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0:00These are the only six AI businesses
0:02worth starting before 2027 because after
0:05personally making millions of dollars
0:06with AI in the past year and spending
0:08over 1,000 hours inside of Claude, I've
0:11seen which AI businesses [music]
0:13actually work and which ones don't. So,
0:15today I'm going to be ranking my six
0:17favorite AI businesses so you can pick
0:20one and prepare yourself for 2027. And
0:22I'm going to break down every business
0:24into three aspects. How hard is it to
0:26start? How much money do you need? And
0:28how much can you actually make? And then
0:31I'll rank each one on a tier list from S
0:34tier to F tier. And at the end, I'll
0:36tell you which one I would pick if I was
0:38starting out from zero today. And it all
0:40starts with AI YouTube automation. This
0:42is when you start a faceless channel and
0:45use AI to make the videos for you. Now,
0:47I know as you guys already know, YouTube
0:49is my bread and butter. From this
0:52channel alone, I've made close to $10
0:55million from brand deals, digital
0:57products, and just posting content. And
0:59I still think the ultimate form of
1:01passive income is a video that gets
1:03views [music] every single day. I'm
1:05going to be super real with you though.
1:06YouTube is very against lazy AI content.
1:10They actually penalize it pretty hard
1:11these days. And since everybody can make
1:13the same exact videos as you, the
1:15channels pumping out AI slop are getting
1:18destroyed. But the channels that win
1:20pick one topic and make videos people
1:22actually want to watch. A perfect
1:24example of this is a channel called Mac.
1:26It started in May of this year and it
1:29already has over 88,000 subscribers and
1:32over a million views on a single video.
1:34And when you actually watch it, it's
1:36mostly simple stick figure drawings that
1:39change every few seconds. No fancy AI
1:42garbage animations, just a simple
1:44easy-to-watch video. You can make every
1:46one of these images for free inside of
1:48Google Flow. Let me show you. So, this
1:50is one of those videos that I was
1:51talking about on this channel that has
1:531.7 million views in the last 4 months.
1:57You You see this channel is pumping out
1:59new videos pretty much every single day.
2:02Sometimes multiple videos a day and
2:04they're able to do this because of AI.
2:06If I wanted to do this, this is exactly
2:08how I would get it done in a couple of
2:10minutes. So I'm here inside of Chat GPT
2:12and I'm simply going to ask it, I want
2:14to create a faceless channel just like
2:18this one. I want to use stick figures
2:21and tell stories of human history. Give
2:23me the best video idea possible based on
2:28data. Then we're going to paste the
2:30channel here of our competitor and now
2:32it's going to do research and find us
2:34some good ideas to use on this channel.
2:37There's a lot of debate going on between
2:39which platform is better between Claude,
2:41Chat GPT, Gemini. These days I'm heavily
2:44using Chat GPT again. They recently
2:47rolled out Astra which is their newest
2:49model and it's so freaking good. I like
2:51it better than Claude, it's faster, it
2:52gives better answers. It's for me the
2:55best platform, it's the one I use every
2:57single day. I still think Claude is
2:58better. If you guys want to build a full
3:00website or app, the code feature over
3:02there is unbeatable. But for day-to-day
3:04tasks, research, planning, Chat GPT is
3:07the easiest and best one to use. So
3:09that's what we're going to use in most
3:10of the examples today. So as you can
3:11see, it's literally scanned through a
3:13bunch of top performing videos on
3:15YouTube. It looked at this competitor's
3:17channel and it gave us this idea. How
3:20did humans survive a night in the ice
3:23age? Which is actually fire. Like that's
3:24something I would click on if it was
3:26midnight and I was bored and I saw that
3:27pop up on my recommended tab. So now
3:30that we have the video idea itself, we
3:32can say, write me a two-minute script
3:35for this video. Now guys, if you're
3:37going to go and do this, obviously you
3:38want to do a 20 to 30-minute script, but
3:41I want to save time on this video and
3:42just give you the TLDR. So we're going
3:44to go ahead and do that and it's going
3:46to pump out a two-minute script that we
3:48can then turn into a voiceover and
3:49create our own AI video. So now we have
3:52a basic script for this video. 20,000
3:54years ago falling asleep could be the
3:56most dangerous thing you did all day. No
3:58heating, no sleeping bag and outside a
4:00winter that absolutely does not care if
4:02you wake up. It's a pretty decent
4:04script. Just off the rip, we have
4:05something that we can work with. And
4:07then, we can go and say,
4:10"Make me a prompt for a stick figure
4:13image that matches the style of Max, and
4:17give me one for every single line of
4:21this script." So, now it's generating us
4:24a master prompt. So, one that we can
4:26paste on every single message, and then
4:28it's giving us the individual prompts
4:31for each actual slide. If we look at
4:33these sample videos, you could see
4:35they're really not complicated at all.
