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Business advice with a date on it.

Short books about making money online. Every fee and every platform rule in them carries the date we last checked it, plus a link to the page we checked it on. So you never have to take our word for anything.

See the current fees and rules

No cost, no email, no sign-up. It’s the actual page we keep current, not a sample chapter with the useful part removed.

Take this whether you buy anything or notThree questions that work on any business advice

Including ours. They appear in every book in the series because the facts in any guide expire and this does not. Print it, keep it, use it on the next video you watch.

  1. Who gets paid if I follow this and it does not work? Not who is right — who is paid. It is a faster question and it has a checkable answer.
  2. What is the date on this specific claim? Not the date on the video. The date on the claim inside it. A 2026 upload repeating a 2022 fee is a 2022 claim.
  3. Can I reach the platform’s own page in two clicks? If nobody will show you where the number came from, that is the answer.

Failing all three doesn’t make a claim wrong. It makes it unverified, which isn’t the same thing — treat it as a rumour until you’ve checked it yourself.

Why this existsFees moved. Rules changed. Nobody updated the advice.

Most advice about selling online was true when somebody wrote it. Then Etsy quietly redefined what “made by seller” means, and a whole category of template businesses that had been perfectly fine the week before stopped qualifying overnight. Amazon reportedly cut affiliate commissions by up to half. Google started answering the question itself, so the ranking you spent months earning stopped producing a visit.

And none of it gets corrected. A video from 2022 still earns in 2026, whoever made it has long since moved on to something else, and there’s nobody whose job it is to go back and add a line saying the fee went up. So the advice with the most confidence behind it is often the oldest advice on the internet — and the person carrying the risk of acting on it is you, not them.

That’s the whole reason this exists.

The series · What’s actually trueRead only the part you need.

Most business books make you work through three hundred pages to reach the forty that apply to you. These don’t. Each one covers a single subject at a single level, so you start where your actual problem is — and you never have to read one to understand another.

  • Start here · Before You Sell Anything Online

    The five ways to make money in e-commerce and what everyone gets wrong about each one. Written to help you rule four of them out, which is the cheapest thing we can do for you.

    Finished · not yet on sale

  • Dropshipping · Basics

    One product, one supplier, one traffic source, one sale. Including the single point in the sequence where most people’s money quietly disappears.

    Finished · not yet on sale

  • Dropshipping · Intermediate and Advanced

    The same subject, further in. Each one stands on its own — we assume you know the earlier material, never that you bought it.

    Finished · not yet on sale

  • A whole subject, all three levels

    Basics, intermediate and advanced together, for less than buying the three separately. The discount is for buying once instead of three times, which is the only thing it is for.

    Every subject is complete · not yet on sale

Eight subjects, the same three levels

Dropshipping, digital products, print on demand, Etsy, reselling, TikTok Shop affiliate, a one-person AI business, and AI for a business you already run — each is its own set of three, priced the same way. Subjects are independent — nothing about dropshipping is required to start print on demand, and you can enter any subject at any level.

Nothing is on sale yet. When the shop opens, the prices will be right here before you’re asked for anything — and there won’t be a countdown.

How they’re madeDon’t take our word for it.

This bit sits near the bottom on purpose. Credentials are the weakest reason to believe anything, and ours are worth roughly as much as the checks you can run yourself — which is rather the point.

  • Everything carries a date

    Every number has a date beside it. Checked last week and you’ll see that. Checked eight months ago and you’ll see that too, which means you can weigh it properly instead of assuming it still holds.

  • Sources are reachable

    Claims link to the platform’s own page — the Etsy fees policy, the Amazon Associates agreement, the TikTok Shop seller centre. Not to somebody’s summary of it, and not to us.

  • Corrections get published

    When something changes we don’t quietly swap the number and hope nobody noticed. The row says what changed and when, on the resources page — because a printed book can’t update itself and pretending otherwise would be the same trick everyone else pulls.

  • Built on a large corpus

    Twenty-four subject areas, 2,045 sources, about seven million words of primary material, filtered down to what still holds. ⚠️ Volume isn’t accuracy, though — which is exactly why the dates and the links matter more than the size does.

  • Tested on readers

    Drafts get measured on whether people actually finish them and whether they do anything afterwards, not on whether the prose sounds nice. ⚠️ The first round used simulated readers rather than real ones, and that caveat stands until real ones replace it.