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🚨 TREND ALERT

Monthly US Amazon searches for “Montessori furniture” are on the rise, and the (fast-growing) r/Montessori subreddit is full of furniture-related questions.

But wait, back up… Monte-what now?

Montessori furniture is child-centric, adjustable, and designed to help kids become more independent.

Self-sufficient babies are cool and all, but why should you care? Because Ahrefs ranks keyword difficulty at just 8/100, so you can still get in early on the trend.

Some ways to jump on the opportunity:

Rental subscription services like Lovevery, but for furniture. Pieces are updated as each child grows, and then returned to be reused.
Products that stand out with a differentiator. For example, sustainable manufacturing is important to millennial and Gen Z parents. Or you can target the lower-end of the market: A simple cube shelf at startup Sprout Kids (40k+ site visits/mo.) goes for a whopping $649.
Monetized info. Searches for “Montessori DIY” are also on the rise, so you could produce how-to guides with links to affiliate resources.

Bonus takeaway: Kids are expensive.

😤 GET SHIT DONE

…But do it with some structure. This handy project management template will help you target, tackle, and critique every action item on your list. It will keep you in check, and churning out the work.

🧠 OPERATOR WISDOM

Agency owners, listen up. We talked to several Trends members who have multimillion-dollar agencies about how they productized their services.

Here are the biggest takeaways:

Start with your most scalable service. Jim Huffman runs GrowthHit — a conversion rate optimization (CRO) agency. He productized by creating One Day Design, which sells bundled offerings. The key? Identifying a single service that is scalable and has a high customer satisfaction rate.
Advertise your unique selling proposition (USP). One Day Design effectively highlights why their offering is better than recruiting an in-house designer and hiring an agency (ironically) or a freelancer.
Provide an a la carte menu. Hila Bouzaglou has successfully productized a B2B content writing agency by compiling an a la carte content menu. Clients can choose from three predefined bundled offerings, or they can build their own subscription plan from the content menu.

🔥 INNOVATOR YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

Becky Schroeder had the idea for Glo-Sheet while waiting in the dimming light of a department store parking lot in the early 1970s.

She’d go on to become the youngest female patent holder of her time and inspire generations of future inventors.

But as she waited in her mother’s car that night, Schroeder didn’t know any of that yet. She just knew she had to finish her homework.

Read the full story on The Hustle blog.

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