Newsletter: Claude is quietly running Amazon ad accounts now (and 9 other plays)


The marketers winning in 2026 aren't working harder. They're handing the boring 80% to AI.

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Hey Guys,

Here's something that should bug you a little: most of the people crushing it right now aren't smarter than you, and they're definitely not working more hours. They've just figured out which 80% of their work a machine can do while they sleep.

This edition is 10 videos of people doing exactly that. Amazon PPC running itself. WordPress sites going from a 45 speed score to 100 in under a minute. A $55K/month rank-and-rent business built on one boring trick. A Pinterest system that pulled $117K in 30 days.

I went through every transcript so you don't have to. Let's get into it.


TL;DR

Claude and ChatGPT have crossed a line: they can now run whole chunks of a marketing operation, not just write copy. You'll see Claude managing Amazon bids and launching 700+ ad campaigns (Video 1), KDP self-publishing built in nap-time windows (Video 2), a WordPress speed fix that hits 100 in seconds (Video 3), the sub-niche strategy behind $55K/month (Video 4), the AI receptionist that "sells itself" on math (Video 5), Claude Code wired into WordPress safely (Video 6), a branded audit tool that opens client conversations (Video 7), a $117K Pinterest + AI creative system (Video 8), and two full Claude Code SEO machines that auto-publish content and social (Videos 9 & 10).

The thread running through all of it: pick one repeatable task, build a system around it, let the AI run it.


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1. Hand Your Amazon Ad Account to Claude (Bids, Launches, Day-Parting)

Chris Rawlings walks through 5 Claude skills that take over the PPC grunt work you currently lose hours to. The trick he opens with is what he calls the "simplest possible attempt": just download your search term report and upload it.

What you'll discover:

  • The RPC (revenue-per-click) bidding method Claude uses, with built-in guardrails like min/max CPC, branded-term protection, and a reverse file that undoes every change if your account tanks.
  • How a campaign-launcher artifact generated 700+ correctly formatted bulk-upload rows for a multi-ASIN brand in 15 minutes (a job he once spent half a month on).
  • The day-parting case study: conversion rate went from 16.5% to 35% and ACoS dropped from 27% to 18% just by adjusting bids by hour.

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2. The 6-Figure KDP Business Built in Nap-Time Windows

Caroline from Self Publishing Central spent 13 years failing at online business before KDP clicked. Her edge wasn't more time, it was brutal constraint: 90-minute windows while her daughter slept.

What you'll discover:

  • The 3 questions she runs every business idea through: does it need money upfront, is income capped by hours, does it tie you to a place? KDP passes all three.
  • Why she picks books on what the data says is selling (best-seller rank under 10,000, decent reviews, no single brand owning the space) instead of what she loves.
  • The "fix what you have before adding more" rule: keywords, covers, and reviews beat publishing book after book.

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3. WordPress: From 45 to 100 Speed Score in Under a Minute

Ferdy Korpershoek tests a speed plugin on his own live site and watches the mobile PageSpeed score jump from 45 to 100. (He'd never broken 99 before, so the reaction is real.)

What you'll discover:

  • The exact setup: install the Airlift plugin, connect, then toggle WebP conversion, lazy loading, and PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript optimization.
  • What the free tier covers versus the $10/month pro tier (dynamic image resizing, font subsetting, auto cache purge on update).
  • A nice detail for client work: the free version leaves no "optimized by" badge on your site.

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4. The Boring Sub-Niche Trick Behind $55K/Month Rank & Rent

Saravanan Ganesh has lived off two browser tabs for 10 years: a list of US cities by population and HomeAdvisor categories. Everyone chases plumbers and dentists. He goes one level deeper.

What you'll discover:

  • Why a plumbing search in Des Moines shows competitors with 8,300 reviews, while "epoxy flooring" in the same city has listings with 52, 27, and 3 reviews.
  • The partial-match GMB play (think "Gainesville Basement Waterproofing Pros") and why one job can be worth $2K–$15K even if the listing later gets suspended.
  • How one student, Greg, went from ~$5K to $55K/month by zeroing in on a single sub-niche inside a big niche.

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5. The AI Receptionist That Basically Sells Itself

Vendasta's Kendall opens with a gut-punch stat: 62% of customers won't call back if no one answers the first time. They just tap the next result. The AI receptionist plugs that leak across phone, chat, and SMS.

