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If you’ve spent any amount of time watching successful digital creators online, you’ve probably started taking mental notes about their tech stacks.Stan Store. Flodesk. Zapier. ManyChat. Canva. Zoom. Maybe you’ve watched someone have a six-figure launch using that exact combination and thought, “Okay, apparently that’s what I need too.” But before you start opening accounts and adding another $29 here, $40 there and $99 somewhere else to your monthly business expenses, I want you to ask a different question:

If you’ve been building an online business for any length of time, there’s a good chance your tech stack has started to look something like this:One platform for your website. Another for email marketing. Something else for booking calls. Zoom for meetings. A link-in-bio tool. A checkout platform. Maybe another platform to host your course or digital products.

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been breaking down GetOiling’s different plans from a slightly different perspective. We started with Seed and asked how much business infrastructure we could build if we only had $9 a month to spend. Then we moved into Starter and looked at what another $20 per month could unlock as your audience grows and you need more room for email marketing, landing pages and automation.

Last week, I shared a real conversation I had with a client who needed to rebuild some of the tech behind her business on a very tight budget. We gave ourselves a challenge: if $9 a month was all we had to spend, how much could we actually accomplish with GetOiling’s Seed plan? The answer was quite a bit. That conversation made me want to take this a step further. What happens when your business starts needing more room, but you still aren’t ready for a larger tech investment? What does spending an additional $20 per month actually unlock?

You’d actually be surprised by how much tech can support your business for just $9 a month when you’re trying to get started—or get started again—on a budget. I had a conversation with a client this week who is looking for ways to streamline and eventually automate more of her business. The challenge... She’s working with a very tight budget.

Over the last several weeks, I have been following a creator on Instagram whose content journey has absolutely lit a fire under me. Then yesterday, I watched the digital product she had been building launch in real time and generate $44,578 in its first 12 hours. Before you read that number and think this is another story about how you can throw together a $37 digital product and magically make $44,000, let me stop you. That is not why I'm sharing this story... Yes, her results are extraordinary, they are her results, and there is no guarantee that someone else will experience the same thing. What has inspired me isn't simply what happened during those 12 hours. It's everything she did in the months leading up to them...