AI marketing Masterclass: From beginner to expert in 60 minutes

February 9, 2026

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From Terminal to Funnel: Building a Complete Marketing System in Claude Code

James Dickerson, known as The Boring Marketer, spent two hours recording himself working in Claude Code, narrated everything with WhisperFlow, and turned the transcript into a lead magnet. That lead magnet—a playbook on how to use AI for marketing—is itself the product of the method he teaches. The loop is intentional: the way you build the thing is the way you market the thing.

The episode is a live demonstration of what Dickerson calls "vibe marketing"—using Claude Code, MCPs, and skills to build landing pages, lead magnets, ad creatives, and email sequences from a single terminal window. The core insight is that most people skip the research step, jump straight to prompting, and wonder why their output looks like AI slop. Dickerson's method reverses that: research first, then skills, then execution.

The Three-Layer Stack: Research, Skills, Build

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What you'll learn

1 (00:00) **Introduction: Vibe Marketing & The Promise** - Greg introduces James (the Boring Marketer) and the episode's goal: using Claude Code, MCPs, and skills to build a complete marketing system in one sitting.
2 (02:29) **The Lead Magnet Playbook: From Session to Asset** - James explains his process of recording a two-hour Claude Code session, transcribing it with WhisperFlow, and turning the transcript into a lead magnet.
3 (06:34) **The Three-Layer System: Research, Skills, Build** - James breaks down his core workflow: research with MCPs (Perplexity, Playwright), applying marketing skills, and building assets.
4 (08:13) **Live Demo: Research with Perplexity MCP** - James starts a live build for a fictional AI marketing agency targeting boring local businesses ($2-10M revenue).
5 (10:10) **Applying the Positioning Angles Skill** - James invokes his custom "positioning angles" skill to find optimal positioning for the agency.
6 (13:19) **Task-Based Agents for Decision Making** - James explains why he spins up fresh task-based agents: to get a clean context window for specialized review and decision-making.
7 (15:55) **Direct Response Copy Skill & Playwright MCP** - James invokes his direct response copy skill (trained on Eugene Schwartz, Claude Hopkins, etc.) to generate landing page copy.

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Show Notes

I sit down with James Dickerson, a growth marketer, Claude Code power user, and the mind behind The Boring Marketer, to watch him build an entire marketing system live from the terminal. James walks me through his full workflow: deep research with the Perplexity MCP, positioning angle discovery, direct response copywriting, landing page creation, lead magnet design, ad creative generation with Remotion, and traffic strategy — all inside Claude Code using stacked skills and MCPs. By the end, we have a conversion-ready funnel for a fictional AI marketing agency serving boring local businesses, and James shares the free playbook he created from a two-hour recorded session so listeners can replicate the process themselves.

Timestamps

00:00 – Intro and Camera Setup Chat

02:57 – Episode Preview: Building a Vibe Marketing System

06:33 – Perplexity MCP for Market Research

08:13 – Live Demo: Researching an AI Marketing Agency Niche

09:48 – Positioning Angles Skill

11:34 – Direct Response Copywriting Skill

15:43 – Playwright MCP for Competitive Intelligence

17:37 – Keeping Your MCP Stack Simple (Perplexity, Firecrawl, Playwright)

20:59 – Anthropic's Front End Design Skill

25:51 – Remotion: Creating Video Ads from the Terminal

28:47 – Landing Page Review: "Boring Money" Agency

30:43 – Orchestrator Skill: Deciding What to Do Next

34:10 – Lead Magnet Skill

34:10 – Are Skills Underrated

39:08 – Claude Code Costs: $200/Month Max Subscription

42:03 – Live Lead Magnet Review

43:28 – Keyword Research and Traffic Strategy Skills

45:23 – The Evolution of Vibe Marketing

47:11 – Remotion Setup and Ad Creation Demo

54:47 – Final Ad and SEO Page Review

57:25 – Final Thoughts

Links Mentioned:

Vibe Marketing Playbook: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/vibe_marketing_playbook

Vibe Marketing Skills: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/Vibe_marketing_skills

Key Points

Spending an hour on upfront research with the Perplexity MCP produces dramatically better marketing outputs than jumpi