Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast

I was quoted $10,000 for a newsletter automation... No thanks.

This is what I did instead:

1/ I'm on the $200 a month Claude plan and use Fable 5 like it's water in the desert.

If you think about it, a full time analyst costs way more and works way slower.

2/ I opened Claude, connected the beehiiv MCP, and asked for a 6 step email sequence built on Russell Brunson, Alex Hormozi, and Dan Kennedy first principles.

3/ It built the entire thing. Emails, sequence, affiliate links. All I did was click publish.

4/ On day 1, I asked Claude what a good open rate and click rate would be, BEFORE it wrote anything, so it couldn't grade its own homework.

A week in, we're beating both numbers.

That's a $10,000 quote handled inside a tool I am already paying for. Win-win

There's an MCP for almost everything now. beehiiv. Facebook ads. Your CRM.

Connect your stuff and dive in.

It blows my mind what you can do.

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Got a DEXA scan this morning.

They asked “would you like to pay an extra $75 to have our nurse practitioner review your scan?”

“Are they smarter than Claude?”

“Who’s Claude?”

“No thanks, I’m good.”

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I ask potential hires

“How often do you browse Reddit?”

Little to no Reddit usage = rockstar hire, & the opposite is true

I learned my lesson after finding the username of a guy I hired. He was active in the antiwork subreddit. How do you think that worked out?

“Eat the rich” he said.

Reddit attracts toxicity

Consuming it affects you, posting often affects you even more

Reddit CAN be helpful, but there is a difference between using Reddit for help vs being a habitual Redditor

Some subreddits are immune, but as a general rule this has worked.

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I consider myself an expert on gas station quality.

Don't ask me how, it's a gift.

Here is the 80/20 of what makes a gas station worth stopping at

1/ Clean bathrooms. This should be number 1 and number two, it's that important

(see what I did there? ;)

2/ Overall quality snacks. This means a good selection of all the essentials. It doesn't even have to be anything special, just give me quality and variety.

3/ One signature food item.

- Casey's pizza
- Buc-ees BBQ
- Allsup chimichanga

4/ QUICK!

I am not going into a gas station to chat.

Please take away all the friction in the way of grabbing an item and checking out. QT has this dialed in.

If you can at least do these things, you'll have my business.

Am I missing anything?

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Everyone hears the horror stories of lending money to family and friends, but no one talks about when it goes right.

I'll start.

A family member needed to borrow $25k to close on their first home. I trusted him, so I said yes.

4 months later he paid it back in full. Win win!

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My buddy (male) gets 100% of his leads through LinkedIn DMs.

He doesn't send them as himself.

He uses 7 different fake female accounts to do it. They get a 70%+ higher response rate than men.

The DMs aren't selling anything. They're just asking if the person wants to hop on a demo call. Once they say yes, he takes it from there.

A message from "Sarah" asking to schedule time gets answered. The exact same message from "Mike" gets ignored.

I do not condone this BTW. Pretty unethical.

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I am once again reminding you:

Just list things on FB Marketplace. Just do it.

No, not to sell your old iPhone, but to learn.

Is there demand?
Will there be clicks?
What do people say when they message me?
How should I price this?

Every time you have an idea, go to FBM FIRST.

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I am DESPERATE to hear the story behind this barndominium in East Texas:

- 11,000 square feet
- 333 acres (!!!)
- Countless luxury amenities
- 20 acre bass pond
- 11,000 MORE sqft of covered entertaining area

$10 million!

It almost looks like a spec. Someone fill me in below!

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I book Airbnbs for 10 to 40% off normal price and It's not as complicated as you think.

Here's the playbook.

1) Start about a week out. Find 5 places you actually like.

Prioritize company-managed listings first. If a property manager is running several units, an empty night is money on the floor. They have room to deal.

2) For the company-run ones: Google the management company name. Find their direct number. Call them.

Ask if they have a last-minute rate for your dates.

If they say no? Call back the day before. Different person, different mood, different answer.

3) Individual hosts are the trickier ones now.

Airbnb enforces off-platform bookings pretty hard now. Hosts get suspended and lose payouts if they take you off the app. Just book on the platform and be the easy guest instead.

4) This move will still work with individuals: message them through Airbnb before you book.

say something like:

"Hey, I'm flexible on dates, staying 4 nights, we are a quiet couple. Any chance of a better rate for a last minute gap in your calendar?"

Hosts hate empty nights. Plenty of them will drop the price right there through Airbnb's Special Offer button.

5) Want to know if there is real room to negotiate? Do your homework first.

Pull up the county GIS site. Google "[county name] GIS" and click around until you find the property record.

Public records tell you if the owner has the place paid off or if they are over leveraged. From experience, one of those will say yes faster.

6) Reverse image search the listing photos too.

The same property is most liekly also on VRBO, Booking (dot) com, or the host's own direct site at a different price. Now all you have to do is ask for what you want.

7) The whole thing takes about 10 minutes once you have done it a couple times.

I have saved hundreds of dollars per hour of "work" doing this.

8) Just don't be a jerk or demanding. As an AirBnB owner myself, there are a ton of those guys. What you're asking them to do is not without risk to them (or you).

Ask enough good hosts nicely and someone always says yes.

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I seriously want to buy this business.

Island Park, ID has a population of 236, but they get 15,000 visitors/day in the summer.

It’s 30min from Yellowstone and in a gorgeous mountain town. We went there last summer and we're near by again. I can't get this idea out of my head.

One popular activity is a 3 hour float down the Henry’s Fork. There’s only one place in town that rents watercraft for this:

Mack’s Inn.

Look at their pricing. Their location? Right on the river where you pull out.

A legal monopoly with beautiful, insanely high prices. I also want to buy land and host glamping in this town.

$450/night Airbnbs.

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