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...
about 8 hours 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...
1 day 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....
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
5 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. 🙌...
6 days ago • 2 min read
How's it going, Reader? If you've ever looked at your digital product shop and wondered why some products sell on repeat while others just sit there, I want to show you one of the clearest answers I've found. Spreadsheets are pulling in over 63,000 searches a month on Etsy, and they sell at higher prices than printables because buyers see them as real tools. They budget, they calculate, they track, and most people simply can't build them on their own, which is exactly why they're happy to pay...
7 days ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, Before we get into this week's news, a quick heads up: AI-Powered Spreadsheets closes this Friday, October 9, at midnight CST, and code TAKE250 takes $250 off until then. I'm bringing it up here because it ties straight into the first story in this issue. When Claude builds an entire marketplace around packaged AI skills, it's telling you the format of a digital product matters as much as what's inside it, and spreadsheets are a format I wish more creators had moved into years...
8 days ago • 1 min read