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  • 10/21/2026 – Alliant Webinar – Estate Planning Basics – An Overview of the Estate Planning Process

    Before I get going on the presentation, I do want to let you know that we cannot record these or I can’t uh give out the actual presentation or the deck it’s termed. Uh so for compliance per reasons I I’m not able to share that or to record this and we do ask that if someone uh that you cannot record either and distribute these. It has happened in the past. Uh so these cannot be recorded and then redistributed. So, uh, also I do have some other presentations coming up. I have IRA planning coming up in, uh, November 3rd at 6:00 PM here, Central time. Uh, talking about different types of IAS and planning that, what should you be having, uh, or creating or, you know, funding as you get closer to retirement or maybe in retirement, what types of accounts are the best for you moving forward for tax reasons. another presentation, the good, the bad, and the ugly on annuities, talking about different types of annuities, which there are many different types of annuities out there. Uh some uh that I would certainly recommend, some that I probably would not recommend uh in various reasons uh or situations. So, uh again, there are many different types there. Learn a little bit about that. So, I’d love to see you on Wednesday, November 18th on that one. that will be at 2 pm central time for that presentation as well. Uh you do also have some access to some educational resources for uh webinars to see what else is uh coming up uh that you would like to listen to and invest savvy podcast that you have access to to hear and also our AIS website and blog mean Aerys meaning Alliance Retirement and Investment Services. That’s what ARIS stands for there. And you can see check out our website uh see bios of all of us on on this team and see what types of products and services that we do offer which I’ll be talking about that at the end of the presentation as well. So digging into an estate plan. What is an estate plan? It’s a basically it’s a map. It’s a it’s a way to get from where you are now to where you would like to be in retirement um and you know at the end of life basically. So, how are you going to pass things during your lifetime, maybe to other family members, generations, or after death? How do uh things pass um the way you would like them to? It reflects a way that you want your personal and financial affairs to be handled in case of incapacity or death. Who needs an estate plan? Most likely you. So it’s not just for ex you know extreme wealth although that’s even a different level of estate plan that would be needed if you are uh do have uh higher wealth and we’ll talk about some estate uh tax levels of what type of an estate uh you would have to have for additional taxes on there. Uh so without an estate plan you can’t control what happens to your property if you die or become incapacitated. An estate plan makes your wishes clear. Um things need to be documented in an estate plan. Uh many times you might tell a person, I’m going to leave you something, but if it’s not documented, it may not be honored. Uh proper estate planning can preserve assets and provide for loved ones. especially needed if your spouse isn’t comfortable with um estate matters or financial matters. If you have minor children that need to be cared for, that does need to be documented on what the wishes are. And if your net worth exceeds, again, here’s where I was talking about some more extreme wealth. If you have an estate uh of more than 15 million, that’s where the transfer uh tax exclusion uh ends. That’s where uh that is up to 15 million. If you have, let’s say, a $16 million estate, the first 15 million is not subject to estate taxes, but anything above that, that 1 million would be subject to the estimated 40% estate tax. And as I go through this as well, there is a big difference between estate tax and uh income tax of things that would be taxable is if you inherited that you might have to pay income taxes on. But that is very different from the estate tax which is what this is referring to this up to 15 million if you own property in more than one state and financial privacy is a concern. Uh the reason the financial privacy because if an estate does go through probate that is public information. So your estate uh information can be out there of uh when you passed away who beneficiaries may be and uh someone could come out of the woodwork and say hey that person was going to leave me something. Uh you know but it does need of of course to be documented but it’s certainly public information.

    basic estate planning concepts, uh planning for incapacity,

    uh health care, property management, uh planning for death, uh wills and probate, uh tax basics, lifetime gifting, and life insurance and trusts. Uh these are all big parts of the estate plan. Do you need some of this or do you need all of these? planning for incapacity and can strike anyone at any time. Uh failing to plan uh to plan means you could have uh to appoint a guardian. And one of the things as I go through this uh screen on here is uh if you remember a a case back in the ‘9s, Terry Shybo uh Terry Shybo in the state of Florida was a 26-year-old um went into a coma from a heart uh condition and was incapacitated for a very long time. They she was on a feeding tube and her husband eventually after a long period of time wanted to remove her from the feeding tube and let her go naturally. Her parents got involved and said no, do not do that. And so the courts got involved on who had to say so first. Was it the parents or the spouse of this person? And it went on for I believe it was about 14 years total where the court said remove the feeding tube. Then the higher court said, “No, do not re put the feeding tube back in.” And it was just a big uh legal mess, but planning for incapacity is ultra important. Even if you are younger or older, it’s still something that needs to be planned for. and that 14-year process. I don’t know how much attorneys they uh that cost both sides for the spouse and uh the parents, but uh what a mess because things were not documented. Planning for incapacity for healthc care d uh directives is uh first of all having a will uh durable power of attorney for health care. These are important documents that if you are incapacitated and cannot make decisions on your own uh and who’s going to sign off, if there needs to be surgeries or anything that needs to be done on your behalf, who’s going to be able to sign off legally on these things. And having these documents is vital. It’s very important to have um you know the will with a power of attorney and do not resuscitate orders. My mother-in-law who lived with me and my wife uh for the last three years of her life uh did actually have that in her uh directives that uh if you know if she her heart did stop they can take certain measures CPR but they had a do not intubate and if something and they had a do not resuscitate. Uh so um that is certainly something that is important because uh my wife’s sister who was the healthc care power of attorney is the one who could authorize what measures to take. So your living will puts your instructions in writing uh lets you designate an agent or someone to act on your behalf to make medical decisions or healthc care uh decisions and do not resuscitate. uh directs that uh uh resuscitative measures be withheld or withdrawn. Again, as I go through the presentation, if you do have any questions on any of these slides, please go ahead and type it in in the question and answer the Q&A or the chat box, and I will get to those at the end. Planning for incapacity property management tools. So, joint ownership, power of attorney for financial, this is different than power of attorney for healthcare. I’ve seen that situation where someone had come in and uh to uh to actually it was a bank that I was working at and said uh his mother was in the hospital. I have power of attorney. I need to help her pay her bills. Who do I speak to or how do what do I do with this power of attorney? And it turned out he had the healthc care power of attorney not the financial power of attorney. So it’s very important to know which documents are for health care or for property uh or financial. But uh joint ownership first is something that you would put to have joint people on your account. Maybe it’s a spouse, maybe it’s adult children or a another trusted adult that can uh have access to your funds. Uh and if they are joint ownership, they do have 100% access to your assets on whatever they are joint on. So hopefully it is a trusted person that uh has access but they can easily pay bills for you, do any financial transactions uh of accounts that they have access to. Durable power of attorney is they don’t have uh full access but they do have uh you know they can actually make withdrawals on your behalf. They can write checks on your behalf if they do have power of attorney. a living trust. Uh a trust might be something that is important. A trust uh is what you would be what’s called the trustee on your trust. If you have um typically what you would name is if you pass away or are incapacitated in your trust documents, you would pre-name a successor trustee who would take over of all the assets that are in that trust. they can act on whether you are living but incapacitated or if you pass away they automatically become the trustee and would have access to all of those assets. What happens if you die without an estate plan? Some property passes automatically if you do have joint ownership or if you have beneficiaries designated on accounts like IAS, other retirement, life insurance, uh anything, you know, if you have a savings or checking account here at Alliant, we highly recommend that you have either joint owners or beneficiaries named on each of your accounts that you have. Whether you have savings or CDs or IAS, make sure you have beneficiaries named on all of those. Not just uh you can’t just name one beneficiary across the board. You have to name it on your savings and checking. You have to name it separately for your IRA. And if you open up CDs, you have to add beneficiaries on those as well. Uh so it’s very important to know what you have, what types of accounts do you have and are there beneficiaries named on these. So if you have um you know it you know automatically passes to if you pass away if you have a joint owner on uh these joint accounts that joint person automatically owns the assets if you do pass away. If you do pass away with uh IAS or anything that has beneficiaries named, there’s a couple of documents needed. Number one, like a death certificate that we would need or a financial institution would need. Uh and sometimes it’s a letter of instruction or some type of beneficiary form to complete to get those assets. And those do pass without going through probate. As long as you have beneficiaries named or joint ownership, these do not go through probate and which is uh what you see on all other property generally passes according to state intestasy laws which is basically going through probate. What happens if you do die without uh an estate plan and it goes through intestasy or uh probate? Intesty laws vary for each state. I went through this with my parents when my father passed away first in 2015. Uh my mother was diagnosed with cancer very soon after within weeks of him passing uh and she passed away in 2016. So they passed away about 15 months apart. And when we found out uh you know that after she passed and we were starting to go through everything uh looking for statements on anything, did she have any credit cards that need to be paid? Uh there was a credit card that she paid off every month but had about a 2250 $250 balance uh that we had to pay. Uh so and some debts need to be paid, you know, if someone passes away. And then you also have to make sure that there’s beneficiaries or how do these things pass. So we did find out from my uh mothers going through everything and we actually saw an attorney that she updated her will after my father passed away. She did update the will but we found out she didn’t get to everything. There was two accounts, two savings accounts, one with the CD um and one uh bank had a CD and a savings, but that was a total of about $80,000 that did not have beneficiaries named or no joint owners. And we also she had her condo in uh Florida. So her condo was valued at about at the time about 220,000. So no beneficiary named on a on a condo. The condo was just in her name. She did take my father’s name off of the condo, but uh she didn’t take any other uh further steps. Again, she was diagnosed with cancer very soon after my my father passed away. So now we have about a $300,000 estate, $220,000 in the condo and 80,000 in the savings and CD. So $300,000 estate goes through probate. So, Florida law is waiting for about six, seven months to pass by. Probate is open. The attorney takes the will again, which was updated even though she instructed in the will that everything is divided by five and goes to the five kids. I’m one of five uh children. And so, that’s all the instruction was there, but a will goes through probate. A will opens up probate. So, we go through all the process on there. And finally, six, seven months later, a judge stamps and says, “Okay, probate is closed. Go ahead and put all the accounts in the five kids’ names.” So, we could put the condo in our names, all five of us. And then we can uh end up closing out the savings and CD that uh that were there and that 80,000 became available. But as we’re going through all this and speaking with the attorney on and off and my sister was the executive of this estate and uh you know just working with this attorney for the six seven months of this probate time. Everything is closed. We got the accounts. We got the condo in our names which we ended up selling. Uh but then we get the bill from the attorney. Little over $9,000 for the for probate. Um and we did most of the work on that. That’s what the uh uh the big part is on that. We did a lot of the leg work on it and uh a little over $9,000 attorney bill. So, how much could we have saved or it could have been saved if uh joint ownership uh even, you know, maybe even on the property? Are the beneficiaries uh making sure everything is in order? Boy, there could be a big difference. Sometimes people need a trust, a trust and wills. And if you go to an attorney, maybe it might be a couple thousand dollar, but it is going to be a lot less than fixing it all later and going through probate. So, sometimes biting the bullet on that. If you do need an attorney and as I end this presentation today coming up in in a little bit that I will put up that survey, please say yes and you and I can have a one-on-one conversation to see what is your situation. Do you need to speak to an attorney? And we’ll certainly go through it first.

    So, what happens if you die without an estate? Here’s another example of husband passes away and there’s an account in his name or just some asset in the husband’s name and there’s a spouse and two children. Typically, maybe that uh husband would have said, “Of course, if I pass away, just everything goes to my wife.” But in some state law, it could be that if there is no estate plan or no beneficiaries named that the state going through probate might say 50% goes to the spouse and the other 50% go to the surviving children when his wishes may were not to give the children assets yet. Uh but uh just give everything 100% to his wife. Uh but because there was no directive on there, there could been that state law that says this may have happened. Wills and probate. Again, a will is a cornerstone of the estate plan. Directs how your property will be distributed. Again, that’s what my mother did have. Names an executive, which she did as well. Uh can accomplish other estate planning uh goals, written, signed, and witnessed. Uh most wills must be probated. Again, that’s that long waiting period where again, it’s public information. Someone can come out of the woodwork and say, “Hey, if that person was going to leave me something, of course, there needs to be documentation.” Uh, but if there is, you know, could that delay or even extend that probate period if it is contested? It certainly could. And then now we’re talking more fees, more lawyers, more uh just legal things going through a process. Uh the will is filed with the probate court. Again, when my mother passed away and we see the attorney, he took the will and he filed that with the court and now probate opens and it becomes public record. The executive collects the assets, pays the debts and that’s what again what my sister at the time did. We did file one final tax return for my mother uh when she passed away in 2016. So 2017 before April 15th, we did file her final taxes. Uh typically process lasts several months to a year or longer if it is contested. Pros and cons when we talk about the first one here, time and costs are modest. The cost of the actual probate might be modest in the time. Uh court supervision protects against creditors. So uh if there are is extensive debt um that things can be frozen during the probate period when maybe you can’t get assets yet. Uh so there is protection from the court on those things. Cons uh that can be time consuming especially if it’s a complex estate. Uh title transfer delays. Now we’re talking the fees of attorney fees and things like that. That’s the over 9,000 that we had paid. And then ancillary probate if there’s uh anything ancillary probate maybe if it was done uh maybe created in another state but they live in uh a different state now uh so there could be some uh state issues on that uh depending where a will or um uh you know trusts were created and I do recommend that if you did live in one state let’s say you lived in Illinois which is where I am now if you live in Illinois now, but you moved to, let’s say, Florida and but you did all your documents in Illinois. I would see an attorney in Florida just to make sure everything is uh is okay, up to date, and maybe the term reciprocal. What was done in Illinois would be honored still in Florida, but it would be recommended to at least see somebody on making sure that everything is in order from moving from one state to another.

    Uh sorry if I can go back. Uh all right. So and again it is public record wills and probate. Avoiding probate. Can you avoid probate? Yes, you certainly can with an estate plan and making sure that you have beneficiaries named. Uh things that don’t have a beneficiary. Uh a lot of things that come up is what about my house? Can I can I add a beneficiary on a house? Some states you can. Uh you can go into to the county and you can record a deed with a beneficiary. Um check you know you might have to you know do some AI search on that to see what state you are in. If the state allows you to add a beneficiary on a home if it is not how do you how does a house not go through probate then? Maybe it’s creating a trust or adding joint people on your home. Here’s a, you know, an example of if, let’s say, a mother says, I want to add my adult son on my house. Can I do that? Yeah, you can record a deed. Add your son on the house. Uh, certainly something that can be done, but now your son does have access to this house. He is an owner on this house. Um, and there’s also, you know, some of the protection things of what if the son in this example had some legal issue, intentional or not intentional, doesn’t matter, but what if there was some type of legal issue, maybe gotten an accident and is going to be sued for whatever reason? your home is now part of that uh potential asset that could be seized or something. If um if there are uh some legal issues on that because your son is owner on the house, maybe it could be subject. Now, that’s where seeing an attorney would hopefully uh protect a lot of these things. But, uh just know that adding joint people on could give them access to an asset that maybe you don’t want someone else to have an uh uh access to. But yes, certainly the estate uh can avoid probate, making sure you have beneficiaries named, maybe a trust, making sure your wills are updated, uh you know, uh powers of attorney, again, all of these documents. So, own property jointly with rights of survivorship, complete beneficiary forms for all of your accounts, uh and life insurance, uh maybe a potential trust, and start to make gifts if you would like to start gifting money away. uh while you’re living. Some people say, “I wish I could give the money to my kids while I’m alive so I could see them enjoy whatever they’re going to use it for.” That certainly can be, but uh there might be some limits on what you can gift. So, transfer taxes. Um if you start to give money away, there’s a federal gift tax imposed on transfers you make during your life. And then there is a federal estate tax imposed on transfers made after you die. So during your life, federal gift tax after you pass away, it is a federal estate tax. Federal um uh there’s also what they call a generation skipping tax uh that you can also gift to grandchildren and below. So not going directly to your children but maybe to grandchildren.

    So, lifetime transfers for the federal gift tax. This is giving while you are still alive. Gift tax applies to transfers made during your life. Now, you can there is an exclusion that you can gift $19,000 per person uh to not be taxed. And so if you are a single person and you want to if you have let’s say three children you can give each of them 19,000 without going through any type of issue for taxes on any for anyone. So you can give that 19,000 per person. If you are married filing joint you can each gift 19,000 per child. So you can give 38,000 to each child uh each year if you wanted to uh up to $15 million. So this uh you can gift this $15 million for a combination of while you are living and after you pass away you can give up to 15 million without going through the estate tax. The 15 million exclusion is the largest it’s ever been. uh transfer on death, federal estate tax. Now, we’re talking after death. Uh estate tax applies to transfers made at death. Generally does not apply to transfers made to your spouse or charity. So, if it’s to your spouse, that is not a taxable event. Even if it’s more than the 15 million, 15 million is excluded from all uh transfers, gifts, and estates combined in 2026. So what that means is that if you gifted while you were alive over your lifetime, if you gifted $5 million and after you passed away, if your estate is under $10 million remaining, that is a total of 15 million. So those are a combination of what you gift during your lifetime and after you pass away, you can gift up to $15 million combined. any portion of exclusion used for gifts uh will be unavailable to the estate.

    Uh important consideration for married couples that these are what is called portable. What that means is that each of you can have a $15 million estate. If the husband let’s say in as as an example the husband if let’s say they have two separate estates the husband has 20 million and the wife has 10 million. If the husband passes away his 20 million can go to the wife tax-free even though it exceeds that 15 million because it’s going to the spouse and if the spouse passes away for with an estate of 30 million then it is fine. it it does not go through the estate tax um because there’s you know that portability is a total of $30 million that can be left. There is also the generation skipping tax. Um this is where it goes to grandchildren or below. This is actually an additional 15 million that can be done. uh as I was researching this is that the uh the you know the estate tax and the gifting up to that 15 million the generation skipping has an additional 15 million. If you have questions on that see an attorney you if you have an estate that is going to be subject to some of these uh I would highly recommend speaking with an attorney on that. So, there’s a $15 million for the generation skipping tax uh and or for the exclusion for that. Uh unlike the gift uh tax, this is not portable. Meaning, if you have um you know that you’re going to do that, that $50 million does not carry from husband to wife in that same example. Uh it does not do that for the generation skipping. So, here’s where what estate taxes look like. So going back from 2024, 25, and 26, uh you could see how it’s in increased a little bit. Now we’re at $15 million for the uh for the exclusion. If you have again a $16 million estate, if you are a single person and you leave $16 million, that first $15 million is not taxed. That million above that will be taxed at 40%. even though it could be money that was already taxed. Uh maybe it’s all in savings and it was already money that was earned and taxed already. Uh there’s an additional estate tax if it’s over 15 million. Now, as I said earlier that there is a difference between estate tax and income tax. So what might a beneficiary have to pay in income tax? Uh basically anything that has not been taxed yet. For example, an IRA. Let’s say mom has an IRA. Let’s say it’s $400,000. And an IRA that maybe she’s been doing some required distributions on, taking money out over time, passes away with this $400,000 traditional IRA in this example, and has a son who is a 100% beneficiary. Uh, so that son now inherits this $400,000 traditional IRA. And again, this is money that has never been taxed yet. So it has not been taxed. So the son has to pay tax on that $400,000. But does he have to pay it all at one time? Can he spread it out over a period of time? If that son inherits that, now we’re talking he has 10 years to liquidate that IRA. So say 40,000 plus interested growth over that 10-year period on average is what he would have to uh take out and pay taxes on. So that is based on income tax that would be taxed at the son’s tax bracket. But again that is different than the estate tax. So that’s an example of what might a beneficiary have to pay in income taxes. Lifetime gifting allows you to see the recipient enjoy your gift allows you to uh minimize transfer taxes by taking advantage of the $19,000 annual gift exclusion and that is per person. Removes future appreciation of your uh property. So, if you gift uh you know at you know $19,000 maybe that’s um and they invest that the people that inherit you don’t have to pay taxes on any of that growth because you gifted it away. No step up in basis in your property. So, if you um have not gifted this money uh or if you did gift it, there’s not a step up in the cost basis. Here’s an example of what stepped up cost basis means. If you have a stock, let’s say a brokerage account that is not an IRA, and I’ve seen this example many different times, but here’s an example of let’s say someone had a stock account or a brokerage account with individual stocks in there of stocks that someone owned for years, maybe let’s say like Exxon Mobile or something that’s been around a long time. And let’s say that stock was purchased for $30,000 and it’s still in this brokerage account and it is now worth $150,000. It is appreciated, you know, a lot. If the person sells that stock while living, they will have to pay capital gains tax on from the 30,000 up to that 150,000. If that person passes away and there’s a beneficiary named on that account, the beneficiary owns that stock as if it was purchased at 150,000. So if that beneficiary sells the stock at 150,000 right after death after receiving those that asset, there is no taxes paid. That is stepped up. the cost basis is stepped up from 30,000 up to 150,000 and it is not a taxable event. So again an example of what stepped up basis means lifetime gifting uh transfers uh excluded from the gift tax you can gift 19,000 or if you are married you can each gift so 38,000 per year per person. So again, if you have three children, husband, wife, give three children, $38,000 each per year, they can do it again next year. And every couple years that that $19,000 does increase. I remember when it was 11,000 uh not that long ago, and it’s been just increasing over the years. Uh I do see that there are uh a good number of questions on here. So again, just a reminder, if you have not asked a question yet and you do have one, go ahead and type it in Q&A or the chat box and I will get to those at the end of the presentation. Uh if you’re contributing to a 529 plan, what is a college savings plan and you want to do that uh gift it to someone, you cannot gift it to a child to put it in their college saving plan. you can do directly to the 529 savings plan and you can gift up to 95,000 or 190,000. That is a lifetime amount that you can do. You can’t do that one per year. Um that you can gift 95,000 or 190,000 taxfree. And if you’re also going to uh help with tuition, uh you can pay a school or you know the uh education uh directly, but you can again do not gift directly to the person to pay tuition. You have to pay. And so no gift tax on amounts paid directly to a uh school for tuition and no gift tax on if you are going to help someone pay medical bills. Again, you can’t gift it to someone to pay their medical bills. You can pay the medical bills directly and that is not taxed. Creating a trust, it’s a versatile uh estate planning tool. Uh can protect against incapacity or uh avoids probate. So when you have assets in a trust, one of the terms that they use is what they you might have heard when they call it a living trust. Uh basically what that means is if people can die, the trust can keep on going. When you are a trustee of your own trust and you if you passed away, you would again pre-name successor trustees. So a trust can keep on going and going and you can name an order of successor trustees. Now sometimes uh trust might be dissolved after someone passes away and the successor trustee becomes a trustee sells all the assets and distributes it to the beneficiaries. But sometimes there are cases when a trust would need to remain open. Maybe it’s to spread out payments to beneficiaries over a long period of time. Maybe it’s for special needs purposes of a special needs person that is inheriting something that is going to be spread out over a long period of time. That trust needs to stay there. So successor trustees. Now if the successor trustee passed away, maybe there’s got to be someone else named who would take over after that. So a trust can keep on living even after people die. It can protect against incap incapacity, probate, and minimize taxes. Allows professional management of your assets. Provides safeguards to minor children, elderly parents, and other beneficiaries. Can protect assets from future creditors, and control over the property. What is a trust? It’s a legal entity. Uh parties, uh you would have a trust, a granter, a trustee, a beneficiary. Who are all these people? You and I can certainly have that one-on-one conversation of what’s a what’s a granter? what’s a trustee or all these different things we can certainly go over if we do have this uh one-on-one conversation. Uh there’s a difference between what is called a revocable trust and an irrevocable trust. A revocable trust is probably 99% of the trusts that I see most of the time people are they create a trust. They are their own trustee. They name their kids or family members or charities as beneficiaries and they control it and they can make changes. Revocable meaning they can change things. Uh remove beneficiaries, add beneficiaries. They have all the power to to do that as a trustee. An irrevocable trust actually takes this assets out of their estate. more wealth transfer is used for um in an irrevocable trust. An irrevocable trust, the person who who has the money has to name someone else as the trustee and that trust or trustee would c control the assets for someone, but the money is removed from their estate. Again, most likely for these estate tax purposes of this 15 million that we were talking about, life insurance. So, someone might say, I don’t have any assets. Um, I don’t own a home. I’ve haven’t been able to save for whatever reason. And but if you have a life insurance policy, that is does create an estate. You have something to leave to someone. It can provide needed estate liquidity. life insurance proceeds are included in your estate. So, if you have, let’s say, a $13 million estate of assets and you have a $3 million life insurance policy, that is a $16 million total estate. Now, where that 1 million above that 15 million could be subject to the estate taxes. So, life insurance proceeds are part of that estate. Uh key issues of ownership is a policy. Again, is it revocable? Is it irrevocable? Uh here’s what a a life insurance for in an irrevocable life insurance trust. An eyelet is what that’s referred to is you have an insured. So you the insured, so you’re the person with the assets. Uh you create an irrevocable trust and name someone else as the trustee. Again, you cannot be a trustee of your own irrevocable trust. Uh so you’re going to name trustee and who’s going to get the assets? The beneficiaries. The trustee purchases a life insurance policy for your life. So someone else has to buy this for you, the trustee of the irrevocable trust. And then again, beneficiaries would be named. you can make cash gifts to pay the premiums for this uh for this life insurance. Um beneficiaries could potentially have some access to cash value um in the policy. Uh trustees can use uh cash gifts to pay the premium. So you can gift money to the trust uh trustee of that to pay the premiums for your own uh insurance at death. If you pass away, uh the uh irrevocable life insurance trust, the eyelet receives the proceeds from the insurance policy. Uh proceeds are sub are not subject to estate tax because again it’s outside of your estate. Proceeds distributed according to the terms of the trust. Whoever you name as beneficiaries and beneficiaries receive the proceeds free from estate tax. So, in conclusion, as I go through uh the end here, uh again, I see some questions. I’m going to be taking those in just a moment. I’m going to put up the survey here in just a few moments. But if you if you have not implemented some type of plan, please say yes when I put the survey up and we can at least go through that conversation to see what do we think is needed. Some people will just say, do you think I need a trust based on here’s what I have? Um, or should I just get the make your will powers of attorney? I would always recommend there actually are some online sources that you can do. If you’re a do-it-yourselfer type type of person, there are online sources that you can create um your own uh legal documents over maybe wills, trusts, even powers of attorney. Uh much less of a cost. There would be a slight cost on some of these. Again, you’re not getting the uh the big advice from an attorney. So, so many times that answer might be I think you should talk to an attorney and get this done properly. If you have a complicated estate, I would highly recommend uh you know, speaking with someone. So, are you going through any of these questions? Have you imple implemented a plan? Do you have a valid will? Again, maybe you opened it up or started your will in one state, but you moved to another state. I would certainly recommend that that’s up to date. Are transfer taxes a planning concern for you? Again, over that 15 million, uh, does your overall estate plan reflect your current wishes and circumstances? Life happens, things change, people come into your life, people go out. Uh, some people are passing away before you, uh, babies are born and your beneficiaries might change over time or just your wishes might change. Even if you have a will, a trust, all those documents, uh what if your power of attorney that you named passed away? Do you have someone else named after that? All of these important documents are so important to have. So, as I go through the questions here, I’m going to put up a couple of things here. First of all, I’m going to leave this on the screen if you want to take a picture of it. And there’s a um a trusted will u estate plan. This is kind of a one of these do-it-yourselfer opportunities. Uh if you want to take a picture of this and then we can again if we do have a one-on-one conversation, we can certainly talk about this uh a little bit more. Also going to put up here here’s some of the uh products and services that I offer here. I’m uh I do offer full financial services as a financial adviser here at Alliant. Um sometimes it’s the plan. So you might say, “Here’s what I have. Here’s what I want. Did I save enough? Did I do enough? Am I How much can I spend in retirement? What about inflation? What about how much is my social security going to be? What about if you have a pension from anything? How much can I spend in addition to that? And be assured I’m not going to run out that full financial plan. It is complimentary. We do not charge for this. It certainly then we can go to the next step. If you would like more investment management, we can talk about what uh do you want to be ultra ultra-conservative? Do you want to be more aggressive somewhere in between or a variety of different accounts depending on the different types of assets that you own? I’d be happy to go with uh through all of that with you. Again, if you say yes, I will we can certainly have that conversation. Uh here’s my information up on the screen as I go through questions. I’m going to leave this right here. Uh, if you would like to, if you have your phone handy, you can put your camera on, hover it over that QR code, and if you do want to set up a time, whether it’s right now, uh, you can hover over, click on that little yellow thing that pops up, and you can have access to my calendar, and you can schedule that appointment actually right now if you so choose. So, I’m going to go through the questions here, and I am going to put up the survey here right now. So, you should hopefully see that up on your screen. Uh, so check yes, not at this time or no on here. And hopefully, again, you and I will have a one-on-one conversation. So, I’m going to go through the questions here. So, and might not be in the order uh exactly, but I’ll try to get through all of these. Uh, what are um what are the tax ramifications on a transfer on death for beneficiaries? Uh, so depends on the type of an account. um for taxes if it is a savings checking CDs where you have money in a bank or a credit union and you’re going to um if you passed away that is money that’s already been taxed throughout the years. All the interest has been you receive a 1099 those the principal balance has already been taxed. So, the only thing that’s going to be subject is when they when your beneficiaries file your final tax return and then those taxes are paid and your estate. Um, the things that are going to be taxable to the beneficiaries are things like IAS, traditional IAS, 401ks. The things that are taxable to you upon withdrawals will be also taxable to the beneficiaries. That’s the main things that are going to be taxable to beneficiaries. But just think if you have savings, checking, CDs, those types of things. Um, not going to be the principal is not going to be taxed unless it’s over 15 million for the estate. Then there certainly could be the estate taxes. But as far as income taxes are concerned, very minimal or no uh taxes on some of these. Uh remember the the home. If someone inherits your home, again, remember that stepped up basis that we me my brother uh brothers and sister got an appraisal on my mom’s condo for 220,000. We got that for even though she bought it initially at 130,000ish or so. And we did not have to pay any capital gains because we sold it for what we bought uh what the appraisal was. So, we did not have a taxable event on selling the property. uh if uh there is a living revocable trust do the assets go into that which is uh not probated and then the personal items go into the will? I have heard uh that the probate can be avoided. So yes, if you create a trust, you have to put those accounts in the trust or retitle. So, if someone has, let’s say, $100,000 savings here at the credit union and they create a trust. So, they go to an attorney, they have a trust, and they uh call us and say, “Hey, I have this trust. I have this personal account. We’re going to add or create a trust savings account, and then we would transfer that 100,000 to the trust.” Uh, if you pass away, your trust says who the beneficiaries are, and that will avoid probate. Uh anything else if you don’t have a trust anything everything else needs to have beneficiaries named. Um so if you have any personal items that you just said it uh that would go into the will. So personal items might mean what about the car? Car could be um you know especially if it’s an expensive car could potentially be probated uh if there’s no beneficiary or other person on the car. Um, what about artwork? What about things hanging on the wall? What about jewelry? All those things would be in the will. Um, things that don’t have account numbers basically, uh, would go through the will and typically are not probated. I mean, they’re not going to probate, you know, it’s not going to go in and start digging through the drawers and look for any, you know, necklaces or rings or anything like that. But, uh, but personal items, um, would be in the will. And I highly recommend documenting. I’ve heard people talking about like there’s, you know, little things, knick-knacks on the table and if you lift it up, there’s a one of the kids’ names is under there. They’re already claiming it even while mom and dad are still alive. So, um, but document on who gets what and typically in the will. Uh, do you work with people in Wisconsin or just Illinois? I am licensed probably in about uh at least half of the states, about 25 states I am personally licensed in, and Wisconsin is one of those. So yes, I do. Uh is TOD uh uh transfer on death on house taxed? Again, that is that stepped up cost basis. Hopefully you got that out of that even maybe after you type that question in. Uh but with the stepped up basis, it is not taxed. There is a stepped up cost basis on the property on that house. Uh let’s see. My husband is 42 and refuses to consider getting a will uh due to his age despite me bringing it up several times. We don’t have a prenup. What can I do to protect your myself? Um well, you can certainly do these things yourself and I would highly recommend doing something. Um but uh with the prenup situation, maybe there’s one of you has more assets than the other. Uh so but uh even at age 42 again that Terry Shyo situation is it rare? Yes. Is it possible that it could something medically could happen? Absolutely. Uh so but at least you know a will powers of attorney those are cheap and not too too expensive. You can do those yourself even. Um but uh at least having some of those whether it’s trust and beneficiaries and extensive estate things that might be a harder issue for you getting him to do that. But uh um but having a will and powers of attorney um we got those when my kids were very young and uh we got those when we were going on a long trip and you know it was one of our first big trips without kids and what if something happens to us? So we before that trip we went to an attorney and did our will and uh powers of attorney. Uh we didn’t have much assets way back then but uh uh but we made sure that things were um in place for that. So even and we were probably around that age uh maybe a little bit younger even. Um so but uh protect yourself and at least start looking at things that you specifically own. Of course, you can’t make him do something. Uh, but, uh, at least do these things for yourself or at least see if you can get if it’s a if it’s conversation that you and I would like to have, I would if he’s involved or would like to at least talk about that, maybe we could talk about some of the basic estate planning things. Uh, I have a trust and will made in Arizona but moved to Illinois. Do I need to update and redo in Illinois? I would recommend speaking to an attorney about that. Um I can’t guarantee that. Yes, it you absolutely have to make changes in that but uh it certainly with legal documents I would have someone look at that for sure. Uh what is the cost for a consultation with you? Zero. Um you know now we do some like I said some investment management and certainly some things um that might have some you know fees attached to it. Not everything. Some of them do. Many things I do don’t have fees. But the consultation, the initial complimentary. If you want to do the full retirement financial plan, which is very comprehensive, you’re not going to pay a dime for that either. Uh are the online trust and will companies uh worth it? Uh such as uh trustandwill.com, which cost roughly 500. Attorneys are much more expensive. So they can be worth it if you do not have a complicated estate and you just need the basic documents even when you go to an attorney. Here’s where I know many documents are a template. You know, I wish to leave blank blank, you know, you know, things like that. It’s just filling in the blanks, which you can certainly do. Uh if it’s not complicated, you can absolutely use one of the online sources for those and they can be worth it. Some of them might be a couple hundred bucks. Some of them might have an ongoing uh and I’ve heard a hundredish dollars a year for document storage. So even if you create it up front, it’s it’s all e documents uh you know electronic documents. So sometimes those are all kind of still available through the site and you will pay a an annual fee to keep that up. Nominal call it a hundred bucks a year but very so much so it can be worth it. Uh what is your fee? Do you operate on a flat fee or for percent of investable assets? Um to do the plan, nothing. You’re not going to pay for anything. If I do certain things, let’s say someone just wants a guaranteed interest rate for a period of time, I don’t charge a dime for that either. You’re not going to pay a fee. Now if we have like an advisory account that has uh stock bond ETFs and things that are kind of bought sold bought sold there could be a percentage call it a oneish one plus or minus uh of that uh p of what we have invested with you not of your total assets just what’sever in that advisory account you will pay that oneish percent um on that one of the things that I do not do which is available some but I’m choosing not to do is if you have assets somewhere else and you say Joe we want to pay you um you know an annual fee just to tell us what to do with the stuff that’s over there somewhere else I do not do that I can do that but I choose not to um you know just pay a you know receive a fee for assets that I don’t have access to. Um, so but if it’s an advisory account, if you have, let’s say, a $250,000 uh IRA that you want to transfer over and put it in stock bond, you know, ETFs, things like that, uh, that I am certainly managing. If it’s that 1ish percent, uh, then that’s what that fee would be just based on that account. Uh, what percent uh, or what uh, what parent on Medicare? I don’t know what that means. Um, I just see what parent on Medicare. Um, if you are still on if you maybe you type something else in there. I’m still scrolling. Uh, do you work with people in Wisconsin? Yes. Uh, what should all of the paperwork uh be stored? Example, at our home uh deposit box at a bank uh with a family member. Um, that’s a good very good question on that. I’ve seen, you know, uh, you know, safety deposit boxes at banks. if you have some type of uh we have a kind of like a fireproof box that we have documents in um at the at the house. So, yes. Um but to family members or beneficiaries or successor trustees, if you have a trust and there’s trust documents, uh having a copy to the successor trustee is not a bad idea or at least access for that successor trustee to find these documents if you did pass away. um somewhere where other people know where these are. And I know many times there’s privacy issues. I’ve talked to many different clients where they say my kids have no idea what I have uh and I don’t want them to know yet. So sometimes, you know, giving access to these documents might disclose dollar amounts and things like that that you don’t want. But at least if you passed away, do they have access to those documents then to help figure these things out? but they can be stored anywhere. But safety deposit box is not a bad thing. Um, as long as you can get to those uh pretty quickly. What if something happens and you don’t have a power of attorney for healthc care um and someone goes in the hospital over the weekend and you can’t get to the bank uh to get to that safety deposit box. So maybe copies at least uh at home as well. Uh let’s see if there is I had one parent who passed away. uh he was on uh Medicaid. He passed away in 2021. Mom is alive. Uh what are her options? She’s also on Medicaid. So I’m assuming on Medicaid is that they have limited or minimal assets um if anything. So um I have your name and your information here. So if uh one parent passed away and the other is on Medicaid now, do you have powers of attorney? Do you have those things? Um, I’ll email you separately on that. Maybe we could if we’re not going to chat, maybe we can at least email back and forth on on that. Uh, what happens to their house? Um, they have uh paid it off. So, if they are on Medicaid, do they still does uh is the house still owned? Um, or did they have to, you know, are they in a Medicaid situ? Um, so yeah, I have many questions on that actually on what needs to be done with Medicaid cuz I know typically if there’s a spousal situation or if it’s just one person on Medicaid on what assets they can own to be on Medicaid and did you go through an estate attorney on maybe, you know, starting to gift away other assets and things like that. So, I do have some other questions for you on that that I will certainly email you. Um, I think that’s all the questions. Uh, wait, uh, there’s one I put my put on my calendar to make an appointment with you in March. Uh, thank you. Okay, so yep, I’ll speak to you in March. And that’s it. That’s all the questions that I have. Thank you all so much for your time and attention, and I will hopefully be speaking with you very soon. Thanks. Have a great rest of the day.

  • 10/20/2026 – Alliant Webinar – The Fragile Decade – Preparing for retirement happiness by turning apprehension into anticipation

    All right. Evening everyone. Hope you all are doing well. We still have a couple of minutes. People are joining.

    So, we’ll give them a couple of minutes.

    I’m not sure what states everyone are joining me from, but in Texas we just started early voting yesterday for our midterms.

    So, hopefully everyone’s getting out there, at least planning to get out there and vote.

    So, I have this right at 6:00. We’ll have some time today, so we will uh give it a couple more minutes as people are still joining us. It’s always good to see some familiar names on here, a lot of new ones.

    Is anyone coming uh joining me from up north? Like anything north of Well, say north of Texas, but where the weather’s actually cold. We’re finally getting really, really nice weather here in Texas. I assume Florida and I assume Florida is the same. Where where we’re in the 50s in the morning and today was in the 80s, so it was really kind of a glorious time. North Carolina, yeah, okay. Vermont. Ah. I bet. So, are the So, in Vermont, are the leaves turning right now?

    Cuz that is spectacular to see. Yes. Yeah, that’s something that is something to behold if people have never seen that. That was actually pretty cool to do that.

    All right. We’ll give it maybe 1 more minute or so and then we’ll get started.

    Yeah, my sister my sister lives in Pennsylvania. Out in Lancaster, so like my nieces and nephews are in Philadelphia, but they are but she’s she’s in Lancaster in Amish land, so supposed to go out there and visit everybody next month. She’s like, “Hey, you’re going to bring a coat?” I actually had to turn the heater on. Like, “All right. I’m pretty sure I was going to bring a coat well before you decided to turn your heater on, but um My family’s originally Hawaii. So, when they would come to the mainland, they would always talk about how freezing cold it is in Southern California and I always thought that was funny, right? Weather is always uh

    it’s always so subjective.

    All right. I have 6:02. Uh and it looks like folks are still joining, but we are we’re going to go ahead and begin in the interest of time. We still should have plenty of time to go through this and some time at the end for Q&A. Uh, but officially, I want to welcome everyone. And if this is your first time joining me, then an extra special welcome. Uh, I’m Michael Marks, certified financial planner or CFP. I’m one of the uh financial consultants with Alliant Retirement and Investment Services or ARIS, A R I S for short. I live here in Houston, Texas. Um I have been affiliated with the credit union since longer than I’ve been alive. Uh, so my family, who came from United, and as you know, Alliant is United’s credit union. We changed our name because we added Google and Tesla and CVS and Suze Orman and other things. So so it’s a little bit broader, but we’ve been around for over 90 years. So for those of you who have come through us from different channels, welcome everyone. Today, we’re going to talk about the uh fragile decade. And that’s that’s the five years before retirement and the five years after retirement.

    So before we do, my usual quick housekeeping item. Today’s session is for educational purposes and includes proprietary material. So to protect both the content and everyone’s privacy, we ask that attendees please do not record, capture, or capture the presentation, whether it’s by video, audio, screen sharing, or AI tools without prior consent. We appreciate your understanding. And with that, let’s dive on in. Though um I’m not sure if you joined this webinar via an email that you received directly from our division, uh or if you signed up directly through the credit union’s website. Uh so you might be familiar with Align Credit Union, but not so much ARIS. So maybe we’ll take a couple of minutes and just talk to you about ARIS. So in addition to the weekly webinars we host, we are a full-service wealth management and investment planning division of the credit union. Um So we do the whole thing as far as the complimentary in addition to these, we do the complimentary financial planning, like I said, we’re fiduciaries, I’m CFP, uh estate planning, as you’ll see on another slide, we recently added trusts and will services, power of attorney, uh advanced medical directives, etc. As far as products go, it’s full range, many of which are uh without a fee. So advanced planning, Roth conversions, you name it, we probably do it.

    So speaking of our trusts, this is something that we’ve just recently added. Uh so if you don’t have those in place, right? Not everybody necessarily needs a trust, but everybody should at least have a will. If you don’t have a will, that means the state that you live in wrote one for you. So you do have a will. So hopefully it would be by having one, it would be under what your desire is for your assets after you pass away. So whether it’s a will, trust, power of attorney, living will, that HIPAA authorization, we’d be happy to help you with that. Um so regarding our webinars, you can find a list of our weekly webinars, and we do these throughout the week with different topics and different presenters. Uh you can find me directly at our website, which is aris.aligncreditunion.com. Uh or you can just go directly to the credit union website, and then our tab is in the upper right-hand corner, and it says retire and invest. But there you can find our blog, which is Invest Savvy Savvy, sorry. Uh and some other financial resources on there.

    So, we normally do two a month as far as each advisor. So, my next one I’ll do one in the evening and one in the afternoon. So, obviously this is my evening one. And my next one will be November 4th on a Wednesday at 2:00 Central 3:00 p.m. Eastern. And we’ll be talking a little bit about long-term care and and this is actually uh I don’t know how exciting this topic is, but it’s actually pretty interesting, you know, and I think this is probably one one of the biggest potential hazards, right? That could de-derail your retirement plan. Nobody loves talking about this, but I do think it’s pretty important. And whether you decide to have any or not, this is not a pitch to sell long-term care insurance to anyone, but there are many different types of plans and actually self-insuring is a plan. So, back in the evening on November 17th, that’s a Tuesday, we’ll be back there or I’ll be back at 6:00 Central time and we’ll talk to you about trusts and why you may or may not want to consider them as part of your estate plan. The quick disclosure, this presentation’s for general information and educational purposes only. It is not a recommendation.

    So, this is today’s storyboard. So, this is what we’re going to cover today. So, what’s the fragile decade? Why it matters. And how to make it work. So, what’s fragile decade? So, first, let me take a step back and share with you how this fragile decade concept came together, right? So, the company that this together, they had worked on this for a year, and what they did was they sifted through retirement articles, surveys, research documents, etc. Literally thousands of pages of research on retirement planning. And when they laid this out in front of us, you can see, right? There There’s just many different titles uh on 10 things you need to do when you retire, the 10 biggest mistakes, happy retirees do this, retirees, etc., etc. I’m sure you’ve heard of those very same articles. Now, there’s this commonality in all of those, but there’s some huge disconnects as well. So, what we did was we needed to find it, maybe synthesize it, make it a little more productive for the members here. So, whether the major life transitions, you know, like retirement, divorce, widowhood, inheritance, like selling a business, etc.

    The foundation for putting this together, right, in a structure, is understanding the four phases of life transitions. And so, no matter what that life transition is, there’s this distinct pattern on how we internalize and respond to each one of these milestones or life-altering transitions. So, the four phases here are anticipation, ending, passage, and the new normal. So, obviously, in the event for this one is going to be retirement, right? So, your your anticipation is the moment you become aware of the possibility of the event, and your personal narrative begins to shift, right? You’ve entered that anticipation phase. So, the ending, that’s some aspect of your life as you know it that’s really come to an end. So, passage, we’re going to we’re going to refer to it as numbness or shock um or something be a sense of awakening, right?

    situation is either gone or changed significantly. Um And this And this part is really about the adaptation. And And frankly, a lot of people have a very difficult time with this when it comes to retirement because we’ll talk a little bit a little more specifics on this. But But it’s one of those things that we’re defined Many of us were defined by our job, right? That’s who we are. Um And this is the time we have to let go of those old ideas about your life and explore new ones, right? And you And you’re kind of inching forward toward a new normal. And this doesn’t happen overnight. This can take weeks or months or for some it’s even years. But this is the longest stage of these transitions. So, once you get through that, you arrive at the new normal where you know, you’re living your new life, you’re fully integrated in the events post transition. Um And you’ve kind of arrived at let’s just say the best possible outcome, right? And accepted the event as part of your new personal narrative. So, these phases are important to understand and to consider when you’re working through this process, right? Or at least being cognizant of this process. So,

    So, because the tran-the transition that we’re talking about today is retirement, I would say the best way to view retirement is it’s really not a destination, right? People are like, “Hey, I’m working and then I’m retired.” And And then what happens? But it’s more of a journey. So, it’s how you prep before that and how you transition into your new journey. So, when you look at it that way, I think you’ll We can look at it how it aligns with the four phases. So, with that in mind, welcome to the fragile decade. Right? And it’s simply defined as the 5 years before retirement and the five years after your retirement. And the reason that we’ve titled it the fragile decade is that in when you look at the research and the studies, investor interviews, that this is the period where people feel the most financially and emotionally fragile. Right? As they enter that anticipation stage, there’s a lot of angst. Do I have enough? Is this the right timing? What will I do? You know, what’s the sense of purpose? So, there’s some distinct commonalities of this. And that unknown is what causes a lot of anxiety. And hence the fragile mindset. So, this this evening is really designed to help you prepare for probably one of the biggest transitions of your life. No pressure there, right?

    So, let’s talk about understanding it from this perspective, why it matters.

    So,

    it’s a fragile transition for all involved, right? So, not just you, but your spouse, your family. So, what stat really caught our our attention was a depression stat. So, clinical depression goes up by 40%after retirement. Right? So, these years are really precious, right? So, that depression, we kind of look at it as often times it’s associated with the a loss purpose. So, that’s why being able to prepare for this five years before, it makes the transition much, much smoother, far less difficult. I’m not sure if you’ll be 100%prepared for retirement, but at least being prepared most will make that transition much easier. Right? So,

    when you look at actuarial mortality tables, right? People entering retirement today can expect to live 20, 25, 30 years. That’s, you know, it could be like a 30-year lifetime. But that also means that 2/3 of your life has passed. So, if you put that in perspective, if you were a 65-year-old who retired in the 1960s, right? Does anyone know on average how many years you would have lived in retirement? So, that’s a 65-year-old who retired in the 1960s. So, have that answer in your head? So, the answer is 4 and 1/2 years. So, if you retired in the 1960s, your average retirement was 4 and 1/2 years. So, when you think about it from that perspective to now, when we’re looking at 20 to 30 years, and pensions have long since gone by the wayside for most of us. You can understand where that angst going into retirement might might weigh pretty heavy on people. So, helping you plan your lives in retirement is really beyond just the money aspect of it. That other aspect is really just as critical. Right? Money’s important, but what are you going to do when you’re there?

    So, what we’re doing is we’re seeing a shift on how we work with clients in retirement. It isn’t really just a,”Hey, this what your allocation is. This is what you should do. Make these changes. Buy this, sell this, etc.” All right? It’s more of a experience-centric approach with your clients. Um you’re really going from like an investment consultant to more of like this life coach. Um and it’s not really just helping them with their assets, but whether it’s okay to do those things, how to develop that sense of purpose, how do you manage that change? So, it’s really become not a business of products, right? Stocks, bonds, etc. It’s really more of a business of people and then you work in you back in the products to match those goals, right? What kind of stocks, what kind of bonds, what kind of UIT, what kind of trust, etc. So, this conversation goes from making sure you’re financially ready for retirement to what you can do in retirement. So, for example,

    what are your top priorities, right? Let’s help you check off that bucket list. So, to help add some context to your financial planning goals,

    you probably a good place to start is is what’s that bucket list, right? What are those things you’ve always wanted to do? Maybe you want to see the northern lights. You know, maybe you want to go see the Hoover Dam.

    Maybe you want to go back and look at where your ancestors came from, right? So, we’re not really your travel agent in that respect, but although I’ve done a lot of traveling and there are pretty good resources that we could be helpful on that. But, it’s really more about what you want to do when you stop working. And and this type of planning really helps those goals become relevant.

    You should always talk about things that you want to do or create in retirement, right? Now, I can’t stress this enough. Not wanting to do is fine as long as that’s what you want to do. What we don’t want is for you not to have thought about that before, because this is a major part of your planning, right? So, it might be the creative something, right? Where you’re doing a vlog or sculpting, writing a novel. Maybe working with your hands, science and custom furniture. Whatever that is, there’s no right or wrong, but this helps organize your thoughts and then will help organize your plan and your goals on how you prep for your retirement.

    So, maybe it might be something more in service, right? Volunteering more often, maybe doing mentorship, running to get your bond, grandkids, you know, maybe they’re close. Start a new charity, volunteering more, raising money. Maybe do little or nothing at all, work in your garden, tinker in your garage. Again, there’s no right or wrong. But, we do know this. So, there’s something that are called pillars of happiness.

    And this matters, because this is the foundation of your happiness throughout your retirement. And there are four. So, the first one is money and it’s specifically income. Second is your health. Third is staying connected. And fourth is a sense of purpose. So, money, income. We’ll look at the first pillar. So, studies have found that people in retirement who have pre- protected income are happier, like social security. If you’re fortunate enough to still have a pension, that’s great. Some type of annuity. The Wall Street Journal came out with an article that they read, you know, the secret to a happy retirement is Well, the happiest people in retirement are surrounded by friends, family, and a protected income for life. And when it comes to your money and happiness in retirement it’s almost solely tied to income. And this matters, right? Because this is a really big transition for people to go from an accumulation phase to a distribution phase. So and people have a difficult time spending because they’re worried about running out. So they’ve had these studies on that show people with assets they gain, they lose, they gain, they lose, they’re a lot less happy than someone who just has like a pension or something like that. Because people are associating those losses with it will affect my lifestyle or something bad happens it can affect my retirement altogether. But the reality is you lose money in oil, you lose money in gas, you lose money in Tesla, maybe some kind of crypto, and then you gain. But those people I’m going to jokingly say are miserable, right? Because they’re living this day-to-day and they’re worried about the day-to-day movement. So the focus is on the loss or what you don’t have. So assets themselves

    can kind of make people miserable in retirement if they focus too much on the daily value. So the focus should really be more on the income, not the asset. Because the asset will provide your income. Know that that asset will fluctuate. So because when you retire, your regular paycheck stops. So you want a source of income that you cannot live. And that’s really where the angst is, right? The up and down. So a little bit shorter, so health, right? Obviously, the better your health is, the more likely you’re you’re willing to say that you’re having a happy retirement. So, 80 80%of people who rated their health as excellent said they were satisfied with their retirement compared to 20%26% whose health was poor. So, when people have that potential to live 20, 30 years plus in retirement, you want to make sure that you’re healthy and you’re able to enjoy it. Now, obviously, some people we don’t have a say in that, right? Maybe there just are some general health conditions, but what I would say is, if you know this and you still have time, maybe you start working on things now and not waiting until you retire to say, “You know what? I’m going to get in better shape. I’m going to walk more. I’m going to eat a little bit better.” Start training for your retirement now. Not wait until you get until you retire. That healthy lifestyle is a quality of life so you can enjoy your life in retirement. So, staying connected. And it’s not necessarily through social media, right? But, not having much of a social life is really bad for your health, right? So, they’ve linked that low social interaction that is a greater risk of heart disease, uh increased risk of cognitive decline and dementia. So, stay happy and healthy in retirement. You should focus your ability to or your available the availability of maybe new relationships, nurturing existing ones, especially if your social life was revolved around work, right? Because what I’ve seen over the decades is that many people who retire, they have their work friends, and when they retired, they really thought those friends were always going to be around, but we found that maybe those relationships maybe weren’t as strong as they were and all that they had in common were work. So, kind of cultivate that. And it doesn’t necessarily have to have mean you have to find new best friends, right? But it’s being around people and interacting with people. So, the happiest people keep their family and their friends around. So, a sense of purpose. So, retirement frees up your schedule, right? And for some, that unstructured time can be a little overwhelming. So, if you’re not careful, having a lack of sense of purpose, right? Or that sense of responsibility, it can lead to boredom, which can lead to depression, and relationship stress. So, it can be especially true for those people who closely identify to their careers, right? Purpose is what we get out of bed in the morning. You know, we don’t we don’t want to confuse what we do with who we are. Especially when it comes to retirement, because what you do can cease to exist. I’m a financial advisor. That’s what I do. That’s not who I am, right? I’m a researcher, I’m a teacher, I’m a gatherer of information gatherer of knowledge. Um, I’m someone who’s curious about how the world works. So, being an advisor allows me to bring those things into something that I enjoy doing and being productive about it. The same thing is true when you go into retirement, right? Not what you do, who you are. What are those things that you enjoy and what are those types of activities that you can find during retirement that will give your retirement meaning. So, let’s put a timeline to this. So, we have a 5-year countdown. Let me add on time. Perfect. This is your conversational blueprint designed as a year-by-year countdown in checklist form. So, people live their life by checklists. Checklists make people feel organized when you create them and accomplish when you complete them, right? You got a list, you’re knocking that list out. So, once you enter this anticipation stage, and that age, obviously, as you can see, it’s 50 to 65. So, depending on when you retire, depending on what your retirement looks like, this can take a decade or so. For others, it could be relatively quick. So, we’re going to say 5 years, but this conversation can be much sooner.

    So, you start your income plan conversation. You look for ways to help protect your profits if you’re about 5 years out.

    Let’s review the average American’s budget and build one.

    And then, you start annual spending audit and that spring-cleaning of that checklist, right? So, you read through the income plans. And And so, some plans, by the way, are best served opening certain types of accounts to use later down the road. So, So, that’s why we say,”Hey, 5 years out.” You want to start planning the sequence of your income, right? Whether it’s going to be Roth, whether it’s going to be cash, whether it’s going to be semi-tax deferred, like your 401k, maybe my brokerage accounts. And you know, there is this There’s this You spend Normally, it was you spend your your cash first, and then your taxable accounts, and your tax deferred. And that is not always the case. So, So, there’s a lot of moving parts to this in the sense that you still want to look at how the taxing of the taxation of your social security is going to impact you. The taxation and penalties associated with with with Medicare um or Irma, right? So, the taxation during your retirement, how you position those during that retirement as well as passing that on to your legacy, right? Your kids, your grandkids, whomever that is. Um and you know, that might be your withdrawal plan, right? Whether that’s that 4%, the bucket, the interest only, the hybrid strategy hybrid strategy, etc. Protecting profits, are we hedging against loss? Like I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard a client say,”My account’s making money. I’m happy.”Okay. Well, what happens when, not if, the market goes down and down significantly? Are you unhappy? Right? So, you remember the earlier slide when we talked about people’s happiness being tied to the market or the unhappiness being tied to the market if it’s down. So, you want to insulate in that. You don’t want your happiness being tied to day-to-day movements on the valuations of your account. Just know that’s going to happen. So, you have different buckets.

    So, 4 years to go.

    Maybe looking at that long-term care, right? What that What’s that plan? Um hopefully you already have one in place. Um and and not having long-term care again could be a plan as long as you’ve evaluated your assets to assume that you’re just going to self-insure.

    Some of those health care options, right? How’s that look? You know, if you’re not a government employee or or something like that, if you’re just going from the private sector, you’re going to need to start looking at what kind of Medicare supplement am I going to have? Cuz you definitely want one. Having Medicare on your own, generally speaking, it does not cover what most people are used to or would want. So, you’re also looking at those pre-needs, the estate planning, etc.

    If I could get the slide to change. There we go. Um you know, this is when you’re starting to look at your ideas for the future, too, right? What are those goals? How do you position yourself for those goals? Are we going to be moving somewhere, right? Maybe we need to start looking to see I live in Houston, maybe I want to retire in the Keys, which I don’t, by the way. Um maybe I need to start scouting that out or maybe I want to move down to Costa Rica. My buddy started building a house down there because he thinks that’s where he wants to retire. So, so whatever that plan is, that plan might take a few years to get into place. So, be mindful of what that plan is for you. So, 3 years to go.

