The Invisible Cost of Shitty Design


It's the weeeeeeekend!

And, it's ze perfect time for:

  • Cutting your toenails
  • Finding a VCR to play back your dance recital from the 80s 🧑‍🩰
  • Dusting exactly one shelf
  • Making a strong-ass pitcher of margaritas
  • Andddddd! Waking up early tomorrow morning and busting out a supercool new website for yourself that looks like it's actually THE YEAR 2026 and WILL SELL YOUR STUFF FASTER THAN A VAT OF VERMONT CREAMY CULTURED SEA SALT BUTTER 🧈 BECAUSE PEOPLE ACTUALLY TRUST THAT YOU ARE A REAL, LEGITIMATE PERSON WHO ISN'T A SCAM ARTIST FROM CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY.

Appearances matter.

Outdated, clunky, blocky, unstyled templates are costing you real money every single day you don't have something legit. (Lookin' at you Wordpress, Kajabi, Teachable, Thinkific, Skool, Thrivecart, Podia, and the rest. They scream: "I'm not a serious player.")

Not to mention they're a real treat to try and build yourself.

There is nothing worse than a smart person trapped in a gray box with gray text and a little lightbulb icon.

That's why I made this new class:

Design a Hella Sexy Sales Page (In Under an Hour) Using Claude Design >>>

PERFECT for a Saturday or Sunday morning project. 🌟 (You can do this in just 1-2 hours.)

Do your bank account a favor and get more sales just by modernizing your design.

Inside this fun, new upskill class, I'll teach you how to create a magazine-grade, art-directed sales page for your work—and publish the final page on a real, live URL you can send people by Monday—even if you're not tech savvy, and even if you've never used Claude before.

Doesn't matter what you're selling: A digital product. A book. A course. A program. A membership. A paid newsletter. A service. A portfolio. It all works. You can even put the page right on your existing URL.

Buyers make snap decisions about whether they'll buy from you before they even read your sales page. They click away immediately if they don't think the design looks representative of a modern business they can trust.

Don't make it harder to sell your work when it's already hard enough.

In the past, you might not have had a modern website design because hiring a design team for $30K was cost prohibitive.

Now?

Not having a modern website design is a choice.

Claude Design costs just $20 to use.

Give yourself the gift of a gorgeous new page this weekend. (And don't forget that pitcher of margaritas. 🍹)

(Go, go, go. Leap way ahead of the crowd.)

WELCOME TO ASH’S WORLD

Featuring:

+ Sweary outbursts
+ Unpopular opinions about crustaceans
+ How to actually enjoy your life while working less and visiting Ireland more
+ Business advice that feels like drugs
+ Encouragement to find your voice and go, go, go
+ A real zest for extreme pearl wearing
+ Favoritism for bars with scary-ass mafia pool rules
+ Zero ambition to be a good girl who bakes casseroles & smiles politely
+ BUT ALSO: a creepy affection for small-town Main Streets & freshly-mowed lawns
+ Obsessed with British architecture & gardens
+ Deep fear of waking up and not having any water on the nightstand
+ Entirely unbalanced accounts of everything, including my morals
+ At least three Freudian slips around my true feelings about bracelets
(They make your arms look like baby wiener sausages at an Italian wedding)

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