Hey Guys,
One creator this week fed 97 of his own videos to Claude and found a hook he'd used 14 times. It flopped every single time, and he never noticed.
Another found a platform fee that quietly jumps from 13% to 30% depending on where the buyer clicked. Most sellers find out months later, when their payouts look wrong.
Both are in here. So are 10 more plays.
📌 TL;DR
Gumroad nets you about $44 on a $50 sale, unless the buyer came through Discover (then it's 30% flat).
GPT-6 Astra can build and deploy a full business site with a scroll-video hero.
Free backlinks come from publishing a number nobody else has.
Claude plus the Sandcastles MCP will audit your videos and name the patterns sinking them.
A $50/month website can stack into a $1,000+/month client.
LinkedIn is the #2 most cited domain in AI search, and one blog post can feed 3 LinkedIn posts on autopilot.
A $50,000 test found internal links that get clicked (and sit higher in link order) carry more ranking weight.
Cover the bottom half of your thumbnail. If nothing's left, TV viewers skip it.
YouTube is the top cited source in Google's AI Overviews, and the competition is AI-voiced stock footage.
On LinkedIn the opening line decides everything; here are 13 hook formats and the 5 rules behind them.
Build a local SEO research engine with Claude Code and real Keyword Planner data.
$1,154 in one day from plain Facebook text posts and affiliate links in the comments.
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Not got time to watch the videos? Grab the resources (Summary, Insights & Checklist) for each video from this Google doc
1. Gumroad's fee jumps from 13% to 30% (here's when)
You can have a checkout page live in under an hour with nothing but a file and a price. Mr. Money walks through the setup, then flags the 2 catches most sellers learn about too late.
What you'll discover:
The real math: 10% + 50¢ to Gumroad plus roughly 2.9% + 30¢ processing, so a $50 product nets about $44 and a $20 one about $17
Why sales through Gumroad's Discover tab cost 30% flat, and how that pulls a blended rate toward 18%
The payout risk (a 7-day hold on paper, reported freezes of weeks or months) and why he pairs Gumroad with Etsy
🎥 Watch Video: Click here
2. Build and launch a full business website with GPT-6 Astra
Dale from Create a Pro Website takes a made-up painting company, Evercoat, from brand name to live custom domain. The line doing the heavy lifting sits at the end of his build prompt.
What you'll discover:
The 3-tool setup: ChatGPT Plus at minimum, a Higgsfield Plus plan for the hero video, and free Node.js
How he fixed a creepy first hero video with a shot-by-shot prompt plus a first-frame and last-frame image
The deploy path: zip the site, install the Hostinger connector, restart the ChatGPT desktop app, deploy by prompt
🎥 Watch Video: Click here
3. Free backlinks from a scraper and 2 days of work
Edward Sturm dug through a viral r/SEO thread (and a lot of AI-written comments) to pull out what's working. The answer that kept coming up: publish a number nobody else has.
What you'll discover:
The census trick: pest data plus population became a "home infestation score" by state, which earned about a dozen free links from local papers
How one person audited 2,141 training providers, then 3,111 law firms (about 2 days per sector) and became the stat everyone cites
Why junk paid links backfire: one audited company should've appeared in 50%+ of AI queries and showed up in under 6%
🎥 Watch Video: Click here
4. Let Claude find the hook that's quietly killing your videos
The New Era Of AI shows a creator running 97 of his videos through Claude with the Sandcastles MCP connected. It found patterns he'd never have spotted by eye.
What you'll discover:
How to rank your top 50 videos by outlier score and get a full report on topics, hooks, formats and scriptwriting
The hidden patterns it surfaced: numbered "step 1" structures won (18 videos vs the other 79), and anything from 120 to 150 seconds died
The A vs B move for beginners: your last 2 weeks of videos against a competitor's, then "find the differences"YY
🎥 Watch Video: Click here
5. The $50/month offer that stacks into a $1,000/month client
John Whitford (FreedomKit.ai, 2,500+ customers) stopped selling $5K to $10K packages and started with a $50/month website instead. Then he stacks services on top, one month at a time.
What you'll discover:
The stack: $50 website, +$500 AI assistant, +$400 review management, +$200 instant lead follow-up, landing at over $1,000 per client
How his AI prospecting agent runs every Monday and filters for businesses with no website (135 prospects found so far)
The 4-step upsell loop: implement, observe, report monthly, pitch the next service
🎥 Watch Video: Click here
6. LinkedIn is the #2 most cited site in AI search. Post there.
Tim The SEO Guru pulls Semrush data showing 463 million organic search visits to LinkedIn in July, plus 89,000 unique LinkedIn URLs cited across 325,000 AI prompts. Only Reddit gets cited more.
What you'll discover:
The citable-post formula: lead with the topic, deliver one useful answer, add your own firsthand perspective, post 2 to 3 times a week
How he turns 1 blog article into 3 LinkedIn posts: a checklist, a mistake to avoid, and your point of view
His weekly autopilot: Arvow writes the articles, Claude or ChatGPT reads the RSS feed and rewrites them for LinkedIn, Blotato schedules them
Bonus move he swears by: when a LinkedIn post does well, record a few seconds of yourself reading it as a Reel or Short. He says about 90% of those do well too (the format already proved itself).
🎥 Watch Video: Click here
7. The $50,000 internal linking test: clicked links carry more weight
Edward Sturm breaks down a Black Hat World post where one SEO spent $50,000 testing internal links across 15 websites. Then he lines the results up against a Google patent that assigns link weight by the probability someone clicks it.