    That’s where you look at where you want to live. Right? Are you staying where you’re at or I’m going um

    if I have a medical condition, do I need to be near a hospital? Do I like that kind of weather? Am I going to stay there year-round? If I’m just going to stay here, are there major repairs? Does my house need a new roof? Does it need a new AC unit? Um do I need a new vehicle? Right? So, these are things where you might want to start looking at taking care of while you’re still working. And obviously, you keep doing your spring cleaning. And you rerun and you review your retirement income plan. Two years out. So So this has two years out where you start looking at your tax strategies. Now, I would say your tax strategies might start start much sooner than that, but we’re going to go with the case just for two years cuz that’s the average person is, right? So this might be something like your phased retirement. Call that practice retirement. And and that and that plan is do I go from 40 to 60 hours or whatever you normally work during the week to zero. Right? Is this something that are you ready to do something like that? You know, maybe you can talk to your boss um or your employer to see if that’s an option to say,”Hey, is there a phase down? You know, I still want to work here full-time, but maybe in a few years I might not want to do that or a couple years.”Obviously, proceed with caution, right? Because you don’t want them replacing you before you’re ready. Um but you know, that’s easing into retirement. The other thing you do during practice retirement is that you start looking at your cash flow. If this was your income goal, right, during retirement, see if you can live like that. See if that actually works.

    Again, keep doing your spring cleaning, rerun and review your retirement income plan. Laws change every year. The market changes every year. Politics change every year. Well, politicians change every two years, right? Depending on where we’re at, but we certainly have elections every two years. So that final year, right? This is where you’re finalizing your health insurance needs. This is where you’re looking at your emergency fund, right? Any of those basic needs for given time, keep up that spring cleaning.

    And again, this is something different, right? We want to review the dates to turn on that protected income source, right? Did you file for Social Security? Did you file that start date? Did you file the date for your pension, if you have something? Have you started looking at if you say,”Hey, you know what? An annuity is going to be part of my income.” What I do that? How do we get that in position? Some of them you have to wait a year before you start your income. So again, rerun, review your retirement income plan, and then review those last 5 years and see if you’ve missed anything, all right? Now, here we go.

    That ending, throw yourself a retirement party. So, now that you’ve entered the ending phase, also known as retirement, now it’s about the next 5 years. So, it’s all about touchpoints, right? And navigating that passage phase, and continuing to look forward to your new normal. I would say this one’s important, right? Track your spending. Not for the first few months, for the first year, because money can be can be cyclical in how you’re spending, especially when you’re early on, right? How was your estimate? Were you close? Do you need to revisit your plan?

    When you look at retirement, so not only just in that in that year, right? On how you spend. Through your retirement cycle, it doesn’t it isn’t flat, right? It’s it’s I mean, the best way I can describe it is kind of like an S-curve. So, in the very beginning, we find that your spending increases, right? You have more time, you have things that you wanted to do, but didn’t have the time to do them. So, your spending increases and your health is still relatively healthy, hopefully very healthy. So, then as you knock those things out, right? You’ll see some of your spending start to level off and maybe go down a little bit because you’ve done a lot of those things that you wanted to do. But then, just like everything else, your health and all the maintenance, house, cars, things like that, your spending will go back up again. So, it’s up, levels down a little bit, and then will tick back up. That’s a normal S curve on how you on how spending looks.

    Now, I would say one of the things that you can do is if you have a mentor that, you know, maybe some people that you still kept in touch with from work, or some of those retirees, or parents, in-laws, whomever that might be, your older neighbor who’s already retired, talk to them. See if there’s something that that you’re like, man, they have a great retirement. What are they doing right? And And I’m a big fan of learning from others if you can, right? You learn from other people’s mistakes, so you don’t have to endure those. So,

    So, the start an idea jar, I think it’s just one of those like, hey, these are things that I wanted to do, right? Start that happy retiree journal. And And look, journaling isn’t right for everybody, the idea jar isn’t maybe not right for everybody, but you know, talking about your thoughts with your family and your friends, and frankly, this is one of those things that you should talk to even before that, right? Um I had I had a member that we were talking to on on the things that she wanted to do in retirement. They were revolved around her kids. And I was like, well, and And she was describing the lives of her kids. I was like, wow, that They sound really busy. Have you talked to them? You know, as far as going on these family trips and things. And she’s like, yeah, you You I was like, this is really important that you might want to make sure that they are available to be able to do that with you. So, if your plan involves others, talk to those others and make sure one it’s in their plan and if it is, then then also they have the time. So, at this point, right? We’ve entered that ending phase.

    So, whether it’s volunteering, whatever. This is where you want to constantly work on that and evolve on that, right? And and by the way, those plans might not be a forever thing. It might be, hey, you know, I’ve wanted to learn how to do this and fill in the this. And that might really be just a 3 to 5-year project or a 1-year to 2-year project. So, it could be little milestones, it could be different goals that you’re working uh simultaneously. So, this is kind of how you view this, but it is important to have those goals and have those dreams, right? Having that plan and having that dream will help that plan be more effectively realized, right? And then you reverse reverse into that with your assets and how to protect it, etc. So, I always like this. Every relationship requires a little TLC, right? Time, listening, and communication. So, we we can start working with you early, right? Going into that retirement as well as if you’re already there, and helping you ask good questions. But right, I think one of the biggest things on the wealth management side that we help our members do is that answer those questions that you didn’t know needed to be asked, right? Oh, I hadn’t considered that and thought about that. We can draw upon hundreds, if not thousands of different resources because of all of our collective clients that we’ve seen through this retirement phase. So you ask good questions, you sit back, you listen, communicate wisely and effectively. The TLC formula is a process. So how can we help?

    I’ll just take a couple minutes here. And it might be something as life planning, right? Questions to help you imagine your life in retirement, we can kind of help you put that together. Your budgeting, where we determine some of that cash flow. Help you Have you forgotten this? Have you considered this? Obviously the account maintenance part, right? The Roth rollovers, the Roth conversions, how we look at taxation on that. Are there more effective tax strategies to pay less taxes during your retirement? And certainly less taxes if money gets passed on to children, grandchildren. Um establishing that effective income plan or that withdrawal plan, right? That is the biggest angst for people. People’s biggest fear in retirement is running out of money, and that is ranked ahead of death. Right? If you’re dead, you don’t have any problems. If you’re alive and you have no money, that is a problem. So hopefully that is none of you. I never wish that on anyone, but I can tell you proper planning can help you either minimize and avoid that all together. Obviously the portfolio management is what we do, right? That’s investment pro like the investment products and tax considerations.

    So

    I would say this, I think the biggest value add for us is strategy, right? Obviously portfolio management return is important, but in addition those tax implications before and during retirement, income structure strategies, protecting your downside, they help you sleep at night. So we’re at the Q&A part. So if you have any questions, please type those questions in the Q&A box or the chat box. I’ll give you a minute or two. While we’re waiting for that, I want to thank everyone for attending. I hope you found this information helpful. Um while you’re submitting these questions, I’m going to put up a one question survey. If you want an appointment to discuss your particular situation or review your particular situation, again, if you haven’t looked at Social Security structuring, timing, Roth conversions, your impact on that Irma and Medicare, right? What’s that reviewing that retirement income strategy, hedging losses in that portfolio going into retirement, schedule an appointment. So, let’s do some Q&A. Well, I guess I should put that appointment up. Uh That would probably be helpful. All right. Questions. What questions do we have?

    If I am close to retirement, is it worth doing a Roth conversion or is it too late to make an impact on my financial plan? Um the short answer is no. A lot of the Roth conversions actually happen during your retirement. Usually it’s during your retirement but before your required minimum distributions happen. For most on this, well, I don’t know who’s on this call age-wise. Um but if you’re born 1960 or after, your RMD is is 75 years old. So, that that depends and that’s what we’d look at. But we do look at conversions, the timing of the conversions, and how much and what kind of tax savings you’re looking at and the impact on on on your social security as well. Uh a question two, I’m an IT professional. What do you recommend to those getting laid off at age 60? Put in for over 50 jobs and no interviews. I think people are discriminating because of my age. I would tell you that is a 100%fact of life that I know it’s illegal, but people absolutely discriminate on your age. So, this is what we could do. Right, first and foremost, uh if you haven’t you said no, I would say take my information down QR code. We can schedule some time to talk about it in specifics, but I’ll give you a general answer. Right, the first is looking at your assets and seeing where you’re positioned from 60 to retirement, right? And then looking at at that situation on on in between and then what networks do you have? Or what is your shortfall at retirement? So, to make to see where you are from a hard number wise or at least from that perspective, um

    and then from there you kind of reverse engineer or say,”Okay, this is what I’m looking for. This is my shortfall.” Because that might be something where you’re like,”Look, I might be doing something outside of the IT world. It might be something that’s just part-time. It’s something to look while you’re while while your actual while your job hunt continues, you know, what kind of networks do you work?”But if you haven’t, schedule some time we can talk about it or give me a call um and then we can talk a little bit about that. Um

    and I am sorry about that if you have I I hear that story unfortunately often. The best place to look for health insurance after retirement but before age 65? Um Well, usually it’s it’s usually the um Affordable Care Act, right? That ACA. Depending on where you live, uh it can help you with the pricing. It’s income-based. That is one of those ways you can look at. Generally speaking, if you’re trying to keep it and I guess depending on how old you are, how long that bridge is, right? Are you retiring at 64 and you have to do 65? Maybe something as simple as Cobra. Maybe you compare it to the Affordable Care Act because they still look at your income and your income-based.

    So, next question.

    When do you start adjusting your portfolio prior to retirement? 10 years? 5 years? Question. Uh so, adjusting your portfolio. So, so let me kind of give you the general Well, that’s going to be a broad brush stroke. But as a general rule, as you get closer to retirement, your portfolio becomes a little more conservative. And so on and so forth. But it doesn’t go all the way to I’m going to jokingly say this, recklessly conservative because as again we had talked about this, you could be retired for 20, 25, 30 years, right? So, inflation happens. You still need to plan for that. Um I would say that would be one of those things that depending on where you’re starting and what you do, that’s one of the things when we look at plans. We look at where you’re at. We give you a baseline for your risk modeling. And then from there, we take that down or if you’re already conservative to begin with, you might not be backing down at all. You might just stay all the way through.

    Should you consider long-term care insurance? Um Maybe. Uh at least some long-term care plan, right? And that might not be one at all. So, depending on your assets, depending on where you live, depending on the resources that are available, this is something that we look at. The easiest thing to look at your particular situation is to schedule some time and we’ll kind of get a feel for your situation we can help you narrow down some of the options or even if you want to have that at all. Um we help we help a lot of members a lot on that situation where it’s like, “Hey, you know, is it that traditional long-term care insurance?” Maybe. There there’s a lot that are just hybrids that they’re actually tied to investments that you’re already doing out there. So, it kind of depends. There but it’s a very broad range. It’s not that usual,”Oh, I’m just going to buy long-term care insurance.” Same here. So, I don’t need to ask. I’m an unemployed IT guy, can’t find anything there. Looking at other stuff, but as a 63-year-old, no need to answer this. Thanks for all the good information on these webinars. And again, I am so sorry that you’re going through this. Definitely the IT side and the tech side, there are cutbacks. I those were one of the um from the sector-wise for the year, they were they were one of the last sectors. And and the reason for this, right? They went through COVID and companies companies laid people off because they were worried about things. And then, as we’re coming back from COVID, those people that they had laid off have moved on. And it may became filling those back filling those positions become become became very difficult. So, companies, as a result of that, were holding on to their labor. Right? Because they Because just in case, right? What happens if? But as we see we’re going through the cycle with AI, etc. Um some of companies coming under stress, right? With these build-outs, profitability. They’re having to make some of these these decisions. And you know, we look at this from a data perspective and and I understand these the data is then real people, right? Jobless, jobless claims, those are difficult. So, my heart goes out to anybody doing that. Uh Maybe one more question.

    Is the market overvalued at the recent highs? Uh um Wow. Uh

    So, the recent highs in the market or the index are kind of a tricky thing, right? Because the S&P 500 Well, you don’t know, it’s the largest 500 companies in the US, right? That’s Standard&Poor’s 500. But they’re they’re not equally weighted. So, the bigs have a much much much bigger impact on that index. They’re really kind of s- tech focused out. So, um So, with that said even though it’s at a high, it’s a lot of those companies that we’re starting to see a little bit of pullback. But because of those build-outs and investment, you’re seeing a lot more volatility. There’s been a lot of volatility certainly this year. And I would tell you just because something is at a new high from the index I that in itself I wouldn’t be worried about. Um there’s really a lot more fundamentals that are tied to that. So, I think that is it. I want to thank everybody for answering those questions. They were great questions. Thank you so much. Um for those who have gotten laid off, look, I mean schedule some time. Let’s take a look where you’re at and and see what you have to do to bridge the gap. I know it’s kind of difficult and I am sorry about that, but but maybe maybe there is some silver lining to these dark clouds that you’re all experiencing. But with that, I want to thank everybody for attending. I wish you all have a very, very happy and a healthy evening and take care and I hope to see you on future webinars. So with that, take care. Bye now.

  • 10/23/2026 – Make Realistic AI Short Dramas

    Want to create unlimited cinematic miniseries that is perfect for a mobile device? We’re talking vertical videos that are highly actionoriented, multiple consistent characters, hyper realistic, and very fast-paced, captivating. They’re going viral right now. And what we need for this is an entire workflow where you can do it for under 50 bucks. If you have video express.ai, it’s free because basically that application allows you to do the whole thing. I’ll show you how you can basically do the whole storyboarding, the script writing, creating the whole consistent character, the virality of making it very fast-paced. I’ll also give you the entire workflow on how to do it. It works really well with vertical format. Why does it work so well? Because in mobile devices, a lot of the times you need fast-paced videos that make people want more. When they want more, they click on the channel again, and then they’ll subscribe to your account your, where your Instagram,Tik Tok, and other platforms, uh, like Shorts, YouTube Shorts, and then you can they can watch your long form content, or they can even watch other content. And this way, you can get monetized much faster with YouTube and other platforms, as well as you can literally create unlimited amount of these, because once you crack the format, which I’m going to show you right now, you’re going to be able to do it any amount of times you desire. So what do you need to make this happen? Number one, you’re going to need Videoexpress.AI, uh, account. So, go get it right now. We’re running a special deal. There’s a link in the description box. Second thing you’re going to need either you’re going to need MuseAI for from Meta, which is free in United States and Canada right now, or you’re going to need um Chad GPT or you’re going to need Claude or you can use Grogbot or anything else as well. The trick here is: we need browser automation to make the whole thing come together with script writing, merging together videos, uh, cropping them automatically, making sure that the video is exciting. The script writing is done all that stuff I’ve automated for you through a workflow, or you could call it a skill as well. What does that do? You just press one button. You just paste that into your platform of choice like chat gpt or claw or whatever you desire. Open up video.ai AI application and boom all the scenes and the script writing everything is done automatically. Now what makes this really cool is I’ve also incorporated 20 years worth of uh storytelling experience into this. So that way what will happen is that every video that you do is designed to get views and get people’s attention and get completion rate. So in a short video, the goal here that you’re trying to aim is 82% or more in terms of completion rate. What that means is from the point of somebody opening up a video to finishing a minimum of 82% of the people should finish it. This is the reason why you want to keep it under 1 minute because that completion rate is much harder once you go beyond that 1 minute. Now the advantage of this is that once it once it’s exciting you get almost unlimited reach because short form content is really really powerful right now in terms of reach it reaches I think right now 6 billion people or so around the world you can reach with this. So let me walk you through it step by step right now I’ll show you the output what are we trying to achieve then I’ll show you what are the inputs. So meaning this is the final video. Now here are the steps. 1 2 3 4 5 to get the whole process done. From your end it’s as simple as just a few mouse clicks and literally copy pasting a couple of things and you’re good to go. From my end I’ve done the whole systems thinking for you. I built a whole if you will machine for you to operate. All you have to do is just follow along and work with it. Now why is this so powerful? Because storytelling can also do really good job in selling. This is the key thing a lot of people make a mistake on. When I show you something so powerful, a lot of times they focuses just on monetization. No, no, no. The real value is having a product or a service or something else that you can sell that this storytelling could work with. For example, the video that I’m about to show you as an example is basically a family trying to survive a zombie apocalypse. Sounds very, you know, kind of weird of a market. What are you going to sell? Well, there’s an entire survival market out there that you could sell. Like these folks buy gold, these folks buy, for example, uh survival uh toolkits, right? So, for example, survival gear, uh food that doesn’t go bad for 10 years or 15 years, food packs. Uh there’s also emergency um you know, medical kits and stuff like that if something happens. These are there’s a big industry in the survival world. this video that I’m going to show you. One, you can monetize it as a story and make a few hundred bucks or you can monetize a company or a service. Now, if you don’t have a product or service of your own, whether that is a software or whatever, there’s a something called affiliate marketing where what you could do is you can get on platforms where you can sell other people’s products and receive a commission from these types of videos. So, for example, you know, I’m saying video.ai. Video Express has an affiliate program. You can get it at video.ai/affiliates. And then what you can do is in that program that you can join every time you have a video that you create. Hey, I used video express to create this. Click on the link in the description box or go to this link you can have and then you can generate a commission. We handle the software updates. We handle the infrastructure like our servers and AI and media service to power the whole thing. The customer support and hosting and uh actually software development and everything else behind it, right? we have an entire team uh to handle everything for you behind the scenes like our community and everything else. So the idea is you just did one thing and that product or service will generate a lot more than just a few pennies you make from advertising. Let me give you an example of this because it’s very important you understand. For example, when I started on the online world, this was 20 years ago, almost 19 years ago. What happened was that um when I started, we used to build websites for Google AdSense. It was a gold rush where you could put up a on a market and there is an ad that you put where you just copy an ad from Google and then um when somebody clicks on that ad you’ll get paid. So in the market I was in which is in the sports uh market where I used to talk about sports news and stuff like that in different sports what that it used to be about 30 cents to 60 cents per click. So then these were you know merchandise companies, these were companies selling coaching for athletes and these were universities specialized in sports programs. You get the point. Targeted advertising. And then I realized, hey, if the company is paying Google, let’s say Google pays me 30 cents or 40 cents per click. Google was making 70 or 80 cents per click. And the company would have to make more than that, right? Let’s say it’s $1 per click and I get 30 cents, Google gets.7 cents per click. then the company should make a lot more than $1. They should be making $5 for that. So then that opened up an idea for me there. Let me go and study what these companies are doing. And then I realized that the company wanted leads, right? They wanted more customers to their business. Whether it’s a law firm, it’s a dentist or it’s a chiropractor or it is a service provider like a realtor or anybody you can imagine, right? Yeah. So these folks they cared about the lead generation more than they cared about the click or the ad itself. So I started going into the outcomes then. So what I did is I started, uh, mastering search engine optimization on Google and then ranking website just for the purpose of generating more leads and, uh, driving more customers to businesses. And I made a huge significant, we’re talking orders of magnitude more than just a few, uh, cents per click now, because now businesses will pay $100 per lead. A law firm which uh is in the personal injury law for example they’re willing to spend anywhere upwards of $500,000 a lead. So if I bring it to them for $20, hey, that’s the good value for them. So this is how you start thinking when you use video for the end result of actually driving the most amount of money you can make for that click is where you will actually generate a lot of um actual results. It’s worth your time basically because we all have 24 hours in a given day. We want to sleep for maybe 7 to 8 hours every day and so that remaining time you want to spend with family and stuff. So you have limited amount of time you can focus on. So that has to be high value task. So that’s why I want to tell you: instead of just looking at views and monetization, this process I’ll show you, apply it in specifically trying to drive actual traffic to a product or service where you can make several orders of magnitude more in terms of, uh, the revenue and the time value of money you can get out of it. So let me show you. So this is the example video I’ll show you next and then I’ll show you how I did the whole process step by step for under 50 bucks. If you already have VD Express, it’s free and you should be good to go. The alert came at 2 in the morning. Stay indoors. Avoid the cities. Walt didn’t panic. He counted water, diesel, feed. Now he’s making for war. On day three, the power died and the silence made every sound louder. Scout heard them first.

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    they fought for every fence post, every animal, every inch. But you can’t get Oh, it’s ground. How do you stop there? So Walt did the hardest thing he’d ever done. He let the farm go. Somewhere ahead, there had to be people worth protecting. Captain Minutes feelable. All right. How do we create the videos that I showed you as an example? So, first step, you’re just going to go in and you’re going to click on the workflows tab in video express.ai application. Going to click here and then you’re going to land into a page that looks something like this. And then you’re going to scroll down. Scroll down. Scroll down. And it’s going to have this workflow which is realistic mini dramas uh right here. And then you’re going to come in here, click on this, and then you’re going to scroll down. And as you can see here, we have download workflow, copy system prompt, GitHub, original system prompt. So all you have to do here is you’re going to come in here and you’re going to click on this copy button right here for the system prompt. Let’s copy it. Then you can use your system of choice. Okay, that could be your AI of choice. That could be Claude, that could be Muse from uh Facebook Meta. And uh uh you can also use uh claude chat gpt whatever you want but the idea is it has to use browser automation. So how that will work you just click on this little plus button in chpt. Make sure that work is on on your desktop application and then you click on it. You’re going to just go to app.videexpress.ai and make sure you log in to the application in GPT cloud and that sort of thing. If you don’t know how to do it, you can just say open up my browser uh in app browser and load up app video express.ai. So that’s what you’re going to type. Up to you. Both work. And then here is where once it’s opened up, you’re going to go back to that workflow I have for you. And in that workflows tab like so, you’re going to copy that system prompt again. This little system prompt right here. And then you’re going to go in and you’re going to paste it. This is the same logic even in uh other places as well. Uh if you want to change the model that’ll give you the highest amount of uh tokens or like for almost no spend you can use the Luna model and then um that will speed up the stuff. So I just click on it, paste it and then boom it is going to start doing this workflow for you. Now here what I did though is that um effectively you see this I’m becoming an executive producer of this whole thing and all that. And it creates the entire project for me through browser automation. You click on open here. I’ll show you. I did hold the line 3D cartoon. The example I showed you right here. See this? The whole thing, all the project, the scenes, everything added in here merged together, all that good stuff. Done. And then this is a cartoon variation. Then I have the hold the line realistic style. Uh this is right here. See this? This is the realistic style. Then I even have hold the line uh 9×6 style. Um so like uh there right here. So this is uh 16×9. See this vertical all done through that workflow that I have right here which is the realistic mini drama workflow. Now the trick is very simple. What you can do is you can effectively paste that system prompt and tell it to do realistic instead of cartoon in the chat window. You can tell it to do cartoon or 9×6, whatever, because the system prompt and the related GitHub repo, like you see this uh GitHub repo right here that you have here, this one, these right here are basically aligned for you to effectively change it however you desire. You can make it realistic, 3D, 2D, anything you want, because what it’ll focus on is the mini drama framework uh which work in certain styles, right? Uh, realistic, 3D, and that sort of thing. So, that’s the general idea of uh the system from, super easy. It’ll work across the board with claude tagg. It’ll also work across even for that matter with grock and others as long as well with meta which is free in US and Canada right now. So it’ll work as well. Just need to open up the browser in those applications and log into video express and all the other magic will happen uh behind the scenes for you putting up all the clips together scenes together the voice lip sync all that stuff merges together and makes it in the formats of your choice. super super powerful as you can imagine. So now I’ll be answering some questions as well right now and then um I want you to go to the description box as well and get the workflow. If you don’t have video express.ai get that as well so that you have everything in one place and ready to go and um if you have any questions as well keep uh mentioning it in the comment section as well.

    All right so let me quickly answer some questions I’m getting. So one of the biggest questions that come in always is hey how do I do the browser automation? So the basically the app has to be open in the video express browser like what you see on my screen right now. The second thing is that you can modify the system prompt as well as you desire. So this is my system prompt right so what I can do is I can let me just show you this is in chatb but you can put it anywhere even cloud or whatever. What you can do is you can effectively um I’ll show you cuz I want you to see the screen much more clearly. So you can go into new chat like so and then again you just uh put the plus icon on the top you plus and you do this this way. So whenever you want to change something, you just want to right click and paste the system from like so, right? And then you can give it audio instructions as well, like what I’m doing. I don’t have to really, you know, speak, so it can be anything really. It can even be the Luna model; really, doesn’t really matter. Uh I use the six Luna or the six soul doesn’t matter but just the GP6 I use personally. So, I will just come in and I’ll just say something along the lines of, “Hey, this uh this one uh basically make it a 9×6 1 minute video and tweak it such that it’s going to do it in 3D cartoon Pixar style rather than realistic style. And I also want you to make it very fast-paced.” So, the scenes have to be moving quickly. This is for Tik Tok. This is for Instagram res. So, people don’t have patience to have pauses in between. So there has to be any pauses or any shots where the there is gaps in between. You got to crop it automatically and uh put it all together and get it done in video express. And uh for speed because I’m demoing live, I want you to run unlimited agents to speed it up.

    And then what it’s going to do now guys is it’s going to basically uh quickly it’s going to start doing it. And it’s going to actually ask me as well for the topic I want to do generally. If you don’t want it to do that, you can even tell it to do the topic effectively. Right? So that’s what you can basically do as well as the next step. You can basically ask it to do the topic part as well and it’ll do the whole part. Right? So if there is any issues like this, see this right here. All you have to do is you can tell it like fix the issues and start the workflow right away kind of thing, right? Because sometimes what happens is these models are not like that smart, right? So that’s why sometimes when I’m using Luna and stuff, if that issue comes up, you can still basically fix it and it’ll start doing the workflow. Now, here’s the thing that I suggest to basically simplify this even further is that when you come into uh the workflow tab, which is this tab right here, coming into workflow right here, what I want you to do is going to come into this page. Correct? So, what I generally do is I always come up here and I use the GitHub thing. I told you this last time, remember I explained this. So what we generally want to do is you want to fork this to however you want it. So you see this one right here, we have all this updated. This is a much better system to be able to use it. So in simpler terms, the better way to explain this is that with this you have the ability to give better examples and teach it how you want it because everybody’s style is different, right? You don’t want to just copy mine because then you’ll be one of the other thousands of people just copying what I’m doing. It’s more like you can do it in your own little way, in your own little style. Okay. And the other thing as well is that when you start creating these, understand the workflow’s intent. So here we’re doing short dramas. Correct. So short dramas also had subtitle elements. So there’s two ways you can do subtitle elements. So within video express that’s being that a lot of people ask us this question obviously within video express uh you can add subtitles by using this automatic captions button. Okay, let me show you this button to the right on the bottom right called automatic captions. Click on it opens up the subtitle app. That basically allows you to import any video express videos that from my videos, right? You see these videos right here. You can uh basically import these videos and add subtitles to it. That’s one option. If you want to truly to make it automated, you can tell Chad GPT or cloud or whatever platform you’re using to add the subtitles themselves. What it will do basically for that purpose is that it will effectively transcribe it and it will add the subtitles in and then put it up there. It’s optional because not always does it work. It you have to understand the platform’s intent again. So some platforms work well with subtitles showing especially vertical videos. Some platforms like YouTube for example don’t do that well because people are watching from all around the world. They want to be dubbed automatically. YouTube has an option where it autodubs your videos in different languages, um, for better, um, use case, right? So, depends on the use case effectively. Now, the other thing is I’m updating this workflow, these workflows, based on your feedback. So, whenever you run into issues with these, you let me know. So then what happens is next time you come into this and you refresh this page, what we’re doing is, instead of updating the system prompt, okay, which is there obviously, we also update this GitHub thing, all right? Which means then you’re trying to forkits. You see it says 4 minutes ago there was an update. So basically I’m automatically taking your feedback and I’m updating it. This is another really good way to be able to use it. So, in a nutshell, how I would do this is: you can copy this URL of this GitHub, right? And you come back to Chatb, whatever platform you’re using, let’s say and. in in a nutshell, what you’re going to do is same thing, right? You can come in here, and you can open up a new chat window. I’ll show you. And then again, you open up Video Express, let’s say, or whatever application. Doesn’t really matter. Now again, you can use whatever you want, right? It’s all light, whatever. I’ll just use something that’s fast. Then uh you can paste this uh thing. And then again, you can say fork this to be able to create let’s say stickman style viral short films, right? And dramas. You can do the same thing with realistic. You get the point, right? and then um uh and then uh dramas and then update it. Okay, simple, right? So that way what I’m trying to say is like I take my workflow and I tweak it to do stickman style. I tweak it to do whatever and now it’s mine. It’s my template, my uh customization that I’m trying to do. So that’s the reason why we give you the GitHub. So that way you have more flexibility and you can feed it more examples as well. So, for example, what I do uh as a nutshell is if I find any videos that are really cool that I see. So, for example, I’ll show you this uh video that I just recently saw uh which I thought was pretty interesting. Uh well done, let’s say is a better way to say it was uh this particular video of um a stickman style uh video. Okay, that was uh I’ll show you this example so you can see it. Yeah, here this one. So, this one, right? So, it’s a basic stickman style video. You know what I mean? And this is how it works. Let’s say I’ll just mute it for now. Right? So it works like this, right? So it’s a statement style video. Let’s say now what I can do is I can drag and drop this video like so. And I can give this video style. So I can say use this video as an example to be able to create in this exact style. Right? Boom. You see now it can replicate that video. Now, this exact video that I gave you, it can replicate after that workflow is done, right? It got 170,000 followers, this particular video. So, you see this like pretty stickman styly video. Nothing really fancy. So, now I’m able to replicate that style as well. So, this is the way I’m trying to teach you, which is to figure out how to make it your own style. If you see some style, you can replicate it right out of the gate. And then I can even click on this steer button, which means do it now. Don’t wait until the other stuff is done. Okay? So it’ll inspect the reference video like so use the character design, pacing, framing, all that kind of good stuff. Okay. So that’s the general idea of uh how we use video express chbt and the intelligence that come in with it. Okay. So the idea is that when you have it, you can build your own template on it without having to rely on my template alone. Okay. And uh yeah, it’s very simple um in in order to understand this GitHub thing. It’s not really complicated. We think of it like a folder. We have that, which will have little its own little uh uh directory that we can save it to, like a template. Almost like, you know, a better way to explain it for me personally what. happens and that’s why I use um YouTube uh so much is, you know, it’s so difficult. Like, imagine right here I have all styles, right? In this particular screen I have like uh, for example, like you see this realistic style, stickman, story style, and all that; that is easy for our brain to understand. You open up chat GPT on the other hand, yeah, like so many chat windows, right? I have like this toggle thing. Look at this. Look at this. This is like crazy amount of uh chat windows. I don’t even remember what I have this walks animation skill I created some time ago. I don’t even know what that is for, right? So that’s the other problem, right? So with chat our brain cannot understand. We can understand it like this. Correct? So GitHub acts like that where when it is on GitHub, you can see them more visually for you and then you can just go in and you can copy and paste them the link and you can make it your own. So it’s the same thing like ultimately it’s the same thing as just little text but who cares who remembers all this stuff? I mean your brain can only keep

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    All right. All right. All right. Excellent. Perfect. All right. So, what I was basically saying just to kind of summarize this and of course I’ll edit this after for people who couldn’t hear it later. Uh, pretty easy. So, anyway, so what I’m trying to say is that to summarize this stuff is these GitHub repos, right, which I have for you atexpress.ai/workflow, right? So, when you come into that page, so like if you come into this page, right? So when you come in here, what happens is that these realistic drama workflows that I have, you can basically you can fork them or clone them to however you desire, right? So in other words, so when you come in here, you see it says 16 minutes ago there’s an update and that sort of thing. So what that means is when I’m updating them, I can update them here and all the example videos and stuff like that that I’m feeding it are right here. So the idea behind this logic here is that think of it like a document that is like a folder that you have for easy organization. Don’t get uh don’t get like confused when you see all these files, right? Don’t think of it like a coder. I treat it like basically where for my brain to understand it, right? I come here. It’s easier for me to visually see things where I’m trying to create like a stickman style, when you’re trying to create a documentary style, when you’re trying to create a walk style, when you’re trying to create other things. Correct? So the idea is very straightforward here. Generally how I treat these things is that when we try to create these uh styles across the board, what we are really aiming for here effectively is that if I want to modify things a little bit later on, I modify them to make it mine. All right, I may modify them to make it mine, custom to me, custom to my use case because not everybody wants to create stickman style. Not everybody wants to do realistic uh style mini dramas. They might want to do 2D style. They might do stickman style and stuff. I explained that example here, particularly with this example here which was a viral video with this style, right? Look at this: pretty basic, which is stickman style video, and this uh video about 170,000 subscribers now we use uh for an Instagram account, okay, that I did this. And so the idea is that if you want to do this, then how you treat it is very simple: you take the example video, even if it’s on Instagram or whatever, and then you’re going to click on this and you’re going to come into the GitHub link, right? Just copy this thing and effectively you can work with chat GPT here, like so, where you can update it. You see where you can say, “Uh, take this, fork this, create a stickman style video,” right? And then you can upload it by clicking here, file and folder, or you can drag and drop that video that I have. You see this right here, so that uh stickman style video, you can drag and drop it like so; you can drag and drop it here and then you can say, “Clone this style of video,” and then now it’ll understand it and it will do a really good job, uh, basically, basically. Okay. Now, the idea is effectively: you want to ensure that when you do these, you want to ensure that it is for you, your personalization. Okay? Always very important, because that way you’ll it’ll set yourself apart with everybody else, right? And see, this is the type of stuff I tell you, right? These are the type of comments which is people who will lag behind when it comes to AI, right? People say, “Stop these workflow videos.” The best of the best players in the game are using workflows to systemize the stuff. You’ll sitting there complaining, “Oh, I don’t want to do a workflow.” I just want to sit and do one clickbot at a time.”I am right now, right now being able to generate thousands of viral actual results getting videos for myself, clients, people I’m working with. And the thing is, you can sit and say,”I’m just going to work and ride a bicycle.”when somebody is driving a car, you want to sit and uh, you know, basically still keep riding a horse or you want to basically drive the next Ford motor in the 1920s, you can basically sit and drive a car while somebody’s taking an airplane to reach a destination much sooner. You can complain saying hey you know I’m going to take a ship to go into Europe from America and it takes 2 months to reach there or I’m going to take a flight and reach there in 6 hours. You see the same logic applies. So this is an example. Uh, when I do these live streams, I want to explain, even the negative comments, I’m okay with it, because point I’m trying to make is: these workflows I’m doing for your benefit takes enormous amount of time to test them, to tweak them, to make sure that they work properly across these things, and they simplify this in the output. And that’s why I want to ensure that you know not only how to build a video, but how to build a system in the machine. Okay, it’s a harder thing to make the machine. Elon Musk has famously famous famously said that where. what did he say? he: “It’s easier to build a prototype car than it is to build the machine, the factory that builds the cars.”Or it’s easier to basically build, let’s say, a robot prototype, but to build the factory, the machines to build the robots again and again and again and again and again consistently is much harder. That’s what I’m trying to teach you, okay? Which is to build that machine, the factory, if you will, that will produce these videos on command to your customization and your personalization to meet your desires, right? In terms of the outcomes you’re trying to achieve, because if I just build the workflows, you’re just going to be copying me forever and never understand the system behind it, the thinking that goes behind it and this is the future, right? And as these AI tools will become cheaper and cheaper with time, we’ll be integrating these tools into Video Express, right? We are giving you the flexibility now. The point is ultimately these workflows are there for your benefit to get what’s working now. Things keep changing in the video space in particular. I’ve been doing this for 20 years; I can tell you with absolute certainty that the systems keep changing so fast, so quickly, every single time, that in order to keep up, the only way you can keep up is effectively to stand on top of the mountain where you’re seeing everything else and living in the future, right? And the future is it’s not about us, right? One of the biggest questions people ask is,”Hey, I want in Video Express you to create me a five minute,video”uh, and then the whole video has to be five minutes. A Hollywood movie, no director shoots a five minute scene, right? It’s multiple scenes that they create and then they merge it together into a film. If you don’t understand that, you don’t understand video production or video editing. So the reality is if you want to create it automatically with AI, you have to think like a Hollywood director, let’s say, right? Or a movie director. A movie director, multiple scenes, storyboarding, multiple characters, and you know, different uh emotions and environments and stuff like that. Similarly, the same logic applies here. And the problem becomes that even if let’s even if magically AI can do the whole five minute clip as one scene, it will hallucinate because it’ll run out of memory system memory to remember what it wrote, right? Like imagine in the in the systems thinking logic. What we’re really feeding it is this big massive prompt, right? Like you see this one right here. You’re feeding this big you see this. I’ll show you big system prompt. You’re feeding it, right? Now imagine when it starts to try to recreate this, it’s copy pasting this prompt for itself to remember next scene, next scene, next scene. You’re looking at an uh like like 200 pages essay it has to remember every time starts hallucinating and waste resources cuz right now uh actually electricity costs are going up, RAM costs are going up, everything’s going up. It’s only going to become more expensive to produce videos, not cheaper, especially fulllength unlimited videos. Via Express is the only application right now which even allows you to do this stuff where we’re doing it in such a crazy way where we could charge you 10 times more and people will pay for it but it’s not accessible to everybody right it’s not affordable to everybody that’s why we do this and you know if we if I decide hey too bad you know I’ll just focus on the top 2%of our users who are power users we’ll charge them 10 times the money the 98%we don’t care effectively you can imagine right most of the people will never be able to access these level technologies and these levels uh this level of uh high-end architecture we say right or infrastructure we say so that’s why I do these live streams despite you know uh technical challenges and stuff that keep coming from time to time right so keep that in mind all right so that way you know you understand you start thinking the system behind the process rather than the process itself right uh and what you’re just copying and pasting like a drone because then what you copy paste will be what thousands of people copypaste and it’ll never get you the result you desire correct So uh that’s the idea behind this stuff. Okay, just so you understand, right? So I I don’t I don’t feel bad, but I’m just trying to explain to you why uh where technology will improve faster, we can’t sit and wait. We have to adapt with times. Okay, if you don’t adapt with times, what happens is that we’ll be left behind and then the society has no empathy for us, right? You look at um you know what’s happening around the world. No politician cares about us. No amount of u you know oligarchs let’s say we business people let’s say out there, they don’t care. They want to make their billions and then they control the politicians if you do that, right? Uh and then what happens? We lag behind. We don’t speed up. We don’t try to help our own family, right? Our community, right? Or whatever you want to do. What happens? Nobody cares, right? Nobody has empathy for us. We have to keep moving forward is what I’m trying to tell you. And I’m trying to put that in the in your mind where way video production was being done just even 3 months ago, it’s now changed forever. With video express as a tool, with Chad GBT, Grock, Muse, all these other tools out there that’s providing the intelligence layer. I can clone my brain and I put it into these uh workflows and playbooks for you to then use that as a template to build your own template. Build your own factory, right? Use my brain, right? It’s like having me over your shoulder guiding you through the process by feeding these tools to think like me, right? And think like you as well, not just me. So that’s the general idea. Now, what I mentioned as well is that, you know, in the workflows page, there’s this Gemini workflows, right? Unfortunately, to be transparent, these Gemini workflows are kind of junk now. It’s because Google has lagged behind on computer use and these workflows and stuff like that. So if I want to rate them, so I would rate as Chad GPT number one for VIA Express and number two is claude anthropic claude. Number three is Muse AI from Meta which is free right now and for US and Canada. I when other countries come I don’t know you want to ask Mark Zuckerberg. And number four is Grock. Um other ones have not been that great so far and gentlemen has been completely a mess from Google. I don’t know what they’re even doing with all the money they have. So the idea is that that’s why I’m giving you these tools. Like I could have easily said,”Hey, use Gemini. It’ll never work.”The other thing I mentioned as well is we’ll be updating these workflows for you such that you know any issues that come in, I’m automatically updating them and as you have feedback in the comment section on YouTube right now. What I want you to do is very simple in the live stream after this live stream is done as well. I want you to basically post what you want these workflows or any bugs or anything you’re facing on how to use them because everybody uses different tools, different settings and stuff and you know even like for example you know here you see it says approve for me full access ask for approval. These little toggles here alone could be it’s not working for you, right? So, I have to account for all these elements on, uh, what you’re doing on your computer and stuff like that, right? So that is another reason why when you have comments, post them in the YouTube section here. I check every single one of them, and then we fix them here or we’ll build a new workflow for you based on what you desire. That could be realistic style, that could be cartoon style, that could be stickman style, that could be 2D anime style doesn’t matter 3D Pixar style, whatever. The point is that it can be done. And I initially, that’s my goal, will be I will create it for you the way you want it; but eventually my goal will be for you to build it as you want it, correct? And so you can use these GitHub, u, uh, let’s say we call them repositories. In other words, I want you to think of it like templates, right? This GitHub templates and playbooks, I want you to clone them to your desire, to change them to your own. So, when you come into your own account, you’re going to have all these little, um, folders. So in the future, you know you want to just go and create a stickman style, you, and click on it and go there. In the future, you want to create English learning videos, you can click on it and go there rather than a chat window where it gets really complicated. Like imagine in my chat GBD like if I toggle this, look at the amount of stuff I have. I don’t even remember when I did what. Like I have this walk style. I don’t even know what the what that does. I I forgot is it 2D walk style, 3D walk style. So having it in this format basically really simplifies things for you and really uh makes it better for you to understand going forward. Right. Yeah. Exactly. It’s like a library of stuff uh uh that you can uh basically come after. And the other thing as well, I come back to another thing I mentioned as well, if I got caught off with the mic issues, was the other advantage with this stuff is u basically imagine in the future, let’s say you don’t want to pay for chat GPT, you want to pay for you want a free solution from muse or something, or you want to move to grock or some other Chinese platform, who cares, doesn’t matter, whatever uh is out there, open source platforms or LLMs or whatever we call them, large language models, whatever platform out there. So, with the GitHub, these all these platforms can understand it really clearly. Okay. All these ones we are discussing right. So all these they can understand much more easier. So you can migrate the stuff much easier. Uh the other problem would be because if I were to just copy this system prompt thingy right this thing and I just put put it up in uh chat GPT like let’s say like so it is confined to this window right. So that means I have to remember what was that window. You see this uh title now I have to edit this title. Now you see this adapt realistic mini dramas. I got to give it a name that I’ll remember. So maybe I’ll say um workflow for uh AI mini dramas and I give it a date and time remember. So I can remember it but I come back 6 months later who remembers you forget. So that’s the reason why having it this way presented uh even for you right in this format for you internally for your own little stuff will be preserved forever. Uh Microsoft owns GitHub. They’ll always keep it free. Every single developer in the world uses it. So it’s not going to ever become a paid thing. But the idea is that you can now basically use any tool in the future as well. Any updates you make here will be reflected here. That’s why I’m moving to this direction where I give you these options as well like GitHub system prom blah blah blah all this other stuff. Correct? So hope that part is clear why we’re doing it. I know it’s a little bit complicated. I understand it’s not the most fun thing for me to teach as well because somebody coming in even for me you know I’m not a developer by trade. I I never learn it. So I try to treat it where why am I using it? What is the use case here? Why am I complicating it if it’s a simpler method? The way I want you to treat it is what I just mentioned which is think of it more like folders for you to go back to easily. And think of it where these folders are going to only get better and updated. And this structure is only understood by these AI tools much better than you or me can understand. And as time goes on, we will become the bottleneck or we will become the actual uh thing that slows down these AI tools as humans. It’s kind of weird to say it, but it’s true in a sense that if I tell it, okay, this is a 45second uh scene that I’ve mentioned here. I want to be 45 minutes in the future. I will slow it down because I am not giving enough instructions. I’m not giving clear clarity of what I want. I’m not giving examples that are clear because the AI wants to jump go, right? It’s not. It’s once your instructions to basically give it assistance on what to create for you, right? So, that’s the reason why I want you to think of these as: hey, as time goes on, things will become more intelligent and will understand you better, personalize for you better. Now, question is, will you basically now prepare for that future today, so that as these things become more intelligent, you have everything ready the way you desire, correct? So, that’s the idea. Right now, uh, there’s another question that came in here, which was: can I, uh, create a video with a song? I did a workflow on this by the way uh this one you see AI kids music video workflow. You come here and it creates this style. Okay, which is uh if I remove this um you see this. So it does the whole song the characters and it syncs to the song and everything else. So just make sure you use this um workflow again. And it has the GitHub thing, everything, okay? System prompt, everything. And there’s a video as well on this that I have that you can check on this, uh, idea. The way it works, simply to simplify it, you need to integrate your clone voice account, which generates the music, with your Video Express account, generates a video. So, the music will then connect to the video, and then it’ll sync all the scenes, and then it’ll create the video together of that song, okay? Uh, that’s the general idea of it all, right? So, uh, when you do that music video this way, you can also sell a product or service because song based videos are very good for storytelling purposes, right? So, uh that’s the general idea. Okay. All right. So, um the other uh thing as well is this point. Yes, we’re quiring with the uh actual idea to you know create the system to be able to understand it. I know it’s a little bit of a pain but my goal will be over time you will get it so ingrained in your mind. It’s like you know using like you know for example in the early days of uh Google not many people understood how to use it. uh then people understood it as a part of everyday life. Uh Gmail was the same thing. Uh in the case of let’s say uh messenger services was their same thing. I remember Microsoft Word and PowerPoint there were college courses that I was teaching actually as an assistant to some teachers for adult education programs where we were teaching um you know our seniors how to use PowerPoint and how to use Microsoft Word and stuff. Now everybody knows how to do it. It’s nothing really fancy. Correct? So similarly AI is becoming an operating system effectively. So think of it from that perspective. You want to be able to uh be able to understand it from that uh aspect and I’m teaching you that. I know it’s going to take some time but once you get it, you get it. You don’t have to understand it again and again. Uh basically. All right. So anyway, what I’m going to do is in the chat box after this, uh I want you to post any workflows you want and I want you to be able to effectively create whatever you desire from this. And u so uh let’s summarize what I just uh explained to you in the whole video so far so that we can kind of end this live stream and then you can go into the next steps. Okay. So first things first, what did I teach you? Okay. So let’s summarize what Okay. All right. Let’s summarize what I shared with you all along in this live training. So if number one I taught you how to create workflows where if you go into your workflows tab in your video express application which is required for the case of creating any amount of these types of videos. I explained to you that the new workflow that I created called realistic mini dramas. This is the one I explained to you that you can either use the GitHub to uh clone this uh repository. What that does is it’s going to create folders for you that you can customize like what you see here. I have stickman English learning and stuff. Imagine it will be in your account. Then what I explained to you as well was that uh it will do end to end uh video creation. Like you see here I have a cartoon style workflow project like so fully cartoon. Then uh this is basically the mini drama. Then I have uh as you can see here realistic style I have right here as you can see realistic whole scenes all of them created into a video that I’ve exported. Then I have also done as you can see here mini drama 16×9 where you see I’ve done the same style in 16×9 style as well. All we’re done with this workflow. There’s only difference is when I give it instructions for, so for the time period, uh, where from the point of like me getting that GitHub connected, or if you don’t want to use GitHub, even if it’s a system prompt, right? Which is basically where you copy the system prompt and then you go to chat GPT and you paste it, like you see it shows up if I paste it like so, like if I, uh, paste it, like let me actually open up new chat. So if I paste it right here to if I give it instructions just change or you can speak with it right and you can change it how you want it. Um, amazing. You want to do it stickman style, 3D style, 2D style, and stuff; realistic, up to you. 16×99,x 16, you can change the defaults that we have. And then also, I shared with you effectively that you can make any different styles and you can make it your own way, your own little playbook, if you will. There’s also in the example videos I shared with you they had subtitles. There’s two ways to do the subtitles. Uh both work. Uh number one is you know in video express in the bottom you have create all these tabs in the bottom this automatic captions. It opens up this application called with subtitle uh which was part of the video express uh package. You can come in here you can upload your video express video or it auto links meaning all the ones in my videos tab on the top all these you know hold the line hold the line all these will show up. So you can add subtitles and captions with much more customization. Or alternatively, you can create the subtitles yourself by prompting it in chpd here. Just change to stickman style uh and make sure you uh create the story of a farmer saving his family during a uh zombie apocal uh lips, right? And see, I can’t spell. So, we’ll fix it. And then um during this time and add subtitles, right? You can do that up. It’s optional. That’s why I keep it like I don’t keep it as a default. And you can do this and you can enter once video express is connected in the browser on the right. Chad GBD, Claude, Rock, Muse work really well from my testing. Um, not Google Gemini. All right. Now, the next thing I shared with you also is that because of the fact that these are different styles and different elements, make sure that you customize it to how you think is correct and what you want to do. I know not all of us are creative. So therefore, one of the ways to do it is let’s say you have a video already, right? Like a link to a video like this. Like you see this one, this went viral. It got 170 subscribers from this one video. Uh this particular video, it’s just a basic stickman style video during a zombie apocalypse. Uh uh idea. So same logic, you can take this video and what you can do is uh you can come in here like so. You can come in and you can just upload drag and drop this video as an example like this. You see how I’ve added this video as an example. I can do that like so. And you can say use that as an example. Then what it will do effectively uh to summarize this is you see in here I have um examples like so it’ll create that example forever like you see these are my example videos right that I gave it. It’ll create your example videos. So then it’ll forever remember that and create it in your style effectively these uh example videos in this style that we have here. Pretty straightforward. So now what’s your homework? Very simple. I want you to post in the comment section any modifications you want me to make to this workflow. And then um I also want you to make any modifications you want uh for me to make in terms of creating a mini workflow based upon this one. So for example, you say give me 3D style. That’ll be really helpful for me. I’ll do that initially. Then you can use the system to do it your own way customizations. Uh, the other thing as well that I want to teach you is that, um, uh, when you post in the comment section for now, I’ll create as many workflows as possible later on. Simple process: you can take these, clone it, and make your own way, make your own style as well. These AI tools are intelligent enough to understand that, so just post in the comment section anything. I check every single comment that you post in the YouTube and everywhere else, so make sure that you do that. Then I’ll have my AI minions and myself create those workflows for you as soon as possible, so you’ll see them all in this page right here. Where is that page? You can you can go into your video express application and click on work plus or there’s a description box link as well that you can go into in the top pinned comment as well. So, thanks again everybody. I I wish you all the best. I look forward to seeing you on our next training coming up next week. Right.

  • 09/26/2026 – Wealthy Minds Power Session – September 2026

    Hey everyone, how’s it going? William here. Super excited to be doing this power session with you today. I hope that you’re all doing great. And please um if you can hear me loud and clear, give me a quick hi, hello, hey, something in the chat or in the questions tab.

    All right. Anders, Jilly, Derek, David, another David, Oseon, Sandy. Okay, Glenda. I’m not going to go over all the names. Lots of people here today. That’s awesome. All right. Super excited to be doing this power session with you. Uh, it’s been a while actually. I used to do a lot of these webinars in the past and these days uh honestly things have been so crazy and I’ve been so busy that unfortunately our webinars became kind of rare these days. But um well I’m pretty sure that today’s webinar is going to be worth your time because since we haven’t been doing lots of these webinars recently uh now that I’m I’m doing one with you I want to make sure that it’s going to be an amazing one that you’re going to get a ton of value from today’s webinar. All right. So, uh, let me start here with, um, sharing my screen. Just a second.

