Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Rachel Based on a true story
From Brilliant Bitch To Dynamic Diva!: The Working Woman's Guide Vol 2
From Brilliant Bitch To Dynamic Diva!:
The Working Woman's Guide Vol 2

Monday, August 3, 2026
The Honu Diary: A Journey of Coming Together (The Pono Trilogy Book 2)
The Honu Diary:
A Journey of Coming Together
(The Pono Trilogy Book 2)
Sunday, August 2, 2026
The Algorithm of Us
The Algorithm of Us
Saturday, August 1, 2026
Best of Friends Trilogy
Friday, July 31, 2026
Cookie-Led Growth: Find Your Cookie
You can't out-spend the funded. So out-create them.
Every growth guide is written by someone who had a war chest. Burn millions on ads, buy a growth team, brute-force your way to scale. That's not a playbook — that's a budget. And if you're bootstrapped, it'll bury you.
Cookie-Led Growth (CLG) is the opposite. It's the discipline of finding your cookie: one weird, creative, relationship-driven growth mechanism that lands your best customers at a fraction of the cost of paid ads — and compounds. Named as a deliberate riff on Product-Led Growth, CLG is what you do when you can't buy growth and have to engineer it instead.
Justin Smith bootstrapped Contractor+ into a fast-growing software company with zero venture capital. In this book he opens the kimono — real plays, real numbers, no theory:
- The cookie box: how a Crumbl-style box of fresh-baked cookies, hand-delivered to the right doors, out-converts a $750 cold click.
- The directory hack that landed the first 1,000 users with one gloriously sneaky trick.
- Mobile-led growth: turning $3.60 installs into a ~$120 effective CAC — and the retention trap nobody warns you about.
- The four numbers (CAC, ACV, tenure, LTV) that decide whether a channel lives or dies — with the exact math on the page.
- How to build a growth machine — routing, payroll, an ambassador app — in an afternoon, with AI.
- The viral flywheel that makes your biggest customers recruit your smallest ones.
This isn't a mindset book. It's a field manual — hand-drawn diagrams, honest unit economics, and a dozen concentrated experiments you can run this week, from bootstrapped all the way to the exit.
Stop copying the funded playbook. Go find your cookie.
Click here to get Cookie-Led Growth: Find Your Cookie
on Amazon / Kindle / Kindle Unlimited

Thursday, July 30, 2026
Impossible to Say No: The Integration-Led Growth Playbook
Impossible to Say No: The Integration-Led Growth Playbook — Turn Partners Into Your Cheapest, Stickiest Growth Channel
Everyone thinks an integration means instant traffic. It doesn't.
You ship the integration, post the announcement, and wait for the flood of users. Nothing comes. Then a newer app pushes your listing down the partner's directory and even the trickle dries up.
Here's the truth almost nobody operationalizes: an integration isn't a feature you ship — it's a channel you operate. Run it right and it's the cheapest, stickiest growth channel you have. Customers who connect your product to their other tools churn dramatically less, and every integration a customer adopts is another root a competitor has to rip out.
Impossible to Say No is the execution manual for Integration-Led Growth (ILG) — written from the chair of the smaller vendor who thinks it's presumptuous to ask a bigger platform to promote them. (It isn't. You just have to do the homework.) Inside:
- Be impossible to integrate with — an API, docs, and an MCP server so partners (and AI agents) can plug in without a meeting.
- The Silver Platter — the full co-marketing enablement kit you hand your partner (positioning, co-branded landers, ads, demos, KB + support, offers, press, email, cinematic + UGC video) — and how to build it with AI in about an hour.
- The Grand-Slam Partner Offer — two offers (their customers and the partner) engineered to be impossible to refuse.
- Pick the right partners with a triage matrix, sell the champion inside the partner, and give first.
- Co-marketing that lasts — launch and evergreen; the mutual Slack "war room"; measuring integration-sourced revenue; and reviving dead integrations that quietly stopped sending traffic.
Part strategy, part field manual, part wake-up call — for founders, PLG operators, and partnership leaders who want the cheapest leads and the stickiest customers they'll ever get.
Stop shipping integrations and hoping. Start running the channel.









