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I had never seen someone explain how he made his first million (for free) like you did.

Most people will tell you to pay for consultations.

The statement that stood out to me was

"you spent 5 years learning all you could about building a blood despite not having a computer/laptop".

This aligns with what you wrote concerning products and services.

(There's a process of active preparation)

- Spend weeks, months, and years building a community.

- Listen to their struggles and document them.

- Create a product that solves that problem.

- Get your first set of customers easily from your community.

I guess I'm still at step 1.

I want to build a community on WhatsApp.

I have the audience (22 to be precise)

A graphics designer friend helped out with the community dp.

The issue I have now is the how-to move.

By the way, I love how you space your sentences.

I'm definitely inculcating that in writing my school essays.

Thank you Ajulu.

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Wow Wow Wow and Wow. This is very Insightful sir Ajulu. Thank you for sharing sir.......here is my take home sir

For anyone reading my comment, there are very important questions that summarize this amazing newsletter and that if you can answer you definitely won't have a problem hitting your first N1,000,000.

1. What do you love doing? Sir Ajulu definitely REALIZED he loved writing but had only one issue - what should he write about? But guess what, along the way he found it. The fact that he prepared for 5 years broke my water. So, find what you love doing, find how to create content about it, prepare yourself for the opportunity or create the opportunity.

2. How far are you willing to go? Sir Ajulu made a statement that caught my attention, and he said - "But I needed something that made me show up daily" This got me, meaning that, his mind was made up, either he went hard or went home but he chose to go hard so much his subconscious had clicked to that mentality and guess what? it was in that consistently fighting the urge to go home that after 2 weeks he DISCOVERED what people wanted. He stayed and then discovered, if you STAY long enough you too will DISCOVER

3. What if you don't see results, let's say, in 1 year, would you give up? The amazing thing about this is it wouldn't have take you up to a year to discover a pain point you can solve and accurately position yourself to solve it. One of the major issues anyone could have here is, "are you giving out the right type of content for that audience" or "are you on the right platform for sharing that kind of content"?

If you have tried and tried, just remember sir Ajulu said "The worst thing you can do about your online content creation journey is to STAND STILL"

Finally, the last and most important question to ask yourself

4. Are you really passionate about helping others succeed with what you know, your skill, your expertise etc?

This was exactly what changed the story for Sir Ajulu and got him jobs for foreign companies, also, he got paid for doing what he loved. He was already making money but in his passion to see others succeed building their brands with writing he came up with an idea that involved him giving out part of his earnings, this is not those discounts marketers do today, he actually gave and this catapulted him.

No one would care about you or take you serious, until they know how much you care about them.

So, in summary, Sir Ajulu REALIZED he loved Writing, got to KNOW more about writing, got interested in HELPING others and in the process DISCOVERED their problems and then finally SOLVED their problems in an amazing way, and that way he MADE HIS FIRST MILLION ONLINE.

Amazing story sir.

I hope with these few points of mine, you are re-energized to go out there and make your first million online, don't forget about No 4

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This was really insightful, rhabk you for sharing this great information with the world.

I have actually been finding it real difficult to create content and most times when u come up with something not seeing any feedback or engagement turns me down, so my consistency has been low, but after reading this I would try to do more even when there's no, atleast 'one day e go show'

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Feb 17Liked by Ajulu

AJULU , AJULU, AJULU . When i came across the name in our group i was like . Who is this man at the first place? 😆 . I became one of your audience last year through Mr Akinlami online business group. It looks funny and unbelievable when you made a testimony about how you made a million within 3 weeks of the same business many people especially ME have been battling with to get paid, now I seee .

It looks simple to you because you have the knowledge i don't have . Hmm

Since then I made it compulsory for my self to read your newsletter every Saturday.

You really inspired me.

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Feb 19Liked by Ajulu

Always a delight reading your newsletters, thank you for being a gift.

Major takeaways for me is - Make people know that you care about solving their problems through the kind of content you post.

This really opened my eyes to what my problem while creating content was. I was focused on just showing my work rather than fishing out helpful content for the people I want to work with and serve.

To your last question - I am a graphic designer and video editor, trying to build a community around proper advertising and marketing for business owners. Thank you so much for the anticipated response sir💜

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Feb 17Liked by Ajulu

Hello Ajulu, thank you for this letter.

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Feb 17Liked by Ajulu

This is really insightful…It’s the way you share your knowledge without reserve for me,God bless you sir.I sell human hair wigs my trouble is really finding the kind of contents to post and how to create a community on WhatsApp.

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Feb 17Liked by Ajulu

"... Give to others what you seek... "

Thank you Sir for this....

I would chew this words till they become reality

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Recently, I read a post on medium where the writer stated that "There's always a target audience for whatever content you decide to create".

This made a lot of sense to me because a show (movie/music,book etc) you consider boring could be another person's all time favorite show...same goes with content creation.

Passion, consistency and quality content creation will always bring the right audience to your doorstep. Also, providing solutions to their problems is a way to monetize your skills.

Thank you Ajulu for always dishing out value packed newsletters and also being a motivation to those of us who are still building our personal brands in the online space!

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Feb 17Liked by Ajulu

Hello sir ajulu thank you for the great newsletter you have always been an inspiration to me.

Sir I want to start a Twitter account called crypto_pidgin this page is where I will be writing about cryptocurrency and sharing latest info about cryptocurrency in our pidgin language. But my fear it if this will will get the interest of foreign community since I won’t be writing in English language.

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Feb 17Liked by Ajulu

Thank you Mr. Ajulu for this eye-opening message. I admit I’m one of those people who gave poor responses with emojis or short responses on posts.

I noticed on LinkedIn you always took your time to answer every response and give more insight into your post. This is one of my take-home, engaging more with stronger responses.

To clarify, you said “One of the things that would make you stand out as an online creator is giving to other people what you seek”. Is it giving them what you seek or giving them what they seek? Since I am the one helping them to provide solutions.

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Very insightful post, thank you for sharing.

I can really attest to the fact that engaging well on other people's post helps people engage on your posts too.

I've been doing that on Instagram and it's working well.

I honestly agree with that statement "The worst thing you can do in your content creation journey is to stand still". Just start putting out good content, further clarity will come on the way and you'll get better and better.

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Thank you so much Ajulu,

This post gave me clarity for what I need to do next.

And I'm truly grateful for it.

Now, to state my industry

I want to help people make money from their email list by

1. building a list(community),

2. writing persuasive emails and

3. Crafting irresistible offers around your product if you have one or around the solutions to your list's (community) problem.

I'll appreciate any pointers

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So, I have two industries I'm into.

1. The Design industry.

I want to see people creating excellent designs through mastering design principles.

2. The Power industry.

Just like what Sunpower is doing, I want people to have autonomy of power supply.

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Wow! What a content.

Thank you so much Ajulu for being so explicit with your knowledge and experience.

I learnt how that making it a duty to solve other people's problems genuinely is a way to my own wealth.

Also, if I can provide for people what I'm looking, I can also be fulfilled.

I've really learnt how to position myself for growth on platforms like Instagram and Twitter, which is taking time to create quality posts, then using other times to make comments on other people's contents and also on the comments of others.

I also learnt about ingenuity.

I'll aslo apply interviewing the big fish in my industry.

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I'm looking to delve into the fitness and health industry.

I have tangible experience with fitness training and best practices for fitness and nutrition.

My goal is to launch a fitness community to be scaled globally in the nearest future.

But in the mean time, I want to first launch a community that spread awareness of the importance of fitness to the general well-being and quality of life, and then to offer customised coaching services and wellness products to my community members.

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