If you're not using @NousResearch Hermes, you're literally wasting your time and money. I had 500 Instagram posts bookmarked in my niche, I made Hermes, copy me username of all 500 of those video creators, checked their profiles for any profile with an email in their bio, then checked their last 3 videos to see if any were related to my niche, and copy me the links into a notepad. In the past, I would either spend hours doing this all on my own, pay someone to do it, or spend money/time to pay/create a software for it to be done; now it's all done for free by Hermes.

Most people still have no idea how early this is. They’re buying WordPress themes, CodeCanyon scripts, and hiring developers on Fiverr to fix sites AI can ship in minutes. Last week I built a website and a scraper in 1 hour. Same work used to take me days. Same people are still scrolling Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, and LinkedIn by hand looking for leads. Agents already do that. Grok and Hermes can run outreach, inboxes, research, and socials while you sleep. The edge is more output in less time. Idea and execution still matter. Distribution still matters. But if you’re doing by hand what an agent can run overnight, you’re already behind.

There's an AI for that is doing 8-14 million visits a month. Official TikTok account: 800 followers. People look at the UGC videos and think “they scaled TikTok.” They didn’t.

The reason why I see so many people failing with selling knowledge (Courses, guides, and e-books) is that they don't provide anything of actual value for free. It's going to be extremely hard for you to get sales by advertising a course or an e-book, especially nowadays, if those people don't know you and don't trust you. That's why if you're going to go and do paid ads, or organic ads where you don't provide value first, i'd recommend you go with a free lead that has extremely high value, be it an free e-book or a course, that advertises the paid version of it, as if it's free you will have way more leads than you otherwise wouldn't have. At that time, your leads would be warmed up and way more trusting of you if you gave them incredible value for free to buy the paid version of it, so unless you sell garbage, this is how it works way better; that's if you can provide value. A way better approach is to build an audience on several channels where you'd have followers that would be ready to buy from you from the get-go, be it a Telegram channel, Instagram/TikTok pages, forum profiles, YouTube channel, or anything else, as long as you provide value, you will have a bunch of warmed-up sales. I've sold an e-book for 78$, had a free version of it that I got 5,000 downloads on, which led to around 400 sales of the paid e-book. Later on in 2023, I had a paid e-book that was 188$ and out of those 400 people, 100 bought that second e-book as well; that's how much value and actual quality matter.

Parasite SEO is one of the best organic marketing you can do for your product/service. It will cost you a few dollars and some time, but if done properly you can easily scale to 4-5 figs. Create accounts for your product/service on: - Reddit (Get Premium for 5$) - Twitter - Substack - Facebook Profile & Page - Threads - Medium (Get premium for 5$ as well) - YouTube (Post both videos & community) Go onto google keyword planner, look for buy intent keywords people in your niche would search for when they're half ready or fully ready to usbuy your product/services. On all 7 above you can create similar posts with diffirent titles and wording as to rank for diffirent keywords with each. For YouTube, make simple videos with CapCut/Ai/ElevenLabs with your keywords inside it, title and description. If you do it properly, good chances it instantly ranks on top of Google for your keywords. If you get good at keywords research, especially early/mid buy intent keywords and creating articles and everything else properly, you can scale easily without budget.

Day 4: These Tools are doing most of my work for me Automating every possible part of your work isn't optional anymore; it's how you earn more per hour while doing more work in less time. Here's the list: IFTT & Zapier - Whenever I post on my blog, it automatically posts to my Medium, Substack, and several other publishing platforms. Same goes for Social Media; I post on Telegram, and it reposts itself to my other networks, saving me 20-30 minutes daily. ThemaPoster - Software that lets you post to an unlimited number of forums at once. I use it to post stuff on forums to grow my reputation or share my lead magnets. ClickWorkers - Anything that Ai can't do for me, I hire cheap 3rd world countries labor to do for me for cents. Comet Browser, Openclaw and @bot - I use these for anything I need to do on the browser, such as fixing my WordPress website, checking my emails for invoices or sales, and finding me leads on Instagram and Reddit. I also use them to create scrapers, pragmatic SEO content and to analyse and optimise my Search Console rankings, among other things. I will write guides for all of these. As I prefer my content to be authentic, I rarely use AI to correct my grammar. I use DeepL for this purpose. Outsourcing - When I need something doing over a longer period of time and AI can't do it, I usually create a video guide and then hire VAs on Discord or Reddit to carry out the work. MicroWorkers is good for one-off tasks, but not for long-term projects. I send the VAs the video showing what they have to do and then hire those who carry out the work properly. Don't do something yourself if you can find someone to do it for less money than you value your time at. Additionally, I use Claude on my phone to set up events in Calendar, daily tasks, and keep notes and my thoughts as it's way faster than just typing them.

