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This new AI video generator blew my mind 🤯
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This AI Video Generator Will Blow Your Mind
His Simple $20 Million Newsletter Formula
I Paid $4 To Ask This Millionaire Etsy Psychic 3 Questions
$80K/Year Airtable Plugin
Ranking & Renting Simple Websites For $1000/Month
Latest Momentos
A Multi-Million Dollar Newsletter Run by 1 Guy
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This AI Video Generator Will Blow Your Mind
🤯 I don't think it's possible to overhype OpenAI's Sora, described as…
an AI model that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions.
Scroll down that page and you'll see a bunch of videos that were created by AI from simple text prompts 🤖
One such…
Historical footage of California during the gold rush.
The resulting video isn't perfect, but it's pretty damn impressive, something that wouldn't look out of place in an old movie.
Think about how much time and money would go into creating a shot like that in the past. And now it's possible to create it with a few quick keystrokes 😱
Marques Brownlee shared his impressions of Sora in a YouTube video, with the reminder that…
It’s only been 1 YEAR since the Will Smith eating spaghetti video
In other words, AI-generated video has come a very long way in very little time.
Sora isn't available to the public yet, so you can't play around with it yourself 😩
But here are a bunch more impressive examples from it…
What might the implications of this be for your business?
Could you use it to create stock footage? Ad campaigns? An entire animated series? 🤔
Or how about using it to create such assets for established businesses, and charging them for the service?
🚀 That's probably the quickest way to earn money from this once it's available to the public.
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I Paid $4 To Ask This Millionaire Etsy Psychic 3 Questions
Check out this Etsy store for a Canadian psychic: PsychicAmandaStudio 🔮
Tag line…
Real Answers & Accurate Psychic Readings
From Amanda's website, which looks 20 years old and randomly plays music on some pages 👇
I'm a God Gifted Psychic Indigo Spiritualist Born With Extrasensory Abilities…
I'm Very Accurate In All Of my Readings Based On Clientele Surveys & Testing Done At The ASPR Society With Over 20 Years Of Experience I Can Help & Guide You To Solutions For All Problems
Amazingly, Amanda has racked up more than 301,000 sales on Etsy since 2014 📈
I checked her total sales number 4 days apart recently and it had increased by 735.
She has dozens of "items" for sale on Etsy – all psychic readings of some sort – starting at $4 each.
So she would have earned at least $2940 revenue in those 4 days. But probably more like $5000.
Since 2014, I assume she's earned at least $2 million overall 💰
I used a paid tool called Etsy Hunt to find out more about Amanda's store, and apparently this is her most popular item…
She's sold an estimated 47,000 of that service.
At $4 a pop, that adds up to $188,000 in revenue 🤑
Anyway, I decided to pay Amanda $4 on Etsy and ask her 3 questions about my business, while providing my full name and date of birth, as requested.
My questions and her answers…
1) How much revenue will my business earn next month?
So it is not showing a numerical amount but what it is showing is that within finances earnings and savings things will live up to and exceed your expectations positive outcomes are showing pursue of manifestation chart this will greatly help you assist you through the laws of attraction
2) Should I start marketing on TikTok? 🤔
Within utilization of social medias including tiktok this will prove to be positive and beneficial for you to increase monetary successes that's what you do is your choice
3) Should I hire Daniel?
Within hiring this individual I do see good energies pertaining to this indeed you would have a positive outcome from what is being revealed
If you ask me, those are extremely vague and generic answers, all with a positive spin.
Oh, and my last question to her was a red herring: Daniel doesn't exist.
Somehow Amanda didn't catch that, despite her "god gifted psychic extrasensory abilities" and being "very accurate" in all her readings 🙄
I get the impression Amanda quickly reads and responds to each order, probably spending max 5 minutes per.
Given her lack of punctuation, she may also be speaking her responses aloud and having them transcribed automatically 😎
Amazing to me that Etsy allows psychics on their platform, but I guess it's fair game when someone like Amanda has 30,000+ five-star reviews.
Clearly lots of people find some kind of value or comfort in her readings.
🗂 $80K/Year Airtable Plugin
From the archive, published March 2022…
Andy Cloke describes Airtable as “basically Google Sheets on steroids.”
And in this interview he shares how he created a plugin called Data Fetcher that helps import data into Airtable 🧑💻
Just over a year after launching, Data Fetcher has reached 190 paying customers and $6500 in MRR. I’m really happy with this consistent growth and it seems to be speeding up!
A self-taught coder, Andy has launched several products over the years…
The first one to make any money was Influence Grid, a directory of TikTok influencers. I bootstrapped it to $3k MRR and then sold the app to another company for $55k.
