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Start From Zero
Pick who you want to help, choose a money path, and make the first simple business choice.
Start Here
Ways to Make Money
But How Can I Make Money Online? (Paid lesson)
The Math of a $10K-Month One-Person Business (Coming)
Every Way to Make Money Online, Explained Simply (Paid lesson)
How to Set Your Income Floor Before You Quit Your Job (Coming)
Every Way to Make Money Online Without Showing Your Face (Paid lesson)
The Income Ceiling of a Solo Business (Coming)
Pick a Clear Direction
Find Your Profitable Niche (Paid lesson)
Exactly How to Start Making Money Online Today (Even If You Don't Know Where to Start) (Paid lesson)
How to Pick a Niche in 48 Hours (Coming)
Start a One-Person Business This Week (Coming)
Start a One-Person Business This Week With One Clear Offer (Coming)
The Total Beginner Business Map When You Have No Idea (Coming)
Turn Too Many Ideas Into One Offer You Can Test (Coming)
Choose the Customer Before You Choose the Product (Coming)
The Boring Business Finder: 25 Problems People Already Pay to Fix (Coming)
Find Boring Problems People Already Pay to Fix (Coming)
Personal Brand or Faceless Business? (Coming)
Personal Brand vs AI Avatar vs Faceless in 2026 (Coming)
The No-Audience Local Offer (Coming)
The Thin Offer Trap (Coming)
Build Solo on Purpose
Why Staying Solo Can Beat Building a Team Too Soon (Coming)
The Four Jobs Every One-Person Business Has (Coming)
The Truth About the Three-Hour Workday (Coming)
The Mistakes That Kill a New Solo Business in Year One (Coming)
Course Checkpoint
Build Your One-Page Business Blueprint (Coming)
Pick Your First Offer
Research a real problem, shape a paid offer, and set up the basics before you promote.
Test Before You Build
Find One Painful Problem People Already Want Solved (Paid lesson)
Map Your Market Without Copying Your Competitors (Paid lesson)
The 48-Hour Offer Test (Coming)
Research an Offer People Already Want Before You Build Anything (Coming)
Research an Offer People Already Want Before You Build (Coming)
Use Reddit, Reviews, and Comments to Find Buyer Pain (Coming)
Use Comments and Reviews to Find Buyer Pain Fast (Coming)
Turn Research Into a Simple Promise (Coming)
Turn Research Into a Simple Promise People Understand (Coming)
Build a Human Proof Stack Before You Sell Anything (Coming)
Digital Products, Services, or Subscriptions? (Coming)
How to Price Something Nobody Else Sells (Coming)
Choose What to Sell
Pick the Best Format for Your First Offer (Paid lesson)
Outline the Smallest Offer Someone Can Buy (Paid lesson)
Pick the Right Offer Type Before You Build Anything (Coming)
Turn a Small Audience Into Your First $1,000 (Coming)
Turn a Normal Skill Into Your First Paid Service (Coming)
Make Your First Offer: Problem, Person, Result, Price (Coming)
Make Your First Offer With Four Plain Pieces (Coming)
Write Your Offer in One Page (Coming)
Write Your Offer on One Page Before You Build (Coming)
Add a Bonus Without Adding More Work (Coming)
The $27 Product Playbook (Coming)
Build a Price Ladder From $27 to $997 (Coming)
Sell a Digital Product Without Building a Giant Funnel (Coming)
UGC and Ad Creative as a Beginner Cash Offer (Coming)
Boring Local Services and a Google Business Profile (Coming)
Affiliate Income Without Feeling Scammy (Coming)
How to Sell a Simple Template (Coming)
Build a Small Course in One Weekend (Coming)
Services First: The Fastest Path to Cash (Coming)
Productized Service Before SaaS (Coming)
Use Done-for-You Work to Fund a Product (Coming)
Set Up the Basics
Map the Simple Tech Stack Behind Your Business (Paid lesson)