4:37It's these basic stick figure images
4:39that stay on screen for about 2 to 3
4:41seconds at a time, and there's a simple
4:43voice over under the video. So, now we
4:45can go and we can generate our first
4:48image that we would use in a video like
4:50this. So, we can copy the master style
4:53prompt, and then we can copy the very
4:56first line that we want to create. And
5:00we can even give it a little reference
5:02image. So, I'll take a simple screenshot
5:05of this channel here, and then it's
5:07going to give us an image in the style
5:10that we want, and it's going to give us
5:12our first piece of our story. So, boom.
5:15There we go. We have our first image for
5:17this video, and this whole process has
5:19only taken me just a couple of minutes.
5:21So, then we can go through and generate
5:23all these images, and we would have
5:25enough to tell a simple story. With
5:28every image being on screen for 3
5:30seconds, if we had 37 of these images,
5:34we have a video that's a couple minutes
5:36long. To do a 20-minute long video, we
5:38wouldn't need but 100 images, give or
5:41take. And to generate that, it doesn't
5:43take that long. You just have to copy
5:44and paste. The last thing we would need
5:45to do is create a voice over. Now, you
5:48could record the voice yourself, but of
5:50course AI has a solution for that as
5:52well. This is one of my favorite AI
5:54tools. It makes the most insane voice
5:56overs ever. It's called Eleven Labs, and
5:58basically to demonstrate, let me come
6:00back into ChatGPT right here, copy a
6:03little piece of this script, paste it
6:05into here, and the cool thing about 11
6:07Labs is it has literally hundreds of
6:10thousands of different models. So, you
6:13have Brian here.
6:14>> Hi, I'm Brian. I'm a Gemini. I don't
6:16like long walks on the beach.
6:18>> Sally.
6:18>> Don't smother each other. No one can
6:20grow in the shade.
6:21>> Okay, so it's been a really fascinating
6:23journey.
6:24>> You've got all these different voices.
6:25But, for the sake of this video, I want
6:28like a British storyteller. Like, here
6:31we go, Michael Dan, British documentary.
6:33>> No one had opened Henry's diary in a
6:35century.
6:36>> Perfect. And then, we click on generate
6:38speech, and it's going to turn this
6:40script into Michael's voice. Check it
6:42out.
6:42>> 20,000 years ago, falling asleep could
6:45be the most dangerous thing you did all
6:47day. No heating, no sleeping bag, and
6:50outside, a winter that absolutely does
6:53not care if you wake up.
6:55>> you can adjust the variables right here.
6:57You can make it faster, you can make it
6:59sound more exaggerated, you can do
7:01things to make it sound a little bit
7:02more human-like. But, just off the first
7:04generation, it sounds good. So then, all
7:06we would have to do is download this
7:07file, download our images, overlay them
7:10on top of each other, and we've got a
7:12video that could potentially go on to
7:15get hundreds of thousands of views. And
7:17this is just one simple example of a
7:19faceless channel, but this one is a
7:22perfect one to look at because it's so
7:23freaking simple. YouTube pays you based
7:26on the amount of views that you get
7:27because they're able to show ads on your
7:30videos. And based on everything that I
7:32know about how YouTube pays, I would
7:34estimate that this channel is making
7:36anywhere from 5 to 10,000 dollars a
7:38month, and the content is fully AI
7:40generated. So, how hard is it to start?