Andy’s framework for coming up with business ideas…
1. Find a platform that is growing massively.
2. Look at successful tools for more mature platforms.
3. Build equivalent tool for the new platform.
4. 💰
Some resources to help you find growing platforms…
Ranking & Renting Simple Websites For $1000/Month
Miao Rios is the founder of Blackbird SEO, where she builds local service websites and rents them out to businesses looking for leads at $1000-$1500/month 🤑
For example, Miao has this site linked from BlackBirdSEO.com…
It doesn't look like anything special, but that site ranks well on Google for some relevant keywords. People find the site, get in touch, Miao connects them with a concrete driveway professional and takes a fee 😎
According to a recent interview, Miao apparently has "over 45 successful sites already generating leads" and each one can earn "$1000-$1500 per month passively."
So methinks it's safe to say she's earning a combined $15,000+ per month from these sites 💰
From the interview…
Three months into her new side hustle, Miao Rios got an unexpected call.
It was from the Ministry of Education in New Zealand, inviting her to bid on a large demolition project for a local school.
Now it wasn’t completely out of the blue — she had built a website targeting local demolition projects — but she definitely didn’t own a demolition business.
The intent was to follow a “rank and rent” model:
– Build local websites
– Rank them in Google
– Rent them out to qualified service providers
🎯 How Miao chooses a niche…
Miao likes service-based businesses with high-ticket offerings. Something like concrete contractors, roofers, landscapers – not super glamorous but in demand…
For example, while general landscaping was competitive in Wellington, New Zealand, no company specialized in just concrete driveways. So Miao built a site specifically around that offering instead…
As for locations, Miao targets cities with 400K in population. The sweet spot where competition isn’t too high but search volume is strong.
Keyword research is key…
[Plug] your top 5–10 competitors into… your SEO tool of your choice. See what service pages of theirs already rank well organically.
Then try to match or improve upon that content to build authority and become that “one-stop shop” for your niche.
📈 To build up the authority of your website…
Create social media profiles like Facebook pages and citations on directories like Yelp signals to Google that your business has an established local presence…
Miao finds blog comments to be an easy free option – as long as they provide genuine value to the discussion and include a link back to your site.
But that's just the easy part…
Identifying profitable niche and location combinations is one thing. Finding eager and qualified service providers to rent your sites is another.
This step can make or break your success. After all, these are the “tenants” in a website rental business. They’re what turn your website into an income producing asset.
So it's crucial to find and partner with reliable service providers 🤝
I see the rank and rent model as a great way to learn SEO.
Competition is low and you can gain a lot of experience fast by trying out different sites and niches.
Might be worth doing some keyword research for your local area, could be some opportunities there 🧐
A couple of good videos to dive deeper on this…
Matt Diggity: Rank and Rent SEO (8 Simple Steps)
Nathan Gotch: SEO for HVAC: Complete Local SEO Strategy
Latest Momentos
My latest batch of personal ramblings is here if you fancy a look 👀
From February 2, 2024…
Someone coded up a Telegram thing that reads my newsletter aloud to you. Pretty cool. Has me thinking I could eventually do a podcast and YouTube version of the newsletter. The content is already there, could just put it out in other formats with a little extra effort. Thoughts?
From the archive, published February 2023…
Dan Ni’s TLDR Newsletter has 850k subscribers and self-describes as…
the free daily newsletter with links and TLDRs of the most interesting stories in startups 🚀, tech 📱, and programming 💻!
Chenell Basilio has an insightful deep dive on Dan’s newsletter business.
She notes that Dan offers 3 sponsorship spots in each edition of the newsletter:
Top Section: $15,000
Programming Section: $10,000
Quick Links Section: $5,000
So…
If he sells all 3 placements for every issue, that’s $30k per issue. And this newsletter gets published every weekday.
That’s $150k per week.
Or $600,000 per month.
Or $7.8 million every year.
Even more impressive is that Dan only started the newsletter in 2018 and it apparently only takes him 30 minutes per day to put together 😎
(I suspect he also spends a few hours a day finding content for the newsletter. 30 minutes is likely just the time he spends assembling each edition in his email software.)
According to Chenell, Dan relied on paid ads to land his first chunk of subscribers.
But not the usual paid ads…
Most companies go to Facebook and Google first, because there is a ton of scale to be had there. But [Dan] advocates starting with Reddit and Quora for people with smaller budgets.
He did this as well. He started off spending $50 a day on Reddit and Quora ads, which helped him get to 1,000 subscribers in the first month.
Tons more insights about Dan’s growth strategy in Chenell’s write-up 👈
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Thanks to Fardeen Khan for helping me write and research today's newsletter.
Hasta la próxima, rock on with your legendary self 💪
Niall Doherty – Canillo, Andorra
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