My AI offer already worked. Only problem was the sales were coming in a little too slooowww for me. I knew I didn't have a Prahdukt problem. I had a reach problem. The people who needed my tool the most had no idea I existed. And I wanted to get in front of a bigger (warmer) market without bleeding for it. Solar companies. ☀️ A whole market of them. The grind says build a list, run ads, cold-email a hundred doors. Nah. 🙅 I went looking for the one guy who already OWNED the room. So I hopped into a few solar Facebook groups... Same name kept popping up. One "influencer" every solar owner seemed to follow. So I did my homework. 🔍 Turns out he wasn't just an influencer. He ran a data aggregation company. A whole network of lead-gen sites that funneled leads into his software, which then dispersed them to his solar clients. Read that again. ✅ He already had the audience. ✅ He already had the connections. ✅ He already had the exact companies I wanted. And here's the part most people walk right past... His business only made money when those solar companies WON. So I didn't pitch him. I partnered with him. One short coffee date and I showed him the natural fit: His lead-gen pours people in the front door ... my Database Reactivation AI works the back door. Quietly reviving the ones who slipped through. The folks who were interested once, then went cold. His whole funnel. Every leak plugged. 🚰 I proposed a risk-free, performance-based deal, so he and his clients had ZERO downside. Without missing a beat, he introduced me to 3 of his biggest clients (whales in this space). A few weeks later my AI was living in their systems, booking meetings for their reps on auto-pilot. One of those clients did $147,000 in sales in a few weeks... 🔥 from a list their reps had already talked to and given up on. My cut? $15,000. 💰 I never sent a single cold email to a solar company. I found one guy who already had the room... and we built something neither of us had alone.

So now ya know not having money didn't stop me at age 10... And it doesn't have to stop ANYONE! If you missed Part 2: ===>Here's the Rerun:-) In Part 2... I asked an IMPORTANT QUESTION. If the $5 or $10 I made from painting on the curb number was NOT the GOLD!... What WAS the GOLD? Why is it important? Because... People who struggle all their lives.... Struggle because they work for MONEY! I don't place blame on them. They TEACH/program/brainwash us to work for money in school and in society. Here's what I figured out as a young, geeky Ron Howard-looking kid. AFTER... I gave money to my mom. AFTER... I spent some on candy, walkie-talkies, and wrist rockets... I could go to the SAME PEOPLE I painted the address number for... ...and they were happy to pay for 💥OTHER STUFF I COULD TAKE OFF THEIR PLATES💥... 👉Weed pulling 👉Lawn Mowing 👉I even got to mow a cemetery for $100 a mow. (I thought I made it big!!) 👉Car washing 👉Light Carpentry stuff (but I sucked at that and had to stop.) The GOLD was the CUSTOMERS. PLEEEEEAAASSSSEEEE... Do NOT say, "I know. I know." Because MANY grown adults still don't know!! Who gets the GOLD if someone is selling on Amazon? The seller? Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Amazon keeps the GOLD. Who keeps the GOLD in UBER? The poor guy or gal driving their ASS off? Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo! UBER keeps the CUSTOMER! In many cases... They FORBID YOU... it's against TOS to even CONTACT the customer. That's not all. Most business owners, EVEN IF they keep the GOLD (Customer), don't do ANYTHING with the customer. And they make 1/10th the money they COULD BE MAKING.... 👉Do you know WHY? 👉HINT: It's the same BOTTLENECK I had as a kid. I didn't figure out how to remove this bottleneck until I was in my mid-THIRTIES... BY FORTY... I was a millionaire. That's HOW IMPORTANT it was and how fast I got out of the rat race. But... Again... It is too important for me to just shout out.

