Alston

Every week another guru drops a video titled something like “The Laziest Way to Make $10,000 With AI.” They push you toward AI Shopify dropshipping, TikTok Shop affiliate deals, clipping other people’s videos, or AI email copywriting. And every single one of those gurus is quietly doing something completely different behind the scenes. They are … Read more

Building WordPress websites was the first thing Alston ever got paid for online. Not affiliate marketing, not YouTube, not dropshipping. A client, a theme, and a five-page site. That is it. And while he was charging $300 on Thumbtack and undervaluing his time, a friend was building the exact same type of site and pocketing … Read more

I ran into a grown man the other day who I’ve known since he was a little boy. Back at the YMCA, 20 or 25 years ago, his dad and I used to run basketball together. I can still picture this kid and his little brother bouncing through the doors, heads bobbling, carrying basketballs that … Read more

A video started circulating recently with a headline that sounded almost too good to be true: “Monetization is now free. Get paid without 1,000 subscribers or 4,000 watch hours.” If you’ve been grinding on YouTube waiting to hit those milestones, that kind of headline stops your scroll immediately. And that’s exactly what it was designed … Read more

Most people are being told to learn AI or coding or some brand-new skill before they get left behind. But Alston Godbolt’s most profitable digital product had nothing to do with any of that. It was a $19 Microsoft Excel course. Boring, plain, ordinary Excel. About 60 people bought it, and when he added it … Read more

Every week there is a new batch of YouTube videos promising that AI will make you rich if you just follow five simple steps. Most of them leave out the part where you need to actually know something before those five steps do anything useful. I spent the last 30 days putting AI to work … Read more

Most people spend weeks overthinking their first TikTok post and months waiting for the perfect niche to fall out of the sky. Meanwhile, a social media coach named Heather Rose built an entire coaching business called Breaking Free Coaching by doing exactly the opposite: she posted bad videos, figured out the algorithm, and filled the … Read more

At the time this video was recorded, 25% of all websites on the internet ran on WordPress. That number has only grown since. What that means for you is this: if you want to freelance, build client sites, or even host your own projects, knowing how to spin up a WordPress site on Amazon Web … Read more

Twenty-five percent of all websites on the internet run on WordPress. That one statistic tells you where the demand is. If you want to get into freelancing, build a side income, or launch a site for yourself or a client, knowing how to spin up WordPress fast is a skill that pays. AWS Lightsail makes … Read more

You open your project at home on your Mac. Everything breaks. You SSH into the office server running Windows and something else breaks. Your teammate on Linux has a completely different problem. The code is the same. The environment is not. That mismatch alone has killed more deployment timelines than bad code ever will. Docker … Read more