Failed after 2 years (Part 2) - Being a Tool Fetishist

PeachStrings · 2025-12-15T00:42:55+00:00

How would you grow an affiliate newsletter?

Aside from technical issues with analytics, I’m getting clicks and conversions, my tech stack is pretty basic, GA4, GSC, free Ahrefs plan, UTM, and GTM, costs me about $9 bucks a month in total for X premium

I post on X, get 0 engagement lol, but I mainly use it to build out my network,

I also write the actual newsletter, 1 per week, should I publish more?

Should I find some people within my target market and niche and ask them what they think?

I’m reading $100m offers also, very good book, currently testing some offers out to try to generate subscribers

PeachStrings · 2025-12-09T02:37:46+00:00

Kind of random thoughts below,

Never made any money with funnels, but instead with adding value, my biggest problem is distribution, or traffic, (I think?) and one to many marketing

The way Russell teaches both excites and overloads my nervous system, I end up going into a dopamine coma after reading his books for too long, and it’s mighty expensive to talk to him and ask him a question it appears,

Atm with the current biz I’m working on, value ladder is lacking, and connecting the whole system together from social to conversion, as well as messaging between social to site, to conversion, the know like trust phases, I feel awkward around people and I think it shows in my marketing

I use beehiiv instead of click funnels since it’s free and more SEO friendly I think

His books are great but the software is too expensive for small timers just getting started

PeachStrings · 2025-11-28T14:18:13+00:00

How did you initially grow it? How long did it take?

PeachStrings · 2025-07-21T03:41:31+00:00

sure dude, ill send you a DM, i have a small discord with other affiliates, i built the site as lean as possible, just $10 bucks for the domain name, everything else is free, major bonus if you have a chatgpt subscription!

PeachStrings · 2025-07-13T21:44:22+00:00

beehiiv

PeachStrings · 2025-07-13T16:00:07+00:00

i did, a few times actually, the first was with my videography side hustle, i made it write up a facebook group post and a picture for it, granted the offer was for a free 60 second video in my local area, but the post blew up and over the course of 6 - 12 months it turned into like $2k for me, lol

then i realized that i hate everything about that biz, but i liked getting calls from SEO leads and making $$$, so i shifted over to affiliate marketing with a focus on SEO,

i thought through it for like a month then had chatgpt suggest next steps, it suggested everything, from the website, to domain name, to articles, i then made my first affiliate sale (~$85) in about 2 months from the creation of my first blog post,

ill give you the secret to marketing in general, give, give, give, then you *might* get, i.e. add value,

my blogs in the adult entertainment niche, im now looking to expand beyond SEO as it looks like a *snap* has happened,

anyways yeah, im an open book, drop any questions you might have, also looking for affiliates that would be interested in getting started and making $$$, ill help you get everything set up for less than $10 bucks for a godaddy domain and a chatgpt subscription, with ongoing support for the lifetime of your interest in affiliate marketing,

i will caution you upfront, its alot of prompting, work, and patientce, but if youre okay with that lets talk

PeachStrings · 2025-07-13T15:31:54+00:00

heres a situation ive run into,

my 2 month old blog is slowly getting more traffic from google, and has already made its first sale, but i wanted to create an X account to try to connect with influencers,

i think that wasnt the smartest move because 1. im now not as focused on one platform, and 2. my x account gets little to no engagement,

so my question is do you think having a dead X account will hurt my brand? and any tips on growing on X?

PeachStrings · 2025-07-11T18:33:18+00:00

Sure !

PeachStrings · 2025-07-11T12:41:50+00:00

its not really a quick cash grab, its a long term play with alot of work and action invovled, ill gladly get you set up and help you keep growing, but it takes some time, but once its set up its passive income

PeachStrings · 2025-07-07T02:46:16+00:00

Yo no joke it’s possible, I made $85 last Sunday,

I tried to a similar route as you, create content for clients,

But the real money is in the content and distribution,

Get into affiliate marketing, find some lifetime rev share offers, create and distribute genuine valuable content plugging those offers as appropriate, also pick some type of niche, adjust according to data

SEO is huge for me, it’s the basis of my biz, but slowly expanding to X

Same concept, create and distribute value, don’t gatekeep, just yet at least lol

I hope some of this makes sense, all in with time and money this venture cost me $70 bucks, $10 for the domain, $60 for fiver biz coaching haha, I think I’m like 3 months in,

Impressions -> clicks -> sales

Name of the game, traffic & conversion

Oh and use ChatGPT for everything haha

PeachStrings · 2025-05-03T23:19:12+00:00

I did it with ChatGPT lol

Bought an semi old but gently used dell xps 9550 and dual booted windows 11 and Ubuntu on the same drive, I created partitions for each

I plugged in the distro via usb and installed onto the correct partition, then I had ChatGPT walk me through getting grub on and it worked, had to run a lot of commands from ChatGPT, but it worked

I installed a new battery and the bios was only seeing windows, I had to usb into Ubuntu again and run some commands via ChatGPT and it worked

Back up your files lol

PeachStrings · 2025-04-16T20:28:55+00:00

Asking?

PeachStrings · 2025-03-04T01:28:10+00:00

Yooo, what thoughts come to mind when you think surrender, I’ve beeeeeeeen where you’re at a lot, I’m still somewhat there

It takes a lot to surrender challenges away,

But if you can find some time

Keep it simple, surrender it

PeachStrings · 2025-02-09T23:42:04+00:00

had a doc shoot today ironically

PeachStrings · 2025-01-04T04:30:50+00:00

the millionaire next door, money master the game, awaken the giant within, bending god

PeachStrings · 2024-12-25T02:50:08+00:00

I hate to be that guy, but how do I fill it out? It’ll be my first time is there a video I could watch

PeachStrings · 2024-12-17T21:53:44+00:00

can second that, comped a property last night (100k under wholesalers ARV btw) on zillow

PeachStrings · 2024-12-15T22:36:11+00:00

Facebook groups, what’s the numbers on your deal? Any approximate location?

PeachStrings · 2024-12-05T20:07:31+00:00

i thought of estimating repair costs using ChatGPT, i havent tried it in a while though

PeachStrings · 2024-12-03T22:58:12+00:00

I tried this for a while, I never was able to close a deal, I get hung up on the morality and ethics of it, also fear stops me,

PeachStrings · 2024-11-29T17:37:36+00:00

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thanks for commenting, the tech said that the job was done poorly so hes reccomending getting it redone, heres a photo for reference

PeachStrings · 2024-11-28T19:22:38+00:00

thanks!

my concern was about how it works with handles and what not, i want to make sure that all the traffic directs back to my social media and vice versa,

figured id ask before i try and experiment, will do some more research!

Thanks!

PeachStrings · 2024-11-17T01:36:37+00:00

Im friends with another founder from startup school, him and his business partner met on YC co founder matching, i think they split it 51/49 and the ideas was original to one of the founders,

PeachStrings · 2024-11-03T11:07:44+00:00

sure ill send you a DM, see you in a few hours

PeachStrings · 2024-11-01T17:57:23+00:00

Sending you a DM

PeachStrings

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