    Recording in progress. All right. And now I’m going to share my screen. There we go. And before we do anything, I just want to confirm that you can see my screen. So, give me a quick one in the chat or Q&A tab if if it’s visible to you. It says, “My seven figure affiliate marketing framework.” Lots of ones. All right. Great. Perfect. Thank you for that. All right. So, um, let me tell you what to expect from today’s webinar cuz as you know, I really respect your time, your intelligence. So, I want to be fully transparent and tell you exactly what we’re going to be doing here today. So this webinar is going to have three different parts. Okay? I don’t know how long it will be because of the third part which is a Q&A session. So it will depend on that one, but it’s going to have three parts. So the third one, the final one is going to be a Q&A session. I’ll stay here for as long as necessary to try to answer as many questions as possible. Uh I allocated a lot of time today for for doing this. So um yeah, that’s going to be the last one. But the first part is going to be what I’m hoping will be a one of the best and most useful um trainings you’ve ever seen had on affiliate marketing. And that includes things you’ve paid for, things perhaps you paid top dollar for. So I’ll really share with you um from the perspective of someone who’s been doing affiliate marketing since 2008. So you do the math, it’s been almost 20 years. and who’s worked with literally thousands of beginners and people trying to start an affiliate marketing business. I’ve managed to help thousands of them do it successfully. We’ve had a many people in the trainings who never implemented the methods or implemented them partially who never got results. So I’ve seen the good side of it, the bad side of it and um well it’s it’s it’s a long experience especially in internet time almost 20 years and internet time is a lot of time. So, uh I’m going to be sharing with you what I believe is the framework every single person here on this webinar today needs uh to get their first real breakthrough with affiliate marketing and sustain that. So, make some money and but do that in a way that you understand how you did it so that you can do it again, right? And so that’s going to be the first part of the webinar. The second part of the webinar, I’m going to be doing a uh and that that’s going to be the shortest part. I I’m not going to spend a lot of time there. Uh but I’m going to be doing a quick reopen for the Wealthy Minds partner program. It’s a done for you solution. Our top solution for in in the Wealthy Minds group and it’s always very limited. Last opening was actually when we first launched it uh 6 months ago and I’ll be talking a little bit about that. It’s not for everyone. It’s not for most people actually. And as I said, this is going to have a very solid training. And when we enter that second part, I’ll let you know. And if you don’t want to stay on the webinar, it’s fine. Uh but if you decide to continue here on the webinar, then um you’re going to get uh more information on that as well. And then after that, it should be 10 15 minutes long. That part, the second part of the webinar, we’re going to uh go to the Q&A. Okay? So, just being fully transparent here just so you know exactly what to expect and you know that uh you should stay here definitely because uh what we’re going to be talking about in the next minutes will be very important if you are into affiliate marketing or honestly if you are into uh any kind of business that can be considered a direct response type of business. Okay. So, all right. So, let’s get this going. Okay, Anders. Uh yeah, I always record the calls no matter what. Then I decide if I make them available as replays or not. This will actually depend um on on that second part of the webinar because if that’s not no longer available, I I probably won’t make this u available as a replay. Okay. All right. So, but I’m not saying yes or no. And just my emails, I like to, you know, cuz that’s the thing. Uh just to explain that in some of my emails I say okay don’t ask me for a replay cuz every time I say I’m going to be doing a webinar I get uh I know that from the your perspective maybe it’s just one email from my perspective it’s impossible to answer to all the emails cuz it’s literally hundreds of emails asking about that and I know people have their personal stuff they have things to do they have their plans I understand that because I’m a human being as well and I have a family and I have a wife and I have a [clears throat] kid and I have lots of things to do and take care of. Uh so I understand that uh the thing is that uh I I cannot always guarantee that a replay will be available for different reasons. In this case it’s the reason that I just mentioned um in other cases could be other reasons. And second uh I see that uh some people like they just want to procrastinate on the replay. Oh, there’ll be a replay and then they get the replay. Okay, I couldn’t watch this later. And then they end up never doing it. So, I always do uh my best to take the time to put together the entire training you’re about to see, then to come here and to present the training to you, answer your questions, and help you use it in the best way possible. And I don’t want a single dollar for that cuz uh I’m doing it because I truly believe that uh I want to just help people the best way I can. And obviously uh that’s something that uh always comes back that you know when you’re helping more people, many doors open to you as well. So, it’s always a win-win, but uh that’s the spirit. Okay. So, I hope that uh I answer your questions. So, let’s get this going. And I’m not going to do that. Where are you from? And all that kind of stuff that uh people normally do in the beginning of the webinars, but uh if you have questions, go ahead, put them in the chat or in the questions tab. I may answer some questions as we go depending on [snorts] um if they like uh are relevant at the moment, like when I when I receive the question. If not, I’ll still answer the question when we get to the Q&A. just so we do not deviate and and and break the flow. Okay. All right. So, let’s get started. And right now, let me tell you what you’re going to learn from this training more specifically. So, first, uh I’m going to explain to you the affiliate marketing business because most people they get started with affiliate marketing because they want to make money, which is it’s a good goal. That’s the same goal I had when I started working on the internet. However, that is a a goal and in some cases it’s even too abstract to be called a goal. It’s more like a dream or or an idea or you know an ideal uh situation that people would like to get to and they don’t really understand how to do that. And then because they have that abstract goal, they get involved with uh methods, different trainings that cover different methods and that’s absolutely fine. I have courses, I have trainings, I teach methods. You need a method to get results. So, I’m not saying otherwise. However, that in itself is not the business. That’s a method is something that can help a business achieve better results. It’s not the business. And if you don’t understand the business you’re in, obviously, you’re not going to get results. So, I’m going to make sure that you understand the affiliate marketing business because it’s actually affiliate marketing in itself is a small thing that’s part of a big thing. And if you don’t understand the big thing, then you’re not going to be able to play the affiliate marketing game effectively. Second, uh I’m going to share with you which I believe is the only strategy that can take you to seven figures a year. Obviously, I’m not saying it’s the only way to make money in internet, but I’m talking about making seven figures a year consistently with affiliate marketing. It’s something I’ve been doing for uh not too many years, not in my initial years. It was not like that but for several years and I I know many other people doing the same. I know people doing much better than I do and all of these people they’re using this same strategy. So I think that uh it’s the only strategy that can take you there well and I of course always open to see new things but in all this time I haven’t seen something else that can produce that kind of results consistently. I’m not talking about having one profitable campaign or something like that. uh if you’ve been trying to to get results with affiliate marketing, you know, slash direct response like just driving traffic to offers and getting sales, if that’s your business, and it it could be ecom, it could be drop shipping, it could be uh selling your own products or courses as a coach, as a consultant, I don’t know, like anything that’s really direct response that’s trying to get a sale on the internet by driving traffic to an offer. If you’ve been trying that for a while and you’re not getting results and it feels like you’re just running in circles, I think that uh what I’m going to share with you will help you understand what the real problem is. Because if you’re just trying different methods thinking that you’ve, you know, that none of the other methods, the dozens of other methods you’ve tried were good or worked, then probably you’re not going to get results until you understand the real root cause of the problem and fix that root cause of the problem. It’s like when you have a headache and taking an aspirin just to uh have some relief and yeah, it may work or may not work, but you’re going to continue to have the problem because that is addressing the consequence, not the cause of the problem. Not a doctor, but hopefully that was a good analogy. And uh I’m going to share with you how to achieve better results in your next seven days. And obviously this is not a um just as a disclaimer. This is uh just an expression like better results in the next seven days than you have in the last seven months or maybe even seven years depending on how long you’ve been doing this. And obviously 7 days, 7 months, that’s a an expression just to give you an idea on how this can speed up the results for you. Uh I’m not promising you any specific results here. I’m not promising that you will earn anything. Most people here probably won’t even implement what I’m what I’m going to share and will get no results at all. All right? So just being fully transparent. All right. So, let’s first uh talk about the affiliate marketing business. And this is very important for you to understand. Sorry, I’m I’m coughing. I had a serious asthma crisis a few days ago and I’m still recovering. So, I’m going to have to cough and make drink some water as we go. So first thing to to um understand and I can tell you this as someone not only who’s been doing affiliate marketing for a long time but for quite some time now I’ve also been on both sides uh for at least a couple years consistently. I’ve been like on the vendor side and on the affiliate side. So this uh that I’m going to share with you uh it’s it’s uh from from both perspectives. So affiliates for a business that’s recruiting affiliates, the affiliates are simply an acquisition channel. The online marketing game is something that goes beyond affiliate marketing. So affiliate marketing is uh it’s literally that just an acquisition for a a bigger machine, a a bigger engine. So let me give an example uh with a different type of business and then we’re going to bring this to to to affiliate marketing. So imagine a subscription business. Let’s say a SAS business or even a streaming service like I don’t know Netflix for example or Disney Plus or whatever. Let’s let’s think about a SAS business. So suppose you have a SAS and your goal is to get more paid users on your platform. More people joining your service and paying a monthly fee to remain your client and using your platform whatever platform is right. So that’s your goal. That’s your whole business. And for you to achieve that you have to do a bunch of things. You have to improve your product. So you have to take care of their customers. You have to assist them. You have to provide value. you have to address their complaints and issues they face. Uh there’s a you know a bunch of different things you have to get funding for your business. Uh etc. So there’s a lot of stuff. One of those things is to acquire new users. That’s one one small gear in in a big engine, right? And you need that acquisition. And then you create acquisition channels. And one of the channels you can have is to run online ads. It could be advertising. So you could go to Facebook for example and start running ads there to acquire the new customers. When you do that, you need to understand your numbers to do that successfully. Again, keep keep in mind that you’re a SAS business. Then you understand how it works for affiliates. So a SAS business

    has all those metrics and with all those metrics uh they determined a very key metric for anyone advertising online which is their CPA their cost per acquisition or sometimes some businesses use CAC uh customer acquisition cost. It’s not the same but it’s almost the same. For the sake of our example here, let’s say it’s the same. So that’s how much you’re paying to get a customer. And that math exists even for free traffic because when it’s free traffic, you’re deploying resources there that also have a cost. People working on it and their time there. There’s a cost. You’re going to end up getting and having a a CPA for that as well. I’ll just use paid advertising to make it simple. So let’s say that your SAS uh is a $100 a month subscription. people pay $100 per month to use your platform and your turn your average uh turn is 18 months. It means that every person who subscribes to start using your platform normally remains as an active paying customer for 18 months. That’s the average. Some people stay for 36 months, others stay for one month, but your average is 18 months. So you know that if if you do not consider even upgrades or changing your pricing or anything like that. Each customer that joins is worth roughly $1,800 for you, right? $100 per month times $18, $1,800. So that’s how much you make. So let’s assume that um based on that, if you pay $1,000 to acquire a new customer, so if you have a $1,000 CPA, you would be doing fine. Obviously, there are fixed costs and everything for a business. The math is not that simple. But again, it’s just an example. So, if you’re paying $1,000, making $1,800 back, that’s $800 profit. That’s uh a healthy 80% margin, right? Well, the problem is that it takes 18 months for you to make that money. So, you pay $1,000 today and you make only 100 back. You are $900 negative in your balance. And then over the months, you start recouping that money until you turn a profit. and then get to that $1,800. But if you’re buying dozens of customers every single day, what happens? You have a cash flow problem. So that’s why you get funding because with that funding, you can create cash flow to acquire those customers and in the long term you can have your profitability. That’s how it works roughly obviously in a very in very simple terms uh for a SAS business. So when they do the math, they see, okay, I can pay up to $1,000 considering how much I make. However, uh to keep my cash flow healthy, I need to reduce that to $500. So they go to Meta, Google, Tik Tok, native ad platforms, whatever, with uh $500 to acquire a $100 customer. The customer is going to pay $100 and and then we’ll remain with them for an average of 18 months, but it’s $100 initially and they can afford investing $500 because that’s is still health a healthy margin for them and that is uh in accordance with their funding and their cash flow. Now what you need what the reason why I’m telling you this is because now think about you as an affiliate. Let’s say you’re promoting a product you got from ClickBank or Dig Store or it doesn’t matter and it’s also $100 per sale. And let’s say you’re having a 50% commission. Obviously, that 50% commission is not necessarily the maximum you can get. You can get more than that. Like sometimes 7 70 75 I’ve seen 80%. Uh that are offers that pay a fixed commission that are upselles. But on average it’s $50 commission. So, let’s say $50 for a $100 sale. And you may think, “Oh, but there’s a funnel and people will take some offers on the back upselles and then I I’ll get paid for those.” Yes, that’s also right, but then it’s no longer a $100 sale. Then you need the effort to get people to spend more than $100. So, to keep it simple, let’s imagine it’s $100 versus $100. The difference is that they can afford spending $500. And if your commission is $50 on that sale, well, if you spend $50, then you’re at break even point. So, you wouldn’t run campaigns if you’re not profitable, right? So, that doesn’t work. So, imagine that uh you want to work with a even a tiny 20% margin. So, your CPA, your limit to get a sale would be $40. Now, one side has $500 and the other side has $40. If do do you see the difference? So, if you just compete with the against those businesses directly, you’re going to lose on the economics. So, that that’s the the point affiliates need to understand because you are as an affiliate an acquisition engine. So, you are part of a business and you’re only involved with the sales part of the business, the init, the first sale. So just the acquisition, you’re not doing the support, you’re not engaging a customer, you’re not upselling the customer, you’re not having a sales team like a a setter and a closer to call them and all that stuff. You don’t have that. You’re just working for that initial sale. So if you understand that, then you understand the macro game, the online marketing game. That’s and these days with so many businesses on the internet, it’s literally a war zone. So, if you’re going to enter the war zone, you need to know what’s happening there, right? Who is the enemy, what they got, and if all you have is a knife, well, maybe you should be very very careful with what you’re going to do there, cuz um it could be like a an unfair battle, right? So, you need to understand the situation. And then you may think, oh, so you’re saying affiliate marketing is bad. No, affiliate marketing is great if you do it the right way, which is what I’m going to show you here. So, if you’ve been doing this and then you just like think that, oh, okay, I’ve been uh trying to run ads and when I run ads, I always spend a lot of money. I don’t make any money back or like get a sale here and there, but spend like 10 times more. It’s because you’re playing this game and you’re playing it wrong. Obviously, SAS businesses is uh that’s one example. Then we have huge companies and we have local businesses and agencies and like the economics change for all those businesses, but the concept is the same. So once you understand that um and you understand that the vendor the guy the company who owns the offer you’re promoting they are playing that lifetime value game that LTV game even though they don’t have a subscription in turn in most cases like a SAS platform it’s still a similar concept because they know that once they get a customer to to take one of their offers then they can present other offers to that customer and they have a second offer and a third one and a fourth and a fifth one and then they have an ongoing system for promoting other things to those customers and that creates the lifetime value the LTV of those customers. So they have that number so they know that on average a new customer uh that crosses the entry point which is the offer you’re promoting is worth on average I don’t know $500 for them over the next 12 months. So that’s their game. You as an affiliate, you’re just working on the acquisition. Now, with that being said, uh what uh is is crucial that that’s clear for you here that your biggest thing advantage here is flexibility. You’re not attached to a business. You don’t have your own product, your own fulfilling system. You don’t deal with suppliers. You don’t even have to worry about branding. You don’t have a brand. you don’t have anything. So, you can easily go from offer B to offer A to offer B overnight. And that’s the easiest thing in the world for you. So, that’s great. You’re you’re asset light in in the uh you’re extremely asset light. Like you’re very flexible. But your problem, your that’s your strong point. Your weak point is that you have the worst margins in the game. Your margins are the worst ones. Every single one competing with you will crush you in the economics. Even the an unprepared business is going to have at least like two three times your margins. So that’s what you need to understand. And now as we move forward with this uh presentation and I share my framework with you, you’ll understand why this understanding is absolutely crucial for you to get results. All right. So uh everything clear so far? Any questions?

    Do you pay to get a customer? I’m not sure if I understand that question, Hillary, but if you want to elaborate a little bit better, I’ll gladly answer it. Okay, so no questions so far, so I’ll keep moving here. All right, so uh this is just an illustration that talks pretty much about what I just described. So most businesses, they have these three pillars in slightly different ways and sometimes different names, but it’s something like this. have the acquisition pillar, the monetization, which is a strategy that allows you to instantly monetize the new customers. So, for example, the acquisition could be an offer that an affiliate is promoting. The monetization could be an immediate second offer that is like 10 times the price and they have a setter trying to get those people on a call and a closer closing that sale. That’s the monetization. And then retention would be like uh other product launches and things that they do over time and that they can use that same customer base uh and and monetize that customer base and keep monetizing it over time. And you as an affiliate, you’re in that acquisition pillar. So that’s where you are. And this is interesting actually because uh I I’ve seen some people saying, “Oh, very soon like companies will no longer need affiliates. uh affiliate marketing will is going to be something from the past. This will never happen. And I’ll tell you why. And it’s a it’s mathematical. Uh and again, I can say this from the perspective of someone who’s on both sides like affiliate and vendor. For the vendors, um they can have internal traffic. For all the offers that I run, I have an an internal traffic team and I have at least two three media buyers taking care exclusively of those offers. However, that will never mean that I don’t want other acquisition channels. Because here’s the thing, when you are an affiliate, you’re doing something very important for the business that you’re promoting, for the vendor, which is to take the risk of their business and put it on you. because you know they have that uh system in place acquisition, monetization and retention. Okay. And okay that it’s there that’s their their um their business and they have a number there. They have an LTV and everything when they go out there to acquire customers via any acquisition channel. They could run ads on Meta or second tier platforms or Google or YouTube or Tik Tok or they could advertise on TV or on a magazine. It doesn’t matter like produce content, hire influencers, all of those things are acquisition channels that will have a specific science and math there. But at the end of the day, it all comes down to that number that I mentioned to you, a CPA. And it’s very simple. You hit your target CPA, you’re profitable. If you do not hit that number, if you fail to do it, if you overspend to acquire customers, you’re unprofitable. You could be at a loss. That’s the game. So when you say when you approach a business and say, “Hey, give me your acquisition offers. I’ll promote them for you. I’ll bring in new customers, bring them to your business, and I’ll do the acquisition thing. I’ll take care of that CPA. It’s on on me now. You just get the customers and pay me a commission.” What’s the the downside of that deal for the vendor? Uh I I’ll tell you as someone who’s had issues with affiliates before, it’s like normally compliance affiliates because they’re just playing a game, they can violate lots of compliance rules and do an ethical thing. So the legal aspect that’s something you have to take care of. But commercially speaking, like talking about numbers here, there’s no downside because the affiliate is taking the risk. And again, as I said, the thing about affiliate marketing is that it’s you’re flexible. And the flexibility not just gives you the possibility to move fast but when you move fast you catch opportunities fast and you can easily find something that’s a big opportunity and explode your business and you can do that very frequently. Normally for a business they do one thing they sell one thing they are in one market. If an opportunity appears there they can catch it and have explosive growth normally once in in the business lifetime. for affiliates that can happen every few months to have an explosive growth because you can catch opportunities in all different markets. So, and and this is already me hinting on on how you play this game. But more about that in a moment. But yes, exactly. There’s no downside pretty much. Exactly. So, that’s why affiliates will never stop existing. No one will ever say, “Oh, I think that ail uh recruiting affiliates makes no sense.” I’ve seen brands do that because of legal and compliance problems, things like that. But no one will ever get to a conclusion that it’s more profitable for them to have just internal traffic versus having affiliates. That that that’s nonsense. That doesn’t exist. All right. So, they always have what happens is that some businesses, they do not have a a a model that allows affiliates to um to work effectively with them. Like for example, SAS businesses, they can have affiliates, but normally those will be affiliates uh with an an existing audience. So they can market their offer and then then they then can get a commission on that recurring fee and for the affiliate in 18 months they will make decent money but they will not but but that that’s very is low growth via affiliate like that that slows down that acquisition channel. The big affiliates are the ones who can take your offer put it on paid traffic and bring in thousand new customers uh to your business tomorrow. And if depending on the type of business you have you cannot offer uh something to affiliates that will make it possible. So you’re not going to have those affiliates. Therefore, that affiliate marketing acquisition channel is going to be small for your business. That’s also the case. But for businesses that can properly accommodate affiliates, it’s the the dream scenario for them. So affiliate marketing will never stop existing. So whenever you hear someone say that, it’s wrong. Okay? It’s scientifically wrong. Any business wants to share the risk, right? All right. So now um let me explain how you play the game now that you understand the game better. Now you understand that the re like I I see people all the time saying oh my problem is traffic. Yeah traffic could be your problem because that’s one of the biggest pillars for affiliates that are too and that’s one of them. However, when people say that, I go check the offer they would be promoting and it’s a horrible offer and they think it’s traffic because they try to promote that offer on Facebook or Google and got no sales and they think my traffic’s broken. No, your traffic would be broken if you were getting sales for a good offer, highly optimized campaigns, ads, everything in place and still your margins were too tight to turn a profit for you. So then you had the audience offer your marketing dial in but your profits are not um appearing because your margins are too tight. Maybe you have a traffic problem in that case and it happens super frequently as well. But for very for beginners often times it’s not just the traffic. They have more things that are broken. They just do not know how to properly diagnose their business. So they think it’s just traffic. It’s easy to blame a traffic source when you have no idea on what you’re doing. Well, now that you understand this, you understand that your advantage is flexibility, your disadvantage is margins. So, when you understand this, then you’re going to navigate this um war zone that is the online space in a much more intelligent way. So, let’s let’s keep going here. And here’s how you have to think to play the affiliate marketing game.

    There are two ways you compete for traffic on the internet. Two ways you can do it. One way is marketing and another way is what we call economics. So economics is pretty much what I have explained to you so far. So again think about that $100 product. You got a 50% commission or 70% 70% commission doesn’t matter when you get a sale for that product. And you have the SAS company also selling $100 product, but they can afford spending five times that much, like $500 to acquire that customer because their economics, what they have that comes after that initial sale is far superior to yours. So even uh if they like if they don’t do for you to if if you spend like $200 to get a $100 sale, you’re going to think you’re not doing a good job for them. they will think they’re doing a great job and they will scale because the mar when the margin is is too good a business will naturally scale because it means that when you scale you reach more people more unargeted traffic less aware uh potential customers and that will conversions and tighten your margins. So if you have really big margins it makes sense to scale because uh then you’re going to find your ideal point. Normally, you don’t want a huge row as because if it’s a huge rorow as it means you’re doing very tiny volume and if you have a very tiny row as you’re doing too much volume and if you’re not doing volume and your row as is bad then it means you’re doing the whole thing wrong. So that’s the logic. So a $200 CPA a company in that scenario would scale for you would go broke. So that’s it. The difference there is in the economics. They have a product or a business that extracts more value from each customer. So they can afford having worse ads, worse pages, losing for you on the marketing side because they are competing on the economics side and the affiliate does the opposite. Competes on the marketing side. So the way you beat your uh competition is by being better at marketing. And there is a a caveat here because you don’t want to just like think that okay so if I bit them on marketing I’ll just create better ads better page I’ll just study copyrightiting and I’ll read all the classics. I’ll read the books by Clay to make peace and uh Eugene Schwarz and Brian Kurts and I’m going to, you know, just become a master at writing copy and ads that convert and I’m going to beat them to the punch when we compete on the traffic sources. No, because normally the economics will beat the marketing and that that’s by nature, you know, that’s that’s the economics t because again, let’s just stick with that example in the that I gave you in the beginning. every time you try to compete directly with those guys, you’re going to have to do 10 to 20 times better than them to beat them. If you’re a great marketer and you can really do much better than their whole media department, which is a possibility because uh their media department also will have lots of limitations. Their branding is important, how they position themselves, the kind of things they say to customers, like if they hurt their reputation, then that 18-month turn becomes a two-month turn and their business goes broke. So they have more limitations than you. Again, you’re always more flexible. So maybe you can beat them, but 10 20 times better, that’s that’s a challenge. So I I wouldn’t count on that. So on the marketing side, creating better ads, creating better pages, that’s one thing that you want to do. That’s one of the things that that’s uh important. You want to do that. That takes care of part of it. But the other part of it is to beat them on traffic. And here’s an interesting thing. Most of the super affiliates I know their origin is in on the media buying side because we have like for direct response operation will normally have three or four key roles. I I’ll say three uh main initially uh roles. the copywriting guy, the media buying guy, and the video editing guy. So, if you’re going to start like a direct response business from scratch, you need these three guys like the copyriter, the video editor, and you need the media buyer. And then the fourth one would be uh your project manager to manage that team. But already the project manager is going to come from one of these three positions. Maybe it’s going to be someone who started as a copywriter and then start doing really well and then became a project manager or it’s going to be a video guy or it’s going to be a media buying guy. It’s always one of the three. So what I what I’m saying here is the these three guys they are very important but most of the super affiliates I know they started as media buyers because a great thing about um you being the affiliate is finding the right traffic and it doesn’t mean just going to a different traffic source. It is going uh it’s using a strategy where you target the right people. Your targeting makes a lot of difference because the way you buy your traffic makes a lot of difference. The way you’re going to do it, it depends on the platform, but the traffic does make a lot of difference when it comes to this uh to competing uh on the marketing side. Uh most uh companies and most businesses what they will do is go to the top of the funnel. So like imagine Netflix, they will just try to get all types of people to to become a customer. On the other hand, um you as an affiliate, you can be way more specific. You can work with more specific offers and that already will allow you to pay for traffic that will in convert better. Just in doing that again, you diminish the disadvantage. So better advertising, pages, ads, better traffic or targeting. And there’s a third component that’s where most people go wrong, which is having the right offer, having your piece of taking your piece of the economic spy. How you do that in the affiliate marketing space that are selecting the right offers to promote is very important. So, when you just go to a marketplace like ClickBank or dig store and you grab any random offer for from there, chances are that you’re going to be picking an offer that doesn’t give you uh that doesn’t share the potential other economics with you or that doesn’t have good economics because many vendors there, they don’t do this part right because at the end of the day, they’re not taking the risk. You as an affiliate, you’re taking the risk. If you bring in a customer and like with a highly optimized company, they could make $500 off that customer. Uh, and if they’re making just $100, it’s still like that’s a free $100 for them. They will take it and just be happy. So, they don’t have a lot of potential. Or some companies do, but they do not share that with affiliates. However, these days there are many companies sharing that potential. uh companies that pay a fixed rate that’s higher than the initial um the the initial uh uh payment the customer makes. So like you can sell a $100 product, but your commission is $180 is $200. You got a $100 sale, but uh that’s what the customer paid for the product you’re promoting, but your commission is twice that much. And this is uh these are the companies recruiting the top the best affiliates out there. So finding the right offers becomes one of the most crucial things for you because that significantly diminishes the disadvantage you naturally have as an affiliate uh when when on the economics side of the thing. So the right offers, the right traffic, hearing the right traffic. It’s also about like the um catching different trends and finding different opportunities that you can um like sometimes a celebrity says something and you can use that in your marketing to catapult your results, that type of thing. And better advertising, better copy, better ads, better landing pages, better advertising strategies if you’re doing remarketing and other things. So these three things together can give you a great advantage. Traffic offer and let’s say copyrightiting or advertising. Okay. So when you understand this then you’re going to focus on the on developing the right skills which doesn’t mean you have to become a genius and for each of these areas that I’m showing you here. Now that’s not what I meant by when you understand that these are your your superpowers. Of course, you can use like AI to do some of these things and it’s it’s right. But when you are when you understand that these are your your superpowers or should be your superpowers, then you start developing them and then you start getting better results as an affiliate because you understand that you are competing on the marketing side of the thing. So you get the best offer you can to diminish as much as you can that disadvantage you have in the economics and then you start working on the marketing side to get better results. So catching markets uh market tren market uh trends in different markets. So uh anything could could be that like a new meme or something that a celebrity says and that people talks about and some people hate it and others love it. It doesn’t matter. Those things can be used in your marketing. If um Elon Musk says that AI will extinguish humanity in 5 years from now, that is something you can use in your marketing. That grabs attention and that’s something that maybe for a company, a brand to use that in their advertisements maybe not so simple like they have way more rules. Again, remember your advantage is flexibility. You’re you can do more than they can. So you can use that grab more attention, increase your clickthrough rate, lower your cost per click, get cheaper traffic because you can catch on those trends and they cannot do it so easily. Or maybe a new market explodes like since Ampeic became a thing and lots of offers uh GLP offers started to pop up and affiliates made a ton of money with that, myself included, because that was just a huge market trend. Now for someone who is in just in in one uh business that has zero flexibility that’s unrelated to that that’s that’s nothing that that means nothing but for an affiliate when you see something exploding you go there and you make your money there. Then something else explodes and you go there and you make your money there. You have that flexibility. Uh second skill that so catching uh markets uh uh understanding markets and trends that’s very important. Uh you can do that just by being active on social media or you can use uh several tools to do that. There’s a tool called Rival IQ that allows you to monitor different pages and different um accounts and social media to always know what’s trending. So you can you can use things like that. Second thing, research and spy. You never come up with something out of nothing. You never have an idea for a page or for a an ad and you just put up the page and the ad and put that on the traffic source and pays for traffic for that thing. Like your chance of succeeding doing that is one in a million. It’s nearly impossible. What you do is to work on what already exists out there. Part of your marketing is not to reinvent the wheel. So if you want to use your flexibility on the marketing side to win that game, what you do is to see what’s already working. Pages already converting, angles already converting for other companies, other affiliates for in in your niche, and then you just remodel that and use that with your offer. You do not create things out of nothing because if you do that then you you’re going to need either huge talent or you or you’re going to have to be the luckiest marketer on earth to get things right and have a good uh uh success rate with your campaigns. So you really want to focus on research and spy. You can use free tools like Facebook ad library, Google um Google’s transparency portal. Um or you can use like some uh paid tools like uh foreplay or like uh deep tube uh like so many others but spy hero but you want to make sure that you do your homework and research and spy before spying her here. I’m not saying this in in a bad way like it’s just really market spying is part of marketing and it’s always been and it’s not just for affiliates. All businesses want to know what their competitors are doing and what’s working and what is not. That’s their business intelligence, right? So, uh that’s what you want to do. Uh then you want to write good copy and good copy comes from the research as well because good copy is not the ability to write copy. Claude has that ability to a level that is much better than what I can do and probably you’ll never beat Claude. So you can just get a Claude plan or even Chat GPT or any AI these days Gemini whatever and it’s going to write copy better than you can and you can study for 5 10 years and you’re going to go there and it’s going to write better copy than you. So good copy here is understanding what are the elements your copy needs to have. Who you’re going to talk to? What are their pain points? What are their expectations? What they want to get from you? what are their what can make them take action or what can make them hesitant to take action and then you feed that information into AI and then it’s it’s going to return amazing copy to you traffic strategy it’s what I mentioned before ad creation landing page creation that’s basically what you do and you try to improve as an affiliate um if you have these things in place you can really compete as an affiliate and what you normally what your game will be is you’re going to be running several campaigns. Some campaigns will not work. Some campaigns will work and you make good money from those campaigns and from time to time you’re going to find a campaign that is just in incredibly profitable. So if you make a million dollars in a year and you run 50 campaigns, chances are that half a million dollars will come from one or maybe two campaigns and the other half million dollars will come from the other 48 campaigns that you run because this is how the the this is the nature of this business and we never know which one is is going to be like the gold mine. It’s hard to say uh beforehand. So, we always follow the right steps, create campaigns, find things that are um that have potential in when we’re studying markets and trends. We tap into that and sometimes we make some money, sometimes we get it wrong and we don’t make money and sometimes we make a ton of money. So, that’s that’s how it works. So, when you see someone say that, oh, I made a huge amount of money in one month like uh it can be true. It doesn’t mean that they are making that kind of money every month because this business it’s naturally very unstable. All right. Um so this is um how it works and I want to share now a step-by-step execution um to apply this in practice. So here are the steps you would normally um have to follow to execute these things and implement like my my framework would be what I just showed you but for you to implement a framework. So first put your focus on finding offers that are performing well for others. You want to find the right offers in the right markets and that are trending now because that that’s already 80% of the thing that helps you uh soften that disadvantage you naturally have on the economic side of the business that already puts you in the right place. A market that’s growing um where you have different trends that you can use in your advertising to grab people’s attention, engage them um and and that that already is 80% of the thing. if you can get it right. So, if you just pick any random offer and you’re clueless about what you’re doing and you start with the wrong like with the left foot, it’s going to be hard to make up for it even if you do all the other things right. So, that’s your starting point. Then you gain access to those offers. So, normally the you you have some some tools for doing these things. So, here I’m suggesting for you to find offers. You can use the Facebook ads library. Even if you’re not using Facebook, doesn’t matter. But but you can find offers there. You can use this tool that I really like, deep tube.io. I’m not an affiliate or anything. I’m just letting you know because I like these tools. Uh, anstrax is a great tool for um spying on native ad platforms like Tibula, Albrain, uh, Rev content, etc. And so there you can normally get a good assessment of your of the markets, what what’s trending, what’s big, what’s not, what’s working for others. uh do not have any um concept that set on stone in your mind. Sometimes you’re going to look at an ad and you you’re going to think no there’s no way this is doing well. But if the numbers there say the contrary numbers uh are always the king. You know if the numbers show that something is working it’s working. Um then once you understand the markets and find some offers that others are promoting successfully you access those offers. Sometimes you’re going to find them in the marketplaces and it’s not going to be hard because now you already know which offers you are looking for. In other cases, those will be private offers. You’re going to have to contact them or the vendors and ask for access. Uh there are some tools that can help you here as well. Uh offer vout, o digger, researching the marketplaces. And if you have affiliate managers, they can be very very helpful because even in case when they don’t have the exact same offer, they can have a similar offer with a similar commission which can be also a starting point for you. So um networking is is always an important thing. We normally in the beginning neglect that side of the thing like we do not talk to anyone. We think we’re going to get a computer and just make money. I used to do that for several years and these days I see how much money I left on the table because I completely neglected the networking side of my business. Um, and then you prepare validated ads and landing page. How you do that? Simple. You did your research or spying in the beginning. So, you saw ads and landing page that were doing well for others. Now you have references. I’m not telling you to steal their ads and landing page. In some cases, uh, that won’t even work. Like sometimes you’re promoting a similar offer, not the same. So, you don’t want to steal their stuff, but you’re not starting uh from scratch. You have a reference. There’s an angle there. There’s a persona. If you can’t extract that information from their pages and ads, you can upload that into AI and AI will give you that information. So, now you’re using AI more effectively. Then you set aside a testing budget because you’re going to start running the campaign. Now, this this one here is really the one I I don’t want to give you numbers here cuz this will really depend on your traffic source, what you’re doing, and what kind of guidance you have. There are so many factors here, but on average, it’s four to seven times the offers payout. This is just a please don’t don’t take it as the absolute truth. If you are going through a training and they give you another number, their number is right because that training has a specific methodology and um the number that makes sense there may be not this one. Okay? And then you set up your tracking because you want to know your numbers. You want to know which ad is bringing in uh sales. And so like if you’re running ads on meta, you want to have some sort of thing that reports conversions to meta. So you see the campaign, the ad generating conversions. you do not just see that you spent this amount of money and made that this amount back but you have no idea on what to do from there and that’s what you do like some good trackers are I like red track and volume uh but be mob is a good option if you are getting started on a budget because they have a free plan so with these five steps and let me just go back here all these six elements in place you can compete in the arm marketing or let’s say online like not just internet marketing like the the online marketing space that’s really a war zone and you can address that weak point you have which is your low margin and you can amplify that strong point you have which is your flexibility and then you can really become successful as an affiliate and making seven figures a year will naturally happen if you do this consistently oops if you do this consistently it will naturally happen cuz you’re going to find a campaign that makes you like that makes you $5,000 $10,000 in a month. Um, then you’re going to find another one that makes you 2,000 and another one that makes you $5,000. You’re going to have some campaigns that lose you a few hundred cuz they those campaigns don’t work. It’s part of the game and you’re going to be playing that game and making some nice money and then eventually you’re going to find something that is a cash cow that’s printing money for you and then you’re going to scale that one and and then you’re going to make half a million. I’m not saying like I’m not promising you any results. I’m just telling you how how this whole affiliate marketing thing typically works from the perspective of someone who’s been doing this for a long time. Now, another thing I want to tell you before we go to the second phase and then before I answer your your questions is and this is very important because sometimes people don’t understand why they’re going through courses and courses are not working and they think the courses are bad or they think the the people selling or marketing those courses are bad. um they they blame everything they can but the truth is or or sometimes they also blame themselves but for the wrong reasons they say oh I’m not good enough I’m not intelligent enough I’m not smart enough I’m not tailored to do this I’m not good at marketing I’m blah blah blah normally it’s not that you’re just not understanding the foundational aspects so imagine that and this is very easy to understand imagine that if you want to build an online business and you want to make x amount of dollars per month as uh your income and you’re not now not making any money online. So you’re at zero and you want to get to let’s say $10,000 a month example. So you are at point A zero and you want to get to point B 10k a month. So imagine this as like just like if if you wanted to travel to a different place and you want to go from where you are now to that place. So for you to do that you need a vehicle. So, let’s assume it’s a car. And for you to do that, you’re going to have to drive the car from point A to point B. And that’s not that rocket science. Most people can drive cars. Let’s forget the the cars that can drive themselves now. Let’s stick with the old cars. Uh so, most people could learn how to drive a car. Uh sometimes even people with physical limitations could have an adapted car that they would be able to drive. So, you know, it’s not rocket science. Now imagine that you not only have to drive the car but you have to build the car first and then you start buying different components of that car. You buy a wheel, some a tire, an engine, a windshield, a bumper, a I don’t know like you start buying the different parts of the car and you start like the brakes and you start trying to put everything together and then it doesn’t mean that the wheel well you bought is not good but perhaps it doesn’t work with that tire that you bought. they’re just they don’t match each other. So, they’re good, but they don’t work together. And then after all the test and all putting everything together, sometimes there’s something like very like a small hose or something something you missed and that when you try to start driving the car, for some reason it doesn’t work and you have no idea on what it is because everything seems to be in place. So, that’s the process of building a business from scratch. And when you buy different trainings and courses, you’re normally buying those different components. And it doesn’t mean they’re good or bad. You can buy some bad courses eventually that are many out there. And you’re if you buy several, you’re going to buy some good ones as well. The problem is that you don’t have a blueprint for that shows you, okay, so this is what you have to do. This is what works together and this is what doesn’t. So when you don’t have the blueprint, you’re doing things randomly. So you think that you are in a hush in in a rush and you need results as soon as possible and then you just want to get something that will give you results tomorrow. But the problem is that that’s the slowest way to build an online business. [snorts] The people I’ve seen take the longest to make money online are the ones that keep saying that they need to make money online fast. And I’m not saying that it’s not possible to make money online fast. What I’m saying is that if you take a few days of your time to organize this the foundation of your business and you understand okay so this is the business I’m going to build and you understand that and you internalize that and you um uh uh uh have a mindset where you understand that you’re going to have to make adjustments but you don’t want to build a different type of business. So, let’s say you’re building a car. So, you know that um you’re going to have sometimes to change uh a component and make some adjustments, but you don’t want to switch from building a car to building a boat because a boat is a completely different thing and it has a different purpose. And it doesn’t mean boats are better or worse than cars. It just means that you’re building a car, not a boat. So, that’s it. So, that creates focus for you. So you do not lose focus when someone comes and shows you a plane and that because it’s awesome because with a plane you can fly and then it’s much faster and all right there are benefits and they make a plane better in some cases but in other cases a car is more useful than a plane and when you want to like go visit your mother that’s 5 miles away from you don’t want to have a plane you want to have a car. So depending on what you’re doing a car could be better. So you’re building a car, you stick with building your car. So you at the same time you have the flexibility to make adjustments, but you’re not jumping from one thing to another in a random way without having a clue on what you’re doing. All right? And um understand your whole in the process if you’re an affiliate because I like to say that money is always a consequence. So you for you to make money, you’re not going to make money because you want to make money. You’re not going to make money because uh you need to pay your mortgage. That’s not a something that’s not a cause for the consequence you want, which is money. The cause for money is always value. So, if you’re not creating a product or creating something for the final customer, it’s fine. But you’re connecting businesses with customers. You’re helping businesses acquire customers and you’re helping customers uh discover useful products. When you understand that, you can provide value. You’re going to write choose the right products. You’re going to target the right customers. You’re going to work with the right businesses and that is going to help you create value and money is going to be a natural consequence of that value. So when you have this um understanding, you stop going crazy and jumping from one thing to another being totally clueless about what you’re doing thinking that you’re going to push a button and make money which realistically as adults we know that that’s not how the world works. So uh and then you you understand what you’re actually doing and then you do it right and then you start getting results. All right. So that’s the first thing I want I wanted to share with you the first phase of today’s um webinar. So I don’t see questions here in the chat yet. Uh I saw some messages. Christopher said, “Oh my god, my brain is jamming up.” All right. Uh, but if you have any questions, go ahead and put them in the chat. And right now, I’m going to have to drink some water.

    I’ll go ahead and enter that 10 15 minute phase before the Q&A where I’m going to share uh our partner information about our partner program where we basically do these things for you. Okay? And then you no longer have to build the car. You just get into the car and then you drive the car. So, you’re still driving the car. So, it’s not that you’re not doing anything, but it’s typically easier than building the car, right?

    All right. I find this all fascinating, but I think this it might be a bit over my head. Thank you, Cass. Wish uh for your feedback, and I I understand what you’re saying. Uh unfortunately, our time here is limited. cannot spend the entire day going over everything with examples and you know so I have to kind of pack everything in a in a very uh summarized way but I hope that you I mean again this is something I uh this is how I understand affiliate marketing business you don’t have to understand it like I do but hopefully you can grab some value here things that will be spec useful specifically for your situation so maybe some of the things I said here will be helpful for you, but a few things um will help you in your business. Uh Mercedes said, “Wish I had you around when I was starting out. Very good teacher. Thank you for your time.” Thank you, Mr. Andrew said. Very confusing. Not bad. It’s a lot of information. Yeah. Well, that’s the think about it like the good side of it is that uh you know this is what what I did here is a lot of information because I I’m not talking about one specific thing about affiliate marketing. I’m telling you what affiliate marketing is as a whole. So obviously I believe that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. So you don’t want to over complicate things but simplicity doesn’t mean uh ignoring things that are there and exist and are real. So if you don’t understand the business as a whole and then you’re just hopeful that one small thing is going to work without connecting it to the other things around it then that can be just an illusion. So my idea here is to show you the reality if it’s good or bad. Well, um it’s possible to make seven figures a year with this. It’s possible to start a business like this working from home as a one person uh as a one person business. So, I think that this is positive, but obviously uh if if this whole thing is good or bad, it’s something that each person has to to to determine for themselves. All right. Uh okay. So, now uh let me go to that second phase that I mentioned. So, just letting you know, I hope that you’re going to stay with me and we’re going to have a Q&A and I’ll share more things with you later.

    But, uh, all right. So, now here’s the thing. Uh, the truth is that unfortunately, you can’t pretend you don’t need a real working business to make money. You need a business. It has to have all the components. Obviously, you can have a minimal viable version of your business initially. You can take care of everything yourself and some AI tools maybe, but still you need the whole business to make it a work. And I see that some people sometimes try to pretend it’s not necessary and they just want to push a button and make money. And it doesn’t work like that. Not in affiliate marketing, not in anything. Like the only kind of push button solution I’ve seen to make real money, it’s been winning the lottery. But then of course you don’t need a lot of effort to do that but you need a lot of luck. You have to be one of the luckiest people on earth to win a big lottery prize. So I wouldn’t count on that. So the other way is by building a business. That’s that’s how it is. So it’s not possible to pretend that oh I’ll just like do this one small thing here and then I’ll I’ll I’ll make like $50,000 a month and I’ll change my life. That’s that that’s just not that’s unreal. So you need the business. So the first step is to accept it and then finally build the business. Do not just implement a method but build a business and then use the method to improve your business. I can share with you a method for creating better ads. That’s going to be super helpful if you apply that to your business strategy. Like if you’re doing something wrong like in terms of wrong offers, wrong traffic sources, my method for creating better ads is not going to save you. So you need the business to apply the method and not the method to build the business. Hopefully that’s clear. But the other alternative you have is to have someone build that business for you. And there are a few different solutions out there. Um, and I’m going to present to you which I believe for anyone doing affiliate marketing is the best and I created it to be the best solution for that. Obviously, my opinion is biased because it’s my solution, but um I truly believe it and obviously there are agencies that can build a business for they can build offers for you. that can help you like consultants that can help you understand how you acquire customers, how you structure your business better, how you understand the economical aspects of your business. Like there are people who can help you build a business out there. Typically, it’s not very affordable. So, that’s the main disadvantage, but that’s possible. But I want to um show you the solution we have inside Wealthy Minds that can be a big shortcut if if this this is what you’re trying to do. And again uh it it doesn’t mean that you sit and wait for the money. It means that after the solution you have a business. So you have the car in that analogy. Now you have still have to drive the car from point A to point B but you’re no longer trying to put the different components and parts together. So this is called the wealthy minds partner program. And uh so real quick how I created this program in first place. So, I’ve been training and coaching people um in in the affiliate marketing and internet marketing space for a long time, not just a specifically affiliate marketing because many of the things I learned or many of these skills I developed over the years doing affiliate marketing can also apply to other businesses like generating traffic for example. So, I have traffic trainings that are not just for affiliates. So, I’ve been uh working with people and helping them build an online business for a long time. Um, however, there was a point when I realized that and and it’s a funny story. Uh, I told this story when I launched this program six months ago. So, real quick, uh, I was actually working with a member of one of my programs and was helping him do what I just explained to you. Select the right offer, create the ads and landing page based on references, launch the campaign, validate ads, and and um, go from there. So I assigned him the the initial tasks which was basically to research, find the offer, create the landing page and ads for us to set up the campaign. And almost one week later, he came back to me with the offer, the landing page and the ads for me to review. Very normal. Uh had already done that a thousand times with a thousand different people. But the things that when I got his information almost at the same time, I received a weekly briefing that we used to have and still have in my business um that um my team basically sends to me with everything we did for the week. And like this person uh I’m gonna call him John. Obviously, it’s not a real name that it’s a different name, but let’s say John. So, John um sent me the offer, the landing page he created, and I don’t know like five or six ads that he wanted to use. He hadn’t tested anything. He hadn’t set up the campaign yet. Even tracking was not set up yet. The report from my team uh was showing that we tested I don’t I don’t remember exactly. I think it was five, six or seven offers in that week. We created more than 300 ads, a bunch of different landing pages. We had a spent over $70,000 in ads during that week. We had made $180,000 in revenue, so more than six figures profit uh during that particular week. And uh all of that during the same time that it had taken John to just research an offer, a landing page and a a handful of ads. We had some winners that we were scaling. we had already discarded some losers and um I you know and that report always used to come with some analysis from uh our media buyers and the the u our manager with like their insights and their statistics and what they saw others doing and what we should do the forecasting all that stuff when I look at that those two things I I thought John is a highly motivated guy he he’s really serious about what he’s doing. He’s determined. He He’s got everything he needs like internally as a person to to be successful. He’s a true entrepreneur, but he lacks the infrastructure. And when we go out there and we compete for traffic, because that what happens like traffic is a limited resource in this world. So, we’re always competing for it. So, when we go out there and we compete for traffic, we’re going to absolutely crush uh we’re going to absolutely crush John because we’re going to crush him cuz there’s no way he’s going to compete against us. And there are other businesses bigger than us competing there. And he’s just picking like his one offer, his one landing page, and his five ads. And he wants to launch a campaign. And you know, then u did I think that John had a no chance? No, he had a chance. He could find a good offer with a good landing page and good five ads and start making some money, take that to a few thousand a month. Then the campaign would eventually stop working, but then he would have a better budget and a validated process. He would repeat that and go from there. And eventually he would be able to hire some people, get better tools, and start grow. And eventually he would get to a point where he would have a business like ours. I I I I thought it was completely possible. But the thing is that the most precious thing we have in this world is time. And he would need years to get to our level naturally. It took me years to get to this level. Like I’m not a genius or anything. Far from that actually. So uh it takes years for a normal person like me and most people here to to go from that point initial point that John was at until having a real business and infrastructure. And then I thought, okay, so uh and also by coincidence or maybe not so much, I don’t really believe in coincidence. So uh uh not too long ago, I had a had a horrible experience recruiting affiliates to promote some of our own offers. We were in and during that time having that uh boom on AI and lip syncing and we discovered that those guys were using some celebrities and uh other things like and and changing our VSSLs and ads to promote our offers. uh we started to have legal problems basically with what they were doing. And when we discovered what they were doing, we immediately interrupted that we were able to uh uh um interrupt it uh uh in time to avoid bigger problems, but um it was a horrible experience. So I knew affiliates could do a lot of u volume. We had a affiliates generating over 10k a day in sales or our offers like 10 15k a day. one affiliate but we were facing all that problem. So I thought okay I wish I could work with people like John who were seros who were ethical who had everything that they needed but those affiliates they already had an infrastructure as well. They had a direct uh a direct response marketing operation and John didn’t. So um and that’s when you know kind of all the things uh started to work in my mind and I said okay I have to put together something that will allow John to work with us using our infrastructure. We’re going to save years of John’s time, money, energy, and uh help him have a real business much faster than he would be able to do like working on on his own. But on the other side, uh we’re going to have John and people like him motivated uh serious about building a business, helping us build a better acquisition engine. So, I created the partner program and I’m going to show you what the partner program includes now. But the thing I want to say even before I go over all of these components, and that’s very important, is that the partner program was not designed just to be a premium affiliate program because there are many other premium affiliate programs out there. And you can find those and uh normally you’re not going to uh be able to join those for free, but I know some premium programs that you can join to access offers with great commissions is starting at 50 bucks a month. So it’s not something I’m from out of this world. So premium affiliate programs uh exist. The thing is that I wanted to do more than that because I wanted to have partners and not just affiliates because affiliates as I showed you before and it’s easy to understand that they’re just an acquisition engine. They work on a small part of the business and they have that strong limitation that’s their uh weak economics. I wanted to have partners who would be partners for the whole thing for the entire business that would make money with us, not just on that initial sale or upselles or whatever, but that would share the whole LTV with us because that would give them the margins of a vendor with the flexibility of an affiliate. And then beyond that, because our infrastructure is already done, it’s there. It’s working. We have offers that are proven. They’re generating sales as we speak here. And they would be able to tap into that and use that existing infrastructure without having to come up with ads or research markets or discover trends or test and validate things with their own money. So instead of doing that, we could also hand all of that in a done for you format so that they could use that existing infrastructure and just really plug into the business and start running it. So that’s how uh I created the partner program with my team. And uh when I say this, it may sound like something that’s simple, but it was not easy. It took us over six months of hard work to make this um this whole thing work technically because it’s not so simple. Uh and what the partner program includes is um our whole business basically. We have private offers, our own offers, tested and validated offers. And it’s not just the offer, but it’s the whole thing, the upselles and everything. And we have that back backend offers, second offer, third offer, etc. And the way we work with partners is that we give them access to those offers. So they’re not promoting the same offers everyone in their mo is promoting. They’re promoting private exclusive offers and they get 100% commission on the sales they generate, plus a cut of all the back-end sales. For doing that, we provide them with the entire infrastructure. They get the tools, they get the pages, we do the ads for them. So they don’t have to create pages, edit videos, configure, tracking, um, whatever. Like we handle autoresponders, we do all of that for them. Automations, customer ascension, webinars, we do all of that for them. Our professional team is developing that and doing it for them. So the same copywriters that write my ads, my ad copy, my landing page copy, that create our VSSLs, that create our upsells, that create our downells, that create our uh ascension webinars, that create our um everything basically are the ones creating the same stuff for you. The same video editors editing videos for our business, DSLs, ads, everything. Same video editors working for you. data analysts, project managers, etc. the exact same team. Also, because this is a partner program, partners get to retain their data. One of the biggest things for a vendor is that and when we think about affiliates and vendors that the affiliate goes out there, generates a sale and that information, that customer, that email, that phone number, whatever, goes to the vendor, not to the affiliate. The affiliate sees a sale on their affiliate dashboard, but they do not know who the customer is, who made who purchased the product. They just see the sale. Our partners, they build their list. They get the customers. They own the data. So, they’re they can build up their business over the years. They’re not just like going after more traffic. They’re creating their own customer base. They’re every single lead they generate, every single sale they generate is theirs. It’s uh accessible to them. We provide the whole infrastructure like autoresponders and everything but the data is there’s like if a partner wants to download the the the list and use a different autoresponder they can do it. their list and everything like literally everything that’s involved in the process um as I said pages ads everything like the research part uh spying creating different offers adapting to different trends and markets testing and validating things all of that is in done for you format here so yes we still test a bunch of different ads we test a b a bunch of offers 80 to 90% of what we test never produces any results Because that’s how it works. It’s like that’s a mistake that people make to think that seasoned marketers they they are like fortune tellers. They know exactly which ad’s going to perform and which is not before running the ad. No, you we have a a strategy and a formula so that we can find winning ads, but most of our ads they never turn a profit. However, partners only get the ones that do. So that testing and validation is done with our money. And it’s not because uh I’m kind and I want to do this as charity for partners. No, we have and we’ve had the our internal media buying department for several months much. It’s something that we we had a proof uh before the partner program even exists. What we’re doing here is giving everything partners need so that they can play the same game that affiliates play but with a much better margin. the same margin that vendors have much better than many vendors actually because we do a really good job on the back end. They can have the complete infrastructure everything can be in done for you format and they can do that uh and and help us acquire customers for the business. So they they still work as an acquisition engine for for my business as well but at the same time they’re building their business as well. So it’s a win-win in this um uh in this format. And we have the mentorship portion which is where basically uh we have them support dedicated support team we have uh community we um provide uh um weekly training sessions and the exact frameworks and strategies we’re using for running the campaigns etc. So the idea here is that partners they have the business is already there. When someone becomes a partner, they’re no longer building the business. That stops the moment they become a partner. And now they are just following the instructions and using the resources we provide to run the existing business, the same business that we run. So when we get on calls, we can talk about offers and everything and numbers and and basically anything openly because we’re all running the same offers. We’re all business partners. Okay. So um I think that this model beats any other model out there for several reasons. Well, first uh it removes the need for testing and validating offers. You get only winning offers. And when I say offer, it’s not just like the product, but it’s the funnel. It’s the uh second funnel. It’s everything that’s involved in the process. Uh you get reliable traffic strategies. you you’ll never face saturation problems because you you’re not promoting the exact same offers that a thousand or 10,000 other affiliates are promoting because when you’re doing that then you not only have to play that entire game that I explained before but you still have to play better than the other affiliates promoting the same offers. Uh if if if you have that saturation problem you have the best margins possible. You get done for you campaigns. You build your list. you earn across the entire funnel. You can be running your campaign and as you do that you get a sale. That sale uh that customer takes some upselles. Okay, you make a 100% of that money like it goes straight to you. We never touch that money. But then as you keep running the campaign or even if you pause your campaign the next day you may see a 500 commission pop up on your account and you did nothing to generate that one, but we ascended to the customer for you. um proven strategies, proven ads. We give you a swipe file with all the ads that were profitable for us. There’s not a single ad there that was not profitable. I’m not talking about ads that generated sales. Sales with a profit margin. Um you can scale faster. You can just literally go from struggling to build a business to being the CEO of a business. And that’s a big jump, right? and we’ve been generating some amazing results since we started the partner program. Actually, one of the things that I really enjoyed, I don’t know if he’s on this webinar, but if you are here, Jason, I really appreciate. Jason is one of our partners. He was very generous to uh record a it I I told him it was going to be a 10-minute interview, but he was very very generous. Shared everything he was doing and it turned turned out to be a um a a I think it was a 30-minute interview, the full interview that we made available to partners. I think it was 30 minutes or so. It was really long. And Jason um achieved some great results considering his front end and backend commissions uh in his first two months. So uh we’re seeing we’ve been seeing great results in in the partner program and uh yeah well so basically me some messages I get I work with some partners on Zlack and this is a Slack message that I received few days ago. So yeah. So, let me tell you what you need and what you don’t need to work as a partner. And then I’m going to explain exactly if you decide that this could be for you, what you should do next. And then we’ll go to the Q&A. Oh, Jason is here. Uh, hey Jason, I I think that I cannot uh share your message, but Jason said, “Hi, William. Yes, the partner program has been incredible. Really appreciate you guys. Thank you, Jason. All right, so uh it’s great. Uh unfortunately, I don’t think I can make your chat message visible. Yeah, no, Zoom doesn’t give me that option. All right, but thank you, Jason. Really appreciate you. Uh that interview was really amazing. way more than I was expecting when we uh booked that call. All right. So, what do you what do you really what do you need to to be a partner? You need to really want it really want to build an online business. And let me tell you why. Because most people don’t want to build a business. uh years ago I saw uh I think it was an experiment or something and I saw a guy like um saying that like if I don’t remember all the details because it was many years ago but that really uh stayed with me because I I think that that illustrates the situation perfectly. He said that okay if you go out there just you know start approaching people on the street and ask them hey do you want a Ferrari? No matter how many people you ask if they want a Ferrari, from a homeless person to a billionaire, if you offer them a Ferrari, they will say, “Yes, I want it.” Right? That’s that’s natural. However, the guy who gets the Ferrari is the guy who really wants it. And really wanting it means working hard towards that goal. given up weekends, parties, barbecues with his neighbors and and and friends to work to build a business or create something that gets him the Ferrari. And I think most people, and just being transparent, I don’t mean to be offensive with this, but uh obviously I don’t want to lie either, so I have to say what I what I really think. I think most people in the online marketing space, they don’t want to build a business. They just want to keep dreaming of a better day when things will work when they will make a ton of money when their life is going to change. And that hope it gives them strength to continue. I’m not saying that for for people in that situation that it will not not happen. Well, maybe it will happen. Uh I I I’ve seen all kinds of people get results on the internet over the years. Uh the word impossible is impossible for me to use because I uh I know nothing is impossible. Everything is possible. But the truth is that many people just have kind of turned internet marketing, affiliate marketing, whatever into a hobby, into uh something they enjoy being involved with. But when there’s a when they have to prove it that they are really fully committed, they step back. And that’s the type of people who can’t in my opinion um fully benefit even from a solution like this. Because for a business to work, you have to build the business and then you have to run the business. In this case, yes, we build the business for you. It’s true. And I’m not exaggerating when I say that. I can say it and be compliant and legal because I know that this is real and I can prove it. So yes, we build the business for you. But you still have to run the business you know you still have a role in the process otherwise they wouldn’t be here talking to people and saying hey you can become a partner like then there would be no partners right so partners are important so the person becoming a partner they have to really want it they have to decide okay now I had a lot of fun studying different methods and doing lots of things I had ups and downs I learned lots of great things I faced some failures that were painful but gave me useful experience But right now is the moment for me to really build a business, make it work, have a business up and running on the internet. And for the good and bad, sometimes you’re going to have to uh spend some time working on your business time that you wanted to spend, I don’t know, on a Netflix bench or walking the dog or going out for dinner with your husband or what, doesn’t matter. So that’s u the negative side. But the good side is that you’re going to have some big wins. You’re going to find some winning campaigns. From time to time, you’re going to have some campaigns that will explode and will produce great results for you. And that’s that you really want to leave the experience of having the business. Some headaches, some concerns sometimes, but real results, real numbers. You drive traffic, you generate sales, you make some money, you send customers, you do the math, you optimize. That’s really working. It’s not studying. It’s not imagining. It’s not dreaming, it’s doing it. So that’s the most important thing. Something you don’t need specific skills or experience. That’s the whole point of a done for you thing. Like it’s done for you. So you don’t have to be a copyriter cuz guess what? We’re doing the copy for you. You don’t have to be a great media buyer because guess what? We’re testing and validating and giving you these strategies. We’re using the exact same one. So you don’t have to discover any strategies or frameworks or whatever. Um, so you you don’t need any specific skills. You don’t need resources. You don’t need tax skills because we’re taking care of that. That’s that’s our part of the business. So you literally need zero of that. You don’t need a large budget. Uh it it’s because obviously uh we we do pay traffic there. So you’re going to need a budget, but it you don’t necessarily need a large budget. you. I think that a much larger budget is necessary when you’re validating things from scratch than when you’re getting things that have been tested and validated to test. It means that uh you you can get started with 50 bucks. Of course not. But you don’t need a huge budget to do it. A large bud, a lot of money like people, oh, you’re going to need like $10,000 investing. Of course not. That’s a that would be crazy. Like that you don’t need all of that. uh if you want to invest all of that in your traffic, then you can discover and validate things on your own maybe because that’s a that’s a lot of money. So you don’t need a large budget and you need to commit. The idea is that once you become a partner, I’m I’m not going to say you’ll never buy an hour marketing course again in the future because you can always do that. Like I don’t think buying courses is bad in itself, but the problem is that you people buy a course thinking that uh they’re not going to have to build they’re going to skip the whole thing. they’re not going to have to build the business, put in the effort or anything. The course is going to do it for them. That’s the wrong mindset. And I can tell you, you’ll never have to buy a course thinking like that again. So, if eventually you buy a course on copyrightiting, yeah, you can learn more about copyrightiting because partners also have the freedom to make changes to ads and things and u and they have control over the pages and everything. So, you can you can after you’re making some money, maybe you want to test your own stuff and then you can do that and it’s fine. We actually have training there. I share lots of training materials. Um, we have weekly calls. I I I we have a mentoring person inside the partner program. That’s very important. It’s important that partners learn more. When you’re the CEO of a business, it doesn’t mean you’re the guy doing every single task, but the more you know about the business as a whole, the better uh uh you’ll be able to make decisions and conduct the business in an effective way. So, learning is fine, but uh you don’t want to be like jumping from one thing to another anymore. This is the final thing. This is the last jump. Once you’re there, that’s the thing you’re going to be doing. And if you don’t do it, uh, it’s going to be bad for us because you’re not gonna be that acquisition machine that we need and it’s going to be bad for you because you’re going to have an entire business sitting there just, you know, taking dust. So, um, you need to commit. All right. So, with all of this being said, let me tell you how you can get started. So, I’m going to give you a link now, and it’s very simple. First thing, you submit an application because obviously this is a true partnership. I’m not inviting any random person into my business. Um, sorry. Right. But but this is the reality. That being said, I don’t want this to be uh to sound like, oh, uh, it’s probably too hard. I don’t qualify. No, it’s we have a small screening process and um that’s it. Okay. So, you don’t have to think it’s too complex. It’s not. But, um, we have that. Then we book a quick call and we talk. And I know that some people don’t like to jump on calls because they think, “Oh, they’ve had experience with high pressure sales calls or anything like that.” No, you’re not talking to a closer. You’re talking to me and I’m not a closer that I I’ve never been one. I don’t know like I I’m not even a native English speaker. I don’t think I would have the skills to do that. So, that’s not the goal. And actually uh those people like pushing hard to get a sale that that’s pointless first because if I want a bunch of people to join I could put a buy link here now and would have more people joining than if doing all of this stuff. So um that’s not the point. Some people uh we may talk and may get to the conclusion that okay I don’t think it makes sense for us and fine then we remain as friends and it’s okay. If it makes sense we can talk about it and see if we can move forward or not. there’s no sales or high pressure or whatever all kind of stuff. I want to work with intelligent people here. So, I don’t want to disrespect your intelligence by trying to do that type of silly stuff. So, that’s not how how it works. It’s just really a real chat, just an opportunity for us to talk like getting to know each other a little bit better. Then, if it makes sense and we decide to move forward and um may happen or may not happen, but if it happens, then we have an onboarding process. We get you set up. It takes a few days, but we do everything on our side and then you get ready to to join the other partners basically and then you start running your campaigns. All right. So, this is the process and uh this is the link you have to go to if you would like to apply and uh obviously I said it’s just a relaxed conversation and that’s exactly what it is. But obviously it has to be like for [clears throat] us to see if the partner program makes sense for you and for us and uh so obviously it’s not cheap talk like it’s it’s uh it’s about the partner program. Okay. So just so uh people booking calls or booking a call to talk about this, right? So let me put this link for you in the chat. There you go. It’s in the chat. You can go ahead click it and uh it’s a type form with a few questions and those are very simple questions. You’re not going to be asked for uh your income or that those things that I know people are not comfortable with and there’s no reason for asking about that. Uh okay I’ll be answering questions. I already have the first one here. Uh and go ahead and ask any questions you have. Okay. So let me go to this first one. So, are we running Facebook ads or Google? So, for the right now, we’re mainly focused on Facebook ads. That being said, the partner program is not attached to one traffic source. I’m not going to say, “Hey, this is Facebook ads or this is Google or this is like we’re running Facebook ads. We have a solo ads um portion of it that’s that will be started early this week like uh maybe even during the weekend actually and partners already know that because I told them about that. So it will be solo ads and Facebook ads initially. We’re not running Google ads at the moment uh for several reasons that uh we cover inside but basically eventually if that becomes what’s making us money then I’ll just say go to to u jump on a call with partners and say hey everyone now we’re making money with this traffic source here are the ads here are your links here’s how you upload your ads let’s do it and then we start using it because I don’t want to say it’s about this or that traffic source because this can always change uh it’s about what’s working now for our offers.

