Buddy Rathmell

We cancelled Christmas once. True Story. I think it helped our kids turn out better.

@cnorin @roleandtell Wow. Joomla. There is a blast from the past. I had a few fun sites on Joomla back in the day.

@roleandtell @buddy7 Astro for simple sites! Joomla for larger projects for me.

Just about every time I agree to jump into an existing wordpress site for a client without a web team I end up regretting it. I have built 100 sites on wordpress but there are so many better, more reliable tools these days especially if you don't want to maintain a site. Unable to login to a clients site now because of a jet pack API error. What platform did you switch to after Wordpress?

@Enrico23745463 Good work.

@buddy7 I prefer building new websites with Next.js and Tailwind CSS. It gives me full autonomy and the flexibility to create highly customized solutions. Here is a website I created for a client: neurologocdmx.com

@TommiPedruzzi I did. I already have plans that evening but hopefully there is a replay or future event.

@buddy7 Have you already subscribed to my workshop? The workshop — publishingos.io/workshop?htraf…

Amazon KDP is THE most underrated income model right now. 1 hour of work • I don't dance • I don't record my face • I don't reveal my name And it still makes me $50,000 every month. With this 2-step formula: Find what people are already buying -> publish a better version with AI For the past 6 years I've been building royalty portfolios this way... But still 86% of you will scroll past this and keep trading time for money Like + Comment "KDP" and I'll send you my complete AI publishing training for FREE. (niche research, AI workflow, KDP ads strategy... all of it, free)

@TommiPedruzzi When you say multiple markets is that all of the english markets?

Amazon paid me $65,000 last month for publishing eBooks. I didn't write a word. Here's what I actually did. And btw, if you want my complete strategy broken down: AI prompts, workflow, and systems, like this post, follow me and comment "AI". I'll DM it to you. Most people picture publishing as one of two things. Either you sit down and write a book. Or you run ads hoping someone clicks. Neither of those is my job. Here's what my job actually looks like: Monday morning. The first hour is research. I'm on Amazon, looking at BSR numbers in a niche I'm considering. BSR under 100,000 means real buyers are spending real money there right now. I open the 3 and 4-star reviews of the top books. I'm looking for the gap: the thing buyers wanted and didn't get. That gap is the next book. By the next hour I have a brief. Specific reader, specific problem, specific solution structure. That brief goes to Claude. The next hour is reviewing what Claude produces. Reading for consistency, quality, tone. Making sure Chapter 10 still sounds like the same book as Chapter 1. Flagging anything that needs to be sharper. By third hour, I have a near-publishable draft. That draft goes to formatting. The cover gets designed in Ideogram using the visual language of what's already converting in that category. By the end of the week, the book is live on Amazon. In 17 markets simultaneously. Paperback. Kindle. Hardcover. Then the book earns: While I sleep. While I surf at noon. While I read in the evenings. This is the model at maturity. Not passive from day one... the build phase takes consistent effort over the first 90 days. But the thing you're building in those 90 days doesn't need you once it exists. A book published today earns royalties for years. A portfolio of 12 books earns $8,000 to $10,000 a month on autopilot. That's what $50,000 looks like at its base level... multiple books, multiple formats, multiple markets, all running without me touching them after launch. Most people will read this and think it sounds too simple. The ones who act will find out it's exactly that simple. Like this post, follow me, and comment "AI". I'll DM you the entire training.

@TommiPedruzzi AI I meant. :-)

@TommiPedruzzi So

⬇️ ⬆️ ⬇️ ⬆️ ⬇️ ⬆️ ⬇️ ⬆️🚀 Don’t quit.

@ryan_doser13 Does your team have access to your Obsidian? I tried to do that at first and now I just have my own

@buddy7 Exactly why I've avoided OpenClaw/Hermes lol and I vibe coded my own Obsidian

Consuming AI content isn't keeping you ahead. It's the thing keeping you behind. The top 1% aren't watching every 'INSANE new update' video or reading every tool launch post. They've installed Claude Code and played with it for hours. Only one of those shows up in your paycheck.

@ryan_doser13 Indefinitely wasted too much time playing with open claw/paperclip/ obsidian/ Hermes agent/ hyper agent / Claude in multiple forms instead of just getting things done.

@buddy7 Lol you are far less guilty than most people I'm sure

@Enrico23745463 Nice, it doesn't look like anyone is beating cloudflare on price. Will see how the process is.

@buddy7 If you want to seek more options take a look at tldes.com/org

Registrars are charging $1.07 more a year for .org domain name so name cheap told me that they have to charge me $3 more a year. :-) I just found out cloudfare.com charges the exact price they are charged for the domains. Has anyone else used them as a registrar? Thoughts?

@homeservicebase I would get companynamereviews.com

Go buy a companyname[dot]reviews domain, aggregate all company reviews there, and link to that domain from your main website. An exact-match branded domain with the keyword “reviews” should show on top, hopefully higher than Yelp and BBB. AI will likely treat it as an additional trusted source. Any other reason this domain zone exists?

@TheNathanRuff Appreciate it.

@buddy7 They’re great, but the check out process take a tad longer

@brettfarrow Good to hear. I am going to try one to start and see how I like it before I switch over all 50.

@buddy7 I switched over last year after using Namecheap for several years. The UI isn’t very pretty but there are far fewer upsells. I don’t think I’m going back

@alex_borkin Thanks. Good to know.

@buddy7 Ive switched over 100%. Very convenient as we route all dns through them as well

@danielcberk We cancelled Christmas once. True Story. I think it helped our kids turn out better.

A 16-year-old had a full meltdown in an airport because he found out he wasn't flying first class. His parents had no idea how they got there. They were good parents. They just gave him the easy version of everything money could buy for 16 years. That story is from today's episode of Moneywise, and as a father of two boys makes me a fear that I'm not teaching my kids how to think about money the right way. Fun fact: kids from households making $200k+ have 2-3x the national rate of anxiety, depression, and addiction. I have two boys, 4 and 2 years old, and I genuinely don't know what I'm doing 99% of the time. If you're in the same boat, listen to today's episode.