A secret key is unrestricted access to your entire Stripe account. What it can actually do, why Stripe stopped recommending them, and the two questions to ask any tool that takes payments for you.
Running the business
5 guides for community card operators.
Ad space gets sold. Membership gets applied for. The eight plays that move an operator from chasing advertisers to fielding people who ask to be on the next card.
We spent nearly two years building campaign sites for 9x12 operators. The site was never the bottleneck — and a landing page that can't take a payment is about fifth on the list of what you need.
Every piece of a 9x12 postcard business can be done remotely: prospecting, selling, design, printing, even the post office drop. Here's the full remote stack, with costs.
The feast-and-famine cycle in a 9x12 business isn't a sales problem — it's a calendar problem. Here's how operators smooth $4,000 drops into predictable monthly income.