Better Sheets

Make Better Google Sheets w/ Step by Step Videos

No Employees
Founders Don't Code
Solo Founder
Education
Productivity
Task Management

Everyone starts their new project, new idea, in a google sheet. Makes a roadmap or a to do list. I've built epic programs that have run TV stations in google sheets. I built everything from a personal CRM to Biz Models.

February 3, 2024 Increasing Prices Again

After adding a new course (selling spreadsheets) and a new product (Coupon Code Maker) I'm increasing the lifetime price of Better Sheets.
It's been $225 for a few months now. And in 3 days it'll rise to $250

Looking forward to the promotions I'll be running in the next few days. It'll be non stop for 3 full days to get as much traffic as possible and get my conversion rate above 3% for this.

Even just 1,000 traffic at 3% conversion rate would gross over $6k revenue.

https://appsumo.com/products/better-sheets/

December 21, 2023 BIG YEAR!

Make 2024 a big year.

I made a yearly planner in a single google sheet tab. Great for printing, downloading, and planning big adventures in 2024.

Get it free: https://kampheyapproved.gumroad.com/l/bigyear

A full year calendar template in Google Sheets.

All-Year-in-One Overview

Imagine having the entire year's schedule on one single page. BIG YEAR offers a comprehensive 12-month display, providing an at-a-glance view of your whole year. This holistic perspective makes it easier to plan long-term projects, vacations, and personal milestones, ensuring you never miss out on life's big events.

Easily Plan the Big Stuff

Put the big stuff first. The adventures, the milestones, the anniversaries, the birthdays you don't want to miss. Then fill in your year with the other stuff.

Downloadable and Printable

BIG YEAR is not just a calendar; it's a revolutionary tool to transform your time management. Designed innovatively in Google Sheets, this downloadable and printable calendar allows you to visualize and plan your epic year effortlessly. It's the perfect blend of convenience and efficiency, ensuring that your days are well-organized and your goals, within reach.

Weekend Highlights for Work-Life Balance

Experience the unique feature of weekend highlights in a soothing light blue shade, enabling you to distinguish workdays from leisure time at a glance. This subtle yet impactful feature is crafted to encourage a healthy work-life balance, reminding you to relax and recharge during weekends while staying on top of your weekday tasks.

BIG and TALL

There are two versions, so far. Each are printable perfectly on a Tabloid. One is horizontal, laying out each month vertically and the days horizontally. The tall version is for Tabloid size too but the months are laid out horizontally and the days go down vertically.

Is BIG YEAR Free?

Yes Big Year is a totally free template, made in Google Sheets by BetterSheets.co

Lifetime members got notified first of this cool template. Become a member today to make sure you don't miss any new templates, tools, and tutorials. Also available to all Lifetime Members are over 400+ tutorials, 30+ Courses, and over a dozen tools to make your life in Google Sheets better.

December 2, 2023 Struggling with Spreadsheet SEO

For the past year I've been struggling with SEO.
If you look, with fuzzy eye-sight, at my Google Search Console everything looks wonderful. There is a graph that goes up and to the right.

More impressions!
More clicks!
2 out of 2
Home run!

But this particular success is not what it seems.

I've been focused on making tutorials, directories, and tools, and getting myself ranked for very general google sheets terms.

Some blogs work out great. A flood of new viewers, readers, google sheet users, come in.

And then they leave.

The problem might be the conversion... sure sure sure.

But in actuality my theory is that I'm targeting viewers/readers all wrong.

If I hired an SEO consultant, who is good at SEO, I bet they'd do exactly what I've been doing. Add content. Get indexed. Get ranked. Get impressions. Get Clicks. Show the number of clicks, that you get in return for the cash payment every month.

But if I look at that traffic that goes up and to the right... and then I look at my revenue. They are not the same.

People coming to view a google sheets formula is not buying courses.

People are buying courses on Udemy. Where people go to buy courses.

to sum it up: Autodidacts are the worst customers for me.

