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This Week’s Hustle Stack:
Marketing Play of the Week: The One-Minute Quiz Funnel That Prints Warm Leads
The $2K+ PM Simple Side Hustle Hack: The “$750 Micro-Audit” That Sells Itself
This Week’s Hustle News: AI Goes Deep + Aussie Funding Boom
Tool of the Week: PromptSignal — The AI Reputation Radar
Time-Saving Hack: The Auto-Reply That Books Calls While You Sleep
Founder Success Story: How Ned Dwyer Turned Customer Research Into a $20M Raise
🎯 Marketing Play of the Week
The One-Minute Quiz Funnel That Prints Warm Leads
What it is:
The ultra-simple 3–5 question quiz that turns cold traffic into warmed-up, segmented leads before they ever hit your inbox.
Why it works:
People will ignore your lead magnet.
But they won’t ignore something about themselves — especially if it promises an instant score, insight, or personalised result.
How to use it:
Create a micro-quiz (60 sec max).
Place it at the top of your site/landing page.
Show a personalised score → then offer your product or booking link.
Segment based on answers.
Retarget quiz starters who didn’t finish. Instant warm pipeline.
💵 The $2K+ PM Simple Side Hustle Hack
The “$750 Micro-Audit” That Sells Itself
Concept:
A fixed-price, fast-delivery digital audit. No long-term commitment. No scope creep. Just clean money.
Why it works:
Founders love “done-for-you clarity” more than anything.
A 2–3 page improvement report + 15-minute call? Easy yes.
The Build:
Skill level: Whatever you’re already good at.
Time: 8–10 hrs/month for $2–3K revenue.
Cost: Almost zero.
Deliverable: Short audit + quick wins.
The Math:
$750 per audit × 3 per month = $2,250
Your time cost = “one afternoon per week in track pants.”
Starter script:
“Hey {name}, I’m doing 3 fast-turnaround audits this month to help founders fix {pain point}. Interested in grabbing one?”
Copy → paste → money.
📰 This Week’s Hustle News
AI Goes Deep + Aussie Funding Boom
🧠 TIME launches AI agent for its 102-year archive
(Axios summary)
Why it matters:
Big media is now using AI not to create new content —
but to unlock value from their old piles of content.
If TIME can do it with 102 years…
Your brand can do it with your past newsletters, tweets, threads, screenshots, notes.
💰 Aussie startups raise $571.4M this week
(SmartCompany)
Why it matters:
Funding winter? Apparently not.
If you’re building anything remotely scalable —
start capturing metrics now (MRR, retention, CAC, NPS).
You will look very attractive in 6–12 months.
⚡Tool of the Week
PromptSignal — The AI Reputation Radar
What it does:
Tracks how your brand appears in AI-model outputs + mentions across search and competitors.
Why founders love it:
AI’s becoming the biggest discovery engine in the world.
PromptSignal tells you:
How models describe your brand
What they say about your competitors
Where you’re positioned in the “AI mindspace”
Practical example:
Add your brand + 3 competitors → get weekly sentiment + positioning alerts.
Great for messaging tweaks, landing page adjustments, or catching negative vibes early.
⏳ Time-Saving Hack
The Auto-Reply That Books Calls While You Sleep
Here’s the founder-to-founder version:
Write your outreach email.
Turn on auto-reply: “Thanks — here’s my calendar link + pricing.”
Run your outreach.
Pause once five prospects reply.
You’ve just pre-qualified leads without checking your inbox 42 times.
Small system → big leverage.
🚀 Founder Success Story
How Ned Dwyer Turned Customer Research Into a $20M Raise
Ned Dwyer, co-founder of Great Question, just raised US$13M (A$20M).
But the kicker?
He started by solving a painfully simple problem:
Make talking to customers easier.
Three fast lessons you can steal:
Build globally, not locally.
He launched for the U.S. audience from day one — even as an Aussie.Customer interviews are a gold mine.
Every subscriber response = a map of where your money is.Metrics make you investible.
Even if you never raise a cent, tracking MRR, churn, retention, and NPS will force you to build a better product.
Micro-steps → macro growth.
Make Every Platform Work for Your Ads
You’re running an ad.
The same ad. On different platforms. Getting totally different results.
That’s not random: it’s the platform effect.
So stop guessing what works. Understand the bit-sized science behind it.
Join Neuroscientist & Neurons CEO Dr. Thomas Ramsøy for a free on-demand session on how to optimize ads for different platforms.
Register & watch it whenever it fits you.
👋 That’s a wrap for this week’s Hustle Stack. 👋
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See you next week with more sharp plays, side hustles, and founder wins. 🚀
Stay sharp,
The Hustle Stack Team