Set Up the Basic Business Infrastructure in One Weekend (Coming)
Set Up the Beginner Business Stack Without Overbuilding (Coming)
Buy the Domain, Email, and Checkout Without Overbuilding (Coming)
Set Up Booking, Payment, and Delivery (Coming)
Pick the Payment Path That Fits Your First Offer (Coming)
Set Up Booking Delivery and Client Onboarding (Coming)
Make a Tiny CRM Before Leads Slip Away (Coming)
Make a Tiny Lead Tracker Before Leads Slip Away (Coming)
Write the First Customer Welcome Email (Coming)
Build the Delivery Checklist for Your First Offer (Coming)
Build and Launch
The Ugly First Version Rule (Coming)
Write Your First Sales Page (Paid lesson)
Start Building Your First Offer (Paid lesson)
Finish the Smallest Sellable Version of Your Offer (Paid lesson)
Build the Minimum Landing Page That Can Take Money (Coming)
Your First Founding Customer Deal (Coming)
The Three Sales Pages Every Product Needs (Coming)
Proof Before Product Hunt: Launch to One Community First (Coming)
The 24-Hour Launch Day Plan (Coming)
The Seven-Day Post-Launch Plan (Coming)
Course Checkpoint
Pick and Price Your First Offer (Coming)
Get Your First Customers
Find people, promote the offer, and turn attention into sales.
Find Customers
How to Start an Online Business by Finding Leads and Customers Before You Build Anything (Paid lesson)
The Math of Your First 100 Customers (Coming)
Get Leads by Helping People in Public (Paid lesson)
The First 10 Customer Sprint (Coming)
Run the First 10 Conversation Sprint From Scratch (Coming)
Build Your First Buyer List From Search, Reddit, Comments, and DMs (Coming)
Customer Language Mining: Turn Reddit, DMs, and Sales Calls Into Copy (Coming)
The Cold DM Framework (Coming)
The Instagram DM Playbook (Coming)
Build a Referral System (Coming)
Test Demand With a Waitlist and Pre-Sale (Coming)
Promote the Offer
Promote Your Offer for 30 Days Without a Big Audience (Coming)
Write the First 20 Posts That Sell the Offer (Coming)
Run a 60-Day Launch Plan Until the First Sale (Coming)
Turn One Offer Into a Week of Reels, Threads, Emails, and Notes (Coming)
Run a Small Launch Without a Giant Funnel (Coming)
Track Offer Promotion So You Know What Worked (Coming)
Social Media
Claim Your Channels and Publish Your First Useful Post (Paid lesson)
How to Grow an Audience Before You Have a Product: The 30-Day Content Sprint (Paid lesson)
Pick the Right Creator Platform for Money, Growth, and Trust (Coming)
Build Your Content Strategy and Research System (Paid lesson)
Get Leads With Reels and Carousels (Paid lesson)
Build an Owned Facebook Page and Group (Paid lesson)
Get Seen by Picking One App, Not Five (Coming)
Build an Audience While Your Offer Is Still Messy (Coming)
Start Posting Helpful Content Before the Offer Is Finished (Coming)
Short Form or Long Form? Pick by Buyer Intent, Not Trends (Coming)
Instagram Leaked Its August Algorithm Formulas (Paid lesson)
Make Your First $20K on Instagram Before You Hit 1,000 Followers (Paid lesson)
Seven Places to Share Every Launch (Coming)
Turn One Piece of Content Into Posts for Every Channel (Coming)
Stack Instagram, TikTok, Substack, and Email Without Burning Out (Coming)
Pinterest
Decide Between a New Pinterest Board and a New Pinterest Account (Paid lesson)
Set Up a Brand New Pinterest Account in One Weekend (Paid lesson)
Build a Pinterest System That Sends Search Traffic to Your Offer (Paid lesson)
Find the Words Your Buyer Types Into Pinterest Without a Paid Tool (Coming)
Turn One Blog Post Into Ten Pins (Coming)
Pin Design That Earns the Click (Coming)
The Five Pinterest Numbers Worth Reading Every Week (Coming)
