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  1. Wolf Blood

    Fastlane case study: YouTube channel

    MARKETING 
    First, to clarify what this thread is really about: it's not a one-off question. I'm using it as a running log of the process of monetizing and Fastlane-ing a fringe-topic podcast channel on YouTube without stripping out its personality or essence. That balance — going commercial without sanding...
  2. Wolf Blood

    Fastlane case study: YouTube channel

    MARKETING 
    Project context: I launched my Spanish-language YouTube channel in September 2025, so it's only about 10 months old. The channel is simultaneously trust infrastructure for a broader ecosystem and a multi-stream monetization vehicle. It serves several functions at once: personal cognitive...
  3. Wolf Blood

    Picking ONE thing (web design) and going door-to-door to get clients — does this make sense?

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    Update on the €1,500 client (the meditation teacher), because it's a perfect real-world test of the "iterate, don't be rigid" thing — and I want your read, not my own hungry brain's. Quick synthesis of what this thread gave me so far: markspray — flyers open doors, conversations close them...
  4. Wolf Blood

    Picking ONE thing (web design) and going door-to-door to get clients — does this make sense?

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    To your actual question: yeah, plenty. I handed out hundreds of CVs at hospitality venues over two weeks, with about a 5% conversion into interviews and real offers. The rest is what you'd expect: exactly what you describe, just more politely. Of the interviews that did happen, some ended in...
  5. Wolf Blood

    Picking ONE thing (web design) and going door-to-door to get clients — does this make sense?

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    This is the layer above what I'd been thinking, and it reframes the whole thing — thanks. I was treating the recurring piece as hosting/maintenance (keep the site alive for €X/mo). You're pointing at the real prize: the business doesn't ultimately want a website, it wants leads. Web as the...
  6. Wolf Blood

    Picking ONE thing (web design) and going door-to-door to get clients — does this make sense?

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    Follow-up: how I built an actual pricing standard (and why it's still a work in progress) When I opened this thread, my "pricing" was pure vibes. Someone asked my rate and I blurted "€1,000" with zero idea what the market actually paid. A few clients in, I'd charged €300, then €500, and was...
  7. Wolf Blood

    Picking ONE thing (web design) and going door-to-door to get clients — does this make sense?

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    Some of this really lands, and one part I want to push back on — respectfully. What lands: "dropping flyers = spam" is fair, they're a door-opener at best, not the close. And the cafe angle is the best tip in this thread for me personally — I run a podcast in a specific niche and half my leads...
  8. Wolf Blood

    Picking ONE thing (web design) and going door-to-door to get clients — does this make sense?

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    This is the reframe I needed, thanks. You're right that I was quietly treating the flyer as the closer, when it's really just the door-opener — the deal closes in a conversation with a human, and dropping paper is the long game. Point taken: leave-behinds for the ones who aren't in solution mode...
  9. Wolf Blood

    Picking ONE thing (web design) and going door-to-door to get clients — does this make sense?

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    This clicks, thank you MJ. The "free website!" hook vs "do you need a website?" is obvious once you say it out loud — nobody wakes up wanting to pay for a site, but "free" kills the entry barrier instantly. And retaining the license flips a one-off sale into recurring revenue with an actual...
  10. Wolf Blood

    Picking ONE thing (web design) and going door-to-door to get clients — does this make sense?

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    Bonus round: the evolution of my "pricing strategy" across three clients. Same work every time (~2 hours). The only thing that changed was how much nerve I'd grown. Client 1: — "How much for the site?" — "Somewhere between €500 and €1,000 is reasonable for this." (said with zero clue what the...
  11. Wolf Blood

    Picking ONE thing (web design) and going door-to-door to get clients — does this make sense?

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    1. Quick recap A couple of weeks ago I opened this thread asking whether handing out flyers door to door to sell websites made any sense. I'd just walked out of a waiter job at a pizzeria after three days —€8 net an hour and a miserable environment—, almost no savings, but with one clear...
  12. Wolf Blood

    Picking ONE thing (web design) and going door-to-door to get clients — does this make sense?

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    I've spent a long time turning over a bunch of business ideas, and in previous threads I got told the obvious thing, and rightly so: I'm scattered. So I've taken MJ's advice literally —pick one thing you can do well and focus— and the chosen thing is web design with vibe coding In the...
  13. Wolf Blood

    Built a full AI-powered dev service in 24h — now the real question: how do I turn it into a Fastlane asset instead of another dressed-up job?

    - AI - 
    @MJ DeMarco @Dark Water — thank you both, this is exactly the kind of input I was after. Honest update on where I'm at: since the thing I actually cracked was vibe coding for websites, that's where I'm putting my focus right now. I discovered the vein by building my own site that way —...
  14. Wolf Blood

    Built a full AI-powered dev service in 24h — now the real question: how do I turn it into a Fastlane asset instead of another dressed-up job?

    - AI - 
    Straight to it, since action beats talk around here. Quick context on me: I recently built a complete brand website — copy, structure, payment processing, booking system, the whole thing live and working — in under 24 hours, using frontier AI as the production engine. That cracked something...
  15. Wolf Blood

    If a mafia boss was right that 'any man can make $1M in a month using his brain' — what would YOU do to make $10K?

    MINDSET 
    I used only Claude in thinking mode, with vibe coding, just intuitively. I'd never designed a website before in my life—turns out I'm good at it. I won't post my own site here, since I share a lot of personal stuff in these threads and prefer to keep some privacy around it. But the short...
  16. Wolf Blood

    If a mafia boss was right that 'any man can make $1M in a month using his brain' — what would YOU do to make $10K?

    MINDSET 
    On your last point about Elon, it reminds me of another way to look at it: We believe time is infinite and we live as if it were. But that's how we waste so much of it. If someone told you today that in one month you'll be dead—or you'll be killed unless you come up with a million dollars—I'm...
  17. Wolf Blood

    If a mafia boss was right that 'any man can make $1M in a month using his brain' — what would YOU do to make $10K?

    MINDSET 
    This is a great example, but I think it actually proves the opposite of what it looks like at first glance. Your dad didn't make high six figures in three weeks "using his brain" the way the mafia boss meant it. He made it because he already had several million in capital to deploy. The...
  18. Wolf Blood

    If a mafia boss was right that 'any man can make $1M in a month using his brain' — what would YOU do to make $10K?

    MINDSET 
    I get the joke and the logic. But it's precisely the people who are rich through legal means who have the easiest time legally minimizing their taxes. I'm not talking about tax evasion—that's a crime. I'm talking about leveraging an exhaustive knowledge of your country's tax reality to pay the...
  19. Wolf Blood

    If a mafia boss was right that 'any man can make $1M in a month using his brain' — what would YOU do to make $10K?

    MINDSET 
    A quick point first: I agree the literal million-a-month is the extreme exception—that's exactly why in my original post I scaled it down to 10K, which actually fits the "use your brain" frame and is far more replicable. On your skepticism about timelines: MJ DeMarco points out that you...
  20. Wolf Blood

    If a mafia boss was right that 'any man can make $1M in a month using his brain' — what would YOU do to make $10K?

    MINDSET 
    This resonates with me, I know this topic because there are a lot of geeky people on YT and social media talking about building "JARVIS-like" ecosystems through AI tools, automations, scripts, etc. There's OpenClaw, LLMs with their connectors and functions, n8n, and many more resources along...

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