test a new image, this might help.

https://nomad-productions.convertri.com/covers.

Using a bit of thinking outside the box it’s possible to make thumbnails for your YouTube video as well.

Hmmm…

There must be other ways to use this, but it was designed to make covers for your books.

If that’s something that can help you then click the link to find out more.

Regards,
Brent.

August 8, 2025August 8, 2025

Ignoring the AI tools is a mistake

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Ignoring the AI tools is a mistake

Brent Milne

Aug 8

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There are so many opportunities already and they’ll only get better.

Consider this, you already know how to market a product, even if you don’t.

You know more about online marketing than 99% of the rest of the population.

You may not remember when websites became a big thing for all businesses to have.

Most business people not only didn’t know how to build one, they weren’t motivated to learn either.

People who did know how to build a website capitalised on this and many people made small fortunes building websites for those people.

The opportunity is even greater now.

If you want to build a website, there are multiple AI tools that can build one in minutes.

Do they need a calculator for their website?

AI tools can do that in minutes as well.

What about a desktop app that is their website so that when they update their website, the app is updated, great for resturants, cafes, take-aways, etc., add the ability to order from the app and that’s a killer opportunity.

AI tools can do that for you.

Instead of trying to flog digital products to people who don’t want them, how about working in the digital divide?

The gap between the online world and the offline world.

That gap is getting wider, and wider.

The money in that gap is massive.

You don’t have to compete with building stuff for big businesses, the small ones are less fussy and have fewer resources or time to explore these things themselves, but they know they need help.

Have a look at this list, https://go.wm-tips.com/92ways, I’ve just reviewed it and there are definitely some great ones in there that you can do with AI.

Regards,
Brent.

August 7, 2025August 7, 2025

One of the cornerstones of success.

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One of the cornerstones of success.

Brent Milne

Aug 7

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Everyone knows that success is defined by you, not anyone else.

Everyone also knows that success is usually defined by achievement, reaching some self-defined goal.

But here’s a trick.

You have to start something to become a success, that’s true, and we all know that.

What far fewer people fully grasp is that to be successful, you have to finish what you start.

Ahh, shoot.

So all those blogs I’ve started don’t count?

None of the books I have half-written, or have written but not uploaded yet, count?

And those videos, which haven’t been uploaded yet, aren’t going to get me any views or subscribers?

So that’s why you haven’t sent me an email asking for a payment link so you can buy what’s on my hard drive, unfinished.

Right then, so my results are my responsibility.

I guess it’s good that coffee is proof that God loves me and wants me to be happy because the sales from my unfinished work aren’t going to do it.

I might have to re-read this then

https://go.wm-tips.com/emails.

Regards,
Brent.

August 7, 2025August 7, 2025

Half measures get nothing.

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Half measures get nothing.

Brent Milne

Aug 7

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The problem most wanna be marketers have is that they don’t put enough effort.

I confess that I’ve been guilty of this as well; you’re not alone.

90% of wanna be marketers either have done or continue to do this.

Instead of doing what they know they should be doing, they put in a half-assed effort.

You all know that you should set up a bridge page, collecting the email addresses of everyone who lands on the page before sending them to the sales page.

But you don’t.

What you do instead is send them directly to the sales page “to test if it sells” before you put any effort in.

Guess what?

You’ll get zero sales, claim the sales page doesn’t convert, and half-ass another offer with the same result.

This means you don’t build your email list, you don’t make sales, and you quit, going back to flipping burgers or the equivalent.

Perhaps you won’t get sales from having a bridge page and an email list, but you will be growing your email list.

This will give you an ongoing opportunity to make sales in the future as you continue to market to your list.

Now you might make sales via your list without a bridge page as your subscribers gain more trust in you, but without a list, no one knows you.

Unless you want to pump out 30 – 50 pieces of content every day for years like Garry V or Mr Beast, no one will ever know you.

As you grow your list, you’ll have tens, then hundreds, then thousands, who do know you.

This is how you grow your income.

This is how the people you buy from grew and continue to grow their incomes.

If this resonates with you, then this book, written by a person who walks the walk, will set your feet on the path to marketing success.

https://go.wm-tips.com/emails.

Regards,
Brent.

August 5, 2025August 5, 2025

Trying to make AI videos is frustrating.

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Trying to make AI videos is frustrating.

Brent Milne

Aug 5

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Most of the tools produce good-to-great videos, but only for 5 seconds.

It takes a lot of those to make an hour-long video.

In the end, I surrendered to the reality that even the best are limited to 30 minutes.

With those, you get to make two videos a month.

Well, you could pay them a bucket load of cash to make twice as many, so no.

The other issue is to make a reasonably good voice-over using a text-to-speech tool.

Very few do Australian accents well, some don’t even offer it as an option, and others have very limited voice choices.

There is a very useful tool available on Amazon called Polly.

