{"id":14009,"date":"2026-10-29T01:32:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T05:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/everyone-knew-it-was-ai-it-got-4000-leads-anyway\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T01:32:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T05:32:28","slug":"everyone-knew-it-was-ai-it-got-4000-leads-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/everyone-knew-it-was-ai-it-got-4000-leads-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Knew It Was AI. It Got 4,000 Leads Anyway."},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have to admit something.<\/p>\n

When John Lee showed me one of his videos, I was sure it wouldn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

It featured a wise old Chinese grandfather named David Chen. Glasses. Well dressed. Sharing advice about money.<\/p>\n

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David Chen isn\u2019t real.<\/strong> He\u2019s an AI character John created in under five minutes. And it\u2019s obvious. Nobody watching thinks he\u2019s a real person.<\/p>\n

That video got 1.2 million views.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And over 4,000 leads.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I asked John what those leads would normally cost if you paid for them with ads. About $20 each, he said.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s roughly $80,000 worth of leads<\/strong>, from a five-minute video of someone who doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n

Then he told me what people write in the comments:<\/p>\n

\u201cI know it\u2019s AI, but I don\u2019t care, because the information is good.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I told him on camera: \u201cYou just demolished one of my arguments.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Let me tell you about John, because he\u2019s one of the smartest minds I\u2019ve ever met when it comes to turning attention into income.<\/p>\n

He started out washing dishes in his mom\u2019s Chinese takeaway. He\u2019s dyslexic, and school never came easily. But he found his edge in creativity and became a visual effects animator for Framestore and EA Games.<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t know it then, but those special-effects skills were the perfect training for a world where AI makes video.<\/p>\n

Today, John packs 4,000 people into rooms in Dubai and Singapore to teach social media monetization. His book, Money Unlocked<\/em>, is a New York Times<\/em> bestseller. And he\u2019s built a system that takes a stranger scrolling Instagram all the way to a $125,000 program.<\/p>\n

Honestly? I don\u2019t know anyone who has built a funnel as elegant as his.<\/p>\n

In this episode of Extraordinary Minds Podcast<\/em>, he breaks down his entire funnel. Nothing held back.<\/p>\n

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