@GrammarHippy Interested in where you’re going with this. Currently finishing up a new book as an entry point to my book ghostwriting services for clients. Hopeful this works in B2B as effectively as it does B2C.
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Tom Meitner
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Tom Meitner
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If you have a high-ticket item and you’re trying to sell it directly…
You’re playing the game at the hardest mode possible.
You think people consume your free content and then buy. But that’s not true. Most don’t consume it. Most don’t buy. That’s why you get so few buyers.
The solution is a “socks” funnel. A funnel that has a PAID entry but it’s cheap. Impulse-cheap.
A funnel that “forces” your prospect to consume you - before they buy the high ticket. Making the sale SO MUCH easier.
And the best part is that you don’t need to build practically anything new. It’s the same stuff rearranged differently.
Thinking of writing a long-form on this. Drop a comment if you’ve read till the end so I know this is interesting to you.
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Being on your laptop outside is a miserable experience and im tired of people pretending it's not
New York Post@nypost
California is envy of the nation as remote workers bring their offices to the beach trib.al/a4t7N8u
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Watch Jingle All The Way next Christmas. A great movie? No. But absolutely beautiful compared to current-day movies. Great cinematography, acting is on point, some genuinely funny moments, tons of effort put into the final product.
Like a breath of fresh air.
J.T. Alexander@JTAlexander_
What I miss most about old films is the effort and sincerity. Even some of the technically-not-very-good movies of the 90s and 00s still clearly had a lot put into them. Almost every film today feels like theater kids just playing around in front of a green screen. The Mummy, The Rock, Armageddon, and Broken Arrow: These movies are—from a critical perspective—not very good. But as viewers, we love them. We don't love them like some people love The Room, but we love them for what they are at face value. They aren't fun-bad, they are so-fun-they-are-legitimately-good-even-if-campy-and-silly. This is only possible because they take themselves seriously and present themselves seriously. It doesn't matter that the plot is absurd, it doesn't matter that the writing is campy. By taking themselves seriously, with the effort put in by the cast and crew, we can take them seriously, too. There are so few movies coming out over the past decade I can seriously say this about.
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There used to be editors. They were named Morty or Perry. They smoked cigars, and you knew you were in trouble when he staunched his cigar after calling you into his office.
“What the hell is this headline, [last name]? You know how many girls tried and failed to be where you are? Fix it! And don’t let shit like this cross my desk again.”
Morty was why we had nice things
The Critical Drinker@TheCriticalDri2
Women were a mistake.
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The Left likes the Jesus of “let him who is without sin cast the first stone.”
They don’t like the Jesus of “go and sin no more.”
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Fed test results into AI and had a long conversation about my 20+ years of IBS. AI diagnosed me with bile acid malabsorption.
Since then, symptoms are almost 100% solved.
Thought it was dairy or red meat or other causes. It was bile. No doctor ever went down that road.
Nick | Gut Health@theholisticnick
Many people with chronic gut issues never think about their liver or bile as potential factors. They chase probiotics, fiber and elimination diets for years. But underneath a lot of the symptoms they're dealing with, disrupted liver function or bile flow is quietly driving things. Bloating after fatty meals, light-colored or greasy stools, nausea, brain fog, hormone imbalances, skin issues that won't resolve. These are often signaling liver and bile issues.
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I think after I had Kid #1, I had this realization about Tim Ferriss.
Smart guy doing interesting things but his life is just a laboratory. It’s barely “real” in a lot of ways.
Heck, his whole “give a woman a 30 minute orgasm” thing from The 4-Hour Body was a ridiculous process that no woman would actually want, it was so clinical.
These guys have great tips sometimes but remember where they are coming from.
Jacob Edward@JacobEdwardInc
Neither of these men are married or have kids. Both are simply obsessed with their own personal perfection and optimization. There is nothing impressive about a single man with no kids sleeping well and being fit. Show me a man with young children, a full time job, disrupted sleep, who works out regularly, eats healthy, trains Jui Jitsu, with a muscular body… THIS is impressive. THIS requires extreme discipline.
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I've told writers for years that client work won't go away because clients aren't going to fire a writer for AI (long term).
Clients don't have TIME. That's why they outsource to writers.
And AI - to this day, to this absolute minute - needs a freaking ton of babysitting. And it still gets massive things wrong, even with perfect prompting, etc. I get amazed by how bad it is sometimes.
Clients A) do not have the time or bandwidth to babysit AI to get what they need, and B) can't risk AI writing getting something horribly wrong so that they are either legally in trouble or will have wasted thousands of dollars behind the copy it generated (they need accountability - but you can't fire Gemini or sue Claude if their copy isn't compliant!).
There are dudes on here putting out stuff and saying, "You can't believe it's AI!" Ignoring the fact that you can absolutely tell, it also required weeks of testing and tweaking and prompting and correcting and re-prompting and notetaking and re-prompting just to get that one blog post or that one 20-second video clip to turn out decently.
AI is fine. But it's only ever going to be "fine". And clients can't afford to run with "fine".
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I think it was 5 years ago now when people were telling me AI was going to be surpassing Shakespeare in a matter of weeks, that my blog (all blogs) would be out of business in a matter of a few weeks all because AI blogs would be less expensive to join, and that all best selling books would be AI in a matter of weeks because no one would want to read anything by a human anymore.
