Hey Guys,
Quick question.
What happens to your month if the one thing paying you stops?
A founder named Timo closed a $3.5k customer in a single call this week.
It's the same software his site sells on a self-service plan.
I'll show you the move in the first section.
There are 12 sources in this edition, and each one ends in one action you can take today.
Read what fits and skip the rest.
📌 TL;DR
Timo AI: Sell to bigger businesses, offer a done-for-you option on calls, and show them the maths.
Tibo (Starter Story): Talk to 5 to 10 target users daily and fix retention before chasing traffic.
Akole guest: Clipping pays off at 10 to 30 pages. Test with CPM, then keep the winners on retainer.
Mike (Starter Story): Copy an idea that's been proven, sell lifetime deals early, and write content from day one.
Sean Dollwet: KDP now allows 2 new titles per format per week. Fix and market the books you already have.
Simon Høiberg (growth): 5 users from your network, then referrals, then content, then ads and affiliates.
Simon Høiberg (validation): Test an idea with a landing page and a week of ads before building.
Grace Leung: Build reusable AI skills first, then agents for jobs that need judgment.
Cameron England: Each revenue level asks you to change one habit or belief.
Creator Magic: A DIY scraper using residential proxies cost about $2 for a full run.
Ayushman Pandita: 10 free AI tools aimed at replacing paid subscriptions.
LYFE Marketing: 7 traffic channels. Pick one or two and do them well.
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1. Close one $3.5k customer instead of 120 small ones
Who said it: Timo, who runs SaaS Saturday with co-founder Joseph and shared his own Stripe screenshots.
He closed a $3.5k subscriber for SaaS Saturday the day before filming, after a sales call.
Key points:
Timo says $19 plans attract the customers with the highest churn, while businesses with 50 to 500 employees can pay 1k a month.
He says to keep a done-for-you option in your back pocket and offer it on booked calls, not on the pricing page.
Open the Apple calculator on the call and show the gain. Lifting conversion from 10% to 20% on 1,000 leads is worth $20,000.
Do this: Open two call slots a week and write down your done-for-you price, setup fee included.
My take: I think the useful part is the order.
Price for the buyer who has a budget, then give them a way to meet a real person.
If you're stuck on small plans, I'd test that before building another feature.
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2. Tibo's 12 steps to four apps over $100K a month
Who said it: Tibo, who built and exited Tweet Hunter and Taplio and runs five apps now.
He's interviewed by Pat Walls of Starter Story.
Four of his apps have passed $100K a month, and his biggest, Rabbit.ai, makes about 400K a month.
Key points:
Tibo says to build the MVP in days or weeks, because 90% of ideas fail and speed shortens the search.
Pick 5 to 10 relevant people, talk to them every day, and send support links to your Twitter DMs until each product hits 10K a month.
Prove retention before acquisition, then go broad on channels and scale the one or two that work.
Do this: List 5 people who match your target buyer and message each one today.
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3. Clipping works at 10 pages or more, and not before
Who said it: The guest on Akole's channel (the transcript doesn't give a name), who runs clipping campaigns, including one for Raj Shamani.
Clipping is worth running once you manage 10, 20 or 30 pages.
Below that, post the clips on your own accounts.
Key points:
The guest says to run a CPM campaign to find outliers. Then run another, and move the best clippers onto a retainer.
Organise clippers in pools of 20, with a campaign manager running 2 calls a week.
Clipping and paid ads work together, because ads reach people who've already seen your content as warm leads.
Do this: Build your long-form content base first, then run one small CPM test.
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4. Mike's 10-step playbook for 5 SaaS apps
Who said it: Mike, an Australian founder whose five apps, including Curator.io and Thrill, make over $200K MRR combined.
His company launches each product with 4 co-founders at 25% each, and none has failed so far.
Key points:
Mike says to pick an idea that's been done before, build a good-enough MVP, and sell a lifetime deal at $59 to $100.
Never give accounts away free. Thrill raised about $30K from a private LTD.
Start writing content early, then aim to close an AppSumo LTD with $100K in your pocket.
Do this: Name one proven product in your space and list the top 3 things its customers want.
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5. KDP just cut your upload limit by 80%
Who said it: Sean Dollwet, who has self-published on Amazon for 10 years and coaches KDP students.
From September 21st, KDP allows 2 new titles per format per week, down from 10.
Key points:
Sean says the cap is per format (ebook, paperback, hardcover), resets every Sunday, and only counts new titles.
