Built an Ai Replicant of myself and teaching him to make me $10k a day.
Bali, Indonesia
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Built An AI That Sells Itself: Full VirtualJK Demo
I was late to the AI party, spent six months on the sidelines working it out, talking to people, and plotting.
When I finally built, the first thing I did was create a tool.
The second thing I did with Developer Dan was create a platform.
The third thing is the fully fledged Replicant, which is what we have today.
He serves clients.
I give folks in The Society their own version so they can have a Replicant of themselves.
He's a fully fledged product with hundreds of users paying weekly, and now he even sells himself.
We are in a very, very high-leverage time.
Leverage works in both directions.
I point this out to clients all the time.
Most are addicted to feeling busy.
High leverage doesn't necessarily mean working less.
It means that the value of your work becomes increasingly disconnected from the hours you put in.
Do the right work and you can get 100x the result.
Do the wrong work and you can create 100x the problems.
Which means the more leverage you have the more deliberate you need to be about what you work on.
For most people, working harder is a terrible strategy.
Often folks come to me with high-leverage skills but low-leverage systems and they're so used to being busy that they fill the time with negative-leverage work.
They're just accelerating the wrong things.
The skill is knowing what deserves your effort and what deserves none at all.
I've gotten really good at only doing high-leverage work.
I'm still less good at not feeling guilty about how little work I actually have to do to move things forward.
Embracing the ease of our high-leverage times is a different skill entirely.
It never ceases to amaze me that for almost all of human history assumed that the people that worked the most were on the bottom of the totem pole
The ones who worked the least were the wealthiest.
But sometime in the last 100 years this all flipped
Maybe its because of capitalism, but we now wear how many hours we labor like a badge of honor
I myself and deeply guilty of this
Not sure how to fix this in my brain, but for the sake of my happiness...Id love to
Met my wife here. n=1.
Your results may vary.
It is a transient place, but there are plenty of 'serious' people if you know where to look.
bali is probably the worst place for finding a partner
went on three dates in the month i was there, two of whom told me after that they "didn't feel the spark" lol
it's a shame because there are obviously tons of very attractive, smart, and hardworking women who share the same nomad lifestyle as i do
but when your competition is hercules making six figures a month, you'll have a tough time standing out
bali is probably the best representation of whether you want to be a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a big pond
I built an AI coach of me. It's got 741 members.
3 steps for you + a bonus.
Everyone fails at step 1 and blames the tool.
They give it a prompt.
It needs an archive and judgement.
1. Give it everything
2. Package specific skills
3. Onboard clients with it
4. Bonus: tune the voice (or they will go back to ChatGPT)
This sounds like a good idea.
Huge market, right?
But this is the ideal young kid startup opportunity rather than a proper opportunity.
These businesses are extremely difficult to get a hold of, have unpredictable sales cycles, are technically challenged, don't understand or measure ROI and can be some of the most painful clients you can serve.
Stop Making Clients Wait: Productize Your Expertise
Read the manifesto: howtoproductizeyou.com/
Work with me: scalewithjames.com/
Build a Product-Led Coaching Business
Read the manifesto: howtoproductizeyou.com/
Work with me: scalewithjames.com/
Which platforms do you feel are underpriced and overpriced right now?
LinkedIn looks underpriced right now for buyers.
Facebook’s edge is existing trust.
X is cheap until you count the volume needed.
YouTube is overpriced when production is factored. Neutral if you’re publishing raw.
Instagram’s production and standing out tax feels too high. Everything feels like an ad there now.
Email continues to be email.
Coaching, Consulting, Agencies and Indie Hacking Are Dumb Business Models:
Your model isn't broken. Your sequence is.
Coaching, consulting, agencies and indie hacking are too volatile and expensive to scale if you sell them out of order.
My new amusement is taking photos and randomly shrinking one of my friends in them.
It's a fun game. You should try it.
@takimoore @danboltz
7 things I learned creating a $73MRR business in 61 days:
24 months ago I restarted my consulting business and hit a nice milestone in 61 days.
$100k Monthly Recurring Revenue.
(Singapore as that’s what I settle in daily and everyones LOVES a good Stripe screenshot around here)
$73k US
With my product sales and consulting hours I was well over a 6 figure a month project with The Syndicate community in just 61 days.
13 months later I'm over $200k a month recurring.
Recurring revenue is waaay better than one time so I like this milestone to pause and reflect.
