how i made $1,204/day selling boring pdfs using claude

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0:00$36,130 in the last 30 days. That's about $1,24 bucks a day. You see, most people think the only way to be successful is to build something of their own. And that single belief is what kept them stuck for the last 2 years. You do not need to make your own product. You just need a product that's already selling and then you need a hungry customer who needs that product. I did not make a single one of these. I did not write them. I

0:21did not film them. I don't deliver them. And I don't handle any customer service after someone buys. Someone else already built the entire thing. I just simply connect it to the person who needs it and I get paid for the connection. There's a word for that. It's called arbitrage. Now, don't let that word scare you off. It just means you're standing in the middle of a sale and taking your cut of the pie. You're the bridge. That's the whole job. Okay? Why would anyone pay me to sell their product? Because a digital product costs nothing in order to produce. There's no factory. There's no shipping. There's no

0:50warehouse. The 100th copy of a sale costs exactly what the second cost, nothing. So, the person who built that digital product can hand you 50% commissions, half of the value of the sale, and still come out profitable. And I mean that quite literally. This is the range. Big products ranging from 3,000 bucks all the way to $12,000 usually pay

1:08anywhere from 20 to 40% commission. Mid-range products from 500 bucks to a,000 bucks pay anywhere from 50 to 70% commissions. In smaller digital products, anywhere from $50 to $500 pay 70 up to even 95% commissions on their products. A normal affiliate program will pay you 3 to 10% for doing the same exact work. And the rest of this video is the actual build. So, if you're here to watch something interesting and then close the tab, the next 7 minutes are going to feel like work. And that's fine. No hard feelings. If you're actually going to do this, here's the whole thing. Step one, you need a

1:39product that is already selling. These live on marketplaces. Think of a marketplace as a shelf. People who've built digital products put them on the shelf and they publish what they'll pay you for bringing them a buyer. That payment is called a commission. It's a percentage of the sale that lands in your pocket. It's usually printed right on the product right there. And I'm not sending you anywhere in the description for signing up for anything. Open up any public marketplace. They all work the same and you'll be looking at thousands of these products for free. Step two,

2:04and this is where beginners blow it. They pick whatever pays the highest percentage. Wrong filter. Here's mine. I asked these two questions. One, does this solve a problem that people are already paying money to solve, not a problem people already have, a problem that they're already opening the wallet for? Completely different things. and two, would I be comfortable if someone I actually like bought this? If the answer

2:24to the second one is no, walk away. There's always another product. But you only have one reputation and you cannot buy it back. A free research trick while you're in here, read the reviews on the products that are already selling. Buyers will tell you exactly what they loved and exactly what was missing, and that's your marketing written for you by the people that you're about to sell to before you spent a single minute on anything. In step three, and this is the shortest step in the whole video, which throws people off. You do not need to build your own website. You see, when you pick a product off the shelf, you

2:51get a link. And that unique link goes to the sales page the creator, the business owner already built for you. Meaning the words, the pricing, the checkout, all the handling of the payment processing, all of that is done for you. They built it properly because obviously it's their business and it's their money on the line. You just simply put that link where people can find it and done. That means there's no hosting costs. There's no checkout to set up. There's no bank integration. That's genuinely the entire step. So, right now, 4 minutes in, you already have something to sell and somewhere to send people to. What's

3:20missing is the people. Your content does not close anybody. Conversations close. Here's how it actually breaks down. There's three routes. Route one, your video points at the link. They click, they buy. That's roughly one sale in 10. Route two, your video gets them to message you. You have a conversation, they buy. That's about an 8 in 10. This is the business. And three, same as two, but it ends on a short call. the last one in 10. Sit with that for a sec because it reframes everything. Eight out of 10 sales happen in a conversation. Which means that your job of the content was never to sell

3:50anything. The job of your content is simply to start conversations. That's it. That's the whole assignment. I'm going to give you the exact conversation word for word, including the part where most people lose the sale. But first, you need something that starts one. So, step five, now we open Claude. I take the product page, the whole thing. I paste it in and I ask this. Here's a product page. Tell me who actually buys this, what they're afraid of, what they've already tried that didn't work, and the three objections they'd have