4 good books beat 8 rushed ones. One student went from $450 to $4,500 across 10 books, with 80% coming from just 2 of them.
Relaunched book with a fixed cover, description and reviews made $2,578 in one month.
Do this: Pick your weakest published book and rewrite the cover, description and listing.
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6. Get from 5 users to 1,000, one stage at a time
Who said it: Simon Høiberg, who says he built and scaled three products with this roadmap.
The first 5 users come free from your own network: you offer a free account for life and ask for feedback.
Key points:
Simon says to turn those 5 into advocates, then use referral links and an early discount to reach 100.
He says content and building in public carry you from 500 to 1,000, and it's slow, so let existing revenue fund it.
Add ads (aiming for a 3:1 return) and an affiliate programme paying 10% to 50% of recurring revenue.
Do this: Message 5 people you know and offer them a free account in exchange for feedback.
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7. Test a SaaS idea for about $100 before you build it
Who said it: Simon Høiberg again, running the test live.
He set up a landing page, a Formspark sign-up form and a week of Facebook ads, and it took a few hours and about $100.
Key points:
Simon says to decide the pass line before you spend. He wants a 3% to 5% sign-up rate, so 20 to 30 emails from 700 page views.
More than 50 sign-ups is worth pursuing, and fewer than 10 means something is holding people back.
His own test got 11 sign-ups, so he moved on instead of building.
Do this: Write your pass number (sign-ups out of page views) on paper before you launch.
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8. Build an AI marketing team with ChatGPT, no code
Who said it: Grace Leung, who walks through the setup on screen and sells an AI marketing programme.
She built a marketing site with ChatGPT in under 30 minutes, with Dot (her assistant, named Emily) routing the work.
Key points:
Grace says to set up a brand context file and an agents.md file first, so the AI knows your business.
She says to use skills for repeatable tasks and agents for work that needs judgment.
Dot takes tasks by Slack and runs the project while you're away. Dot needs the ChatGPT Pro plan.
Do this: Write a one-page brand context file, then create one reusable skill (like ad creatives).
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9. The 5 identity shifts from $0 to $1M a month
Who said it: Cameron England, who says he founded License and Scale and Pinpoint Scaling, doing $1M a month at 55% margin.
His first rule is to make the decision you've been avoiding, because unmade decisions stall progress.
Key points:
Cameron says to spend 80% of your time on sales and 20% on fulfilment once you have your first client.
He says that between $10K and $100K a month you have to delegate, because working harder stops working.
He says that past $100K you add offers on purpose, then keep pushing what works until it breaks and fix what shows up.
Do this: Name the one decision you've been dodging and make it today.
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10. A scraper that replaces a $249 a month tool for about $2
Who said it: Creator Magic, who built the scraper with Claude Code and shows every step. DataImpulse supported the build.
A server-based scraper succeeded 33% of the time. Switching to residential proxies pushed it over 90%.
Key points:
Creator Magic says ScrapingBee's business plan costs $249 a month, and Pieter Levels built his own for about $1 a month.
The first run through DataImpulse cost under $0.10, and the full build came to about $2.
The scraper obeys robots.txt and collects public pages only.
Do this: Write an AGENTS.md with your plan and rules, then prompt Claude Code one step at a time.
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11. 10 free AI tools aimed at paid subscriptions
Who said it: Ayushman Pandita, who says he spends over 50,000 rupees a month on AI subscriptions.
He says free tools can save 70,000 to 90,000 rupees a month on paid ones.
Key points:
Ayushman says OpenMontage is an open-source video system that writes, edits and voices a full video.
Google AI Studio builds sites and apps with a free API and no credit card.
OmniRoute sends each request to whichever of 350 providers is free at that moment.
Do this: Pick one subscription you pay for and run a real task through its free replacement.
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12. Every way to get traffic, and which two to pick
Who said it: Tristan of LYFE Marketing, a digital marketing agency for small businesses.
His YouTube channel got over 240,000 views in 28 days, which brought in 500 new visitors and 48 new leads.
Key points:
Tristan says there are 7 channels: social, referral sites, organic search, paid search, display, email and SMS, and direct.
Pick one or two social platforms and do them well, since that beats five done halfway.
Organic search can take 6 to 12 months, while email returns $42 per $1 spent on average.
Do this: Choose your 1 or 2 channels and drop the rest for now.
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Talk soon,
Tony