I have an app called Pollyzon, which makes it easier to modify the script, using SSML, without having to know all the code to make it work.
I can pick any of the voices and make them Australian, so there are plenty to choose from.

I’ve just completed a 54-minute dialogue with seven people.

It’s not perfect, but it is pretty good, and I can tweak it a bit more.

For the video, I’ll create it using Camtasia or CapCut and upload it tomorrow.

Once I have this all sorted out, the workflow for a 60-minute video should only take me about two hours, which is remarkably fast, considering it goes from idea to posted.

I know people who spend longer than that on an email or blog post.

What do you use for video creation?

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. Nearly forgot.

I discovered today that ChatGPT has a really good text-to-voice feature built in.

In the small menu at the end of the response to your prompt, there is a speaker symbol.

Click that and it will read what it wrote.

Any tool that can record your screen can do so and save the recording as an audio file.

The only downside is that you’re limited in which voices you can use.

August 4, 2025August 4, 2025

If you’re tired of Chrome, try this.

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If you’re tired of Chrome, try this.

Brent Milne

Aug 4

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https://diabrowser.com/invite/Q0CH9E

This is suitable for 5 of you; the rest may need to find an alternative solution.

Notice that this is still relatively new, but it’s fascinating.

All your Chrome extensions work because it’s Chromium-based.

What makes Dia very different is that it has an AI tool built in that can read multiple tabs and then discuss those with you.

For a quick overview of an earlier version, you can watch this 3-minute video

The current version offers even more features for your use.

I haven’t completely switched to Dia yet, but it may happen, as it seems to work well for my use of AI and a web browser.

Regards,
Brent.

August 3, 2025August 4, 2025

Step outside your comfort zone for better results.

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Step outside your comfort zone for better results.

Brent Milne

Aug 3

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This weekend, I completed repairing the side fence.

Since I’ve never built a fence either alone or with help, this was a new experience.

It has taken several weeks to get done because we had to remove all the plants that were pushing it over first.

The next step was to get all the posts back close to vertical.

Then, we replaced the rotting support beams and rebuilt the structure.

All the new timber was cut to size, drilled for bolts, and painted with 4 coats to waterproof the wood.

I’m happy with the result. I made some mistakes, but I was able to correct them as we went along.

The process is essentially the same as building a funnel, blog, or app.

You know what the result should be.

You might have to remove some things that are in the way.

You’ll make some adjustments first and possibly as you go along.

There will be some prep you’ll need to do, and the result might not look as pristine as your imagination, but it will do the job.

Even if you’ve never done this before, you know you can do it.

Once you’ve done one, you can do as many as you like, and each time you’ll get better and faster.

Want some help to get started?

https://nomad-productions.convertri.com/pdf.

Instant, free download.

Regards,
Brent.

August 1, 2025August 1, 2025

This is why you don’t get results.

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This is why you don’t get results.

Brent Milne

Aug 1

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Whenever we start a new project, it’s exciting.

We’re all gung-ho and enthusiastic.

We’ll work flat out for hours and are motivated to the max, but when the expected results don’t show up, we cut back or stop.

It’s like the old-style water pump with the handle.

The water is down in the water table below your feet.

Pumping the handle creates a suction that draws the water up to the spout.

But it takes time, and a lot of pumping before you get any flow.

Once it starts flowing, it usually only delivers a dribble of water.

As long as you don’t stop pumping , the volume of water will increase until you have a gusher.

At that stage, it only takes a steady pumping action to keep the flow going, but if you stop, all the water in the pipe falls back to the bottom.

You’ll have to go through that process all over again to get that gusher.

That’s what most of us do when we’re starting a new venture.

We pump like crazy until the venture works, and then stop when just a little effort could keep it going.

This is rinse and repeat at its finest.

That’s what most launches look like.

Push hard, get results, stop working.

Repeat.

Most people stop when they get a trickle of success instead of continuing to push and promote to get to the gusher.

That only makes you frustrated.

You’ll find out how to avoid this pattern in this book,

“The Compound Effect” by Darren Hardy.

https://www.amazon.com/Compound-Effect-Jumpstart-Income-Success/dp/0306924633?crid=3OSVTQBF1IFDZ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.x9Ndr3OY9fTEDHYM9f5SgsGOvvl0hJt_ZBiQFdgm4KhN1IIPAfpMU7FvJH1Nv7dlNTvL2zC4l0DOGhaQoPoDA_lTHsHvVY2rKr6_cYNGAecvc_H2lqKiSQf2xnFUkzHT_kOXOtHDZpy6V7V49cA7nfDIK8IB6HlSdTYNLGRpvdGLS5opdT-HVOO73PRzjv21JKMr_vwvr6emS097Lqd8EMMCoI59lmRbMrxlo967E2Q.vMfwydKrq4Mvx-2F3q-9RpooClk4MM_zyy2XBndy2vQ&dib_tag=se&&&sprefix=the+compound+efect,aps,427&sr=8-1&&&&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl.

Regards,
Brent.

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