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Watch this episode on YouTube: How to Build a Free Link in Bio Store (Step by Step)
Create your free MiloTree link-in-bio storefront Get the free Link in Bio Money Map AI prompt
Your link in bio should do more than display a list of links. It should make one next step obvious: grab a useful freebie and join your email list.
In this episode of The Blogger Genius Podcast, MiloTree co-founder Jillian Leslie explains how to turn Instagram followers and social media visitors into email subscribers and potential customers with a free link-in-bio store. Learn how to connect your content, bio, featured freebie, and small paid offer into a simple digital product sales funnel without a website.
For the on-screen walkthrough of the MiloTree setup, watch the YouTube version linked above.
In this episode, you will learn:
Your next step
Choose one useful freebie that solves a specific problem. Then pair it with a small paid product that helps the same person take the next step. Use the free Link in Bio Money Map prompt to clarify your bio copy and connect the journey.
MiloTree Free and Grow
MiloTree Free includes a link-in-bio storefront, up to three digital products, and up to three freebies with tripwires. There is no monthly charge, and MiloTree charges a 5% fee when you make a sale.
Grow includes order bumps, upsells, and 0% MiloTree transaction fees. It costs $25 per month billed annually or $37 per month billed monthly.
Start your free MiloTree link-in-bio store
Want to see the demos? This episode has screen-share walkthroughs. Watch the full video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/6jvrMl9VhUM?si=msksiy9rQeE0aD8h
If you are wondering how to sell a digital product without an audience, Dana's story is the place to start.
Dana was a brand-new college counselor with zero followers, no Instagram audience, and no email list. But she turned what she knew into a simple $29 roadmap for stressed-out parents and made $1,200 in her first month.
She did not go viral. She did not run ads. She did not post every day and hope the algorithm noticed her.
She started with people. First, the people who already knew her. Then communities filled with the people she could help. Then a few creators who already had access to her ideal buyers.
If you have a digital product but no buyers yet, this is the strategy to copy. You do not need traffic first. You need the right people, one ring at a time.
If you are still deciding what to sell, start with these easy digital downloads to sell now so you are promoting a small, specific product people can understand quickly.
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One of the biggest mistakes creators make is thinking they need to be famous before anyone will buy from them.
But a digital product business does not require you to be a guru, a huge content creator, or a polished expert with a massive audience. It requires you to be useful.
And most people are already useful. Every job, business, hobby, and life experience gives you knowledge someone else wants because they are a few steps behind you.
The question is not, "Am I expert enough?" The better question is, "What problem can I help someone solve faster than they could solve it alone?" This is the same idea Jillian teaches in how to turn your personal experience into income with AI. Your experience becomes valuable when you package it around a specific result.
Show Notes:
In this episode, Jillian show how to figure out what to sell from your own experience, how to price it correctly, and how MiloTree's AI Product Finder and AI Product Roadmap can help you go from "I have no idea what to sell" to a product ready to launch.
Jillian also created a free PDF called Three AI Prompts to Find and Launch Your Digital Product Before Your Competition Does. The prompts walk you through the exact thinking process behind this episode.
Prompt 1 finds your product idea using a before-and-after transformation. This helps you stop selling a topic and start selling the result your buyer wants.
Prompt 2 identifies the dominant buying trigger. Is your product helping someone make money, save money, save time, reduce pain, move toward happiness, or raise status?
Prompt 3 locks in the price, format, and product scope. This keeps you from turning a simple product into a six-month project.
The goal is not to build something huge. The goal is to build something clear enough to finish and useful enough to sell.
Watch the video on YouTube to see the demo. Get the 3 prompts here for product ideas people will buy.
ChatGPT can build you a digital product in minutes. It can make it look polished. It can write the guide, outline the template, and even help you create a sales page.
But here is the problem: ChatGPT does not automatically know if your product is positioned correctly, priced correctly, or tied to a transformation people actually want to buy.
That is why so many creators end up with beautiful digital products that nobody buys.
In this episode, Jillian shares three AI prompts that fix the parts ChatGPT usually misses: the transformation, the purchasing trigger, and the price plus product scope. These are the pieces that can turn a generic idea into a product someone understands, wants, and is willing to pay for.
Show Notes:
In the video, Jill walks through a simple example: a coach who helps women navigate a midlife career change.
Her first product is a $47 offer called The Midlife Career Reset: Find Your Next Move in 30 Days.
That name works because it does not just describe the topic. It describes the buyer's future. She is not buying "career advice." She is buying clarity, relief, and a next step.
Here is the math Jill shares:
Total: $7,582/month.
This is not magic. It is a product ladder. The first product solves an immediate problem. The order bump adds a useful next tool. The upsell gives buyers access to the creator's personal help.
