How to Quit Your Job, Move to Paradise, and Get Paid to Change the World

By the way, good selling process is not covered just by one article. So not every page sells stuff directly.

It's a classic sell-the-dream pitch to inspire you to believe that if this guy could do "it", given his difficult situation, even you could do it too.

You read it through, get inspired, and get drawn into his sales funnel. Over time, as you consume more of his content, you start to trust him more, and have more faith in his ability to help people do what he's doing. He must have the secret, after all, otherwise how could he have done what he's done? You just need to keep going until he shares that secret with you.

Eventually, when you notice that he's selling something that promises to help you make money blogging whilst sitting on a beach sipping pinas, you'll consider it much more seriously than you would if he'd hit you over the head with it from the start. You trust him now.

You might notice that his story links to a course. Just a subtle mention so you don't think the whole thing is nothing more than a big sales pitch. But you can watch the videos and subscribe right there and then to accelerate your journey to the point where you're ready to stump up some cash for the secret to success. Some people convert faster than others.

Or maybe you'll convert a year down the line. Perhaps you won't convert at all, but you'll promote/upvote his stuff and introduce more people into his sales funnel. Some of them might convert at some point.

Maybe you'll never buy anything directly from him, but you might end up buying something from one of the other respectable internet marketers that he might point you towards (with affiliate links most likely, so he gets a cut).

Eventually you'll be able to spot this sort of sell-a-dream pitch in a glance. You'll always wonder if there might be good stuff in there, but you won't worry about missing out because the chances are you've seen most of it before. And whatever time you spend wading through fluffy feel good stories to get to the meat is time you could have spent building or promoting something of your own.

Not a problem for him though; there's an endless stream of newbies looking for the secret to making money online. Admittedly I hadn't realized hacker news had so many of them...

But for jeebus' sake, don't quit writing software to sign up for this guy's blogging course.

Consult remotely, build products and charge money for them. Pick a paradise beach that doesn't have tall hotels on it and is therefore just this side of free to live on. Bring some savings and start small.

I know that this works because I did it. And no, I will not charge you money to tell you how to do it. Everything you need to know you can learn from the previous paragraph.

Now, if you actually want to do it, go do it.