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A free email course

You don’t need a better idea. You need to finish one.

One five-step loop for earning money online, taught one step at a time in short, plain notes. Small tasks. Nothing you have to buy.

Free. About two short emails a day for 17 days. Each has one link to a page that changes daily, which may be an affiliate link that pays 512 Promotions LLC. One-click unsubscribe in every email. The full details.

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What you’ll learn

Five steps. In this order.

Short enough to stick on a wall. Each step gets its own email and one small thing to do that day. Everything else either teaches a step, or stops you quitting halfway through one.

  1. Pick one kind of person.

    Not “everyone who wants more money”. Everyone is nobody. Choose people you already know something about, even if it’s only that you used to be one of them.

    Today: write one sentence. “My person is ___.”

  2. Find out what’s bothering them.

    You don’t have to guess. They’ve already told the internet, in their own words. Copy those words down. Don’t tidy them.

    Today: one page of their words. Nothing else.

  3. Make one small useful thing.

    One question answered properly. A five-minute checklist. It’s finished when a stranger could read it and do something they couldn’t before.

    Rule: if it takes more than an evening, cut it in half.

  4. Go where they already are.

    Don’t build a place and hope. Nobody wanders in. Turn up where your people talk, follow the rules, and be useful in public.

    Today: find three questions you could answer.

  5. Write down what happened.

    Three columns: what I did, what happened, what I’ll change. Then change one thing, and go round again.

    Remember: “nothing happened” is still a result.

  6. And one habit

    Five questions for any page.

    1. Who is this written for?
    2. What problem does it say it fixes?
    3. What does it want me to do next?
    4. What will that cost me, and when does it tell me?
    5. What would I have to believe, and do I?

Along the way, plain answers to the words nobody stops to explain. About a minute each.

Where the money comes from Affiliate link Traffic Conversion Countdown timers Testing one thing at a time Why the first weeks look empty

Why join

Who this is for. And who it isn’t.

It’s for you if

  • You’ve tried eight things for two weeks each, and not one of them for a year.
  • You’ve got no money, following or website to start with. None of the five steps costs anything.
  • You’d like things explained in plain words before anyone teaches you tricks.
  • You can find a notebook and a few evenings a week.

It isn’t for you if

  • You want an income figure. You won’t get one here.
  • You want a shortcut past the bad first version. There isn’t one.
  • You want someone to tell you what to buy.
  • You want advice on health, money or the law. Bad advice there can really hurt people.

The deal

Three things you can hold me to.

  1. I will never give you an income figure.If you see one with my name on it, it isn’t mine.
  2. I will never tell you a clock is running.Nothing closes tonight. A decision that’s still good tomorrow doesn’t need a clock. If I ever use one, leave.
  3. I will never tell you the page behind the link is good.I’ll only show you how to take it apart and see for yourself.

That’s the deal. If I break it, you’ll be able to tell.

NG NICHOLAS GILMAN

About

Hello. I’m Nicholas.

I write short notes for people who have started too many things and finished too few of them.

I care about how things actually work. Where the money comes from. What an affiliate link is. What a page wants from you, and when it gets round to telling you the cost. I explain those in plain words, then give you one small thing to do today.

I count finished things, not hours. A reply posted. A checklist written. A page in the notebook that wasn’t there this morning.

And I’d rather you didn’t take my word for anything. Do the smallest version of what I suggest and see what happens. Keep what helps. Drop what doesn’t.

— Nicholas


What to expect

Exactly what you’re signing up for.

34 emails, about 17 days.Roughly two a day.
Sequence A · 6 emails over 3 daysSequence B · 28 emails over 14 days

A first, then B.

Sequence A is six emails that cover the basics. Sequence B teaches the loop, one step at a time. B is only sent if you opened or clicked something in A. If you didn’t, the emails stop after A.

Short.

Most take a minute or two to read. Some are only a few lines. A few ask you a question, and you can reply if you like.

One link in every email.

It goes to one page, whatever I’m pulling apart that day, and the page changes daily. It may be an affiliate link: if you buy something there, 512 Promotions LLC may be paid. You never need to buy anything. Looking is the whole exercise.

One-click unsubscribe.

There’s an unsubscribe link at the bottom of every email. One click and you’re out.

Free.

The course costs nothing, and none of the five steps needs money to do.


A sample

Here’s how the first one starts.

From Nicholas Gilman

Subject this is why nothing has worked yet

Most people who try to make money online quit everything at the two-week mark. Including, probably, you.

Here’s what actually happens. You pick something. You try it a week or two. It doesn’t work yet. So you go and find something else.

After a year you’ve tried eight things for two weeks each. Not one of them for a year.

So pick one thing. Give it ninety days. Write the date down.

When you want to quit on day twenty, and you will, you’re allowed to quit on day ninety. Not before.

— Nicholas

Shortened. The real email also carries the day’s link and an unsubscribe link.


Start

Pick one thing. Give it ninety days.

Write the date down. Then let me send you the first note.