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Howdy!
Every week I share the business 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 5,387 5,392 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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I’ve got a new idea framework…
I used to think ideas were a dime a dozen and they didn’t matter much.
But all that’s changed.Yes, there are a million ways to make a million dollars.
Previously, an idea was just that - an idea.
You still had to launch and do the grunt work to get your product to market.… x.com/i/web/status/1…— Brooks Conkle (@BrooksConkle)
4:52 PM • Feb 20, 2025
How I’m Using AI this Week…
I just trained a model on my face using Replicate.
Want to know how?
Ping me and let me know, and if enough do it, I’ll create a simple tutorial for you guys!
What will be my use case for these? My initial thinking is for YouTube thumbnails.
And if you missed my tutorial on how to make an AI version of your voice using Elevenlabs you can check it out below 👇
Dude getting Facebook likes for $.01
Ok, my buddy Thomas Smith is cranking up that AI and getting cheap Facebook likes.
Check out his post below (he details what he did in this YouTube video).
Cloned the Facebook strategy @NicheSiteLady shared today using AI. Have never seen Facebook Likes under 1 cent 😳
— Thomas Smith | The Medium Traffic Guy (@tomsmith585)
12:45 AM • Mar 1, 2025
It’s Springtime, so I’m about to pump back up my investment for Facebook likes to Gulf Coast BeachVibes.
Domain Name Flipping [Update]https://x.com/BrooksConkle/status/1894766710470611108
I bought 40 more domains over the weekend.
I'm approaching 200.
I think I need to get to at least 500 to begin to passively sell some, outbound sell some, and have a broker help with some.
I'm taking it a step at a time and sharing every week in my email newsletter.
— Brooks Conkle (@BrooksConkle)
3:09 PM • Feb 26, 2025
Ok, lots to update you on here.
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 LaredoMoving.com
And if you click on that, you’ll see that it redirects to InvestHeavy.com (which I also recently purchased and built out using Carrd).
Here’s my strategy:
I just interviewed Brian Harbin from Grit Brokerage (video coming soon) and he gave me the idea that I might want to set up my own landing page to be able to build relationships with potential buyers. The idea of being able to help them with other marketing services is interesting to me.
With my lander pages pointed to Afternic, I would pay a minimum of a 15% commission to them. That defeats the idea of outbounding. So I will be able to take this 15% commission and use it instead to pay my new help to sell domains!
This could change again, but it’s where I am now… 😉
[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.]
I now think 500 - 1,000 names is probably the minimum needed to start making consistent 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 months.
I’ve now crossed $4k in total earnings.
I have 120 127 videos.
(plus 75 videos from other creators..)
My total earnings equal $3,901.23 $4,169.78
After expenses, I’m making $85.35 $93.35 per hour.
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But the real O.G. is my buddy Jared Bauman, who has made more than $40,000 per year with Amazon Influencer in his part time (that’s a salary for some folks!) — he shares all his knowledge in his course.
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!)
I’ve had a local media brand for more than 12 years. As I try new things, I’ll share them with you in the event you can use them in your own business projects.
I tested out selling an exclusive discount card. So far, so good…
[these are ideas we share over in the Local Media Crew].
Creating local discount cards has been a fun experiment.
We crossed $500 in sales.
Each week we're announcing new businesses [it's actually as I find and land them! 😜] to create a sense of urgency.
It's cool because we'll be able to use the cards as prizes and incentives… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Brooks Conkle (@BrooksConkle)
4:12 PM • Feb 25, 2025
Other projects I’ll update over time (or provide future updates) include…
Real Estate Investing
My Daily Planner (in process…)
Remote Work Email Newsletter Project
See more current, past, and dead projects here.
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 😉)