7:42This business model for a beginner is
7:45one of the easiest ones to start. I
7:47showed you guys the process live. It's
7:49not complicated. You find what's
7:50working, you add your little twist on
7:52it, and you will get views if you do it
7:53for long enough. What's the startup cost
7:55for a business like this? Well, it's
7:57honestly not that high. You need money
7:59for the AI tools, you need money for a
8:01computer, you can't do this from a
8:03phone. In general, you could start this
8:05business with less than a hundred
8:06dollars. The only thing that's expensive
8:08is the credits [music] on the AI tools.
8:10If you're constantly making stuff, you
8:12are going to run out of credits and
8:14you're going to have to re-up, and that
8:15can dig a hole in your pocket if you're
8:17not careful. But, the big flaw with this
8:19business is the [music] earning
8:20potential. As we saw, there is a channel
8:23that is getting millions of views, but
8:25still only making three to 5,000, maybe
8:2910,000 dollars a month at their best
8:31month. So, even if you absolutely knock
8:33this out of the park, the earning
8:35potential is pretty low for a channel
8:37like this because YouTube doesn't pay
8:39that good on these AI based channels.
8:41So, all in all, I'm going to go ahead
8:43and put this business model in the C
8:46tier. It's a good starter business, but
8:48you're not going to be able to actually
8:49make any serious money with this. Now,
8:51the next business model uses the same
8:54exact idea of creating AI organic
8:57content, but the earning potential is
8:59literally 100 times higher. It's called
9:02AI organic drop shipping. As you guys
9:04know, drop shipping is the business
9:06model that changed my life. I've been
9:08doing it all the way back since 2017,
9:10and I've helped more people get started
9:13with it than pretty much anybody in the
9:15world. And I still think, to this day,
9:17it is one of the best business models
9:19for beginners out there. But, it's
9:20always had one big challenge, and that's
9:22the ad cost. You used to need to spend
9:24money to run ads before [music] you
9:26could ever make a single sale. And this
9:28is where most beginners got stuck. Well,
9:30now you don't need that anymore. With
9:31AI, you can make videos for your
9:33products in minutes and post them
9:35organically on TikTok, Instagram Reels,
9:38or Facebook for free. Now, we're able to
9:41use AI to find the product, build your
9:43store, write the copy, and make the
9:45videos for you. All you have to do is
9:47post. One of my business partners,
9:49Manny, is the perfect example of this.
9:52He's just 21 years old. He was watching
9:54this channel when he was working at
9:56Crumbl Cookie, and he started AI organic
9:58drop shipping with zero dollars to his
10:00name. Now, he's doing it full-time and
10:03making over $10,000 a day fully from
10:06organic content. I want to show you guys
10:08a live breakdown of what this business
10:10actually looks like so you can get the
10:12picture for yourself. So yo, listen.
10:14This stupidly simple store of a bag that
10:18automatically picks up your dog's poop
10:20so you don't have to reach out and grab
10:22it yourself. This store is getting
10:25millions of views organically on social
10:28media. You can see this video right here
10:30that they posted 1 week ago has 5,000
10:33likes. And if we dig deeper into their
10:35real views overall, you can see their
10:37most recent video which they just posted
10:40has 1.2 million views. This video right
10:42here has 1.9 million views. And these
10:44videos are so simple. They are basic AI
10:48generated videos of a dog pooping in a
10:51bag which I had to cut off because I
10:52don't want to get demonetized for that.
10:54But you guys can see firsthand this
10:56takes less the effort of what you would
10:58do for an AI faceless channel and when a
11:01video pops off the upside is crazy.
