Automation On Steroids
We’re revamping The Method.
We want to grow our list by 5,000 new subs before year’s end.
To do this, we’re focusing on content marketing + AI to create captions and images from our old posts.
This means exporting every post we’ve published (203 in total) as a PDF to train our AI.
We were going to hire a VA to do this (roughly 12 hours at $23.50 NZD min wage – $282).
Instead, I’ve set up Claude AI to do this in less than 15 minutes for $39 NZD, and it’s worked near perfectly with only one check-in from me.
Here’s the process:
I. Go to Claude.ai and sign up
II. Upgrade your plan to Pro ($39 NZD per month)
III. Click Claude Code
IV. Go to the install instructions page – link here
V. Open your computer’s terminal (Command + T for Mac) / (Windows key + R for PC)
VI. Copy and paste the following into your terminal:
VII. You can now type in your terminal and ask it to do tasks as if it were your own mini-developer or VA
VIII. Ask it to create a folder to save all of the work it is doing in the terminal:
“Please create a folder to save all of the work we’re doing together.”
IX. Now that you’ve got a folder to save your work, you can prompt it as if it were a VA or a dev. Here is exactly what I typed into my terminal to get it to scrape all of our old posts:
“I need you to go to https://themethod.beehiiv.com/ and please scrape all post and save them as individual PDFs per post please.
These will be used as transcripts for how we write as a tone of voice and feedback into our AI to train it. If the above method doesn’t seem logical please find an alternative that will be better.”
It initially declined my request, stating it wasn’t allowed to scrape other websites. I then told it I was the site owner, and it just accepted that as proof and went to work.
If you are a business owner, having your own developer for your projects is incredibly useful.
Claude built this Python app for face detection in under 5 minutes without me even looking at it after my initial prompt.
Here’s the code it ran below.
Any menial digital tasks you’ve been doing can now be outsourced to an AI agent for a fraction of the cost of what it used to be.
Business is about outsourcing low-value tasks to others; now we can do this faster and more efficiently than ever before.
