Can You Compete with AI?

Many people try to grow their online presence —trying to build something unique. Yet they tell stories that everybody has heard before. You could share your story. Tell what happens in your life. It’s hard to do, so maybe — you think there is no story to tell. You have nothing interesting to share. Or you think that it’s scary. You don’t want to tell your story to nobody. I understand all that. But here’s the question:Why did you start? What made you want to start this business in the first…

I see this every day online. People struggling to get a client. Struggling to make money. I have been there before. Aiming to reach a monthly income, ready for the harvest — and then coming up empty. No income. No clients. Just crickets. I thought I had good product. But in reality, I was more focused on what I would get out than what I gave. I didn’t actually sow any seeds. I was preparing for the harvest— only to wonder why it never came. That was a hard lesson. I still remember how…

Broken Families break Society Broken families lead to broken societies, distant communities, and empty neighborhoods. My brother and I puzzled a lot. We had one puzzle where, in the end, one piece was missing. We puzzled many landscapes to hang them up as pictures on the wall. Once you found the missing piece, no matter how often you looked at the picture, you always noticed this missing piece. There was an empty space. When I think of broken families, I think of this incomplete puzzle. It…

There is a massive difference between respect and status. There’s this good ol’ book — Rich Dad, Poor Dad.It was one of my first books I read about business. It introduced me to the idea that: There is a difference between rich and poor that goes beyond money. Over the years, this idea has become more and more nuanced. There are “rich” people that don’t have money,and there are “poor” people that have money. When I started out, I thought: Status = Success = the Wealth Generated. But I learned…

Hey Reader, Every day that I’m on Twitter/X, I get cold DMs. These guys pitching to get more clients, upgrade my sales, and get more leads. Often it feels like we’re just needing to sell better to sell more. That marketing is just a numbers game to make more money. When I look at the backend of their business, there is one number they don’t like to share: their churn rate. The churn rate is the rate at which clients cancel again. Most of the big sales gurus seem to focus more on getting new…

Hey Reader, I was just chatting with a young man. He is struggling to get clients online. He said his personal brand isn’t growing enough. He doesn’t get any inbound leads. I asked him: What are you doing in real life? Offline. What contacts do you have? Who are the people you’re already spending time with? These are important because a Personal Brand is basically your reputation and trustworthiness. It is so much easier to build a good reputation when your trustworthiness is offline. We have…