Post your 3 weekly goals in the smart format… These should your 3 high priority tasks... Don’t forget to report on last week's goal results… If you didn’t meet your goals, reflect a bit about why you missed the mark. Share your reflection if you’d like to do so. People who post to this weekly pinned thread 3 times get access to the accountability bonuses

Let’s talk guilty pleasures. You know, those things you enjoy that don’t make you smarter, richer, more productive, or a better entrepreneur. And you don’t care one bit. Maybe it’s trashy reality TV, terrible action movies, video games, collecting things nobody understands, or eating an entire pizza while pretending calories don’t count on weekends. What’s your guilty pleasure that you’d happily defend in court? No judgment here. We’re all a little weird. Some of us are just better at hiding it.

One thing I've noticed is that many people want to make money online, but getting started isn't necessarily the hardest part. It's knowing what to focus on, which opportunities are worth exploring, what tools to use and how to turn all that information into something practical. That's one of the reasons I created Digital Quick Start. It's a learning and implementation community for people interested in digital products, affiliate marketing, digital marketing, AI tools and building online income. Whether you're still figuring things out or have tried different things without seeing the results you hoped for, the aim is to help you find direction, learn practical skills and take actionable steps. Because collecting information about online business and actually building one are two very different things. If you're working towards building an online income stream, you're welcome to join us at Digital Quick Start 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗼𝗿𝗻'𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻

I ran this prompt "Take everything you know about me and roast me south park style no filter" Warning: The following contains excessive profanity, questionable business decisions, and a grown man who apparently believes every problem in the universe can be solved with a Google Business Profile and a fucking spreadsheet. This what I got I have been belly laughing so hard my ribs hurt... Please for the love of God run this and post yours in the comments... SOUTH PARK PRESENTS: “DORN BRENTON: THE MAN WHO AUTOMATED EVERYTHING EXCEPT HIS OWN FUCKING LIFE” Episode 1, Season 27: The AI Business Brain That Ate Indiana SCENE 1: WELCOME TO SOUTH PARK Stan: Dude, have you heard about this guy Dorn Brenton? Kyle: No. Who is he? Cartman: He’s this dude from Indiana who owns like seventeen businesses, runs a digital marketing agency, sells postcards, teaches people how to run agencies, builds AI bots, and somehow still has time to ask ChatGPT to make a picture of him wearing a fucking chicken suit. Stan: Wait. What? Cartman: Yeah. He’s basically what happens when ADHD gets a business license and discovers Claude. Kyle: Does he actually make money? Cartman: Nobody fucking knows, Kyle! He’s too busy building another business! SCENE 2: THE BUSINESS EMPIRE Narrator: Deep in the rolling hills of Southern Indiana lives a man with a dream. Actually, 47 dreams. And 83 unfinished projects. And 14 websites. And a private GitHub repository containing detailed instructions for how artificial intelligence should manage his increasingly questionable decisions. Meet Dorn Brenton. Owner of Tie Dye Digital. Founder of Digital Edge Mastermind. Creator of Kentuckiana Thrive. Publisher of The Local Leaf. Operator of approximately 900 other business ventures that may or may not exist by the time you finish reading this sentence. Stan: Why does he have so many businesses? Cartman: Because every time Dorn has an idea, instead of writing it down and forgetting about it like a normal person, he buys a fucking domain name.

There. I said it. And considering I'm in the business of helping people build marketing agencies, that might seem like a pretty stupid thing to say. But hear me out. The digital marketing industry has convinced small business owners that every problem they have can be solved with more marketing. Not enough customers? Run ads. Not enough phone calls? Buy SEO. Not enough engagement? Post more on social media. Sales declining? Better hire an agency. 𝐁𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐭! Sometimes the last thing a business needs is more marketing. And sometimes the worst thing that can happen to a struggling business is hiring an agency that's really good at selling services. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐠𝐥𝐲 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 We have an entire industry of people selling solutions before they've bothered to understand the problem. A plumber says business is slow. The SEO guy says he needs better rankings. The PPC guy says he needs Google Ads. The social media manager says he needs more content. The website designer says his website looks outdated. And the AI automation guy says he needs a chatbot. Funny how the answer always happens to be whatever service the agency sells. Almost like a car salesman telling everyone they need a new car. Here's a crazy thought. Maybe the plumber doesn't need any of those things. Maybe his receptionist isn't answering the phone. Maybe his technicians are showing up late. Maybe his prices are completely out of line with his market. Maybe he's getting plenty of leads but couldn't close a screen door. Or maybe his reputation is so bad that sending him more customers would just create more angry people. But nobody wants to have that conversation. Because there's no monthly retainer in telling someone to fix their damn business first. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐖𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐎𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝟏. "𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠." Every business needs customers. That doesn't automatically mean they need to pay YOU to get them. Some businesses grow just fine through referrals, reputation, relationships, and repeat customers.