What you'll discover:

  • The 3 channels it covers and how it books appointments straight into the calendar, 24/7, handling multiple conversations at once.
  • Why you sell it on math, not features: a part-time receptionist runs $2,000–$3,000/month, a full-timer $3,500–$5,000, and they go home at 5pm.
  • The 3-step launch: connect the number or chat widget, train it on the business's own knowledge base, turn it on.

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6. Claude Code Inside WordPress, the Safe Way

Jeffrey at Lytbox treats Claude Code like a junior developer sitting next to him. But he's firm: start local, never on a live site while you're learning, because Claude will break things.

What you'll discover:

  • The full safe stack: the free Nova Mira MCP (so Claude isn't "drunk and blind" in your files), WordPress's own agent skills, and a Claude.md rules file.
  • Why a code-management plugin like Fluent Snippets matters: it containerizes everything Claude writes so you can deactivate a bad snippet instead of digging through core files.
  • The right first task to build trust: generate dummy blog posts, not "build my whole site in Elementor."

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7. The 1-Minute Branded Audit That Opens Client Conversations

Merchynt's pitch: fulfillment isn't the hard part anymore, getting busy owners to care is. This white-labeled local marketing audit puts your logo on a report that shows a business exactly what's broken.

What you'll discover:

  • What the report hands a lead: an optimization score, a "revenue you're missing" market-size number, competitor breakdowns, an AI-visibility check across ChatGPT/Perplexity/Grok/Gemini, and Google Maps heat maps.
  • The 3 ways agencies deploy it: free audit on the site, paid audits ($49–$499 so the lead has skin in the game), and live audit-on-a-call.
  • The fastest-growing partners spend just $5–$30/day on Meta ads pitching an audit call.

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8. The Pinterest + AI Creative System That Pulled $117K in 30 Days

Luc Bermond scaled one account from $300/day to $9,000+/day spend, landing $117K in revenue at a 5.5 ROAS. His reason it stayed stable: Pinterest has almost no ad competition, so it's a blue ocean.

What you'll discover:

  • Why he treats Pinterest as a visual search engine: 8–10 branded boards, 15–20 of your own pins per board, plus the shopping catalog plugged in.
  • The creative engine (Google Flow + ChatGPT image gen) producing endless statics, videos, and carousels to test, test, test.
  • The campaign setup: conversion campaigns under 20 products, catalog sales above, low $5 starting budgets because the learning phase runs 7–10 days, and targeting women 25+ for higher AOV.

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9. The Claude Code SEO Machine That Auto-Publishes Blog + Social

Tim the SEO Guru wires Claude Code into Arvow and Blotato to run an entire content ecosystem. One client jumped from ~1,300 to a steep climb in organic traffic, plus more AI citations.

What you'll discover:

  • The funnel logic: target bottom-of-funnel keywords, build content pillars, link blog posts to service/money pages so every visitor lands somewhere that converts.
  • How a saved "SEO Content Autopilot" skill runs competitor research, gap analysis, and a full keyword/title plan, then pushes finished articles live via the Arvow API.
  • The bonus loop: pull your blog's RSS feed into Blotato to auto-generate and schedule SEO-optimized social posts across accounts.

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10. Zero to 34K Visitors/Month ($19K in Free Traffic) with Claude Code

Arvow's Carvalho breaks down a SaaS that doubled traffic in 6 months. The whole thing runs on two phases, and you don't need to touch code.

What you'll discover:

  • Phase one, free tools: ask Claude Code to build a widget (invoice generator, ROI calculator) and hand you an iframe to embed, roughly 15 minutes of work that pulls free traffic.
  • Phase two, the content machine: paste one prompt, give your URL, and Claude maps 3–5 competitors, runs a gap analysis, and clusters 28 keywords into a prioritized plan.
  • How that plan feeds Arvow's auto-blog (knowledge base for branding, then 1–3 articles/day published straight to your CMS, complete with FAQs, internal links, and images).

🎥 Watch here


Pick one. Just one. Don't try to run all 10 of these systems today, or you'll end up running none of them. Choose the play closest to a task you already hate doing, build the system once, and let it run.

The whole point of this stuff is to buy back your time, not fill it with 10 new dashboards.

Talk soon,

- Tony

P.S. Video 8's creator, Luc, mentioned a live training on the Pinterest setup. If you want to copy that system, check the video description for the date before it passes. Time-sensitive stuff like that disappears fast.

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