I was a broke, freckle-faced 10-year-old boy... I was the oldest of 4 kids... My mom was single... And broke too. But I didn't let that stop me. I figured out what I now call: "A Gravel to Gold Sitch" Let's come back to that... One of my "income streams" was painting curb numbers for homeowners and renters whose addresses were either faded or completely gone. I knew my "pitch" wasn't a pretty address number. It WAS not getting COLD PIZZA because the pizza guy couldn't find your address. It WAS the ambulance, police, or fire department that found their home when every SECOND COUNTS. I'd charge $5 to $10, depending on whether I painted one or two numbers for them. (some wanted the number on both sides of the entry) Now... My investment for materials... Was about $10 to get fresh stencils, paint brushes and black and white paint. (From memory, this was a few decades ago 😁) I could paint about 10-12 address numbers from my $10 investment. Which meant $50 to $60 + tips for revenue. A $10 investment with a $60 return for an afternoon in 1977 was pretty solid. A lot of men/women were not making that... This is what I call the "Gravel to Gold Sitch"... Paint and the supplies are GRAVEL. I had the PROCESS: Take the paint and turn it into address numbers so the pizza guy and emergency services could find homes fast. Once I turned the paint into an address number on a curb... I turned a little bit of paint (gravel) into (gold)... NOW... If You Think That The money Was The Gold... HUGE MISPERCEPTION Don't get me wrong... It bought Snickers bars, walkie-talkies, and other stuff when I was 10 years old... But that wasn't the GOLD REALLY. (Hang on tight for a sec.) So... Here was my big fat problem. I was a broke kid. My mom was broke. How did I get my "start-up" capital? I PRE-SOLD! I'd knock doors and when I got a "YES."... I just had them PAY ME UPFRONT... Then I'd bike it to the hardware store and buy my supplies! I still PRE-SELL most stuff to THIS DAY as a 58-year-old.

Howdy Rockstars. 🤖 I gotta confess something that took me WAY too long to figure out. For years, I thought the hot new skill was building stuff with AI. I'd lose entire weekends to it. Tweaking agents, chasing whatever shiny new tool was FINALLY gonna change everything. I had a folder full of stuff I built. And almost none of it made a dime. Here's the part that stung… The building was never the hard part. Me, you, a 14-year-old with Claude and a free Saturday. AI got sooo good that "I built a tool" stopped being impressive. It's the price of admission now, not the prize. So if everybody can build… what's actually worth anything? Eyeballs! The RIGHT ones. And it's getting in front of eyeballs that no one wants to talk about, because it smells like "selling," and most "builders" would rather build for another six months than send one scary message. (I see it in every community I'm in. There's ALWAYS somebody asking "okay, but how do I actually sell this thing?") After realizing my “Projects” folder was gaining weight… I stopped trying to build for the sake of building... And I started partnering with people who already HAD eyeballs. I find an expert. Somebody who already teaches the thing, already has a room full of people hanging on their every word. Then I take what they already teach… and I turn it into AI tools that makes them look like HERO to their audience. They don't have to learn to build. I don't have to learn to sell. They just hand it to the people who already love them and we split the rev. That's how CreatorFinder did $19K before it ever officially "launched." I lived the other version of this for way too long… I was the guy with a hard drive full of brilliant tools and a checking account that didn't agree. Smartest builder in the room, quietly broke. And the worst part wasn't the money. It was looking like a guy who could make anything except a sale. That's the real trap. It was never "can I build it." It's "will anyone ever see it."

After my last post... I was jamming with the GOAT of resourcefulness, @Honey Syed… I love how he thinks… "The only thing that can top this is if you figure out a way to license this." That's Ronin Mojo-level prowess thinking… BUT... I don't have to figure it out… Travis already did… It's even here in the classroom… The training is called "New Money from Old Courses." The concepts behind that can be applied to pretty much everything. Stickers, AI tools,... truly anything you can think of. Yeah… I know… How to apply that to pretty much anything you can think of?!?! I'm piecing together a webpage that distills the key learnings in a way that even made my 96-year-old grandma excited... ...and summarizes how to get control of assets you don't even own… and put them into (other people's) vending machines. No sign-up, no email address… just helping fellow Rockstars out. You want it?