It’s still just me and Alex as my only employee working on this project.
Very fun, very lean and I still feel like I’m just getting started.
Here’s 7 takeaways for you:
1/ Stick to the plan, change the sequence based on results: I laid out my exact plan here on Facebook before I executed it. You can find it on my timeline. I’ve followed it daily with small tweaks as I went along. Selling one time $100-$400 digital products as I make them has gone better than I anticipated, not just to create Customers and Clients but also goodwill. When someone can get hold of a great strategy for a few bucks the goodwill created far outweighs the cash. Goodwill is a powerful momentum driver. This was always part of the plan but I’ve doubled down on it. Not all parts of a plan create equal value. Doubling down on bits that work and skipping bits that don’t, makes the plan successful. A plan is successful in it’s execution, not it’s creation.
Which leads to..
2/ Sell everything: I run a workshop every second Thursday for The Syndicate. Teach a new strategy and help my people customise and execute. I’ve sold tickets to every one of those. Guests are getting a solid strategy they can take away and a bonus behind the scenes look at what happens inside the community. Very likely they become clients as they are already a customer. Clients are now doing this with the same result. Most coaches and consultants produce a ton on IP and value that gets seen by very few people. You would do well turning some or all of it into products of different flavours.
Which allows me to…
3/ Make offers everyday: The more offers I make the more sales I make. The more sales I make the more people I help. the more people I help the more people tell other people about me helping them. It always starts with making an offer. Most people make a couple a week max. I make at least a couple a day. The more offers I make the more offers my audience accepts I will make. It doesn’t take long to condition to expectation. Most people don’t make enough offers through fear of rejection or lack of creativity in making them. When you find 10 ways to offers the same product then you’re getting close to being able to make offers daily and not only get them accepted but actually be thanked for it.
Because I am…
4/ The ultimate avatar and eating my own dog food: I do what I teach and teach what I do. It’s clear I’m enjoying it. The prolific creation of my own stuff spills over into me helping clients modify it for themselves. That’s my job. Make something for myself, make it work for me and then help someone else take the core principles and apply it their own situation is the shortest route to results. The model is set then just needs to be replicated with the minimum number of variables away from what already works. Teaching people stuff you’re not doing or don’t have experience in doing is hope in the best circumstances and dodgy in the worst. Be, do, demonstrate and the consistency and congruency in your actions does all the selling you need without any marketing or mental gymnastics around the inconsistency in your message.
5/ Small promises are easy to keep: This line is in The Syndicate invitation: Guarantees and Promises: No guarantees. Big promises or refunds. More than a few people have commented on it. In a world of promise inflation the refreshing frame of ‘it will work if you do’ is more than welcome. I don’t do emergencies in my life or business. Panic and neediness is not a state to make decisions from. This frame attracts the right peeps and repells the wrong ones (for me)
6/ Document to create momentum: As above. Be, do, document. Most people serving online create extraordinary amounts of content, insights and breakthroughs yet share few of them. I have attempted to document in real time what’s happening via email. You can tell people until you’re blue in the face but showing will always beat telling. Point at the things that work and don’t work and you are richly rewarded with people who want to replicate or experience your journey.
7/ Create for one channel: I’m a writer. I write everyday. It’s natural for me to use email as my primary channel. If you want my best and latest you need to be on my email list. Creating for every channel and every medium exhausts most people. I’ve seen folks spend more time creating content calendars for 12 channels than actually creating content for them. I create for one, email, then use the other channels to support it. I get 20-30 new subscribers and day and 3-5 new customers by just pointing people towards my primary channel. Play to your strengths. Create for one channel and distribute across the others to get people back to where you communicate best.
Bonus 8: Deadlines, work: This is very relevant right now. I’m seeing lot’s of folks with ample leads and opportunities but in a a skeptical market people need to be given reasons to buy now. Deadlines and intake scarcity for clients are ethical scarcity (as long as they are real). Give people a reason to buy now or say no now.
I have plenty more insights since tripling these numbers.
I've written my most successful content on the shitter after a client call or a workshop that energised me.
i think the secret to building a following on social media.
be it X, linkedin, IG, tiktok, Youtube is being in tune
I see so many people build strategies, content pillars, frameworks and formulas.
to get lapped by a dude that:
- writes a tweet on the shitter
- ig dude that one shots a 3 min talking video with old apple headphones
- youtuber recording on cam corder and editing in imove on their phone
min maxing >