⚡️ Automating courses & monetising Airtable databases 💰

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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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📝 Create a PDF from dynamic content in Webflow​

Many of us have dealt with invoices, PDFs and trying to create different versions, changing information and all the problems that go with it.

This tutorial enables you to create dynamic PDFs from inputting data into Webflow.

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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

🧱 No-code fundamentals: Cohort 3

Registration is open for the third cohort of our popular foundational course. Fast-track your no-code knowledge and skills surrounded by other creators, builders and entrepreneurs. You'll build 5 different projects in 5 weeks — including an app, a marketplace, a directory site and more — and level-up your understanding of the no-code tools landscape so you can choose and use the right tools with confidence.

Cohort 3 kicks off on September 13. Early-bird pricing ends on August 8.

​Learn more.

👥 Launch a member-based business in 3 weeks, no code required

Makerpad's Ben and Amie will deconstruct the membership business building process so you can start running your own and make it profitable. The cohort will be joined by membership tool founders including Ward Sandler, Geoff Roberts, Andrew Guttormsen and Duncan Hamra. Tyler Tringas will also attend Demo Day to scout students' projects with good investment potential!

Cohort 1 kicks off on August 10. Registration closes August 9.

​Get a seat.

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💼 Jobs​
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​Bubbler Wanted for Contech Startup – Procurified

We are looking for a bubble.io Developer to be part of something incredible. It will take blood sweat & tears to achieve the Team's goals; and we are truly changing how Construction procurement is done. Location: remote, longer-term potential to join us in Dubai!

​Growth PM – Scribe

Scribe is hiring a Growth PM! Come be the general manager of Scribe's self-serve business.
📈Are you interested in Product-Led Growth?
👩‍💻Do you obsess over user data, growth loops, and running experiments?
💪Do you want significant ownership and responsibility for a meaningful part of the business?
Scribe has grown quickly to be used by thousands of organizations in 100+ countries, entirely organically (through PLG). This is where you come in - to take it to the next level.

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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."

🐦 Build a social media posting mobile app with no code using AppGyver and Ayrshare, by Boris.

"If you have a company or actively manage your social brand, you probably post your beautiful, thought-provoking social media posts to multiple networks. However, re-typing or re-uploading image and videos for each social network is a real pain.

In this tutorial, we show you how to make your own mobile social media posting app using the no-code platform AppGyver and the Ayrshare API."

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🗣️ Building something great? Tell your story through Makerpad

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 — tell your story through Makerpad and make our audience, your audience.

Post in our forum, get your story published on our blog, or publish your work regularly through a newsletter series.

​Learn more.

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Cheers,
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Ben & the Makerpad team ✌️