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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 5,356 5,387 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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Ok, OpenAI’s Operator has followed over 1,000 accounts that talk about domain name investing for my new X account for Domain Name Lovers.
But…
Here’s how I currently feel when working with this $200/mo employee.
Operator is like hiring a genius 7 year old that's got a plate of 🍪 next to him and his friends are outside on the 🛝
Oh, but he'll grow up and focus better (I think).
Don't forget: this is the dumbest AI will ever be...
— Brooks Conkle (@BrooksConkle)
2:47 PM • Feb 22, 2025
I also have a completely new framework for ideas…
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…
Remember how I created the AI voice that fooled my wife?
Want a tutorial on how to do it?
Well, here’s the exact process how using Elevenlabs.
Real Estate Investing [Update]
I’m getting back in the game!
I’m in the middle of getting a property refinanced.
What I’ve learned: 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 also 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 known 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]
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 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 $3,901.23
After expenses, I’m making $65.23 $85.35 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!)
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 😉)
