The front door
Every network needs a place to start, and for BrainO that place is Wake Up Now. Colin calls it his front door, which is a fair description — it's where you get a proper look at the person behind the network before you wander any further in.
There's no maze to it. The site lays out what's there, plainly, and lets you take your time.
What a visitor finds
Wake Up Now gathers a few things under one roof:
- Written Off — Colin's memoir
- Songs of the States — the music
- Videos — the moving pictures
- The bookshop — books, unsurprisingly
- Out of the Box Advertising — the advertising side of things
- The $1-a-month invite — a way into the whole system
That's a mixed bag, and deliberately so. Some people arrive for the book, some for the songs, some because they saw a video and got curious. The site doesn't make you pick a lane before you've had a look around.
The dollar-a-month invite
This is the bit worth slowing down for, because it's easy to misread.
Products across the network are a dollar a month. Nothing is auto-charged. That second part matters as much as the first. The team has set things up so a dollar is a dollar and no one wakes up to a surprise on their statement.
A dollar a month is not a pitch dressed up as a price. It's the actual arrangement, and it applies across the family of sites rather than just this one.
Who it suits
Wake Up Now suits someone who wants to know who they're dealing with. If you'd rather read a memoir than a mission statement, this is the sensible place to begin. It suits people who like a story told straight, who don't mind a bit of cheek, and who want to see the whole picture — book, music, video, bookshop, advertising — before deciding what they're actually interested in.
It also suits anyone who has bumped into another site in the BrainO family and wondered where the thread leads back to. It leads here.
How it fits the network
BrainO is a family of sites, and Wake Up Now is the front door to that family. One account carries across the sites, so a visitor who signs up here isn't signing up again everywhere else. That's the whole idea: one account, one dollar a month, a network of places to explore.
Colin's memoir, the songs, the videos, the bookshop, the advertising arm and the invite all sit together in one spot, and from there the rest of the network opens up. The team built it that way on purpose — start with the person, then meet the rest.
If you've been meaning to have a proper look, the door is open at Wake Up Now.