2026 is here...

🏄‍♂️ What I Learned This Week...

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Brooks Conkle
January 06, 2026

Howdy!

Every week I share the business projects I’m working on and what I’m learning — excited to hang out with you.

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I hope your 2026 started off strong.

I did a simple cleanse that really helped me get my mind right for the year.

I organized my closet — tossed some — donated some.

Simple, I know.

But it really put me in the frame of mind to get organized about the rest of my 2026 planning.

I’m still giving thought to my year and planning for 2026.

While I don’t believe in a super regimented plan, I do think having a direction is important.

I hope you choose to do the same.

(hey, you might even want a “Win the Day” daily planner for your upcoming year!)

I also took a contract position in my state to help our young people stay here (Alabama).

It’s grant funded and is essentially a startup.

Our team of 3 has funding for 8 months.

Our goal is to see if we can build something sustainable that can continue on.

I’m sure I’ll share more as I go along…

I recently sat down and recorded a different style video.

I just talked through some of the projects of this year and gave some thoughts for the year ahead.

Feel free to watch it below 👇

A few weeks ago, I told you about a project I launched in a few hours because I wanted to take action.

You can read about it here » Earned $1 in Less Than 36 Hours 

I’ve sent sample reports to marketing agency owners I know.

I’m waiting to hear back.

I’m getting closer to launching CreditCardTracking (a tool for credit card hackers to track their credit cards, offers, etc.)

I’m building out the AI advisor that will help answer questions about the user’s credit cards.

I also had the idea to create a “top 50” credit card list, so I’ll get that live as well before launch.

If you see a need for it or would just like to follow along, you can sign up for updates here.

🐶PetMurals

Ok, so PetMurals.com is now live and has gotten its first users.

I spent $75 on Facebook ads as a test to get a sense of the demand for the dog moms out there.

I see 32 users signed up that I don’t recognize.

I see I have a $4.99 paying customer I didn’t know about (nice!)

Clearly I can’t stay on this path (spend $75 to make $5) but… I now plan to reach out to all of those users to touch base.

And we’ll see if this is something I should spend any more time on or not.

This project was more of test for learning how to build, so I’m not sure if I’ll invest more time into growing it.

We’ll see — want to help me grow it? Reach out!

Amazon Influencer Program [Update]

I’ve made more than $3,000 in 2025.

I periodically make videos for brands that reach out, and I charge them (so I get paid there as well).

But, some updates…

I have 141 147 videos.

(plus 90 videos from other creators..)

My total earnings equal $5,341.35 $6,543.21

After expenses, I’m making $107.51 $113.35 per hour.

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Want to start Amazon Influencer? Here are my best tips I’ve learned at no cost to you. Enjoy!

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If you want to learn more about Amazon Influencer, an overview of the program is here, and my first update is here.

(If you want, you can check each weekly update. I’ve come a long way from $2.81 per hour!)

All Projects

Other projects I’ll update over time (or provide future updates) include…

Until next time!

Don’t just think outside the box — keep destroying that box 😉