    Uh great question by Brad here. Why wouldn’t you give us some idea of cost before asking us to take the time to go through the process? If it’s out for uh of our budget, then it would be a waste of both of our time. Yes, that’s a risk. But here’s the thing, we can be flexible with pricing. That’s the truth. Because I I want to um let me give an an exaggerated example. But let’s say your neighbor knocks on your door and says, “Hey, I want to be a partner in your business and I have a million dollars to invest in your business.” What would you say? Well, maybe you would say yes. I don’t know like but maybe like the million dollars you can do a lot of stuff with that, right? Or maybe I don’t know like Elon Musk and I don’t know if you like him or not. So, let’s it’s just an example. Okay. Knocks on your door and says, “Hey, I want to be a partner in your business, but I’m investing $1 to uh to take that equity.” Would you say yes or no? Well, for me it would be an immediate yes. I could pay him a million dollars to become a partner in my So when it’s a partnership, uh it depends. And that’s why we can have some flexibility. Obviously, I can tell you because I don’t want to like say, is it more than a course or a normal webinar offer? Absolutely. Is it something that’s going to cost you like an agency price point? 15 $20,000? No, not even close. So, um because it’s for for normal people. It’s not for people with a business and an enterprise budget. So, um but it will depend it will depend on different we have different partnership tiers as well and what changes is a few things but mainly the backend commissions you get. So that changes the margins we have on the customers you acquire. So that’s why we really need to talk. Uh, honestly, if you think that this is for you, I think that risking half an hour is probably not bad. I I’ll be talking to more people that will not become partners and not necessarily because of budget, but just because of fit. Uh, and it’s fine, but I know that I’ll walk away with a few partners that will that will allow me to grow my business and that I’ll be able to help them grow their business. Uh, and now timing is perfect. Q Q4 is approaching. So Q4 and one are always the biggest ones in online marketing in general. So I know that it will be worth it for me. So but obviously I’ll have to have some calls that will not uh lead to that and it’s fine. Uh that’s why I said it’s really just a conversation. Uh and I totally understand if you’re not willing to take like literally 30 minutes to jump. You don’t have to bring your credit card with you if that’s what scares you. Like that’s not the idea, right? But um if you’re if you taking 30 minutes to just chat with someone to join their business, if that’s you feel that’s too much, I understand it. But then this is already that’s already a filter. Like it means it’s probably not for you cuz we jump on calls and talk with partners all the time. So if that’s a problem, uh fine. But then um maybe that’s that’s what will save time.

    Uh uh can I ask what type of budget might be required to set aside for ads? Um yes you can ask of course I’ll give you a number but again uh we have different offers and the budget depends on the offer like we just released a new offer and we have another one that will be released in the next days. Uh, let’s say $500 is is a number that will definitely get you going with the first ads, especially with these offers we’re releasing now that have a lower price point. Um, you can you can use that number as a reference. I’m not like again when we talk depending on what you’ll be doing it could be uh a bit more or even a bit less but um because I can share results of partners with you and then you can have not names but just results without names for partners. were here like I’m not going to share your name and your results uh obviously but uh results without names and basically and then you can have an idea and we can see best case scenarios worst case scenarios that’s that’s absolutely fine. So just giving you a number uh but that number could change when we talk.

    [snorts]

    Uh okay let me I’m getting lots of questions here now. Let me do my best to answer as many as I can. So another one here. May I ask if a total beginner might do better to start with your traffic mavericks training? These are completely different things. It’s like asking me if you should buy a house or a car. Well, both can be really nice, but it depends on what you’re trying to do. Traffic Mavericks is a training about traffic. I think it’s pretty good, and I’m always doing my best to keep it updated and deliver as much value as possible. It’s a training on traffic. So if what you need is a training on different traffic sources and that’s all you need and that’s all you want, Traffic Mavericks can do it for you and it should be the best option. Now if what you want is a done for you business, then Traffic Mavericks is unrelated to that. So again, it’s like comparing like an apartment with a car. Which one should I buy? Well, I don’t know like or maybe not. It depends like on what what do you need for your business? If your problem is not traffic, then why would you buy traffic mavericks, right? So, it depends on what you want and what you need.

    I’ve been following for years now and I can say that this is the best offer I ever sent from you till now. But unfortunately, I need four, six weeks from now to be ready for this. I always wanted a real business that I can depend on after several previous failing attempts. Uh yeah, obviously uh unfortunately Ashra, we’re not going to be doing this in four or six weeks from now. That’s unsure. Uh I’m sure about it. When will I be reopening this in the future? Most likely yes. When? Probably within a year? I don’t know. Like uh I wanted to do a small launch and reopen it like 3 months later and we’re here now like 6 months later, but uh I don’t know. It could be six months from now, a year from now. I I’m not sure. uh the the things that it’s really up to you like um if if this is not the right timing for you, it’s not the right timing. If this is not what you need, then this is not what you need. If it’s what you need, then a year of your life can be a lot of time and sometimes a lot of money uh gets lost in that process as well if you’re not doing it right. So yeah,

    I love how how transparent you are. Really appreciate it. Thank you, Cass. Sometimes it’s a bit hard for me to read the message here because every time I get a new message the it moves. So So I’m reading something and then it moves.

    As I understand uh again it moved as I understand the program my responsibility is to run a paid ads. You’ll provide the rest of the steps for the business. Right. Right. But um again I like to be fully transparent. We should not oversimplify this. Like if you’re just like hitting the upload button. No, I I couldn’t I don’t know use a Grock agent to do that. Um imagine you Yes. Like if we think about like those roles that I mentioned before, yours would be the media buyer. So that’s correct. What you said is correct. But now it’s your business. You’re a partner. you’re joining as a so imagine like uh and I have to be careful saying this because this is not what it is I don’t want to have legal problems so this is not a franchise but imagine a franchise so when you get a franchise um you have lots of things that are already done for you like we have more things that are done for you than a franchise but uh still you get lots of things that are done for you and uh you still have to to run the business right and yes you you get everything but um you’re still making decisions. So for example, when you’re running a campaign, you’re deciding if you scale a campaign, if you kill a campaign, you’re you’re making that kind of decision. And um that is important that makes a difference. What I can tell is that not all partners have the same results for I can’t I can’t come here and say, “Hey, uh you’re going to make exactly what Jason made in two months from now.” I can’t say that. I think it wouldn’t even be uh legal for me to say that. But regardless of that, uh it wouldn’t be true cuz I don’t know, you could be make make more than him or you could make less. So, and it it’s different. Partners have different results. So, uh yeah, that’s that’s just to say that your role is important because if it wasn’t important, then everyone would get the same results, right? But yes, roughly you’re doing the media buying thing. just and and you’re not doing it uh that full thing like cuz normally a media buyer will get get an offer and then go from there. Should you go with like if we’re talking about meta ads CBO 111 or should go with bitcap campaigns or cost cap campaigns or should you try to uh use some exact uh strategy there or should you just follow the Andromeda structure how many texts you’re assigning per per ad and offer like all of those decisions a media buyer would have to figure out right so you’re getting all of that like we’re giving you the game plan okay so this is how you run the campaign this is what you do this is when you scale an ad this is when Pause and ad. This is You’re getting that, right? So, we provide that as well. No, that’s not $500 a day, Cass. No, absolutely not. No, no, that it was not a day or a week or something. Your screen isn’t shared. Oh my gosh. Let me see why. It should be like, is it just Thomas? Can everyone else please I’ll keep going through the questions. I know I haven’t answered several of the questions here but just give me uh yes in the chat if you can see my screen.

    Okay, Thomas. So it’s something on your side. Try to play around Zoom and figure out what is causing it cuz I don’t know like people are saying that they can see the screen and Zoom is telling me that I’m sharing my screen. Okay, let me go back to the questions. Are we building a Tesla?

    Yeah, hopefully yes. Uh, you know, the way I see the partner program is I see this as my biggest project ever in my business to be honest because the way I envision this uh progressing is um obviously as I said before I I this is the perfect timing now. There are periods of the year that tend to be much better than others. And this is not for the partner program. This is for and not even for affiliate marketing. This is in general. Whatever you’re promoting or running traffic to on the internet, Q4 and Q1 are the are much better like nearly 10 times better than Q two and three. I know many top marketers and affiliates who do not run any paid campaigns during Q2 and three. Their strategy is basically to let others do it. Validate campaigns. Then they they come on Q4 and get their validated ads, campaigns, offers, put a bunch of people to work on that, recreate the offers and launch their campaigns and stuff and make a lot of money during Q4 and Q1. And then Q2 is vacation time for them. Then they just take some time off and go drink some margaritas uh in Thailand, right? But uh so and and that that’s real like many people I don’t do that but many people do that. So time is great. I want all partners to achieve short-term results. That’s the goal. All of our funnels are designed to produce a short-term row uh a row as we before the back end. So it’s not that you’re losing money when you’re acquiring customers to try to turn a profit on the back end. No, that’s not how it works. That’s not none of our funnels are designed to do that. But at the same time, I envision a huge long-term potential for this. Right now, we’re a very small group. Over the years, that group’s going to grow. We’re going to release more offers. We’re just doing Bisop now. I think someone asked about niches, and it’s it’s uh we’re in the running bisop offers now, but we could expand that to other niches in the future. Partner with other businesses, other vendors. Um, you know, it’s it’s the potential is virtually unlimited. And I think that this is a huge project. Like I’ve been an affiliate marketer for almost 20 years, as I said before, since 2008. And even before that, but like making money, let’s say 2008. Before that was just like a wannabe. And and and I’ve always like affiliate affiliate marketing has always been my thing in different ways. There was a time when I was doing only almost lead generation offers. Um then a time when I was running a bunch of neutra offers and I’ve done all kinds of things. That’s the flexibility thing I said. I would just go where the biggest opportunity was basically. But now um I’m starting to put more and more focus on our internal offers and all of our offers that validate become profitable they are being made and will continue to be made available to partners. Not only the offers, ads, campaigns, everything. And I I think that at some point in 2027, next year, I’ll be able to get on a call like this and say, “Hey, now the affiliate portion of my business is 20 30% of my business and 70 80% is our internal offers. Right now, I’d say it’s the like 70% still like the affiliate marketing campaigns have been running for 20 years because the partner program was launched for the first time 6 months ago. So it’s a relatively new thing. Um yeah in April 6 months I think and uh but already it’s like uh not just the partner program but our internal traffic for our offers is already representing like uh this is not an exact number but let’s say 30% of our business 25% 30% something like that. Uh I see this in another six n months I don’t know uh being the the biggest portion of our business. So um yeah, that’s why I also want to make sure I work with the right people and I think the right people uh will really benefit from this program more than any other course, training or anything.

    Uh

    will your team help us if we have questions about our campaigns? Yes, 100%. partners have very easy access to me but we also have a dedicated support team for um for partners actually let me explain this in a level of detail how this team works that I I don’t think I have even explained all of this to to partners basically um so they have it’s very easy for partners to have direct access to me any partner can confirm that but uh we have another person who is dedicated to providing support to them and she is the direct point of contact with partners and she helps um them with situations as well but she has direct access to other team members. So for example, there’s a question about a campaign that she doesn’t feel confident answering. She has direct access to our chief media buyer, the guy running our campaigns, our internal traffic, and she’s one Slack message away from him. She’s going to send him a message. Hey, I have a partner who’s facing this issue. What would you do in the situation? Or have we seen anything similar in our campaigns? How you handle that situation? And he’s going to provide a detailed response and she’s going to forward it to that to to the partner. And we try to do that obviously in a time timely manner. So it’s it’s fast. We have weekly calls like technically uh I commit to uh one call every two weeks. That’s what we had in our initial agreement with the first partners. But I’ve been uh doing weekly calls with a couple of exceptions when I was seeking I could do it. But it’s weekly trading calls. Uh we jump on those calls. I share data information about our campaigns. Uh I sometimes share our uh the screen information like data from what we’re testing and basically uh partners can take the microphone and just talk and ask questions. we uh it’s possible if you want to share your screen or like everything like we have those calls in a very um they’re very like private calls like it’s not just like a webinar like this where I’m I’m here talking to a bigger audience it’s not like this um and uh yeah so dedicated support team uh we have a community so you can interact with the other partners it’s not like if you’re doing this without knowing what others are doing or being able to talk to them or ask a question or see if anyone has ever had the same situation you have easy access to the other partners as well.

    How safe are we with Facebook not closing our account for whatever reason they usually have? If we totally depend on Facebook, what happens next? That’s a great question. So, one of our commitments, I didn’t mention it here, I should have mentioned that uh is to help partners with that to always have healthy accounts. So when we started the program, we had providers, people who would provide accounts. So partners could use their own accounts or get an account from a provider and just replace those accounts if necessary. Recently, for those of you who are running Facebook ads, you probably know that uh Facebook changes the rules and uh restricted several accounts, uh start rejecting more ads. Um and um that that happened um in and over the last 60 days, I don’t know exactly, something around that. And even like we used to connect partners with agency accounts that would allow them to run ads on agency accounts at no fixed monthly fee. So just a small percentage but since agency accounts historically have a lower CPM um it was a great option but some of those accounts started having issues as well. So right now we’re deploying a new solution for partners. We had a call literally yesterday at the same time with partners. We’re doing the calls currently on Friday. That’s not set on stone. You can always change that. But we had a call yesterday and I announced a few things we’re doing. Uh, one thing we did to reduce ad rejections, which is normally what will get your account restricted to many ad being ads being rejected by over 90 95%. And the next thing we’re deploying is an integration and I can share this as an information that will maybe will be helpful for those of you who are struggling with Facebook uh campaigns. Well, uh, an integration with WP ads. I don’t know if you know about WP ads. WAP ads is a, um, platform like if you sell your own products via [ __ ] So, this is if you’re if you’re an affiliate, it’s possible. Then you have to do the technical stuff. That’s what we’re doing for partners and we’ll be deploying this next week. Uh, an integration for all the partners to run uh, campaigns with Bob ads. Uh if you are u let’s say selling your own products, you can put your product on [ __ ] and then you can use [ __ ] ads and basically you run your ads via W’s account and they publicly guarantee zero account bands. So uh because they have a high a high account, high value account where you do not have account bands basically. So you just you can still get ads rejected of course but your account doesn’t get banned. So well I’m not going to provide you with a tutorial on that. you can research and discover how it works, but you can work with [ __ ] ads and we’re enabling that for partners. So, in a nutshell, what partners will be able to do now is just to register for a free [ __ ] account. Uh they will provide us uh some information for their account. We’re going to set up the integration for them. They’re now running ads via WOP’s account. So, say goodbye to account bands. This is the solution we’re deploying literally now this week, this coming week. Now, um what if it changes in 6 months from now? Then we have some other agencies that have hive accounts as well. Uh we we always like this is always happening. We’re always solving that kind of problem on our business. We just deployed that in a done for you way for partners. That’s the goal.

    So these just saying that these solutions they change from time to time. Right now this is a good solution for any of you like who would like to to try it. If you’re an affiliate, if you’re an affiliate, I don’t know if you could do that. Like if you’re pro processing payments, let’s say with uh Stripe or any other payment processor, you can configure an integration. This is more [clears throat] technical like an API that will report conversions properly to [ __ ] and then you can have [ __ ] report that to Meta and technically you can make it work. That’s what we’re configuring for partners. We have a tech person full-time working on this now. Uh technically you could do that but I think it would be easier just to list your products on [ __ ] and WWOP. So if you’re selling by Stripe or Digi Store or I don’t know like just put your products on [ __ ] and then you can you can do that. Okay. Like if you’re an affiliate then uh that may not work. Uh if you’re doing volume, you can work with some sort of uh search for HIV uh agency account uh high value uh accounts and agencies that rent those accounts for you and then it’s not going to be free like the W account like what we’re going to provide to partners but still you’re going to be able to have an account that won’t face lots of restrictions. Obviously uh if you try to promote like I don’t know gambling or drugs or some nonsense stuff that that’s uh that will still be a problem, right? So, I’m just in case I’m assuming you’re doing something normal, right? Like we’re doing. Yeah, screen’s paused. It’s uh my last u slide. I can unpause it actually, but I just pause it because it’s easier for me to see the message here. Uh let me see. Yeah, I just resumed it, but it’s it’s just like uh now I’m doing a Q&A, so there are no slides for this. Okay.

    The support for partners is top notch. It really makes you feel like a VIP. Thank you, Jason. Really appreciate it. Um I I would be more than happy to unmute you like if you’d like to say anything about the partner program, but I even feel a bit ashamed to even mention this possibility cuz um you’ve been so generous with that interview that I feel bad even saying something like this. And it’s totally fine if you I I know that it’s not the type of thing like most people like to do, but anyways, if if you like to just say anything, uh just let me know, okay? That would be great.

    Um

    yes, Anders, it’s not possible to book it for next month. I’m doing this for I don’t know. That’s why I said in the beginning, I don’t know if I’m going to even make a replay for this. I have no idea. I’m not checking like appointments. Now, depending on the number of appointments, I’m pretty sure we’re going to be um getting like all the partners will be joining and I won’t even make a replay available. If I feel that not enough appointments, maybe we could have a few more to um to make sure that all the seats are taken. U then I’ll I’ll I’ll I might make a replay available. But it’s going to be like uh in any case I’m not going to go like beyond I don’t know let’s say Monday or Tuesday sharing this and allowing people to book appointments after that we’ll close the doors like this is not like a training or course we on board groups of people like one time I don’t think I can right now I’m still setting up my computer just now the power supply died on it yesterday. Absolutely, Jason. Absolutely. But I really appreciate you being here. That’s any all partners can see that interview. So, cuz I know that some people may think, “Oh, Jason is not real or anything like that.” Jason is absolutely real. You’re going to be able to send him a a heads up in the in the community if you if you join [clears throat] us.

    Uh, will we talk to you on the discovery call or to one of your your team members with me 100%.

    You’re going to be talking to me.

    You know, uh, I guarantee I I’m nice. Like again, even if I wanted to do that ridiculous thing of trying to do a some high pressure sales call, um I don’t think I would be able to do that. I I would have to to learn how to do that first and that’s just not uh so don’t worry, it’s just really conversation. And perhaps we’re going to talk for 30 minutes, 45 minutes. We normally reserve an hour just to be safe. Maybe we’re going to talk for 5 10 minutes and we’re going to say, “Okay, I I don’t think it makes sense for us to move forward at this point. I’ll let you know. I I always uh try to prioritize people who applied like I can’t say this yet cuz it’s just new but in the future I’ll always prioritize people who applied first before any consider doing another opening. So if we have let’s say I don’t know 50 applications um and some people are not a fit or something or I maybe um depending on the number of applications I won’t even be able I’ll have to maybe cancel like some of the calls I don’t know but uh I’ll make sure to um reach out to those people first before we do any u other opening in 6 months like I know I don’t know a year from now okay but it’s just really a normal conversation

    Um,

    willing, just to clarify the partner’s role, what specific tasks should I personally be doing each week once everything is set up? Uh, you would be running the campaigns on your account, following our training, our frameworks, doing what we instruct you to do. And if you have questions, asking us about that, but you’re going to be running the campaigns. And then the tasks that involves that like pausing ads, increasing your budget for winners, and you know, managing the campaigns initially that that’s what you’re what you’re going to be doing. Uh in the future, like as you get more sales, that’s going to naturally grow your list. Then you’re going to be managing your list as well. Like it’s it’s a business like it’s going to evolve over time, but initially that’s what you should be what you should expect.

    Uh so all the conversations are with you or some of your staff. All the conversations are with me. That’s another reason for me not to let so many people in. Uh let me actually see because if any of you I’m not checking like um appointments. And I I I just made like the next two days available to do this. So my calendar is block I decided to block out my calendar just so I can do these calls myself. Uh, so I can’t even be doing calls for several days. Like then we would all go bankrupt, my business and partners, because then I would be just doing calls instead of running the business, right? So it’s just for for really a couple of days.

    Uh, William, roughly how much did Jason spend on ads to achieve the results you showed us? Uh, let me see if Jason is still here. I I know the number because Jason mentioned that in in an interview, but that was a private interview. I’m going to say this here uh openly to everyone. Give me a yes, Jason, if you’re fine with me just saying how much you spent on ads.

    You can remember. I remember that. But yeah. Yes. Feel free. Yeah. So, he spent 15k to make 31. And actually he thought he had spent on the call like when we had a call 15k to make u 26 but actually it was 31 because there were the back end commissions that I think he was not checking. Yeah I made even more on the back end. Yeah. No 31 just for full transparency. You said 26 but then the uh uh I I checked the numbers uh later and I saw that it was an additional 5k on the back end. So that’s where the 31 comes from. Obviously 31 is a round number. It was 31 something. And uh you said 15k which is also a round number. Maybe it was a bit more. I don’t know around 15k.

    And uh just again another thing we’re doing now. I announced it literally yesterday that obviously when we recorded that interview it was not the case yet. Uh we are making the back end way more robust. Initially partners used to have like that’s the acquisition funnel then there’s the immediate monetization funnel. Let me actually go back uh here in these slides here just so you can understand because what I shared with you is the logic behind it like so initially partners would be have 100% of the acquisition plus a percentage of the monetization now which would be the first big ascension funnel. Now we have uh we’re deploying other offers and partners will um have a commission on all of those offers. So if it was already like that when Jason recorded the interview, I am pretty sure that 5K on the back end would be much more uh can’t say a number because it it wasn’t the case that didn’t happen but uh it will start to happen now. The reason for that is because I not uh partners have the email so they can promote offers. We provide done for you uh emails and offers for the email portion of the thing as well. But I realized that we could squeeze more value from those customers than partners were being able to do. So, um the idea is always to increase the potential for partners because then they acquire more customers and we grow together. It’s a a win-win thing. And so I decided that with now we’re going to be adding more funnels. the funnels already exist but the deal was that we would do the that monetization thing and then for the retention partners do their on and we do our on uh so we expanding that uh into our retention stage uh so that partners can win commissions on several other backend offers as well so this will maximize significantly what partners uh can make okay and this is news so when we we recorded that interview with Um, that that that was not happening yet.

    After 400 p.m. Central time, US. Yes, we can do that, Brett. I’m sorry if none of those appointments work for you. Well, if you if you tell me, Brett, that I uh that give me a time after 400 p.m. Central uh time and uh 400 p.m. Central time should be that’s two hours ahead. Uh central time is 1 hour ahead or two hours ahead of Eastern time. I don’t remember to be honest. Uh let me see. Central time. No, I always use eastern time as reference. Okay, so if you’re in central time, one hour behind. Yeah. So, you’re 2 hours behind me. So, 400 p.m. for you is 6 p.m. for me. So, yeah. So, what would you say like 400 p.m. Central time? I can send you that invite manually. Okay. 4 p.m. on like Monday, Tuesday. What’s the best day? Again, I can’t do this like Thursday or after that.

    Okay. Either works. Okay. So, I’m going to send you that that Zoom invite, okay? After the webinar, I’ll get your email. If you’re authorizing me to do that, I’ll send it to you. No problem. Let me just just create a note for myself here because sometimes I have so many things in my mind that I end up forgetting things. So, uh yeah, got your email here. Great.

    400 p.m. Central time. Monday or Tuesday? Monday.

    Uh let me go to the next question.

    I have so many questions. I said I was going to answer all the questions. I don’t think that will be humanly possible, but I’ll I’ll try to answer as many as possible. Uh I see some repeated questions, so I’m going to try to answer questions that are different. Um, I think that’s more productive. So, if I have to choose, how many hours a day is needed considering a minimum? I I don’t think the partner program is is time consuming. Uh, what what do you don’t need a lot of time uh let’s say an hour a day. I I think partners some partners need less than that. Now, um you could put put in more time if you want, but you don’t need a lot of time. What you what you need is you can’t set up your campaigns and go to Disneyland with your family and spend two days there without checking your phone or your laptop. That’s that’s something you should not do because the campaigns they demand active management. It’s not complex like but if an ad is not working on your account as you would anticipate it, you pause it. If an ad is working extraordinarily well, you scale it. And um we do that like uh even in my business. I know some people say, “Oh, but you can have Claude do that.” Um yes, I think that might be possible, but don’t don’t count on that in the beginning. Like you’re not going to get Claude to do something unless you master that something first. So you should be the one actively managing your campaigns. We still you still manage our campaigns with humans here. So, and um so that’s that that’s what you should commit like not to set it’s not a set and forget type of thing.

    [clears throat] Uh

    okay. So,

    okay. So, I I’m going to read your message, John. I’m assuming you put it sounds a bit personal, but since you you put it here, I’m not going to u mention your last name. Uh I’m assuming that I can read it. So, John said, “I just signed up. I’m praying that this is different than past experiences that I have had and that I can remove myself from the 9 to5 job for real.” That’s absolutely the goal. Uh again, I I like to be fully transparent. So this is not a push button thing. The business is done for you. It’s true. And once you’re inside, you can talk to any partner and they will confirm that to you. You’ll see that. Now, you still have to run the business like uh like any other business. Again, like like any other direct response business, uh we’re going to have ups and downs that do not depend on you and me, depend on the industry as a whole. uh and we have already experienced that inside and my commitment is always to come to partners and say hey and again this is the game plan I normally suggest to people when we have an offer or something that is printing money I’m going to jump on a call with you and say hey folks here’s an offer it’s printing money these are the ads we’re using these are the page they are already in your in your marketing center which the platform uh partners have go there this is the campaign structure we’re using do this do that like do all the instructions We provide support. Okay. Go there and print money with this thing and then that can stay for one month for two months. We never know like okay and then eventually something changes and okay this offer is no longer printing money. Now our best offer is this one but it’s not printing money like the previous one. It’s doing like 20% of what that one was doing. So this is a slow down time. and I let you know because we’re running the same offers. So, I can tell you without you having to discover that. And that’s what I do. And then the cool the the the plan we normally have is like this because partners on the data when it’s printing money season, uh you have to go out there and print money. The money is there on the table. It’s up for grabs. It’s not going to stay there forever. I’m not saying that it’s a one day thing. No, but it’s a few months like one, two, three months where you can I’m not going to give numbers here cuz I I think that always vary from one person to another and I don’t want to take the risk of do like making it sound that I’m promising you a specific result but you can you can print money right and then uh and then when it’s and then when you do that not only you get the commissions and the money and the wires and all the stuff that’s cool but you get the customer base if you have a slowdown and okay out this month there’s uh uh this offer. It’s still we it’s never happened that we don’t have a campaign that like that’s profitable. We always have but they vary. Okay. So this the campaigns we’re running out like if we were internally making I don’t know with that offer uh $300,000 a month. With this one we’re making 60 now around 20%. So um it’s it’s a smaller offer but you have all the emails you got from the first one. So now you use your email marketing to keep a proportion there. It will never be like a job where you have a fixed salary and it every month is the same. It will never be like that. Never. Forget that. That’s that I know people said I go I want to make 10K a month. Okay, that’s a nice goal. But if you want to make 10K a month, be prepared to make 5K in one month and 15 in the other. And then when you look at at the end of the year like to that, okay, then it’s 10K a month. It’s not going to be like 10K every month. But with that strategy, you can you can balance things. So when an offer is exploding, forget all the rest and just run that offer like crazy, like like a maniac. Then you run that offer and then uh when it slows down, okay, now you have a bunch of emails from that offer. Now start marketing to those emails. Not that you’re not always marketing to the emails, but then put special focus on that. Then another offer exploded. Okay, maniac mode again. Run that. That’s how the right response works. That’s how it is. If you’re doing this on your own with your own offers or as an affiliate, same thing. It doesn’t change because it’s the nature of our industry. It’s not this particular behavior of the industry. It’s not the partner program or it’s not this or that offer or this or that niche. It’s always like this. If you’re going to run neutral offers, great. This is your mindset. Same thing. It’s always the same. Okay. So that’s um that’s how it works.

    Yes, you’re going to own the list. We provide the autoresponder and everything even domains. We do all the technical stuff for you. So you can be a like a zero tax skill person. We handle that for you. But you own the data like if you another important thing to mention as a partner, you also own your license. Let’s suppose something here. No partners have ever decided to do that. Technically, uh, let’s say in a few months from now, you have some campaigns you’re running, uh, and you have, um, an email list that’s generating X dollars per month and something happens in your life and you want to exit the business. We hope that never happens, but for example, I don’t know, like a health, family situation. Hopefully, it’s the type of thing. We hope it would never happen, but let’s say like, you know, just just in case. So, something like that happens and you want to uh, so you so what what do you do? Like do you just like quit the business because you you you don’t want to do it anymore or you can’t do it anymore for any reason and and then okay like we keep all the potential you generated you walk away empty-handed. No, that’s your business. So you can uh sell that license to anyone uh you want like I say anyone we have a screening process it’s very basic like I don’t like to check legal background and things like that but um in practice like you can sell it to any person you want. You can sell that license for any price you want. Obviously, a license with emails there and a certain income already at a certain income level, it’s probably worth more than a brand new one, right? So, but you you can make your price and you can offer that to anyone you want. Oh, but I don’t have anyone I can offer that to. And by the way, we don’t take any cut or charge you anything like that’s your license. You sell it. If you sell it for a dollar or a million dollars, you make a dollar or a million dollars. But if you need our help, we can help you do that. Um then if we need someone like u salesperson to take care of that, they will need a commission. So we we’re not going to make any profit on assisting you with that. Uh but then obviously if we have to do it, there may be a cost for for doing that. But still, um you can do that. All right? So uh I I can’t say and our lawyer was very clear about this. You should never say well that it’s an asset like a stock or something cuz it’s not. So just a disclaimer for legal reasons it’s not like that but you own the license and you can do it and we have an agreement that says that you own the license you own the data uh etc. Okay.

    [clears throat]

    Uh JL, yes, we can talk. Uh I don’t know who is JL. Can you give me your name? I Zoom won’t allow me to see like someone’s name or email here.

    So, if you can just give me your name. Uh,

    uh, Cindy say, “How often do you offer the partner program? Will when will you make this offer again?” Well, this is the second time I’m doing it. I don’t know when I’ll be doing it again. Uh, all spots seem to be gone already. Uh yeah, that was a possibility because uh I’m doing the calls myself.

    Uh what I can do is anyone who uh couldn’t book the call, please give me a um a quick me. No, not me. Let me give you another word because I have to find it in the Zoom report later. Um [clears throat] put um gone. Just put gone. gone in the chat. In the chat, not the Q&A tab. In the chat tab, put gone. G O N E. Gone. And then I’ll just uh see if I can reach out to you and maybe we can arrange something. Uh Zoom meetings when you book the call like the the you get an email from Zoom with the link. But we can use video or we can use just audio if you prefer like it. I just think think that Zoom is is just easier. You don’t have to to to get on camera if you if you don’t like it. Okay.

    Oh, Yansen. Yeah, Jansen, of course. You I you have me on Slack. Just send me a message there. I’ll get back to you right after the call. Sorry. Um JL Okay. Absolutely.

    Um,

    all right. I don’t Yeah, I’m getting lots of guns here. So, I’ll reach out to those um who I can. So, about I was answering the question. Oh, yeah. Here’s the question. I will answer about when I’ll reopen this. Uh [sighs and gasps] I don’t know. I’m like my plan is all like if eventually any we feel like offering more seats uh I’ll probably reach out to those who applied and couldn’t join for any reason first and then we we’ll probably do like most likely public reopenings again. If it’s going to be in 6 9 12 months from now I have no idea to be honest. So I won’t commit to any time frame.

    Okay. All right. So, uh, yeah, just checking all the methods that say gone to see if the there’s not a because if the spelling is not correct, then I’m not I’m going to I’m not going to find it. I’m going to pull the data based on that.

    What other products do you have that you use affiliates for? Uh, none. [clears throat] We know that we don’t have affiliate programs for our products. We have now let me actually correct this like what we do is we have that traffic mavericks training that someone mentioned before and for that one uh when we have a partner who has an audience and wants to promote it to to to their audience we’re going to make it possible and available and obviously they get a commission for that. uh it’s not an affiliate program that they can become an affiliate for and drive any traffic to. It’s just for people we know in our circle and we know have an audience. So like technically they are affiliates but like I know what you’re that’s not what you’re talking about. You’re talking about like a normal affiliate program. So we don’t have that and have zero plans to do that. My plan is always to focus on the partner program just partners because then I make the offers available to partners only and we work together in the partner program and that’s it. Okay. So, uh I don’t see that happening in the future.

    All right. So, it’s been [sighs] oh my god 2 and 1/2 hours almost really long session. Uh well, I’m a bit exhausted to be honest. I believe that’s the case for most of you as well. So, uh I think I’ve answered most of the questions. Uh I’m sorry if I missed any questions. Some of repeated questions. I tried to like focus on you questions because I thought that would be more productive. I really appreciate all of you joining and if you have questions let me give you an email here that you can reach out to. It’s helpyminds.help.

    So helpwealthyminds.help

    it’s in the chat. You can save that email address and then I think we can after this we can wrap things up here. All right. Uh well, most important thing, I really hope that you got value from the first part of this webinar. I really tried to share with you how the affiliate marketing business truly works. I saw that some people thought it was a bit overwhelming and confusing. I think we had a few other words there, but I know that um you know perhaps it was not what some people were expecting like especially when people like just like a method or something, but I try to be 100% honest with you. That’s how it really and truly works. I know many people making a lot of money with affiliate marketing. I am not the biggest affiliate I know, not even close to that. There are guys who are much bigger than I am in the affiliate marketing space. uh there are numbers that uh most people wouldn’t even think I’m lying if I were to share those numbers. So the affiliate marketing industry has a lot of potential. I’ve seen people achieve like I have a team of now that’s um or a direct response business it’s relatively big but uh I know people like working alone or with a very small team just two or three people generating insane results. So, it’s possible, but it comes down to having a business. And I hope that the first part of this webinar was useful to give you a direction on what kind of business you need to really get results as an affiliate. It’s possible to do that. I’m not saying, and I don’t want to any uh mislead people into believing that, oh, you should not get a chance to join a partner program. Forget it. You’re not doing it. Absolutely not. You can do it. You can do it on your own. It’s absolutely possible. partner program is something that can give you a shortcut and potentialize your results. But I’m pretty sure every single person here can do it if they really want it, if they make the decision, if they commit. And it’s not just saying it. It’s saying it today, then saying it again tomorrow, and then saying it again the next day and the day after and the day after. Say this saying this like I commit to making this work every single day. I’ll face the challenges. I will not feel frustrated or disappointed. I’ll not procrastinate. Because if you do that, then that’s you saying that you you don’t want it. Okay? Maybe your your mouth is saying that you want it, but your attitude, your mind is saying that you don’t that you don’t want it more than you want to um have an extended holiday. That you don’t want it more than you want to go out uh to dinner tonight. That you don’t like. So, you have to really want it more than anything. And then you can do it. It’s possible. All right. Uh yeah, there are no slots available. So I I believe all the slots are gone. So yeah, Andreas uh if if you already put gone in the chat. If not, just do it because I’ll be getting the report from Zoom and I’ll have um I’ll extract all the messages with gone. G O N E gone because it’s gone, right? Gone. and uh I’ll see if I can accommodate a few more people. All right.

    Okay. So, um that’s it for today. Thank you for attending and staying with me for two and a half hours. It was a really long session and I really appreciate you staying with me until the very end. It was a great one. I hope you got value from it. And for those of you who booked a call, uh I’ll talk to you, I don’t know, Monday, Tuesday, whenever, uh is a spot that you selected there. Okay. Thank you and uh enjoy the rest of your weekend. Take care. Bye-bye.

  • 10/24/2026 – Wealthy Minds Power Session – October 2026

    Hey everyone, how’s it going? Hope you’re doing well. Welcome to our power session. I hope you’re having a great weekend. First of all, let’s just real quick confirm that you can hear me loud and clear, that you can see my me for now, not my screen yet. So, just give me a hi or hello in the chat if you can, please. All right, Jeff, Brent, Dilly, David, Dan, Maria, Greg, thank you. Marica, Barry, Hillary, Sandy, Lenny, Gus, Chad, Jasper. All right, Jeffrey. All right, thank you everyone. All right, so it seems that everything is working fine. So let’s get started and I will start recording this one. Now I strongly recommend that you stay on live cuz particularly for this one for this session I think the Q&A part is going to be very very important. So I strongly recommend that you stay if you can. But being transparent, I’ll be recording this one and um I do have the intention to make it recording available for I don’t know maybe one, two, maybe even three days. That that that part I don’t know yet. So let me recording in progress. All right. Okay. So let’s officially start now. And uh All right. So today I want to share with you a uh a complete game plan uh for scaling meta campaigns to six figures. And just as a quick introduction, if you’ve been following me for a while, uh you know that uh well I I have a long journey in the affiliate marketing/direct response space and uh I do use and recommend in my own affiliate marketing business many I think we can call those alternative traffic sources or second tier traffic sources. I have trainings on that and um I think that’s a very interesting uh viable route for an affiliate marketer to to get started. Uh but obviously uh Meta is is it remains a very powerful platform when you can use it, right? Uh if we were to to do a comparison with alter al alternative traffic sources in meta I’ll say that meta has always the biggest potential for scaling but it is indeed more competitive. It traffic can be more expensive there. So if you don’t know how to play the g the meta’s game right uh you can have issues but if you know how to play it right the potential there is it’s virtually unlimited. It’s a matter of numbers like Meta is the biggest traffic source in the world if you understand how to use it. Um there’s a huge amount of money to be made there. And that’s what I want to show you here today. And I decided to do this power session. And by the way, there’s nothing for sale. I’m not going to offer you any courses, trainings, programs, like nothing. Like there this is not a warm-up for something. It’s just really a training. Uh last year I I I was I I used to do no not just last year I stopped doing it this year but for I don’t know like almost no yeah seven eight years I think I I I used to do like weekly training sessions and I feel that since I stopped doing it this year I kind of uh I I feel like I have to provide more value to the wealthy minds list and to the wealthy minds group basically and I want to do this um start doing this more frequently now that we are entering Q4 cuz Q4 and Q1 they tend to be much better for uh for just selling stuff on the internet perhaps offline as well I don’t know but definitely on the internet and that then for affiliates this is a great period okay so I’ll be doing more training sessions like this one I’ll be releasing more videos more of those insider reports that I’ve been sharing cuz I want to give you more uh real information content. There’s a lot of content out there. It’s not easy to find things that are real that come from people who are doing it in and who are in the trenches. The problem is that people in the trenches, they lack the time to produce training sessions like this one. This is the reason why I have been doing this as frequently as I um as I wanted for for the past few months. But uh yeah, I think that I’ll be able to share some nice information with you here today. So what I prepared was initially just to go through some initial stuff. I put together a short very short slide presentation. I’m not a big fan of slides but just to to give us a foundation here and then after that I want to share with you examples. I want to share uh I I’ll use the whiteboard to show you some strategies and uh I’ll try to make it as obviously when we talk about scaling meta campaigns to six figures there’s a lot involved there. We’re going to spend an hour and a half here probably plus 30 45 minutes for Q&A. That’s what I’m expecting. But uh obviously this could be like a two three-day workshop and we would have definitely enough content to to cover. So I’ll try to be concise, straightforward and give you actionable information. I want to provide everyone who’s here when I mail you a recording tomorrow. If you stay until the end, I’ll definitely include for you as a bonus a uh the these slides and a transcript with everything like in kind of a playbook for implementing everything we’re going to be discussing here today. So that uh if if it’s a bit of an information overload, which is a risk uh that could happen today, but you’re going to get that information in a very organized way. So, I think that it’s going to be something you’re going to be able to to really use in your business. All right. So, with that being said, uh let me start by sharing those slides with you. So, give me a moment to share

    my screen. All right. You should be able to see it now. All right. So uh let’s talk about some uh very important things. I’m going to rush a little bit this part because the real act the really actionable stuff is in the second part. Okay. All right. So first of all uh let’s just just make sure that we everyone here understand what the affiliate marketing game is. This is information I’ve shared before but just to make sure everyone is on the same page. So when we talk about affiliate marketing uh and this is not and this is not going to be just for affiliate marketers because if you own your own product your own funnels this is going to be very useful for you as well but I believe 80% of the audience is into affiliate marketing. So I’m going to kind of give a special emphasis on what works for affiliates. Uh I know we have many partners from the partner program here as well. So you’re going to see many of the things that you already know from inside the program and actually in a way more detailed way there. But I think you’re going to be able to uh have some insights and and learn some new things here as well. And I think that everything that works for affiliates, it works in a similar way for you as you see some of the problems that have to be addressed and solved, they are already solved for you there in the program, but uh it’s still uh uh the game is not much uh it’s not much different. All right. So uh affiliate marketing these days it’s it’s always been but especially these days it’s a margin game. So when when we think about uh running campaigns on meta and struggling with um expensive traffic we’re just actually putting it’s a perspective it’s a way of seeing it. We’re putting uh um uh we’re positioning the problem on meta side. We’re kind of blaming meta for being so expensive. On the other hand, uh we could just approach the same problem in a different way and blame ourselves for having so bad margins and for having so bad economics and not being able to make enough money on our side to cover that traffic expense. So, uh this is also a a valid way to to to look at the problem. I think both could be true, but the thing that matters is you cannot change meta’s auction. You can only change your margins. So I suggest that you take the second route and approach this problem as being your problem and not a not Meta’s problem because then you can be in control. So uh the thing about uh margins in this case is that uh it’s an auction system there and everyone is competing there. All kinds of businesses with different economics, recurring businesses, SAS businesses, uh high ticket businesses, they’re all competing there at the end of the day for the same traffic. It’s a lot of traffic. It’s a big pool of people there, but it’s still uh they’re competing there. So, if someone can afford paying more for a click than you, they will naturally outbe you and out outperform you in that game. So, uh, as you see, I’ll talk a lot about, uh, using strategies that give you better margins because if you’re promoting, for example, the wrong offer, maybe even if you’re marketing genius, you’re not going to be able to make it a work because it doesn’t give you the right margins. You can do a great job on the marketing side, but if the economics is not working in your favor, you’re going to get crushed the same way because there’s not enough money for you to make there. So, that’s uh, important. And same if you’re not an affiliate and you have your own offer and funnel, it’s the exact same idea. So, uh, another thing to understand is that this is a real business. Sometimes people think that they just want to make some extra money and do that without having to learn anything just by pushing a few buttons, especially now that AI is automating things. So, they think that this is just the easiest thing in the world. If you assume that it’s super easy, that it should be easy and then you just have to find the right method or even the right AI tool to do the whole thing for you, you could get into trouble because that’s not how it works. So, you’re already starting the game as a very um you’re not going to be connected to the reality. Basically, you’re going to have an impression of the things that it’s just not real and people playing the game there uh on meta when once you start kind of playing against them, that’s what you’re going to do when you enter the auction. Um they will be better prepared than you. So, understand that this is a very competitive business and uh AI it’s available to everyone, not just to you. So everyone is creating AI agents, AI automations, AI teams to build faster, to an analyze data faster, more precisely, to make the right changes, to deploy new ads, campaigns, page much faster. Uh, everyone is doing that. So uh this is a highly competitive space. You that has to be pretty clear to you. All right? Um because if you don’t understand this, then uh you’re you’re gonna enter the game with the wrong mindset. Another thing to to uh keep in mind is that this is a business where the entry barrier is is very very low. Uh almost any person with very basic resources can start working as an affiliate. In fact, that’s one of the reasons why it’s the preferred business model for people who are trying to start an online business because you don’t have to do lots of things. You don’t have to build an inventory. You don’t have to have a I don’t know like a physical place there like you don’t have to borrow a lot of money from from the bank. You don’t have to um I don’t know you don’t have to to hire a big team of people to work with you. Uh yeah and it’s it’s a pretty straightforward simple business model. Technically you can do this from from home with I’m not going to say with a phone but with a laptop definitely. All right. So uh it’s a low entry barrier. Lots of people want to make more money and have a laptop with internet connection. So when you understand that the differentiation factor is not the AI tool or it’s not the traffic source or even sometimes the offer because those things are accessible to a lot of people. It’s going to be really you. You are the only aspect in your business that cannot e be easily replicated by your competitors and vice versa. like they’re they’re they’re they are the uh biggest factor in their business that you cannot copy. So, um that’s the reason why um I’m trying to make some important things clear here because if you have the wrong mindset when you’re getting started, you’re going to kind of uh prepare your business for failure. So, you are very important in this business. Okay? Your judgment, your learning, your execution that matters more than anything else. All right? Uh, another thing that’s important, I strongly recommend, and this is not just even for meta. Now, I’m talking about meta here specifically, but this is for literally anything. I strongly uh strongly recommend that you learn some basic concepts of copyrightiting. And this may sound like something very old-fashioned, like copyriters are uh an extinction now, like AI is kind of replacing them. And I think that it makes sense to a certain extent because AI can write great copy. It bits me to the punch, but I’m pretty sure it bits most copywriters out there. I’m not a copyriter, but I’ve been writing copy for a long time. But the thing is that copy is not about writing. It’s about uh assembling elements together. I think that it was Eugene Schwarz who said that you don’t write copy. you um I don’t remember the exact uh quote but you build copy or you kind of assemble the elements together to create copy. You’re not writing it from scratch. So copy is primarily strategy more than knowing how to write in a persuasive way. So AI can do the writing but that strategy it still demands a lot of human input. And again that’s something that if you don’t know how to do and others do that is a big differentiation factor when you compete with other people who are more prepared for this. So when if you you can think about this as someone who like for example I am a an enthusiast of uh whiskey. So I you know not an expert but I like it you know to drink some uh different whisies like once sometimes twice a week. So it’s kind of a hobby. So if you ask me about um uh if you ask me to to to taste a specific whiskey and I can give you some basic information about it. It’s far from a professional who can capture all the notes and all the details and nuances there but I can give you an idea on what kind of whisk it is and I can give you some basic information. So I I’m not ignorant when it comes to whisk. I have some basic understanding of it but I’m not an expert. And um if you give that same uh whiskey to someone who who’s never uh who’s not used to drink whiskey, when they try to drink it, it’s going to be just alcohol. That’s the only thing they’re going to feel. It’s going to be like drinking pure alcohol for them. And that’s because they don’t know how they know nothing about that thing. They don’t understand it. They can’t capture anything from the experience. Same about art. If someone who knows nothing about art like myself looks at a painting, they can they can think, “Oh, this is really beautiful.” But they’re not going to be able to explain anything about it. Like when uh anything about the artist uh who painted uh that uh that painting or they’re not going to say they’re not going to be able to say like the period of that painting. They’re not going to be provide any information or anything. They just think it’s beautiful or not. Now, the reason why I’m telling you these things is because they’re kind of analogist for what happens with people in the internet marketing space. They look at an ad, they watch a video ad, like 2 minutes of ad, and for them, it’s an ad. It’s a video promoting something. That’s all they can see. If that’s all what you can see, then you’re already in trouble before you start running your campaigns because uh an ad it has a structure. There’s a science there. And when you create your ads, if you don’t know how that works, then you’re just doing it blindly. AI can help you to a certain extent, but it’s not going to work because there are many possibilities when creating ads. And AI is not it’s not going to gas right every single time. You’re going to the process is you create an ad, you test that structure. If it doesn’t work, you change it. And you know what you what you’re testing until you find what works. If you’re doing it randomly, then it’s like trying to find, I don’t know, like an atom in the universe. You’re not going to find it. It’s just too many possibilities. So, it’s important that when you look at an ad or something that you understand what you’re seeing there. I have an example here for you. We’re going to do a breakdown and I’m going to show how it works um in a in simple terms, but I strongly recommend that you learn the basics of copyrightiting. So, you have to be for copyright like I am for whiskey. I’m not an expert, far from that. But I know the basics. I understand the basics. I I can drink a bourbon and a scotch and I will know the difference immediately. So, you know, that’s that’s important that you um can have basic understanding that you look at an ad and you see there a hook, a promise, a fascination bullet that you see the structure, you see what that what is in front of you. So, you can manipulate it and you can use it. So, that’s very important. Um, all right. So, uh, I’m going to even skip some slides here because we’re going to have that, um, that that that, uh, breakdown that we’re going to go through together. So, I’m not going to enter into details here. But the point is there’s copyrightiting is a science that everything that you see when you see a VSSL, a sales page, or an ad that’s performing well for someone else, what you’re looking at is a structure that can be replicated, that can be remodeled to work for your campaign. This is key. And you’ll understand why in a moment. Okay. So, for example, when you look at a VSSL, the first two or three minutes of a VSSL is normally what we call of the the lead. We could call it an intro, but the the right term that copyriters use is lead. So, um that lead block uh it’s two normally 3 minutes long and it’s going to have several elements there and some lead blocks will work and others won’t. Uh for example uh I’ve already tested in the past starting for I’m going to give you like a real example. Some time ago I was split testing some VSSLs and I was able to get a VSSL that was selling nothing with five leads. We had already tested five leads with no results. The sixth one uh became a a blockbuster and the that that that’s changing the initial two minutes of the VSSL. The other 30 minutes were the same. And um the things that uh the thing that I changed was that I was putting social proof in the beginning and I changed and start with the promise. But I’ve had other VSSLs in the past where putting the promise in the beginning didn’t work and then we used the super structure then the promise then the mechanism. So I’m I’m saying these things and perhaps they’re not very clear to you what these things are but uh it’s not important because we’re going to as I said uh dive deeper into this in a moment. But the point is that there are blocks there that are different elements and shuffling them in different orders will yield you different results. That’s for the ads, that’s for if you sell, that’s for a sales page. So if you don’t understand what you’re seeing there, that’s one of the first things you want to to to learn. And it doesn’t take a lot of effort to learn this. Um, you can watch some podcast episodes on copyrightiting and copyrightiting structures. There are many um videos for free that you can find on YouTube that will teach you this. You can read some books if you like to do that. Um Russell Brunson has some nice books. Uh Eugene Schwarz is a great author that I mentioned like his uh breakthrough advertising. His book is probably the the one that covers everything that you need to know to get started. Uh but I think books is can can be slow in this case. So podcasts is on YouTube is the way to go. If you have any nice courses about copyrightiting, I don’t have one, but if you know someone who does and uh you’d like to learn more about that, that that’s very possible. And you can just ask AI to teach you that. If you ask AI to teach you how to identify different elements and and blocks and pieces of copy, and then you provide it with transcripts for ads and ask it to point you to different blogs and and and the different structures. In one or two days, AI can teach you how to do this. download a bunch of ads, upload them to AI, the transcripts, and ask it to to to show you the different elements there. So, uh this is going to give you a lot of uh a lot of uh uh uh clarity about what you’re doing. Uh good one, William. Uh when I sent here in the chat, I was under the impression that as an affiliate, I do not have control uh over the vendor VSSL. Well, that’s something I’ll talk about. Many affiliates create their own VSSLs. For super affiliates, I would say that 80% of them create their own VSSLs. You don’t have to create a VSSL in the beginning, but you need to understand the VSSL because the creative is a warm-up for the VSSL. So, if you don’t understand the VSSL, it’s like me trying to convince you to watch a movie that I have never watched before. So, I don’t know what to tell you to convince you to watch that movie in full. So, still you have to understand the VSSL even if you’re not creating it. Okay. Uh anyways, uh I used the VSSL as an example there. I could have used an ad. Any anything that has uh sales copy in it has a a structure if it’s working like some people create random things but then those things never work. All right. So the uh takeaway here is campaign building campaigns. It’s a science. So do not just pick an offer, create any ad, upload it to Meta, and expect it to get sales. That’s gonna burn your wallet. You never get sales if you just do that. It doesn’t work like that. I wish it it did, but unfortunately unfortunately it doesn’t. So, uh, your science is going to be always, uh, your process is going to be always scientific. Research, prepare, test, learn, and then when you learn, you improve. So, these four steps are very important. And that’s what I’m going to show you here uh for for running campaigns on Meta. Uh, and one great thing you can do, and this is something I’m going to show you now, is to start with very solid research. So, let’s say that, okay, you’re I’m going to assume this is the situation for most people here. Uh, you let’s say you want to start running affiliate campaigns on Meta. You don’t have an offer. You you have nothing basically. You just have the desire to do it. So, the best way to do it is not to go to a marketplace and pick a random offer, create a random ad for that offer, and try to promote that on Meta. That’s guaranteed to fail. It’s like it’s 100%. It’s not 99.9. No, it’s 100% guaranteed to fail. What you want to do is to start with very solid research because advertising in general, it’s all about testing. We never know. AI doesn’t know like uh Russell Brunson doesn’t know when something’s going to work for sure guaranteed. So what we do is we have a process for testing and validating things. However, you can leverage other people’s efforts, money, and spend to gather some important information. So instead of you testing random offers, you see what offers others are promoting and getting results with that. And I’m going to show you how to do it. and then uh you already have some direction to get started that that gives you a much better chances of finding a winner cuz if you were to test like offer by offer on ClickBank for example, yes, you you would eventually find something that works, but God knows how much money that would cost you. So instead of doing that, you use other people’s money. You find things that are already working for others. That’s market research. That’s pretty basic for any other industry. But in the affiliate marketing space, many people don’t do it. And then from there, you start applying that scientific process for building your campaigns. So, um, you’re going to research. Let me actually put that slide back on. You’re going to research, you’re going to prepare the campaign, you’re going to test it, and you’re going to learn from your test. And we can add a fifth step here, which is when it works, you’re going to scale it, right? So, that’s that’s your process.

    All right. So, if you’re an affiliate, you want to analyze the market. You want to identify offers with signs of scale, and you want to study the ads affiliates run. If you if you have your own offer, then you don’t have to go that broad because for an affiliate, if you find something really strong in the um I don’t know, weight loss niche, you can go for that. But if you find something really really nice in the joint pain uh niche or in the bisop space or whatever, you could go for that as well because you’re an affiliate. You’re flexible. If you have your own offer or funnel, you’re not going to change your business. Like if you’re a lawyer and you provide consultation in your area, you’re not going to, I don’t know, become a uh you know, a doctor or something to offer some different type of of service. So, you’re going to see what other lawyers who also offer consultation uh ideally targeting the same potential customers, the same target market. Uh you’re going to see what they’re doing. You’re going to see what’s working for them. And you’re going to start from what’s already proven to work for others because they spent time, money, they put in the effort to create that and to validate that and then you use that to leverage your process. So, that’s how it works. All right. So now uh let me show you like how you do this. So let’s keep that process in mind. Research, prepare, test, and learn. And obviously when you find a winner, then you scale it. So that’s that’s your process. So let’s talk about research first. So first thing you’re getting started now. You don’t have an offer. You don’t have a niche. You don’t have anything but the desire to make it a work. So the first thing you’re going to do is just to have a broad overview of the market. So you’re going to start with uh market research tools or some people call them spy tools and you’re going to start with swipe files. These are the two things you’re going to start with or that research phase the first phase market research tools or spy tools same thing and swipe files. So let’s talk about the tools first. Free tools. So, if you don’t have money, you’re going to go to the meta ad library. So, let me put this on your screen real quick just so I can show you the tool. So, here

    here it is. Or you should be able to see it, right? Yeah, I think I think it’s visible to you. Um, let me just see if I can The problem is that the presentation will get in front of it. Let me Okay, you should be able to see it now. All right. So you can go to Facebook’s ad library and here you can research anything for like you could specific countries or just anything and then you can like if you want to uh promote something about affiliate marketing you’re going to start with as something as simple as affiliate marketing and you’re going to see many ads running here all kinds of ads promoting all kinds of offers and in this case because I’m targeting uh all countries or any place then it’s not specific to the US. Um, but then you can see what’s being promoted here and you can get ads that are working because you can see that for example this ad here is running since June 14th. So it’s several months. It’s an app that that’s been active for a long time. And if we were to watch this video, we would be able to extract the structure of this video, the promise, the all the copy elements and use that to remodel it and create a a an ad for us instead of starting from scratch. So this is the idea and again how to extract the copy structure is something we’re going to see later when we talk about ad creation. So uh here you can find lots of ads and well let me just try to put just the United States because I’m seeing lots of things here that I don’t understand. You probably don’t understand either. So,

    let’s try again.

