THE OPERATOR’S LIBRARY

The operating manuals for people who have to make the system work.

Verified guides and practical tools for Make automations, FunnelKit checkouts, and one-person marketing — written for operators doing the work themselves.

By Brian Kasday — forty years in measurable direct response, now documenting the systems he runs himself.

Marketing still has to prove it worked. Automation still has to survive production. Checkout still has to earn the next sale.

FREE FIELD GUIDES

What are you building?

Pick the system you’re working in — the matching field guide is free.

MAKE

Keep the Make checks you’ll use more than once — reference cards, production checklist, and the cost estimator.

FUNNELKIT

Five order bump structures you can put to work at checkout today — free, with the conditions that make them fire.

MARKETING

Before you buy another marketing tool, read this — the five mistakes that cost more than the software.

THE BOOKS

The operating manuals.

Each one is the reference for a job you’re doing alone — meant to stay open next to the work, not read once and shelved.

BOOK · MAKE

The Missing Manual for Make

The reference Make.com builders keep beside the editor — verified against the live platform, kept current after launch.

BOOK · FUNNELKIT

The Missing Manual for FunnelKit

The production-grade reference for FunnelKit funnels, checkouts, and automations on WooCommerce.

BOOK · MARKETING

Build a Complete Marketing Department

Run the work of a full marketing department as a one-person operation — classic direct response plus a three-tool AI stack.

The tools have never been cheaper, or more powerful. The thinking behind them has never mattered more.
THE OPERATOR

Written by someone who has to live with the results.

MMS Vegas is Brian Kasday — a direct-response marketer who spent decades waiting on developers, designers, and copywriters, then rebuilt the work himself. The books and the guides are the working record.

FROM THE LIBRARY

The working notes.

52 practical guides. Growing every week.

Every guide in the Library answers a question an operator actually hit — an automation that won’t fire, an import that broke, copy that sounds like a robot wrote it. They’re free, they don’t ask for your email, and they’re kept current. The newest six are below; the full shelf is sorted by tool.

Make InvalidConfigurationError deactivates your scenario immediately, and the error message rarely tells you which field is actually broken.
Time to value is the distance between purchase and the first outcome a customer genuinely cares about, and shrinking it is the single highest-leverage retention move most operators ignore.
Good better best pricing replaces one isolated price with three tiers that use comparison psychology to capture more buyers and lift average revenue per sale.
Channel market fit is what decides whether your traffic strategy has a structural foundation, or whether you’re just renting the wrong audience on the wrong platform.
Net revenue retention is the one number that tells you whether your existing customers are compounding your revenue or quietly eroding it, before new sales disguise the answer.
Win loss analysis is how operators stop guessing why deals close or disappear, and start making positioning, messaging, and sales decisions on real buyer evidence.
THE BUILDER'S BRIEF

The books are finished. The building isn’t.

The Builder’s Brief is the working notebook behind the Make manual — one brief a month on what broke, what shipped, and what it cost, for operators running Make in production. $79 a year.

New · The Operator’s Canon

The ideas behind the tactics.

A growing reference of the timeless marketing concepts that still move the needle — the Dream 100, positioning, the value equation — each one explained for operators, not academics.

Explore the Canon →

An MMS Vegas Imprint · Las Vegas, NV

The Operator’s Library

Field manuals, guides, and tools for the people who have to make the system actually work — written from production, not theory.

Verified Current

Every manual and guide is checked against the current release and carries the month it was last verified.

Corrected Openly

When a tool changes or we get something wrong, the fix is dated and noted on the affected guide.

Built by an Operator

Written by one person running the same automations, checkouts, and campaigns these books document. By Brian Kasday →