Growth Playbook
The Small Business Growth Playbook
A practical guide to getting found, getting customers, creating useful content, and building simpler systems—with a focused 30-day growth sprint.
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Playbooks, workbooks, checklists and starter kits.
Practical resources built to help you complete a real business task, not just read about one.
Marketing Playbook
The $0 Marketing Playbook
A practical plan for visibility, referrals, partnerships, useful content, thoughtful outreach, and follow-up when your marketing budget is tiny.
Customers Workbook
The First 5 Customers Workbook
Choose who to target, build a focused prospect list, shape the offer, write useful outreach, follow up, and learn from real conversations.
Systems Workbook
The Small Business Systems Workbook
Audit repetitive work and decide what to remove, template, automate, delegate, or deliberately keep human.
Content Workbook
The 30-Day Content Workbook
Build content pillars, mine customer questions, repurpose strong ideas, and plan a sustainable month of useful content.
Creative Protection Starter kit
The Creative Protection Starter Kit
A practical documentation and response workbook for clearer creation records, provenance, AI-use preferences, and suspected misuse.
Nonprofit Starter kit
The Nonprofit Marketing Starter Kit
Clarify your message, map supporter journeys, strengthen proof, plan content, approach partners, and build a focused 30-day nonprofit marketing plan.
Marketplaces & Selling Checklist
Etsy First Listing Launch Checklist
A practical pre-publish checklist for turning one Etsy product idea into a launch-ready listing. Choose the path for a physical product, instant digital product, made-to-order digital product, or custom/personalized item, then work through every relevant check before publishing.
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Simple Client Intake + Onboarding Kit
A practical free starter kit for moving an accepted client from yes to project-ready with minimum-necessary intake, asset collection, safe access, communication expectations, kickoff, responsibility mapping, first milestone planning, blocker handling, and a clear project-ready handoff.
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Price a Creative Service Calculator
Estimate a sustainable hourly floor and project quote from your income goal, business expenses, realistic billable capacity, project scope, direct costs, user-entered usage or licensing add-ons, and actual platform or payment fees.
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UGC Portfolio Builder
Plan a clear UGC creator portfolio, choose representative samples, label beginner work honestly, organize creator-provided evidence, and run a practical mobile portfolio QA before pitching brands.
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7 Things to Automate Before You Hire
A practical pre-hire automation playbook that helps founders remove repetitive admin before hiring and preserve human judgment for the work that actually needs it.
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Use the route that matches what you need: diagnose the business, solve one problem, follow a walkthrough, download a workbook, or learn the strategy behind it.
Free Growth Plan
See what is working, where the strongest gaps or opportunities are, and what to do next.
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Choose a specific business problem and get a solution shaped around your answers.
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Follow practical walkthroughs and fix straightforward problems yourself.
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Read practical articles and perspectives on growth, marketing, visibility, content and systems.
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