Author: Tom Woods

Michael Boldin, founder of the Tenth Amendment Center, was the very first guest on the Tom Woods Show. We’re talking episode number one.

Today he shared some feedback he received from a reader. I’ve used asterisks over the foul language, and kept all the punctuation errors.

Get this:

“Have you heard of this newfangled invention called POWERPOINT. ****WITS! You spaced out the statements too far apart. I cant scroll through your click bait to find your message. Too much swirling graphics NOT SEXY. NOT IMPRESSED. UNSUBSCRIBED. (The funny thing here is, is that I actually support U and & ur cause…. Just can’t get past your sh**ty moronic way of communicating… ****TARD!”

Imagine being displeased with someone’s presentation style and responding like that. This is not a normal person.

Thankfully, I’m not in a business where I have to bend over backwards to appease people like this (and neither is Michael). I can just tell them to go jump in a lake.

And so can you.

Emails and blog posts from me come and go, but if you’ve been waiting for the soup-to-nuts, explain-every-step-to-me eCommerce system of the sort my listeners have prospered with over the years — and taught by Aidan Booth, the same person who taught them — well, your ship has just come in.

What could be a cooler side hustle than “I run this online store”? For one thing, your friends will think you’re some kind of wizard: who the heck knows how to run an online store?

For another, you don’t have any overhead or inventory with an eCommerce store, so it’s much easier than opening a corner shop somewhere.

Sign up for the live workshop Aidan is doing with me, and I’m throwing in some mighty fine bonuses just for showing up:

(1) My Tom Woods Email Domination Program, which teaches how to build and monetize an email list, and which normally sells for $97, is yours for $0 just for showing up and staying for the presentation;

(2) I’m giving $100 prizes to each of 20 random attendees;

(3) If we hit 500 live attendees I’ll be making a $5K donation to Antiwar-dot-com, a very worthy cause.

What NOT to do now:
Click the link and then leave without signing up.

What to do now:
Click the link and sign up, and I’ll see you there:
http://www.tomwoods.com/booth

So maybe you’ve had the widow of a Nigerian prince offer to send you dough.

I’ve had a Nigerian demand more than $60,000 from me. No joke.

Back before I offered 50% commissions at Liberty Classroom I offered a flat $30. If someone joined through your link, I sent you $30.

Well, this Nigerian wrote and said: please send me my $66,000.

Huh?

He had sent 2200 clicks to Liberty Classroom. He multiplied that by $30 to arrive at his figure.

Dear reader, how many sales do you think his 2200 clicks translated into?

Zero, of course.

The clicks were all crap, from a click factory.

I explained to him that clicks alone earn him nothing. It’s sales that count. Did he know how to promote a product like this?

I never heard from him again.

That guy was clueless.

Now it’s true: if you’re not clueless, there are opportunities galore to make a living — or at least a nice side hustle — with your laptop and an Internet connection.

How to be not clueless?

Learn from people who know what the %$@&# they’re talking about.

Michael Cheney and I know what we’re talking about. We have nearly 30 years of combined experience, and we have the receipts to prove that we ain’t no novices.

So we created a nice, inexpensive training program for all you folks who dream of telling your boss to take this job and shove it.

We’re more than doubling the price at midnight Eastern, though, so now’s the time:

https://www.NetProfitsAcademy.com

In 2017 I held an affiliate contest: whoever brought in the most sales of Liberty Classroom, my subscription site, through his link over the course of Black Friday weekend would win a brand new car: a 2017 Kia Soul.

For people in the next nine slots I gave away $5000 in cash prizes – in addition to the 50% commissions I paid.

Why did I do this?

First because, come on, I looked like Joe Cool.

Giving away a car, for heaven’s sake? That’s sweet. Ain’t no other libertarian giving you a car.

But more to the point, I figured: if I give away prizes, people will try harder to promote their affiliate link so they can make sales and win a prize.

The site grossed about $143,000 that weekend. So yes, I’d say the prizes worked.

So here’s my thought right now:

If giving away prizes made people work harder to promote my product, what if instead of prizes I just gave away all the money?

You make a sale, you keep 100% of the dough, for a full year.

I’ve even made a video showing you how to do it.

Sound good?

Well, duh.

This is obviously the best bonus I have ever offered, and it’s likely to be the best bonus I will ever offer.

I honestly don’t have anything better than this.

Join Gerry Cramer’s affiliate training program, and this bonus (plus two others almost as good) are yours.

You will go mad if you don’t at least click, and you don’t want that to happen, so:

https://www.happyearner.com/replay

You know the advantages of affiliate marketing:

— no 9-to-5 grind;
— no product creation;
— no customer service;
— no inventory;
— no shipping;
— can work from anywhere;
— can work whatever hours suit you;
— and so on.

Here’s the disadvantage:

Some people will resent you.

This is unavoidable.

If you aren’t slaving away at a traditional 9-to-5 job, and you’re having success in a more pleasant if unorthodox way, some people won’t be able to compute what you’re doing, and they may even think you’re cheating somehow.

If they have to slave away, so should you.

How dare you break from what everyone else is doing?

You will find that you won’t even be able to discuss the subject with some of the people you know. There will be veiled hostility, and awkwardness, the whole time. You think I’m joking. I’m not. It’s weird.

But you know what? This disadvantage of affiliate marketing doesn’t matter to me at all.