11:03Basically, they watch these videos, they
11:06come to your page, they click the link
11:08in the bio, they come to your store, on
11:11your store you have the product for a
11:13cheap price, they check out and you get
11:15to keep all the profits. And obviously,
11:17we're drop shipping so you don't have to
11:18have any inventory. You can ship this
11:19directly from China and this is honestly
11:23the craziest way to do drop shipping
11:24that I've ever seen. Y'all know I'm unk
11:26these days, okay? I've been in this game
11:28for so long. I've seen all the different
11:30eras from the Instagram influencers to
11:32the Facebook ads to the Snapchat ads to
11:35the original organic strategy where you
11:38had to make videos with your girl or
11:40with your mom promoting the product.
11:42This is the craziest way to do drop
11:44shipping that I've ever seen and it's
11:46actually crushing. The fact that
11:48stupidly simple stores selling the most
11:50basic products are getting millions of
11:52views for me is the ultimate green
11:54light. If you tried to take this product
11:56and run it on ads, it wouldn't work. But
11:58on organic, it's absolutely crushing and
12:00it cost them $0 to do that. With this
12:02amount of views, you can estimate that
12:04this store is easily making a couple
12:06hundred dollars a day in sales, probably
12:08a little bit more but I'm being
12:09conservative here. And these videos
12:11don't take but 10-15 minutes to create.
12:13If you guys want to watch me and Manny
12:15do [music] this entire process live, I
12:17just added a new section in my free
12:20course where we break down this entire
12:22strategy step-by-step, click-by-click.
12:25You're going to see us go in and find a
12:26product, create a viral video for it,
12:29and build a store 100% with AI. And
12:32we're going to give you all of this
12:33content for free. And if you get access
12:35to this in the next couple of days, I'm
12:37even going to build your first store for
12:40you with my AI store builder. So, you're
12:42going to get my most up-to-date training
12:45and my AI store builder for free.
12:47Transparently, the reason why I'm able
12:49to do this is because I partnered with
12:51Shopify and they pay me to bring people
12:54on board to their platform. But we only
12:56get results if you guys get results. So,
12:59that's why we give away the course for
13:00free. We give away the store builder to
13:02make sure that you guys have the best
13:04possible chance at making this work.
13:06This is the craziest offer I've ever
13:08done in my career and I don't know how
13:10much longer we're going to be doing it.
13:11So, if you want access to this, click
13:13the link below this video. You can fill
13:16out the information and my team will
13:17reach out with the next steps. Anyways,
13:19how hard is this business to start?
13:21Well, to be honest, this business ranks
13:24on the easy scale for difficulty. The
13:26hardest part is learning how to create
13:28the AI videos, but we break that down at
13:31length inside of the free course. And
13:33honestly, you just have to recreate the
13:35videos that worked for other people. You
13:36don't have to come up with any brand new
13:38ideas. In terms of startup capital,
13:40dropshipping used to rank as one of the
13:42worst businesses because of this. But
13:43now that we don't have to run ads, it
13:45costs you next to nothing, maybe one to
13:47$200 to get this store off the ground.
13:49Whereas before, it might have cost you
13:51thousands before you saw a real profit.
13:53And lastly, the earning potential is
13:55pretty much limitless. I'm not promising
13:57you're going to get results like that,
13:59but if you have a page that is
14:00consistently smacking 100,000 view
14:03videos, who's going to stop you? You're
14:05going to keep getting sales as this page
14:06grows. Shamelessly, boys, I'm putting
14:08this in the S-tier Listen, when it was
14:11with Facebook ads, I could not feel
14:13right putting this as an S-tier
14:15business, but now that the organic side
14:17has been introduced, it's hard to beat
14:19this. This is better than TikTok Shop,
14:21this is better than day trading, this is
14:23one of the craziest opportunities I've
14:25ever seen. But, it's not for everybody.
14:27And if you feel like you want to try
14:28something else, I recommend you check
14:29out building custom AI agents. Right
14:32now, businesses are paying thousands of
14:34dollars to replace their employees with
14:36AI, and I know that because I'm one of
14:38them. I have an agent in my company that
14:41runs every single day and tells me
14:43exactly how well my business performs.
