John Bellingham

Hi Reader, Kit can now talk (more easily) to your other software Kit has launched Webhooks 2.0. I can hear you now... "...they launched what?" It sounds techy, but a webhook is simply a message that Kit sends to another piece of software when something happens inside your Kit account. For example: “John has just joined the email list.” “Sarah has clicked this link.” “David has completed this email sequence.” "Mo just bought this course" The other software platform (i.e. the one Kit sends the...

Hi Reader, There’s a pressure within the solo business community that we don’t talk about enough: The pressure to become a Swiss Army knife, one-person band, and master-of-everything solopreneur. Apparently, running a successful solo business now requires us to become a writer, presenter, podcaster, speaker, YouTuber, salesperson, email marketer, community leader, SEO specialist and AI expert. And that’s before we do any paid work! 🤦🏻♂️ 🌊 We're drowning in a tsunami of "shoulds"... Spend...

Hi Reader, Well, if you've been putting off the switch to Kit's new navigation system, time has run out! Kit has now retired the legacy navigation, so we're all using the new vertical-style navigation bar. If you haven't logged into Kit since the change, go and have a nosey around. I like it, although it definitely takes a few sessions to retrain your brain on where everything lives! 😊 Owning a business right now is an amazing opportunity I've owned businesses of one sort or another for the...

Hi Reader, What have you done this week to move your business one step closer to where you want it to be? Or have you been so busy doing customer work that you've barely had time to think about your own business? It's an easy trap to fall into, particularly as a solopreneur. Customer work needs to get done. Emails need to be answered. Calls need to happen. And before you know it, another week has passed without spending any meaningful time improving the business itself. Sometimes we need to...

Hi Reader, "I'd recommend she gets into software engineering - if she cracks that, she'll never be out of work." That's what I told my sister several years ago when she mentioned that one of her daughters, Sam, was struggling to decide which field to get into after Uni. Back then, I genuinely believed it. Software had served me well for many years, with seemingly endless demand for developers. Fast-forward to today. Sam now runs a team of developers at a large software house - but I'm no...

Hello Reader, How's your business doing right now? According to a report I recently came across on LinkedIn, the solopreneur economy is booming...💥 The report suggests that AI is the single-biggest catalyst behind this growth, enabling us solos to build highly profitable businesses by automating work that once required teams (I can attest to this, certainly from a software development perspective). Its conclusion is clear: the future belongs to lean, AI-leveraged businesses that can scale...

🕖 How Kit MCP saved me hours this week! If you're not familiar with Kit's MCP, it's essentially a way to connect your preferred AI/LLM engine (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) to Kit. Once connected, you have the ability to ask it questions and have it perform tasks for you (with your permission, of course). I had an update to perform this week that would have previously have taken me hours, and I may have missed things. My Update Task: I changed the membership model for my Hub community from...