Send Pinterest Traffic to an Email List Instead of a Sales Page (Coming)
Pinterest for a Product Nobody Can Photograph (Coming)
Fix a Pinterest Account That Stopped Getting Impressions (Coming)
Run Two Pinterest Accounts Without Getting Flagged (Coming)
Email and Owned Audience
Pick a Lead Magnet That Leads to Your Offer (Paid lesson)
Build a Useful Lead Magnet in One Day (Paid lesson)
Automate Lead Magnet Delivery Without Losing Leads (Paid lesson)
Build an Email List You Own in One Weekend (Coming)
Write the Email Sequence That Leads to the Offer (Paid lesson)
Build an Email List Before the Offer Is Perfect (Coming)
Pick the Cheapest Email Tool for a 100,000-Person List (Coming)
The Paid Newsletter Offer That Feels Like a Real Product (Coming)
How One Newsletter Post Can Make Sales (Coming)
Use Substack as a Sales Engine (Coming)
The Math of an Email List With 100 People (Coming)
Search, Partners, and Media
Claim Your Free Google Search Profile (Free lesson)
SEO for Solo Founders in the AI Search Era (Coming)
Turn One YouTube Video Into Trust, Leads, and Sales (Paid lesson)
How to Get on Podcasts When Nobody Knows You (Coming)
Affiliate Marketing the Right Way (Coming)
Marketing and Sales
The Marketing Funnel Died in 2026: The 4-Part Framework That Made Me $100K in 27 Days (Paid lesson)
Build Your First 100-Customer Plan (Coming)
The Underpricing Audit (Coming)
Use AI to Do More
Give AI the busy work while you keep the proof, taste, trust, and choices.
Pick Your AI Stack
How I Made $60k From Scratch in Just 40 Days With AI (Paid lesson)
My Current AI Stack, Costs, and Cheaper Choices (Coming)
The AI Tool Diet: Cut Your Stack to the Three Tools That Run the Business (Coming)
A Small AI Stack Versus a Big Team (Coming)
How to Pick the Right AI Tool for Each Job (Coming)
Give AI Real Jobs
Use AI as Your Daily Business Brain Without Letting It Decide (Coming)
Pick the Right AI Agent for Real Business Work (Free lesson)
Use AI as a Cofounder (Coming)
Build Your First AI Agent (Coming)
Use AI for Outreach Without Sounding Like AI (Coming)
Turn One Voice Note Into a Full Article (Coming)
Build Simple Code Without a Developer (Coming)
Make Simple Brand Visuals With OpenAI Gemini and Canva (Coming)
Use AI for Invoices, Scheduling, and Admin (Coming)
Build a Custom AI Agent in One Hour (Coming)
Voice Cloning, Screen Recording, and Other Useful AI Tools (Coming)
Prompts and Safety
AI Mistakes That Waste Time and Money (Coming)
How to Use AI Without Sounding Fake (Coming)
The Daily Business Prompt Swipe File (Coming)
Course Checkpoint
Pick Your AI Stack in 30 Minutes (Coming)
Build Repeat Money
Turn one sale into a simple money loop that can keep going.
Pick a Recurring Model
Turn One Sale Into Repeat Money (Coming)
Why $5K in Monthly Repeat Revenue Changes a Solo Business (Coming)
Subscriptions, Memberships, or Retainers? (Coming)
The Tiny Paid Community: Micro-Lessons, Outcomes, and Quiet Weeks (Coming)
How Paid Substack Works (Coming)
The Retainer Model for Service Providers (Coming)
Turn a Service Into a Subscription (Coming)
When a Paid Community Works (Coming)
Build Software as a One-Person Business (Coming)
Low-Cost Versus High-Cost Subscriptions (Coming)
Keep and Grow Repeat Revenue
Churn in Plain English (Coming)
Upsells, Downsells, and the Rest of the Customer Path (Coming)
Use Annual Plans to Improve Cash Flow (Coming)
Build a Better Cancellation Flow (Coming)
What to Try When Monthly Revenue Stops Growing (Coming)
Course Checkpoint
Build Your Monthly Revenue Plan (Coming)
Make It Run Without You
Build the small systems that keep the business moving.
