This AI generated influencer is making $120k per year... 💯

GM Friends 👋

Final week away from Twitter. Excited to be back next week.

In this episode I’ll cover:

🪂 Care-Package: Automate your content, AI generated influencers & Atomic Habits

🧗‍♂️ Building in Public: The Newsletter

🪂 Care-Package:

A weekly package of actionable strategies to help you Grow Faster through content, business & health.

🧲 Attract an audience:

🤖 Automate your content creation with Grok AI

This week NFT GOD (Alex Finn) dropped an absolute banger.

Grok — the ‘ChatGPT’ by Elon Musk / X)

Is now able to read the way that you write tweets,

Take a current event,

And produce content options for you that are in YOUR voice as a creator.

This is WAY stronger than a previous article I shared where it just coached you on how to make content.

The difference between Grok and other tools like ChatGPT is that it is natively integrated into Twitter (𝕏), making it MUCH more usable than other AI platforms for content creation.

If you’ve always wanted to get into content creation but are struggling to be consistent, this could be the magic pill that you’ve always needed:

🍄 Become Better:

📸  This AI influencer is making $120,000+ per year. Here’s how you can take advantage of opportunities like this:

Yes, this is a big click-baity title…

(It also hooked me when I saw it for the first time earlier this week)

But I’ve been thinking A LOT about this usecase.

And the more I meditate on it, the more I realise that there are two different ways to look at this story.

❌ The wrong way:

“Damn, they got so lucky. I wish I thought of that.”

✅ The right way:

“Hold on… This was made by a modelling agency. All they did was take something they already knew, removed the pain in their business and added AI. Now they’re generating heaps of revenue so much more easily.”

See…

If you or me went to start this exact same business, with the exact same idea, and the exact same images,

We would probably fail.

(Or at least have a much harder time generating revenue)

The modelling agency that runs it already has:

✅ Years of experience negotiating brand deals
✅ A network of brands that need models / influencers
✅ A deep understanding of what brands want in their campaigns

This knowledge PLUS adding AI is what takes a good idea and turns it into an unfair advantage.

“Yes Alex, that’s great, but I don’t have years of experience running a modelling agency…”

Don’t worry, you don’t need it.

But you DO have experience in other areas…

You just might not realise it yet.

🫵 Here’s how YOU take advantage of opportunities like this. 

A few weeks ago, I was working at a friends office, and as I arrived one morning, he told me a story that I couldn’t believe (and it captured this perfectly).

Someone had gotten in a minor car accident out the front of the office,

They came in to ask for the outdoor security camera footage.

When my friend and the person were talking, naturally the question came up:

“What do you do?”

The guy (a 24 year old, younger than me),

Told him something that, to this day, has been a massive inspiration for how I think about AI:

“Well, I used to work at a Law firm, doing very administrative work.” — he said

“I noticed I was doing a lot of the same work over and over again,

So I started to see how I could automate it with AI.

I used ChatGPT to assess a large amounts of written data and cut out 90% of the work.

I solved this problem for myself and was getting my work done almost immediately, but when I showed my boss but they weren’t interested.

They wanted me to do it the traditional way.

So I left the company to see if I could license the tech to other Law firms.

I now have several Law firms signed up (including the one I used to work for) and they pay me a monthly licensing fee for the tech.”

That use-case took him from earning below six-figures per year to over $200,000.

💭 The lesson in this story:

You feel pain in your work every single day and you have more expertise than you realise.

You just might not be taking a moment to notice it.

If you force yourself to find ways to solve your own problems with AI, you will find methods that no one else has noticed yet.

This combination of problem solving, expertise & taking the time to tinker with something that doesn’t work immediately,

Can be the direct pathway to unlocking a business that gives you the freedom to do what you want as an entrepreneur.

🌿 Feel f*cking fantastic:

🤫 I have a confession…

Up until last week…

I hadn’t read Atomic Habits.

As someone who has always considered myself to be hard working and disciplined,

Whenever I’ve heard the book mentioned, I’ve had this thought in the back of my mind…

“I don’t need that book, I’ve got this covered.”

Well my friends, I was wrong. That book is f*cking awesome.

Over the coming months, I’ll occasionally share some of the deeper details of the book and how I’m applying them.

But if you have no time, and you want the top-3 methods from the book that are working well for me, let’s jump right in:

1️⃣ Stop thinking about the action you want to perform, and think about the type of person you want to be.

This may sound stupid at first, but hear me out.

This part is particularly useful for motivation or when you have a split decision moment between a good habit and a bad habit.

When you focus on an action (like going to the gym today), it feels like an isolated event…

And it doesn’t feel significant in the broad spectrum of your longterm goal.

“What difference does it make if I don’t go to the gym today, or eat this cookie?”

These small moments are what set you back from the longterm goals that you want to achieve.

The way to break this cycle is simply, when you feel that tension between the good habit and bad habit, ask yourself:

“What would a fit person do?”

Even better if you can name a specific person (friend, cultural figure, etc)

I’ve applied this to waking up early, which has been the one habit that I’ve always found challenging to be consistent with over long time horizons.

Every day that I’ve felt like hitting the snooze, I ask myself:

“What would (insert entrepreneur that I look up to) do right now?”

I’m now waking up 1.5 hours earlier than I was last week, and I’ve stuck with it every single day.

2️⃣ Attach a habit that you want to form, to a habit that you never miss.

This one is super simple.

You want to take more supplements but always forget?

Put the supplement container next to your toothbrush and have them immediately after you brush your teeth.

I’ve been adding reading time to while I cook which is how I finished this book in less than a week.

Ironically, it’s made me cook more too because I now look forward to reading which has been awesome.

3️⃣ Set the bar low.

Having goals that are too high and out of reach makes us anxious.

When we’re anxious, we procrastinate.

When we procrastinate, our habits die.

Make your goal, “The goal of showing up”

(regardless of how well you do at the activity)

For me, a goal that I started this week was to read for 8 minutes every day.

“8 minutes? Pfft, that’s easy.” — I thought to myself.

The result, I’ve read on average for 1.5 hours each day.

If I set the bar at 1.5 hours, I would have never found the time or gotten started.

Set the bar low, show up and let the momentum take care of itself.

🧗 Started from the bottom now we’re here…

^{If you’re new here, one of the core principles of the content I share is that a newsletter is the most linear and simple business you can start in Web3. It has high sponsorship revenue and can go from being a side hustle to a full-time business in under a year. I am building this newsletter in public, to share the progress each week so that you can be a part of the journey. Now let’s get into it 👇}

Last week of Monk Mode, going back into Growth Mode next week. Let’s get it 💪

This Week:
Subscribers: 3,554 (-2 Subscribers)
Open Rate: 40.2%

Tracking my goals:

🚂 Improve the graphic design of this newsletter: Paused until 4,000 subs.

🚂 3,554 / 4,000 Subscribers: Excited to get back to my growth goals next week.

✅ Update the welcome email for new subscribers: (Complete)

Have an awesome weekend ☀️

— Alex

Thanks for reading this week’s episode of Grow Faster ❤️

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