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🏄‍♂️ What I Learned This Week...

Brooks Conkle
July 08, 2025

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Have I shared my MSN side hustle before?

So far in 2025, we’ve made close to $3,000.

We mainly write stories about entrepreneurs and share their growth stories.

I would like to see this grow.

I have a team member who 100% handles all of this for us and she does a killer job.

She also gets paid a 10% each month, so she has an incentive to create great content.

It would be really cool to see us grow revenue and her make more in commission than her base pay!

My part is to help with ideas —- for example, I’m trying to integrate AI to help us automate some of our research and initial content creation.

My wife makes fun of me because I get so excited about money hacks.

Wait, just me??

For Amazon Prime members, this credit card is a no-brainer (I signed up last week).

Upon acceptance, I got…

$200 instant Amazon gift card.

5% back on all Amazon purchases!

No annual fees, blah blah.

Set up the payments to be paid in full on autopay.
(A smart financial rule!)

What you (we!) have to be careful with is not overspending. Amazon makes it super easy to buy, which can easily lead to more purchases than you may have made otherwise.

(They give me a $50 if you use my link -- our next lunch is on me!)

I finally compiled a sales document for the newsletters that I’ve put up for sale.

I also listed one of them on Flippa — I reduced the price to $3,100, and I’m getting some action.

I also just got listed on Duuce as well, so that’s cool.

We’ll see how we go!

Also, if you connect me with someone who purchases, I’ll pay you a 10% commission!

4 Titans of the Creator Economy. One Stage. One Day.

You know their names. You’ve followed their success. But you’ve never seen them all in one place—until now.

On July 16th, four of the most influential minds in the creator space are coming together for a live, virtual event: The Creator Business Summit.

Shaan Puri. Codie Sanchez. Chris Koerner. Tyler Denk.

They’ve built newsletters, brands, and 7-figure companies. And they’re breaking down how they did it. For free. For you.

From audience growth to monetization to long-term brand strategy, this is your chance to learn directly from the best.

Whether it’s day 1 or you’ve been building for a while, this is the one event you can’t afford to miss.

Save your spot now.

How I’m Using AI this Week…

I just shared this post on LinkedIn this morning.

[TL;DR » my contact form creates a lot of friction in my sales process. By creating a more seamless process, I can reduce friction and make it better for everyone!]

New Automation Build going down! | Brooks Conkle

New Automation Build going down! I rent out our silent disco equipment and help produce events (holla if you want to throw a disco! 🎧🎧🎧) But here's the problem... We currently have a simple contact form. Then I get the info and need to reach out. So - much - friction. So here's the plan... Mini form with basic info. Upon submitting it will go to a calculator (that I'll build with AI) that will give them a general price range. For an exact quote and to get more details, they'll submit additional info about their event (this will allow folks to disqualify themselves if they don't like the pricing). Then begins the real fun! We'll set up automatic emails to provide information about silent discos and encourage them to book if they haven't already. The future goal will be to have the estimate, contracts, and payments all fully automated. PS - My goal is to have the initial items above complete in the next 2 weeks. Please follow up then 😜

www.linkedin.com/posts/brooksconkle_new-automation-build-going-down-i-rent-activity-7348370527528353793-yFvW?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAABUj9QBMXZznkFYLV7qhKvl4feTAAHGWIo

My goal is to make 100 useful tools to help automate my life & business.

Domain Name Flipping [Update]

I made this vid to share the ways I see you can sell your domain names.

You can be active or passive.

For my outbounding, I’m using GoHighLevel.

I’ve got to get back to the drawing board and figure out how to create better systems for outreach so that I can get more exposure on my domains!

A week will go by and I’ve done zero work — gotta break that!

Who do you guys use for domain name outbounding?

Or interested in outbounding some of my domain names for a % of $ ??

Feel free to join me in the DomainNameLovers.com group.

PS - you can see most of my domains for sale here.

Amazon Influencer Program [Update]

I just had a call with my friend named Matt.

He reminded me about the Creator Connection program and how I can add my videos into it and make additional $$.

I hadn’t done this in about a year.

I’m going to start doing it monthly and see the commission difference.

I’ll report back!

I have 131 141 videos.

(plus 80 videos from other creators..)

My total earnings equal $4,752.19 $5,203.15

After expenses, I’m making $97.12 $105.97 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!)

It looks like I just booked a silent disco headphone event for October.

Currently, the only advertising outlet is our local newsletter.

So that will be $1,500 in revenue to produce a private event all thanks to the local media brand.

Pretty cool!

Events are another fun $$ stream for a local media brand.

[These are ideas we share over in the Local Media Crew if you ever want to join us!]

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

Our Local Media Brand Newsletter
Networking Group for Local Newsletter Operators
YouTube Channel (Our Local Media Brand)
Facebook Page (Gulf Coast Beach Vibes)
Facebook Page (Dog Moms)
AI Email Newsletter Project
Real Estate Investing
My Daily Planner (in process…)
Domain Name Investing Community
Remote Work Email Newsletter Project
MSN writing hustle
4,000 weeks calendar (in process…)
See more current, past, and dead projects here.

Until next time!

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