I said something in a room full of AI consultants that made everyone uncomfortable: I have a moratorium on learning anything new. No new tools, no new platforms, no new funnels-of-the-week, because every shiny object derails me from actually making money. The discipline I run instead is brutally simple: one product, one promotion, one marketing channel. Until it works.
“I have a moratorium on learning anything new.”
Why the moratorium makes money
- The fancy stuff does nothing without a funnel, and the general, basic sales funnel gets you paid every single time. Most people don't have one; they're just out here posting haphazardly and calling it marketing.
- Sell six figures of one thing before you're allowed to say it doesn't work. Most offers get abandoned at the first quiet week, not disproven.
- You could sell with a Google Doc. Truly. The offer and the audience matter; the tech mostly flatters us.
- Learning new tools FEELS like work, that's what makes it dangerous. It's procrastination wearing a productivity costume.
Claire's own numbers
The framework, step by step
- 1
The fancy stuff does nothing without a funnel — and the
general, basic sales funnel gets you paid every single time. Most people don't have one; they're just out here posting haphazardly and calling it mark
- 2
Sell six figures of one thing before you're allowed to
say it doesn't work. Most offers get abandoned at the first quiet week, not disproven
- 3
You could sell with a Google Doc
Truly. The offer and the audience matter; the tech mostly flatters us.
- 4
Learning new tools FEELS like work — that's what makes
it dangerous. It's procrastination wearing a productivity costume
Claire's own framework from this essay, in the order she teaches it.
Source: Claire B. Soares, from her own travel business and live trainings.
The confession that sells the point
I hold myself to this in public: when my own newer offers stalled, the honest diagnosis wasn't effort, it was that my funnel for them was unbuilt while I was busy being brilliant elsewhere. The fix wasn't a new platform. It was finishing the boring machine: one offer, one repeatable promotion, one channel done daily. Master that loop and you'll earn the right to be distracted. Almost nobody exercises it, because by then the loop is printing.
Common Questions
Why do businesses stall on new tools?
Because learning feels like work. A moratorium on new tools until the current offer sells protects the revenue-producing work from productive-looking procrastination.
How long should you sell an offer before changing it?
Long enough to prove it. Most offers get abandoned after a quiet week rather than after being genuinely disproven.
What matters more, the funnel or the technology?
The funnel. The basic sales funnel produces revenue reliably, while most people are posting haphazardly with no path from attention to payment.
Written By
Claire B. Soares
6× Condé Nast Top Travel Specialist, Certified AI Consultant, and founder of Travel AI University. $3.4B+ in enterprise travel software sold to Google, IBM, Boeing, the federal government, and the DoD; $16M+ in luxury travel sales with Up in the Air Life.
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