Tag: 2025- Subj: Why I spent $187.89 on a bobblehead doll
Howdy %Name%,
So I got an offer the other day that I just could not pass up!
You may be aware that I have my Undergrad was in Marketing and my Masters in Market Research.
I spend ~20 years working in corporate America in/around Marketing.
The one thing I learned is that the vast amount of Advertising & Marketing done by Corporate America is crap?
Around 15 years ago I happened upon a video from Dan Kennedy and, within a couple of minutes, I could tell he was different.
One major difference is that he insisted that everything was tracked! If you could not measure it, you didn’t do it! Period.
Over the years I’ve watched hundreds of seminars from him and read all of his books.
He teaches mostly about direct mail, and marketing, however he does also emphasize productivity.
I’ve learned so much from him that, when I saw the chance to order this Bobblehead doll I had to do it!
Now, when I feel myself “goofing off” I just glance at him on my desk and get back to work!
Now on with the show…
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Advanced Tips for Programming with AI
During last week’s Hero call, Isaias gave a tutorial on how he’s found better ways to work with AI.
He showed how, if you’re using VS Code, you can restrict its ability to edit files, and much more.
Check it out in this video.
Advanced AI Lessons using VSCode and Agents | AHK Hero Extract
Feeding your Data to Various AI tools
Speaking of AI, in this video I walked through some of the cool things I’ve been doing with AI.
From easily creating deployable Apps to leveraging NotebookLM to write marketing materials, AI is really becoming incredibly helpful!
Pushing Data into various AI tools | AHK Hero Extract
Automating Parts of the AHK Newsletter
I’ve been writing the AHK Newsletter for over half a decade and have been, over time, streamlining the process.
In this video, I discuss some of the improvements I just made and also discuss some that I’m considering with AI
?? Automating Content Curation: My AI Newsletter Workflow Revealed | AHK Hero Extract
Scraping Data from an App
A hero member was asking how we can use AutoHotkey to extract data from an app. This led to a great discussion of various ways to rip the data which you can see in this video.
?? Web Scraping Secrets: Fake Browser Authentication Like a Pro! | AHK Hero Extract
Improving People’s Lives: Story #75
One of our clients does “official” reporting where she has very clear requirements from her employer.
Unfortunately her data was “messy” but, thankfully, she new the logic behind “the rules” really well so, a few Regular Expressions later, and we got her code that saved her hours of time!
?? What we’re reading
- How to run Android apps on Windows (and why you want to)
- Turn an old Android into a second monitor for free
- The default Android tool you never thought to replace
?? AI News that you Need to Know
- OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health
- Gmail is getting an AI Inbox
- This AI Chatbot pays per prompt
??Productivity tips: Excel Tips
- Ctrl + Space – Select entire Column
- Shift + Space – Select entire Row
?? A spot of Humor: Tiny Hands
Ranking Tiny Hands Pranks ♥???
What we ??utomated this week with AutoHotkey #117
This week’s video is packed with some really cool stuff?
I walk you through an AI-powered icon finder that actually understands what you’re looking for (no more guessing keywords!), show off a Google Maps tool that geocodes customer addresses and scrapes restaurant data, and share some debugging sessions from our HERO club calls.
Plus, I reveal my favorite automation trick: using SetTimer with ExitApp to make scripts that automatically “clean up” after themselves – it’s such a simple thing but it makes life so much easier!
What we Automated with AutoHotkey #117
Clients say…
How can I pay more for this? — Kelly Coughlin
AHK Hero ??
AHK Hero ??Consider joining the ??AHK Hero club! Members receive 25% off courses, consultations, tutoring, done for you project work, etc. Currently we have over 509 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to AHK Hero members?
You can watch 1 hour a day for a year and not repeat content! That’s a lot of AHK Learning!
During this Friday’s call we’re planning to discuss:
- Help AHK Hero Members with their Questions & Code
- How I run Android apps on Windows
- AHK Script Maker: Debugging Debugger
- Using a Ternary to easily apply changes based on logic (instead of using an “if“)
- Comparing strings, case sensitivity, how to handle when in map, etc.
They also have access to exclusive & pre-released content and 3 hours a week where we help people with their AHK issues (the Saturday calls are geared towards people new to AutoHotkey.)
??? ?? Quotable quotes
- Work first, reward second, in order — Dan Kennedy
- Love will always have baggage attached. Get over it. Love is essential to a full life. No matter what — John Carlton
- I will always hire a lazy person to do a hard job, because they will always find an easy way to do it — Bill Gates
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Joe, Isaias, Irfan and staff
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P.S. Yes, I really did pay that much for the Dan Kennedy Bobblehead doll.
And, with how much time it saves me it was worth every penny!
I’m sure it’s exactly how our customers feel after having us automate something for them!