14:45It pulls data from all my payment
14:46processors, my team's chats, my Facebook
14:49ads, and it tells me [music] how much
14:51profit we made and all the areas that we
14:53can improve. I hate to say it, but I was
14:55able to replace one or two people that
14:57work for me because of how good this
14:59agent runs. And you might think that's
15:01evil, but that's just the way the world
15:03is heading. There's some pretty crazy
15:04stuff that I've set up inside of my
15:06company that if somebody had approached
15:07me about it a year or two ago, I
15:09definitely would have paid them for it.
15:10And most business owners don't have the
15:12time down and play with Claude to build
15:15these automations or agents. So, that's
15:17where you come in. So, let me show you
15:19three automations that business owners
15:22are spending real money on right now.
15:24The first thing you can offer it to
15:26build is an AI dashboard like the one
15:28that I use that pulls all of the data
15:31from the business and puts it in one
15:33central location. It pulls their sales,
15:35their ad spend, their payments, their
15:36customer info, their leads, their
15:39requests, and puts it all under one
15:41umbrella. The pitch to them is that this
15:43is going to replace a bunch of monthly
15:44subscription costs that they have and
15:46keep everything under one app. It's also
15:49going to get them out of those super
15:50cluttered manual spreadsheets that their
15:52team has to update every single day. You
15:54could charge a one-time setup fee to
15:56businesses in your area of anywhere from
15:59$300 to $1,000 to set something like
16:01this up. [music] The challenge, of
16:02course, is going to be on the sales
16:05side. You have to make a list, you have
16:07to go and find companies in your area,
16:09you have to get on the phone, call them,
16:11and sell them, but this is a great way
16:13to get your feet wet with making money
16:15with AI, and there are businesses that
16:17will pay for this. The second thing is
16:18an AI speed to lead agent. Essentially,
16:21this is an agent that [music] instantly
16:24reaches out to leads. You can have them
16:26do a phone call or do a text. Businesses
16:29that contact leads within an hour are
16:31seven times more likely to close them.
16:34So, when you approach local businesses
16:36that have a slow sales team or a
16:38non-existent one, this can be a great
16:40way for them to clean up some of those
16:42dead leads without having to pay a sales
16:44manager or that is constantly on the
16:47phone. There's a video that breaks down
16:49exactly how to set up one of these speed
16:50to lead agents, and I'll make sure to
16:52put it in the description for those of
16:54you that want to do something like this.
16:55And the last thing is in the same realm,
16:57it is AI customer service. Basically,
16:59you are just setting up an AI agent
17:02that's trained on your company protocol
17:04to respond to all of your emails and
17:06messages. This one, you can easily
17:07charge companies hundreds of dollars a
17:09month to set up because they can replace
17:12an employee that's doing this. And as we
17:14saw before with 11 Labs, AI is getting
17:16so freaking good that it feels like a
17:18real human. It's even faster than a
17:20human sometimes. So, calling local
17:22businesses and offering to set up an AI
17:24customer service agent is not a bad idea
17:27for those of you that want to sell these
17:28agents. There's literally hundreds of
17:30ideas of agents that you could sell to
17:31these businesses. I'm just giving you
17:33three simple ones so you can do your own
17:35research. So, how hard is this business
17:37to start? Well, to be frank, this
17:39business falls under the medium
17:41difficulty. The reason why this is is
17:44because to sell this businesses, you
17:46have to be pretty proficient yourself.
