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Hey future-proof friends 💜
This week, I have 3 insanely simple but powerful Claude hacks to help you 10x your productivity every single week.
But I also have some news for you…
Over the last 14-ish months, I've built around 7 income streams (with AI playing a big part in that).
I was chatting to my wise friend Ruthie last week and she said, “Jess you should really start sharing how you’re making money with these side-hustles”… so I’m doing it!
From today, this newsletter splits into two:
🤖 The AI section: Same as it's always been. Powerful and practical AI hacks, tools and prompts. Free, forever. Nothing here changes.
💸 The income stream section: In-depth, detailed guides to exactly how I’m making money online (with lots of AI tips of course). This will be an optional subscription.
You can unlock the first Income Stream Playbook in this email, explaining how I made $4,700 with UGC in June. I hope you love it as much as I loved putting it together! 💜
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The AI Deep Dive 🤖
10x Your Week With These 3 Claude Productivity Hacks
1. The morning briefing
What it does: A little digest every morning that pulls together your calendar, the emails that actually need you, and a few headlines from your world.
Connectors you'll need: Gmail and Google Calendar connected to Claude Cowork with a scheduled tack (the news bit needs nothing, it just searches the web).
Set it up:
I actually wrote an entire in-depth newsletter on how to set this up - you can read it here:
2. The Sunday (or daily) reset
What it does: every Sunday evening it looks at your week ahead and hands you a plan.
Connectors you'll need: Google Calendar & Google Mail connected to Claude Cowork with a scheduled task set up (plus your task list, for example if it lives in Notion or Google Tasks).
Set it up:
Set up your Google Calendar/Google Mail/Notion connectors in Claude.
Copy/paste this prompt into Claude Cowork:
Review my calendar, emails and task list for the coming week.
Give me the 2 to 3 top priorities, flag any day with more than
4 hours of meetings, and point out my best focus blocks.Schedule weekly:
/schedule every Sunday at 5pm: [prompt above].
You can also turn this into a daily reset and schedule it to happen every week day instead of every Sunday.
3. Inbox triage (with replies half-written for you)
What it does: each morning it reads your unread emails, sorts it into urgent / needs a reply / FYI / ignore, and drafts the replies that need writing. You skim, tweak and send.
Connectors you'll need: Gmail connected to Claude
One important point: Claude drafts but never sends your emails, on purpose. You still need to review and click send.
Set it up:
Connect the Gmail connector.
Paste this into Cowork as your task, swapping out the bracketed bits:
Every morning, go through my unread emails from the last 24
hours and triage it for me. Sort everything into four buckets:
Urgent: anything from [key clients or names], anything
mentioning[an invoice, payment, deadline or contract], or
a direct question that needs me today.
Needs a reply: real emails from real people that aren't urgent
but do need a response from me.
FYI: things I should see but don't need to action (updates,
receipts, confirmations).
Ignore: newsletters, promos and automated noise.
Then do three things:
Give me a summary at the top: how many emails in each bucket,
plus a one-line note on every Urgent and Needs a reply email
(who it's from and what they want).
For everything in Urgent and Needs a reply, draft a response
in my voice and save it as a draft in Gmail. Keep replies short,
warm and direct, the way I write. Nothing formal or corporate.
If you're not sure how I'd want to reply to something, don't
guess. Flag it in the summary and leave it for me.
Do not send anything. Drafts only. I'll review and hit send
myself.Schedule it daily with
/schedule every weekday at 7am: [prompt above]. It saves the drafts to Gmail, ready for you to review and send.
(Heads up: the sorting's about 80% right on day one and gets sharper once you tweak the rules over a week.)
Let me know if you enjoyed these tips in the poll below and I’ll give you more ideas!
The Income Stream Playbook 💰
How I made $4,700 in a month from UGC: the exact platforms, rates, tips and pitfalls
For the first time ever, UGC was my single biggest income stream this month with $4,700.
Some of it I’ve been building for months (more on that), but the real trigger was that my usual freelance client work suddenly dipped. So I thought, right, I'm going to dig in and actually go and find more UGC work.
And it worked! It worked so well that the thing I treated as a side income is truly becoming the main event.
With UGC, if you have a decent portfolio, a few sample pieces and a willingness to pitch relentlessly, you can start landing paid jobs from day one.
You don't need a social media following. or to "build an audience" for a year first. You just need proof you can create content.
That's the whole reason I think this is one of the best side hustles going for women 35+ who want to start something now, without a personal brand or a social presence to lean on.
Has my personal brand helped? Massively, and I'll be straight with you about where. But it is not essential, and you can 100% get started without a single follower.
Let me show you exactly how my $4,700 UGC month came together.
One final note before we start: I do mostly tech, SaaS, AI and software UGC, so I'm writing from that lens. But almost all of this applies to any kind of UGC. The niche changes. The playbook doesn't.
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