    Okay. So, now we can uh well, it’s still Oh, yeah. Now, now everything is in English, I think. Yeah. So, you can make your research here, and you’re going to go through several ads until you find something that’s interesting. So that that’s um that makes sense to you and eventually you can find affiliate offers here as well. And when you find those then you can see for how long people have been running those ads. Then let’s say I want to check out this SS Academy here because this is something that interests me. So, I’ll just search for them specifically and then I’ll see all the ads they have up and running and everything that they’re promoting and how they are creating ad variations or if they’re using the same ads or not, if they’re using AI ads or image ads or video ads. So, you can get a lot of information and a great idea on what others are doing just by using uh a tool like this. So, this is Facebook’s tool. There’s also the Google ads transparency tool which is similar but just for for Google ads and so search and YouTube mainly same thing. And there are paid tools. There’s one that I like to recommend. Uh this one is in Portuguese because it’s a Brazilian tool, but let me I know they have an English version on their website. Probably they are using my IP address, so I’m going to have to translate to English here. Okay. So uh so what what it what it does is to help you find uh offers that are campaigns that are running on Facebook and YouTube. But here you have some advanced features like for example you can uh specifically search for offers that are running that are ClickBank offers. So instead of going to the ad library and going through a bunch of ads and finding some things that are available clickbank and dig store or whatever uh and finding many offers that are actually proprietary offers. So you can still use those ads as reference but you’re not going to be able to promote the same offer. Here you can find offers you can filter by clickbank dig store JVZoo or u marketplaces payment processors. Uh you have some additional features that can facilitate your work. So uh deep tube.io IO is a tool that I recommend. There’s this one here that is um Robbie Blanchard’s tool that’s very nice as well. Uh Spy Hero. Personally, I prefer Deep Tube, but I think Spy Hero is is is definitely a nice one as well. And it gives you an idea on what people running. Like you can see that like the different types of offers that they are running and the percentage of ads like so which offers have more people competing for that offer, which offers have uh less affiliates promoting them. The cool thing here is that you can monitor this and you can see that an offer starts small and then it starts growing. It means that it’s working for affiliates. It’s something that’s trending. So you can jump on that one. So again, this is a paid tool, but it does a good job. But I’m not an affiliate for any of these tools. So I’m I’m not giving you affiliate links or anything. Just recommending the tools cuz they work. So that’s your starting point. Uh market research tools, free options and paid options. Okay. So you can get all the information about these tools by going to their websites is spyhero.com and deep.io. deep.io. All right. So and then Facebook at library and Google Transparency Center. You can just search for that on Google and you’ll see the information. I think some um uh have people here asking that for the price point. I think that this may change depending on where you are. Actually, I’ve seen many tools doing that these days. So, I’m not going to show you what it is for me because I’m in Brazil now. Maybe if you’re in the US it could be different, potentially more unfortunately. So, uh I’m not going to show that because you know that could be inaccurate. Well, I can do that actually. is um yeah in Brazil this is roughly $20 uh a month here. No, sorry, $40 a month and that’s quarterly. So monthly it would be around I don’t know like $50 $60 a month in US dollars but you have to see and I I I suspect it’s more in in in in the US. I don’t know. Again I’m not an affiliate. I don’t control the tools. They’re not partners or anything. I just use the tools. Okay. So, uh that’s that’s your first step. You’re going to see what’s uh Spy Hero $147 per month. Okay. Thank you, Tilly. So, that’s your starting point, research. Second step, it’s still inside research. We’re still talking about like if we think about those four phases, it’s still phase one research. If you want a shortcut, there’s something that can help you here. uh the swipe files. So uh and I’m recommending some Brazilian tools and swipe files here not because I am from Brazil like there are some um places and countries where direct response and affiliate marketing have recently exploded. When I say recently last five, six, seven years and they are actually very strong in this space and Brazil happens to be uh a very strong let’s say a place where you can find very strong players in the affiliate marketing game. Uh same about Russia and a few other Romania like who would guess that one but yes so anyways I know more Brazilian tools than Russian or Romanian tools because uh I am from Brazil probably but and I know more people here but uh anyways these are good tools that many people in the US and in Europe also use. So um swipe files what are swipe files are uh there are two types of swipe files um the the ones with current offers that show exactly what’s working now and the ones with classic copy and things that are like timeless and that you can use for inspiration. I’ve seen many big offers being created based on copy that um a a copyriter wrote for a newspaper in the 50s and then they just adapt that one and then um and then make make it uh um create copy for Facebook these days and that that can work. So those are the classic uh uh swipe files. So swiper.com.br is a paid one. Let me again show you that here. So, I have all these tabs because I want to make sure that I have everything that I want to show you here. So, Swiper is a paid one. Um, and they have lots of stuff here from the classics. So, if you want to learn some and get some ideas for uh creating ads or videos or sales pages, you can and you can things that have worked hundreds of times in dozens of different niches across decades. You will find those things in swipes like this one. There’s the swiped.co which uh is is free and there’s a lot of good stuff in here as well. So these two are for classic copy if you want something that’s working right now. I don’t know of any free options. So unfortunately I cannot share free options with you but there are two that are really nice. One is American swipe. I’m going to share the inside of this one. Um so this one is in Portuguese. I know they have an English version as well, but uh because of my IP address, I end up seeing the the Portuguese one. So, uh it’s americanwipe.com.br

    and uh they provide what they do is to do that market research for you basically. So, they they do the research and they help you. Um it’s like instead of hiring someone to do it for you or spending a lot of time doing it yourself, you can find some validated stuff here. So for example um let me see I’ll just want to go to the initial page here. Okay so this one uh is American swipe the from the inside. So you can see lots of uh offers here and this is not specifically for affiliates. This is for direct response. Many people in the direct response space will create their own offers. So um for example uh like in the neutra space there are vendors that provide the product but then you can create the offer which is the VSSL the sales page whatever you use for promoting that product. So you are in control of the offer. So many of the offers you’ll find here are offers that were created by the direct response marketer who would be uh the affiliate in this case. So, um, what you can do here is not necessarily to just copy and paste this for the offer you’ll be promoting, but you can have references. You can see ads that worked for someone selling something that’s very, very similar. So, if we’re talking about weight loss and uh, GLP1 mechanism or something like that, you’re going to find lots of offers about that here with ads that are scaling and that are validated. You just adapt to them to your offer and it’s much better than trying to create something uh, out of nothing. So, swipe files like these ones, they can give you a shortcut. So, this is probably the biggest one. There’s this one, and I don’t know, the video is not working here, but let me translate this one for you. Uh, this is I’m going to include all of these links in that transcript that everyone who’s here will receive. Okay? So, uh you don’t have to worry too much about the links, but this is seven, the number seven swipe. like in like in inside like in and same thing like they’re just like they’re they’re the inside of this one is not as sophisticated as American Swipe. It’s just like Google Drive with folders and stuff like that. But what matters is that they have good offers and good research here. So research tools and swipe files, that’s how you you get started. Okay, so that’s phase one. That will already give you lots of ideas. You’ll see what kind of offers are working. You see what offers that you can see nothing about in in the swipe file. So, that’s probably not interesting. You can learn a lot from this research. And again, keep in mind, you’re trying to leverage other people’s time, money, effort to make good decisions in your business. Um, all right. I often find that meta ad library a bit uh clunky to use. Yes. I mean it’s a free tool so it’s not as good as the paid ones but if you are on a tight budget uh you can find lots of stuff there. I use Facebook ad library directly a lot these days because over time what you do is you you end up finding some nice uh pages there that you just want to follow what you’re doing. So you create a list of pages that you are always following their ads and the stuff they’re promoting. So you’re not just searching from scratch every time. and times you’re already using the references you already have. And over time as you find nice ads and nice things, you you start building your own swipe file like uh in in our business, we have a huge one like folders and folders with ads and pages and things that we have created and worked well in the past as well as other people’s uh pages and ads that we use as reference. Okay. Now, uh that’s uh still in the um in the that was the research phase. So next step you go to prepare your campaign. So remember research, prepare, test and learn. So research, it’s what I showed you. Now prepare. So now you’re going to have to start with a solid offer. So what what is what what offers are solid? So in initially um you have a few different possibilities for this. The first and most reliable one is what your research reveals to you. So, if you find ClickBank offers that are doing well for other people on Deep Tube, for example, that’s your main reference. Nothing beats that because that’s data. That’s numbers. Like, someone is spending $10,000 a day running ads to to this page, promoting these offer, using these ads. No matter what I tell you, what your account manager tells you, what the guy with the expensive course tells you, that’s real num numbers and data, and that’s king. So, that’s that’s what matters. All right. But uh you can have other things like for example one thing that many uh beginners don’t know is that there are many premium offers out there um that are not so easy to access when you’re starting out as a new affiliate uh but there are many premium offers out there. So many of the top affiliates that I know the offers they promote are not easily available in marketplaces and this is if you think about it this is normal in any industry. If you think about banks uh they have some uh investment opportunities that they reserve to their VIP clients that invest more money with the bank. If you think about any business it’s the same. So uh it’s not different like when we’re talking about affiliate marketing space naturally big affiliates will be able to have access to better offers and other things. So how you you get started but there are a few ways for you to access those things. One nice thing to keep in mind running campaigns is a way to do it. If you go to let’s say ClickBank for example and you start running campaigns there and you start doing well with the offers that you can access from the marketplace which can be really nice. you’re going to find people making a lot of money with those offers in the research phase. So, that’s possible. And if you use that to run your first campaigns, when you’re making 3, four, 5K a month, which is in the affiliate marketing space, that’s really a very small uh volume. I’m talking about revenue here, like just being generated on the platform. you will already be assigned an account manager and the account manager will already start connecting you with vendors and special offers. So that’s the easiest way to do it. Some people attend events for networking. There are many affiliate marketing and direct response events out there in the world that you can attend and as you attend those events you network, you talk to people and you meet people who can help you connect with better vendors and better offers. That always happens naturally when you attend one of those events. Um another way to do it is sometimes there are private mentoring programs or mentorships and that you can join that will give you access to that. I know many in the neutra space um people who have uh apps, peptide offers, teleahalth offers etc that they will give you access to and with higher payouts and then we go back to the margin game. Higher payouts can make a lot of difference um that you know and and that you wouldn’t be able to access just going directly to the marketplaces. So yeah, I’m not going to pretend here that if you’re starting out, you’re playing the game at the same level as someone who’s been doing this at a like and generating volume for some time. That would be a lie. But it’s possible to get started. And when you start doing this small volume already, this these uh doors will start to open you naturally. They will open for you without you having to to do anything to to make that happen. Uh all right. So that and you see that in your research stage as well that there are some offers that you see are on ClickBank but you can’t find the offers on ClickBank because they are private off those are private offers that uh ClickBank is processing payments and everything there but they’re not accessible to a normal affiliate or sometimes uh people can have higher margins or commissions. That can happen but uh it’s possible to start without that and get profitable campaigns going. You’re going to find plenty of campaigns running with normal offers and during your research phase. But now there’s something important here. When you’re going through offers in a marketplace, you need to know how to differentiate the different types of offers and how you promote those offers. So that’s what I want to show you now. And this is the first thing in the prepare stage to understand what offers you’re going to be promoting and how you promote those offers. And then we’re going to go to the uh creating ads and running campaigns and campaign structures. But first you need to have the right offer. So let me show you again here in my browser. I also separated a few offers to show you here. So first understand well actually let me go back to this slide just uh to say one more thing. You have to understand that there are different types of offers you’re going to find in the marketplaces. You’re going to find VSSL offers. That’s a video sales letter. There’s a situation where that makes sense and situations where it doesn’t make sense. I’ll explain that. You’re going to find these days quiz offers and quiz funnels. They’re very popular and because they work. So that’s a nice type of offer. You’re going to find more traditional sales pages. We also call those DSLs or text sales letters. It’s text sometimes with a video, but it’s um just a direct sales page. There may be some other variations as well. Uh but these are the main ones. And uh there’s a fourth type of page you’re going to find here that could be a trap for beginners. You have to be careful with this, which is what we call of a DTC page. A DTC page is a directed to checkout page. It’s a page that’s not a sales page and it’s not designed to sell the offer. It’s just designed to receive the traffic from the affiliates offer. So, what William asked in the chat before about affiliates creating VSSLs or not, if you want to create your own offer, your own VSSL, which you should definitely avoid doing in the beginning, that’s way more advanced. But like for more advanced marketers and affiliates, they do that. Uh, then you don’t want to send people from a VSSL to your affiliate link that sends them to another VSSL, then that doesn’t work obviously. So, people watch like 40 minutes of video and then another 40 minutes. That that makes zero sense. So you send people from the VSSL to the DTC page which is a just a page like uh it’s direct checkout. So it’s just a page that people go to actually place the order. Affiliates were beginners and know nothing about these things. They sometimes go there, select a DTC offer and promote the DTC offer on the traffic source. That’s game over before you even start doing anything because a DTC is not a a sales page. All right. So let me show you now some examples. So, uh, I have a few ones here. So, this one is a VSSL offer. Um, so it’s, uh, it’s just a video and that you’re going to see, uh, the information to buy the product here. When you reach the, uh, CTA in the video. So, you have to watch the video and when you get there, uh, you’re going to be able to place the order. So, classic VSSL. Um, here’s another one. I watched this one and it unlocked this stuff here for me. But normally you would see initially just the video and uh you have to watch the VSSL for the information to to be unlocked. And I just wanted to show you how it looks like after it’s unlocked. So after people reach the call to action in the video, they see the information, they can buy and all that stuff. Okay. So there’s not a lot of information in here because the the sale is generated with the video. The video is doing the selling part. Uh this one is uh a a sales page, a more traditional sales page. This one has a VSSL as well. It’s some some some pages that you find will not have the video, just text, which is also fine. Uh and I I’ll explain to you what how we use each page here and and what you how you should promote basically these offers. But first, just want to make sure that you understand what is what here. So, uh you know, just a long sales page. I’m sure you you’ve seen Plent in in the past. Now, here is a DTC page, short page, just with uh for people to to place the order. So, you’re not going to sell a $200 offer product here with this page. So, this is a DTC. If you promote this directly, game over. You’re not going to be able to to make this one convert and work. Uh here’s another one, DTC offer. Okay. So, uh if you create your own sales page, your own VSSL, you can grab your affiliate link and when people click it, they will land here and they will just click to place the order. Um would it be better to send them directly to checkout? Yes. And as you start generating sales, you can request that. Some vendors will make that available to you. Okay. But sometimes, u you can send people to DTC first and that’s what affiliates normally do in the beginning. So, the point here is that you don’t want to promote this page. Okay? It’s just $399, but you’re not going to sell $39 with this page. Okay. Uh here’s an example of a quiz offer. So, there’s some initial information, but when you click the button, it asks for uh I don’t know, like for some information, and it’s a quiz offer. It’s going to take you to a VSSL or sales page in the end to get you to buy. And it it’s nice for like if you want to sell like a dieting plan. You collect people’s information and you can offer them something more customized. So enhances the value. There are many different situations where you can use quiz pages and funnels. Uh sometimes just by getting people to interact, you’re getting them to answer questions, but at the same time you’re uh you’re you’re bringing certain pain points to the surface. You are uh elevating their awareness level about the problem, about the solution. You’re kind of educating them in the process. Uh all right. So this is an example of a uh quizunner. So the these are some uh offers that you’re going to find in marketplace. I got all of these from ClickBank but uh could be from any other affiliate marketplace. Now what you need to understand here VSSL offers normally uh if you want to sell a higher priced offer like a neutra offer 150 200 $300 uh it makes sense to use a VSSL 40 60 even 90 minutes of video. It’s like less than a webinar. Webinars can sell more expensive things. One, two, $3,000. So, it’s not that much. So, it’s less than a webinar, but it’s more than a normal sales page. So, you still uh because the idea of a VSSL is that you can tell people, hey, Dr. XYZ is revealing how this celebrity was able to uh go 20 years back in time with this new skincare treatment and whatever. So, it’s information. People are curious about it and will watch the video to learn more about that. And then you educate them and you explain the mechanism and how it works and how that’s possible and how that anti-aging uh cosmetic why it’s so incredible and and then eventually you start transitioning to a pitch. We even have a block in the VSSL that’s called the transition block. And then you sell that. So that’s for selling higher priced products. Normally, um, you may need for for selling those, you’re going to need ads that are not direct to the sale. So, if you’re promoting a VSSL, you don’t want to be too salesy with your ad because then then you ruin everything. If you if people know that you’re if if it’s just a straight sale in your ad and then you send people to the VSSL, they’re not going to start watching a long video just to get pitched something. So you first elevate their awareness and knowledge about the product and and what it can do for them and then they will be interested in buying when you transition to the pitch. So it that when you’re promoting VSSL offers in general, you focus on knowledge on sharing something, teaching people something, you don’t talk about buying, you don’t sound like you’re advertising something. So that’s why UGC ads work really well. Things that look like just like the influencer telling them to go check out this new thing that’s working. uh just very organic type of content, but obviously you run that as an ad. For uh quiz funnels, it’s normally similar, but you want to make sure that um like for for for VSSLs, because the price points are higher, your ads normally have to be already more specific and kind of um make people curious to watch the video. So, you give them more information. You use longer ads and you prepare people. you already make sure that they knows what they will get if they watch the video and then you send them to the video already wanting to watch the video because otherwise they will leave without watching it because VSSL tend to be long. For a quiz funnel, you also don’t want to sound too salesy. You want to make sure that you just uh use organic type of content in your ads, but you can use shorter ads. These are normally cheaper offers, more direct. So, uh we it’s possible to promote like VSSLs with image ads. I have some VSSLs that I promote with image ads, but in general, it’s even easier to use image ads or image ads only, like for lower priced offers and quiz funnels. Uh, for TSL offers like this one here, uh, then you can be way more direct. You can even mention the price point in your ad. You go for the sale like, I’m going to show you how to do whatever. I don’t know what this what this offer is all about, but uh $67 and you learn how to do this or you get that or you and not necessarily have to mention the price point, but you can be very direct with your ad copy, video or image, but you can you can already uh create an ad that will attract people who are okay buying something. Someone doesn’t want to buy anything, then you don’t want them to click anyways. Um I’m already getting some questions in the chat. I’ll be answering them in in a moment when we get to the Q&A. Uh all right and then DTC pages you just don’t want to promote them unless you create your own offer as simple as that. Okay so for the preparation is find the right offers your research plus this understanding of what kind of offer you want to promote. Also in general higher price points means that you need more money for testing ads. Um I’m going to talk about the testing process in a in a moment but in general that’s the rule. So, if you want to start with uh a lower a lower budget, you you cannot start, for example, with $100 aiming to promote a a neutral offer that sells for $200. That’s not going to work. So, if you have just $100, you need to start with very low price point. And those offers can still be profitable as they normally have upselles and downells and a funnel that comes after the initial offer. But for you to get the initial sale and test some ads, you you need a few times that front-end price point. So that that that’s a math you need to keep in mind. All right. Uh then still in that second preparation stage, another thing you need is normally a landing page. Uh some people say meta won’t allow you to direct link. That’s BS. You can use direct linking. Uh if you configure that with your email instead of using the ClickBank or the dig store link directly, it’s going to work. So just create a redirect with your own domain and that should be fine. Technically depends on the offer. It can make sense to use a landing page or not. Depends on what’s on the on the uh VSSL page and headline if it will get approved or not. Again, best bet is to see what people are doing with your research. So you’re not creating this these things from scratch. You need a reference. You need to see someone who is promoting a um uh uh for example, let me go back here to one of the offers, the quiz offer we had here. Uh where is it? Let me find it here.

    Have you noticed this? I don’t know where. Anyways, I just wanted to find because that one is a nice example. Okay, here this one. Um this is about finding your soulmate. So you get a sketch of your soulmate. You’re going to find other people promoting other. get this catch or somate offer. Uh you’re gonna find lots of those in your research even if it’s not the same offer. So see what’s uh landing pages they’re using and what’s working for them and that’s going to be your reference. You’re going to just basically almost copy their landing pages and just make adjustments to um make sure that it fits the offer the specific offer you’re promoting. So here you’re not trying to create a landing page out of nothing. And then that’s the preparation. Okay. So, uh, if you if you’re on your own offer, then you may want to check the economics of your funnel, how your upsells work, if you have some initial numbers on upsell take rate. It can be a little more complex. I’m not going to dive deep into that because we don’t have time. But for affiliates, it’s um, it’s basically this. So, now I want to go to the dashboard because I want to explain to you and show you

    how we run ads basically. And then we’re going to do that copy break. Now,

    let me see if I can do this here.

    So, I’m going to talk about ads here and then I’m going to share with you a download link for a document with the campaign structure because maybe we’re not going to have time to go through that. So, let me get my uh thing here to to be able to share the whiteboard with you.

    Just a moment. It’s live. So everything is fully prepared. Okay. So now let me share the whiteboard with you. And I’m going to share with you my process for creating ads that you can use and that I think makes sense. And first thing to say here is that you don’t want to take this as a hard rule. this the whole uh marketing game or the right response game. It’s not something that’s set on stone, always the same, always just just do this, do that. It’s not mechanical. You’re going to have to think more than performing tasks. It’s about solving problems. So, when you start implementing these things, you’re going to have some obstacles to overcome. You need to have the ability to research, to act fast, to ask AI for assistance. these days. Uh you can have an AI copilot that can do a great job helping you with your campaigns. You can like download that uh CH GPT codeex, have it on your computer, and it can do lots of things for you. So uh yeah, this is is just to give you um some guidance so you’re not doing this blindly. So let me explain to you how I do this. So how how I plan creative. So first of all, you don’t want to create ads randomly. So when we talk about creatives or ads, we’re going to treat this as the same here. It’s not exactly the same, but we’re going to treat this the same for for this to keep it simple. So creatives and ads. So uh when when it comes to this and just give me a quick yes in the chat if you can see the whiteboard just to make sure that I’m I know that you’re seeing it.

    Okay. Getting ses here. All right. Thank you. If you see any technical issues or if something is not visible, let me know in the chat. Okay? I’m monitoring chat in Q&A tabs here. All right. So, let’s keep going. So, the way I do this, I like to think about this is about always to to do this focused on panners. So, you want to find panners that work. So, initially when you’re starting from scratch, all you have is your research. So, uh, I’m going to promote that quiz offer where people can discover the face of their soulmate that’s going to sketch their it doesn’t matter if this is a good offer or not or like for the sake of this example. Maybe that’s BS and okay, but just so you understand the example here. So, I’m going to promote that. So, I’ll go to the swipe files. I’ll go to deep tube or to the meta ads library. I’m going to search for soulmate sketch, you know, terms like that. And I’ll find other people promoting similar offers. I’ll see the ads. they’ve been running for a longer period of time. The ads with more copies, those tools, including the free ones, they show the number of copies of the ads because sometimes when we’re scaling campaigns, we do that horizontally. So, it’s not that just increasing the budget for an ad, but creating duplicates of that ad. So, I’ll see ads that been running for a longer period of time with more duplicates, those in general, like 99% of the time, are the ads doing well? So, if those ads are image ads, if they’re video ads, if they’re long videos, short videos, I’m I’m not going to try to guess anything. If short like 10-second videos is what those people are using, that’s what I’m using. I’m promoting a very similar offer, right? So, I’m going with that. If they have a long text copy, I’m using a long text copy. If they have short text copy, I’m using short text copy. So, you’re starting from what you see in your research. That’s your initial direction. That’s how I do it. Everyone does it. like there’s no uh magic way to just know for sure what works, but your research can make it a lot easier. So, what you’re going to do is to find panners in your research and your references. And then based on those panners, you’re going to create uh a structure based on concepts. There are many different ways to run ads and creative strategies. So, you may see some other people recommending other things. I’m not saying they’re wrong. This is how I do it and I think it’s a simple and effective way to do it. So you’re going to use concept. What is a concept? A concept is a combination is a combination. Oops, I’m not able to move it here for some reason.

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    this is strange. Yeah, I don’t know what’s wrong with mirror here. Let me try to refresh. These things happen live. Sorry, I’m looking to the side because uh the screen I’m sharing is on the side. Okay, now it’s working. All right. So, um a concept is a combination of different elements. There are different ways to do it again, but I like to start with three simple elements. So, oh gosh, now this one is not working. So, normally what I’ll do is I’ll start with a persona.

    an angle

    and a format.

    So what is the persona? So uh if we’re talking about the soulmate offer, I’m not I made no research and pro didn’t promote anything like that uh recently, but just uh as an example. So let’s say that uh here for the persona we have uh someone who um just left a relationship just broke up actually. But here

    we have some who is feeling lonely.

    We have someone who is very romantic and doesn’t have a companion. Now, we have someone who is very superstitious. I don’t know if that’s the right word, but because if you if you’re going to buy something that uh you believe someone is going to draw the face of your soulmate, there’s a certain level of superstition there, right? And I don’t know like you could have many others. And again, this is the type of thing that you just give all the ads, the offer page, all the information to AI and AI does this thing here for you. It creates the persona for you. It makes the research for you in this case. So you don’t have to do this manually. It’s 2026. You want to uh speed things up with AI. Okay, I’m doing this here this way just to show you how it works. Okay, so that’s the persona. Now, uh we’re going to have the angle. So for angle, we’re going to have discovery, for example. So, we just discovered a new way to find out what’s the face of her soulmate or a new rune from the past that tells I don’t know like you would have to analyze the offer to see what are the potential angles. Uh, another one is controversy.

    U, saying something that people will think is not real like or that’s not true or that doesn’t make sense. Um, and that’s that’s going to grab their attention. uh and there are many other angles you can use like curiosity

    etc. Again, AI can help you with this and and your examples and your research. All the ads you’ll find, they will naturally have an angle. So, you have it there. And the format uh well, it’s going to be either image or video initially, but then you can have different types of image. You can have bold text for example which is like just a a square image with a big uh text here like uh we found your soulmate just that black image but white text something like that for example uh you could have uh comparison of course meta has some restrictions with before and after but we get many of those approved I’m going to show you an example one that is generating sales for us here and it’s a comparison image so it’s still possible um you know there are many different types organic content which can be just an image of someone doing something interesting or curious um organic or native sometimes people call this native and etc there are many different formats for videos you you could have uh UGC You could have uh educational like a tutorial showing something or show explaining how something works. You could have uh expert style like for example in this case someone who is like u I don’t know who would be an authority for someone trying to get their ex uh sorry their their soulmate’s face on a drawing but uh I don’t know like for a weight loss product it would be a doctor or someone with uh reputation could be AI generated in this case I don’t know but u some someone who looks like an expert in or super structure uh etc. There are many different formats here as well that that you can use uh organic or native as well and there are other things. Again, AI can help you with this. But the point here is a concept will be a combination of these things. So your you you and this is the reason why you need to see what you’re looking at. But AI can help you with understanding the ads you’re going to be using as reference. So your concept one for example it could be uh a combination of the uh lonely person

    with the angle of um controversy

    like um and um and then you could have like a format that is uh image bold text. So, this is a concept. Okay. So, you’re going to create uh an image and you’re going to create a copy that goes here. Bold text. That’s it. And then it’s going to say uh here’s why you shouldn’t be lonely or you here’s why uh you shouldn’t be alone or here’s uh um I don’t know any like AI can help you with this as well. Again, I should have selected a niche that I’m more familiar with, but anyways, you get the idea. And this is your concept. And then you’re going to create some variations of this image. Initially, I like to create three to five variations. So, you can create it with different colors, you can create it with different backgrounds, you can create it with different typography, um, etc. Like again, AI can create a bunch of variations of your image in one minute. So just upload it to chat GPT or claude or whatever and it can do it for you. And this is your initial concept that you created based on your research and that you’re going to try to validate and you’re going to create a few different concepts. And then eventually you’re going to get sales. And let’s say that you create for example initially you create five concepts

    and this is how you find campaigns that work on meta not just testing things randomly. Here is the key actually because these days creatives there it 90% of the thing on meta it determines your targeting. So different ads will reach different people will have a different CPM will help you achieve better or worse results. So having the right ads is the most crucial thing. So here this is the like the number one thing for super affiliates on meta these days. Creating a bunch of different ads with a method that works. So as you can see there is a method. I think the method is important. That’s what I’m showing you here. But that method must have a foundation if you need to know what you’re doing so that you can do it effectively. So you’re going to start with five concepts. Each concept is going to have three variations for example uh with let’s say three variations

    and this is uh here an example of a concept. So another one could be a different persona, different angle, different format. You’re going to test different different concepts and and then let’s say that you got a sale and once here you have a total of 15 ads, right? So, five concepts, three ads each. You’re going to have 15 ads. You’re going to run these ads and you get a sale. Well, naturally, this ad belongs to a concept and that’s going to already start guiding your decisions. If you get two sales, even better. Let’s say you get two sales under the same concept. So, now you clearly have one winning concept.

    winning concept. Now that I have this winning concept, you’re not going to work with three variations. You’re going to create more copies. So, you’re going to target, let’s say, this concept. Here’s the winner. So, you’re going to create more ads with using the lonely persona, the controversy angle, and the bold text format. That’s not changing. But the text that goes here, you can create some variations. And for each variation, you’re gonna So that’s that’s what I mean by more copies. And for each variation, you’re going to create uh sorry, for each copy, you’re going to create three to five variations. So now you have a a concept here that’s generating sales. So you’re going to do more of it, more of that content so that you can find better ads, better copies. You’re finding what converts. 90% of what you do of what you run, the ads you create, the campaigns you create will not convert. That’s not because you’re a beginner, you’re new, you don’t know what you’re doing. No, that’s because it’s it is how it works that way. That’s normal. It’s the same for me for anyone. The the thing is that you need to find where the conversion is. So, this is how you do this in a way that’s not random because if sometimes you can just upload 10 different ads and one gets a sale, but then how you replicate that, how you do more of it. you test other 10 random ads, you never scale a campaign to six figures doing that. But if you have a method like this, then you have eventually you’re going to get to a point where you have and that’s where you start to aim at six figures. Um you’re you get to a point where you have five to 10 winners. I’m talking about concepts here, always about concepts. So with five to 10 concepts, you’re going to dedicate 80% of your budget to running these concepts that are winners, that are proven. And you’re going to be always testing um new concepts with the other 20% of your budget. Now, 80 to 20, is that a hard rule? No, it’s not. Maybe it could be 70 or 30. Like it’s just an idea. Like obviously you can go 9010 depending on your budget on how many like if you have 20 winners maybe you don’t even have to test new things for now you can just to scale those. So it’s just to show you that you still have to make decisions in the process but it’s just to show you how it works. So this one receives 20% of your budget. Okay. And this is how you find new winners and how you scale your winners. And this is this is the the key. Everything that I showed you until this point is so that you have an idea on what offers you’re promoting, you know, you have an offer that can be like if you do all of this sending traffic to a DTC page, forget it. It’s not going to work. So that’s why you need proper research, you need a good understanding of what you’re doing so that you can create your variations and uh and you can guide AI in the process. You don’t have to write a single line of copy because um no one here can beat Chat GPT or Claude when it comes to writing copy. I definitely can’t. But you’re going to provide chat GPT with the right references. This is the angle that’s working. This is these these are the personas that are working. Create variations of this ad for me. So you use Chat GPT um to create to to create new pieces of copy that work. So that this is the process and there’s no big secret for becoming a successful affiliate. It’s just having this scientific method for running campaigns and uh and in the parto principle the 8020 thing your 20% of the effort that will produce 80% of the results is definitely in the ads. That’s your your main thing. Uh all right. Now, uh, for you to do this, you’re going to need a few, uh, extra things. And one thing you will need is a campaign structure because there are many different ways you can run campaigns on Meta. So, for example, um, I’m not recommending this. I’m just giving you an example here. I’ll share a document that has an actual recommendation in a moment. But, uh, okay. So we talking about testing and validating concepts but how you do it in practice when it comes to running the campaign. So there are different types of campaigns. You can run [ __ ] campaigns, CBO campaigns, you can run bitcap campaigns, you can run cost cap campaigns, you can run robust optimized campaigns. There are many different strategies and types of campaigns you can run on meta. And this is this could be a little bit tricky. And this is something that um if you have the right ads, you’re going to find something that works. And even if it’s not the best, it will still work because the ads rule in this case, that’s the most important thing. But the campaign structure can help. And the problem here is that with all your research and your spying, this is the only component you cannot find there. So when you see someone’s Facebook library, all the ads they’re running, you can see their ads, you can see their page, you can see their offer. Uh you can extract a lot of information from there, but you don’t know how they’re structuring their campaign. You don’t have access to their BM on meta to see how they’re organizing their campaign. So this is where it can get a little bit tricky and you can find trainings and courses for different structures out there. But the truth is that different structures can perform better for different offers and we never know for sure. So we’re always testing that. So what the best thing you can do here is to find different to to make always again podcasts uh Facebook groups and just see what uh people are talking about and say that that working for them. There’s a group on Facebook that I actually recommend even before I give you an example here. Um, it’s a Facebook group. I can’t teach you everything on a webinar, but uh, if I can point you to the right resources, I’m pretty sure you can learn a lot on your own. That is owned by Alan Sutines, who is a big named in the right responsive space these days. And the name of the group, I’m always recommending this, but maybe some of you have already seen it, others may have may have not seen it. It’s called Nothing Held Back. like they have different groups there. JV board and job board, JV uh joint venture group, I don’t know, but just the one that’s just nothing held back. This is the the name. If you join there, you’re going to see people talking about their campaigns, sharing data, sharing information. You will see what kind of campaigns they’re running. Uh you can ask questions there as well. So, that’s a nice place to start. Uh all right. So, and YouTube is a great place to learn here as well. There is a channel and actually the document I’m going to recommend to you is by this guy called and you can follow him on on YouTube and I have no problem recommending other people when they share real value when those are real people running real campaigns and not just someone trying to to sell something but someone uh talking about something they are actually doing. I’m going to share with you a document that uh I extracted from a few videos by this guy Sabri Subi. Hopefully I’m pronouncing his name correctly. He’s uh from Australia. He owns a huge digital agency and he’s a master when it comes to running uh not just meta campaigns but specifically meta campaigns. And uh I I put together this um it’s going to be branded as wealthy minds, but I just want to be I didn’t have the time to uh include this information in the document because uh that that’s a document that I created a few days ago to use internally. I actually to share it here with you. I got it from my ClickUp because I shared this with my team as something for us to to to test and I think it’s a very nice game plan for you to get started. So I’m sharing this with you but this is not mine. This is from information from him. So just being transparent about this I think it’s important. So I’ll share that document the download link in a moment uh with a recommended campaign structure for you to start validating ads and then from there you can uh test other structures. Um yeah so actually uh just to give an example here uh you need to have a method for validating ads. So there are some people who will validate ad by ad especially when you’re promoting something that’s very top of the funnel. So, an offer that’s very uh just weight loss, very generic, or just uh bisop like make money, like something that’s very broad. When it’s something more specific like how to make money as an affiliate running ads on Meta, that’s way more specific than just how to make some extra money online, right? So, that then we normally don’t use that structure, but when it’s something very broad, you can test sometimes ad by ad. You’re going to create um a very simple one x1 campaign [ __ ] So you’re going to set a different budget for each ad set on meta. You’re going to have one campaign. X is the number of ads you want to test. So X ads sets. If you’re testing 10 ads, it would be a 10 here. And for each ad set, you’re going to put one ad in there. And you’re going to attribute uh here. For each ad set, you’re going to give it one ticket. So, let’s say that your product is uh $47. So, let’s use a round number. $50. So, you’re going to spend $50 per ad. Oh, but that’s too much. Oops. That’s too much. Okay. So, give it half a ticket. Give it half a ticket and make it $25 per ad. Okay. But, uh and and that’s how you’re going to uh test an ad. Or if you if you want to uh if you think that’s still too much, okay, so do half of this like do use this for two days. So we spend like $12 per ad per day for two or three days and then that’s but you need a method for validating your ads because then you know if you because you then you test your ads properly. But there are some other structures these days with different types of campaigns where Meta will run or not run an ad and kind of do that test for you. If meta believes that an ad is not going to generate results, it just won’t run the ad and then you don’t have to spend the money to validate that ad. And this structure that I’m going to share with you, it does something like that. So it’s it can be cheaper than this example here. So that’s why I’m sharing this as a suggestion. And I’m not promising that this is going to work for every offer, but it’s a a nice way for you to get started. So let me give you the download link here for the document. And let me just find where I put the link because I’m not finding it here. Holy moly. Where is it? Hanging there. Okay, found it here. So, my I put it in my Google Drive. Let’s just make sure that it’s going to be accessible to you. I’m going to drop it in the chat. So if what I’m going to put here Subie’s campaign structure just so I’m making it very clear that I don’t like to steal people’s knowledge and information that they work hard to to create. So obviously he shared this information for free on his YouTube channel. I created this document by downloading the videos after I watch them putting the transcripts uh into GPT and then it created the document for me. Uh, so I’m not stealing his information, but I don’t want to steal the credits. So, um, you know, that’s his stuff, but I strongly recommend that you consider following that campaign structure. So, now at this point, um, this is phase three where you’re testing, right? So, here you’re testing your ads and you’re finding winners and then you learn because you’re elim you’re using that concepts method. So you’re learning which concepts work and which don’t and then you can continue with your tests but always following that process. So for example um you can see that you’re going to always be looking for patterns. That’s your your goal here. So you noted that images are consistently outperforming videos. That’s an information. Or you see that longer videos do a better job than short videos. That’s important information. you see that this persona generate more results or the ads uh they uh leave longer when you’re when you’re targeting this persona, that’s great because then you know that that’s probably a bigger pool of people. So you can do more you can create more concepts for that persona. So you have now a direction. You’re not just blowing money on meta without knowing what you’re doing. And you see that meta can be expensive, but it can generate conversion rates that are insane. We have ads that convert at 10% on a VSSL that sells a $100 product or more sometimes. So, that works. Now, I just want to show you uh one more thing uh that copy example that I mentioned in the beginning before we go to the Q&A. I already have one or two questions here in the chat. I’ll be answering more in a moment. Let me just um there was there’s something else I’d like to share with you. Just making sure I’m not forgetting something important. Yeah. I know. I think this is this is this is this is it. Let me just share an example. And this is from my own offer cuz I didn’t want to use uh someone else’s offer for this. I don’t know if that would be okay or not, but I prefer not to do it. So, I’m going to share an example from one of my own offers, but it’s the same for an affiliate offer. So, it’s an internet marketing offer. I’m going to put it on your screen and then you can you can already start submitting questions in the chat. I’ll be getting to that in a moment. All right. So, uh, this is an offer here and this is really from our drive where we have some copies and stuff like that. So, this is a real ad. It has a reference. So, let me show the whole process actually even before the copy. So, I don’t know if you’re going to be able to hear the sound here just to get some parts of the ad. Hopefully, yes. Uh, actually, let me stop sharing the screen and start again and make sure that I’m sharing with audio. I think that’s possible. And I was just increasing the volume here to try to use the microphone, but that’s probably not a good strategy. Uh, share sound.

    Okay, I’ll just play the video and then pause it just so you can confirm you can hear you can hear the video. Then you just give me a yes. Uh, you don’t see a link, Angelica? It’s Yeah, maybe I don’t It’s in the chat tab, exactly where you just put your message. But I don’t know exactly how you would see this on your phone. Uh I don’t know if there’s a different way for me to share this.

    Let me try to put the link in the

    in the chat in the chat tab as well. In the Q&A tab as well. Oh, I can’t do it.

    Well, I’m putting Let me put it again here in the chat tab. Oh, I know what I did wrong. I didn’t see that I was sending the message to hosts and panelists instead of everyone. Sorry about that. I just resent. It’s in the chat now. Sorry about that.

    There you go. Sorry. Uh I think that was the only link I sent. Let me just review here. Yes, only link I sent it here.

    All right. Okay. So, now uh let me share uh the video real quick and then I’ll pause it. Just you can give me just so you can give me a guess in the chat. And if you give me a guess and I’ll let it run. It’s a two-minute video. We’re not going to watch it in the full one, but just so you can have an idea uh on how this whole process works. Why are Serena Williams, Charles Barkley, and some of the biggest names in America suddenly showing up? Could you hear the video? Yes. Okay. So, let me mute my microphone so it’s not going to YouTube and then I’m going to play just um Oh, it’s a one minute video. So, I’ll just play the first half of it. Why are Serena Williams, Charles Barkley, and some of the biggest names in America suddenly showing up in the GLP campaigns? Because there is an absolute gold rush happening in Tellah Health right now. Think about what these companies are actually doing. They’re not trying to convince the world that weight loss medicine exists anymore. The battle has basically been won. Millions of customers already know about them. The new battle is over who gets the customer. And tellahalth companies are willing to spend serious money winning their

    I was speaking with them when I was muted. Sorry. So that’s the reference ad. So again, this is not an ad for an affiliate offer. uh because just explaining I I I was going to share some affiliate stuff and then uh I decide not to share that because sometimes people take an offer as a recommendation and I don’t want to recommend offers or anything for you to promote here. So that happens all the time. If I use an example of an offer in a video, then everyone tries to promote that and sometimes you know there are other things I don’t know sometimes we have a different payout or something and then it becomes misleading information. So this is an offer you cannot promote. So you get the idea and then you can apply this to offers you can promote. All right so um so that’s the reference ad. So this is the ad you find from your research and then you just transcribe the ad and you use AI uh to help you rewrite the ad following the same structure. So here is um a the the elements that compose this concept. This is in this case it’s concept 62. So u the three elements that I mentioned to you. This is a real file from our uh Google drive. And then the way we do it uh just to uh explain here in for video ads I think uh I forgot to mention this like for images you can change different image styles different colors uh but for videos one of the things we do sometimes is to split test different hooks. So we will create an ad and give it uh give different hooks to that. Uh the hook is just like uh the very first part of the video as short as one or two sentences and then it’s one ad with three, four, five hooks depending on what we’re doing. Okay. So, uh we have the hooks here and then we have the body copy. And it’s the same structure that Rob used in his ad, but talking about something else, something different. And this is an ad that performed well for us. Like it was profitable. And that ad I I’m pretty sure was profitable for him. So he found something that worked and we used this. And this is for like u this is how uh this is normal I think in any industry like I’m not copying hobby Robbie’s product or offer or whatever. Uh we’re just getting ideas. So he had an idea for copy and we’re using it. he tomorrow he may use one that I create and that’s fine or anyone else like can will use one that we create and that’s how it works. When you run an ad it’s like when you run an ad on TV like that’s public information people can use that to have their own ideas obviously. So um he started talking about uh Serena Williams and Rob Barkin and some uh other celebrities. I’m not going to remember all the names now, but the point is it’s a super structure. When I say, “Hey, uh, here’s the new funnel uh, strategy that I’m using.” That’s one thing. But here’s completely different. If I say, “Do you know why Russell Brunson is now using this funnel structure in his business?” Russell is one of the biggest authorities in the marketing space when it comes to funnels. He’s the guy behind ClickFunnels. And uh if I use that for anyone who knows Russell, that’s already uh something that has a different level of authority for them. So that’s why we call it a super structure. Uh if we’re going to talk about uh weight loss and then I show something that Dr. O said about a specific product or that uh I don’t know any famous doctor in the US, that’s a super structure. So, uh, obviously many people fake things, lip-s sync things here to create fake superructures, which is bad, and you don’t have to do it. Robbie’s example is, uh, is great because he’s not faking anything to do that, and he’s still using the super structure concept. We, uh, didn’t fake anything. It’s the same because this is real information. Uh, this is about, um, promoting a product on how to use Tabula for running ads. And uh we start with super structures, Amazon, Adobe, Microsoft, they’re starting to use that type of traffic and you can verify that in Tabula’s public advertiser listings. So this is real information verifiable and we’re starting the ad with a super structure because we’re modeling Robbie’s ad here. So same thing he talks about the real shift happening in the industry and uh I don’t remember his exact copy but again we talk about that shift here. This is the real shift happening in AI traffic now. So we use that for whatever it is that we’re promoting but it’s the same structure. So when he uses a promise we put a promise where he has a proof element. We use a proof element where he talks about the problem. We talk about the problem or some people will call it the mechanism of the problem. So why that’s happening why traffic is expensive on this platform. Why the other offers are not working. Why uh you’re feeling lonely? why you are overweight uh after theif since your 50s I don’t know like you you talk about the problem uh where there’s a the mechanism the solution so here’s why this works because it’s a cheaper platform because this is a better type of offer because this is a growing industry because this is you I I’ll put the mechanism of the solution there in the same place so I’m modeling his ad I’m using the same elements obviously talking about something different I’m not pro promoting the thing that he is promoting but it’s the same Um the concept is that it’s going to follow the same steps. So uh when we talk about um when we remove obstacles, you don’t need a large budget to do this. You don’t need to have a massive brand like because in the original ad at this point he was removing uh potential objections. So we do the same. So this is what you have to understand when you look at an ad. You have to understand what what the ad is doing. That’s important because then you can model the references. You’re not trying to create something. And if one day you decide to create something from scratch, which should not be your first uh measure here, but if you decide to do it again, you will be able to do a better job if you know what you’re doing versus guessing like, oh, this is great because this is uh will help you lose weight and you’re just guessing something there that makes zero sense. So here you’re following again a scientific method for creating the copy for your ads. So you’re researching and remodeling ads. And the same thing that I’m telling you here works for a landing page. What is in the headline? Is it a promise? Is it a benefit? Is it a problem oriented headline? Is it a super structure? Is it what is there like whatever is in that headline? When you model that landing page, you’re going to put the same thing in your headline. What are in the bullet points? Are there like uh information like fascination bullets? like you’re fascination bullets are things that uh make people continue in the process like in a VSSL a fascination bullet would be like uh in the next minutes I’m going to show you exactly how to run these campaigns without having to spend a single dollar in the first day. So that’s how is that possible and then you stay watching the video to get that. So it’s possible to use that on VSSLs. If you watch the video on the next page you’re going to learn this, you’re going to discover that you’re so those are fascination bullets. So you start to understand what the elements are and then you don’t have to be a genius writing the elements the copy because other people are already running copy that converts there and your research is going to show you that copy and AI if you need to rewrite anything can do that for you with in a masterful way. You just need to know what goes where that’s your job and then you need to have a scientific method for testing things and validating that. So you’re not testing blindly or randomly. You’re testing with a method that gives you an outcome. This thing here works. This other thing here doesn’t work. And then you know that. And then you do more of what works. And then you eliminate what what doesn’t work so that you don’t do it again. If a concept fails, you never run that concept again because it failed. Now you just run the winning concept. And when you’re c you want to create a new campaign and you know it’s a similar audience. Maybe you had a weight loss campaign for woman um uh for 50 plus women. weight loss for 50 plus women. Now, if you run an anti-aging campaign for 50 plus women, the information you have from your own previous campaign can be used. It’s not the same, but it’s a similar audience. So, you already have an idea on what kind of concepts tend to work. Should you scare people about what’s going to happen if they don’t take action, or should you emphasize the opportunity, the great things that will happen if they do, like excitement or fear? which works best. It depends like but when you when you have this method you’re going to find out because you have different angles. So car scaring people like that’s an angle making getting them excited about something that’s another angle and then you see what works best and then you do more of it. And this is the way like sometimes one or two conversions can lead to many conversions because you follow this process instead of just guessing blindly. So this is how affiliates run real campaigns and I see that many of the trainings and things out there they do not give you this scientific method. They just focus too much on where you click and obviously it’s important but um then people just think think that they will click this and submit this ad and think that submitting an ad is step in step seven of the method it tells them to submit an ad. So they do it submit the ad and expect results. No but it’s not a random ad. You need to know what you’re doing like you need to have a foundation. the method that comes before the method. So, uh the the PDF I shared with you with Sabres Subie’s method, uh it works. Yes. But if you know how to create concepts and and ads, if you just run random ads with Syra’s strategy, it’s not going to work. So, that’s what I wanted to share with you here and give you this entire plan. And I’m going to use the recording of this webinar to create a uh playbook to share with you. And hopefully that’s gonna uh help you and will be useful for you to have some um guidance when running your campaigns and not doing things randomly. Now I’ll go to the chat now and answer questions. Any questions you have, put them in the chat. If you can provide any feedback because I have no idea if this was useful for you or not, please let me know in the chat as well. And I want honest feedback. So if you think this was overwhelming, useless, you already knew it, let me know as well. That’s uh always uh any feedback is always welcome because that helps me uh improve these trainings and webinars in the future. And I have a question here. Aren’t physical products on ClickBank the better way to go? Such as supplements with AI and YouTube. There’s a wealth of information out there for free. Main point and question, are people even buying digital info products anymore? Yes, they’re buying info products. Absolutely. Again, your research is going to show you that these things you have to be That’s a great question, Dan, because it gives me the opportunity to talk about something important here. Uh, you have to be careful with certain beliefs that don’t have um a very clear like foundation for that. If if you if you see if you if you see what people are running in those uh with those PI tools and those swipe files, you’ll see lots of info products there. If you like for example if we think that information is not important we wouldn’t have all of these people attending this webinar because I think every one of us here has access to JPT or cloud. So so the thing about AI replacing information it’s it’s still far from happening in the real world because it’s not about AI’s capacity. It’s about our capacity when it comes to extracting things from AI and we do not evolve as fast as AI does. So I’m pretty sure that everything I told you here I if I was to tell the same thing to DPT it wouldn’t be new to him like chat DPT has all the information that’s one thing but I don’t know if you would be able to extract this from chat DPT starting from nothing right so I wouldn’t because I have this information because I’m running campaigns but I’m not uh if I haded to learn this out of nothing just me and an AI tool I don’t think I would be able to do it. So um so I don’t think that that’s really true. But one thing to be careful is when you establish a belief based on something you saw somewhere and we all are guilty of doing that. I I do that all the time and I’m always kind of watching myself and trying to avoid that because when we do that that gives us a direction. Like for example, if you assume that physical products are always the way to go, uh it won’t necessarily be a huge problem because you can make money with physical products. But normally those neutral offers will be more expensive. So if you don’t have a few thousand for testing your campaigns and your concepts, then you have a problem because in this case you should start with an info product. But because for you that’s not uh a possibility, then it won’t even uh enter the equation and you’re going to have a problem that you cannot solve and the problem doesn’t really exist. You created it the moment you established a a a concept in your mind, a belief. So uh be very careful with this because there’s a lot of information out there and uh it’s important that you always try to validate your beliefs. That’s what I try to do. Uh so if I someone says that okay what’s working now is promoting apps turning ebooks into apps. I’ve seen lots of people talking about that. So I go to to to I make my research and I see how many people I find scaling campaigns with apps. And then I’m not saying this is a real number just an example. Turns out it’s like 5% of the campaigns use apps. So am I using an app? Well this could be an opportunity. Maybe it’s something disruptive and that’s in innovation and I’ll be one of the first to tap into it and that would be great, but that’s also risky. Maybe it’s just not working and I’ll try to do that and it’s not going to work for me. So, uh, and then it’s a decision for me to make. But then I have a number. I I have that 5% and it guides. That’s a real thing. So, that’s very important. That’s why some people buy the wrong products in the internet marketing space. They just assume something and believe in that and go for that and and and and and then it’s very hard to even like if you if you think about people selling on the internet vendors, marketers, advertisers, they are not teachers, professors, they’re not educating people. If you want to lose weight, uh, blink in your eyes and you believe that’s really possible, you can be 100% sure someone is going to sell you a product on how to blink your eyes in the frequency that makes you lose weight. So, because that’s if that’s your belief, that’s what the marketers will use. They will sell to people whatever people believe is real, not necessarily what they need. And some people will try to sell what they want and deliver what they need, but not everyone. So having the right belief set can help you. Having the wrong belief set can become a huge obstacle.

    Uh let me go to the next one. Uh getting lots of feedback here. So far only positive message. So thank you everyone for for your feedback. Really appreciate it.

    All right. Uh,

    thank you for for all your messages. Uh, I’m not going to read all the messages, but I really appreciate it.

    I see some uh partners here as well. Chad, great to know that this helped you, Chad. Hopefully, you can use some of this information to absolutely crush it with our offers. Uh, okay. Uh, let me see if I can find more questions here. If we’re going to have a recording, yes, I’ll make it available for probably until Monday.

    No more questions. Wow, that’s that’s great. That suggests that u either I did a great job explaining things or a really bad job and no one unders anything. So, people don’t have questions. Uh, all right.

    Thank you, Dave.

    Yeah, thank you. Uh, really appreciate your feedback. Yeah. So, uh, maybe, uh, while you come up with some other questions, uh, another thing. Oh, got a one here.

    Yeah, I’ll make sure to include these slides and that uh PDF playbook. It’s I have a an agent here that does that when I just provide the transcript. What do you think about Spyu? I don’t use Spyu. I haven’t used the Spyu in a long long time. It was one of the first Spy tools I used uh I don’t know how many years ago. Long time ago. Uh but I haven’t used it in a while. So I can’t provide feedback right now. I must tell you uh the tools I showed you I don’t use Spy Hero a lot. I think it’s good. I just don’t use it a lot. Uh so what I use is uh Facebook ad library. I don’t use Google Transparency Center all the time. Sometimes but not very often. I use a lot like Facebook uh library. That’s the number one. Number two would be Deep Tube and I also use American Swipe. Uh I used to use seven Swipe, but now it’s I just don’t have time to use all of that. And we have our internal swipe as well. So I use uh those tools more frequently.

    What’s the best way to stay updated with trends on the ads on the ads providers meta’s new policies or algorithm behaviors? That’s a great question, Dave. For Meta, there’s a great thing you can do right now, which to use.AI.

    uh we lowered our compliance and ad rejection issues a lot when we started uh checking uh ad compliance with muse. What we’re doing right now is we’re not taking everything it says to the letter, but we’re we use that as reference and we sometimes we decide to push a little bit harder with something and see if it gets approved, but we use Muse most of the times to at least point out what could be like which elements could be a risky element in the in the copy. So news.ai AI great resource. Now, uh it’s meta’s um u personal assistant, an AI tool. It’s not meant for that, but it works really well for that. And again, just to give credit when credit is is is deserved. I learned this uh from a post that I saw a guy uh good marketer named Travis Stephenson. he made a post on his Facebook and he mentioned that he was um man he was able to to get Muse to uh help him with that that type of thing. We tested it and was incredible. So that’s my suggestion for that. Uh in terms of trends, yeah, this is one of the things that can be very challenging if you if you’re like me and you don’t have a lot of time. Uh you really want to see what’s happening in the organic social media. That’s key for creating quality ads. So you can use tools like uh well we use AI for that and we connect uh AI agents to these two tools here that I’m going to show you now. I’m going to put them on your screen. It’s vero.com and scrapecreators.com.

    If you connect these to your chat GPT, you can download uh uh claude co-worker chat GPT codecs to your computer. They’re they’re the same. I use uh CH GPT Codex, but I don’t know. People normally say the claude is is even better. I don’t know. Uh you can just use that and you can connect it to your uh it’s you you get an account here. You put like $10 in credits in one of these tools or both of them. Uh Verlo is.com. Let me see what’s the right domain for Verlo.

    Oh, it’s vero.ai. Sorry. Uh so these two they have I think you can use them directly. I don’t don’t do that because I don’t have the time to do it. So they monitor everything that’s going viral on social media. You can find whatever is like what the influencers in your niche are sharing the ad the formats of their contents and you can sort that based on the engagement they’re getting and it works really well. So we have an AI agent connected to this uh to these uh two tools here and if I’m not wrong what it does is to get most of the information from Verlo and then it checks these stats with scrape creators which is this one and uh it’s very simple get an account you get the API or the MCP which is how you connect chatpt you can ask it to connect with these it will guide you in the process to to to do the connection and then you give it uh access to these tools and you put like $10 or $15 on Verlo and 10 $15 on script creators that already gives you uh uh lots of credits for this and then you can ask it for what’s going viral in this niche or that niche. Give me some formats. Give me some examples, links to Tik Tok posts. Uh Tik Tok it’s great for this. So you can see lots of different ideas uh for your ads from what’s working in because what is working organically is what people are used to see. So, you want to you don’t want to put an ad in front of them that says, “Hey, here’s an ad.” Depending on what you’re promoting, it could be fine, but in general, if you can make it like something that makes sense in that social media environment, it’s better. So, um that that works well. And then you can use a tool like Hey Jen if you want to create like UGC content. Uh I know there are others. I use a hen and uh yeah so you you can and you can and if you install codeex or cloud co work on your computer you can connect it to hey gen you can connect it to these tools and you can do everything from one place it’s super easy these days and uh yeah I hope that this this tip uh works for you. I I’ I’ve seen many people uh and I used to use Rival IQ some time ago and I see many people still using it. Uh let me show you this one. But I’m not using this one anymore. Okay. So this one is also a nice tool that serves the same purpose. But I’m not using this one now.

