I heard a knock at the door. Two teenagers. We’re cleaning garbage bins around the neighborhood. You need yours done? Funny timing. Literally 2 hours earlier I was taking out the trash thinking: these cans wreak, I need to get these damn things cleaned! I paid them $40 to clean both. We chatted a bit afterwards. They were 13 & 14, and made about $150 after 2 hours of knocking on doors. I get another knock at the door on Monday afternoon. Same kids, but with a different pitch. I paid them…

I read an email from Ben Settle this morning. He’s arguably one of the best email marketers in the whole wide world. He emails daily, and I’ve been on his email list since 2013ish. Ben is on my Mt. Rushmore of Online Entrepreneurs that I follow in this space. In today’s email, he shared his thoughts on the “fate of the IM world” (IM = Internet Marketing) With all the AI stuff, many people are feeling the pinch (sales aren’t coming as easy as they once were). He ended the email with his advice…

I got this email yesterday: This is from a done-for-you client I’m working with. He pre-launched his First Sale Blueprint (a custom GPT I built for him). 78 people on the waiting list. 10 people grabbed it. 7 of those grabbed the order bump, which is a 70% take rate (I’m happy with a 30% conversion rate on my bump offers) His bump offer is a sales page custom GPT that I built as well. It’s slick. He also shared that 1 person grabbed his $97 upsell. The funny thing? He told me the upsell page…