# Business Hacks

> White-hat. Curated + field-sourced business tactics: pricing, sales, SaaS, retention and churn, fundraising, finance, ops, agency, wealth, product, GTM. Use for executable ops tactics and quick wins. Marketing-channel and SEO tactics are adjacent domains and are out of scope here.

- Skill: `donatassimkus/business-hacks` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 26 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add donatassimkus/business-hacks`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/donatassimkus/business-hacks/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Marketing & Growth
- Author: donatassimkus (https://skillmd.com/u/donatassimkus)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/donatassimkus/business-hacks

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## Business Hacks Skill

Apply specific, proven tactics. Every hack here has a direct execution path.

**Project context is loaded from the active CLAUDE.md. Apply these hacks to the specific site, platform, audience, and goals from that context.**

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## When invoked

The argument you are given can be:
- A topic — apply the most relevant hacks
- A URL — audit it against these hacks and list what's missing
- "all" or no argument — output the full library with execution steps

If no argument: apply the top 5 highest-impact hacks for the active project context.

**Retrieval process:**
1. Match the topic against the Compact Hack Index below
2. Identify which domain(s) the matching hacks belong to using the Strategic Index
3. Load only the relevant reference file(s) from references/
4. Present the matching hacks with full execution steps

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## Strategic Index

| Domain | Hacks |
|---|---|
| Pricing Psychology | 4, 7, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 |
| Sales and Closing | 5, 6, 9, 20, 23, 26, 27 |
| Monetization and Fundraising | 1, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 22, 25 |
| Product and GTM | 2, 3, 8, 10, 16, 21 |
| Outreach and Networking | 14, 15, 24 |

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## Reference Files

Each hack's full content (What it does, How to execute, Why it works) lives in one reference file. Load only what you need.

| Domain | File | Hacks |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing Psychology | `references/pricing-psychology.md` | 7 hacks |
| Sales and Closing | `references/sales-closing.md` | 7 hacks |
| Monetization and Fundraising | `references/monetization-fundraising.md` | 9 hacks |
| Product and GTM | `references/product-gtm.md` | 6 hacks |
| Outreach and Networking | `references/outreach-networking.md` | 3 hacks |
| Hormozi Value Equation, Brad Jacobs M&A roll-up playbook, Jason Cohen annual prepay + customer dev, Kiyosaki Cashflow Quadrant, named operator playbooks | `references/kb-distilled.md` | Distilled operator playbooks |

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## Compact Hack Index

| # | Title | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | PR stunts as fundraising leverage | brand, monetization, content-strategy |
| 2 | Combine adjacent use cases | product, conversion, content-strategy |
| 3 | Demo Video as MVP | content-strategy, audience-building |
| 4 | Omit Decimals on Annual Pricing | pricing, conversion, copywriting |
| 5 | Name Recognition Door Hack | social-engineering, networking, audience-building |
| 6 | Positive Rejection Response Technique | social-engineering, networking |
| 7 | Reduce Price Syllable Count | pricing-psychology, conversion, copywriting |
| 8 | Objection Flip Content Strategy | content-strategy, conversion, copywriting |
| 9 | Dress to raise closing ratio | marketing |
| 10 | AI generated site assets | tools-workflows, brand |
| 11 | Cash stakes increase habit compliance | product, monetization, conversion |
| 12 | Reinvest Revenue Over Fundraising | monetization, growth-strategy |
| 13 | Monetize before fundraising | monetization, startup-strategy |
| 14 | Startup cold outreach strategy | outreach, career-strategy |
| 15 | Targeted Service Outreach Strategy | outreach, freelancing, closing |
| 16 | Simulate social proof app | monetization, social-media, product |
| 17 | TikTok traction for VC pitch | paid-ads, social-media, audience-building |
| 18 | Double pricing per client | monetization, consulting, pricing-strategy |
| 19 | Gate content behind paywall | monetization, audience-building, content-strategy |
| 20 | Onion of Blame Objections | closing, sales-psychology |
| 21 | AI Channel Art Generation | youtube-growth, tools-workflows, brand |
| 22 | Auto-post revenue milestones publicly | monetization, audience-building, automation |
| 23 | Price for gasp reaction | sales, pricing |
| 24 | Gatekeeper contact list system | networking, tools-workflows, sales |
| 25 | Lifetime plan launch offer | monetization, funnels, audience-building |
| 26 | Post-Rejection Discount Plus Proof | closing, funnels, conversion |
| 27 | Price anchoring through social proof | pricing, monetization |
| 28 | Reframe Price Per Day | pricing-psychology, conversion, copywriting |
| 29 | Smaller Font For Prices | pricing-psychology, conversion, web-design |
| 30 | Remove Dollar Signs From Pricing | pricing-psychology, conversion, copywriting |
| 31 | Abbreviate Numbers To Shrink | pricing-psychology, copywriting, conversion |
| 32 | Red Numbers Signal Bargains | pricing-psychology, conversion, web-design |

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## Execution priority

Order recommendations by effort-to-impact for the active project. Highest leverage first.

## Quality gate

Before delivering:
- [ ] Every recommendation maps to a specific hack with execution steps
- [ ] Ordered by effort-to-impact for the active project
- [ ] Context from CLAUDE.md applied
## Field-Sourced Library (multi-channel YouTube)

Distilled tactics from multiple YouTube creators. The curated 32 hacks above are unchanged. For field-sourced depth: match the topic to a category, load only that `fs-*.md` file.

**Live counts, dedup state, and ranking are deliberately not recorded here**, because they drift every time the library is extended. Treat the reference files themselves as the source of truth for what exists, and count from them if a number is needed.

| Category | File | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| pricing-psychology | `references/fs-pricing-psychology.md` | pricing, price, premium, perceived, value |
| retention-churn | `references/fs-retention-churn.md` | churn, cancel-flow, win-back, customer success, retention pricing, onboarding |
| startup-saas | `references/fs-startup-saas.md` | SaaS metrics, PLG, niche, product, market, pattern |
| sales-closing | `references/fs-sales-closing.md` | sales, outreach, visible signals, closing |
| monetization-fundraising | `references/fs-monetization-fundraising.md` | breakage, model, profit, float, product |
| product-gtm | `references/fs-product-gtm.md` | product, demand, viral, signal, validation |
| operations-management | `references/fs-operations-management.md` | hiring, talent, filter, adoption, agent |
| agency-consulting | `references/fs-agency-consulting.md` | agency, service, niche, retainer, productized |
| business-models-arbitrage | `references/fs-business-models-arbitrage.md` | business model, arbitrage, rental, market |
| consumer-market-psychology | `references/fs-consumer-market-psychology.md` | brand, signal, premium, pricing |
| behavioral-economics | `references/fs-behavioral-economics.md` | effect, reward, value, design, behavior |
| force-multiplier-mindset | `references/fs-force-multiplier-mindset.md` | output, build, skill, force, business |
| attention-creator-economy | `references/fs-attention-creator-economy.md` | creator, revenue, audience, platform, content |
| wealth-investing | `references/fs-wealth-investing.md` | compounding, wealth, estate, portfolio, salary |
| tax-legal-loopholes | `references/fs-tax-legal-loopholes.md` | depreciation, estate, segregation, policy |
| outreach-networking | `references/fs-outreach-networking.md` | network, referral, community, curated |