    So that helps you with the trends, right?

    I appreciate you presenting the research tools. I’ve previously tried to use SAM uh SEM Rush similar to uh look for the sites sending most traffic to a vendor’s offers page, but that’s pretty expensive and the data is sometimes cluttered with traffic from people visiting the sales page from within ClickBank itself. Uh I like this approach of starting at the meta ads and uh of the process. Seen Rush is very powerful, Doug. Um it’s it’s very powerful actually. It’s very very powerful but uh but I think that it’s more advanced. It’s more expensive and more advanced. Um I remember that some time ago like SCM Rush is a relatively I’m not going to say old tool cuz it’s updated and it works really well these days but it’s been there for a while. And about two or three years ago, I did a a a

    uh I don’t know how to to call that like a a mentoring a two-eek mentoring process uh called affiliate insider. Maybe some of you were here participated at the time and uh we used SEM Rush to reverse engineer campaigns and we were able to find uh an affiliate sending like running hu a huge campaign like making six figures a week uh with that training using SCN Rush. So it’s more for that but it’s more advanced. Uh but if you have budget and time to learn how to use it, it’s not bad. like it’s actually it can be powerful but it as you said you have to navigate it. You have to have the patience to go through the data and find the information. Uh it’s not so simple but but but it’s a good one. How do you address offers that are in ClickBank and also available on Amazon for onethird the price? Uh yeah that’s that sometimes is is is something for you to be careful with because uh many vendors do that. The idea is that sometimes people will research the offer and then they they use that to capture sales. Uh normally that’s a small percentage but it’s uh yeah it’s something for you to to to be careful if you see that the Amazon offer is getting too many sales. That’s something for you to to be careful about.

    That’s great. Uh, I hope that you you turn a profit soon.

    Uh, I know Muse seems to be smart on meta policy, but it might not give answers that are beneficial to affiliates. For example, I know one of your recommended rules is to cut a campaign off if it’s not made a sale after spending an amount equal to the price of the uh, affiliate offer. But when I do go to cut off that campaign, Meta recommends to keep it on as the campaign may improve over time. Most affiliates seem to agree that campaigns tend to not improve over time. So, not sure I trust Muse outside of using it for compliance information. Uh I actually meant using it for compliance. You’re absolutely right, David. I mean, campaigns do get better over time sometimes. Uh that happens, but uh but that’s not after two or three sales. That’s after 30 40 sales, 50 sales. Uh depends. But but but they do get better. Uh some and this is another thing, right? Some people say that it’s the pixel that learns that I’ll share my experience with you. Not saying that the other guy is right or wrong in what he’s saying. Based on my experience, when you get 30, 40, 50 sales with the same campaign, it gets significantly better. There’s not a hard rule. Like could be 20 sometimes or 60. It depends. But uh the campaign gets it it performs much better. It’s true. It’s happened countless times. People say, “Oh, it’s the pixel.” I’ve tried getting the same pixel, moving it to a different ad account, running a campaign. It’s just a new campaign. I’ve tried to get more conversion data from multiple ad accounts and feeding everything into the pixel with an automation that would pass all that information to the pixel to create a super campaign on one ad account. no super campaign. So to me, if I were to say this, and I have no technical uh reference to say this, could be totally wrong. A meta engineer hearing me now could laugh at me, but my experience shows that it’s the campaign for some reason. Uh every time it happened to me, like 100% of the time it was the the campaign, but uh just a parenthesis here, but uh what he said is absolutely right. Facebook’s gonna tell it to keep something running and over spend and that’s not what you want to do. I mean, it’s possible that eventually an ad would gain traction, but the point is that it’s easier and better and more effective for an an affiliate, especially if you’re on a tight budget, to take the risk of losing some potential winners. So, you’re going to kill some winners too soon. That’s not great, but it’s more acceptable than keeping losers running and leaking money for too long. That’s much much worse. So if you have to to make that decision, it’s better to kill the losers even if if you do that at the cost of losing some winners because anyways creating ad volume which is important these days you can do that more easily with AI. So it makes sense to lose some winners. If you can still find some winners then that’s what matters. You have what you need for scaling.

    Connect SCM rush to claude reduces the level of complexity. So this is a way to help beginners. Yes. Uh that makes sense, Chad. And that could be could be uh powerful combination. SCM Rush is a very powerful tool, but it’s like a bazooka. So if uh if you’re going to use a bazooka, you uh you need to have some experience. But yes, maybe connecting it to cloud makes sense. I haven’t tried that, but I I think it makes sense.

    Okay, guys. I I’ll check your email. Uh, I couldn’t check emails uh today, but I’ll do that right after this webinar. I know some affiliates prefer Google ads over Meta because it’s more targeted. Do you recommend Google Ads or maybe others like Bang or X? Uh, well, I I can I can share my experience with you, what I know again from trying to bring you some information from the trenches. So, big biggest uh advantage uh on Meta over Google. People think Meta restricts ad accounts right and left uh or I think it’s left and right right I sorry not a native English speaker and uh so the meta restricts accounts left and right all the time and that um meta uh is tricky when it comes to getting at accounts and things like that actually meta is not that complex when it comes to that not these days it’s you’re not going to have many restrictions when you face a restriction it’s not like absurdly complex to to to solve that problem with Google and SLY YouTube because it’s the same um it’s it’s way way tougher way tougher like it’s much harder so if you don’t want to deal with account bans and account forming and uh now they have that u face scan that makes it really hard to to deal with this u Google is tough when it comes to that that’s the negative aspect. Uh, another negative aspect is that it’s much slower than meta. If you want to gain traction and get a campaign going, meta is much faster. Like I don’t know, like 10 times faster. It’s it’s a lot faster. Now, what’s really good about Google better than Meta once you get a campaign going and it takes some time and it takes some money, but once you and and if you’re facing account restrictions, then it’s harder, but once you get it going, um, and especially for YouTube, I think that more than search these days, then you’re going to have a level of consistency that meta will never match because meta is ups and downs. Google is a lot more consistent and uh this will depend a lot like varies from one campaign to another but I risk saying that in general you can even have a slightly better row ads on Google u when I’m saying Google here my experience would be more with YouTube okay so um about X I I haven’t used X for running ads in a while or bank I don’t know any big affiliates using those I know some big affiliates also using Tik Tok this is very Uh, that’s a tricky one as well when it comes to account bands. Harder than Meta but easier than Google. Uh, you need many ads and you need to be really good with catching trends and the organic stuff. I think it’s a little bit harder if you’re beginner basically. I I would still go with meta in this case. Uh, but yeah, that’s a possibility. I I don’t know big affiliates scaling on Banger X and I’m not doing it. So, I don’t have any reference to talk about those. But this in itself is probably already a reference like I know many people who are really big in the direct responses space and I don’t know a single person who’s scaling campaigns on those platforms.

    Yeah, that’s that was a great tip from Chadia.

    What would you say? What would you say the absolute best Facebook ad type is when it comes to how you link out from your meta ad? I’m not sure if I understand your question, Dan. The best Facebook ad type is when it comes to how you link out from your meta ad. Maybe if you can elaborate a bit more. I’m not sure if I understand your question then, but uh I don’t think there is a best type of ad if that’s what I mean. running uh image ads or video ads or um I don’t think um I I don’t think there’s a a hard something set in stone for this. I think that it varies. So you have to use the concept to discover what is the best for your that change not only from one offer to another but from one ad account to another. Ad accounts make a difference. Um, so using different ad accounts, normally I don’t recommend people to split test that in the beginning at a very early stage, but when you get something going like you have a campaign that’s profitable and you want to see if it can improve you testing a different ad account, an agency account, sometimes that can be a good idea. You’ll see uh normally you see a difference in performance.

    Um, speaking of where you send folks uh from your ad, that’s the information you’re going to get from your research. You can use a landing page, you can direct link, you can direct link to a sales letter, you can direct link to an offer that’s a VSSL, you can use a landing page that sends people to a VSSL offer. Uh, my again, there are different things that work for different offers. In this case, my suggestion and is to use the research phase to figure out what’s working for others and then copy them in the beginning. Copy not in terms of selling their stuff. Just like copy their strategy because uh there are many moving parts when it comes to creating campaigns. So if you just guess blindly then that’s where that’s when you get burned because traffic is expensive and no one knows for sure what will work and what will not. So, if you show me an offer that I’ve never promoted before and you ask me, should I use a landing page for this one? Unless I see a very big compliance issue there that would make direct linking impossible, I can’t tell you for sure. I could say that, oh, I use landing page for 60% of my campaigns, but that’s almost useless. Like, and okay, so what if if the offer is in the 40%. So, the thing is you need to have a method for uh creating a it’s the the the scientific method. So first you have a a problem then you create a a a a hypothesis. So like can I use a landing page or not? Then you make some research to create your hypothesis like you see that people are uh using landing page. So for for similar campaigns so you go from there you start with a landing page and then you test your hypothesis. So you test two three landing page find the best one and eventually you can split test direct linking as well to see how it compares. But the biggest problem in doing this in the beginning is because you’re starting from scratch. So you don’t have a reference. For example, if you have an offer that converts, it generates sales. It doesn’t matter if it’s profitable or not, but it converts consistently. So you have something now that gives you a direction. So you know you have a good offer. So now you can test with and without landing page or with long or short landing page and then you can compare. But if you don’t know if the offer converts, then it’s hard to make this test. You don’t know what’s performing best. Like it’s hard. Uh, and then if you have an offer that converts and a landing page that does really well, then you can test ads and see what type of ads and concepts do better with that landing page and that offer and you have a reference. You know that the offer can convert at 2% at 3%. So if you test your ads, you have a benchmark. You you have again you can compare your numbers with something. When you’re getting started, you don’t have anything tangible. So if you’re getting started and you’re just guessing a campaign, you’re creating a campaign out of the blue, then that’s when things go wrong because it’s just like a bunch of random things that you know statistically your chance of getting chance of getting results are almost zero. That’s why people running circles never get campaigns going now. So that’s why the the research stage is so so so important because then at least you have uh what others are doing and that’s working for them and then you start testing their stuff and when one of those things works then you have something that works that’s yours and then you can start to build up based on that okay this offer is good so I know that uh for example you find an ad that does really well is your ad killing it great concept absolutely smashing the ball out of the park in terms of conversions. Great. Now you use that ad that’s yours that you validated and you create a landing page. Use the same information I have in the ad, put that on your landing page and then all of your ads will send traffic to that landing page. Now that landing page is coming from your own data like when we’re creating uh like I create my own VSSLs often times and uh if I have an ad that’s absolutely crushing it, I’ll get that ad and I use it to create a micro lead. I’ll create a uh 30 seconds, 1 minute uh video to pre-append in my VSSL before uh the VSSL that I already have that is based on that ad because the ad was doing so well. Now I put that in the VSSL and then all my traffic will see that and uh I know that that increases conversions that information because it’s working in the at the ad level. So uh when you find an element it’s it’s always easier to find the next element, the next one, the next one. The problem is to start from zero. So that’s why in the beginning research is key because then you at least you have some external references before you can have your internal references.

    Are there any tips you can give us to avoid having our accounts being banned by Meta? Uh the thing about uh account restrictions is and this is an important topic because this is something that paralyzes many beginners. Uh and a tip that I always share with people in our partner program. So for those of you who are partners, you’ve heard me talk about this many times, but u I’ll share it here is that understand that your ad account, your Facebook page, that those are not your assets. They’re Meta’s assets, Zuckerberg’s assets. They don’t belong to you. So do not be attached to that or think that that’s valuable in any way because that’s not valuable because it’s not yours. It’s valuable but not for you for Zuckerberg. So uh when you run campaigns obviously checking your compliance with um Muse and you can check the offers as well with Muse not just necessarily the offer but the destination page the landing page for example that you’re going to be using the landing page on your ads. You can test validate those with Muse. you can already reduce your risk of getting an account restriction significantly. But if you are running campaigns, that will eventually happen. And if you think it happens only to small affiliates, no, it happens to uh earlier this month uh WAP had their entire portfolio taken down. Uh brands like Prada, like Louis Vuitton, uh they have recently faced uh issues with marketplace listings and ad accounts getting restricted by Meta. So this can happen anytime to anyone because no matter how big Prada is, the ad account belongs to Zuckerberg to Meta, not to them. So that can happen. So when you understand that uh you’re going to be careful about that, but you’re you’re not going to worry about losing an ad account. If you lose an ad account, you can get an agency account to run your campaigns. If you search on Google for BM uh or metac account providers, you’re gonna find providers uh that can provide that. So, it’s possible to get new accounts. It’s possible to create a new BM. Sometimes one profile can have two BMs. Each BM can have three ad accounts. So, that’s six uh ad accounts. You can get lots of stuff going with six ad accounts until you get all of those restricted. And then you can have your husband, your wife, your brother, like my family, all of their ad accounts have been used. So, uh, you know, but don’t worry too much about that. I can tell you that, uh, big affiliates, they don’t even talk about this. They don’t care about it. This is not important. So, if you’re too attached to this, this is this is very limiting. So, uh, u try not to worry too much about it. If you if that’s a concern for you, uh try to find agency accounts and uh BM providers, make some research about them, see if others are saying they’re good, and then create a list of where you can get accounts from if that happens, if you get restricted, so that you have that relief that you need to get going and start running your campaigns.

    Uh you mentioned Robbie Blanchard. He sent a video today saying he knows many super affiliates that gross over 1 million a year but actually do not make a profit. That seems dumb from an outsider’s perspective, but I would imagine they do it on purpose. Are there benefits to spending so much but only not to make a profit? Uh it’s hard to comment on things that other people said without knowing their context or like and they can know things that are different. What I know is that many big affiliates generate a lot of revenue with very tight margins. That’s true. Uh especially in the neutra space. I see. Because uh uh for those offers, you have bigger price points, physical products, neutra offers, but you don’t have a lot of backend. With info products, it’s sometimes the opposite. You have a lower price point, but you can have a lot of backend. So um depending on the affiliate deal you have you can tap into that back end or not and then that’s what makes a lot of difference in terms of profitability. But again this is generic information like it doesn’t mean that it’s always like this. So uh yes I know some neutral operations generating numbers that you said a million dollars a year. Uh I don’t want to exaggerate here but I know many guys doing a million dollars per week. Like I know like a lot of people doing a million dollars a week but the the the profit margin of their whole operation is like 10%. And then so they’re making and then you may think okay but 100 grand a week is not bad right and right that’s why they’re doing it but still they have like 30 people 40 people working with them with salaries with uh a percentage that they make on on on on that on top of that 10% and uh okay but it can still make sense yes it can still make sense you can still get rich doing that But uh there’s a high risk level there because you have a big infrastructure and you you’re you have a huge cash flow and a lot of money uh going out and coming in and if something breaks or goes wrong a 10% margin like just a normal meta algorithm change I say normal because it’s happening all the time these days that can make you go from making a 100 grand a week to losing 300 grand a week for example. So uh it’s a risky business model but yes when that happens because when you the more you scale the tighter your margin becomes because if you think about it like imagine that you want to sell uh Real Madrid t-shirts to people who are like super fans of Real Madrid. They go to all their games and they they live in Madrid. They they love it. They’re uh addicted to to to soccer and they they absolutely love that uh club. So that’s a small pool of people if you think about the world. But if you create a really nice t-shirt about Real Madrid, you can get lots of a high conversion rate with them. Huge ros. If you go to people who like soccer in Spain, then that’s a broader group of people. You’re going to sell way more t-shirts, but uh your your conversion rate is going to go down because not everyone is going to be so into Real Madrid, like Real Madrid to to to buy the t-shirts. I think I’m pronouncing the name of the team wrong. here in Brazil we say h Madrid which is wrong so it’s real Madrid right so um anyway the point is that um if you go to like people who like soccer in Europe soccer fans in the world the group becomes broader but the profit margin and the conversion gets tighter so the more you volume you do and this is for any niche any campaign it’s a it’s mathematical uh the lower your your margin so affiliates doing insane amount accounts in revenue will normally have much tighter margins than you when you start running your first campaigns and you run spend $100 a day and make $300 in a day and get super excited doing 3x row ads. Yes, but you’re not going to do 3x row ads if you spend uh $10,000 a day if you spend $50,000 a day. So, um so this is what I can comment on that, but I uh can talk about Rob’s uh information specifically.

    Have you tried Instagram ads? And if so, how do they compare to Facebook? Would uh they be a bit easier to start? Uh that’s the same. Uh when we’re talking about meta ads, we’re running across uh we we’re using Advantage Plus for placements. So it’s Facebook, it’s WhatsApp, it’s messenger, it’s Instagram, it’s it’s meta. Okay? So everything we talk we were talking about Instagram ads here this whole time. It’s Facebook, Instagram, it’s the same.

    Uh, I’m thinking this is too much trial and error and you have to outsmart these platforms. This could be years to be good at this to make good income. Looks like a lot of dribble money could be made. I get your point, Greg. I disagree, but um I think that’s a fair conclusion. I don’t think you’re trying to outperform the platform because the platform is not your your enemy. The platform wants you to keep advertising there. The more you spend money on meta, the richer Zuckerberg gets and the more he climbs up that Forbes list. So, he doesn’t want to play against you. He wants to play with you. Obviously, it’s a complex game with users and advertisers and governments and law. And so, obviously, the it’s not that simple, but the platform is not it’s it’s like a game. It’s like playing a game. So, um, one thing I can tell you, you’re not gonna get rich in any industry in a very easy way, unless maybe if you win the lottery. So, if you want to make real money, there’s going to be real work involved. This is the work in case of running affiliate campaigns on Meta. Is it too much or not worth it? Well, then that’s an individual decision. Uh, I think it’s worth it and I do it for a living. But, um, yeah, like if you I I think that for any business, there will be challenges and obstacles. That’s what separates people who get rich from people who don’t. At least in when we’re talking about capitalism obviously in other places it can be different. So uh yeah so it’s it’s doing what others are not willing to do that will give you the results that others are not achieving. Right? So uh I think that that’s a valid point and we cannot make all the money that’s everywhere. So maybe you think okay I don’t want to do meta. I’m going to focus on email marketing or something else and it’s fine. uh here there’s a lot of money to be made. There’s a big price but this is how the game is played right so uh and I don’t think it’s a lot of trial and error that to me that particular part I really and deeply disagree with that because it’s not trial and error like uh in a random way it’s about it’s it’s a method for finding winning ads. So it’s like if you were digging gold. So you can just start digging in anywhere and but that’s not good. So you have a method where you you go to the place where the gold is more likely to be found and then you dig in and you try to find gold. Uh and you can do that in a very good way, in a bad way. Some people will become millionaires doing it. Others will make a comfortable living. Others will not make any money doing it. Um it’s the same here. But uh this is not just try and error. It’s a process. It’s actually we could put this into an equation like that there’s a a process for finding winning ads that scale and that make you money. So this is your test cuz if you think about a business a business has to create value right so if you think about social media you can may like it or not I’m not a big fan of some platforms but the point is that people who use those social media platforms they like them for entertainment for connecting with people for uh getting the news for sharing their opinion doesn’t matter but they like that so they’re they receive value from that. So that’s why those companies are huge. Any product any company that you think about provides value. Your goal here is to connect buyers with good products if you can then that’s that’s the ethically that’s what you should do and uh help buyers but most importantly as an affiliate the vendor is your your client. The vendor is the you’re providing a service to the vendor. So you’re helping the vendor’s business connect with more potential clients and grow and you’re getting paid for that. So this is the job finding the ads, finding the people, generating the sales, help helping those businesses with acquisition and receiving a payment for that. It’s a job. So this is the value you’re providing. This the the fact that this exists is the reason why affiliates exist. So everything like there is a reason to be to be there. That’s how I see it, right? So uh yeah.

    ClickBank’s dashboard tracks the refund rate in states 25% or less is a quality offer. What happens if our rate is over 25% as an affiliate? Does that count against us in any way or is that more of an issue as a seller versus affiliate? Uh well, I I know many people inside ClickBank. I can tell you that if they see that your refund rate is persistently high for a long time, they may reach out to you to see if they can help with that. But that will not get you banned or get you into trouble. Chargeback ratio being high, that’s another thing that’s import that that that could be an issue. So, uh and and then in general like there are many things that impact refund rates because of the partner program. I can say that we always send like very different refund rates for our traffic for partners traffic and not all partners having the same refund rates and there are many things that can impact the refund rate the offer the customer experience with the promise etc. But for example one thing that as an affiliate and for our own offers that we do is to select to the ads that we run depending on the ads that you run your refund rate can get much higher or much lower. That’s one of the things to to to uh keep an eye on. Uh and and that’s why proper tracking is recommended. So you can do this uh directly with meta actually these days and have like if you’re using clickbank for example, it reports to meta and then you can have a spreadsheet where you monitor your ads and you you you test different concepts and you see that your conversion rate goes up but the refund rate goes up as well. Then it could be an issue with your concepts. That’s a metric for you to pay attention to because sometimes different ads can produce very different refund rates. Uh recently we worked to recently a few months ago we worked hard to reduce refund rates for some of our own offers and one of the things was to focus on the ads with less refunds. So when you’re creating ads uh you’re determining who is clicking the ads and that’s how you target people in meta these days. So the ads you create will target different groups of people and we’ll position them with a different mindset for watching the VSS itself for checking the sales page and that can have a very significant impact on refund rate. So you can see an offer that seems to be good has a 10% refund rate and then when you run it yours is 30%. So the ads that you’re using could be the issue because normally it’s not going to be the traffic. If you’re using meta like the traffic source, if you’re using lowquality traffic sources, then that could be the reason too. But with meta, normally it’s the way you’re positioning this because they have all the traffic. You just have to reposition your ads to target different people. But uh they will ClickBank will normally not make refunds a big thing. Uh just chargebacks.

    uh they suck a buck and go want you there until you aren’t spending enough money on ads and then you make one mistake then they bounce you from the platform. They most care about those who are dropping a meal per week like those people you mentioned. Uh well then again I respect your opinion. I just don’t fully agree. I I I partially agree. uh what I agree is that meta is a business and the way meta does what it does is to make their money. So if you think about any business and again we can talk about banks, we can talk about uh restaurants, we could could talk about like any business customers that spend more money with them, they become priority customers. They receive uh I don’t know better or faster support, more assistance, better opportunities. uh naturally because as customers they are more profitable. So it’s natural for a business to to to give special attention to the customer that spends more with them. If you go to a law firm and you have big money potential for them, they will give you a priority. It’s normal. That’s how the world works. So I don’t think it’s about meta. I think it’s about the world we live in now. Uh so that’s that’s what I agree. Now the thing is that it’s that means that yes you can have a man an account manager and eventually some privilege with meta. Uh one thing we’ve already done is to participate in certain internal programs that meta has where they assign a person to give you some sort of u assistance there with with your account and improving your metrics and your numbers. They have those internal programs for big advertisers. So all of that exists. Uh now I don’t think they’re trying to sabotage you. I don’t believe in the conspiracy thing in terms of uh okay they just want you to spend some money and then they will get rid of you. No. Uh in fact Meta is not even looking at your ads and your stuff. Meta doesn’t probably doesn’t know you exist in terms of um when when you’re running ads and you’re a small affiliate. It’s not going to know you exist or pay attention to you. uh if you get an account restricted 99% of the times it’s going to be an AI algorithm that flagged you and and restricted your account and uh that means you did something that le led to that or it was a mistake. Uh is it possible that a big account from a big agency will have a priority and they will not restrict the account right away? Yes, it’s possible. It’s what I said about like the big clients. But um if you are a small client in the beginning, you can choose not to play the game, but you’re not going to start big with Meta, Google, Tabul, or like you all anything you decide to do, you’re going to have to start small. If you decide to start a grocery store locally initially, your market share will be zero. So, you’re going to be starting smaller. And the suppliers will offer discounts to the big grocery stores, buying a lot from them. So you can choose not to start the grocery store or you can understand what’s the game plan that can work for the new grocery store. How you’re going to win customers by offering them u a better experience by treating them differently by doing a better marketing. I don’t know like you’re going to see where you can how you can play against the big one. So again I don’t think that’s meta. I don’t think that’s Google. I think that’s live. So when we do that uh we may like or not the fact but we accept the fact and then we see what we can do about it. I don’t think that uh the nature should have uh I don’t know like lions that eat other smaller animals but that’s how it is. So if you are born a smaller animal like how are you going to do that? You don’t like lions but lions are out there. So what you going to do about it? like you it’s the it’s imposed to us. We cannot control that. So this is uh this is true in with meta like you’re you’re you have some privilege when you’re bigger there just like with any other business. But it’s 100% doable to like all the big affiliates you see doing a million dollars a year, a million dollars a month, a million dollars a week. Those affiliates, they didn’t make a million dollars just starting from scratch like from day one. They started with the normal accounts and went from there. And I know because I obviously I’ve been training and coaching people in this space for a long time. Countless people I’ve seen like people starting campaigns and going from zero to $10,000 a month uh in a relatively short period of time. Not saying that this is going to happen to you or anyone or promising anything. Uh don’t get me wrong, but just saying that I’ve seen that happen. So it can happen.

    So is there a good information to learn this anywhere? I could not find to do this. Uh let me see your previous question just to remember what you’re referring to. Oh okay, Greg. So I uh for you to learn how to run ads on meta. I think the what I shared here in the references and the places and the Facebook groups, YouTube channels, those are the resources I recommend. And if you follow this process that I shared today, the four phases, um I think it will like I I think it works. It’s what I do.

    Uh

    all right. So I don’t see more questions here, I think. And I’m I’m not reading all the messages and because not I’m I’m reading the questions. Uh it’s already been two and a half hours since we’ve been on this webinar. A long one, but uh I appreciate all the message, all the feedback and all your message. I really appreciate all all of them. Okay, so uh yeah uh I think it’s time for us to wrap this up. So I hope that you were able to get some value from today’s um webinar and today’s training. And I hope that this is going to be useful for you. Maybe you’re not going to be implementing this entire game plan and you’re going to do it in a different way. But if you can extract one, two, maybe three things that help you in your business. Uh I think that uh I will see that as mission uh accomplished for me here. Okay. So, uh, I really appreciate all of you for attending, staying until the very end, and I’m going to send you that recording with the, um, the the the trans the not the transfer, the slides, and, uh, yes, kind of a transcript, but a playbook extracted from from this webinar uh, probably tomorrow. Okay. So, thank you again and uh I hope that you managed to to make a lot of money with your campaigns in the coming weeks and in the coming months. Take care.

  • 10/24/2026 – My AI Board of Advisors Make My Decisions

    So right here you can see that I’ve got Jeff Bezos, Paul Graham, Alex Rosie, Gary Vee, Dan Martell, Gino Wickman, and Warren Buffett all discussing a business question that I had. You basically shoot off a question with different options and all of these different council members will kind of come together, roast your idea, and help you think about it in a different way because each one of these seats has one specific question that they’re focusing on. And now you can see what’s happening is they’re actually debating with each other. So Jeff Bezos was debating with Gary Vee. Same thing with Paul Graham and Gary Vee. Now I’ve got Alex Herozi going after Gary Vee too. And wow, everyone’s deciding to pick on Gary Vee in this roast room. This is crazy. There we go. Warren Buffett goes after Hermoszi. But the point is, like I said, everyone has their own question they focus on. So Warren Buffett’s question is, what does it do to cash risk and long-term value? Alex Herozy’s question is, will people pay? How much? And how do we close? And Gino Wickman’s question is, can the business run this without the founder holding it all together? Now, after all three of those rounds happen, we can see that we have a final verdict, which was option C. And then we can also download a PDF, which allows us to read this, and we can sort of look at this more in depth. And we could also share this with our team if we wanted to. Now, this is really just a visual layer on top of what actually goes on in Cloud Code, which is basically just running a bunch of sub aents based on these different council members that I have created. So, you don’t need this local host open in order to run and use this, but it’s just a nice visualization of what’s going on. And this is completely customizable, meaning you can switch out different council members and you can build other ones, too. In fact, inside of this repo that I’m going to give you guys, there already are a few other ones, too. Hey Claude, what are the other council members inside of our roast room? And so that’s Glido actually shooting off a prompt right now to Claude Code, as you can see. And then it’ll show us who the other council members are. Cloud code comes back and says there are 11 seats. We have the default seven that you’re seeing here. And then we also have Naval, Cody Sanchez, Sarah Blakeley, and Leila Hermosi. Of course, you can build as many other ones as you want. So, that’s a new feature of GLO where we’re able to actually orchestrate different chats between different coding agents. If you want to try it out, you can get a free month using the link in the description. But anyways, just wanted to show this off to you guys and let me break down how this actually works. So, this is a repo called the roast room as you guys can see. And basically, we have these seven different advisors as well as four extras. And I’m probably going to keep adding more in the mix as well. But what I wanted to show you is the advisers. What are these council members? What do they actually live? They’re actually just a bunch of sub aents. So if I go into the claude, actually let me zoom in a little bit more. You can see that we have agents and in here we have one markdown file for each of these sub aents. So Bezos, Blakeley, Buffett, Gary Vee, Graham and all the way through. And if we open one up so you can see what it is, it’s literally just a markdown file that holds information about the sub aent. So for Jeff Bezos, for example, how he thinks, what are the sources that he references, how he makes decisions, all that sort of stuff. So that when I actually shoot off a prompt to the roast room, it’s going to go through the different council members and it sort of adopts their personality of how they think and how they make decisions, what they, you know, and it’s able to pull from things like their actual conversations, their lectures, their books, their principles, things that they put out there publicly, articles, stuff like that. So what you’ll notice is they will all have their own agent file, which isn’t really that long. It’s some things like how you debate, how you talk, your lens, but the really interesting stuff here is the brain right here. So we can see all the sub aents, but if I actually go into the skills in this repo, we can see that there is a roast room folder that has brains. And once again, there’s a folder for every single council member that you want to spin up. So if we, for example, open up Leila Hermosy’s brain, we can see that she has hot books, frameworks, positions, principles, sources, stories, and voice. And it’s pretty much the same thing that all of these other council members have as well, but they all obviously look different. The content is different. So if we open up Ila’s hot, what happens is we can see her pillar is can your team and your leadership carry this and who has to change. It shows us what this was built from. So for example, Laya was built from 48 sources, about half a million words from 2021 to 2026. 14 interviews where she’s the main guest and 34 videos of her own on leadership and things like that. Every person here has eight rules. They decide by frameworks, decision loops, things like that. Obviously, any books that they’ve written, frameworks that they talk about frequently and that they quote, their positions on certain things, pricing, discounting, raising money, debt, their principles, different sources that it actually pulled from, specific stories that they might talk about in videos, interviews, things like that. And every single one of these brains for the individual people is built the exact same way. If we open up Dan Martell, we can obviously see that he’s got books in here as well. We can see that he’s got frameworks that he’s using all the time. You can see the buyback principle, the buyback rate, time and energy audit, the drip matrix. All of this stuff should sound familiar to you guys if you have followed, you know, Alexi or Dan Martell, value equation, grand slam offer, all of these things that they actually talk about all the time. A quick break to tell you about the sponsor of today’s video, Fish Audio. Now, anyone who’s tried AI voiceovers knows that the words come out right, but the delivery doesn’t always because it might read a joke or a warning and an apology in the exact same tone of voice. So, Fish Audio has a new model that is their most emotive yet, and it’s called drama 3. You direct it the way that you would direct an actual voice actor, which means that you can write the direction in plain English inside the text, like slowly realizing something’s wrong, and everything after that tag will follow that direction. So, one line can start calm and it can end in a panic. Thanks for calling. Your order’s on its way. Wait, that’s not the right address. Who approved this workflow? And the tags work in other languages, too. It also generates full conversations. You can give each speaker a voice. You can mark who’s talking. And every character keeps their own voice across the entire scene. Just run it one more time. Of course, that’ll be attempt 47. So, if you’re putting it on video, the streaming endpoint sends wordle timestamps back with the audio, so your captions line up exactly with the speech. Now, on the build side, you set the model to drama 3 in the fish audio API. They also have an MCP server too, so you can connect it to cloud code or codecs. And they also have an official NADN node. So if you’re building something that talks like a voice agent or a game character or just narrating your videos, then try drama 3 on the fish audio API with the link in the description. Huge thanks to Fish Audio for sponsoring this part of the video. Now, let’s get back to it. And then I added this new skill called New Roaster, which basically just lets you build new roers. So for example, if I came in here and I was like, “Hey, new roster.” and we wanted to do, you know, Elon Musk and we shot that off. This will basically create Elon Musk’s brain and his agent file and all of his sources. It will build him out and also build him a little cartoon character that will show up in the actual roast room itself exactly the same way that all of these other Roast Room council members have been built out. So, you can keep scaling this thing up. And obviously, I’m going to let this thing build out Elon and then I’m going to add that into the repo so you guys can all use Elon as well. So, while this is building out Elon, as you can see, let us do a new session. So, open up the roast room. That’s pretty much all we have to do is ask for it. And I’m just going to switch this back to Opus here. And it’s going to open up the roast room. We’ll open it up in the local browser inside of the desktop app. And then we will shoot off a prompt so you guys can see how this actually works. Now, once again, you don’t need this visual interface opened up. It will obviously run the sub aent roast room just the same, but it’s nice to see. But one thing that I will say about actually spinning up a roast room is typically you want to put in a decision. You want to put in options. So two or three options. You want to give it context so that they can actually reason through it and make a better call. Right? So let me just shoot off a quick example. We are looking at hosting another in-person event in the summer of 2027 and we’re trying to figure out where to do it. We’ve been, you know, analyzing different options like San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Austin, Chicago. We obviously want to be able to get good sponsors there, local incentives, get a lot of people there, and you know, so airports should be important. Um, public transportation, good restaurants, good activities to do outside of just having the event, things like that. So, help me figure out where this should be and do this on the roast room council. So this natural language request should be just fine. But you also couldn’t come in here and do a slash roast room. And then you could just invoke this like that. But we will go ahead and just get rid of that for now and shoot that off and it should be good enough. One thing that this will do is it will help you figure out what would be the best council members to have for this specific debate. As you can see, it’s going to load the skill. It’s going to gather event and business context. So it will ask you questions if it doesn’t feel like it yet has enough. And then it will actually go ahead and run the debate for you. So, you can see it is going to ask me a couple questions here. It has four questions that it’s asking me. And by the way, we already did book this event in Salt Lake City, June 16 through 20. So, if you guys want to attend, then definitely check it out. But for the sake of the example, I’m just going to pretend that none of this has happened yet. So, I’m just going to say not signed, open choice. It says, “What size and budget should the council plan around?” And I accidentally just skipped through those questions, but the last one says, “Who sits at the table?” And it gave me a recommendation. And it also lets you play with it if you wanted to put different people in. So that’s part of it is thinking about who should actually sit on the council for your specific debate. But now that’s going to be it. It’s basically going to run. It’s going to process this. Even if this was closed, like I said, we would have sub agents that would be going through and doing this no matter what. And the reason I decided to do this with sub agents, because when I actually started doing these roasts, I started doing this with agent teams. But the reason I’m doing sub agents now is because I found after doing lots of testing that agent teams was more expensive for a minimal amount of actual value ad. So doing sub agents works pretty well because they start to actually talk to each other and stuff like that either way. So it works just fine. Now in this case you can see that we took out Dan Martell because his is more about like protecting the founders’s time and we put in Naval and his question is does this build leverage and equity you own or does it just rent out your time? So you can see it was great that we brought in Nal for this specific type of roast room. And obviously last time you guys saw the PDF that it creates which is pretty high level but all of this stuff is stored locally and you’re able to dig in. You can ask more questions about it. You can inspect all that stuff if you want to look at the debate more deeply. So it’s not lost data of course. Show me where all of the debates are held later if I want to be able to dig in and ask more questions about it. So as they’re going through round one and writing their opening positions, I can just show you real quick. If I go to the files and I go down here to projects and then we scroll down to a project called founder council right here you can see that there is different sessions in here and these sessions will show us different roast rooms that we’ve run since creating this visual interface and we’re able to actually then dig in. So if I look at this one, we can see that there was a brief, there was a round one, round two, and a verdict. And this will hold all of the session logs from each of these people because as they start to write their positions, we’ll see that all of their reasoning comes through even when they start to debate. And we can view it right in this interface as well. So now you can see they’re starting to come through with their opening positions and we’ll see below their name what they voted for. So Gary came in with voting for A and gave it an 8 out of 10 score. Gino did the same. And you can see A is Salt Lake City and B San Francisco, Austin, Chicago. This one, Alex Heroszi, also voted for Salt Lake City. So, everyone voted for Salt Lake City except for it looks like Naval went for B, San Francisco. And then, like I said, we could click in and we could look at exactly why. We could see the risk. We could see what they would do. And then we can keep seeing what everyone’s going to do. And now, what’s going to happen is they’re going to read each other’s positions. And then they’ll start to go after each other and try to poke holes in each other’s opinions. In this case, they all are in pretty much good agreement, which is nice. But if they did all completely agree, then the chair or sort of like Claude code, the facilitator of this debate, would make one of them argue for a different side. So they kind of play devil’s advocate and we get to see more perspective as well. But in this case, we didn’t have a unanimous decision. So the debate will continue as expected. Now, what I think is really fun about this is we’re able to leverage the subject matter expertise of other people. And humans are really good at their domains, right? So like for example, I could not build a world-class copywriting agent. It would be tough for me because I don’t have a copywriting background. But what I could do is go find someone who I think is the best copywriter in the world. I could extract their frameworks, examples of their copy, how they think, how they decide what to write, and then I could put them into this council. And when I have questions about copy or, you know, how to market something, I could leverage them inside of this roast room. And it doesn’t mean it’s going to be perfect, right? It doesn’t mean that whatever this roast room decides I blindly take and accept, but just getting in this mindset of thinking about who has done something that you want to do, who has done something and proven it. Now, how can you go out there and study what they did and how they got there and basically just try to follow that path? I think it’s a lot better to do that than just trusting Claude’s gut or trusting your gut sometimes. Like following someone that’s actually walked the path you want to walk is a pretty good signal, right? So, doing these councils helps me just look at things through different perspectives and, you know, think about things that I might not have thought about because Paul Graham brought up this idea or because Naval brought up that idea. And so even outside of the bounds of this roast room for example, I think that just thinking like that when you’re building out other skills or you’re trying to automate different processes, I think thinking like that is a really good way to think. But anyways, you can see they’re actually coming through now. They’re deciding on final votes. And you can see that we’re probably going to win, you know, Salt Lake City. It’s 7.9 out of 10 right now. And that is probably the verdict that we’re going to get. But of course, we could go through and we could read everyone’s key points. As you can see, here is Hermosy’s key point. Here’s Wickman’s key point. You get to see here Bezos conceded to Gary Vee and Graham about them being right on certain things but also disagreed the most with Naval. So anyways, that’s how you can sort of start to read through some things in more depth. We can see that we have the PDF now which I’ll go ahead and download real quick. And now we’re able to look at the fact that Salt Lake City won which is actually pretty cool because that is where we decided to have this first inerson event. Now anyways that is done. We could obviously do more rounds if we wanted to. We could bring in other council members. And now going back to check on Elon, you can see that it created the actual portrait for him and it created these different views so that we can see what it will look like when he’s actually talking. And then if I go to the repo, we can see that we now have Elon added in here. If I go to the brain or not the brain, the agents, we can see right here we have Musk. And then of course in the actual brain because it’s supposed to do that through the new roster skill, we have a brain for Musk. Once again, it has hot books, frameworks, positions, principles, sources, stories, and a voice.md. So, we are now set up and we are able to use Elon Musk inside of this roam council. If you guys want to grab this GitHub repo and play around with it, then just go to my free school community. This will be linked in the description. Go to the classroom and then grab it and from the AI skills or from the all YouTube resources. All of my other free GitHub repos, skills, prompts, guides, everything is in the free school community. So, anyways guys, that is going to do it for this one. I hope that you enjoyed you learned something new. And if you did, please give it a like. It helps me out a ton. And as always, I appreciate you guys making it to the end of the video. And I’ll see you on the next one.

  • 10/24/2026 – I Tried 100+ AI Tools – These 7 Are the Best

    So, after testing over a 100 AI tools for my business, I noticed something, which is that most of them are just noise or a fancy solution to something pretty basic. But there are seven tools that have actually changed how I run my business every single day, even though there are so many new tools popping up all the time. Now, some of these may sound pretty simple or even boring, but they have had a bigger impact on my business than I expected when I first started using them. So, today I want to talk about what they are, how I use them, and why you should, too. So, the first tool is not going to shock anybody. It’s actually two tools. It’s Cloud Code and Codeex. They’re AI agents that work right on your computer. So, they can read your local files, they can write code, they can build things, and all you have to do is talk to them in natural language. And for me, they’re the number one biggest lever in my business. If I had to only use one of these tools on this list today, it would be either Cloud Code or Codeex. I can use them to make slide decks or spreadsheets and Google Docs. I can use them as a brainstorming partner, as a council, and basically my entire operating system that my whole business runs on. My second brain lives in there. All my projects, my skills, all my knowledge, all my meeting transcripts, all of that kind of stuff. It drives about 90% of my daily workflow. It’s also helped me cut out a lot of other tools that I used to pay for because now I can just build them myself. So, I used to pay for something like Gamma to make slide decks or something like Poppy to help with content and now I can just build my own little custom apps instead. I’ve even built my own version of Loom that I use because once you can just describe the tool and that you want, you know, you don’t really need to rent someone else’s tool. Now, it’s not me saying it’s easy to build software that you could scale to hundreds of thousands of users, but if you’re just using it or you’re using it for a small team, it’s not as risky. So, if you guys run a business, a good place to start is a tool that you’re paying for every month, but only using one feature of. Or you can point something like Cloud Code at SOPs and client docs, and your team can ask it questions instead of asking you. Now, people do always ask me which one of these two that I use, and the answer is it’s both. I pay for both, and I use both every single week. You know, sometimes one model is ahead. Sometimes my usage just lasts longer on one, so I’m bouncing back and forth a lot. But in general, you know, I think Codex is a lot better at computer use, browser use, and cloud code is a better thought partner when I’m brainstorming. And right now, the usage lasts a lot longer. But that might not be true in 2 months. So, it’s not a matter of which one is best. It’s which one of them is best for the task that I’m doing right now. And how do I build my whole like AIOS, all my files and my folders and projects in a way where I can switch between the two and it’s not a hassle or it’s not a pain at all. But let’s move on to number two, which is Opener. Open Auto gives you access to over 500 AI models from more than 80 different providers through just one account. So everything’s in one place. You’re not having to manage a bunch of different separate keys or different billing information or different passwords for things like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, all the other AI model providers. So any automation that we’ve got running in production right now, whether it’s for my business or, you know, for one that we are putting in production for a client, it pretty much uses Open Router as the AI model provider powering it. you know, because I can also set up fallbacks so that if one model goes down or errors out, it just tries the next one, it falls back instead of the whole automation breaking. And I can create a separate API key per automation. So the analytics are showing me exactly which one is costing me how much money. So if you’re building automations for your own business, which I’m assuming all of you guys are, then you could have a cheap, fast model, sort your incoming leads, and then you could have a smarter model, write the actual replies or do different reasoning, and that can all happen in one dashboard from one provider. It’s a really, really simple tool, and that’s kind of why I like it. Everything is in one dashboard, like I said. And it can all be on one credit card. And switching models is basically just changing one line. Super easy. Real quick, guys, I’ve got this completely free kit that I want to give to you all on helping you build your own AIOS. Whether you need to build it or whether you need to scale it up, this is the full kit. It’s based on my actual framework I call the Herk Loop. Context, connections, capabilities, and cadence. This thing comes with six skills. It helps you set up a brain. It helps you set up your priorities in your business, and it interviews you. It is exactly how I built my own actual AI operating system, and it’s how I’m able to move so fast. So, if you guys want this, the link for this is down in the description. But anyways, let’s get back to the video. All right, so moving on to number three. Hostinger VPS. Now, Hostinger is sponsoring this part of the video, but I’d have it on the list either way because I actually do use it and I’ve been using it for a long, long time. A VPS is a virtual private server. So, basically, a computer in the cloud that stays on 24/7 and it keeps all your stuff on that private server running even if your laptop or your desktop is closed or turned off. Now, this one probably sounds the most boring on the list, but it’s where a lot of my stuff actually lives. I’ve got one running and an end. I’ve got one running, you know, Hermes agents and openclaw agents and all the other open source agents you might want to host later or even open source models you might want to host for yourself. You know, my Hermes agents can automate different parts of my business over here. Like I’ve got one that’s trading stocks for me and one that’s making Instagram reels and carousels for me 24/7. And then I use some just to test different cloud code setups. And the reason that I use Hostinger is because I can spin up a server really quickly with just one click of a button without worrying about the technical side like scaling or compute or you know running the different commands or whatever it may be because I don’t really come from a technical background or like a DevOps background. So because of all these one-click templates for trending tools like either Enidan or Hermes or OpenClaw or whatever comes next, it makes it so much easier and it also makes sure that I don’t have to worry about it when I’m trying to sleep at night that something’s going to shut down and I’m not going to be able to figure out what happened and why. And if you guys want to try this one out for yourself, you can go to hostinger.com/nateherkvps and that will be linked in the description. And one more quick thing on this guys, Hostinger told me that they’re having this Black Friday sale from pretty much now until about halfway through December. So there’s going to be lots of different sales and Cyber Monday and lots of different things going on. So I’ll let you guys go check it out and explore those deals. But anyways, let’s get back to the video. So number four is Grockbot. And I use this one a ton. Grockbot lets you set up bots that do work for you. And they all share a cloud computer with a browser, file system, and a terminal. So, they can basically do anything that you could do yourself on a real computer. And what I love about Grockbot is how fast I can set up an automation because it’s got connectors in there to all the apps that I already use. I have it on my phone and it syncs pretty much automatically. I can schedule routines super easily in there. So, basically automations that run on some sort of schedule or a web hook and they just keep going all the time in the background right from my pocket. So, for example, after every single Q&A call in my plus community, one of my Grockbots grabs the transcript, posts it in my community, and then it also puts it in the classroom so that members can find it later. Another one is posting in both of my communities every time I drop a YouTube video. So, it’s like these little repetitive things that I might forget or if I did forget, I’d have to like catch up on later. Grockpot can now just handle that stuff so I don’t have to be like perfectly consistent and there’s less room for human error for me to make a mistake. I’ve got another one set up that keeps me up to date on everything that’s going on in AI. It’s just pinging me little reminders and I’ve got all these little different Grockbot personalities set up and each one has a very specific job. The way I think about it is it’s like having a bunch of Open Claws in your pocket, but with way less technical setup. Because with OpenClaw, you’re kind of figuring out like the server side and the connection and figuring out the hosting and everything. But with Grockbot, you just describe what you want and it’s just an app that you would install on either your laptop or your phone. All right, so moving on to the next one. Number five, this is Glido. And full disclosure, I am a partner in Glideo. But that’s how you guys know that I actually do use it and trust the vision of it. So it’s a voice dictation app. So, you just hold a key, you talk, and then words get typed and pasted into whatever app that you’re actually in. So, I basically don’t type anymore. Prompts, messages, emails. I just speak into my mic and it’s there. But you can really customize all your settings in there. It’s also the fastest on the market and it’s completely private. But the reason why I wanted to put this one on the list is because of command mode inside of GLO. This means instead of just dictation, it can also take action for you. So, I can have it search the web, summarize a YouTube video, do deep research, find and open files and apps for me, or you can even look through all of the different things that I’ve said to Glido. And all of this is obviously stored locally. Like I said, it’s completely private. And what’s cool about the command mode is you can build custom tools for it. So, basically, you can build custom MCP servers on top of it. So, basically plugins. And you could have it like kick off threads into cloud code or codecs or sync to your notion or to your task app or whatever it is. Ultimately, the vision we have for GLIO is that you can control your whole computer with just your voice and get just as much done away from your desk as you would if you were sitting at it. And even if you only use the dictation feature and not the command mode, it still saves a ton of time when you’re writing emails or SOPs or whatever it is that you may be doing, just talking is faster than typing. Okay, moving on to number six. This one is key.ai and it’s basically open router but for images and videos. You get pay-per-use access to a bunch of image and video models in one spot like VO or Clling or Cance Nano Banana GBT image 2. Anytime that I’m making images or visuals for a carousel or for a thumbnail or for an Instagram reel or whatever it may be, I’m using Key.AI because you only pay for what you generate and it’s been the cheapest option I found when I’m making a lot of images and videos at once. So for you guys, that’s stuff like product photos, ad creatives, short videos for socials, you know, whatever it may be. And you don’t have to pay a monthly subscription. You’re just paying per usage. And the last one here, number seven, is trigger.dev. It hosts your TypeScript code and it runs on a schedule or whenever something kicks off like a web hook. So unlike a VPS, there’s no server that you have to manage. It’s just your code and it just gets executed. We use this all the time for all the automations in the business that are more deterministic, meaning they’re more predictable. They do the same steps every time, like processing documents or syncing data between two different tools. Those don’t really need a full cloud code agentic harness loop AI agent. and it would kind of be a waste to use something that powerful. It’d kind of be overkill for something that simple. So, we just build out a script using cloud code and then we put that script in trigger.dev for it to automatically process. And I don’t even have to open up trigger.dev. I don’t have to like it’s not very confusing because I just tell cloud code, hey, I want a TypeScript trigger.dev automation for this use case and it will build it. It will also deploy it. It will also test it and it can also update it for me. And because it’s just running code, it’s super super cheap as well. So, you basically just pay the second it runs. And the free plan comes with five bucks of credits every month, which will honestly last you quite a while. So, for your business or for your client’s business and you’re setting up a bunch of deterministic codebased automations, I would definitely recommend using trigger.dev. Okay, so now you have seen the seven tools that I use to run my business. And obviously, this is my list. You know, it kind of changes over time, but these are the seven that I keep coming back to and that I have been using consistently over, you know, a year and a half, two years now. Now, if your business is doing different things than mine, then this exact list might not be the best one for you, and that’s totally fine. But I know that learning some of them can feel pretty overwhelming at first, and that’s why I try to cover as many as I can on this channel and inside of my community. You can also find all the free resources I’ve ever given away inside of my communities, and you can ask questions about how other members of the community are using these tools or finding success. And if you are really serious about using AI tools to build a business or just earn some income on the side, then you can join my plus community with everything that you need for the business side of AI as well. So, both links are down in the description. But that is going to do it for this one. So, if you guys enjoyed, you learned something new, please give it a like. It helps me out a ton. And as always, I appreciate you guys making it to the end of the video. I’ll see you on the next one. Thanks everyone.

  • 10/23/2026 – The Better Sex Doctor – The Link Between Masturbating & Prostate Cancer! Dr. Rena Malik

    Men who ejaculated 21 times or more a month are less likely to develop prostate cancer. Jesus Christ. Why? It’s because Dr. Reena Malik, board certified urologist, expert on sexual health and a rock star in educating the public on the facts and myths of sex. Reena, I want to start with this idea that other couples are having significantly more sex than we are. Big myth. People are having sex about once a week. Will my penis get smaller as I age? It can. So in terms of how do we maintain our penile thigh, you need to have Is there a disparity between how long we think sex should take and how long it actually takes? Yeah, we all think it lasts longer. Women want it to be 18 to 25 minutes. Men are a little on the shorter side, like maybe 12 minutes. Is there like an average time 5.1 to 5.7 minutes? And is too much masturbation going to have an adverse effect for men and women? Masturbation is generally safe as long as you don’t. That’s when it becomes a problem. Marina, do we understand our bodies as it relates to our sexual health? Not at all. For example, the pelvic floor. It’s involved in orgasm. It’s involved in sexual function. But no one really talks about it. In fact, men will be shocked. Oh, I have a pelvic floor, too. And there’s a whole host of issues that can come from having a weak pelvic floor, including erectile dysfunction. So, how can I strengthen my pelvic floor? pelvic floor exercises. They’re going to increase orgasm. They’re going to make your semen propel further. And ultimately, it would be something as simple as It’s absolutely crazy to me that so many of you have decided to watch our show. Um, and so many of you have decided to subscribe to our show. We now have 5 million subscribers on YouTube, which is a number that I just can’t comprehend. And it’s a dream that I absolutely never could have had. We started the DiCO just over 3 years ago now. And in my wildest expectations, we might have had 100,000 subscribers by now. So, you can imagine how shocked I am that so many of you have chosen to tune into these conversations every week um and spend some time with us. So, thank you. And I made a deal with you. I made a deal that if you subscribe to this show that we would continue to raise the bar and in 2024, we’re going to raise the bar like never before. I’ve been working for the last 9 months on a surprise for all of you that have subscribed to this show. And I’m very excited to deliver that for you. The production’s going to change. We’re going to go even further with our guests and we’re going to tell even more global stories. So, as always, if you appreciate what we’re doing here, the simple free favor I’ll ask from you is to hit the subscribe button. Let’s get on with the episode.

