The First $100 | Dee Bates
Beginner-friendly online income course

Your first $100 starts here.

Learn how beginner-friendly AI tools can help you understand online income, recognize opportunities, and create something you own—without needing to know how to code.

Simple explanations. Practical examples. A clear first goal.
Dee Bates, instructor for The First $100
Meet Dee and learn what this course is designed to help you understand and create.

Learn how online income actually works.

Build a clear foundation, use beginner-friendly AI tools, and move from consuming information to creating something you own.

Understand Online Income

  • Digital products
  • Affiliate marketing
  • Online services
  • Content businesses

Recognize Opportunities

  • Find useful problems
  • Choose a specific audience
  • Spot ideas people value
  • Turn ideas into offers

Use AI as Leverage

  • Research faster
  • Plan and organize ideas
  • Create useful content
  • Build without coding

Create Something You Own

  • Digital guides
  • Custom GPTs
  • Courses and content
  • Products people can buy

Everything you need to understand and apply.

The course is built to help beginners learn the ideas, confirm their understanding, and keep the most useful takeaways.

Graded Quizzes

Confirm that you understand the major concepts before moving forward.

Lesson Summaries

Keep the key ideas from every lesson in a concise format you can review later.

Practical Examples

See how AI tools and online platforms can be combined into useful products and services.

Dee Bates
Your instructor

Why I created this course.

I’m Dee Bates. After unexpectedly losing my job, I began learning how people earned income without depending entirely on a traditional employer.

In 2014, I created a simple digital guide and earned approximately $100 from it while I was asleep. That first sale changed how I thought about income because it proved that information and experience could be turned into something valuable that I owned.

My goal is to simplify the process and give beginners a clear, attainable place to start.
Your starting point

You do not need to build an empire today.

You need to understand the process, choose one idea, and begin creating something that could lead to your first sale.

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