#142 · No-frills guide to your first AI automation agency client
Maker School focuses on the zero‑to‑one stage—helping you get your first customer from scratch. Make Money with Make tackles the one‑to‑100 stage—taking something that works and scaling it faster and better. Make Money with Make includes Maker School, so paying for the higher‑tier community gives you access to both.
Maker School is a zero‑to‑1 community that helps you get up and running with daily accountability, focusing on lead generation and acquiring your first customers. Once you have a few clients, you can move up to Make Money with Make, which is a higher‑ticket program that concentrates on scaling, productization, and higher‑value services. Make Money with Make is more expensive but includes more facetime with me, two weekly calls—a hot‑seat agency session and an office hour—and generally offers deeper support for growing an agency beyond the initial stage.
Maker School is a zero‑to‑one community designed for people who have never made money selling automation services and want to get up and running quickly. I walk you through everything from start to finish, with a day‑by‑day accountability program and a lot of beginners, so you get hands‑on guidance and a supportive community. Make Money with Make.com is a higher‑level community focused on more advanced topics, weekly hang‑out calls, office hours, higher‑level discussions, and deeper value‑proposition work. Both have community value, but the latter is geared toward people who already have a foundation and want to scale further. Check the sales page for the full list of differences.
Maker School is my 0‑to‑1 program: its goal is to help you land your first, second, or maybe third automation customer. Make Money with Make is my higher‑level community; it costs considerably more—about $140 for Maker School versus roughly $370 for Make Money with Make now. The whole point of Make Money with Make is to take something that’s already working and scale it up. In other words, Maker School gets you from 0 to 1 customer, while Make Money with Make takes you from 1 to 100 (or more). I also have a new program in the works called 25k per month Agency, which will show how to take a proven automation service—say, one that’s already making $5,000 a month—and grow it to $25,000‑$30,000 a month.
Yes — you get free access if you're in Make Money with Make, so you get full access to both. I waterfall the benefits down: if you're in a more advanced program, you automatically get access to all the lower programs too. The additional work for me to satisfy that is basically nothing since you already have access to assets I've already created, but you get a lot more perceived value, because the lower programs solve a wide breadth of stuff — so if you're higher up but missed one small thing early on, you can always go back and get it there.