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Scaling the business

If you want to scale your business, you need the right formula.

Scaling doesn’t mean doing more work because you might be doing free labor.

If you happen to find the right formula, then you would need to scale your output, because everybody gets paid for their output when the deal is right.

There is no passive income, as something somewhere has to work. If somehow you find passive income then you’re still relying on the infrastructure to work. Nobody has ever made money laying in bed.

So, if you want result, work with the deal attached and don’t work without the deal.

The most difficult part is not scaling, is not working, but finding the deal. If nobody is willing to finance your work then you really can’t scale. You just can’t work while relying on people’s generosity because most people aren’t that generous.

Creator insanity

Creativity is demanding, it’s manual labor.

And if you happen to put out stuff online, then you’re actually competing not only with other humans, but also with AI that can print content at scale.

AI deflates what you can sell.

Now you barely can make any money creating, but in the future creativity will be just free labor, everything online will be AI generated, and finding something made by humans will be delicacy.

How to do upfront work

Were talking about making money. Sometimes you need to do upfront work without certainty of potential income.

Many people assume, go on YouTube post videos and you’re golden, but many people just give away their labor for some views.

If you want to make money by doing upfront work, you need to get a deal before you do the work.

That could include writing a Kindle book, but publishing it with the deal attached.

It can be making a blog with monetization in place.

So you can definitely make money doing upfront work, but you won’t be certain about the income.

That’s why contracts and agreements are important.

Nobody would make 10000000 kebabs before they get the deal, but people make thousands of videos before they even have a change to earn… And that’s the problem of modern internet.

So the problem isn’t that you can’t do upfront work, you can, but you need agreement of potential revenue for the work you did or are doing.

Not like YouTube, Facebook – we will monetize your work someday, if you reach the monetization threshold.

So the platforms exploit their users who want to make a business, if they valued your work – they would pay you from the beginning. On Facebook or YouTube, it’s not upfront work when your content is not monetized, it’s just free labor for the platform, because when you publish you will get views, but not profit. So they benefit from your free labor.

They run ads on your content, but not for you, but for them. So you are left with nothing.