People who, just like me 5 years ago, have to google for every answer.
Nay... people who, just like me 5 minutes ago. I have to google for answers too! Even 10 years into coding in Apps Script, I google for answers every day.

And I'm making the tutorials!

Someone like me would be a terrible customer.

I need to change.

I need to change my SEO strategy.

I need to change my overall goals with SEO to match my revenue goals.

Right now I'm on the tailend of a month long dive into what I should be doing. Hopefully I come out better, stronger, richer.

October 26, 2023 Falling In Love with Making 1-Page Apps

In December 2022 I made my first Google Sheets Add-on.

And now in Q4 2023 I have published a total of 6 add-ons to the Google Workspace Marketplace.

But now a new form has taken hold.

I'm building 1-page Apps on the BetterSheets.co domain

These are featured, at times, in my footer. And mainly sent to my email list, linked to on socials, and at times launched on Product Hunt.

My favorites so far are the

But also I fell in love with weirder ideas too

yes I made a screenshot generator specifically for Google Sheets. Put in a url of your sheet (publicly available via link) and it'll go take a screenshot of it. You might be thinking.. why? I can just take a screenshot myself!

But I, at one point, needed a screenshot while on my phone. Probably posting on Twitter or something. And thought.. well if I could just get the URL.. and use Puppeteer... then boom I got a screenshot.

Yes I had to learn Puppeteer to do this.

And these 1-page apps have allowed me to dive deeper into learning code. Using Ruby on Rails has been marvelous. Injecting Javascript, and AI prompts have made it a breeze to get a format and then replicate it a few times.

As you can see the PDF URL, Embed, and /Copy URL Generators are all a "format" that I can keep going with as long as I know more and more Google Sheet hacks and tricks.

the REGEXMATCH and SPARKLINE generators are specific use cases. In this case I went super niche first, and can go more general as I will soon with a "Formula Generator" that can generate anything.

I have done this before in sheets, with an Add-on called ASA (ask sheets anything) but because that was a "bring your own apikey" it didn't take hold very well for my audience. My audience being very much out of their element when it comes to apikeys and anything technical.

Now the trick will be to corral these 1-page apps into a directory that makes sense.

Originally my /tools page was supposed to be where I put all the tools for Google Sheets users but some are in sheets (OnlySheets), some are for sheets (Spintax), and these 1-page apps are mainly for Google Sheet users but not based in a sheet.

Where they live, what they are made of though... is not important.

What is important is that they are useful. And probably more important, that people can find them and use them.

Even if it exists, but nobody knows about it, then does it really exist?

And in the near future will probably paywall some of these tools for a variety of reasons including their running costs (API access) along with the need for my child's education fund.

Indiehackers gotta eat too!

August 31, 2023 Launched OnlySheets 2.0

After 2 years of OnlySheets 1.0, now we have new features, new integrations. OnlySheets 2.0 makes it easier to sell sheets, and build your business with Google Sheets.

​🔐OnlySheets 2.0​
yes, you can sell access to your Google Sheets

Check out: OnlySheets.bettersheets.co​

WORKS WITH:
💰 Stripe
⚡️ Zapier
🩷 Gumroad

Integrate Zapier, and you can sell access via Etsy, Shopify, PayPal, or even Salesforce.

MONETIZE YOUR EXPERTISE
📊 Trackers
🗓️ Planners
📆 Calendars
🎨 Templates
✅ Checklists
💪 Workflows
🧮 Calculators
🤖 Automations
🧠 Info Products
⚙️ Custom Scripts
⚛️ Crazy Long Formulas

SECURE YOUR SHEETS
Make sure only buyers, those you want to have access, have access. Avoid sharing sheets with "Anyone with the link" enabled.

MORE THAN SHEETS
OnlySheets works with more than only Spreadsheets

Also works with

  • Docs
  • Slides
  • Drive Folders

NEW FEATURES
👉 Bundle sheets to share together
👉 Notification of Viewer Counts
👉 Create a copy near share limit
👉 Revoke Access when needed

I just posted on twitter here:
https://twitter.com/Kamphey/status/1697142248297885894

Lifetime Members get OnlySheets for free
For non-members it's a one time payment of $30.