If you want to build this kind of structure, read how to create a digital product stack that turns one offer into a bigger business.
Why MiloTree Makes This Easier
You can run these prompts in ChatGPT. They will help you think more strategically before you build.
But if you want the easier version, MiloTree has this functionality built in for free.
Inside MiloTree, the AI Product Finder asks you three questions and gives you three product ideas fully spec'd out:
Then you pick the product you like best and it loads into your MiloTree dashboard, set up and ready to sell.
You still need to create the product and upload it, but MiloTree helps there too. The Product Roadmap gives you a step-by-step plan for building it, with AI prompts to help you create it faster and personalization prompts so it does not sound like generic AI.
CTA: Start with a free MiloTree account to test your first product, freebie, or social pop-up. If you want unlimited products, unlimited freebies, order bumps, upsells, and funnels, upgrade to a paid MiloTree plan.
Your Action Plan
Here is what Jill wants you to do next:
You were probably not stuck because you could not create a digital product. You were stuck because you were guessing.
The guessing is what changes today.
CTA: If you want the prompts Jill mentions in the video, grab the free AI prompts here. If you want MiloTree to generate your product ideas for you, sign up for MiloTree free. And if you are ready to build without limits, choose a paid MiloTree plan.
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I've watched thousands of creators sell digital products. The ones selling ebooks and how-to guides? It used to work. They could make thousands. But now they're struggling.
There's a small group doing something completely different — and they're making $2,000 to $7,000 a month. Nobody's talking about what they changed. Today I am.
Show Notes:An information product that used to work: "The Complete Guide to Meal Planning." 40 pages, $17.
The transformation product: "The 7-Day Meal Prep Jumpstart: Overwhelmed to a Full Freezer in One Weekend." $27.
Same topic. Totally different product.
The guide says "here's what to know." The jumpstart says "here's where you'll be in 7 days."
When someone buys a guide, they're buying a book. When someone buys a jumpstart, they're buying a version of themselves — the version who has it together, who has a full freezer, who isn't scrambling at 6 p.m.
You're not selling a product. You're selling your customer their future self. And AI can't give that away for free.
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See the pattern? A specific result, a specific timeframe, a clear starting point.
The Transformation Product AI Prompt
"I have experience in [add your niche]. My audience struggles with [add the problem]. Give me five digital product ideas that promise a specific transformation, not just information. Each one should include: 1) A product name that states the result and timeframe, 2) Where the customer starts (their pain point), 3) Where they end up (the specific outcome), 4) Why someone would pay $27 to $47 for this instead of just Googling it or using AI. Make them specific, achievable, and something I could create in one afternoon."
Shift 2: Don't Write an Ebook — Build a SystemThe ebook: "How to Plan Your Content Calendar." 50 pages. The customer has to read it, figure it out, apply it. Most never finish.
The system: "The 30-Day Content Calendar Framework." Fill in five blanks, follow the decision tree, done-for-them calendar in 20 minutes.
One makes the customer do the work. The other does it for them. And systems are actually easier to create. You don't need 50 pages — you need a framework.
A system can be:
"I'm creating a digital product called [add your product name]. Instead of writing an ebook, help me design it as a fill-in-the-blank system. Include: 1) What the customer fills in about their specific situation (3-5 inputs), 2) What the system gives them back (the personalized output), 3) The step-by-step framework — what does each page or section do?, 4) How the customer gets to the promised result without reading more than two pages. Keep it simple enough that I can build it in a Google Doc or Canva template in one afternoon."
Shift 3: AI Can't Be YouThis is the one nobody talks about.
AI can write an ebook. AI can build a template. AI can create a framework. But AI cannot be you.
AI can't look at someone's business and say "skip that, do this." AI can't bring your years of experience to their problem. AI can't make someone feel seen.
That's what people pay the most for — not your product, you.
Put yourself in everything you sell. And if AI scares you, here's the flip: once you make this shift, AI becomes your accelerator. It builds your templates faster, your frameworks in an afternoon, your sales pages in minutes. AI does the heavy lifting. You focus on being you.
How to Set Up and Sell Your Product in 15 MinutesHere's how easy this is with MiloTree:
15 minutes. Product, sales page, checkout. Done.
Add a freebie to build your email list. Set up a tripwire on the thank-you page. Add order bumps and upsells to turn $27 customers into $50+ customers. It's all built in.
Start free on MiloTree — no credit card required →
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Everyone wants to make $10,000 a month selling digital products. But most people haven't made their first sale yet.