17:49I'm not saying you have to be a master,
17:50but you got to be pretty savvy to make
17:52some of these custom agents. It's not
17:53easy for somebody who never did it
17:55before. In terms of how much money you
17:56need, it's practically nothing. I think
17:58out of everything on the list, it's
18:00probably the lowest startup capital of
18:02them all because all you got to do is
18:04make a list of local leads, call them
18:06up, and try to close somebody on the
18:07phone. And the earning potential for
18:09this is also in the middle. I mean,
18:12realistically, I told you guys that you
18:14could sell some of these agents for 300
18:16to 1,000 bucks. But, how many of them
18:18could you actually sell? Maybe you're
18:20going to sell five, 10 a month. For you
18:22to take this business to the point where
18:24it's making 50, 100, 200 thousand
18:27dollars a month, you have to get so many
18:28freaking sales and you have to deal with
18:30so many individual clients that for me
18:32it's just not something that I would put
18:35all of my effort into. So, I'm going to
18:36go ahead and put this business in the B
18:38tier. This is a cool side hustle that
18:40you can use to get your feet wet and
18:42start making your first AI money, but
18:44this is not going to be the thing that
18:45actually takes you to financial freedom
18:47in my opinion. Fourth business model is
18:49AI copywriting. Look, now that you can
18:51build an app or a store with AI in a
18:53couple of hours, having a product to
18:56sell isn't the hard part anymore. The
18:58most important skill is marketing and
19:00being able to write those words that get
19:02customers to buy. That's what
19:04copywriting is. Copywriting as a service
19:05blew up in 2020 and right now it's
19:08having a huge comeback because almost
19:10everything being written online is AI
19:12garbage. Business owners can tell and
19:14the people they are selling to can too.
19:17So, if you know how to use AI to write
19:19words that don't sound like a robot and
19:21actually get them to generate sales,
19:23companies will gladly pay you a couple
19:25thousand dollars a month to spend an
19:27hour a day prompting AI. The easiest
19:29place to start with this is email.
19:31[music] Every business has an email list
19:34they barely use and you can get them an
19:36instant ROI by activating their email
19:39list with AI copywriting. Let me
19:41demonstrate this. All right, so we're
19:42here in a new instance of ChatGPT and
19:44I'm going to give it a simple prompt
19:46basically saying you are my email
19:48copywriter for my dental business. Write
19:50a three email sequence for we could say
19:53$49
19:55dental cleaning using the exact words
19:57our customers use. We'll say first-time
20:00dental cleaning. And just so we can get
20:02some more accurate messaging, I'm going
20:05to go ahead and paste the dentist that I
20:07go to here in Miami so it knows an
20:09actual business for reference. So, then
20:11we can go ahead and paste this right
20:12here and it's going to give us a nice
20:15and clean email sequence that we can
20:17then go and send out to the customers of
20:19this business. Now, you might
20:20immediately be thinking, well, couldn't
20:22the business owners just use AI
20:25themselves and reach out to these
20:26people?" But, the reality is, especially
20:28some of these more old-school local
20:30businesses, these people don't even know
20:32about this. They don't even think about
20:33it. It doesn't cross their mind. You are
20:35basically selling the gap of knowledge.
20:38You are selling the fact that you know
20:40about this and they don't. And there's
20:42value in the middle there. If you think
20:44about any service, that's really all
20:45you're selling anyways, and this is no
20:47different. So, boom, this is a
20:49three-email sequence that is going to
20:52drive more sales into this business's
20:56dental cleaning operation. It starts by
20:59hitting them with a check-in, seeing
21:01when's the last time they had their
21:02cleaning. Then, it follows up with a
21:04concern that customers have, which is
21:07nerves. And then, it follows up after
21:09day six with a final opportunity to get
21:12this offer and get their teeth cleaned.
21:14But, then, to take this text to the next
21:16level, we can humanize it. I'm going to
21:18go ahead and paste this in the
21:20description. This is a prompt that you
21:22can plug into ChatGPT that makes it an
21:25expert copywriter and makes it humanize
21:28all the copy, so it feels like it's
21:30actually coming from a person. So, we
21:31can go ahead and we can paste this here,
21:34go back to chat, and say, "Okay, this is
21:37great, but it feels like AI. I'm going
21:39to give you some parameters to follow so
21:41we can humanize all of our copy going
21:43forward." And then, we're going to paste
21:45that into there, and now it's going to
21:47be trained on what we want it to say.