    Dr. Reena Malik, with all of your work, what is it that you’re seeking to do? So what I’m seeking to do is have people understand that sexual health is health. I think we have so much misunderstanding about one, what is good sexual health? How do you why is good sex important? Why is it good to have good sexual health? And that creates a lot of despair and devastation. And people don’t talk about it. So they ruminate. They feel bad about themselves. and it’s pervasive throughout their entire life. So, I think ultimately my goal is to make education freely accessible and understandable so people can know what’s going on with their bodies, what’s normal, what’s not, and what’s available to help them. How do you define sexual health? So sexual health is sort of an individual thing, but most people would say that you are able to have sex, you are able to have an orgasm, you are able to have pleasure and achieve the benefits of that. Do we understand our bodies as it relates to our sexual health? No, not at all. I will tell you, so I talk about, for example, um how it’s normal to have erections at night or have even nocturnal emissions. so have a wet dream, how that’s a normal physiologic function. And so many people will message me and say, “How can I stop having what they call nightfall?” Or, “How can I stop waking up with an erection?” Because they think for some reason it’s shameful or it’s a bad thing. And when re realistically, it’s just normal. And part of it is media, right? So when you see TV, you see a man getting an erection very quickly. He’s init immediately penetrating a woman and she’s immediately orgasming and the whole act is like really hot and heavy. And in reality, that’s not what sex is like. So, if you’re not seeing what normal sex is like, what normal foreplay is like, what the fact that it’s normal to sometimes have difficulty getting an erection, that’s normal sometimes to not have an orgasm for a woman, or it may take more time to get a woman aroused and require more foreplay, that you are essentially looking at a script that’s not real, and then you’re like, what’s wrong with me? Am I broken? you know, is something wrong with my body that it doesn’t function the way I’m seeing on TV or on media or on erotic films? Where does your experience on this subject come from? So, I’m a urologist by training, a board-certified urologist. So, we are the medical and surgical doctors of the genital urinary tract. So, we’re essentially the plumbers. So when you have a problem with your kidneys, the tubes that drain the kidneys, the bladder or your genitals, we’re the ones who are going to fix those if they’re a surgical issue. And also we deal with the medical aspects of some of those things. And so that’s what my training was in. But when I started my social media, my channel, I wanted to offer education to people. And as I started making this education, I realized how badly people wanted to know about sexual health. How much they didn’t know and how they really wanted to be empowered with this information. And people are not being asked about sexual function. Even when you go to see your primary doctor, when was the last time they asked you about anything, they might ask you about erections, but that’s probably where it ends, right? Even if they ask about that, they’re definitely not asking women, “Are you having orgasms?” They’re definitely not asking um anyone if sex is pleasurable. They’re not asking them if they feel satisfied with the way things are going, right? And if they are enjoying desire, do they feel normal? And so I realized there was such a disconnect here with what people wanted to know and what was available to them. And so then I started really making content about sexual health and spending more time investigating in that area, treating patients in that area and it totally became a all-encompassing field for me. You’re an expert in the pelvic floor as well. Mhm. What was your sort of training with the pelvic floor? So when you do a fellowship in what we call pelvic female pelvic medicine, a lot of what we do is related to the strength or weakness of the pelvic floor. And so the pelvic floor, just to start, is a bowl of muscles that sits in your pelvis. So your organs, the bladder, the rectum, for women, the vagina, the uterus, the urethra, all run through the pelvic floor. It attaches to the bones on your pelvis and it is extremely important for a variety of functions. It offers stability. So when you’re standing, sitting, it offers stability. It offers the ability to defecate and urinate normally. It offers uh when women have pregnancy, the pelvic floor becomes very important. It’s involved in orgasm. It’s involved in sexual function. But no one really talks about it. No one really knows it. In fact, men will be shocked. Oh, I have a pelvic floor, too. Because we talk about it a lot with women, right? We talk about it in terms of, oh, I might leak a little after I’ve had babies when I cough or sneeze or jump on a trampoline. But the pelvic floor is much more complex than that. And so very often we’ll see people when they have weakness of the pelvic floor, yeah, we’ll see leakage of urine and but sometimes their pelvic floor can be discoordinated or it can be too tight or or have elevated tone. And so what that means is that you can develop a whole host of abnormalities. And that can be that you may have constipation. You may have issues emptying your bladder. You may feel like you have to go to the blad go to the bathroom a lot. So you may urinate frequently. You may feel the urge to go often. Sometimes it can cause pain. So it can cause pain when you urinate. Might feel like you’re having a UTI. It may cause pain with erection or ejaculation for men. So there’s a whole host of issues that can come from having pelvic floor abnormalities. And even if you’ve had, say, lower back injuries or hip injuries, they can affect the coordination of the pelvic floor because it’s all interconnected. And so I will see patients who are like, you know, I’ve had a bunch of hip issues because I played sports when I was younger and now I’m having issues with sexual function. And so it’s all interconnected. And I think we we don’t spend enough time talking about how important it is and how valuable it is to people when they’re having problems. I want to go into the pelvic floor in more detail and really figure out how I can improve my pelvic floor and what I’m doing to harm or hurt it. But you said something there about doctors don’t ask about sexual health. They don’t ask if we’re orgasming. They don’t ask if we’re ejaculating. Those kinds of things. Why should they be asking about that? Cuz I think of a doctor as I don’t know fixing other parts of my body. I don’t think of them as sifting through my sexual life. So, if you have a normal sexual life and you’re satisfied with it, it won’t even it wouldn’t even bother you, right? You wouldn’t think about it. But people who have difficulties, they may be walking around feeling shame. They may be walking around wondering what’s wrong with them. This can be pervasive because they may have relationship issues and they may have problems in their life with their relationship. They’re then causing them to be less productive at work, less happy, less satisfied with life, feeling more depressed, more anxious. And so it all comes together. And in fact, the other really important thing, at least for men, we know that when they develop issues with erections, so say you’re having erectile dysfunction and you are diagnosed today with erectile dysfunction, 7 years later, about 15% of those men will have a heart attack. And the reason for that is because if it’s a blood flow issue, the arteries to the penis are about 1 to 2 millm. The arteries to the heart are about 3 to four millimeters. And when you have about a 50% occlusion of a blood vessel because of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, that organ will start to have problems. And so you will start to see erectile dysfunction in men who have vascular problems before you start having chest pain or other signs of heart disease. So it’s and probably similarly in women although the data is not as we don’t have that data for women that maybe if they all of a sudden are developing problems with arousal that maybe there that’s an indicator but again that’s more complex and we don’t have the data for that but certainly for men we have a clear indication that a problem with erections could preede really serious heart consequences. And when you look at people who’ve had a heart attack, about 50% of men will have had erectile dysfunction prior to that. 50%. Mhm. Is a pelvic floor dysfunction in men also linked to erectile dysfunction? Because I I heard in some of your work that sitting every single day in in the way that I do here, I sit sometimes here for 10 hours a day could be creating erectile dysfunction. Well, so it’s more that sitting every day can cause your pelvic floor to not stretch appropriately, right? Like if you’re not moving your body regularly and your body tenses up from sitting all day, then your pelvic floor is not relaxing and contracting in a normal fashion. And so some people will develop some tension in the pelvic floor. And through the pelvic floor runs a whole bunch of arteries and nerves that then go to the penis to provide blood flow. And so if your pelvic floor is clenched really tight, then it can cause problems in getting blood flow and then problems in getting erections. So while that’s not um that’s different than having vascular problems, this is a muscular problem more so um that that can be an issue with in terms of causing erectile dysfunction in some men because I heard during co there was a rise in pelvic floor dysfunction as people were sitting all day. Yeah, I mean I definitely saw it. I don’t know if it’s been actually studied, but I definitely saw it in my own clinical uh setting and many of my colleagues did where people would come in and they would start having either they’d be having more erectile dysfunction, they might be having more urinary urgency, meaning they got to go got to go to the bathroom or they’re going more often, which wasn’t a huge issue because they the bathroom was right near them. But they did sometimes notice that it was a change and and also sometimes they would some people even deal with pain like they would have more pain in that area or women would think they were having urinary tract infections when they truly were just having discomfort from the pelvic floor being tense. One of the things that you’re particularly good at is taking on some of the big myths as it relates to sexual health. And I I want to start with one of the big myths around sexual health, which is this idea that we all think other people and other couples are having significantly more sex than we are. Yeah. So that’s interesting. I think that is a big myth. And so when you look at um people want to know like what’s normal, how much sex should I be having? Right? And there’s no ideal number. But when you look at studies, right, which have looked at large numbers of people, people who are in partnered relationships are having sex about once a week on average if they’re have if they feel they’re, you know, in in partner relationships where sex is always available. But it’s so variable person to person. And what I really like to say is it’s not the quantity of sex that matters, it’s the quality of sex, right? So if you’re having good sex once a month, that may be sufficient for you rather than having mediocre or bad sex four times a month or 10 times a month even, right? And and so ultimately there’s no right number. It’s really what’s right for you. And I think focusing on some like benchmark, right, of sex is is actually harmful, right? Because now you’re like, “Oh, well, I need to have sex this many times.” What what is the purpose of sex? Right? The purpose of sex is pleasure. And sometimes people derive a lot of benefits from orgasm. We know that there’s physiologic benefits to orgasm in terms of stress reduction, more focus, potentially better sleep, and even maybe lower blood pressure, things like that. So if people are deriving benefit from the orgasms and the intimacy with their partner and the pleasure they derive from sex, that’s what matters, right? Not the number of times you’re having sex. Another big myth around sex, which I thought I’d um get your take on is about pain during sex. It’s one of the sort of most popular questions that I often guess get whenever I speak to someone that is an expert on sexual health is is sex supposed to hurt? Because for a lot of people it hurts. No, it’s not supposed to hurt. So if it hurts, you want to assess, you know, what usually it’s the female partner who feels pain, right? So is it that you’re not lubricated enough? Is it that you have not had enough foreplay? Because the body prepares for intercourse particularly in the female. So what happens is you go through arousal your body self-lubricates and the vagina actually lengthens and widens almost double in size to accommodate the fallus or whatever you’re using whether it’s a toy or or a finger or anything. And so if you don’t have sufficient time to allow those things to happen, then it will be painful. And sometimes lubrication can be variable person to person. So some people may have copious amounts of lubrication and some people may have less. And it could be based on genetics. It could be based on the age they are, what stage of their hormonal status, it can be based on what medications they’re on that might decrease lubrication. I think there’s another big myth is that lubricant is not for everybody. And I think I argue that lubricant is for everybody. That it makes things more fun. It makes things more slippery. It makes things more enjoyable. And it certainly makes pain less of an issue for a lot of people. Now, there can be other issues that cause pain. So, if you’ve tried all these things, you know you’re fully aroused, you know you’re lubricated, you know that you’re still having pain, then it’s really important to get evaluated to understand what exactly is causing the pain. It could be hormonal changes in the vestibial, which is a part of the vagina that is very hormonally sensitive that can be painful. It can be pelvic floor dysfunction. It can be things like endometriosis or other factors that may be going on that need really advanced help. Uh but most of the time, a lot of people can feel and enjoy sex more readily if they just increase the amount of foreplay and increase the amount of lubrication. You said there that the vagina expands. Mhm. during sex. So, how much does it expand by and how long does that take? Because I think men don’t really understand this process. A lot of men just like to rush in there, you know. Yeah. Yeah. So, usually it expands by about double double in length and double in width. And so, it will expand and basically the cervix is moving up and out of the way. The vagina is expanding to accommodate the length of a phus. And and it takes we think on average about 18 to 20 minutes. So it that’s sort of the amount of time it and some people faster and some people longer but ultimately you know sort of like understanding that but also um the lubrication is another big part of it and so I think both those things together um you know you need you need some time and some people like I said they may not take 18 minutes they may take a couple minutes and so it’s very reasonable to get in there if that’s what your partner wants but again I think the bigger issue is that we’re not communicating about sex no one taught us how to talk about sex Right? I didn’t grow up talking about sex with my family. Many of my friends and colleagues did not grow up unless they were in a family that was very progressive talking about sex or even learning about sex from their parents. And at school, you don’t learn much. You learn how to put on a condom. You learn how to ask for consent. You learn about STDs. And that’s if you’re lucky. In the US, 13 states don’t have to have accurate sex education. like it’s not a requirement for sex education to be accurate in 13 states in the US. Where are we learning sex from? So the large majority of young people I mean this data shows that at least one in four adolescents are learning sex from porn and it’s probably more than that. So I think a lot of people are learning either from uh pornography from their friends a small subset are learning from their parents. There still are people learning about sex from their parents but ultimately it’s not enough. And so if people are learning about sex through porn, porn is entertainment. It is doctorred. It is not real. And I think people then take that and they say, “Why did not my sexual encounter not look like that? Why didn’t I have as much semen volume? Why did my partner not orgasm as quickly?” And it can be on both sides where women can be like, “Why didn’t I react like that? Why didn’t I get so excited right away?” And I think there’s it’s a real problem in terms of if people are only learning about sex through pornography, then they’re already set up to be let down when they have their first sexual encounter. And on that point of communication, we don’t talk about it as a society. But then even within our own relationships, you know, we don’t talk about things we’re struggling with with our own partners and the insecurities that we have. And I think that can cause a spiral of misunderstanding. And I’ve seen that in my own sex life historically where maybe there was something I was insecure about or there’s something I was thinking about and instead of communicating it, I might have just acted in a strange way and then that’s misinterpreted and then the other person gets a little bit insecure or whatever and then you kind of have this downward spiral of misunderstanding which leads to like sexlessness. Absolutely. You’re just avoiding the situation because nobody wants to talk about it. And this is the problem like you know people ask me like what’s this what’s the key? What’s the key? What’s the secret? The secret is you have to know what you like, right? You have to know what you want and you have to communicate it with your partner. How? So, this is the issue. It’s not easy. It’s not easy because no one taught us how to have these conversations and they’re charged with a lot of emotion, right? You feel insecure. You feel inadequate or you feel resentful because you’re not getting what you want out of the relationship. And so, it has to come from a place of understanding that this conversation is not a oneanddone. There’s no the talk. There are multiple talks over multiple periods of time. And the first time you have the talk, it might be a total disaster. But you know, if you are in a relationship where someone really also has the same goals as you of having a great relationship with a good sex life, then ideally that won’t continue and you will continue to have conversations. So what I tell people is don’t have conversations in the bedroom. Not right before, not right after sex. You want to wait until you’re out of the bedroom. Not during. Or during. Definitely not during that’s happened before as a [ __ ] worst. Yeah. Yeah. That’s pretty bad. That’s pretty bad. Um, so you know, one, and then two, have it in a place like somebody, you don’t have to be looking at the person, right? You can be sitting in a car, you can be going on a walk because it’s really awkward to look at someone in the face and be like, you know what, I felt like this wasn’t really great, you know? And and so then to be like, okay, like, you know, talk again using the same sort of communication techniques that you use for other things. talking about eye statements, not being you did this, you didn’t do this, more about like how I feel, what really turns me on, what I would really like in the relationship, and then sort of realizing that they may not react well. They might be like, “Oh my god, I can’t believe we’re talking about this.” They have their own stereotypes and biases that they’re bringing into that conversation, too. Or their shame or whatever they grew up with in society, whatever they think about sex can be very charged, right? And so it’s sort of a lot of work to get through that, but realizing that it could take time and sometimes getting help. So seeing a sex therapist or someone who has expertise in psychology and sex to talk learn how to talk about sex with them and and navigating the difficulties of it, but it’s worth the investment, right? It’s not easy, but nothing in life that’s good or worth getting is easy, right? Okay. So, there’s a couple listening right now. There’s probably one member of the couple listening right now and they’ve heard everything you’ve said, but they have reached the point of no return in their relationship as far as they’re concerned. They’ve not been having sort of a functional, healthy sex life for maybe one year, maybe 6 months, maybe 5 years, and it’s just become the new normal. Mhm. What is the case you would make to that person to get them to take action to try and rectify the situation? Well, I would ask them first, how important is sex to them, right? If it’s not that important and the other things in the relation and that’s okay, right? Some people find that, okay, everything else in the relationship is excellent. I love this person. We’re still intimate. We still love each other. We still cuddle. We still um have a lot of great things in our relationship. And and sex right now is not working, right? Or it’s not it’s not working for us. So, um I’m okay with that. That’s fine. Like, you don’t have to feel bad about that. But I think that if it is a problem, then I think it’s worth working on, right? Like if you have a relationship that you value and that person you’re you’re with values the relationship then it’s worth keep trying like try to have the conversation try to bring them into the conversation how much have you tried right like have you really had enough attempts at a conversation a true conversation where you didn’t get frustrated too right like where you were like okay I understand that you have this is a difficult conversation that we’re going to have and I understand you might have feelings about it but I love you and I really want to try to have this conversation and to keep at it. And I realize that that’s not easy, right? That’s not easy. I’m not saying it is, but I’m saying that when you’re in a relationship that’s worth having that ideally at some point the other partner will see how much this matters to you and want to work with you on it, right? If they love you, if they’re with you there, they want what’s best for your relationship. They’re not like hiding they’re not hiding their head in the sand and being like, “Oh, I’m like they’re they realize they’re just don’t want to talk about it. They they they’re not stupid. they just sort of don’t want to talk about it because it’s embarrassing to them. They feel like they’re the one that has something wrong with them maybe or maybe they have an issue that they haven’t brought up. Maybe they’re having a lot of pain with sex or maybe they’re going through hormonal changes and their tissues are really dry or whatever there. There’s a whole host of things that could be going on that they don’t feel comfortable talking to you about. So, I think it’s it’s valuable to say, is there something I’m not doing? Like, tell me what you feel about sex. like leaving it open-ended to really find out what’s going on with them because usually not that they’re like, “I just don’t want to have sex and that’s it.” There’s usually a lot more to it. It’s so hard for us to know, isn’t it, when it comes to sex, what the root cause of the issues are. And I think some relationships are like a frog in a frying pan. The frog in the frying pan for anybody that doesn’t know is this old tale about a frog jumping into a frying pan and then because the water heated up gradually, it ends up dying. But if the water was hot from the moment it dropped jumped in, it would have jumped straight out. the idea that it’s a gradual death for the frog and in relationships it’s kind of a slow day by day, month by month decline in intimacy and you end up finding yourself like a dead frog in a frying pan. You end up finding yourself in a sexless relationship and you think how the hell did we get here? Mhm. Um and it’s and it’s a it feels like a long way back from that point. It is. It’s going to be right because you let it sort of dwindle and you didn’t talk about it and it’s going to take work. And I think that’s the key is like if you want to fight for that in your relationship, it’s going to take work and it’s going to take um buy in on both sides, right? You have to work for anything in your relationship. Relationships are not easy, right? You want to have children, that takes work. You want to um decide to buy a house together, that takes work. Deciding and figuring out the what kind of house you want, how much money you want to spend. Like there’s all sorts of things that take work. And this is one that people just don’t know how to talk about. And so they just ignore it because it’s harder to bring up for both parties, right? What the one who maybe is not wanting sex or is being the one who says no to and the one who always wants sex and then feels rejected because they’re not getting it. Is there a a sort of a difference between men and women’s sexual desire as we age? You know, because I think there’s a myth that says men just always want to have sex and women maybe not so much. Is that a real myth? um in terms of something that you hear, but also is it true? So, let’s talk about desire. Desire comes in two flavors. So, there’s the spontaneous desire where you see somebody, you like, “Oh man, they’re so attractive. I can’t wait to sleep with them. I’m immediately turned on. I want to have sex right now, right? You didn’t have to do anything. You just saw them and it happened.” And then there’s responsive desire where you’re sort of with them. You might be touching them. You might not really be thinking about sex, but like you’re touching them. You’re with them. you’re like, “Oh, this feels sort of nice. I sort of like this.” Like, “Oh, now I’m turned on after we’ve sort of started being a little romantic with each other, being a little more intimate with each other.” And both desires are normal and both desires are fine to have. Now, in the literature, you’ll find that men tend to more often have spontaneous desire and women tend to more often have responsive desire, particularly when you’re in longer term relationships. So, there’s this disconnect, right? Women are like, “Why don’t I see you and want to jump you anymore?” Right? I used to feel like this, but I don’t anymore. What’s wrong with me? Am I broken? Right? And then they don’t realize that, oh, okay, maybe we’ll just like be together and let’s see what happens. And they don’t even want to start because they’re worried that what if I don’t want to have sex and we’ve now initiated this like touching, cuddling thing where, oh, that person’s getting really turned on. What if I don’t get turned on and what if I disappoint them? And so there’s a lot of charged emotions there, but realizing that this is normal and common and responsive desire is not wrong. It’s just different. And people just don’t know that it exists because again, media attention is like you see someone who jumped them. You’re you’re horny right away. You have sex. And that’s not what happens all the time. And that’s okay. And so like, you know, you can be with your partner and be like, “Look, I have no expectations from you. I just want to be with you physically.” And see if it turns into sex. So often we’ll give people homework like put it on the calendar. Put it on the calendar that you are going to be intimate together at this time. And I know it sounds weird, right? Like you’re looking at me like I’m crazy, but we put on the calendar when we want to work out. We put on the calendar when we want to have brunch with our friends. We put on the calendar when whatever, right? And when we were younger, when we used to have dates with people, we would say, “Okay, we’re going to go on a date on Friday night.” We would know that sex is on the table with our partner on Friday night. So, we’d get really excited about it. We like, “Okay, I’m going to shave. I’m going to look real pretty. I’m going to smell good. I’m going to do all the things that make me desirable and feel confident and be ready to have sex, right?” And so, you’d be like really excited about and then you would have all this anticipation about how fun it’s going to be. But the anticipation can can wreak havoc, can’t it? It can. It can. So, the opposite is true. But that’s because if you expect, that’s why I say intimacy and not sex. So, if you say you’re going to have sex, it can be like, “Oh my god, what if I don’t perform? What if I don’t do right? What if I don’t want sex? What if it hurts? Right? So, you can also have that sort of rumination and spiral. But if you’re like, “Look, all we’re going to do is be together and be intimate. We’re not going to just go have dinner and talk. We’re going to like literally be together, not have our phones with us, maybe like touch each other, maybe get undressed, maybe just, you know, feel what it feels like and that’s it. There’s no expectation of sex from either side. We’re going to go in knowing that and then slowly work our way towards like, okay, you know what? like maybe sex will happen and maybe it won’t. And over time as you keep putting on the calendar, prioritizing your intimacy with your partner, then eventually you’ll get to a point where oh, you remember, you recall that connection you used to have and then you can actually find that joy again of connecting sexually. That’s the sort of the aspect of desire, which is I guess is a bit more psychological, but it there’s also sort of a physiological element to desire as it relates to hormones levels. So someone’s got a low libido. Is that a hormone dysfunction? It can be. So testosterone is the most notorious hormone for desire, right? In both men and women. And I think this is a big misconception is that we don’t talk about testosterone in women. But testosterone in women is more predominant than actually estrogen. We have more testosterone in our bodies than we do estrogen. And testosterone is very important for desire in both men and women. But anything that is interacts with testosterone is also important. So thyroid hormone can can cause issues with testosterone. Prolactin, which is another hormone made by the brain, can also interact with testosterone. So essentially evaluating those things and making sure that your levels are normal or appropriate for your age can be helpful. That’s probably the number one thing. But the other thing is outside of physiology is that stress, even though stress is um sort of an abstract thing, stress affects our physiology, right? So when you have a lot of stress in life, whether it be work, relationship stress, kids stress, whatever it is, right, it raises your cortisol level. And when your cortisol level is high, you can’t produce testosterone. It goes down. And so if you’re chronically stressed, which many of us are, right? You spend like in today’s modern society, chronic stress is like a real problem. Then that is going to really impact your libido. So yeah, your hormones may suffer because of it, but if you don’t fix the stress, like you’re not going to fix the root cause of the problem. Can I just inject myself with loads of testosterone though to get my libido back? It won’t work for everybody. So if it’s not truly a low testosterone, meaning you have normal levels of testosterone, likely your testosterone receptors are completely saturated, more testosterone is not going to fix the problem. So it depends on your individual level of hormones, but at some point more is not better. In fact, more can be dangerous. And so it’s really dependent on your individual levels. So giving yourself like if I give a guy who has completely normal testosterone levels, both free and total testosterone, all completely normal, and I give him testosterone, probably nothing’s going to change because his testosterone receptors are already fully saturated with testosterone. So more is not going to do anything. What are the other ways that I can increase my testosterone? If I go and get tested and it says that I have low testosterone levels and I don’t want to just inject myself with testosterone, are there natural ways that I can increase it? Absolutely. So number one is sleep. So sleep is really really important for testosterone. We know that when you reduce the amount of sleep you have. So for example, you sleep less than six five or 6 hours, you’re going to have at least 10 to 15% reduction in testosterone. And so because our body follows a circadian rhythm and so when your testosterone is highest is in the morning and it starts to decline over the course of the day. There’s a little bit of a bump again and then it goes back down. At night time it’s low and your body when it’s sleeping replenishes that testosterone. And so if you’re getting either less number of hours of sleep or poor quality sleep, meaning you’re, you know, you’re not feeling very rested when you wake up, that’s a sign of poor quality sleep. Both of those things can dramatically affect your testosterone. The other thing that you can do is exercise and specifically resistance exercise. So doing high those the largest muscle groups. So usually the lower extremities and using those have been shown to boost testosterone more significantly than any other type of exercise. In fact, when you do cardiovascular highintensity cardiovascular endurance training, so say you’re doing ultramans, marathons all the time, long long bike rides, long swimming, uh you know, swimming for long periods of time, that can actually increase your cortisol, your stress, because your body is having a stress response and that can actually reduce your testosterone. So, it’s important to do cardiovascular exercise, aerobic exercise, but in moderation. uh because we do see some people who are great athletes who, you know, run, you know, run miles and miles and miles, but their testosterone is low because they’ve been doing this chronic long duration endurance exercise. So, sort of hit training is fine, but it’s when you start doing these big iron man thousand mile run things that the cortisol suppresses. That’s not a that’s not a large percentage of people, right? But it’s certainly, you know, it’s like I’m so healthy. I’m the healthiest I could ever be and I’m having low testosterone. Why is that? And what about food and testosterone? So food you know there is a lot of uh data on food the one but the most data is on the Mediterranean diet and that’s because that’s the most wellstied in medicine but essentially having vegetables, fruit, low um low amounts of processed foods, good healthy fats, nuts and seeds. So a lot of people don’t realize but you need good fat to have testosterone. testosterone is a pre as a production is in the cholesterol pathways and so it comes from those pathways and so you need to have some level of fat. If you have too low fat of a diet that’ll also affect your affect your testosterone. So ideally what I tell people is while there’s lots of data on different types of diets the important thing to know is you want to avoid processed foods, avoid avoid a lot of sugar and have good healthy fats in your diet. What about, you know, I’ve heard a few times that testosterone levels have been declining over the last couple of decades in men. Is this true? Yes, it is true. So, we’re not only seeing a decline in testosterone levels, but we’re seeing a decline in sperm quality and uh sperm numbers. So, the concentration of sperm and over the course of the last 50 years. And there’s a lot of reasons for that. One is that, you know, society has become more sedentary. We’re seeing people less active, getting more and more metabolic conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure. These conditions then cause endocrinic abnormalities. They cause problems with blood flow and all these things can affect the quality of your sperm as well as the quality of your testosterone production. And then also there’s more we we think in the environments we know there’s more uh microplastics and more endocrine disrupting chemicals right in the environment. So that is probably playing a role. Now we don’t have like exact qu like exact quantitative data on that but we think that is probably playing a role and reducing the exposure to these endocrine disrupting chemicals. So we tell people try not to drink out of plastic water bottles, try to warm up food and glass and avoid plastic. I mean these are easy things you can do but if you want to stress about the amount of plastics in the environment like there’s not much you can do as on an individual level. So I tell people do the things you can control and the other things sort of you know we have to work on as a society. That’s really interesting cuz I I don’t think I think about this much but removing chemicals from my life in terms of what these kinds of things that I’m holding the metal mug in front of me and then the plastic bottles I drink from could be having an impact on my testosterone and my sperm count. It could. I mean like it’s not everybody, right? Think about how many people drink from plastic water bottles. But if you can decrease your exposure, right, it’s probably additive. So the more exposure you have, the more likely it is to impact your body. How do they know this? Like how does anybody know that chemicals are having an impact on our sperm and testosterone? So there’s, you know, there’s basic science research where they’re looking at the impact of these things on on rats and other animals. And then also they’re looking on the amount of exposure uh to things like phalates in labs and seeing how that you know we can’t it’s all cause it’s all correlation. We can’t say it’s positive because we don’t we’re not going to do a randomized study where you drink from water bottles for 10 years and you drink from glass water bottles for 10 years and let’s see what happens. Right? That hasn’t been done. But they can say okay the more your exposure based on whatever biioarker we can assess. So maybe urinary phalates or other things we can say that okay these people who have more exposure to this are more likely based on the data to have lower levels of testosterone. And then you know looking at the mechanisms of how they interact with the production of testosterone. And I’m not an expert in those areas but certainly there has been sort of plausible mechanisms of how these things work. How has sperm count been decreasing over the years? So, if you look at the last 50 years, you’ll see that the average sperm count has declined almost 50%. And luckily, the average sperm count is still high enough for fertility rates. The average sperm count is probably around 50 million of of fathers, people who father children. And so, it’s still above that, but it’s certainly significantly lower than it was 50 years ago. And so that’s where we’re thinking, you know, it’s it’s probably more of a global environmental factor that’s contributing to that in addition to this increase in co-orbidities and poor health over time. I mean the direction of travel there is deeply concerning because if something declines 50% in the last what 50 years did you say? Then if we go forward another 50 years and we assume the same rate of decline that means we’ll be at 25% of where we were 100 years ago. Yeah. And then what if you can’t father children anymore and what if you can’t have offspring that will then propagate the species, right? So there’s there’s certainly concerns there and I think you know we have to as a society do better in terms of the things that we can. So we can control diet, we can control exercise, we can control those things. There’s certain things that we can’t but we can try to control what our people are exposed to and that can be on a governmental level, right? Like having sort of laws in place. So we know in the US there’s less restrictions whereas in other countries there’s more restrictions on things like food coloring and dyes that may have again I don’t I don’t know the specifics but certain you know there’s certainly more restrictions in other countries than in the US for some reason and so maybe there needs to be a more critical evaluation of where we can actually put in place some things that would actually have more wide widespread changes. When we think about sperm count we often think about fertility. Um, and you know, I don’t know whether this is just because society has changed and we’re trying to have kids later, but it does seem that people are struggling more and more with fertility. I mean, even in my own sort of circle of friends, um, there’s, you know, there’s a couple people that have reported to be struggling with fertility or that, you know, they’re spending 12 months or 24 months trying to have children. Do you think this is linked to this as well? It could be. I mean when we know when we look at fertility we know that about half of fertility is due to women half of fertility is due to men and then some combination of the two right so um definitely as women age fertility goes down and we know women are waiting longer to have children so that’s a big part of it that society has changed women are working and and prioritizing their careers not a bad thing but it certainly will affect fertility and and then yeah there may be these issues that are affecting male sperm counts that are also causing issues but I don’t know that there’s been any updated data in terms of what are the causes or the numbers in terms of fertility rates fertility aside is there any correlation between our health outcomes and our sperm volume not volume but concentration uh so volume is the amount of of of right so concentration of sperm in the semen is more of a predictor in terms of um sperm volume not semen volume let’s be clear so sperm volume, sperm concentration are sort of the the biomarkers and we would say that yes there is a correlation with overall health in terms of uh sperm concentration and sperm volume. Uh but I think I don’t want to make people worried that if they truly have a male factor infertility then now their overall health is uh is a problem but it’s certainly important to be evaluated and seen by your doctor regularly. And on that point of um semen volume, is there a way to increase that? And is it similar to what you said about increasing testosterone or is there another set of sort of um practices we can do to increase our semen volume? Yeah. So semen volume is variable depending on the biggest one is how long has it been since you last ejaculated, right? So the longer you delay between one ejaculation to the other, the more semen volume you will get. That’s probably the most predictive. You know, hydration can play a role. So if you hydrate more certainly you may see more semen volume. Um sometimes it’s a it’s a low semen volume because you’re actually having less force of ejaculation. So interestingly when you’re young the force of ejaculate can be really really strong. It can be up to 30 to 60 cm away. Like when you ejaculate that’s how forceful it can be. As you age after about 50 it can decline to 15 to 30 cm away. And so that can feel like you’re having less volume because it’s less forceful. And so in those cases, that’s because of the pelvic floor muscles that are around the urethra. Those muscles there that help sort of propel the ejaculate out. And so you can strengthen those muscles with again pelvic floor exercises like Keele exercises. I caution people because people always like, “Oh, they’re going to these kele exercises are great. They’re going to increase orgasm. They’re going to make my semen propel further.” And I think that’s fine if you’re not having pain, you’re not having discomfort, and you’re doing them correctly. Because sometimes what we see is it can actually cause harm if your pelvic floor is tense like we talked about earlier or it can cause pain and dysfunction if you’re tensing tensing tensing and not relaxing. And so if you don’t know how to do them correctly then you could actually harm yourself. U but yes they can improve semen volume by the parameter of increasing the force of ejaculate and getting more ejaculate out that may be left over if you’re not having as forceful of a muscular contraction. Does masturbating improve my pelvic floor? Does it strengthen my pelvic floor? So, that’s a good question. The orgasm is what improves your pelvic floor. So, if you masturbate and you orgasm, when you orgasm, your pelvic floor contracts involuntarily. You can’t do anything about it at a rate of about every8 seconds. So, it does contract and that is sort of like a pelvic floor muscle exercise, but it’s doing it involuntarily. It’s contracting for anywhere from 5 to 60 seconds usually on average. And so you are sort of in that way increasing pelvic floor strength. In fact, they’ve looked at um in women particularly is orgasming as good as doing pelvic floor exercises? And they’ve seen that, you know, you can see pretty measurable improvement in pelvic floor strength if you orgasm regularly. Um is it and it may be, you know, as good as doing keull depending on how often you’re doing it. So yes, orgasming itself can be very beneficial for pelvic floor strength. One of the big sort of myths that I’ve always I’ve I’m yet to answer is the impact that our technology is having on our genitals. You know, there’s kind of like a pervasive myth that if you put your phone next to your testicles, your sperm count’s going to drop. Like whenever I’m in the car um and I don’t know, I’m I’m sat there or I’m sat at home somewhere and I get my phone and I put it near my genitals, my girlfriend has a go at me and she she like pulls it out or tells me to pull it out because I think she’s worried that we’re not going to have kids if it’s down there. Yeah. Yeah. So there is there is a little bit of data there in terms of you know when you have these devices like in your lap or near your genitals they will increase the temperature. And so when you the the the testicles are in the scrotum for a reason, right? It’s because they need this very perfect environment with this specific temperature to create sperm and anything that disrupts that temperature can cause diff cause abnormalities in sperm production. So for example when you have a fever because you have the flu or you have a cold people will get their sperm checked their semen analysis and they will see that their sperm count is zero because the temperature the fever has temporarily stopped their sperm production and so you can see that you know people also discuss like oh what about boxers or briefs what about putting and so all of these things can increase the temperature around the scrotum which can then cause changes in sperm arm production. So, I tell patients, particularly if you’re trying to have babies, is put your phone in your back pocket, in your chest pocket. Don’t put your computer, your laptop right on your lap, right? I mean, it’s easy enough to do and it does increase temperature. So, absolutely, yes, these things can, not for everybody, right? There’s people So, we say people like you shouldn’t smoke a lot of marijuana when you’re trying to get pregnant because marijuana can cause problems with sperm production. But you’ll see people who smoke every day and they still have babies. Or you’ll see people who do all of these things, right? They they wear briefs. They they put their phone on their in their pocket. They put their laptop on their lap and they still have babies. So, it’s not a all all comers, but certainly things that you can easily just avoid putting near your genitals. Well, if I’m in the sauna every day or if I’m in a um a steam room every day, isn’t that going to have an impact on my sperm count? Yeah, it does. And it’s interesting because there’s I think we’ll see more of this as we’re seeing the rise of I and there’s benefits to saunas, no doubt, but as we’re seeing the rise of people really doing saunas all the time. Um there can be so we tell people when they’re trying to have pre if they’re having fertility issues, don’t go in hot tubs, don’t go in saunas because it could affect your sperm production. So those are sort of the the conservative things we tell people to do. Interesting. And this this point about the phone next to genitals, it’s not because of like the Wi-Fi and the Bluetooth are going to like zap my babies. No, I mean there’s some there’s some question about that, but we don’t know. I don’t think we know. But we know there’s a temperature increase, right? Because phones get hot. We talked about masturbation briefly. Um, one of the big questions that people often ask me when I’m speaking to someone that has expertise on sexual health is about masturbation and whether it decreases your testosterone levels. So, it does not. There is one study and it was done in 10 men who abstained from masturbating for 21 days. And these are young healthy men, right? And so this is where I think everyone gets their data from is this one study. And so they took their testosterone before, they took their testosterone after. And and what they found was that there was an increase by about 50 50 nanogs per deciliter.5 um which is 50 nanogs per dec.

