How's it going, Reader? Bryan turned 11 over the weekend, and between the cake and the birthday chaos, he keeps bringing up France. Next month our family is taking two full weeks off for a French river cruise, and it will be Bryan’s first time in France, so he’s counting down the days in a way only an 11-year-old can. I’m right there with him, although my excitement comes with a little confession: I’ve been studying French off and on for a while now, and I still can’t hold a real...
about 12 hours ago • 2 min read
How's it going, Reader? My evenings look a lot different than they used to. While I’m sleeping, eating dinner, or playing with my 11-year-old son Bryan, my business keeps moving, with emails getting drafted, content getting planned, and the follow-ups I used to forget actually happening. I’m not sneaking off to work late to make that happen, because AI is doing the work I set it up to do, and on Monday, October 19th at 2 pm CST I’m going to show you exactly what that looks like in my free...
1 day ago • 1 min read
How's it going, Reader? Something fun just went live, and I didn’t want you to miss it. The Business Beach Club is my membership for action takers serious about starting or scaling their digital product or self-publishing business. Each quarter, we run our $7 Sale, and every product is $7 to get it in front of my audience so they can get sales. When you check out, use coupon HOLIDAY7 and every product in the sale drops to $7. It’s a great chance to grab PLR/commercial-use Canva templates...
1 day ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, It is officially pumpkin spice season, and this week three different AI companies decided to ship the same big idea at once. I spent part of it handing one of those new AI agents, Muse, the keys to my actual business, SAGE files and Skills, and I want to show you exactly what that looked like rather than just tell you it happened. The bigger news this week is that Claude moved into the exact apps most of us already live in every day, Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, which means...
3 days ago • 1 min read
How's it going, Reader? I've finished the sales page for the Holiday Hustle Free $7 Sale happening Monday, October 12th at 7 am CST. If you have a product, please check it here and let me know if you need a change, but only if it would hurt your success in the sale. No fluffy changes. The deadline was Wednesday, so we won't accept any more products. Our next sale will be in January. Affiliate Opportunity: If you want to help us promote, then use this link here....
5 days ago • 3 min read
How's it going, Reader? You’re registered for the Claude Second Brain AI Workshop on Monday, October 19 at 2 pm CST, and I’m really looking forward to spending that hour with you. I’ll show you exactly how I hand real business work over to Claude, so instead of guessing what AI could do for you, you’ll watch it plan, write, and organize live on screen and see how it fits into a business like yours. I also want to make it worth your while to be there live, because the replay simply can’t give...
5 days ago • 1 min read
How's it going, Reader? You’ve probably seen it happen. Someone lists a budget planner or a habit tracker on Etsy, the sales start coming in, and you think, “I could make that.” Then you open a blank spreadsheet, stare at the empty grid, start googling how SUM and IF and LOOKUP work, and an hour later you close the tab with nothing to show for it except the sad feeling that this is one more thing other people get to do and you don’t. That feeling isn’t a lack of talent. Building spreadsheets...
5 days ago • 1 min read
How's it going, Reader? Before your day gets busy, I want you to try something with me. Picture yourself this time next year. It's October 2027, you're sipping your morning coffee, and you open your phone to find that a few more spreadsheet orders came in overnight while you were sleeping. You didn't run a launch or post anything that day. The templates you created once with AI kept selling over and over and over while you lived your life. This happens for my students and me every week, and...
7 days ago • 2 min read
How's it going, Reader? Do you remember those old Ronco rotisserie oven commercials where they'd load up the chicken, close the door, and the whole audience would shout "set it and forget it"? 🍗 I think about that slogan a lot because it's exactly how my spreadsheet business works now, and it's why I believe passive income is one of the most important things you can build as a digital product seller. Every single week, in my store, I'm making spreadsheet sales without having to do anything. 🙌...
8 days ago • 2 min read