How to Monetize the Internet

Plenty of knuckleheads have figured it out. You are smarter than a knucklehead.

I've been doing this for over a dozen years. I'll teach you everything you need to know

Cost to you: $0

Tom Woods here.

My very first annual salary was $37,800.

I was a college professor, straight out of graduate school. I didn't yet have a family to support, so in those days that sum was perfectly adequate.

But I knew in the long run I would need a larger income. So I did the only thing I knew to do.

I did more.

If I taught extra courses, I earned more. If I taught over the summer, I earned more. If after a long day I stayed and taught a three-hour class at night, I earned more.

And believe me, I did all of those things.

In other words:

If I absolutely killed myself,

I made a bit more money.

But I never came anywhere near the kind of numbers that take financial anxiety and insecurity away forever. That seemed completely out of my reach.

That's me in the old days, by the way. I was much more exhausted than I looked, trust me.

I had a colleague who did all the extra things I did, and on top of all that taught three more courses as an adjunct professor at two additional universities.

Why do you work so much? I once asked him.

I'll never forget his answer.

"I have a sick wife."

What he did for her is so admirable that 23 years after he spoke those words to me I can vividly recall that moment.

And yet:

The poor guy worked so much that he was scarcely able to see the very wife he was working so hard to care for.

What if there was another way, a way he could have pursued the field he loved without exhausting himself, and in a way that afforded him much more time to spend with his wife?

Meanwhile, I started having kids:

At that point I knew that if I was going to be a decent father and a reliable provider I couldn't let my strategy be just to work harder and harder.

That would mean I'd never be home, and no matter how much I pushed myself I'd never reach my goal anyway: the peace of mind that comes with not having to worry about money.

Eventually, I figured it out:

Most people have a self-imposed income ceiling they're not even aware of.

And it's this: They're trading time for money.

Take a physical therapist, for example. A physical therapist can earn more money by taking on more clients, just as I did by teaching ever more classes. But he can't do that forever, because there are only so many hours in a day.

Same with a plumber, or an accountant, or any number of other professions that involve trading time for money.

Not to mention, when you take on everything you possibly can, you risk burnout and exhaustion. 

Now you can make a perfectly comfortable living as, say, a physical therapist. That's true. But you won't reach that point where you never have another financial worry again.

By contrast, I work less than I have in ten years, and yet I'm generating dramatically more income than I did ten years ago, and I have no financial worries at all.

Why? Because I'm no longer trading time for money. My income sources do not depend on constant effort.

Meanwhile, complete knuckleheads have smackers coming in literally while they sleep.

You, dear reader, are smarter than a knucklehead, which is why it pains me to see so many of them doing so well. I want my readers to succeed like that.

And by the way, that stuff about money coming in while you sleep isn't hyperbole or some kind of metaphor. That is precisely what happens every single day if you know what you're doing.

And it has nothing to do with hosting a podcast, which is only a small sliver of what I do, and which in fact I would discourage most people from bothering with since the field is already so crowded.

Thirty years ago my friend Ken McCarthy was already figuring out how to monetize the Internet. And 30 years later, the typical K-12 school isn't teaching a single thing about it.

By all means learn what photosynthesis is. But if you want to learn what the OGs have known for 30 years about using new technology to make a living, come learn from me.

I'm going to teach you in a live session on January 14. It costs nothing to attend, and nothing will be left out.

Your older children, the ones who are (or who you hope will be) entrepreneurial, also need to see this. It will get them thinking in ways that can make all the difference for them.

You and I want our kids to succeed and thrive, particularly at a time when everyone says the current generation has no prospects.

Almost everyone you know has at least one child who's consumed with debt, unemployed or underemployed, or not living up to his potential. I sure don't want mine to wind up that way, which is why I'll be teaching them what I'm going to teach you.

Neither do I want them at the mercy of a fickle economy and whatever is in store for us during the next "pandemic."

Now trust me, I hear the objections.

• You're balancing too much as it is.
• You're tired.
• You don't see how you can fit one more thing in.
• You're unsure it will work. 
  

I get it. All of those make sense. And all of them will be exploded on January 14.

One of the least controversial statements on Earth is: since we don't know what the future holds, it's best to have additional sources of income.

Equally uncontroversial is: more money is better than less.

But where would you get started?

I'm going to walk you through every step, right on your screen.

We will start from nothing at all, and by the end we'll have a full-blown business right before our eyes.

You can take what you learn in the session and replicate it yourself.

Or you can take what you learn and apply it to any business at all.

Or you can take what you learn and dramatically multiply your sales in your existing business.

This is for absolute beginners, and it's also for people who'd like to multiply their existing success.

I've taught material like this a whole bunch of times, and every time people rave about it. This will not be a waste of your time. You will be very glad you attended.

Here's what to do next:

Enter your email address and click the button below. You will receive an email with a link to join the session on January 14.

Choose your option and I'll see you then!