If it helps me smoke out the losers, all the better.

I don’t want to spend time with people like this.

I’d rather spend it with people like you, dear reader, who actually want to make a change in your life, instead of pretending, with these people, that staying in a grind you hate is some kind of virtue.

Gerry Cramer’s program is about to close.

He is the world’s number-one affiliate marketer, and he’s managed to get his students into eight of the top ten slots – out of 100,000 affiliates – on the world’s greatest affiliate network.

Think that guy might know something you don’t?

And if you do, I’m offering you the best bonuses I’ve ever offered:

(1) For one year, 100% commissions on my Liberty Classroom subscription site. Someone clicks on your link and joins, and you get 100% of the money.

(2) An exclusive ask-me-anything session, just for people who join.

(3) Once you’ve chosen a product to promote (Gerry will help you), I’ll promote it to my audience to get you traffic and sales.

You’re smart enough to see how valuable those are.

Now go make the time to watch this presentation, and screw those envious bastards:

https://www.happyearner.com/replay

I may not be as quick or as clever as masters like Michael Malice or economist Bob Murphy, but the old man occasionally gets a good one in.

In promoting this year’s Contra Cruise (the vacation Bob and I host for our listeners), Bob posted on Facebook a link about Alaska, our destination, and the embedded photo showed a whale leaping out of the water.

Bob’s accompanying text ended with the words, “The whale has not yet been confirmed to speak.”

To which I replied:

“Bob, I thought it was certain you were going to speak.”

Zing.

A month later, a mysterious package arrived.

An anonymous person had sent me a beautiful sweatshirt with our design on it, and the words, “I came to hear the whale speak.”

I am wearing it as I type this.

How’d he do it? Is he some amazing designer with a sweatshirt factory in his home?

He used print on demand.

It’s a fun business to start, and requires basically no up-front investment. (Hence “print-on-demand.”)

I’m making you a deal:

I’ll promote your product, or your full-blown print-on-demand store, to my audience.

Think that’s a valuable bonus? (Duh.)

But she’s disappearing, so go:

https://www.happyearner.com/printondemand

Here’s how to get them.

Man, the other kids sure didn’t make life easy for a kid like me.

I was bookish, I was interested in politics, I did all the things I wasn’t supposed to do.

And man, did they let me know it.

Now granted, I gave them plenty of ammunition: in 1984, when I was 12, I watched the Democratic and Republican conventions in their entirety.

And I’ll admit: that’s not normal for anyone at any age.

But I was curious, and this was bad.

I should be mocked for this.

I’ll be honest with you: it screwed me up, for a long time. I became suspicious of people who seemed to want to be my friends. What was their real angle? Were they setting me up for something?

By 10th grade I had broken out of it, but the damage had been done. For years afterward, I’d always wonder where I really stood with my friends. Turns out there was nothing to wonder about, but my experiences had left me insecure and skeptical.

You may not have had my experience, but I’ll bet you’ve read some of my posts and emails and thought:

OK, this stuff works, but maybe not for me.

I of all people get and understand that.

Today is the final day to get in on Steve Clayton’s business program. Steve has helped a boatload of my listeners build something that supports them, and that they can be proud of.

If deep down you want to do this, don’t be paralyzed by the kind of self-doubt that has plagued me for much of my life.

Here’s the key point: you get a 60-day money-back guarantee. To say you almost never see something like that is an understatement. If it doesn’t work out for you, get your money back. But the time surely won’t have been wasted: you’ll learn plenty of valuable skills that will serve you well in any business.

But I’ll bet you — like the vast majority of my listeners — won’t even consider a refund. You’ll be dancing a jig that you ever found out about Steve.

Steve’s program gives you virtually every unfair advantage you could ask for, and is perfect for an absolute newbie.

He has changed the lives of many of my listeners.

Don’t be your own worst enemy.

Watch my four-minute video, and you’ll know what to do:

After watching the video, click here.

P.S. This closes down for good at Midnight Pacific Time.

By now you’ve probably heard that Bill Weld, former Massachusetts governor and Libertarian Party vice presidential candidate, has changed his registration from Libertarian to Republican.

It’s looking like he won’t be seeking the LP nomination for president.

This blows the field wide open.

But here’s the problem:

No matter what candidate the LP fields in 2020, it’s going to be even more of a brutal beatdown than usual. The left is voting Democrat, period, to get Trump out. This is why I suspect the Green Party will have a dismal year as well.

The right, fearing the new Democrats, is going for Trump in a big way.

There will be even less opportunity for a third party to be heard.

Worse still, if the party does nominate a good, principled libertarian, the so-called “pragmatists” will blame those of us who favor principled candidates when the vote total comes out badly — even though any candidate, including those favored by the pragmatists, is going to get killed in 2020.

Some people are saying: focus on local races in 2020 instead.

That makes sense to me, especially since that’s what I think the LP should be doing anyway.

Now, what this has to do with you:

Remember my theme these days: finding freedom in an unfree world.

You can’t win every battle — but you can win some.

The LP can’t win the presidency, but it absolutely can win local races.

Likewise, you as an individual can’t change American political culture, but you sure as heck can change and improve your own life.

This is probably the best chance to do so that I’ll be able to find for you this year. I can’t imagine anything topping it.

But it closes its doors tomorrow night.

The time has come for the all-important click:

https://www.happyearner.com/closing