Earned $1 in Less Than 36 Hours

🏄‍♂️ What I Learned This Week...

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Brooks Conkle
December 09, 2025

Howdy!

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

I’m asked what tools I use in my business. Here’s my tool list, AI tool list, and money-making ideas to help you with your income stream building. Reply to this email and ask me anything - happy to help. A note: I always use referral links when I have them. I will make a commission if you purchase through the links, so thanks!

Yesterday, over my morning coffee ☕, I saw a demo for an AI tool to help analyze your landing page.

And I thought, “wow, this could be a simple micro-saas ‘business in a box’ type of product.”

So I got to building and gave updates throughout the day as I thought through the build.

At the end of day one, I had built out the core automation, the landing page, and a way to collect money.

But no sales.

So I started again this morning.

And by 2:40 this afternoon, my first sale!

Our first $1 was made less than 36 hours after the idea.

I’m pumped!

I also now have gigs set up on Fiverr and Upwork.

Hopefully I can sell more jobs there to get feedback on the tool.

Ok, I’m soon to circle back to my credit card tracking tool!

Here’s a post I made if you want to understand why I’m building it.

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

Have you guys heard of Kalshi?

You can trade on the outcome of future events.

Very interesting site that’s similar to a site like Polymarket.

Polymarket is currently not allowed in the U.S.

And many other sites that do sports betting aren’t allowed in many U.S. states.

But Kalshi is available in all 50 states.

I think it’s because of the way they set up their company — they’re a designated contract market and set up their company with the CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission).

It’s what many would quickly look at and label as a gambling site.

But because you’re betting on a simple yes or no outcome, it falls under a different set of rules.

Here’s $10 for free if you want to test it out.

🐶PetMurals

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

No paying customers yet.

I’ve spent $35 out of $100 Facebook ads as a test to get a sense of the demand for the dog moms out there.

Below are some of the ad samples. 👇

💵 TrackitandSave

Have you checked out Track it and Save yet?

I’ve shipped a few new updates for the tool and will continue to do so.

And I’m continuing to log in and use it often (just added some notes today to a subscription I have).

There’s a free tier, so if it’s a tool you can use, I hope you find it helpful.

It’s been very helpful for me, so I decided to make the tool public.

I used a combination of Cursor, Lovable, Claude, and ChatGPT to build out the tool.

My friend Pete and I recently had a conversation talking shop about building AI softwares to sell. Watch here or below 👇

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 $4,752.19 $5,341.35

After expenses, I’m making $103.25 $107.51 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 😉