Remove Repetitive Work
Run a Bitchwork Audit (Coming)
Automate the Boring Parts Only After the Path Works (Coming)
What AI Should Do, What a Human Should Do, and What You Should Never Hand Off (Coming)
Five Automations Every Small Business Needs (Coming)
Build Simple Workflows
Build a Simple CRM (Coming)
Wire the Rest of the Foundational Automations (Paid lesson)
Test the Full Buyer Journey Before You Send Traffic (Paid lesson)
Reach Inbox Zero With an AI Assistant (Coming)
The One-Person Operating System (Coming)
Build a Content System From Idea to Published (Coming)
Numbers and Reviews
Find Your Funnel Leak With Four Numbers (Coming)
The Monday Dashboard Every Founder Needs (Coming)
Do Bookkeeping in 30 Minutes a Week (Coming)
Run a Weekly Business Review (Coming)
Protect Your Time
When to Hire a Contractor (Coming)
Write a Contractor Brief That Works (Coming)
What Breaks at $10K a Month (Coming)
Test Whether Your Business Can Run for 14 Days Without You (Coming)
Course Checkpoint
Build Your Small System Stack (Coming)
Grow Without Hiring
Add reach, products, and brands without building a big team.
Build a Portfolio Business
Run Three to Five Income Streams as One Person (Coming)
Build More Than One Brand (Coming)
Know When to Add a Second Product (Coming)
Run Personal and Faceless Brands Together (Coming)
Take the Same Product to a New Audience (Coming)
Grow Your Capacity
Stay Solo or Add Help? (Coming)
Push Past Your Solo Capacity Ceiling (Coming)
Use AI as Revenue Grows (Coming)
Add New Leverage
License Your Work (Coming)
Creator IP: Protect Your Voice, Face, Templates, and Prompts (Coming)
Build a Long-Term Distribution Stack (Coming)
Know When It May Be Time to Sell (Coming)
Course Checkpoint
Build Your Grow-Without-Hiring Map (Coming)
The Grown-Up Stuff
Handle the money, safety, and life parts of a real solo business.
Business Structure and Money
How Common Business Structures Work and When to Ask a Pro (Coming)
Handle Legal and Tax Basics Without Turning It Into Homework (Coming)
A Solo Business Tax Checklist to Take to a Tax Pro (Coming)
How to Pick a Bookkeeping Tool (Coming)
How Health Insurance Works When You Work for Yourself (Coming)
Retirement Choices for Solo Business Owners (Coming)
Build a Cash Buffer (Coming)
Build a Business You Can Keep
Restart a Burned-Out Business With One Smaller Offer (Coming)
Price Your Way Out of Burnout (Coming)
Stop Making Your Business Your Whole Identity (Coming)
What to Do When You Are Bored, Not Failing (Coming)
Talk to Friends, Family, and a Partner About the Business (Coming)
Think Long Term
Run a Five-Year Solo Founder Review (Coming)
Know Your Exit Choices (Coming)
Find Your Good Enough Number (Coming)
What 100+ One Person Empire Lessons Taught Me (Coming)
More OPE Lessons
These lessons do not fit one course step yet, but they still belong in the full OPE library.
Make Money Online - Beginner 30-Day Challenge: Start a One-Person Business This Week With One Clear Offer (Paid lesson)
30-Day Online Business Challenge: Your Day-by-Day Guide (Free lesson)
Bonus Tools
Use these prompt packs with the lessons above.
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