One Person Empire: The (Constantly Growing) Complete Course Outline
100+ lessons on making money, getting customers, using AI, and building a solo business that lasts.
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One Person Empire is the series for turning what you know into money without a big team, a huge audience, or a perfect plan. You will learn what to sell, how to find customers, where AI can save you hours, and how to build income that keeps coming back. Save this page, pick the lesson that solves your biggest problem today, and start there.
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Start From Zero
Pick who you want to help, choose a money path, and make your first clear move.
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
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)
The Boring Business Finder: 25 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
Choose a small offer people want and get it ready to sell.
Test Before You Build
The 48-Hour Offer Test (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
Turn a Small Audience Into Your First $1,000 (Coming)
The $27 Product Playbook (Coming)
Build a Price Ladder From $27 to $997 (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)
Build and Launch
The Ugly First Version Rule (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, earn attention, and turn that 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)
The First 10 Customer Sprint (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)
Social Media
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)
Get Seen by Picking One App, Not Five (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 (Coming)
Set Up a Brand New Pinterest Account in One Weekend (Coming)
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
Build an Email List You Own in One Weekend (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)
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 a Cofounder (Coming)
Pick the Right AI Agent for Real Business Work (Free lesson)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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
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)
Bonus Tools
Use these prompt packs with the lessons above.
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