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What I promised in 2015
In 2015 I wrote, in seven days, a Polish e-book called "How to Build Your Online Empire in 30 Days". It was 54 pages long and sold for about $9 to $18. For two years it brought me roughly $500 a month. The sales page promised "a system that works 24 hours a day" and first results within 30 days.
Part of that promise was true: work you do once can keep selling for years. Part of it was not. The e-book's sales died the moment I stopped building the brand and turned to other companies. And 30 days is not how long it takes to build an empire. It is how long it takes to find out whether you want to build one at all.
What I show now
In October 2026 I launched madrydochod.pl, an affiliate blog in Poland. In its first 20 days it got 141 articles. Traffic? About 9 people a day according to the server logs, and roughly one in three of them came from ChatGPT, not Google. The first conversion came after two weeks: one business-account application with our partner code. For that application the bank pays about $75, and only if the account stays open for 30 days.
The same model now runs in English: tillradar.co.uk for the UK since 19 Oct 2026 and mainstreetradar.com for the US since 25 Oct 2026. Their numbers are small too, and you will see every one of them.
People usually hide numbers like these. I publish them, because they are what separates honest learning from selling dreams. The Empire Counter shows the traffic on our sites, live.
The rules of The Online Empire
- We never promise income. We show what we did, what it cost, how long it took and what came out of it.
- Every article brings something of its own. Our data, a calculation, a tool or a primary source. If there is none, the article does not get written.
- Failures get published alongside the wins. A site Google refused to index, a store with no orders, a partner link clicked mostly by bots.
- We disclose every connection. Aderlo Cloud hosting and the GAPLI platform belong to my companies. Whenever I write about them, I say so.
- Every dollar gets reported. We teach how to pay tax on affiliate and online sales income, not how to avoid it.
- No pyramids. We do not recommend MLM, trading signals or "systems" where you earn by recruiting the next person.
What you will find here
Six topics: affiliate marketing, website and traffic, online store, AI and automation, money and legal, and reports and case studies. Plus The Empire Report every week, and my books, starting with "The Weight of Winning", about what building companies really costs.
Greg Ciupek, 28 Oct 2026. Amounts converted to US dollars from Polish currency at the October 2026 rate (about 4.0 to the dollar) and rounded.