💲 Monetize Airtable bases + 🔀 How to automate lead qualification

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​📺 New tutorials

🤑 How to monetize an Airtable database with Paytable​

Did you know that you can easily monetize an Airtable database? Using a tool called Paytable, you can charge for access to one or more of your Airtable bases, either as a one-time fee or as a recurring subscription.

This tutorial walks you through step-by-step how to set up Paytable with a curated resource in Airtable and embed your Paytable widget into a Carrd site.

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✍️ How Dickie Bush of Ship 30 for 30 learns from the world's best newsletters​

Dickie Bush is one of the Captains behind Ship 30 for 30, a cohort-based course focusing on building a writing habit. On Twitter, he shared his workflow for how he learns from the world's best newsletters every week.

This tutorial gives a quick overview of how he uses Gmail filters and labels for newsletters.

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📚 On the blog

👩‍🏫 How to automate a self-paced course to qualify your leads

What impact would it have if you could quickly tell the hot leads from the cold leads in your business?

If you’re using email marketing (and you should be), then you can leverage smart automation — using simple no-code tools — that can help you qualify each new subscriber. And help you get a better idea of where they’re at in their buyer journey.

So that rather than bulldozing someone into an offer they’re not ready for, you can meet them where they’re at today.

This strategy is called lead scoring, and this post shows you how to do it using a sophisticated version of the common drip-style campaign:

A self-paced email course.

​Read the full post.

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🧑‍🎓 Courses

🎉 New! Launch a membership-based business in 3 weeks — no code needed

In this brand new course kicking-off on August 10, Amie and Ben will deconstruct the membership business building process so you can start running your own profitable community. After just 3 weeks you'll have a capstone member-based business ready to launch, all built without code. Early-bird pricing of $250 until August 9!

​Learn more.

No-code fundamentals: Cohort 3

🧱 It's back! If you're looking to fast-track your no-code knowledge and skills surrounded by other creators, builders and entrepreneurs, this is the course for you. You'll build 5 projects in 5 weeks, including an app, a marketplace, a directory site and more. You'll also leave with a clear understanding of the no-code tools landscape so you can choose and use the right tools with confidence. Cohort starts on September 13; applications open next week.

​Get on the waitlist.

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💼 Jobs​
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​Automation Manager, Revenue Operations – Vercel

Vercel is looking to hire an operations automation expert to join the Revenue Operations team. In this role, you'll work with members of the marketing, sales, and customer success teams to automate processes that will help their teams be more efficient and effective.

​No-Code Internship – Calm Company Fund

We've got an exciting job opening for a no-code intern (20h/week) at the Calm Company Fund. Our fund uses no-code software such as Zapier, Integromat, and Webflow to automate processes and build products, and we're looking to grow our team to better support our growing portfolio of founders. You'll be supporting our remote team in helping calm companies succeed in a startup environment.

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🚀 Community Projects

📄 Building a publishing talent marketplace, powered by the community - Merrative, by Harshala Chavan.

"Hey everyone! Sharing a milestone update for my startup with you all! This is Harshala here, founder of Merrative. We are a community of 2400+ avid readers, writers, and subject matter experts who come together to discuss literature like books, news, articles, and research papers. We have gone a step ahead and releasing a publishing talent marketplace with a flexible timeline & rates (freelancers to full-timers) and complementary client servicing that is powered by this community!"​
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📊 How to scrape data from job boards (like Indeed) directly into Airtable, by Mike.

"Hey Makers, A while ago I shared a guide on scraping web data into Airtable. It worked but was a little clunky - install an app, configure it, copy the correct API URL, pull the data...argh. Could be easier, so I've built a direct Airtable integration."

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🗣️ Contribute to Makerpad and connect with a new, captive audience

Building in public has proven to take startups and fledgling projects far.

When you share your story with the world — the ups, the downs, the small wins and the struggles — you bring people along on your journey and allow them to invest in you. When you're ready to sell, these people become your best customers.

Our community is brimming with budding entrepreneurs, makers, creators, artists, designers and citizen developers, all with a thirst for knowledge and keen to learn from people like you.

Whether you're building a new tool, website, SaaS platform or digital product, growing an online community, writing a newsletter, or selling your services — or anything in between — get your story out there and promote it to the world.

​Learn more.

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🏗️ Build Club

Build Club is a weekly meet-up where members can share what they are building, get feedback, ask questions and get help from each other. Join Build Club.

Cheers,
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Ben & the Makerpad team ✌️