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Brooks Conkle
February 18, 2025

Howdy!

My goal is to share every week what projects I’m working on — the goal is for you to be able to take action from what I’m learning! I’m excited to hang out with you and 5,317 5,356 other box destroyers today!

I’m asked what tools I use in my business. Here’s my tool list to help you with your money-making ideas. I’m also tracking the AI tools I’m using. Reply to this email and ask me anything - happy to help. A note: I always use referral links when I have them. I will make a commission if you purchase through the links, so thanks!

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So far, OpenAI’s Operator has followed 800+ accounts that talk about domain name investing for my new X account for Domain Name Lovers.

I had it do some research to find some accounts and put them in a spreadsheet for me.

Is it ready for prime time yet?

I’d say no.

But…

It’s incredibly cool to chat and give it a task and it be working on it while I’m typing this email (it’s following more accounts for me…)

And don’t forget — this is the worst the product will ever be…

How I’m Using AI this Week…

Ok, it’s official.

I 100% now go to chat GPT to learn and ask things before I go to Google.

I learned about blackberries, researched the CPA industry, fixed a bathroom door, and on and on and on.

If I need a video, I’ll go to YouTube and search directly.

PS - I also had ChatGPT help me improve my Facebook ads (watch below…)

Real Estate Investing [Update]

I’m getting back in the game!

I’m smack in the middle of getting a property refinanced.

Note: if you get turned down for financing on a property, never take that as a final answer.

There are lots of different loan products and lenders have different loan appetites at different times. The same lender can deny you today and want to do the same loan 12 months later. Just keep that in mind!

I lined up a quick meetup with some real estate heavy-hitters in my city (house flippers, construction owners, private lenders, and owners of 150+ rentals — are all in this photo).

My thinking was simple.

Connect smart people for a bit of social fun and good things will happen.

No pressure - no strict agenda - no strings attached.

The key was that I shared with them who was on the invite list —- so they knew the other folks and wanted to be there.

My entire goal was to make it know that I’m looking to buy again and I wanted to be top of mind and continue building relationships.

I’ve got another hustler I want you to meet.

Doug Cunnington.

Doug's a cool dude. He's easygoing, smart, and likes to have great conversations on his YouTube channel.

I met him at a conference a few years back. I've hopped on his channel a few times to talk side hustles, marketing, and personal finance.

Tell him I said hello!

Domain Name Flipping [Update]

I’m making hires for outbound specialists to help me do outreach and help speed up sales process for certain domains.

This only works for names like ProPoolBuilders.com or LaredoMoving.com 

I put my ad up on Upwork and I plan to hire 3 people on a trial basis for 90 days and we’ll see how it goes.

I wrote this guide a year ago with tips on hiring a VA that you might find helpful.

Now that I’m growing to 500 - 1,000 names (100 isn’t enough to make consistent sales) I’m hunting for more.

I now think 1,000 names is probably the minimum needed to start making some sales and see a solid ROI, and make this an actual part-time business.

Plus, buying more names will help me in the DomainNameLovers.com group.

I just purchased 2 names strategically to outbound.

  • MobileAlabamaApartments.com

  • MobileAlabamaLuxuryApartments.com

Both are much longer than I would normally purchase (I used my own tool to check!)

But…

“Mobile Alabama Apartments” has 12,000 monthly search volume and I actually know the manager of a luxury apartment complex in my city where we lived a few years ago.

My goal is to sell to them…

You can see most of my domains for sale here.

Amazon Influencer Program [Update]

I haven’t made any videos in the last month or so.

I have 120 127 videos.

(plus 75 videos from other creators..)

My total earnings equal $3,587.35 $3,895.87

After expenses, I’m making $65.23 $85.23 per hour.

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I created a digital download that includes the best tips I’ve gathered from the Amazon Influencer Program. [You can purchase it here].

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If you want to learn more about Amazon Influencer, an overview of the program is here, and my first update is here.

(If you want, you can check each weekly update. I’ve come a long way from $2.81 per hour!)

More Projects

Other projects I’ll update over time (or provide future updates) include…

Also, if you dig my newsletter, here are some others you may want to check out…

Want to link up for a consulting call? If so, I’d love to book some time with you — you can do that here.

Until next time!

(keep destroying that box 😉)