Serious about AI? - Make money with No-Code Automation - Make money with a SaaS Startup Everyone says to start an AI automation agency. I think that’s a mistake (unless). I built and sold a $2.6M/year agency, made over $1M in 2024 using AI, and even won the Skool Games and met Alex Hormozi. In this video, I’ll walk you through: • Why AI Agencies are the wrong move • What you should build instead • How to position yourself for long-term leverage, not short-term hustle If you’re tired of the noise and want a more scalable strategy for building with AI, this one’s for you.

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In the world of online marketing, one of the most commonly taught strategies is to be contrarian—to take an opposing view. This approach is powerful. It creates a compelling marketing message and can grab attention. But in the pursuit of being contrarian, there’s a dangerous trap that many fall into: trading one ignorance for another. The Trap of Contrarianism When you take a contrarian stance, you're often positioning yourself against an existing belief, claiming that the other side is wrong or ignorant. But if your opposing view is just as uninformed, you're no better off—and you may even come across as foolish. You risk becoming nothing more than the flip side of someone else’s flawed perspective. The key is not just to be contrarian for the sake of being different, but to identify real ignorance and counter it with actual truth. A well-formed contrarian stance isn't just about disagreeing—it’s about finding a deeper understanding that others may have missed. A Real-World Example: AI and Writing Since I work in the AI space, I see this all the time. Many writers and marketers attack AI-generated content, claiming that without a human touch, all AI-written content is worthless. There is some truth to that—right now, AI still requires human oversight to ensure quality. But this argument also exposes the ignorance of those making it. Yes, AI still needs human refinement today. But it won’t always. The trajectory of AI development is clear: it is improving rapidly, and soon it will be better than humans at many writing tasks. Those who build their entire marketing message around the idea that "AI content is garbage without a human" are setting themselves up for a reality check. Their argument isn’t rooted in long-term truth—it’s a short-term justification for their own value in the marketplace. If you want to make a strong argument, it has to hold up not just today, but in the future as well. Otherwise, you’re just swapping one form of ignorance for another.

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It’s funny looking back—after I sold my previous company I developed an ego, I told myself how great I was. But in reality all my business choices were total failures and bad moves. I spent a lot of time on ridiculous things—obsessing over a business card that no one would ever see, redoing my website over and over and over, changing my taglines endlessly. What’s the name of my business? Oh, I’d get different domain names. Everything except actually doing business. And even as I got through those things, I just kept making more and more mistakes. I was doing things that didn’t matter, avoiding the truly hard part, which was simply talking to a lot of people really fast and selling them stuff. That was the only thing that actually moved the needle, but I wasn’t doing it. Instead, I was keeping myself "busy." Of course, you can imagine that all this work didn’t do anything. So what did I think? That I wasn’t being productive enough. That I just couldn’t get enough done. And that became my main problem—or so I thought. Since I believed that was the issue, I started looking for all the optimization techniques. Getting up early, setting routines, journaling—all the things that everyone says you need to do. And that just became one more thing. And sure, all of that optimization matters—but only if you’re at least doing the right things in the first place. And that’s the key: The biggest productivity boost you can make today is simply to only do the things you need to do. Nothing else. I don’t know why it’s so hard for us to do that. Self-sabotage? Fear of failure? Maybe. But we don’t always see it. Instead of trying to optimize your life, there’s no point in even doing that until you’re actually working on the right things. So then the only question to ask is: What is the right thing to work on? And while that is different for everyone, the scariest part of that question is that I rarely look to myself to answer it. It was just the endless scrolling of social media that would leave me confused as to what to do. I’d take in all these different opinions, strategies, and ideas, and instead of finding clarity, I’d end up more lost than before.