21:49It's going to be trained on how humans
21:51actually talk, and as a result, we're
21:53going to get much better copy. All
21:54right, so it's downloaded that new
21:55information, and we can say, "Now,
21:58recreate those three emails in a
22:01human-like tone." And it's going to go
22:03ahead and create us those emails again,
22:05but in a much more human, natural way.
22:08And you can use this to write any type
22:10of copy, whether it's on a website,
22:12email, SMS, you name it. This works. So,
22:14there you go. Now, we've got some fresh,
22:16human-like copy that is extremely
22:18valuable to a business like this because
22:20let's say they had an email list of
22:2120,000 people. I can promise you this
22:24three-email sequence is going to close a
22:26couple of deals and put some more money
22:27in their pocket. So, in terms of
22:29difficulty, this business is extremely
22:32easy to start. AI is literally doing
22:34everything for you. The only challenge
22:36is reaching out to the businesses and
22:38doing the sales side. If you'll notice,
22:40sales is a through line between pretty
22:42much all these businesses except for
22:44e-commerce. So, having the ability to
22:46sell is one of the most crucial skills
22:49you're going to need to have if you want
22:50to become a successful entrepreneur. In
22:51terms of how much money you'll need, you
22:53don't need any money to start this. You
22:55need next to nothing to start this. You
22:56just need to have a little bit of grit
22:58and hustle and you can start this with
23:00less than 100 bucks, to be honest. The
23:01earnings potential for this is honestly
23:03amongst the lowest of anything on the
23:06list we're going to be talking about
23:07today. This is more of a side hustle
23:09than a real business. You couldn't
23:11really make more than 3,000 to 5,000
23:14dollars a month doing something like
23:15this, but there is potential for you to
23:17make a little side income, for sure. So,
23:19that puts this business in the B tier.
23:23It's a good side hustle, but it's not
23:25something that's going to really change
23:27your life like crazy. The fifth business
23:29model is the one that has made me the
23:30vast majority of my money online,
23:33digital products. Courses, [music]
23:35ebooks, templates, communities, anything
23:38you can sell completely digitally, this
23:41is one of the best opportunities for
23:43people out there looking to make money.
23:44And for the longest time, I never talked
23:46about this because this model was only
23:48accessible to the experts. After I had
23:51my first big success in e-com, I started
23:53selling digital products. I started
23:55creating PDFs and courses and this
23:58massively sped up my journey to becoming
24:01financially free. I started out by
24:03selling cheap $20 courses and now have
24:06sold digital products up all the way to
24:07the price of 30 grand. I even built one
24:10digital product business that went on to
24:12do over 5 million dollars in revenue and
24:15got acquired in a multi-million dollar
24:18deal. Digital products changed my life
24:20in the craziest way possible and now AI
24:23has made them easier for people to get
24:25started with and actually possible when
24:27they weren't previously before. AI has
24:29made this model accessible to people of
24:31all skill levels because you don't need
24:33to have all the knowledge before you
24:35create the product. You can spin up a
24:37professional PDF in like 15 minutes and
24:40upload it in 60 seconds. The hardest
24:42part is actually getting customers for
24:44that PDF or digital product. The process
24:46is simple. You can use AI to do deep
24:49research and help you come up with some
24:51good digital product ideas. You can
24:52create the entire digital product
24:55directly on Chat GPT. You can sell
24:57anything from an ebook to a digital
25:00guide to an online course. And then, you
25:03can go and sell those products directly
25:05on Shopify or on platforms like Etsy.
25:08There are people selling digital
25:09products on Etsy absolutely printing
25:12money. You can see this person right
25:13here did over 9.7 thousand sales of a 99
25:17cent digital calendar right here. This
25:19person did 8,000 sales of a $17 digital
25:23calendar. And all this stuff has been
25:25cooked up with AI. My digital product
25:27business right now is doing close to a
25:29million dollars a month. This business
25:31model is absolutely amazing so long as
25:34you have a platform to help you get
25:36customers. And Etsy is a really good one
25:37to do that. The way you take it to
25:39another notch is using distribution. So,
25:43making AI videos, having people talk
25:45about your digital product in their
25:47videos, creating an AI influencer that
25:50actually goes and sells the digital
25:53product for you. This is some real game
25:55right now. And this is what the top
25:56digital product guys are doing. AI
25:58influencers is actually the last
25:59business model we're going to talk about
26:01on this list. But first, let me give a
26:03ranking to this one. In terms of how
26:04hard it is to start, this is in the
26:07medium level. It's extremely saturated
26:10and extremely competitive. Everybody is
26:12launching digital products right now.
