Finding success online sometimes feels like navigating through a complex maze. That’s certainly how it felt for Steve and I (Aidan) when we started our online businesses.
It’s tough to succeed when you’re starting out online.
The average online ‘solopreneur’ often has a couple of things working against them:
- Funds (a lack of)
- Specialised Expertise (a lack of)
What most solopreneurs have in their favor is an unwavering desire to succeed.
To prove to yourself (and the naysayers) that you’ve got what it takes.
To live the life you want to live on your terms.
Pure grit and determination will get you a long way...
And our new initiative will hopefully help get you the rest of the way...
Welcome to Crash Test Entrepreneurs.
A place where Steve and I will test out different strategies for you, and share our results.
We’ll use our money, our expertise, our team and our resources to figure out what works, and what doesn’t.
There’s no catch.
If something works really well, we’ll tell you about it.
And if we fail, we’ll also tell you about.
If we’re testing out another person's system, then we might stand to make a commission if we share that system with you, but we’ll only do that if the experiment is a home run.
In any case, there should only be upside for you :)
Here’s what we’ve got in the works right now...
Project #1: ‘Machine-Powered’ Marketing
I love this… getting technology to work for us.
ALMOST getting technology to just go and make money for us...
Imagine if you had a video script, you gave it to a ‘robot’, and the robot gave you a perfect audio file with any accent you wanted?
Now imagine that this audio file could be turned into a video, which could be published on YouTube, or anywhere for that matter…
That’d give you powerful content creation LEVERAGE.
We’re actually doing this right now.
Here’s what we do:
- Create ‘machine’ generated content (a video)
- Upload it to YouTube
- Use it as a simple ad
- Make commissions selling other people’s products that are related to our video.
Here are some early results:
More info coming about this next week (we’ll publish a new blog specifically about it and share some results).
Project #2: Crypto (gasp!)
What comes to mind when you think about ‘crypto’?
If you’re like most people, perhaps it conjures up ideas of volatility, danger, a fad, blockchain technology, speculation, and so on. All of these ideas are probably 100% accurate!
Crypto-land is a big place, it’s like the wild west…
Some of the technology involved is undoubtedly at the cutting edge of human development, while other parts of it are a complete fad.
And I can guarantee you that there are plenty of scammers waiting to prey on unsuspecting victims, it’s just the nature of the beast (much like the wild west in the late 1800’s).
Google trends shows how awareness and interest around ‘cryptocurrency’ and everything in it is becoming more and more mainstream (graph below shows early 2019 through until mid 2021):
TIP: Regardless of what you think about Crypto, this is a HOT niche for virtually ANY kind of content right now…
We’re testing (and learning!) a bunch of things related to this… one of our tests in particular is looking very encouraging, where we’ve been able to make money very quickly using a rules-based approach to trading.
I won’t get into details just yet, but several weeks in and we’re earning at a rate of about $150 profit per day… day after day after day, regardless of whether a cryptocurrency (like bitcoin) is rising or decreasing in value (versus the US dollar).
More to come :)
Project #3: Audience Building
Back to YouTube, but without the AI.
Over the past few months we’ve published 65 different videos to a health and wellness related niche channel we’ve been building on YouTube.
Prior to that we published 45 videos to a channel focused on one specific area of food and cooking.
Sidenote: we also snapped up a rare (and valuable) four-letter one-word domain name for this project! This particular one is a long term ‘passion play’... we’ll elaborate on this at some stage.
Getting back to our health and wellness niche. The objective of this project is to leverage YouTube’s organic reach to build an audience of engaged followers… and it’s working.
This could help sell:
- eCommerce products (through your own stores, through Amazon, Walmart, etc)
- Info-products, either as an affiliate, or by creating your own
- Services... the sky’s the limit
- Advertising, through YouTube's native platform (get paid for ads shown on your videos)
The challenge here is systematizing what we’re doing. For you to be able to benefit, we first need to iron out the kinks, then we’ll have something valuable to share.
What next?
Today we just wanted to introduce you to this project. We’re unsure how it’ll evolve… but we are committed to at minimum continuing down this path throughout September, and we’ll do that by diving deeper into the AI Marketing topic.
We’re using a blueprint that’s working… more on this in a few days time, watch out for an email from us.
Chat soon,
Aidan and Steve
