The focus regimen is just like your five senses: sight, sound, touch, smell, taste. Distractors involve small daily accountability and building momentum. I've done five product/five videos and only made it through about a week of comments; I'll continue farming them out, recording the first one today and then every 3-5 days, expecting a substantial decrease in churn. I'm jazzed about this. I wanted to run through as many questions as possible and do some live work to show my thinking. Since community is my primary revenue source, I should spend the bulk of my time on it—I already spend 1-2 hours each morning across communities, and should spend even more. An additional 45 minutes to an hour developing exclusive content to reduce churn by 5% over the next month would be crazy; if it works, I'd make about $100k, equivalent to $10k per hour. I'll leave it there; join Maker School to see these changes in real time, and check out make moneywithmake.com to go from working to working even better.
I wake up extremely early—usually around 3:00 a.m. I spend a few minutes in bed deciding how to use those valuable hours, then I roll over, grab my laptop, and start with community management. My community generates a disproportionate amount of revenue (around $110 k per day), so I prioritize responding to relevant posts and doing “roasts” for Maker School and my own site, where I record short videos critiquing Upwork profiles or offering quick fixes. This not only provides value but also reduces churn and makes me more sticky with the audience. After community work, I do a daily balance check: I review my bank accounts to see how much money I’ve made in the last 24 hours and keep my focus on money as the core metric. Finally, I run an inbox‑zero session, going through every email and replying to anything that isn’t obviously junk. This routine keeps me aligned with revenue‑generating activities and ensures I stay grounded in the financial health of my businesses.
Yeah, it's cool—I don't play many video games. My League of Legends sessions are just occasional half‑hour meet‑ups with a buddy I rarely see, so it's not a crippling addiction; even if someone like Elon Musk got hooked on Diablo, it wouldn't be a problem. Playing a game or having a vice like Netflix doesn't stop you from making money. Regarding work hours, I put in about 50 to 60 hours per week, roughly eight hours a day, every day of the week. Not all of that is intense brain work; a lot is low‑stakes tasks like community management—I spend at least an hour a day responding to YouTube comments, which is about 12‑15% of my week. I do this because nobody else justifies the time, and it actually scales by boosting engagement. I manage my time as effectively as possible. From a leverage perspective, content is high‑leverage: recording one 8‑minute video that gets 1,000 views turns 15 minutes of effort into 8,000 minutes of watch time—a massive multiplier. It may look like I'm working more than big entrepreneurs, but I'm actually doing a comparable amount; I'm just not working crazy hours. When I was poor and scraping by, I worked far harder and longer, but much of that panicky, sub‑effective activity never produced results. Now I focus on impactful ways, especially the non‑scalable work like comment responses, which improves the likelihood that any subscriber will buy. That's why my channel is now the most monetized in the space—around $2.50 per subscriber at 50k subs—while others with larger audiences aren't achieving that. I credit this shift to people like Matthew Larson, who taught me monetization and a straight‑line approach. Overall, I hope that makes sense.
I wake around 5 a.m., handle community management (30–60 min), then record a daily update. After that I manage Platinum and Maker Zero communities (5–10 min), record main‑channel content or write a script for the next session, have lunch and hit the gym, then spend a 3–4‑hour block on growth‑focused work (personal brand, businesses), followed by sales activities, then fulfillment/consulting work. My day is built around large growth blocks because I view growth as the most important activity. I also track growth rates financially, aiming for ~0.55% daily to compound sign‑ups, and note a ~72‑hour lag between viral content and new members.
Your connection is very fast—around 1,850–1,900 Mbps download and roughly a tenth of that upload (about 185–190 Mbps). At those speeds a video upload that once took 30 minutes now completes in about 15 seconds, and opening dozens of browser tabs drops from minutes to a few seconds. If you shave just half a second off each of 6,000 daily HTTP actions, you save roughly 50 minutes per day—almost an hour—eliminating a major bottleneck. Beyond the speed test, I’ve been working on Maker School exclusives to reduce churn. I’ve posted long‑form videos (like an hour‑plus content‑machine walkthrough) and plan another exclusive (perhaps a calendar). Tracking metrics shows our monthly recurring revenue dipped from ~305 K to ~34.5 K, indicating a 23.6 % churn that I’m addressing with exclusive content. Even if Maker School vanished, I could fall back on my agency, scaling it to $150‑200 K/month and using that social proof to boost my YouTube channel. I’m also exploring private‑equity and other ventures, but the core takeaway is that the skills I’ve built—community building, content creation, sales process—are transferable to any business model.