4:14before buying. Look at what comes back. That's the buyer. Describe it better than most people describe their own customers after a year in business. This is the step everyone [music] skips, and it's the one that makes everything after it work so well. You cannot start a conversation with somebody that you can't describe. Step six, turn that into content. I find a video already working on this topic. I screenshot it. I drop it in, not to copy it, to have Claude tell me why it worked, the hook, the pacing, the order it puts things in. And then using that buyer profile in that structure, write me a 15-second script

4:46that opens on the fear that they already have, and it ends by getting them to message me. There's one that took about 9 seconds. Now, I know exactly what you're thinking. One video is fine, but you're telling me to post every day. That's a full-time job. Watch this. Same conversation, one line. Give me 20 more. Each one opening on a different objection from that list. There they are. 20 scripts, one prompt. That's three weeks of content from one conversation in under a minute. And this is what people actually mean when they

5:12say AI completely changes business. Didn't change what works. Short videos that start conversations were before and they work now. Well, change is the part that used to eat your whole week and now it takes less than 90 seconds. AI is doing 70 to 80% of the heavy [music] lifting. Nobody's automating the judgment, just the labor and the heavy lifting. In step eight, you've now got content. You need people to see it, but now you have no followers. So, let me just show you what that actually looks

5:34like. Look at the views on this one. Now, look at the follower count on the account that just posted it. These platforms don't show your video to your followers first. They show it to people who might like it and then worry about who follows you. So, a new account isn't the disadvantage you think it is. Followers are not the game. Views are the game. 1,000 views, maybe 1,000 people who might message you, whether five people follow you or 5,000. So, post short 7 to 15 second videos. You don't have to be on the camera for any of that either. Text over a clip works just fine. Plenty of people run this

6:00entire thing without ever showing their face if they don't want to. Okay, I promise you the conversation. So, here it is. And this is the part that's actually worth money. First, speed. When someone comments or messages, the clock starts. 15 minutes or less, you reply. Not tomorrow morning. That one habit moves more revenue than any script I could hand you because [music] interest has a halfife and it's short, which is also why you post in the morning your time. Post at midnight and you would go to sleep on your own leads. Second, the opening message. Two pieces in this order matters. Piece one, name exactly what they did. Hey, appreciate you

6:33commenting on that video. Piece two, ask why they did it. Here's what made you comment on that one. That's it. That's the whole mechanism. Naming what they did reminds them that they came to you. Asking why puts them in a position of explaining their own problem out loud in their own words. Now, you're not chasing anybody anymore. They're telling you what you need. And third, [music] and I see this one constantly, do not send the link yet. You know that feeling when someone asks a question and you send a link and then nothing happens? Message

7:00scene silence. That's not bad luck. That's asking for more money before you've earned 30 seconds of trust. So fourth, you send value first. And here's the update because this recently changed. For years, the move was a free PDF. Top five tips, top 10, whatever. That's completely saturated now. Everyone has one. They all look identical and they almost convert nobody. So what's working right now is a video, a short, unlisted, genuinely useful. You just show your screen answering the specific thing that they asked. 2 minutes, no editing. And no, you don't have to write it either. The same conversation again. It gives you the outline. You hit record. You send it

7:33because a picture tells a thousand words, but a video is a million pictures. They hear you. They watch you think. That's the trust that you cannot fake in a PDF and almost nobody's bothering to do it. And then you send the link. And by then, it isn't a link. It's the answer to a question that they

7:48already asked you and came to you for. That's you being a person in the direct messages. So, look at what just happened. Claude found you the buyer. Cloud wrote the first script. Cloud wrote the next 20. Cloud wrote the value video. The creators page took the payments. The only part of that which was actually me was the conversation. And if you want the full version, the product selection, the constant system, and the DM scripts word for word from start to finish. I put together a free master class that walks you through the whole thing properly. I'll leave it as a first link in the description. It's

8:15going to appear on the screen in a couple seconds as well. And if you take one thing out of this video, take this. You do not need to make your own product. You need a product that is already working and a person who needs it. That's it. That's all you need and that's how I do it. So tap right here for the master class and I look forward to seeing you on the other

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