Normalize paying people you have train in your private, paid communities.
Normalize paying experts for their expertise vs. offering exposure or the opportunity to make sales as payment for training in your private, paid communities.
Since day one, I’ve paid every expert, and there have been dozens of them, to train me and my communities.
It’s what established business owners do with other established business owners, they pay for expertise.
Most writers and creators fail to land high-paying clients for one simple reason: They pitch their skills instead of solving business problems.
If you want editors of top platforms to actually reply (and pay you top dollar), your strategy needs to change.
I just put together a complete Live Pitching & Paid Test Master Guide. The exact blueprint used to turn cold outreach into paid contracts and pass writing tests with ease.
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• How to reframe your niche so clients see immediate value
• The exact structure for high-converting pitches
• A step by step breakdown to navigate paid writing tests
Whether you're writing for tech, SaaS, or top tier publications, stop guessing what editors want to read. Use a proven system, remove the fluff, and pitch with authority.
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If I show you a website you'll apply for content creation position and they offered you a $50 test project will you take it? The $50 is a payment for the time youll spend doing the test.
If they love your content, they'll pay you and still hire you. If they don't, they'll still pay you and wish you well.
Hope you won't abuse it by creating hundred of emails and continue applying later on.
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Ten of my articles published in large publications so far this year, and I was paid for every single one of them.
Published and paid has been a great business growth strategy.
You can use this strategy in your business.
Normalize paying people you have train in your private, paid communities.
Normalize paying experts for their expertise vs. offering exposure or the opportunity to make sales as payment for training in your private, paid communities.
Since day one, I’ve paid every expert, and there have been dozens of them, to train me and my communities.
It’s what established business owners do with other established business owners, they pay for expertise.
We’re hiring like crazy at @tenex_labs.
Launched 15 months ago and on track to end the year at Series C size.
Few key roles:
1) DevRel: If you work in DevRel and want to join a hypergrowth applied AI company transforming fortune 500s & incubating ai products, shoot me a DM.
2) Long form writer: you’d own our newsletter, longform site content, applied AI playbooks, research reports, etc. shoot me a DM if you think you’re a good fit.
Send me a DM I'll share you a lead and resource that might help you get an active project on your hands. No pitches, just pure value so you can actually start building.
I'm a guest contributor to top tier platforms and they're on a look out for guest contributors almost every week. Some pays $1 and others $0.5 per word.
Check my timeline
So let me get this straight....
1. Agents are about to outnumber humans on the internet, so most of the traffic, transactions, and conversations online will soon be machines talking to other machines while we sleep.
2. Superintelligence exists now, and for $20/mo you pretty much get it all.
3. Cloud agents allow you to run a business 24/7 and from literally a phone while you're waiting to order a latte.
4. Voice AI is wide open. This industry has barely changed since the 90s. Infinite opportunities. Voice AI is finally getting good enough.
5. Mobile apps are interesting again for the first time in 10 years, because an AI-first app that thinks and acts on its own is a different species than the passive ones in the store today. There are kids doing $100k/MRR.
6. It's the golden age of open source. The models you download off Hugging Face for free and own forever are landing within months of the ones behind paywalls, so the smartest thing on earth can't be throttled, priced up, or shut off by a company having a bad quarter.
7. The keyboard is on its way out. We spent 40 years learning to type fast, and it's about to feel like handwriting, because soon you just talk and the computer goes and does it.
8. Every company is about to hire agents with their own logins, their own inboxes, their own track records, and a shadow economy is forming where agents pay, hire, and vouch for other agents.
9. Software stopped being something you buy and became something you rent by the hour. The whole industry is repricing from $50 a seat to thousands per outcome. Tons of opportunity.
10. Robots are about to have the moment software agents just had. The intelligence got solved. Now it's dropping into machines with arms and legs, and the people who can wire AI into hardware are about to be the most fought-over hires on earth.
11. The 10-person startup can now out-ship the 500-person company, and everyone can feel it happening.
12. Every white-collar task is getting a "do it for me" button, and most people haven't pressed it yet.
13. Data you've been sitting on for years is suddenly worth something, because now an agent can actually use it.
14. Language stopped being a barrier. Real-time translation that actually works means the next huge consumer app might get built for a market you can't even read, by someone you'll never meet.
15. Every SOP is turning into a product. The way a business does one thing, written down as a markdown file an agent can run, is now something you can sell. Knowledge that used to live in someone's head became downloadable.
16. The moat moved from what you know to how well your business is written down. The company an agent can actually run wins, so being legible beats being big.
17. Since agents will get scammed by other agents, a whole trust layer has to get built. The Yelp for agents. The escrow for machines. Wide open.
18. You keep the whole thing now. A business that needed 50 people to hit $10M needs 3 and some agents, so instead of splitting it 200 ways with investors, it's just yours.
19. Search engines minted a generation of millionaires and billionaires. LLM search is about to do it all over again. Billions of eyeballs are moving off Google and onto ChatGPT, so being the answer inside the models is the new front page.
20. The margins are stupid. You charge someone what they'd pay a human, and it costs you a few bucks in tokens. That gap used to go to payroll. Now it goes to you.
Any one of these would DEFINE a decade on its own.
We got ALL of them at once, stacked on top of each other in the same 18 months.
It's a magical time to be building.
You don't need to overthink it.
Build.
Knowing the strategy is 20%. Execution is 80%.
Like, Retweet And Comment Word "PITCH" and I'll send you a resources containing list of vetted test paying platforms and how to apply to each of them.
If you send cold pitches or client proposals, stopping to read this will save you months of rejection. Editors and high paying clients don't buy generic topics. They buy story angles.
I just dropped the full recording of our live session showing how to reverse engineer this with AI.
Here’s the replay + how to join our private cohort👇