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  • Why people are ignoring you after last year’s attention-halving

    Over the last 12 months… … other than secluding myself at home to do historical research on how to make maximum money with minimum effort in times of turbulent (and constant) tech innovation… … I’ve also been studying the art of creating viral YouTube and Instagram videos. Specifically: I’ve been studying under some of the…

  • Sealing away the sales snakes in your customers’ psyches

    Please don’t try this at home: When me and the wifey were out for a stroll in the garden just now, we suddenly heard something move. But when we turned around, we finally saw what it was. It was a huge, green, slimy snake! And it quickly slithered into one of the pipes that made…

  • A tale of two AI business models

    Let me tell you a story about this guy I know… He owns an online business that sells zero of his own products. But he makes around US$500 million a year in net profit doing it. And in standard business valuation terms, that would probably be a billion to two billion dollar business, depending on…

  • How to make people mutilate themselves to get your products

    This is why I think scientists are freaking insane, but… Sometime in 2013, at the University of Virginia, they conducted a study by electrically SHOCKING participants until it was SO painful, they would pay money never to be shocked again. But then: They took those same participants… … put them in a room… … a…

  • Why using AI to write your sales copy is like getting a pig to paint your portrait

    I was on YouTube a couple months ago… Watching a top copywriter I have a lot of respect for, showing how he uses AI to write his emails. Because, even if I might seem like I’m anti-AI, I’m not. I’m just a realist… … about what works. And what doesn’t. And I watch more AI…

  • The Chinese phone scandal murdering your sales right now

    I was watching this Chinese ‘phone scandal’ video on YouTube yesterday… … where… … this lady was live-streaming on the Business Class section of a plane. But, lo and behold, she happened to spot the CEO of Xiaomi, one of the 3 biggest smartphone manufacturers in the world, riding along with her. But he was…

  • Why my emails remain untainted by the AI darkness

    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ~ Thorin Oakenshield (The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien) — Since the world ain’t merry anyway: Let’s talk about how we can hoard more gold. Several years back… I was watching the legendary marketing director of the…

  • Dirty secret to 1000X ebook profits by NOT selling on Amazon

    There came an email… … from a Billion Dollar Bonus Formula member (who probably doesn’t want me to name him, I never asked)… … about using bonuses to sell more eBooks! And in case you’re wondering: If you want more sales and conversions… … YES you SHOULD be using bonuses! Especially using them the way…

  • I pity da fool who uses CrapGPT

    Funny (and scary) but true: A couple months back… While doing research for my 15X Conversion Multiplier Case Files (which you get for free with the Billion Dollar Bonus Formula), I thought of something… really clever! Or so I thought. I says to myself: “Wouldn’t it be smart to use AI to do all the…

  • Nintendo’s cheat code for turning debt into profits

    Let me tell you a story… … about one of my favorite companies to learn marketing from – one of the greatest gaming companies in history, Nintendo. Back in the 1980s: Nintendo was dead broke. Actually, more than broke. Because they were over 8 billion yen in debt (which translates to around US$250 million today).…