So before we talk about $10K months, let's talk about five AI prompts that build a real digital product business from scratch — no audience, no email list, no products needed to start.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9aG8F9Y9JlM?si=SsXbeLmhOuCbGBxj
But first, the most important thing: this is not about being perfect. It's about being fast. The creators who make money test faster. They put something out, see what works, double down on the winners, and kill what doesn't. Your first product might flop — and that's not failure. That's data.
AI lets you test five ideas in the time it used to take to build one. So stop overthinking. Start testing.
Show Notes:
Start with MiloTree's free plan — no credit card required. Or go straight to the $19/month plan to test multiple freebies and products. Most people who find success faster invest in themselves from the start.
Setup takes about 15 minutes. There's a 14-day money-back guarantee. And if you need help, you'll talk to real humans — not chatbots.
Start Selling With MiloTree Now!
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Everyone on YouTube is telling you to use AI to slap together a digital product and start making money overnight. I'm going to be honest with you — most of those people are selling you a fantasy.
I'm not saying AI isn't powerful. It is. But the way most people are using it, they're setting themselves up to fail. And I can prove it because I've watched it happen hundreds of times.
In this post, I'll show you the simple AI strategy that took one creator from a $27 product to $11,000/month — and break down exactly how you can do the same.
Test Fast With MiloTreeYou're not just creating any AI product — you're creating a specific product for a specific person that hits a specific trigger. And you can test this incredibly fast.
In my MiloTree dashboard, I click "digital product," give it a name, a price, and a short description. With the press of a button, MiloTree generates an AI sales page for me.
I can tweak a few things and I'm done. Live sales page, ready to share. 15 minutes, start to finish. No website, no complicated tech.
If it sells, great — build on it. If it doesn't, no problem. Tweak it or try another idea. The speed of testing is everything when you're starting out.
👉 Try MiloTree's Grow Plan for $19/month (paid monthly)
Show Notes:
✨ Start selling your first digital product for free in 10 minutes with MiloTree! ✨
Watch the video of the episode on YouTube here.
If you're a blogger watching your ad revenue plummet after Google updates and AI disruptions, you're not alone. Traffic losses of 50-70% have become the new normal, leaving thousands of creators wondering if their years of hard work were for nothing.
In my newest video, I shared the incredible story of Melanie, a registered dietitian and low-carb food blogger who transformed her dying blog into a thriving digital product business. In just 90 days, she went from $700/month in ad revenue to $6,500/month. Ten months later, she's now making $12,500/month—nearly three times her pre-crash income.
The best part? She used the same expertise, the same email list, and the same audience she already had. She just changed her business model.
In this post, I'll walk you through Melanie's exact week-by-week strategy so you can replicate her success, even if your traffic has tanked and your ad revenue has disappeared.
Show Notes:If you're watching your ad revenue disappear, if Google has crushed your traffic, if you're wondering whether your blog is still viable—I want you to hear this:
Your work isn't worthless. You just need a different monetization strategy.
You already have everything you need:
What you need now is a platform that makes it easy to test, launch, and scale digital products without getting bogged down in complicated tech.
Try MiloTree free—no credit card required.
Set up your first coaching offer, workshop, or membership in minutes. Test it with your audience. See what works. Then scale it.
Melanie went from $700/month to $12,500/month in less than a year. Your journey will look different, but the strategy is the same:
Ready to find your one gold mine product? Download my free AI prompt that will help you identify the exact product you should build first. This is the same framework I used with Melanie to uncover her digital product strategy.
Your expertise is valuable. It's time to start charging for it.
Let's go.
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Watch the video on YouTube here. Most creators are stuck on an exhausting hamster wheel. They're constantly hunting for new customers to buy their $27 product. Let's say they make a hundred sales in a month. Great job! But next month, they start all over, hunting for those same $27 customers again.
But what if that same customer became worth $2,000 to your business? Same effort to acquire them, but 235 times more profitable.
Show Notes:Here's what most of us do: We create that one product, price it at $27, and pour all our energy into getting new people to buy it. We're constantly putting up Instagram posts, Pinterest pins, writing blog posts, sending emails, running ads.
And even when it works, the math is terrible.
Let's say you get 100 new customers at $27 each. That's $2,700. Sounds good, right?
But next month, you need 100 more new customers to make that same $2,700. It never ends. You're always hustling for new people.
Meanwhile, those 100 customers you already have? They trusted you enough to buy once—but you're ignoring them while you chase strangers.
That's where most creators are leaving thousands of dollars on the table and burning out.
If you're feeling this exhaustion, you're not alone. In my post on why people won't pay for information anymore, I talk about how the old model of selling one product isn't working in 2026. The solution isn't more hustle—it's a smarter business model.
What Is a Digital Product Ladder?Here's what smart creators do instead. They build what I call a digital product ladder, and it completely changes the economics of your business.