Day 3: Marketing is 90% of the Work Regardless of whether you created a digital product, an app, a web app, or a service, if you don't know how to market it and how to market it properly, it's going to fail. Even if you create something that is the best on the market out there and, on top of that, is cheaper than everyone else, still, if you don't know how to market it properly, no amount of word of mouth marketing will help you. Don't start creating anything if you don't have a marketing plan, especially a good one, and if you're a beginner, I'd recommend you just copycat the marketing of someone you find in your niche that is already successful.

Day 2: How to Get Leads with 0 Competition Here's something I noticed running content for a client's SEO agency. We were bidding on "SEO agency" and "hire SEO expert." Expensive and competitive. Then I looked at what people search before they even know they need an agency/SEO guy, things like "what is domain authority" or "what does CTR mean." Turns out way more people are searching for that than "hire SEO expert." And almost nobody was making content for it at the time. We started publishing simple explainers for those terms instead (Plus some Parasite SEO). Inquiries went up, cost per lead dropped, because we were the only ones standing there. Turns out this isn't an SEO-specific thing. It's how every market works. Every niche has a "Buyer Signal": the acronyms and terms people look up before they know they're about to make a decision. Think APR, ROI, LLC, HITT, SKU. Nobody's making content around these because everyone's fighting over "best credit cards" and "top loan companies" and other saturated and expensive keywords that are Intent to Buy. But the person googling "what is domain authority?" isn't randomly browsing. They're circling a decision about their website. They just don't know it yet. Show up there, explain it clearly, no bull shit, and you become their guide for the rest of the decision. When they're ready to buy, you're already someone they trust more than others. That's it. Pick a niche -> list 10–20 terms people don't understand yet -> explain each one simply -> repeat. Zero/Low competition. A lot of real buyer intent. Free traffic. You can even do it with Parasite SEO if you don't want to rank your own website. If you need help finding some for your business, feel free to DM me, and when I have spare time, I will check it out for you for free.

People are hijacking Trustpilot and review sites with their website names to rank up for specific keywords and make a ton of money... Google doubled down on favoring authority and UGC platforms, from Quora to Reddit and now Trustpilot as well. Find keywords for your product or affiliate product that don't have specific name competition in the niche, make a website with the keyword in it, try to milk Trustpilot by making a Trustpilot page for it. This is literally the entire playbook they're doing, and they rack up 10s of Trustpilot pages via several accounts; they're easily making 3-4 figs with this single website per month.

The harsh reality of people not realizing how real passive income is made So if you go through Reddit, Twitter, Facebook and forums, a lot of the posts are either people advertising their product or people writing about things that aren't really passive income. They're just ways to make money online, or passive income methods that probably won't last long term (5+ years). If we don't include real passive income like renting apartments (Which still isn't passive income unless you hire an agency to manage it all for you or someone), dividend stocks, renting anything out there, and focus solely on the internet side of things, how do you actually achieve it? If you, for example, start a YouTube channel and you grind making videos, get monetized, and your videos are the type to generate views for the next 10+ years, eg: - iPhone 18 Review: Is It Worth Buying? This would get most of its views when the iPhone 18 is released. - How to Tie a Tie This can get views for the next 30 years. - ChatGPT 6 New Features Explained Just explains a new feature a new version of ChatGPT has, same as how a video about, let's say, Drake scandal or Elon Musk scandal would get just one-time views. - How to Change a Car Tire Safely Would probably get views for a long period of time, and I've just given straight examples, you can also go with "Life of Julius Caesar" or "Life of Genghis Khan" can get views for a long period of time. Hence, even if you'd stop posting videos, your content would still be generating revenue for long period of time if it's properly ranked and nicely done videos. Hence, if you apply the same logic to a mobile app, if you create a video editing app, if you stop working on it, competition will kill you with way better apps, and your users will leave you. If you, for a simple example, create a calculator app, people have much less reason to switch because the app already does everything they need. I've had a manga reader website (Japanese Comics), which I've ran for 4 years before selling it to put the cash into stocks, chapters updated on their own, I've advertised that site for it's first year, next 3 years new people kept coming from visitors i already had recommending it, and the same people kept reading manga for years (With slight decrease as some people just stop), but you get the point. Look out to create something that can: - Stay Relevant for as long a period of time as possible. - Competition matters a lot less once you get loyal users, especially if your product simply works and solves the problem they're using it for. - You can see in ur head, a few ways you can promote it to gain the users in the first place. This is the formula you need in case you want real passive income. I'd 10/10 recommend you to just look to make as much money in a shorter period of time as possible. Since if you have a way to make 200$ a hour for the next 1 year yet that business is going to fall or become irrelevant in next 12 months and at the other hand y ou have another option that makes you 80$ per hour and you're sure it will stay there for next 3 years, always pick option 1, as when it ends you will have way more money than if you went with option 2 and will have budget, connections and experience to seek something new once it's over. It just puts you in a way better financial situation.