When I pressed back, I got a lot of "Cope harder, you'll see, you'll see in a few weeks bro, you're old and gonna be left behind, you'll see in a few weeks."
Welp... 5 years and counting for my you'll see bro moment.
ROGUEWEALTH@roguewealth
Real ones remember @FindJimClair warned us about gen AIs.
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I got this book for Christmas soon after it was released and read it religiously. Like, all the time. Until it fell apart at the seams. I miss owning stuff like this.
Four Finger Discount@fourfingerpod
The bible for Simpsons fans.
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My entire sales process is AI now...
Last week it brought in $35,946 in sales, with $23,958 cash collected.
You need these 3 skill files if you want to do the same for your sales process...
1. VSL script writer
2. 7 day email promo
3. Long form sales letter
Comment "skills" below and I'll DM you the skill files to install.
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My wife and I the other day were saying we don’t need new movies, TV, or music. We have decades of stuff that is amazing and you couldn’t watch/listen to all of it if you tried. It’s still new to you. Enjoy it and ignore the new garbage.
Templarpilled@Templarpilled
This is the future of entertainment. We have made so many movies over the decades we can just keep running them in theaters all over again, and it'll work. The option to watch trusted, nostalgia-inducing old stuff will look appealing compared to AI slop and humanslop
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@owroot Every year I take my kids Christmas shopping for their mother and I am treated like some kind of local celebrity.
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I don't get emotional about celebrity deaths because I'm a grown adult and I don't know these people personally, but sometimes a death makes you stop for a second and go "Dang."
Home Alone and Beetlejuice were staples in my household growing up.
Breaking911@Breaking911
BREAKING: Legendary actress Catherine O'Hara, of "Schitt's Creek," "Home Alone," and "Best In Show," has died at age 71. - TMZ
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We had friends over for dinner. With little kids. You wouldn’t know it was -10 out. Completely normal Friday night.
RJ@MKENewYorker
It’s so funny seeing videos in the South of grocery stores being picked clean like it’s the coming of the apocalypse. Meanwhile, in Wisconsin everyone is like ‘I guess I’ll pull out the Big Coat and bring the beer in from the garage so it’s doesn’t freeze’
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What I thought being an adult was gonna be like when I was a kid
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The South is freaking out about temps in the teens. Meanwhile it’s going to be -18 when we wake up tomorrow (-40 wind chill) and we’re firming up plans with another family to come over with their young kids for dinner.
Because Wisconsin.
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Yep. Working on new routines for content discovery because this is absolute garbage.
signüll@signulll
welp, it was fun while it lasted i guess.
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@NotKennyRogers I feel like that whole “Hear us Lord, as we pray in silence” thing is deliberately for that sort of prayer. We cover forgiveness and mercy and strength and all that elsewhere. That silent prayer is a free for all.
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While our church council may have officially rejected my written request for a one hour mandatory Indiana Hoosier football prayer this morning, I still managed to sneak in a few private petitions for a win throughout the service.
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This is the problem with coaching writers, too.
I'm not that aggressive, but most of my advice is the former.
But most people - male AND female, actually - want the latter.
I don't know if that's a "terminally-online" thing or what, but it's one of the reasons I've been backing down from coaching.
"Nobody cares, get back to work, keep going" isn't what people want to hear.
taoki@justalexoki
this is unironically what male vs female self help books are like
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20+ years ago, I went to a series of doctors for digestive issues. It took weeks.
Eventually I landed in the office of a GI doc, who simply asked me a bunch of questions, said I have "IBS", and should take Metamucil (psyllium fiber).
The pills worked instantly. I felt great, and my quality of life vastly improved.
In time, I relaxed my pill intake, eventually forgot about it, and after a year or so, returned to digestive issues.
I would pinpoint certain trigger foods and try to avoid them. But my quality of life deteriorated.
I wanted a better diagnosis.
I spent way too much money on a "gut health nutritionist" from Australia about 4 years ago.
We had several meetings. I took all these expensive tests that gave interesting results. But by the end of us working together, I didn't really have a clear idea of what was going on.
More years of digestive issues and misery. Almost constant.
Last week, I stumbled on those test results in my Google Drive, and I thought: "What if I fed this all into AI and asked it for analysis?"
I pulled the PDFs. And I exported all the email conversations with the nutritionist. All went into Gemini, and we started talking.
This was Tuesday.
Gemini pointed out the oversights in the nutritionist's assumptions and advice, specifically highlighting certain portions of the conversation and test results that were never addressed.
I thought I had a lactose sensitivity and IBS.
After a ton of back and forth, along with testing certain approaches to eating, Gemini has concluded that I actually have Bile Acid Malabsorption.
It's not the lactose in dairy, it's the fat.
We've tested some things. I had ice cream last night after dinner. I had cereal with milk for breakfast this morning. Normally a combination that would unleash stabbing abdominal pains and an entire day spent in the bathroom.
But because I took psyllium fiber before each of those things, I feel 100% fine right now.
Gemini not only helped me determine all of this, but gave me clear explanations as to what is likely going on in my gut and WHY the fiber pills are working.
AI isn't perfect. Not even close. When it's bad, it's completely useless.
But when it's good? It is incredible.
20+ years of gut issues potentially solved in <1 week of conversation.
New lease on life.
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