26:14And you also have to get traffic, which
26:17is not easy in this space. But to create
26:20the product itself is really easy. And
26:22you can test a bunch of different ideas
26:23in a short time frame. So, this is a
26:25medium in terms of difficulty. Just like
26:27most of the ideas on this list, you
26:29don't need a ton of money to start. You
26:31can start this business model with like
26:33$50 to your name realistically. But the
26:35earning potential for this is damn near
26:37limitless. I mean, I already told you
26:39guys I made millions of dollars with
26:41digital products. I've seen people all
26:43around me crush it with this business
26:44model. It's limitless what you can earn
26:46with a digital product. And because you
26:48don't have to ship anything, there's no
26:49fulfillment cost, so everything you make
26:51you get to keep. And it's because of
26:52this that this is another S-tier
26:55business. Honestly, if you can crack the
26:57code on this, you have yourself an
27:00amazing scalable business. One of my
27:02students inside of my free course
27:05started an AI drop shipping store, but
27:08then he stumbled on a digital product
27:11idea and took everything that he learned
27:13from AI organic drop shipping and
27:15launched a digital product instead. And
27:18he just recently had his first $100,000
27:21month in sales with a fully digital
27:23product funnel. So, these two businesses
27:25are really cool because they go
27:27hand-in-hand and the skills transfer
27:29over perfectly. By the way, none of the
27:30results I'm saying in this video are
27:32typical. I'm not promising any of these
27:34things. I'm not guaranteeing you can get
27:36them. I'm just sharing them with you
27:37guys for a little bit of motivation. And
27:39the last business model I want to talk
27:41about is AI influencers. These are
27:44social media accounts where the person
27:45isn't real. The face, the voice, the
27:47videos, all of it's made with AI. Now, I
27:49know you guys already saw me show you
27:51some examples of this, but where this
27:53gets crazy is that some of these AI
27:56influencers are now landing real brand
27:59deals like actual creators. The most
28:01famous one recently was Aitana Lopez,
28:03who was reported to make around 3,000
28:06euros a month on average and up to
28:0810,000 in a good month without ever
28:10existing. Now, honestly, it's a bit
28:12scary and I think pure AI content is
28:15more of a side hustle than a real
28:17business unless you build something of
28:19structure around it like the examples I
28:21showed you before. Simply because
28:23everybody in the world can make the same
28:24exact videos as you. So, the real smart
28:26play is using an AI influencer as the
28:29face of your own product like the
28:31digital product or AI drop shipping
28:33model that I showed you.
28:34Difficulty-wise, AI influencers is
28:37extremely difficult because to break
28:39through and become successful is almost
28:41impossible because anybody can spin up
28:44one of these accounts. You need like
28:45literally zero dollars to do this
28:47business model, which is the exact
28:50reason why I said it's difficult to make
28:51it work because anybody can do it. But
28:53hey, if you get a creator that goes on
28:56to become successful, there is some
28:59upside in there for sure. But this is
29:01definitely not the business model I
29:03would do at all. Sadly, this business
29:06ends up in the D tier. Meaning that the
29:08clear winner of this tier list has to be
29:11AI organic drop shipping or AI digital
29:14products. If you're looking to build a
29:16sustainable and scalable business with
29:18AI in 2027, these are the only two
29:21opportunities that I would focus on.
29:23Guys, make sure to check out the free
29:25course in the link down below if you
29:27want to start your own AI organic store
29:29this year. Thank you guys so much for
29:31watching this video. Make sure to
29:32subscribe and I'll see y'all in the next

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