What you'll discover:
The numbers: up to a 150% jump in ad RPMs with 10+ internal links per page, and no ranking drop at 20+ links
The indexing fix: 5 internal links to and from every post ended his "crawled, currently not indexed" problems
Why link order matters: your first internal link carries more value than your fifth, even if it sits mid-article
(Sturm is upfront that the patent has expired and Google doesn't use every patent it files. He still thinks the click signal is real, given how much Google already measures clicks in search results.)
🎥 Watch Video: Click here
8. The 50% test your thumbnails are probably failing
In the US, TV now beats mobile as the main device people watch YouTube on, and the TV layout only shows the top half of your thumbnail. Aprilynne Alter has reviewed thousands of thumbnails and gives the same notes 90% of the time.
What you'll discover:
The 50% test: cover the bottom half, and if nothing's left to earn a click, move key elements or text into the top third
Her 5 reference sources (internal outliers, external outliers, model channels, bookmarks, off-platform) and why you want 10 to 15 of them
3 fast fixes: strip the clutter, make the main character obvious, A/B test your thumbnail text
🎥 Watch Video: Click here
9. Get AI to recommend you with plain YouTube videos
Rob Hoffman cites a study showing YouTube with about 22% mention share in Google's AI Overviews, the top source on the list. Then he shows what's ranking for B2B buying prompts: stock footage with an AI voice on top. The bar is on the floor.
What you'll discover:
The interview trick: have the expert repeat each question in their answer so your keywords land in the transcript
His checklist: keyword in the file name and title (under 60 characters), layered tags, timestamps and chapters
Why the transcript matters most to AI crawlers, and how he uses Gemini to transcribe the video before uploading captions
🎥 Watch Video: Click here
10. The LinkedIn hooks that survive the 2026 algorithm
Harry Long spent a weekend going through 10,000+ viral LinkedIn posts and sorting the hooks that worked. By his read, the first line is what separates a post that gets 400,000 impressions from one that gets 400.
What you'll discover:
The 3 algorithm shifts he flags: conversation depth now beats likes (30 real comments outrank 300 likes), external links get suppressed by up to 60%, and "comment this word for the DM" bait now hurts reach
His 5 hook rules, including "promise the value, hold back the reveal": "I changed one line in my post and got 47 leads" beats "Here's how I got 47 leads"
Swipe-ready formats: numbered value, contrarian, vulnerable confession, results-first, "I was wrong", timeline, direct call-out, and more
(Worth reading next to Joshua Elder's Facebook play below. Comment-driven posts are paying Joshua on Facebook, while Harry says the "comment X" version backfires on LinkedIn. Same tactic, different platform rules.)
🎥 Watch Video: Click here
11. Build your own SEO research engine on your laptop
Huss Ali swapped 5 or 6 separate SEO tools for one local app, built on the open-source Claude blog project with Claude Code. It researches first and writes second.
What you'll discover:
The workflow: content research, competitor research, search intent, content plan, then article generation
How he connects Google Ads Keyword Planner for real volume, CPC and competition data (plus the developer-token access catch)
The self-review pass: SEO, citation, quality, word count and prose checks on a 1,600+ word draft
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12. $1,154 in commissions in 1 day from Facebook text posts
Joshua Elder posts plain text on Facebook, replies to the comments with his affiliate link, and lets the vendor handle the selling. One post hit 25,523 views in its first hour. (He's clear that results aren't typical.)
What you'll discover:
Why comment replies beat "link in bio" right now: keep people on the platform or your reach gets throttled
His offer rule: $1,000 to $3,000 products at around 50% commission, which worked out to $3.82 per click
Why he promotes live product launches over evergreen offers: 90% of his $48,926 in September 2025 came in the first 2 weeks
(As someone who launches on JVZoo and WarriorPlus, I'll back him on the launch point. Scarcity plus live calls sells.)
🎥 Watch Video: Click here
That's 12. You don't need all of them.
Pick one. Run it this week. Then hit reply and tell me which one you picked.
🛠️ How this edition got built (steal the process)
Everything you just read came out of one Chrome extension I built: Content Genesis.
It reads the tabs you already have open (YouTube videos, articles, X threads, LinkedIn posts), then hands them to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini with the research prompt, your brand voice and your CTA already loaded. You review a draft. That's the job.
Yesterday I recorded a demo covering 2 strategies. Both are in one video at the top of the sales page:
Strategy 1: A multi-item curated newsletter in under 20 minutes. Open your sources in tabs, scan every tab at once, pick the Newsletter generator. It's the same process behind the edition in front of you.
Strategy 2: Mario Joos's 65,000-view format, in 2 clicks. Mario took a dense video on YouTube's algorithm changes and curated it into 50 takeaways on X. That post hit 65,000 views, and his infographic follow-up passed 6,400 views in 18 hours. I rebuilt the same framework with the Authority Breakdown generator, then turned it into the infographic with the Content Image Builder. You'll watch me do it live.
(Those are Mario's public numbers, shown to illustrate the format. Your results depend on your niche and your audience.)
Even better, Mario then created an infographic, which got 6,400 views in 18 hours. The infographic was based on the same content that his Twitter article covered! Content Genesis also has you covered for high-quality infographics too.
The short version of what you get:
One tab or every open tab at once, across YouTube, articles, X, LinkedIn, Substack and Medium
Newsletters, blog posts, infographics, authority posts, affiliate email sequences and more, in your voice
Runs on your own AI, so there are no credits to buy, and Tube Genesis comes bundled free
👉 Watch both demos and grab Content Genesis: https://anthonyhayes.io/content-genesis/
Talk soon,
Tony
P.S. Run Content Genesis on a real week of your own tabs and post consistently.
This is how to grow on social media with just 2 clicks per day and is the exact playbook we are putting into action this week.
Both demos are at the top of the page: https://anthonyhayes.io/content-genesis/