    But we know that testosterone changes all the time. And two, there’s a lot of anticipatory cues when you’ve been waiting to masturbate for 21 days. Like your brain is is really excited. There’s all these like, “Okay, I’m finally going to get to release.” And that in of itself can increase testosterone. So, Jennifer’s no empiric evidence that is convincing, high quality level evidence that masturbating or abstaining from masturbation will increase testosterone. And so there, you know, people do report other benefits. And so I tell people if you’re getting other benefits from abstaining, by all means go ahead, but don’t do it for don’t like white knuckle it to gain some theoretical increase in testosterone that one was not even that large and two is probably not going to be proven in a larger sample. What about the opposite then? Is too much masturbation going to have an adverse effect on us for men and women? Yeah. So, I think it, you know, what I tell people is masturbation is generally safe as long as you are not masturbating to the point where you are now choosing to masturbate over doing anything else. So, you’re choosing to masturbate rather than have sex with your partner. You’re choosing to masturbate over going to work or you’re I’m going to be a little late to work cuz I want to finish masturbating or you literally can’t sleep without masturbating every day. Like those sort of you become reliant on this particular activity for the enjoyment that it provides. um that’s when it becomes a problem. But if you’re using it in terms of like I’m masturbating to get orgasm and the benefits of orgasm that I do achieve from that because maybe my partner doesn’t want to have sex or maybe I have more of a sex drive than my partner or I don’t have a partner. Like let’s be realistic. Like if you don’t have a partner, you’re going to have to if you want to orgasm, you’re probably going to have to masturbate. And so I think the problem also comes in is when people only masturbate the same way every time. They only watch a certain type of erotic film or they do the same thing every time and their body habituates to that and then they have a difficult time climaxing with a partner because they can’t replicate what they’re doing whether what they’re watching or how they’re doing it with a partner. Are we teaching ourselves something there? Are we teaching ourselves how we’re aroused and how we orgasm? Yeah, your brain is very powerful, right? So when you’re doing the same thing every time, your body is like, “Oh, this is what turns me on. This is what makes me orgasm.” them and then when you’re their partner you’re like oh I’m not getting that same kind of stimulation and so it doesn’t happen to a lot of people but I would say certainly I see people where this does happen and so um you know you have to sort of take a break and and sort of re-evaluate and try different things and get your body to habituate to different things which takes a little bit of work um but sort of keeping it varied can be helpful another big myth masturbation will make me go blind yeah no there’s literally I don’t know where that came from there’s like hairy palms blind ness like I don’t know where I I think this is all sort of like from religious rhetoric that says you know you should not masturbate um and and it you know where that came from you know is a whole other story I think what do you think of this idea of no November yeah so I think it’s I I’m not a fan the reason being is because I think it makes people feel like it’s something they have to do and if you want to like I said if you find benefit from abstaining from ejaculating for 30 days or 28 days or whatever it um then by all means like go ahead if you want to try something. There’s no harm in it. But I think a lot of people what they do is they feel like it’s something that’s going to bring them to some higher level and they’re going to become this great person because they’re able to to to conquer this goal, but they’re like literally miserable. So they’re um they’re clenching their pelvic floor all the time because they’re stressed about how they’re not ejaculating. They may ejaculate at night and so they’ll have a nocturnal emission and then they’ll feel so bad because they’ve failed. It’s nothing you can control. Nocturnal emissions are physiologic. They’re totally normal and 86% of men have had a wet dream at some point in their lifetime. Like it’s very very common and more likely the longer you are from ejaculating. So um your body will take care of the ejaculate if you ejaculate or not. So you will either resorb the semen or you’ll ejaculate at night. And so if you want to do it because you feel like, okay, I have a challenge. I want to conquer it. I want to see if I can do this. And you feel better because you’re not you’re able to like not focus on sexual thoughts or you’re able to really um find some other level of spirituality or something, by all means, go ahead. I don’t have a problem with it. What I have a problem with is making people feel bad because they can’t do it or they don’t want to do it. And with people feeling forced or feeling like they need to do it to prove something to someone else. Yeah. Cuz I mean the way that I’ve had it explained to me is that it’s some something about semen retention gives you some clarity of mind or something cuz a lot of athletes before they have their their big fights or you know their bigger sort of Olympic competitions, they’ll abstain from masturbation. I I often hear in the UFC for example the um the mixed martial arts fighting championship that athletes have not had sex or not ejaculated for two weeks before a fight or four weeks before a fight. Yeah. So there’s a lot of rhetoric there I think that comes from um historical. So even in Greek m in Greek times they would tell people to avoid having sex or masturbating prior to you know big fights or or just whatever sport they were playing. And so is it true in data? So if you look at the studies that have looked at people performing athletic feats, whether it’s like cycling or running or whatever, um they have not found that abstaining from ejaculation actually changes their ability to perform. And so in those cases, I say, well, there’s no true scientific evidence that we have that it’s going to improve. When in fact if you are someone who for example has sex every morning or masturbates every morning for whatever reason that’s a part of your routine disrupting the routine can actually be harmful to performance and sometimes the the one thing you can say is in terms of disrupting performance is that after you masturbate you do see an increase in heart rate a little bit um you have a rebound so it decreases and then you have a rebound increase in heart rate that can slightly affect your ability to recover from performance but ultimately I think if you find benefit from because people report feeling more aggressive with abstaining, then by all means, if you find it helpful, I think it’s fine. But is it mandatory? I don’t think so based on the evidence we have right now. Cuz I I heard that rumor many years ago, and I think I assumed it was correct. I I heard the rumor and this was the sort of evolutionary story that was attached to the rumor was that once upon a time when we were out I don’t know looking for um a sexual partner we would need to be more articulate and more persuasive and more I don’t know attractive basically. So we were at optimal attractiveness before we ejaculated. Then after we’ve ejaculated that kind of energy goes out of us and recharges and rebuilds again. So I was when I heard that I thought okay so if I’m speaking on stage or I’m doing a podcast I want to make sure that I’m you know my mouth and my brain are attached I’m articulate I’m persuasive whatever I need to be so don’t ejaculate or masturbate any time before doing anything where I need to use my brain and my mouth well you know some people describe postnut clarity right so they actually on the alternative feel like and there’s no good data on this the data we have is on people the very small subset of people who have postnut postcoidal not postnut postcoidal dysphoria, so they actually feel bad. But in terms of clarity, um you know, some people do like when you’re trying to you’re motivated to get a partner, right? you’re sort of um trying to uh woo them. You’re really focused on that one singular effort that once you’ve obtained that that the like very singular focus goes away and now other parts of your brain can be activated to then be used for some people will describe being more productive, more able to get work done after u masturbation. It’s very individualized or ejaculation, whatever it is. Postnet clarity. I’ve never heard anybody talk about this before and I’ve also been told over the years that it’s something that just men experience predominantly. And for anyone that doesn’t know what postnut clarity is, the definition that I understand is and that I have experienced, I’m going to be honest, is that after ejaculation, your desire for the other person reduces quite significantly. And there’s a stereotype here that women don’t experience this postnut clarity in the same way. Now, if I asked all of my male friends, if I said to them, “Has there ever been a time in your life where you were maybe texting someone you were attracted to or, you know, had some sort of sexual attraction to, and then you masturbated? Did your desire um diminish after you masturbated for that person that you were just texting?” I think about 90% of my male friends would say yes. Yes. And they describe it as if someone like took some like sunglasses off them, like a pretty extreme sudden change. And I’ve always wondered about this whether this is just men, if it’s just women, why it happens. So when you look at brain studies, right, of people having orgasm and what happens is when you have an orgasm like your whole brain lights up, right, because your heart rate goes up, your blood pressure goes up, like your pupils. So all these different parts of your body are working. So your whole brain lights up and then after orgasm it it gets very like quiet. And so we see that in women it may take a little longer to get really quiet. In men, it happens very quickly. And this may be associated with sort of the hormonal changes that occur after orgasm. So we know that prolactin increases after orgasm, dopamine decreases. And there’s sort of some evolutionary theories about why this happens. So one is after you ejaculate, if you are having uh ejaculation with a woman, then you don’t want to have sex again to the same thing with the refractory period, right? That there’s some period of time where you’re not going to want to have sex again or you can’t have sex even if you want to. And this is because evolutionarily if you deposited your ejaculate into a woman, if you then had sex again, you could actually dislodge the semen and then you’d have less ability to uh to have fertilize an egg, right? And then the other thought is that you don’t want to become overly exhausted, right? So that if you if you had the unlimited capability to have sex over and over again, that exhaustion could be a real thing. Like and so you’re sort of a protective mechanism. Um, and so those are sort of the theories as to why this is. And there’s like an absolute refractory time where like you don’t want sex at all. And then there’s a relative refractory time where if you had a really novel or strong stimulus for sexual activity that you would be able to um in terms of clarity in ter because we know there’s a little bit of differences in brain. Um, it may not be as obvious in women in terms of it takes them a little longer to have that coming down after the orgasm from the brain activity. Um, but probably there is some, we just haven’t studied enough. And I I always say this that when we look at studies for women’s sexual health and men’s sexual health, they’re so lopsided. So, if you type in penis in like a in like a search engine for Google or for the PubMed, which is where you look up research articles, you’re going to find 50,000 articles. If you look up clitoris, you’re going to get 2,000 articles. So, it’s very lopsided in terms of what we study um for sexual function. And in in of itself, sexual function by many people is not seen as mandatory or important for health. And so, the funding is less often available for sexual health. That’s why we have such little data in some areas. Going back to just closing off on the point about masturbation, is there a link between masturbation and prostate cancer? Because I’ve I’ve heard a lot of different things about it. Um, some people think that over masturbation is causing prostate cancer and some people say the opposite. Yeah. So, there’s actually a really good study um that was done looking at ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer. And it was a very well done study. They tried to control for a lot of other factors. And so, what they found was that men who ejaculated 21 times or more a month were less likely to develop prostate cancer. This is just a statistical number. It is not a number that sort of um means anything in terms of but we’re seeing that like okay so more masturbation may help. Why is that? Right. So there may there’s a prostate stagnation hypothesis that the fluids that you know some of your ejaculate fluids come from the prostate and so when you’re ejaculating frequently you’re more often getting rid of that fluid and sort of re replenishing it or cleaning the pipes so to say. So that may be beneficial in terms of preventing prostate cancer. Now, do you have to masturbate or ejaculate or have sex 21 times a month? Um, no. But, you know, there could be a benefit. Yes. And so, uh, having a healthy and it may be that those people who had sex more often or eject more often were just healthier in other ways, right? They were able to have sex more often or masturbate more often because they were uh s, you know, sufficiently healthy to do so. And so I mean while they tried to control for those things, there’s always sort of uncontrollable variables that come into those sort of studies. Yeah, that’s what I was wondering is is there another like glaringly obvious factor that those people had more relationships, therefore their mental health was better, therefore X, Y, and Z. I think they tried to control for coorbidities, but again there I don’t think they controlled for I mean they controlled for marriage, I believe. Um but I’m not sure that they controlled for like in a relationship versus not and how healthy that relationship is. That certainly wasn’t assessed. I’ll link to the study below. So everyone can read for themselves about the um the controls in that study and how that was conducted. Linked to this is is this subject of porn. Um it was interesting because I was doing a lot of research on the subject of that sounds a bit strange. I was doing a lot of research on the subject of porn and where conversations at with the subject. And one of the quite startling things is a lot of people are trying to figure out how to stop watching porn. Mhm. Um, a lot of people are asking themselves for mechanisms to um, install things on their computer that prevent porn time and um, searching for solutions around porn addiction. And a lot of people were searching um, about whether porn is a sin. And I think there’s something broader here about the idea of shame which is linked to porn. What is your take on on this? Is porn a bad thing? Yeah. So I don’t think porn is a bad thing. I will start with that. Um, is it a sin? Is more of a moral question, right? And I think that that is uh something that you individually have to decide for yourself if you feel like morally it’s inappropriate, but it’s it’s entertainment, right? It’s just a different form of entertainment. And I think the issues with porn um because I would not say that it’s 100% great. I think there are definitely issues with it. One, the big one that I’ve been very vocal about is children seeing pornography. So, um, we know now that the average age of a boy seeing pornography is 13. And that’s the average, meaning that as young as 8 to 10, boys are being exposed to pornography. Um, which was not the case when, for example, we were growing up, right? You had to I I always say this, you had to find a a tape, maybe find a VCR in a room that nobody was going to walk in, or you had to find a magazine and hide it somewhere and go find it. And so, it was not readily available. You had to work to be able to see that. And now seeing pornography is very readily available. And so uh very often kids are seeing it whether you as a parent don’t want them to. Whether you’ve put blocks on their phones and devices um they may have access to it from a friend or they may see it somewhere else. and um and your brain is not fully developed to understand one what you’re seeing and two to understand that this is not real unless your parent has talked to you about you know this is sort of a a movie that’s not real life and this is not what sex is really like and so I think that has um implications for um for how they view sex and how they then try to have sex with partners and also you know because your brain’s not fully developed you’re getting this big rush of dopamine from viewing something like that and that’s not something that we traditionally got at that age right and so it can become very addictive now as an adult I think it’s different because you have a fully formed brain you understand the concept of this is not real most people um and so it can be just a way to have pleasure and even watch it with your partner and have pleasure um but yes we are seeing some people who have problematic pornography use in the literature they say it’s 4% I suspect maybe it’s a little higher now where people are finding that watching pornography is is one easier than going out and trying to find a partner. You don’t have to face rejection. You don’t have to face the difficulties and awkwardness of having a first a sexual encounter with someone that often happen. And so it can become a way because it does relieve dopamine just like anything else release dopamine. It can then become sort of a way to feel better about anything, right? like you can just be feeling down like I want to watch pornography cuz it makes me feel better. It may not be just that you’re really into sex. It’s just that you’re really like wanting that rush hit of dopamine. Um and then there’s obviously the shame that comes with, oh my god, why am I using pornography just because I feel bad? And then you’re like, “Oh, but I feel bad and so I’m going to use porn again.” And it becomes this sort of like negative vicious cycle that can occur. But I think when used for entertainment and pleasure, I think it’s fine. And many, many people use it for entertainment and pleasure without a problem. I the other day bought the Apple Vision Pro, that new headset, and I tell you what, Jesus Christ, that is unbelievable piece of technology. This one feature they have on there is called spatial video, and I don’t know if you’ve tried it yet, but you put it on and if you’ve taken a spatial video, which you can now take on the new iPhone and also on the Vision Pro, it basically feels like a 3D video and it’s like nothing I’ve ever experienced before. One of our team members commented that, you know, they they lost a family member and they wish they had this because it it’s like the person is back in front of you. It’s not like a photo or a video anymore. But then little monster in my mind goes, hm, there’s going to be other applications of this technology as it relates to pornography. And we’re getting, you know, if we just assume any rate of improvement with this technology, just I know 5% a year, we eventually get so close to it being indistinguishable from a human being that the incentive structure of going out and getting a day and, you know, for the for the objective of having sex or whatever versus just popping your headset on, which is going to get cheaper and cheaper and cheaper and better and better and better um becomes really lopsided. I it’s so clear to me that if we just go forward 10 years and we’re on the Apple Vision Pro 17 Air, there’s going to be so many people that are using that as a way to uh masturbate and to watch pornography and there’s and it’s going to reduce the amount of people that are seeking real intimate relationships IRL in the real world. Yeah, it is a real concern I would say. But you know we know from some data that people will find physical touch particularly in like hairbearing areas um very important in terms of intimacy with a partner. So um intimacy in general and so I I can only hope that that will continue that you will want physical touch because no matter what you can see with your eyes um it’s not touching you. It’s not like it’s still you doing the touching. there’s no element of surprise or excitement or buildup in terms of like there’s someone else in the room with you, right? So, I can only hope that that that will that will be the case, but it still remain to be seen. However, I will share that there’s some interesting um applications of this in terms of fear. So, if you are really scared of something, you can actually desensitize yourself using these VR headsets and it can actually be very powerful. So, I was just speaking to a researcher, Lori Bradto, about how they’re using it in their lab for women who have fear of penetration because they’ve had either trauma or they have p other conditions that are causing it to be painful. And so, they can work with them to be using these headsets to simulate a sexual experience and then they can sort of use a d like use a tool or a dilator or something to then penetrate in a safe space, right? not like you’re with a partner and you’re like trying to have sex and you’re, you know, you don’t feel very safe. Sort of allowing that. It’s very preliminary research, but I think ultimately there are some positive things that maybe will come out of the use of these sort of VR headsets and I can only hope that that will predominate and we can continue and and people will inherently want other people, right? That we’re we’re hardwired to be around people and to be intimate with people. Like that’s how our brains work. So, I’m hopeful that that will that will still remain to be the case, but I can’t I can’t predict it. You don’t look convinced. Well, you know, I mean, I think it’s I I am worried. You know, I think that phones have changed lives, too, right? Like now our kids, our younger generation doesn’t communicate as well because when they hang out together, they’re sitting all together looking at their phones, right? And so, we have to actively work to prevent like I make my kids have full-on conversations with people. I say you got to come and hang out with the adults and have conversations and and talk to people and we have to coach them on how to talk to people. Um because I worry that people are too into even when they hang out with their friends, they’re playing on devices, right? So um I think there’s like work that has to be done to prevent the the the easy dopamine rushes that these devices are giving us, right? So we actually have to actively work at it and people are inherently going to take the route of of the easiest thing. And so as a society we have to sort of work together to sort of prevent these easy wins, easy things, easy dopamines from taking over. Something you mentioned within there though was the idea of trauma. And I’ve I’m quite interested in the role that our trauma plays in our sexual health and sexual dysfunction. What’s important to know there? And does trauma play a role at all in the patients you see? Absolutely. 100%. So your body when it goes through a trauma it will then sort of your body remembers even if you don’t right. So these people, very many people who have pelvic floor dysfunction, meaning their pelvic floors are too tight or too tense, they’ve had some sort of trauma. Not all of them, some of it’s just stress and anxiety, but sometimes they’ve had some sort of trauma years ago and it’s been with I had I remember having like a 70-year-old woman and she had such terrible pelvic floor dysfunction for god knows how many years that ultimately it caused really negative consequences for her bladder function. And um and so absolutely when you have a trauma that’s unresolved in some shape or form it will affect you whether it’s your mental health, your physiologic health. I mean our brains are so powerful that you know when it’s in a bad place it can affect you negatively. When it’s in a positive place it can affect you more positively. The one thing I will say is if you have trauma getting therapy, getting help to resolve that trauma is so so important. I talk to all my patients and I say, “Yes, you may have an organic problem, meaning a physiologic, bodily problem that’s causing your sexual dysfunction, but everyone who has sexual dysfunction has a psychologic component because it is devastating. It is stressful. It is horrifying to feel like you’re not normal. Your body doesn’t function normal, especially in an intimate space like sex.” So, I’m like, everybody should ideally see a sex therapist if it was available to everybody, but it’s not, right? How can we allow people to have access to things they need? Because we don’t teach these things in school, right? School, I mean, this is my big gripe is like, how can we make education better for children? Like, we need better sexual education. We need better education on how to resolve traumas or how to deal with them or how to get help, how to do digital health, like how do you navigate the world with all this misinformation? How do you find good quality information? How do you assess it? Like, there’s so many things. Even how to balance your books, right? They don’t learn that in school. So ultimately, there’s so many things that I think if we were really putting a critical eye on how we teach our young people that we could improve. And part of that would be including people to know and realize when they need help through whatever trauma they’ve suffered or stress or anxiety that they’re suffering and how that can propagate itself over a lifetime and create real problems. I have to ask this question because people mention this quite often. Can you have sex while you’re pregnant? Absolutely. Why not? I asked it because it was one of the most Googled questions um online. Really? Yeah. The one of the highest search volumes I’ve ever seen for a search term was, “Can you have sex while pregnant?” Wow. I actually didn’t I mean I I I’ve heard a lot of things and I think that people feel like I’ve heard that men think they’re going to hurt the baby. They’re going to um they’re going to cause a problem. But no, absolutely. you can have sex. You’re not going to create like a preterm labor. You’re not going to harm the fetus. Like nothing bad is going to happen from having sex while pregnant. Okay. So, let’s talk about orgasms and the clitoris. Then, you mentioned earlier that um there’s disproportionately a lot less research done on the clitoris. As a man, what do I need to know about the clitoris? Cuz I I’ll be honest, I know very little. I know where it is. That’s that’s a plus. Well, not everyone knows that either. Yeah. I didn’t always know where it was. a couple of misunderstandings, but um I found I found it eventually and I I think I know how to stimulate it, but I don’t really know what’s going on there or how it works. Okay, so what I tell everybody and what men can think of is the clitoris is like the penis. So when you are a fetus, there’s a thing called a genital tubrical. Before you’re assigned sex, that genital tubrical. When you’re when you become a man, that genital tubacle becomes the penis and the shaft and the glands. And in a woman, it becomes the clitoris. And the clitoris actually then goes deep into the pelvis um just like the penis. It has a shaft in the pelvis and then it goes around the vaginal canal. And so you can the clitoris is just as sensitive as a man’s penis, right? So if you stimulate the clitoris like your penis gets stimulated, then it will lead to orgasm and it’s probably the most reliable route for orgasm for women. So 85% of women need some form of clitoreral stimulation to climax. And so many women have difficulty climaxing through vaginal penetration alone. That’s not that they’re broken or something’s wrong with them. It’s just that they don’t. And because the stimulus from the clitoris is so strong, it leads to a very reliable route for orgasm. Now, how you stimulate it is sort of very individually specific. But typically oral stimulation, vibratory stimulation, uh manual stimulation, all those things can work. But that’s where the communication comes in where like the partner ideally would know what they like and could tell you um or they you could check like does this feel good? Does this feel good? Do you like this? Is this you know or and you know and so that’s sort of again a challenge because the communication issue we’ve talked about this whole this whole talk but um that is really what’s important. Now the clitoris like I said it it goes um deep above the vagina and around it. So people can still get clitoreral stimulation through penetration um depending on how you stimulate. Now the other areas that are important for orgasm are the G orogynous zone. It’s actually not a spot, it’s a zone and that’s where essentially if you go look at the vagina on the anterior wall, which is the top of the vagina underneath the urethra where the pee comes out about 2 to 3 centimeters in is called the gerogynous zone. It’s named after the person who um identified it. I think it’s graffin house or something like that but um essentially that area is full of certain nerve endings as well as the female prostate or the skins glands and so those are areas that are quite erogynous and that uses a different so the clitoris is inervated by the pudendal nerve the gerogynous zone is innervated by the hypograastic nerve so a different nerve and then the cervix is the last area where sometimes women feel a lot of stimulation and that’s stimulated by the vagus nerve. So all these different areas can lead to orgasm for women and they can be additive. So if you’re stimulating all three, you might have a more strong orgasm and the orgasm may feel a little different. Now people like to call it like, oh, you’re getting a clitoreral orgasm or a vaginal orgasm. It’s all an orgasm. It’s just a matter of what stimulation is causing the orgasm. And so I think ultimately it’s really important for the the most easy reliable route to orgasm is clitoreral stimulation which is not traditionally stimulated through penis and vagina sex, right? And so it does require some additional um thought on how you’re going to stimulate it and and how you’re going to please the partner and to get them to orgasm. And often times if you think about the time it takes to orgasm. So, in a man, the average length, if you look at studies that have looked at stopwatches, like they’ve had the female partner actually start a stopwatch at the beginning of sex and stop it at the end when the man climaxes, it’s about 5.1 to 5.7 minutes. Um, which in fact UK men tend to last a little bit longer, which is sort of an interesting concept, but Sorry, which sex is that? Men. Men. Men. So, from penetration to climax of men. So when you so that when they so they’ve measured basically not including foreplay, but if they’ve measured they’ve measured like 15,000 people through many many different countries and they’ve had the woman take a stopwatch and actually start click on it when they penetrate and click it off when they climax and they’ve measured the length of time and it’s been about 5.1 to 5.7 minutes is the time. Now, a woman, when you look at the average time to orgasm for a woman, it’s about 14 minutes. And so, you can imagine that if the entire sexual encounter is around the male climax, right? And the male has this, as we’ve already talked about, sort of this postnut clarity, like I don’t want refractory time, they’re not going to want to be more intimate. If you don’t prioritize the female’s climax or stimulate her before you begin to penetrate, then she’s probably not going to orgasm. Um, and so, and the interesting thing is when you look at sexual encounters and you look at men and women having sex for the first time, uh, the woman will orgasm 45% of the time, the man will orgasm 95% of the time. When you look at women having sex with women on a first-time encounter, they both have orgasms 95% of the time. So clearly there’s an educational miscon disconnect, right? Women know what they like and what stimulates them and men aren’t getting the memo. I feel attacked. Totally not attacking you. Letting you know the facts. Oh, no. It makes sense though because I think men are still struggling to understand again because of what you said. We don’t really get a sexual education. So, we learn these things from porn and obviously in porn they’re not showing it. Yeah. I mean, you don’t typically have many um women orgasming in porn as you do men orgasming in porn. What is an orgasm and what kind of what role does it serve? Mhm. Like why do we orgasm? And also when I say what is an orgasm, is an orgasm like a switch or is it is it like a spectrum? So, it’s it’s sort of like a spectrum I guess. I mean, so let’s talk about what it is exactly. So an orgasm is a moment in time that is combined with a like a a maximal tension and then a release and during that time it is completely you’re completely unable to think about anything else. It is a very powerful pleasurable sensation and it occurs usually like I said 5 to 60 seconds it can last and is it in terms of how you get it. It’s usually a culmination of stimulation over a period of time even with a certain sort of like rhythm that’s required to achieve climax that’s different from person to person. So I can’t give you the script on this is how fast you need to penetrate or this is how what stimulation you need to use. Okay, that’s the end of the conversation then. We’re down here. So, um, so yeah, cuz nobody wants a taco. They literally want me to tell them like this is what you do A B C Dru. So, um, but yeah, ultimately, um, all of those things they build this tension, right? So, over the course of sexual stimulation, arousal, you are getting to an excitement phase where your your body is changing. So in women for example you will see that the labia become a little bit redder. Um they expand in size as I said the vagina lengthens and elongates. Um the so the from 3 to 6 in I’ve heard you say. Yeah about about double. Yeah. And it’s different from person. That’s the average right. So there is sort of like this thought that like okay if it’s really really large it’s always going to be better. And that’s not actually always the case because not every vagina can accommodate a very large phus. Um, but so when you’re having orgasm, essentially your pelvic floor muscles are tensing up. They’re they’re getting really tense and you’re reaching this for like basically you’re getting to the top of the hill. You’re getting this really large amount of climax. And so your body is sort of clim going up and up and up. You’re reaching like increasing dopamine and you’re increasing. So when you think about what happens in the brain is your hormones are are cl going higher and higher and there’s also an inhibitory there’s a p there’s a there’s a stimulatory and an inhibitory pathway. way. And so the stimulatory pathway is going up, inhibitory, stimulatory, you’re basically trying to race up to the top of this mountain. And once the stimulatory gets to the very very top, then you have the orgasm. And so you release all this tension. And during this time, your heart rate’s racing, your pupils are dilating, right? There’s all these physiologic changes. Um, and then when you orgasm, your muscles contract, as I mentioned before, and this every 8 seconds, they’re having a contraction. Sometimes you’ll have an involuntary phonation. So people will, you know, moan or scream and sometimes it’s not in their control like there’s actually an involuntary component of it and then um sort of it comes down and so it’s it’s not necessarily a switch. It’s sort of a a a climb up a mountain is the way I would describe it. It sometimes feels like blowing up a balloon with a little hole in it. And when I say with a little hole in it, I mean because if you stop, it feels like some air comes out the balloon. Mhm. That’s why I said the the sort of there needs to be a rhythm. It should keep going at a certain pace in order to achieve that climax because if it doesn’t then you can again just like that’s a very good description you’ll lose that little air in the balloon. Okay. So in order to increase female pleasure okay we need to understand the person we’re dealing with of course but um the clitoris is a great way to get to orgasm. You’ve you’re prolubricants. Mhm. A lot of people feel like that’s not natural so they kind of avoid it but you’re prolubricants. And are you pro then scheduling sex or are you pro-scheduling time for intimacy? Scheduling time for intimacy. Okay. So, because sex adds, as we talked about, add sort of like a level of stress in terms of like, am I going to want to have sex? Am I going to be able to get an erection? Am I going to enjoy sex? Whatever it is. And am I going to get rejected? Like all those things. Because you’re still a human being. and you may just like be really stressed that day that you put on the calendar and you were like, I just can’t can’t get in the right mind space to have sex. So, if you’re constantly ruminating or stressing about other things, you can’t have a good sexual encounter. In fact, they’ve looked at mindfulness in terms of how it improves sexual function, particularly in women. But we’ve seen very clear data that be having a mindfulness practice leads to improved sexual function in terms of desire and other factors like arousal and lubrication and orgasm. But the biggest is desire. And so it’s because if you can focus on what’s happening during the sexual encounter. So you can focus on what it feels like, how you’re enjoying that sensation rather than thinking about am I going to come, am I going to climax, am I is it going to happen or whatever it is that you’re thinking about during sex because you’re worried about how the other partner might react. Then you’re more likely to enjoy the experience, feel, and then have a good experience and subsequently have more desire for additional experiences. We talked earlier on at the very start of the conversation about comparisons and how that can really destroy sex. Is there a disparity between how long we think sex should take and how long it actually takes? Yeah, we all think it lasts longer. And when you ask people what the average time, and this is a hard question because people think of sex as the whole encounter. And when we do it scientifically, we look at sex from penetration to the end of penetration. And sex is more diverse, right? Sex can include oral sex, anal sex, um manual sex, any type of sexual stimulation, right? And so when you’re thinking about the entire encounter, it can be very variable. Some people want a quickie. Some people want to have this long luxurious lovem scenario. And it really depends also like on what’s going on in your life. Like you may not have that luxury. And so I don’t I think again it’s not about reaching a certain benchmark or a certain number. It’s really about the quality of the sex. So if you have great sex and it takes 3 minutes, that’s great. That’s fine. But as long as it’s great to both of you, right? If you’re both like, “This is awesome. I’m having great sex.” And it takes three minutes, that’s fine. But how long do people think sex lasts on average versus how long it actually lasts on average? Yeah. So I think that most people definitely think it lasts longer. So women tend we don’t know what they think it lasts but what they want it to be is about 18 to 25 minutes. Men are a little on the shorter side like maybe 12 minutes but generally we all want it to be around that length. But you sort of lose sense of time right? So you don’t really no one’s really there with the stopwatch knowing exactly how long it takes. In fact, I’ve had friends tell me like, “Oh, I watched your video.” And now, like, when my partner wants sex, I’m like, “Oh, it’s only going to take 5 minutes. Like, I can I can have sex with them.” Like, I used to in my head used to think it would take a lot longer. And now I’ve realized it takes less time. And like I don’t that that stress of like, “Oh my god, I’m going to have to like waste like half an hour and I’m so tired.” Like, has gone out the window because I know it’s really not going to take that long. Is there Have they ever put people in like a laboratory or whatever? And and I guess this goes back to what you said earlier. Um, is there like an average time people spend having sex? Was that the five minutes you talked about? 5.7 minutes. 5.1 to 5.7 minutes depending on the study you look at. And they they looked at all comers. So, it’s actually different in different um countries. So, when you look at like Turkey, it was like 4 minutes and if you look at UK, it was like 10 minutes. So, it’s actually Thank you. So, it’s actually variable and that may be a cultural thing. Um, but ultimately the average is about five something. Interesting. So, we want sex, women want sex to last between 18 and 25 minutes ideally. Men want it to last ideally about 16 minutes including foreplay, but in reality it’s lasting five 5 minutes. Yeah, that’s good to know. Let’s talk about Zoe, who you may know because they’re a sponsor of this podcast and I’m an investor in the company. You guys know health is my number one priority. Zoe’s growth story has been absolutely incredible so far. They’re doing science at a scale that I’ve never seen before. Because of their members and recent breakthroughs in research, they can now continue to offer the most scientifically advanced gut health test on the market. Previously, the test allowed them to analyze 30 bacteria types in your gut. 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So the way that women’s vaginas get if you want to say loose right which is the term that people use or they get a weak pelvic floor and that’s from having babies having maybe neurologic conditions that affect the pelvic floor strength having collagen disorders having um just from like having a job where you stand all day and you’re like all the weight of your body is sitting on your pelvic floor. Those muscles can get weaker over the course of a lifetime and then it can feel a bit looser because those muscles are maybe not squeezing as harder, but it is not related to how much sex she’s having because as we mentioned earlier, when you have an orgasm, you’re actually like strengthening your pelvic floor a little bit like you’re contracting those muscles. So actually probably the more sex a woman has likely her pelvic floor is probably stronger unless she’s not you know um but you know you add in the having babies and other things it’s variable but probably the more orgasms a woman has the stronger her pelvic floor is but things like child birth can Mhm. make the pelvic floor looser weaker weaker. Yeah. Yeah. So then when it becomes weak that is the cause of things like stress incontinence. So, when a woman um lifts something heavy or she exercises or she jumps or she coughs or sneezes, she might have a couple drops of urine or a lot of urine leak out because of a weak pelvic floor. It can also be lead to something like prolapse where the it’s like a hernia in the vagina where the pelvic floor sort of is so weak that now the vaginal skin and the organ behind it is sort of bulging out and can cause discomfort and and sort of uh feeling maybe some dysfunction in the organ but really mostly discomfort. And so those are signs of weak pelvic floors, not you know not having a loose vagina during sex. And we can do something to strengthen our pelvic floor which is these. Is that what the Keele exercises are? Yeah. And it’s more than Keigull. I mean Keigle is the most has the best PR of any sort of thing I’ve ever seen in medicine. But yeah, it’s pelvic floor exercise. The Keigull is one pelvic floor exercise which is to strengthen the pelvic floor. And there are others. What is it? I’ve never So it’s essentially men never know like it’s it’s not your fault. Women sort of kind of know, but even women don’t really know. So, what it is is there’s those same muscles we talked about earlier is that you’re basically doing a rep. You’re squeezing, contracting, and relaxing. Just go to the gym, right? You squeeze and relax. Very similarly, you are squeezing those muscles and relaxing those muscles. I can do this sat down now. Yeah. So, basically for men, what I tell people is it’s like the feeling of when you’re urinating and you stop your urine stream. That that’s you’re using those same muscles. So, that’s one way. Another way to think about it is if you were trying to lift your penis off the ground without touching it. Okay, got you. Okay. And the third one is you’re trying to hold in a fart. So all those different ways you’re sort of getting those muscles. So the one thing I tell people is they get the way they get it wrong is they don’t relax enough. So just like when you go to the gym, you’re not doing rep after rep. You’re actually taking a break and you’re letting your muscles relax before you do another rep. Same thing. You have to squeeze for 5 seconds. Relax for 5 seconds. Right? you actually have to um relax and just like any exercise, you don’t want to overdo it. So I tell people start lying down so that the only thing you have to focus on from a muscular standpoint is that those muscles. As you get good at them lying down, you then do them sitting up and then as you get good at doing them sitting up, you can do them standing or do them anywhere. But like you’re not going to be like there, you know, I remember the scene from Sex in the City where like the character Samantha was like, I’m doing my Keigull right now. Like, yeah, she’s probably been doing keigull for a long time and now she’s so good at them that she can do them while she’s brushing her teeth, but it’s not like you’re going to wake up one day and be perfect at them, just like any other exercise. So, that’s one exercise. There are certainly other things you can do to strengthen your pelvic floor. Traditionally, things like yoga and pilates have some core work that does also help with the pelvic floor. But really, I recommend if you’re having issues is to see a pelvic floor physical therapist cuz they’re just like a when you go to the gym alone, you can do it or you can go with the personal trainer. They’re like the personal trainers for your pelvic floor. How do I know if I’m having pelvic floor issues? What are the symptoms? So, for like I said, the obvious ones for women are leakage or um having prolapse for weakness. In men, we don’t often see as much, but like I said, you might notice that your semen is not as forceful when it comes out. Um, that’s usually the most common side sign of a weak pelvic floor. There’s not as many for men, but in terms of a overly um high tone pelvic floor. What we worry about then is then there’s a whole host of symptoms. It could be as simple as just having lower back pain. Um, it can be that you’re having hip pain. It could be that you’re having um pain with sex. You’re having pain with erections, pain with ejaculation. you’re going to the bathroom often, got to go, got to go. You are feeling like you’re having difficulty emptying your bladder, or you are um going very very often all of a sudden. So, it can be a vague variety of these symptoms. And um so generally it’s important to get evaluated to see like examine your to get your pelvic floor examined by a professional whether it’s a urologist, a gynecologist, a pelvic floor physical therapist, someone who can assess your pelvic floor if you’re having these issues because it might be pelvic floor, it might not. Right? How do they assess it? If I go to a urologist and say, “Listen, check my pelvic floor.” Mhm. So in a man it would be a rectal exam. And so essentially that’s how you sort of feel the pelvic floor muscles. So, what I tell young guys who come to me, I said, “Look, I can examine you. Um, but I bet based on your story, like you’re a young guy, you’ve sort of had these new stressors in your life, um, and it’s un and you’re otherwise healthy, it’s unlikely that you have a vascular condition brewing and other things that like it’s probably likely so if you want to uh avoid the exam because it can be uncomfortable or and I will tell you if you have pelvic floor dysfunction and someone does an exam, it will be uncomfortable. It will be painful potentially because they’re pushing on those already tense muscles and it can be painful. So I tell people like you might hate me tomorrow because you’ll be sore and you’ll say what did she do during that exam? And I I kind of preemptively tell them because I just gently push right like I’m pushing the pad on my finger. But that’s enough to sort of cause a tension of the pelvic floor muscle and cause pain. Push where where you like on the muscles on the pelvic floor muscles. So you can actually so if you if you put your finger in the rectum if you push right straight down in a man you’re feeling the prostate and if you push on the sides at a variety of different angles you’re going to feel different pelvic floor muscles like the levator adi and the transoperator muscles those muscles are the ones that are part of the pelvic floor. We can’t feel all of them but we can feel some of them. And so um so that is sort of where we’re feeling in terms of for the pelvic floor muscles. Okay. So, cuz I was thinking if we go in the the rectum, you’ve got the glutes there as well, which are like either side, I guess. So, your pelvic floor is actually a part of your core, right? But your glutes are further back. They’re not going to be felt from there. But anyways, if you think about your pelvic floor, it’s actually, you know, people think about their core as your abdominals, but we know that it sort of encompasses your back, your front, and even your pelvic floor is sort of part of your core muscles. Got you. Okay. Interesting. Very interesting. Um, on the topic of sizes then, one of the big things in men is penis size. And one of the big questions men often ask is, is there ways to increase my penis size? There’s in fact a whole industry around penis size, increasing pumps and all kinds of different things. Is it possible to increase one’s penis size? Yeah. So, it is um in terms of looking at the evidence, uh, the safest and most reliable way is using a traction device. And these are devices that are made for um essentially for penile lengthening, but they’re also made for men who have something called Peronis disease where they may develop a plaque on their penis and a curvature. And so there’s one device that’s actually made that bends away from the plaque to help sort of break down that plaque. Um so there are two uses for it, but essentially these devices are just like stretching the tissue over time. And so the original traction devices that were studied, you would have to use them for 6 to 8 hours a day for several months to see a 2cm increase in length. Now, um that may be enough for some people. They were like, “Yes, I definitely want that.” And some like, “You know what? It may or may I mean 2 centimeters is the average. Some are going to be less.” Right? So um it’s sort of do you have the time to do that. Do you want to do that? But now there are sort of newer devices where they’ve studied them and used them like twice a day for 30 minutes and they’ve seen some increase in penile length. They’re generally pretty safe. It’s more about um you might have some bruising from just putting the traction device on and as long as you follow the instructions, you’re probably not going to hurt yourself. Is that a penis pump? No, pumps are different. So pumps have not been shown to increase penal. A pump is essentially it’s got a it’s got a a a cylinder that you put your penis into and it uses sort of vacuum technology to sort of suck blood into the tissues and then you put um if you’re having issues with erectile function, you would then put a ring uh at the base of the penis to maintain the erection. Uh these don’t help with length. They’ve looked at them in those cases. They’ve also looked at surgeries and different types of things to increase penal length. And ultimately many of them either have you know a very high complication rate um or risks that I would say are probably not advisable for most people. Um I you know I think that in terms of penile lengthening people are always like why would you want to do that? why a lot of people will sort of poo poo people who want to change the way their penis looks. And I’ve sort of evolved in my thinking and saying, well, you know what, this is a big part of um, you know, a man’s identity and how he feels about himself. And I wish we had something that was safe and easy for men to do like we have breast implants, but we’re not there yet, right? And so I just want people to be safe in terms of realizing what our limitations are at this time and things may change over, you know, as people become more interested in this area. porn, the role it’s played in our perception of what a normalsized penis is. Do you know any of any data on what how big people think a penis should be versus how big the penises actually are? Yeah. So, yeah, most people think it should be about 6 in. So, like we said, the average is around 5.1 to 5.3 in. And so, when you look at the data in terms of what people think it should be, men think it should be about 6 in. in terms of women’s where we found the data about what they prefer um is sort of interesting. So when now that we’re having um more surgeries for trans men, one of the surgeries that we do is a neoalis is we create a new phus and one of the the types of surgeries we do is we use a forearm flap. And so it can be very very long and very very girthy. And in fact they were doing these surgeries and they realized that some people were actually unable to have sex with it because it was too girthy. So they wanted to then look at like well how do we determine the right size and length length and girth of this neopalis so that we you know they can then have sex with it. So, what they did was they looked at um the top, you know, the top five to 10 sex aids or or toys that women are purchasing online. And they, you know, you can imagine that when you think of a dildo, they can go from one, you know, all the way to like the largest thing you’ve ever seen and the girthiest thing you’ve ever seen to like a normal size. And so, when you have the option to pick as many as you want, right? What do you pick? And so what they found was that women tend to pick the length of about 6 in, but as you know, you’re not putting the whole device in. There has to be a handle or something. So it’s probably around what the normal size is. And the girth was also around the average girth of the male penis. And so generally speaking, women tend to want what is average or around average, right? And um interestingly there’s a product that is available called oh not I’m not I don’t I’m not sponsored by them or anything but essentially you you for women who have pain with penetration with men who are too wellendowed the men actually wears it so that the entire fallus doesn’t go in during sexual intercourse but it’s more comfortable for the partner. So we know that sometimes it can be really uncomfortable if it’s too wellendowed. And so I think ultimately um while I understand that pornography has made people really self-conscious about the length of their penis and I I I’m really sad about that because I think you as we’ve talked about earlier clitoreral stimulation is the easiest way for women to climax and you don’t need penetration for that. So in order to have pleasure and give pleasure you don’t need a large penis and in fact some women may not even care what size your penis is. It’s more of a a societal thing that we talk about, right? Women joke about it. Women talk about it. I mean, you can’t go, you know, you even I’ve accidentally made comments where I’ve been like, “Oh, that’s great that like he has a large penis.” Like, I can’t believe I just said that. Like, I’ll say it and I’ll be like, “Oh my god, I can’t believe that came out of my mouth of all people.” And I think it’s just so ingrained in our brain to be like, “Oh, like to celebrate really wellendowed organs when in reality it’s not necessary and sometimes even painful. Will my penis get smaller as I age? So, not if you are healthy. So, in terms of how do we maintain our penile health, right? Your body does a really good job of trying to maintain penal health because over the course of a night time, men will get five to six erections, three to six erections over the course of the night. And that will happen whether you have a sexual dream or not, whether you are sleeping in a certain way or not. It’s because your body is sort of giving blood flow to the area periodically through the night, whether you’re having sex, whether you’re not, you’re getting good oxygenated blood flow to the penis. Now, if you develop other conditions where you cannot get blood flow to the penis, like you get high blood pressure, you get diabetes, you get heart disease, and those arteries start getting narrowed and then you stop getting nighttime erections and you start having difficulty getting erections. Over time the tissues can change and they can become what we call fibroic and they can become a little less spongy and less elastic. And so in those cases you can see a little bit of shortening. Now people will also see shortening because they gain weight over the course of their lifetime. And as you gain weight the penile the penis is not shrinking but the the fat on the mons or the area right above the penis is sort of getting larger and obscuring how much penis length there is. There’s a one of the myths around penis size is that you know if I have big hands look because you know these aren’t small hands. If I have big hands then I have a big penis or if I have big feet then I have a big penis. Is there data to support this idea that the length of my any part of my body is correlated to my penis size? Yeah there’s one study it’s a Japanese study where they looked at only Japanese men. Uh so take there are some limitations but essentially they measured all these body parts and penal length. Uh and uh what they found was that nose length was correlated with penal length, not hand length or foot length. So how do I increase the length of my nose? Yeah. Yeah. But uh I I thought that was really interesting. Again, nothing you can control. These things are pre-enetically determined to some degree. And in fact, you know, we talked about some trends and while we’ve seen um semen qual sperm quality change over the last 50 years, we’ve also seen penile length change average over many last I don’t know the exact number but 50 years. And they’ve actually seen penile length is increasing. And they think that this is because the onset of puberty is changing and boys are getting exposed to factors that are making them go through puberty earlier and hence they’re getting more exposure to testosterone and they’re developing longer penises. Um so sort of interesting theoretical thing. I don’t know if that’s true or not but sort of what the theory is. Yeah, I actually read about that study. It says that a study shows that men’s average erect penis size has increased over the last 29 years from 4.8 8 in to 6 in. Mhm. That’s pretty pretty dramatic. That’s huge. Yeah. Wait another 29 years. You could be at Jesus Christ. But I don’t think women’s vaginal lengths are changing. So, I don’t know what that means. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It’s interesting because you when you we talked about the vaginal length enlarging as someone becomes aroused, you mentioned that it goes from about roughly about 3 in on average to about 6 in. That also correlates with the size of the flaccid penis to the size of the erect penis going from about 3.6 in flaccid to about 5.1 to 5.2 in erect. So you kind of see that these two things are actually made made for each other. Yeah, they are. I mean I think in general like we’re all we’re I mean we’re we’re designed right the the biggest thing that we need to do as a species is have children, right? That is like sort of the the goal of life is to propagate our species. And so it would make sense that we would be designed to be able to do that easily. A lot of people are having this um new procedure called labeloplasty. Is it did I pronounce that correctly? Laboplasty. Laboplasty. What is this? Why? So laboplasty is essentially taking the labia uh manura and and and making them a little shorter or smaller depending on what your preference is. And labias come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. What is that? It’s the inner lips of the vagina. So they come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Sometimes they will be um lopsided, so one will be longer than the other, some will be longer, some will be smaller. And often times we’re seeing in pornographies really small labia minora. And so people will tend to feel like maybe they should look like that. Now, not everybody. Some people actually have discomfort. Their labia are so long that they cause friction or pain or discomfort. In those cases, it’s it’s absolutely uh reasonable. But just like people have insecurities about their genitalia when they’re men, women also can have insecurities about their labia as women. And so laboplasty is essentially making those smaller and more cosmetically appealing when women desire that. Um, but I think the the important thing to take home is they are so diverse. They’re as diverse as your fingerprint. Your labia is unique to you and it is not um there’s no script of what it should look like. Uh and so I generally tell people if that’s something you want that’s absolutely fine. But again this is not a pathology or a bad thing. This is something that you know is more cosmetic. And there’s been an 80% increase in the surgery of laboplasty from 2015 to 2019 which is you know a lot a lot. It’s a lot. Last thing about um women in ejaculation in the vagina is about squirting. very misunderstood. Like, you know, as a as a man that doesn’t have a vagina, um I’ve seen squirting on pornography that I’ve watched. I watch pornography. I think that’s important to say. I think a lot of people do watch pornography. Um and in the pornography that I’ve watched, the woman squirts, this liquid comes out. And like, is that semen? Is that ejaculate? Or is that something else? What is it? And also, should we be aiming to make our partners squirt? Yes, let’s talk about it. So, this is important and it’s actually interesting. I just I just had a conversation with a researcher about this because it’s so misunderstood and we still don’t know. Like, there’s only been like three or four studies looking at female ejaculation squirting over the course of our history. There’s different types of fluids the vagina makes. One is obviously lubrication. That’s different and that can be very copious for some, very not as copious for others. Uh, that’s one type of fluid. The other type of fluid is female ejaculate. Now, female ejaculate is similar to male ejaculate. comes from the skins glands, that same female prostate. It is a small amount of like sort of sticky white fluid that women ejaculate. Um, and so they will release that fluid and it’s not like this copious amount of fluid that you’re seeing on pornography. Uh, the next type of fluid is squirting. And squirting is has been described as a clear, colorless, odorless fluid that’s emitted from the urethra. um when they’ve looked at analyses of these they found that there is what we call PSA or prostate specific antigen now that we think of traditionally as males but the women’s skins glands make it as well now people are like is it pee right that’s the big question and so in the one study where they looked at the analysis they found that it was there was like dilute urine and then another study looked at like okay they scanned people before squirting and after and they scanned their bladders to see like did the amount of urine change and and they said it did and now it’s urine. But what we really don’t know and what we what the limitation is that you never so women know when they squirt like they they know it’s not urine. So if you talk to enough women who are squirting they’ll be like you know it’s not urine. I’m sure it’s not urine but where is that fluid coming from that that’s where the question comes right? And so like if it’s not urine it’s coming from the urethra like it doesn’t make sense. And so uh this is Dr. Barry Kamasurak who’s done a lot of research on orgasm. He said you know it may be water inhibition. So when you think of like fluid filling the walls of the uterus and the vagina during during or during the process of arousal and that maybe during climax when you have actually contractions of that fluid of those of those organs that occurs during climax that it can actually release this fluid. I don’t know. I think the jury remains out. I don’t think we have a conclusive answer because the studies are not perfectly designed. We have a closing tradition on this podcast where the last guest leaves a question for the next guest not knowing who they’re going to be leaving it for. And the question that’s been left for you.

    If there was one message that you want your life’s work to communicate to the world, what would it be and why? My message is that sexual health is health and that we need to be prioritizing our sexual health and educate our young people about sex. And why? Because I think the impacts of having negative sexual health or negative sexual encounters can be so dramatic in terms of physiologic outcomes, interpersonal outcomes, work productivity. I mean, it can be very farreaching and if we are able to educate and empower people, we can change the world. Dr. Serena Malik, thank you so much for your time today and thank you so much for um illuminating a bunch of issues on sexual health that I’ve never really understood or been able to discuss before. And I think these conversations are so unbelievably important because as you say there, sex sort of permeates every facet of our lives. And I think sometimes people wonder why I spend a lot of time on the show talking about sex when this is called the diary of a CEO. But and that’s because it’s the same reason why I spend a lot of time talking about health and the brain and neuroscience and relationships and everything because I’ve come to learn that although I’m a CEO. I’m a business person. All of these things as you’ve said feed into um my ability to be a CEO. And what is a CEO? A CEO is a human being. A CEO is just someone that is um has a sort of highintensity career. We all have high intensity careers and we’re these multifaceted objects. But some parts of these multifaceted objects are still in the shadows because there’s stigma and there’s shame and there’s not a lot lot of education around it. And if I think about my career as a whole, um sex and my relationships have been this huge um huge part of it that once I focused more energy on and started investing it in every other part of my career improved. every other part of my life improved, my health improved, my performance at work improved, my anxiety levels um dissipated, and that’s why I think these conversations are so unbelievably important and your work that you’ve done both in your your sort of clinical practice, but also what you’re doing on YouTube as well, which I’ll link below so everyone can go and see is allowing this information to be accessible for everybody, even those that don’t have um the money to go and drive, as you said, to go see a therapist. And I think that’s an incredibly important work, and I’m glad that you’re a real champion and and a a force behind that. So, thank you so much on behalf of me, my team, but also everyone that’s consumed your work and gained value from it. Thank you. I would just say that I always tell people because I mentor a lot of young medical students. And I I always tell young women that the number one most important decision you’re going to make is who you choose as your partner. And that’s because that person, whether it’s obviously emotionally, but also sexually, right? how they support you in your life is going to determine whether you’re able to succeed or not. And I I just was talking to another woman and and you know, she’s like, “My husband’s wonderful.” I was like, “I’m not surprised.” I was like, “You don’t get to be a successful woman and a happy, welladjusted, successful woman unless you either are, you know, very happy being alone or you have an excellent partner to support you. Because if you have a toxic partner at home, it’s not going to work.” Amen. Thank you. Heat. Heat. N.

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  • 10/23/2026 – Did Claude Duet just kill Grok Bot

    Anthropic just released their Grockbot in Chad GBT dots killer. It’s called Claw Duet and it might just be the best personal AI agent out there. In this video, I’m covering everything Claw Duet. What it is, how it works, how to get set up, how to get access to it, because not everyone get access to it, and which AI agents you should be using. This one is an exclusive banger. Let’s lock in and get into it. So this is Claude Duet and the reason why it’s so small on my screen here is currently it is mobile only. It is only on the mobile Claude app. It is in super early access. Only a few people are getting into it. Highly recommend signing up for that weight list. I put the link down below for that. But let’s get into what it is and what makes it different than the other AI agents out there. And real quick before we do that, instantly becomes the number one name for an AI agent out there. Here’s your power rankings for best AI agent names. Duet Hermes at number two. Great, great name. Muse at number three. I like Muse a lot. Rockbot at number four. Solid name. They just got a little lazy. Just put bot at the end of the Grock. That’s fine. Five. Open Claw. Claudebot was significantly significantly better. Six dots. Terrible name. Awful name. That’s the power rankings and names. But now, let’s get into the actual app and see which agent is better. So, Claw Duet, much like the other AI agents out there, uses all your plugins. So, it instantly connects to your email, your calendar, uh all the other services you use out there that you currently use with Claude. So, it knows everything about you. It has all your data and can take care of anything you need. Here’s what’s really interesting about this and why I actually think this is the best UI for an AI agent ever. You basically have two sides of what an AI agent can be. You have Grockbot, right? Grockbot is on one side, which is just a long list of bots and agents, and you choose which agent you want to talk to. They all have their own context and skills and everything, and you choose one, and you talk to it. This is like the anti-god thread, which I’ll show you in a second. It’s a long list of agents. On the other hand, you have like a dots for instance, which is more of a god thread. One thread. You put everything into the one thread. It’s a true personal agent, just one agent bot. Muse is like this. Hermes is kind of like this, but then they added like the bots modes. Now there’s like 20 different modes. Open claws like this. One god thread. You just put everything into it. There’s upsides and downsides to each upside of the kind of long list of bots like Rockbot is is you can have many different bots with many different responsibilities and the context don’t get confusing or overlap or anything like that. You have bots for very specific tasks which makes those bots very good at those specific tasks. On the other hand, you have the God thread, which it’s not quite as good at very specific tasks because it doesn’t just have the context of that one type of task; but it makes it very easy to use because you just go to one thread and you put everything in that one thread. So, it’s less of like a cognitive load because you don’t have to think about which bot to use, but it’s not quite as good at like those individual tasks. Just to give an example of like why a Grockbot with a long list of bots is like a really good setup is because I have Barry. Barry’s like my chief content officer when I can just go into Barry, give an idea, and it knows it knows I’m trying to give it ideas about content. I can say, “Hey, her newsletter.” And it just knows I’m trying to make a herder newsletter. It can help me give an outline, schedule it for me, get the right audience in my email newsletter tool, all that. You go to the right bot, it has the right context automatically, and it does really good work. God thread like dots. I can’t really do that because I do all my work in that one thread. So, I have to be a lot more clear about what I’m trying to do. So, what is Claude Duet? Is Claude Duet more of a god thread type agent or is it more of a long list of bots type agent? Well, it’s actually the best of both worlds. So duet, you have one god thread, but as you give it tasks, as you give it specific tasks to do, it actually takes those tasks and breaks it down by category for you. So I’m giving it some tasks for an app I’m building called Henry. So I brain dump a bunch of things I want to do and it figures out, okay, they want this task done for Henry. Puts a hashtag Henry. Okay, Alex wants this task done for his video game, so does #nol district. So it’s one god thread, right? this one chat right here. But when you give it tasks, it breaks it down by what it calls channels. They’re actually called channels or categories. Creates tasks for each one of them. Puts it in the right channel, the right category, and keeps it neatly organized with the right context. So, it’s actually the best of both worlds where it has the positive of the god thread, right? Where you only need to put things into one thread. You don’t need to have this cognitive load. Which bot do I talk to? let me go through my long list of 20 different bots. You put it all in one thread, but then that one god thread decides which context that task should go to and breaks it down as these tasks for you. I don’t manage this list of tasks. This la list of task is all managed by the god thread chat. So I don’t need that cognitive load of like which contact should I be using, which bot should be doing this. No, I just say hey do this for me. And it goes okay, I’ll give this over here. We’ll start doing this for Henry. start doing this for your game. We’ll start doing this for your content. And it gives it the right skills, plugins, and context. So, it’s really the best of both worlds. The simplicity of the God thread of like a dots, but also the power of the separated out contexts like a Grockbot. What I really like about, and there’s many other things I really like that we’ll go through, and I’ll go through in a second which agent you should be using for which task. I really like this plus button down here. So if you click this plus button on the task screen, it’s basically like a brain dump mode. So if I go here, click on the keyboard, I can just brain dump everything that’s on my mind and it will take all of that, break it into individual tasks and just start work for me. It really seems that Claw Duet more than any other AI agent out there was built to lighten your cognitive load as much as humanly possible. You just have ideas in your head. It takes those ideas, breaks it down to actionable tasks, and does those tasks really well. So, let me just show you what an idea of like a brain dump would be right here that it breaks down into tasks for me. So, I just put in everything that’s on my mind into this task creator. I said, I want to write a newsletter on Herder. I also want to start planning out multiplayer in null district and how that would work. I also just got a second DGX Spark. I want to see what the best model are for that cluster. And I’m just going to hit send. And what now Duet’s going to do is it’s going to break those down into tasks. I either save it for later. I got to say start, start start. And then now let’s look at my task list in my active. And you can see all the tasks that are waiting for my review. And if I scroll down, you can see which ones uh need my input and which ones are doing work. And now it’s doing the multitasking of a Grockbot, but it has the simplicity of a chat GPT dots god thread, right? with like a Chad GBT dots or like a Hermes if you’re just using a god thread, you can’t just put a bunch of things in because it’s not able to multitask quite as well. You can in dots if you say like, “Hey, make a thread for this, make a thread for this, make a thread for this, make a thread for this, but you’re kind of manually managing all these threads.” With Claw Duet, again, you don’t have to think about that. You don’t have to think about the multitasking. You just say whatever is on your mind and it breaks it down into these tasks in the task list and starts going. My favorite invention of all time is full self-driving on my Cyber Truck. The reason why it’s my favorite invention of all time is I can go in my car, plug in my destination, and I can just sit there and my car drives me an hour away to wherever it is I’m going. And my entire cognitive loads lightened up because I don’t have to think about driving. I don’t have to be engaged in the driving. So I can use my brain to focus on other things, to focus on other problems to solve. It makes driving so much nicer. Claude duet is kind of like the full self-driving of AI agents where your cognitive load’s lighting up so much because you don’t have to think about the multitask. You don’t have to think about which bot to go to. You just say what’s on your mind. It breaks in task and figures out how to do it and it just does it. So I can lighten my load. I was at the gym earlier today and I had some ideas of what I wanted to do that day and I just sent it and it just broke up a task and started going. But this goes further than just breaking up into tasks. This isn’t just a good bot at making tasks. It also is incredibly good at being proactive with ideas. Here’s what I mean by that. So, I’m at the gym today. I really want to work on Henry Move it forward. Here’s my average conversation with Claw Duet. I’ll show you how simple this is to get a lot of work done. Claude Duet is constantly making recommendations on what you should build next without me even asking. It just says, “Hey, by the way, I think we should work on these five things next. Do you give me the go-ahad?” Right? So, I wake up today, I say, “Hey, let’s work on Henry.” He goes, “Okay, here’s what we should build out next.” It gives me really good recommendations of what to build. A lot of times, I’ll go to AI agents, I’ll say, “Hey, what should we work on next?” And it gives me like total slop. These are actually really good recommendations on what I should be implementing next. Then you can’t see it here, but it has like buttons it automatically creates on with each one of these features in them. I just hit the button and it starts working on it. One of the buttons I hit was start the pipeline fixes. I click the button. Boom. It goes, it starts working. It creates the PR. Then it comes back a couple minutes later. It says, “Should I open the PR for you to review?” Then has a yes button or a no button. I hit the yes button. By the way, it’s using Claude code for all this. Right now, Claude Code with Opus 55 is the best coder out there, hands down. No question about it. So, instantly, Claude Duet becomes the best coding personal agent out there. So, I say yes, open the PR. It creates the PR. Boom. It’s good to go. It’s done. I Okay, what’s next? It gives me five more really, really good ideas on what to work on. Gives me the buttons on which one I should do. I click the button which I want. Creating the signin. Boom. It’s good to go. Makes the PR says, “Okay, you ready to go? Want me to merge it?” I say yes. What’s next? Gives me more ideas. I click okay. Go. This is like the way you work with Claw Duet, which I love. Which is like, hear me out. Now, this is going to sound weird, but hear me out. I believe the future of working with AI is you sit there and you have a button and you just sit there and you press the button over and over and over again like this. And as you’re hitting the button, more things get done. You get more productive, you create more value, you make more money. I think that is the future of AI. Not having to have this huge cognitive load on what to do and get work done. You sit there, your agent knows you really well. It’s able to make incredible recommendations. You just sit there, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it. And boom, at the end of the day, your business is moving forward and you’re making more money. Duet is the closest I’ve seen to that vision of where I think AI agents are going out of any agent I’ve worked with. I’ve literally spent the entire morning just saying, “Yes, do it. Yes, do it. Yes, do it. Yes, do it. And my app Henry has moved forward so much, which is incredible. So, it is super proactive, but it’s proactive in this different way where it’s not like like for instance, dots. Dots is very proactive, but it’s proactive in this way where it’s like I get an email, it reads the email automatically and then recommends like a response that email. That’s great. I like that. But Duet’s proactive in like a different kind of way where it’s finding unknown unknowns, uncovering those unknown unknowns and recommending them to you to get done. I didn’t think of any of these features to build out. It’s like, hey, we should build these features next. So, I like this type of proactivity a ton. It’s really, really cool. I’ve gotten a lot more work done with Duet uh over the last day because of this proactivity. Speaking of unknown unknowns, if you look down here, there’s also a make section. If we click on the make section, it has a bunch of templates for recommended tasks we can do next. So again, this is where Duet really focused on which was finding the unknown unknowns, finding things to do that you haven’t thought of, lightening your cognitive load, and all you need to do to get work done is clicking a single button. It wants to make an ads plan for my Vibe Coding Academy, by the way. Vibe Code Academy, number one community AI. Link for that down below. It wants to make a LinkedIn ads plan. All right, sounds good to me. Let’s click that. Let’s get it popping. Boom. It already made it for me. I actually I actually think it proactively made it. That’s incredible. Uh it didn’t even generate when I clicked it. It automatically opened. That’s uh pretty amazing. So that’s done already. It proactively made all of these documents for me, which is incredible. So again, it’s just thinking of things to do and proactively doing them. But the important part here is those things it’s thinking of doing are actually great. They’re actually helpful. They’re not just AI slop. There’s a few other things here. I’m going to go through those few other things and I’m going to go through weaknesses where it’s behind all of the other agents. Then I’m going to give you a breakdown of power rankings of which AI agents you should be using. But a couple other things to note, if you click the hamburger menu icon up here, you have what’s called channels. So you do have a way if you want of breaking this down into kind of dedicated side chats. But even when you do that, you don’t really have to worry about talking to the right one because it will automatically assign tasks to the right channel if you just go to your God thread and give it a bunch of things to do. It’ll automatically assign to the right channel. So the channels are more for just letting your agent know what are the different areas of your life. So super proactive, lightens your cognitive load more than any other AI agent. But is this the best one ever? Well, there are still some weaknesses to Claw Duet. Right now, it’s just on mobile. There’s no desktop component. There’s no desktop app. I assume this is cuz it’s in super super early access and I assume a desktop app will come soon. So, that kind of stinks. I I I I wish I could kind of lock in on my computer and talk to my agent. It is what it is. Two, and this might be the biggest weakness. This might be a reason why I still use Grockbot a ton at the moment, is that it doesn’t really have a computer of its own. It can do claude code cloud agents where it spins up cloud agents to write code for you but it doesn’t have its own box. It doesn’t have its own computer. So to give you an example of why that is a weakness, I started a new GitHub organization for Henry. So it’s separate from my normal GitHub account. So to commit code for Henry, my agents now need to connect themselves to a new GitHub account. For Grotbot, that’s super easy. I say,”Hey, go and connect yourself to the new GitHub account.”It goes on its own computer, which is already logged into my GitHub and then just switches organizations and adds itself by itself to that organization. Because it has its own computer, it can do anything I can do. Claude Duet on the other hand though doesn’t have its own computer. It just has access to all your plugins as well as Claude Code cloud agents. So, it can’t open its computer, connect to a different service or anything like that. So, I had to personally and manually go and log into my GitHub and choose the new account and connect it manually and like that was a little bit extra work which kind of stunk. Grockbot, it doesn’t matter what you need to do. You just say no Grock, you do it and it will just figure out how to do it. Like I have my fantasy football lineup I need to set this weekend. I was on the go. There was an injury. I had to switch out the injury. Saquon Barkley is now back in the lineups. I needed to switch him in. Grockbot, I said,”Hey, go. Can you put Squan back in my lineup? It opened up its computer. It’s logged into my fantasy football account. It switched the lineup. Claude can’t do that. Doesn’t have its own computer. There’s no Yahoo Fantasy Sports plugin. So, it’s just something I had to do manually. So, not having a cloud computer is a weakness for some specific types of tasks. I’m actually not 100% confident they’re going to give it its own computer. Out of all the companies out there, Anthropic is definitely the most cognizant of safety, cognizant of making sure their agents don’t do anything crazy that can like hurt your security or privacy or anything like that. So, I think giving these agents their own computer opens up a lot of security concerns. And so, I think Anthropic’s probably going to be super careful with that. And I don’t know if that you get your own computer. We’ll see. I hope they do. I hope they to the side of like, hey, let the user do whatever the hell they want. But I get it. You don’t want like people who don’t know what they’re doing going on these cloud computers and just putting all their credentials in and maybe doing something not so secure. But if you’re someone who relies on your agent do absolutely everything, it’s a little bit of a weakness the fact that it doesn’t have its own cloud computer. So which agent should you be using? Here’s where I’m at currently and what I’m doing for pushing my coding projects forward. I like Duet. I think the access to Claude code and Opus 55 is unbeatable. It’s incredible. The proactive thinking, the figuring out what to do next, gives Duet a very distinct edge for knowledge work: for going online, creating documents, doing different things, opening things up in a browser, submitting the form here, then downloading that form, opening it up on your third computer, taking it off the third computer, moving it over here. I like Grockbot. Grockbot A has its own cloud computer. Beacon can control any of your computers. That’s another thing Duet can’t do at the moment is actually control your computer, download files, things like that. Grockbot can do all that. And because of that freedom and that flexibility of being able to do things on a cloud computer, move it to your on-site computer, things like that. I lean Grockbot for those tasks. Personal agent, I’m trying to figure out how to get an iPhone Duo tomorrow. It comes out tomorrow. My pre-order is for like the first week in November. I want it tomorrow on launch day. I’m having Muse go out and figure out how to do that. Muse is super good at going on the internet, like figuring out how to buy things, reserve things, things like that. kind of personal agent. I like Muse for that. And then open source. You got to have your open source agent, right? So, I have a second DGX Spark I just got. I’m I’m running like local models on there. Uh Hermes is powered by those local models because it’s open source. You can do whatever the hell you want. So, I’m using Hermes for more of my open-source free-for-all, doing experimental things. Listen, all of these agents are spectacular. All of these agents are so good. I’m just like an AI crazy person, so I use all of the agents. But if you only had to choose one, you can get away with using any of these to do all your tasks, right? You can get away with it. So like, you don’t need to be like me where you use every AI agent, you can choose just Muse and do everything or just duet and do everything. That’s totally fine. But if you’re trying to hyper optimize like I am, this is what I’m using. If you learned anything at all, leave a like down below, subscribe, turn notifications. Which agent are you using? Which agent would you like me to do more deep dives on? Let me know in the chat down below. I also got the number one newsletter on planet Earth. Ship it weekly, completely free. Link for that down below. Hope this was helpful. Turn on notifications. We got some banger videos coming up. Turn on that notification. Some amazing videos coming. Hope this is helpful. We’ll see you in the next video.

  • 10/24/2026 – 5 Digital Products That Are Underrated but Extremely Profitable

    There are people right now making a full-time income selling simple digital products that most people would never pay attention to. No warehouse, no shipping, no boss, just a file they made once that keeps selling on its own. In this video, I’m going to show you five digital products that are extremely underrated, but very profitable. These are boring. They look too simple to work, but they’re quietly making more money than a lot of what’s trending right now. So, I’ve been selling digital products for over 10 years now, and I’ve made millions of dollars doing so. And on this channel, I try to share with you what I’m learning personally for my own business. Now, before we get started though, understand that this is not financial advice and there are no guarantees because selling digital products is not a get-rich quick scheme. Even though the digital product itself is proven to work, it only works if you actually make it and make it good and give it time to sell. The people who succeed in this are the ones who stick to it, put in consistent work over a consistent period of time. And because I cannot guarantee how much work you put into it, I cannot guarantee any results. With that being said, I’m going to back up everything with actual data on why these products are selling. So, it’s definitely possible if you do it the right way. So, let’s start with the first one, which you might think it’s pretty random, but it’s templates for notaries, specifically for people called loan signing agents. Here’s what that even means. A loan signing agent is a notary who shows up when you buy or refinance a house and walks you through signing all that mortgage paperwork. It’s a real job and it pays surprisingly well. These people make somewhere around $75 to $200 per signing, and some are making a full-time income from it. Now, here’s where the digital product comes in. All these notaries need paperwork to run their business, like intake forms, prep sheets, invoice templates, marketing flyers to hand to title companies, price sheets, and more. And most of them don’t want to build that stuff from scratch. So, people are selling ready-made template packs to them for around $5 to $25 per pack. You make that pack one time, and every new notary who starts up is a potential buyer. And thousands of people become notaries every single year. And this works because you’re not selling to a random hobby crowd, right? You’re selling to people who are trying to make money themselves, which is often a better crowd to sell to. So when someone’s using your template to earn 150 bucks her signing, paying you $15 is definitely worth it. So yeah, you can definitely build a business selling notary templates. What you need to do is grab the attention of those notaries on Etsy and market it specifically for them. So, this one fits you if you’re comfortable doing a little marketing and you have ideas on notary content and format. All right, product number two is blowing up on TikTok right now and most people have no clue you can make money from it and that’s selling simple coloring books. So, I’m not talking about the super detailed intricate coloring books with a thousand tiny lines, right? What I mean is, you know, what’s called the bold and easy style. So these are big thick outlines, simple shapes, lots of open space. The kind of page you can finish in less than an hour and actually feel refreshed coloring it in instead of being stressed out because there’s so many tiny details. So the reason a simple coloring book like this is taken off right now is because regular coloring book stresses people out. There’s way too much detail, too much pressure to stay in the lines and bold and easy changes that, right? Kids can do it, young adults can do it to relax. Seniors love it because it’s easy on the eyes, easy on the hands. So, it has the widest market appeal to it. And here’s what makes this a real business. You can definitely sell this as a digital download that people print out at home through Etsy or different websites. But the best way to do so is you publish them as actual paperback books on Amazon through KDP. So, if you never heard of KDP, KDP is Amazon’s free self-publishing program. You basically upload the PDF copy of your book. So, you’re not even creating the book, you’re just creating a PDF, and Amazon will sell it on their own website. When someone orders it, Amazon prints it out and ships it for you. So, you have no inventory. You don’t have to deal with any of the printing and shipping, no customer service, nothing. You just create the book, upload it to Amazon, do a little marketing, and collect the royalty. So, here are some real examples of very simple coloring books that are selling really well on Amazon right now. So, we have the Big Sister Bold and Easy coloring book. And as you can see, the interior images are extremely simple. And yet, this book is doing between $728 to $1.2,000 per month in royalties just from this one book. If you’re wondering how I’m seeing this number, I have a free Chrome plug-in called co-author.ai. You can look it up in the Chrome plug-in store. It’s completely free. Once again, once you download it, you will see this number in every single book on Amazon. I’ll also leave a link in the description to the Chrome plug-in store. So, we have another book over here, Cozy Girl Season, and this book is doing 10 to $16,000 per month in revenue. And we have the last one, K-pop Superfan Bold and Easy Coloring Book is doing a couple hundred per month, which is still good. And the cover is not the best as well. So, if you sell these coloring book pages as a printable on Etsy, right, you’re competing on Etsy hoping someone finds you. And Etsy is cool. You know, it has some built-in audience, but the size of the built-in audience it has is nothing compared to what Amazon has, right? Amazon is the biggest online store in the whole world. So, you can also upload the book on Amazon and now your book is sitting in front of the biggest shopping audience on the entire planet and Amazon does the printing and the shipping and also the customer service for you. So, it’s way way more beginner friendly. So the big takeaway here is that you don’t want to over complicate things, right? The simpler the design, the better because simple is the whole point. So you don’t want to think that, oh, I should make it more complicated and people will like that. No, people actually want it to be simple. So this is one of the best starting point in this list if you’re brand new and you’ve never made a product before because there’s no writing. The design is very simple and there’s a huge trend right now. So if you love making things complicated, you can’t resist making things complicated for yourself, then this might not be for you. But for everyone else, this is a great starting point. All right, product number three is digital planner stickers. So, this is something you probably don’t know unless you’re in the market for Gen Z, like if you’re Gen Z, you know, you might know this. But here’s what these are. A ton of people use planner apps on their iPad, like GoodNotes, Notability to organize their life. And just like a real paper planner, they like to decorate it with little stickers. Except these stickers aren’t real. They’re just little image files. So you design a pack of them one time and people buy the whole set for anywhere from $3 to $15. So top sellers have packs with hundreds of stickers in them and sell thousands. And the buyers are pretty obsessed here. Planner people don’t buy one sticker pack, right? They buy a pack for every season, every mood, every holiday. Once someone likes your style, they come back again and again. So if you got an eye for cute, clean design, this is a fun one to start with. You can make them in something as simple as Canva or Procreate, and there’s no printing involved at all. So, you can go with this one if you actually enjoy making cute, clean, visual stuff and you don’t mind putting out fresh packs every so often to keep buyers coming back. If you want something you make one time and never touch again, then what’s coming up next might be a better match for you because a sticker shop needs you to keep feeding it new designs. All right, product number four is something you definitely not paid attention to without realizing that it’s a gold mine. And that is cookbooks, but not the kind that you’re thinking. So, everyone and their mom has tried to sell a generic cookbook like 100 easy dinner recipes and that is dead. Nobody needs another one and you’ll never stand out. A lot of books are already on that topic, but the ultra specific ones quietly sell like crazy. Let me give you some ideas. Instead of a carnival diet cookbook, you can do a carnival diet cookbook for beginners on a budget or a 30inut Mediterranean diet air fryer cookbook for beginners or a tasty anti-inflammatory cortisol detox diet cookbook. As you can see, these are super specific, right? And here’s why the specific ones wins every time. When someone’s dealing with a real problem, they don’t want a general book. They want a book that feels like it was made for exactly them. And they’ll pick yours over the generic cookbooks instantly, even if yours costs more. Which, by the way, the more specific the book is, the higher the price you can sell it for. So, you don’t have to be a professional chef. You don’t have to be a great writer. You can use AI to create your first draft and help you put the recipes and the structure together. Obviously, you want to really make sure that the information you get from AI is correct, right? You should be doing your own research if you don’t have any personal experience in this. If you do have personal experience, this is especially a great niche for you. But if you don’t have the patience to actually edit the content until it feels real and the information is accurate, especially if you’re doing cookbooks for some sort of health issue, then it’s a super big deal that you have accurate correct information. But if you can do that, this is very very profitable. So same as the coloring books, you publish these books on Amazon through KDP. So Amazon brings you the buyers who are already searching for a solution to their exact problem. A lot of people are searching for cookbooks on Amazon. So, you’re not chasing anyone. They come to you. So, this is definitely best for someone with some background in nutrition, cooking, or health, even if that comes from personal experience instead of formal training. You don’t need to be a dietitian, but understanding why certain foods affect the body will show in the quality of the book. So, if that’s not your area, this is a niche where hiring a knowledgeable writer is absolutely worth it. Like, essentially, you can hire a ghostriter that has experience in writing about this to create a book for you, although that’s going to cost more. Now, real quick, picking a profitable book topic is one thing, but knowing how to create a highquality book and how to market it so that you can start tapping into the Amazon’s customers and start making sales is a whole different bowl game. If you want help nailing that part and really making sure that you’re building a profitable publishing business, that’s the whole reason why I built my mentorship program, Road to Hero. It’s for people who are serious about making an income selling books on Amazon and you want a shortcut to picking niches and creating highquality books and actually making money from it. If that’s you, I’ll leave a link in the description. You can book a free 30-inut strategy call, talk to one of our coaches, and see if this program is a good fit for you. We don’t approve everyone because once you join, we’ll be working with you very, very closely on a one-on-one basis. And for that reason, we don’t want to approve everyone because not everyone is obviously a fit for the program. Sometimes there’s a personality mismatch and a lot of things. So, if you’re interested and you want to see if our program is a good fit for you, once again, check out the link in the description, book the free call, and we’ll talk to you there. All right, product number five is large print puzzle books. So, you already know these puzzles. We’re talking word search, sudoku, crosswords, cryptograms, and more. So, that’s not the secret, right? The underrated secret part is the format. So, you take those same puzzles and you turn them into large print format with big letters and big grids, and you sell them to one specific group of people, seniors. Because here’s what everyone misses. People look at a large print book and think, “It’s just bigger fonts. Who cares?” But that’s the whole point. You’re not selling a font size here. You’re selling to someone whose eyes aren’t what they used to be. you’re selling to someone who got tired of squinting at tiny puzzles and who’s so relieved to finally find one that they can actually see. So, here’s some examples of actual puzzle books making money right now. So, we have Retro Times Crossword puzzle book for adults and seniors with the co-author free Chrome plug-in. We can see that it’s making between 582 to $969 per month in revenue. We have another one, Sudoku Book for Adults, and this is doing between 2 to3.5K per month. And the last one is a new word search book for adults. And this is making between 13 to $22,000 per month. So the person isn’t buying based on price here, right? They found the thing that solves their problem and they buy it. And then they buy the next one and they leave a positive review because we solve the problem that they’re facing by making our books large print. And that’s why a lot of these books have thousands of reviews, right? It’s a massive loyal buying audience that most creators completely ignore because it doesn’t look flashy. So out of these options here, if you’re asking me what’s the best one, which one I would personally do, I would personally recommend books, right? So we’re talking the coloring books, the cookbooks, the puzzle books. And the reason why is because the book publishing business model is exactly what turned me from a guy that was failing in multiple different businesses for four years straight to actually starting to make money online. I made my first dollar online with this business model. Then I scaled up to 10K per month to six figures a year to multiple six figures a year. eventually selling my book portfolio for $820,000 and on and on. I made a lot of money from doing this. But it’s important to understand that picking the right niche is just one part of the equation. From here, now that you know that these niches are profitable, you have to learn how can you create a book that stands out amongst the competition, how can you create an attractive cover, an attractive title, a book description that sells, how do you actually upload and market the book, right? So you can start getting Amazon to push it for you as well. Those are the things that you have to execute to properly succeed in this business. So, if you want my team and me to actually guide you through this step by step, you can jump on a free call with us. It’s completely free and you can walk away with a personalized plan for your own KDP business and a clear idea of exactly which niche to go after first, whether you decide to work with us or not. You also receive some extra bonuses just for showing up to the call. You don’t even have to join. You’ll walk away with an extra bonus. So, to see what those are, you can check out the link in the description. If you got value out of this video, dropping a like and subscribing genuinely helps the channel more than you think. It also tells me to keep making videos like this. So, if you do want me to keep making videos like this, let me know by leaving a like. And if you want to go deeper onto the Amazon KDP topic, you can watch this video next because it takes what we just talked about and show you exactly how to actually start creating and selling these books. So, with that being said, thanks for watching and I’ll see you in the next