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🏄‍♂️ What I Learned This Week...

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Brooks Conkle
April 15, 2025

Howdy!

Every week I share the business projects I’m working on — the goal is for you to be able to take action from what I’m learning! I’m excited to hang out with you and 5,495 5,536 other box destroyers today!

I’m asked what tools I use in my business. Here’s my tool list, AI tool list, and money-making ideas to help you with your income stream building. Reply to this email and ask me anything - happy to help. A note: I always use referral links when I have them. I will make a commission if you purchase through the links, so thanks!

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I own a campervan as my daily driver (I traveled around New Zealand 20 years ago in a van, so the van takes me down memory lane).

I took a trip to the northwest part of my state.

There is something freeing about not knowing where your next stop will be, figuring out where you’ll sleep, etc.

I even got to visit the Rattlesnake Salloon (a restaurant under a cliff edge) — pretty cool! For giggles, here are some photos from my trip if you want to see.

I got a bit of remote work done, but also plenty of time just to think.

Taking time with an empty mind is so important in business — it’s where strategy and new fresh ideas come from.

And yes, I came up with 3-4 more online tools that I will be building 🤣🤣

It’s now week 3 of the name change of this newsletter brand to Build Income Streams.

I think it was the right move.

So much clearer as to what the newsletter is about!

Ok, I started using High Level three four weeks ago now and I’m just as excited.

You can build sites, automate social channels, set up chatbots, create landing pages, set up SMS, host courses, create an affiliate program, connect with customers (CRM), and on and on and on.

This week, I’ve started doing outreach to sell my domain names (I’ll share below…)

If you’ve ever checked it out, it’s quite overwhelming, but they have customer support available on Zoom 24/7.

I think this is going to be a game-changer for my business.

You get 3 sub-accounts with their base plan for $97/mo — it’s not cheap.

But I’m running one account for a client as their marketing agency, one for my domain name outbounding, and the 3rd for The Mobile Rundown (my local media brand).

Once I get the hang of it, I’ll probably upgrade, as I can see running real estate marketing, among other things through it - and they’ll all be organized nicely in their own sub accounts that I can easily add my staff to.

Here’s my referral link for a 14-day free trial if you’d like to check it out.

How I’m Using AI this Week…

I’m pretty cheap, so seeing each of these tools I’m building as a mini version of myself makes any and all software costs make sense.

I started playing around with Open AI’s updated image functions, and they’re pretty wild.

And they’re built directly into ChatGPT and have memory, meaning you can make adjustments to photos and continue making adjustments.

Feel free to check out the video I made below…

What use cases have you seen or tried?

Feel free to hop on the videos and ask me any questions you’d like.

I'm happy to share what I’m learning!

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Domain Name Flipping [Update]

Ok, using GoHighLevel, I’ve set up some outbound campaigns.

I got my first offer for a domain!

I turned down the $1k offer as I think it’s worth a minimum of $2k.

We’ll see - I’ll keep you posted.

The offer was on one of the real estate domain names that I just picked up.

They’re connected to certain cities in the US.

I used Outscraper to pull a list of some of the top real estate agents in those cities.

Then I sent a very personalized message.

I’ll keep you posted!

Plus, buying more names will help me with content in the DomainNameLovers.com group.

PS - you can see most of my domains for sale here.

Amazon Influencer Program [Update]

I just made a few new videos (I got paid $50 by a brand to make them and I recorded a few extra).

Note: I’ve made the decision to give all of my community (you!) my best tips I’ve learned at no cost. Enjoy!

I haven’t made any videos in months.

I’ve now crossed $4k in total earnings.

I have 127 131 videos.

(plus 75 videos from other creators..)

My total earnings equal $3,901.23 $4,247.55

After expenses, I’m making $85.35 $96.02 per hour.

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But the real O.G. is my buddy Jared Bauman, who has made more than $40,000 per year with Amazon Influencer in his part time (that’s a salary for some folks!) — he shares all his knowledge in his course.

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If you want to learn more about Amazon Influencer, an overview of the program is here, and my first update is here.

(If you want, you can check each weekly update. I’ve come a long way from $2.81 per hour!)

📰 Local Newsletter [Update]

I was referred to a tool called CitySpark that may help us streamline our event creation.

I’ve decided to move forward with them [$150 setup + $150/mo]

My team spends hours per week manually finding events to add to our calendar.

We pay $149 per year for the plugin.

I think my costs will even out, and I can see if this makes our workflow faster and with less friction.

I’ll keep you posted!

[These are ideas we share over in the Local Media Crew if you ever want to join us!]

More Projects

Other projects I’ll update over time (or provide future updates) include…

Also, if you like my newsletter, here are some others you may want to check out…

Want to link up for a consulting call? If so, I’d love to book some time with you — you can do that here.

Until next time!

Don’t just think outside the box — keep destroying that box 😉