Alston Godbolt

You find a video. Someone pulls up a real Etsy shop with 230,000 sales, points at it, and tells you that all you need to do is create custom pet pictures and sell them through print on demand on Etsy or Redbubble to make $7 every minute on autopilot. Your brain starts doing the math … Read more

Cooking With Kya is all over the internet. People are making reaction videos about her. Influencers are meeting with her. Other creators are posting hot takes about whether she is good or bad for society. And while everyone is busy arguing in the comments, a handful of regular people are quietly making real money off … Read more

A video showed up on my YouTube homepage claiming you could earn $1.80 watching one Google ad. Watch 10 ads, make $18. Watch 100, make $180. I had to find out if any of it was real. I’m Alston Godbolt. I’ve been creating content on the internet for almost 10 years. I test these kinds … Read more

A video showed up on my YouTube homepage claiming you could earn $1.80 watching one Google ad. Watch 10 ads, make $18. Watch 100, make $180. I had to find out if any of it was real. I’m Alston Godbolt. I’ve been creating content on the internet for almost 10 years. I test these kinds … Read more

Most new YouTubers set goals that actually hurt their growth. I know because I was doing it myself. I spent months chasing big vanity numbers, making videos that felt wrong for my channel, and wondering why my subscriber count barely moved. Then I stopped and built what I now call the Growth Compass, a three-part … Read more

I bought ChatGPT o1 Pro so you would not have to. At $200 a month, it costs ten times what most people pay for the regular $20 plan, and the question I kept getting from my audience was simple: is the extra $180 actually doing anything, or is this just a fancy upsell? I ran … Read more

Skool just did something that a lot of community owners have been begging for since the platform launched. They turned on native affiliate support. Not a workaround. Not a hack. An actual built-in affiliate system that handles the tracking, the accounting, and the commission payouts for you. I spotted this about three hours after Sam … Read more

Gas in the US is now over $4.55 a gallon, up more than 50% since February. Your paycheck did not move with it. The kid’s soccer travel team invoice still hits the same week. Something has to give, and most working adults are quietly figuring out it is going to have to be the income … Read more

I’ve spent 10 years trying to make money online. I’m not going to give you the highlight reel or the dashboard screenshots. This is what actually happened: what worked, what didn’t, what cost me $50,000 in courses, and the one shift in year 8 that finally made the math work. If you came here for … Read more