You're going to get sick of hearing about Claude Code. It's that good.
Don't let the hype dissuade you. The hype is real.
I built a full-featured marketing website from scratch in two days. The very site you're on right now. No developer. No designer. No copywriter. A content-rich homepage built for conversion, a markdown-powered blog with no CMS, supporting pages, full SEO optimization with schema markup and metadata, sitemaps, internal linking, lead capture forms, first-party marketing pixels. The works.
In the old world, that's a $20,000 website and four weeks minimum. I did it in two days with multiple Claude Code windows running at once. I wrote about the step-by-step process if you want the tactical breakdown.
If this seems too technical, the effort to learn it is worth it. Don't let the command line scare you away.
The Old Way Is Broken
Every growth marketer knows the pain. You need a new site. Maybe you're launching a product, repositioning a brand, starting a company.
Hire a developer. Brief them. Wait. Review. Request changes. Wait again. Meanwhile, you need copy. So you write a brief for a copywriter. Or you write it yourself and hate every word. Then the design feedback loops start. Three weeks in, you're still arguing about button colors while your launch window closes.
I've lived this cycle dozens of times. Coordinating developers, copywriters, designers. Managing revisions and deployments. Watching budgets balloon and timelines slip while the marketing work sits untouched.
The math never made sense. A simple marketing site shouldn't require a $15K budget and six weeks of project management.
It doesn't anymore.
Getting Started Is Simple
Open Terminal on your Mac or Command Prompt on Windows. Install Claude Code. Create an empty folder. Navigate into it. Type "claude" and hit enter. Type /init.
You're in.
Claude Code running in terminal — type natural language, get working code
Claude Code will help you set up the connection to your Claude.ai account. The cost is trivial. The entire GrowthMarketer.com build cost less than a client lunch.
The terminal is just a different interface. You know how to type words and hit enter. That's all this is.
Don't Start by Building
Most people try to build a website on day one. They type "make me a website" and wonder why the output feels generic.
They skipped the steps that matter.
The workflow that works has three phases: Research, Plan, Build. No shortcuts.
Research first. Tell Claude Code to use multiple agents in parallel to search for what you need. Your ideal customer profile. Your competitors. The best structure for a marketing site. The language your customers use in reviews on Reddit, Capterra, G2.
When the research comes back, ask Claude to store it in a /docs folder. This becomes the foundation for everything else.
Plan before you build. Reference those research docs and ask Claude Code to create a site map. Information architecture. Homepage content outline. Messaging framework. Generate these one at a time. Each builds on the last.
Then ask Claude to create a master document that ties everything together. This becomes your brief.
Then build. With research and planning done, construction moves fast. Work section by section, page by page. Review each output, request changes, iterate. The feedback loop that used to take days collapses into minutes.
The quality of your inputs determines the quality of your outputs. Front-load the thinking and the building becomes mechanical.
The Progression
Claude Code handles everything from research to software development. The mistake is starting too big.
Here's the progression that works:
Research and thinking. Start here. You're gathering intelligence and making sense of it. Ask Claude to interview you to define your ICP. Have it search forums and review sites for the language your customers use. Synthesize that research into patterns you can apply.
Strategy. Ask Claude Code to find your direct competitors, analyze their sites and online presence, read their reviews, map their strengths and weaknesses. Then do the same for your business. From there, build a strategy to win. This is analysis that costs $10K or more from a consultancy.
Social content. Your first creation step. I use Claude Code for LinkedIn content every day. My process: I get inspired, jot down the core idea, then start a new Claude Code session and ask it to interview me on the topic. The interview expands and refines my thinking. Then I have it edit for style, narrative, and grammar. Then I edit manually and go back and forth until it's ready. The originality stays mine. Claude develops and polishes it. This is creative velocity in practice.
Long form content. Same process, longer. More interview time, more editing passes. Blog posts and articles also need media: images, screenshots, videos. I bring in other models for visuals, but Claude Code writes the prompts.
Lead magnets. Start with a PDF. Claude Code has a PDF skill that lets you research, write, and generate the document in one workflow. From there, move to a lead capture form that connects to your CRM. Then a quiz funnel. Then a calculator.
Micro apps and beyond. Standalone tools that solve specific problems. This is where interactivity begins. Full software with authentication, dashboards, and integrations requires more learning. But Claude Code can teach you as you go. Resources like Advent of Claude can accelerate the journey.
Specificity Is the Whole Game
The difference between output you use and output you throw away is specificity.
When I describe a hero section, I describe the headline, the subhead, the call to action, the button color, the layout, the background. All in plain English. "Blue button, text on the left side of the screen" works. You're not writing code. You're describing what you want.
But you have to describe it.
"Make me a good website" produces garbage. "Build a high-converting landing page for B2B SaaS marketing services targeting companies spending $100K or more monthly on ads, emphasizing speed and AI-native execution" gives Claude Code something to work with. Anthropic's prompt engineering guide goes deeper if you want to level up.
If you don't like typing, use WhisperFlow or another transcription tool. Some people think better aloud. Dictating prompts works.
Keeping Your Voice
If you're using Claude Code for content, protect your voice. Left unchecked, Claude smooths everything into generic professional speak. This is why human-in-the-loop matters—AI handles execution while you provide judgment and direction.
My fix: I fed Claude past articles and posts, had it analyze my style, and stored that analysis in a doc. Now when I draft, Claude references that doc to keep my edge intact.
The interview process helps. When Claude interviews me before drafting, the raw material is already in my voice. The output sounds like me.
The Safety Nets
Things will go wrong. Claude will build something you didn't want. Here's how to recover.
Tell Claude to undo. Say "revert that last change." It works.
Use git. Link your project to a GitHub repository. This preserves your history. Roll back to any earlier version. Test risky changes on a branch first. Claude works well with git.
Keep a project memory. Tell Claude to log meaningful changes and decisions in a claude.md file. This creates memory outside the conversation. When you return after time away, Claude references this file to pick up where you left off.
Efficiency Multipliers
Once you're comfortable with the basics, these accelerate everything.
Skills are expertise packages. Pre-built knowledge and workflows for specific tasks. Start with the frontend-design skill and skill-creator skill from Anthropic. Build your own or browse community skills to install in your .claude/skills directory.
Commands save repetitive typing. When I find myself typing the same prompt repeatedly, I create a /command. My /push command adds new files, commits with a message, and pushes to my remote repo. Four operations, one word.
MCP servers let Claude Code talk to outside systems. Other AI models, SaaS tools, your Gmail, your CRM. Advanced territory, but worth knowing exists. When you're ready for integrations, this is how.
What Kills Momentum
Three things stop people:
They never start. The command line seems foreign. They decide it's not for them. It is. Open terminal. Try it.
They skip planning. They jump to building and get generic output. Research and planning aren't optional.
Their prompts lack detail. They type "make a hero section" instead of describing what they want. More detail is better.
The Reality
Claude Code is the closest thing to AGI that exists. It got measurably better in November when Opus 4.5 was released. The tool you start with today is more capable than what existed six months ago.
For twenty years, growth marketers have been constrained by execution speed. You have the strategy. You know what needs to be built. But the gap between idea and deployed reality required teams, budgets, and time. This is one of the three shifts that broke traditional growth—AI changed the economics of what one person can accomplish.
That gap is gone.
The marketers who embrace this will operate at a different speed. While competitors schedule kickoff calls, you ship. While they wait on developers, you test your third iteration.
Open terminal. Type claude. Start with research. See what happens.
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Robbie Jack•Jan 05, 2026•8 min read
