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#135 · A better way to sell AI automations

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What are your download and upload speeds, and can you show a live speed test?

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.

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youtube ↗Pricing

Is $3 per page a fair price for my WordPress automation service, or should I switch to a monthly/tiered model? Should I offer it for free initially to showcase value? Also, any advice on improving my recording and presentation skills despite limited camera experience?

Regarding your WordPress automation pricing: charging $3 per page (based on your two‑hour effort) undervalues the work because the marginal cost of running the automation is near zero. Instead of billing per run, give the system away for free on a pilot campaign to demonstrate its value, then switch to a tiered monthly fee—for example, around $2,895 for 1,000 campaigns per month. This aligns pricing with the client’s ongoing benefit and avoids messy usage‑based billing. On improving your recording and presentation skills: I was in the same boat—lots of door‑to‑door sales experience but almost no camera time. I fixed it by recording Loom videos daily at high volume. The trick is to mentally flip a switch: imagine an audience listening, just as you do when speaking to a real person, and then talk naturally. Repetition builds comfort, so keep creating content. Beyond that, 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.

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youtube ↗Mindset

What is this?

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.

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youtube ↗Marketing

Alphabet says to So, to give you a little bit of context, I have grown a Tik Tok to 266K followers and 300 mil views in 2 years. But I did it faceless with AI voice. The videos I make are highly edited faceless videos, which take 6 to 8 hours to make. But posting almost every day. And in doing so, I've developed a test of how short form content works. thing is since I use AI voice and faces, my RPMs, revenue per mill, which is the amount of money that you make from let's say ad platforms by posting on social media are super super low. Like in the month of June, I got close to 10 mill views and got like a 1k payout. Wow, that blows. So my question is what to do next? I could charge and teach people how to make faceless content in the process of making my content better and break it down hundreds of short form videos and I have kind of a good grasp on many niches. So I also show people how to do and monetize that or I can start posting myself and within like 6 to 3 months believe I can grow at 100K with lifestyle content but with this I have no clue of monetization. Yeah, fitness opinions and philosophy. These are all pretty unmonetizable inherently. Um still could you apply it to anything that's more of like a monetizable niche with higher RPMs? I don't know.

You clearly have an extremely valuable set of skills; your question is how to take this valuable set of skills to market. Very few people can get 300 million views in two years—you could genuinely change the course of the global economy with this skill, and millions of politicians would be interested in achieving 300 million views in two years organically on a super broke budget. So this sounds pretty good. The thing is you need distribution to begin with; you could show your current audience how to do that. That’s reasonable. But you should also leverage the systems you already have that enable you to do it—this is just your bottleneck. Six to eight hours to make a video is tough; you could bring that down to three or four hours, allowing you to make two videos for two approaches. In six months you’d have a solid base to sell—maybe a fitness channel program or something similar. That’s probably what I’d do.

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I run a short-term rental business on 9 acres, starting to document the journey at $20K/month in a similar format and I can tell you used AI a lot for a lot of these. Is that necessary?

Well, the big thing is how much money you're making right now. If you're already making $5-10K a month and have something worth talking about, then it's worth making videos. If not, don't waste time documenting—focus on actually succeeding with the business. Social media is a massive distraction; it's easy to fall into a narcissistic loop of checking impressions and tweaking gear, which is wasted effort unless you've already achieved financial success. Nobody cares about your journey until you've made it, so documenting before that is mostly wasted time. If you do become a big success (e.g., making a million a month), then you can post your first video and build a brand. Aside from that, I’ve been checking stats: my main channel grew 43% in the last 24 hours to 19741 subscribers, Instagram audio glitch aside, Maker School is up to 2111 members, etc. I also realized my earbuds mic got water‑damaged, so I’ll replace them with cheap earbuds and use compression to clean the audio. Finally, I’m going to get breakfast, moisturize, and crush the day.

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