Instead of selling one thing and moving on, you create a journey for your customer:
The 6 Rungs of a Product LadderSame customers. One acquisition cost. But instead of making $27, you're making over $2,000 over time from that same person.
And here's the beautiful part: Each sale after the first one costs you almost nothing. They already know you. They already trust you. They are easier to sell to than a complete stranger.
This is exactly why I teach the upsell and order bump strategy inside MiloTree—it's the fastest way to increase your customer lifetime value without finding new customers.
Your Action Plan: Start TodayHere's what I want you to do right now:
Step 1: Grab the AI PromptDownload my complete Digital Product Ladder AI Prompt — it's free. Run it for your topic tonight. Don't wait.
Step 2: Sign Up for MiloTree's Free PlanSign up here — no credit card needed. Set up your freebie lead magnet, test it, and see how easy this all is.
Step 3: Build Your Full LadderWhen you're ready to build your full ladder, upgrade to one of our paid plans. They start at just $19/month. Most people do this within the first two weeks of signing up.
What gets them upgraded? The ability to offer multiple freebies to grow their email list faster—so they have more people to sell to.
The Bottom LineWith MiloTree, you have everything you need to turn that $27 customer into a $2,000 customer.
Stop chasing strangers. Start building real relationships.
That's how you get to $1,000, $5,000, $10,000 a month without burning out.
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✨Sell your first digital product free forever! Start here!
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If you're a creator, blogger, coach, or online entrepreneur, you've probably felt it already:
AI has changed everything.
The old playbook—creating an ebook, checklist, or guide filled with information—just isn't enough anymore. When someone can ask ChatGPT a question and get an answer in 30 seconds, why would they pay $27 for a static PDF?
That's the uncomfortable truth most creators are avoiding.
But here's the good news: this shift is actually opening the door to more income, not less.
In my newest video, I break down the five products creators will rely on to make $10,000, $20,000, even $50,000 per month in 2026—and why these offers work because of AI, not in spite of it.
Let's dig in.
Show Notes:AI can generate content. AI can summarize ideas. AI can outline frameworks.
What AI can't do?
That's why the creators winning in 2026 aren't selling information.
They're selling access, guidance, experience, and connection.
And AI? It becomes your accelerator—helping you create faster while you deliver the value.
The 5 Products Dominating Creator Income in 20261. One-on-One Coaching
Coaching is the fastest path to cash for creators right now.
Why? Because people don't want generic advice—they want someone to look at their situation and tell them exactly what to do.
One productivity coach charging $300 per session and booking just 12 sessions a month is already making $3,600/month. No ads. No massive audience. Just expertise and trust.
You don't need a complicated setup either:
That's it.
2. Live WorkshopsWorkshops let you scale your time without losing the human element.
One MiloTree customer ran a 90-minute live workshop for $97. 45 people showed up. That's $4,365 in under two hours.
Same expertise as coaching—just delivered to more people at once. Plus, live workshops create urgency and energy that pre-recorded content never can.
3. Mini Courses with Live Q&AThis is where things get really smart.
Creators are taking workshops they already ran and turning them into:
One nutrition coach sold 38 copies at $147—over $5,500 from content she had already created.
Evergreen content + live access = the best of both worlds.
4. Group Coaching ProgramsGroup coaching hits the sweet spot between leverage and connection.
Think:
One business coach runs a 12-week program at $497 and enrolls 18 people at a time—nearly $9,000 per cohort, twice a year.
Same expertise. Same calls. Way more impact.
5. Memberships (The Real Long-Term Play)If you want predictable, recurring revenue, memberships are where creators are building real wealth.
One creator helping Etsy sellers launched a $67/month membership and grew it to 227 members—over $15,000/month recurring.
Why memberships work so well:
AI can give advice. It can't create belonging.
Why MiloTree Is Built for This New EraHere's the part most creators don't realize: you don't need five different tools to sell these products.
With MiloTree, you can sell:
All in one place.
No Kajabi. No Teachable. No ThriveCart. No bloated platforms that take hours (or weeks) to figure out.
MiloTree handles:
And yes—you can start for free, no credit card required, to test which product your audience actually wants.
Not Sure Which Product to Start With? I Made This for YouTo make this even easier, I created a free AI prompt called:
The 2026 Product Selector AI Prompt
You tell it:
And it tells you:
No overthinking. No endless planning. Just momentum.
👉 Grab the free prompt and sign up for your free MiloTree account.
Final TakeawayHere's the truth creators need to hear:
AI didn't kill creator businesses. It killed generic content.
The creators thriving in 2026 are the ones who:
Use AI to build faster. Use MiloTree to sell easier.
And remember this part—it matters most:
You are the product. And that's what people will happily pay for.
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