More info: https://onlysheets.bettersheets.co/

July 21, 2023 New Business Model: 7 Days Free Trial

So the story goes.. I've had a free forever plan, and a monthly plan, and a lifetime deal for Better Sheets

In addition to that I've sold individual courses, and templates, and tools.

It's a LOT of stuff.

Beyond that I had a huge growing problem. I've made 406 tutorials but they were mostly paywalled. A visitor could read a transcript, but a visitor wanted to watch the video. And they could not. It's a huge wall to climb to go from a google search to pay $19 to join a membership to watch one video you don't know if it will solve your problem.

I wanted to make sure that any visitor could see any video, at any time.

So I created a 7 days free trial.

Get any video, any sheet, and your access is limited to 7 days. After that subscribe.

In addition to this I made two tiers. One for access to all the videos at $19/month and one for access to videos and sheets for $29/month.

Let's see how this goes.

Check out the new Pricing

July 14, 2023 Do You Use Google Sheets?

I'm doing a little survey.
Finding out the true usage of spreadsheets.
Currently have almost 100 responses and found some interesting correlations. and some non-correlated information.

Such as, there is no correlation to the number of years that someone has used spreadsheets and their ability to use them. Just because we've used spreadsheets for 5, 7, 10 years does not mean we feel any more advanced or not.

I'll be releasing the full results on July 31st.

I'm still gathering data. Take the survey here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMMPLY-3loz1LbnU_G7IbXqo_9c6WwuvzuoOtvGFAOcFh30A/viewform

July 7, 2023 Free Sheet Share Tool

Made a free tool for sharing a Google Sheet.
Adds /copy to the end of a url without having to know where to edit.

Try it out
with any Google Sheet URL

BetterSheets.co/copy

Use Cases:
Collaboration
Share Sheets with coworkers. Enables them to easily make their own copies.

Education
Teachers can quickly distribute worksheets so students can easily duplicate

Data Collection
Researchers can share Sheets so each participant has a copy.

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June 3, 2023 Dealing with Rejection

I just got rejected today. I'm in the middle of building a Google Sheets Add-on Course. Literally walking through the process of taking some Apps Script code and turning it into a published Add-on on the Google Workspace Marketplace.

and I got rejected.

Well the add-on got rejected.

Email subject line includes "Rejected" in it.

rejected

this sucks.

But I've been here before.

and I've overcome.

And this is so stupid.

In fact I knew this would happen. Every single time I submitted a marketplace listing for a Google Sheet add-on there's one thing I got rejected for. At least one. And every time it's just changing an image that I uploaded wrong, or editing some text. Adding a TM trademark mark, or something silly.

This time it was that my detailed description was too short. That's it.

If you have a fragile ego, you're not gonna make it through.

It seems scary to get an email saying "rejected"

I've been through years and years of getting my twice annual YC Rejection Email!

I've been through this Add-on process now 5 times. This is my 6th time.

In reality this is my 7th time.

I tried, the first time, to make an add-on I didn't care about and get through the process. I stopped when I got stopped. And I never made it through. I had no purpose. I didn't need the add-on to exist.

But the 2nd time I tried, I needed this add-on to exist.

And today, the 7th time I'm trying, I really need this add-on to exist or I won't have a course.

I'll literally throw out the entire course, all 27 videos I've made so far, and call it quits on this course.

Every minute of the 129 minutes I've recorded so far will be for nothing.

But that rejection email, I read it, and responded, and fixed it.

And resubmitted.

::Fingers Crossed::

Wish me luck

If this goes through it'll be the 6th published Google Sheet Add-on under the Better Sheets banner.

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Everyone starts their new project, new idea, in a google sheet. Makes a roadmap or a to do list. I've built epic programs that have run TV stations in google sheets. I built everything from a personal CRM to Biz Models.