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Hi Reader,

"Too bad there's no digital equivalent of hanging your first dollar on the wall," my husband said.

1-Click AI Marketer got its first subscriber this week.

It's a milestone worth celebrating!

As entrepreneurs (and humans, in general), we're often really terrible at celebrating our wins.

And as far as sales go — $37 — really isn't that much to celebrate.

(In this economy?!??!)

But there's something magical to the first sale after you've spent months on product development.

It's a signal.

A sign that you're going the right direction.

I'll take it.

A bit more about 1-Click AI Marketer

When I started building 1-Click AI Marketer, I thought what I was building was an info product.

But it soon became clear (after someone told me, of course) that what I've built looks a lot more like software than an online course.

There are three tools in the suite today, and more on the way.

• AI-Powered Carousel Posts: You know the slideshow-type posts on Instagram and LinkedIn? They get a lot of engagement. But they can be hard to create from scratch. So this tool allows you, the user, to paste in some long-form content (like a blog post or a podcast transcript) and get a carousel post in return. I'll work on adding images to these, too, in the near future.
• AI-Powered LinkedIn Posts: This tool is much more about creating a mini essay around a topic or any other source material. Paste in some content, get an essay you can easily post to LinkedIn in just a few minutes.
• AI-Powered Short-Form Content: This tool takes your content and outputs ten pieces of short-form content that you can post anywhere. It adheres to Twitter's 280 character limit, but you could post these anywhere. I've even found that these make great headlines for longer-form content since isn't that what a tweet is? A hook, and a headline?

And I'll be adding more all the time.

Things like:

• Creating an email marketing campaign based on your sales page. This one is about 50% done, and it's awesome. You give it the URL of your sales page, the name of your offer, your name, and your preferred sign-off method, and it gives you back 20-25 emails.
• Generating 25 headlines. My coach and mentor gave me a huge list of proven headlines, so I'm building a tool that gives you 25 headlines for the topic you input. This one is nearly done, but I promised myself I wouldn't add features until I'd done at least more than zero promotion.

I have dozens, if not hundreds, of fill-in-the-blank templates that I could see building tools like these around. If you subscribe, you can help me prioritize the tool you'd like added next!

Other things I saw this week

quick hits, hot takes, links to click

• You don't need to tell people you haven't emailed them in awhile. I've gotten at least three emails this week thanking me for my patience since it's been awhile.

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• And if you do tell people it's been awhile, take the extra step and remind them what you do and why they might have signed up in the first place. I sign up for a lot of email lists. I test a lot of software. In the generative AI era, the software names are forgettable at best (and like prescription drug names, at worst). A quick little reminder like "doodlebiddle is your AI companion for doodling" (or a little ad like I have above) goes a long way toward jogging my memory as to why you have my email address.

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• ConvertKit is rebranding (again). Sometimes software companies think they'll stay hip and relevant if they rebrand. Sometimes the founder just wants to rebrand. Read founder Nathan Barry's original post about rebranding here. That post is from 2018-2020, and they almost immediately realized their mistake and reversed directions. But now they're doing it again. My prediction? No one will call them "Kit" just like no one calls Infusionsoft "Keap" and no one will ever call it a "xeet."

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• Software product of the week (affiliate link): Make.com. This is the product I use to build my software tools. It's like Zapier without the guardrails, which means it's both more powerful and significantly easier to mess up. It's really amazing, and combines two things I love: automation and AI. This tool is for the technically adept, and it has stymied me more than a few times. Like last Friday, when I was connecting to the Google Cloud and somehow disabled YouTube access for myself. Interestingly, this company has also undergone a rebrand, but in this case I get it. Make.com is where you make things, whereas their previous name, Integromat, somehow makes me think of integrating laundromats.

That's all for this week— hope you like the new format!

Kathleen Celmins Amplified Now ​ 2314 W Olive Way, Chandler, Arizona 85248 ​Unsubscribe · Preferences​