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0:00All of these gurus and content creators
0:02are lying to you. They think you're
0:04stupid and they're telling you the quote
0:06unquote laziest way to make money.
0:08They're saying things like, "Oh, just
0:10start an agency or do Tik Tok shop
0:13affiliate or start clipping." They're
0:16telling you that all of these are the
0:17laziest ways to make money online, but
0:20they're not actually doing it
0:21themselves. Always do what the gurus are
0:24telling you to do. Always do what the
0:26gurus are doing and not what they're
0:28telling you to do. So, in this video,
0:30I'm not going to give you the laziest
0:31way. I'm going to tell you exactly how I
0:33use AI to make money online, and you
0:35should consider consider doing it
0:37yourself. Uh, this comes from years of
0:39experience making money online. Now,
0:41what you've got to understand is AI
0:45hasn't really changed uh anything when
0:47it comes to making money online. All you
0:49have to do when you want if you want to
0:50make money online is you have to save
0:52people time, save people money, help
0:54them make more money, or avoid
0:55frustration. If you can do that, it
0:58doesn't matter if you have AI, it
0:59doesn't matter if you're having somebody
1:00else do it for you. All things that make
1:03money, save people time, save people
1:05money, help them make money, or avoid
1:07frustration. Look at the things that
1:09you've recently purchased. They all do
1:10those things. And you've purchased them
1:13from that company or person because you
1:15know, liked and truck know, liked, and
1:17trusted them. And so that's basically
1:20what we're going to talk about. We're
1:21going to talk about what the gurus are
1:23telling you to do cuz I've got some
1:24notes here. Um, and I'm going to tell
1:26you what actually works for them so that
1:29you can start doing it, too. So, one
1:31video says, "Start an AI Shopify drop
1:34shipping course." Drop shipping hasn't
1:36worked in really 15, 20 years. What has
1:41worked is the speed to create stuff, the
1:44speed, the speed to create content, the
1:46speed to come up with content ideas, the
1:48speed to find maybe new products. The
1:51problem with Shopify and drop shipping
1:53in general is that you have to spend
1:56some time, spend some money, spend some
1:58effort to find what works. And then you
2:01might have to run Facebook ads to figure
2:03out what works. You have to test
2:05Facebook and Facebook ads to figure out
2:07what works. And then when you find what
2:09something that works, you're going to
2:11have 10 or 15 people jumping in with
2:13maybe more money, more time to take your
2:15idea. And so the margins are razor thin.
2:19what what the the foundation of drop
2:21shipping and what AI can help with. It
2:24can help with speed. It can help you
2:26come up with content ideas. It can help
2:28you find winning products faster. AI
2:31only makes things faster. It's not going
2:33to make you a million dollars without an
2:36idea or a concept or even to know if AI
2:39is uh on track or not. Because I use AI
2:42every day. Um, and if you don't have a
2:45foundational understanding of what AI
2:47can do, what AI is strong at strong at,
2:49and what needs help and questions to
2:51ask, you're going to get junk output.
2:53One video says, uh, make money with AI
2:57Tik Tok shop videos.
3:00You have to know how to create content.
3:02Sure, you can just make the same content
3:04as everybody else, but the problem comes
3:06in is as more people when when it comes
3:09to Tik Tok shop, as more people see that
3:12a product works, they're going to make
3:14the exact same video. And so here, from
3:18my experience with Tik Tok shop, because
3:19I've sold a number of items at Tik Tok,
3:21what people are doing is they're going
3:23to websites that are telling you and
3:24listing the top uh products that are
3:27being sold for that that week, month,
3:29and year. Then next to it, you can see
3:31the viral videos that are uh working for
3:33the next uh that have worked over the
3:35last week, month, and year. People will
3:38see that and they make the exact same
3:39video. That's why if you've ever been on
3:41TikTok and you see 30 of the exact same
3:43video, it's because you can go into
3:45these websites and find um and find
3:49videos that perform well. And so what
3:51happens is if you're not one of those
3:53first three, four or five videos, you're
3:56not going to get any traction because
3:57people have seen that same video 400
3:59times. There's also a number of other
4:01problems with Tik Tok shop. I can make a
4:03completely separate video uh with about
4:05Tik Tok shop, including shops opening
4:07and closing because they're just drop
4:08shipping from Amazon. Um people will uh
4:12your competitors will uh report your
4:14video so that they get taken down.
4:16There's all sorts of issues. Another one
4:18people are talking about is clipping.
4:20Clipping. I've made a number of videos
4:22about clipping
4:24that uh you should go check out, but a
4:27quick overview clipping. Basically,
4:28you're going to find a bigger creator,
4:30someone that has millions of followers
4:32and subscribers and views and all that
4:33stuff. You're going to clip their cut
4:35down their long form videos. So, if they
4:37make a 20-minute video, you're going to
4:39cut down um the long form videos into
4:42one minute Tik Tok or or uh YouTube
4:45shorts and then post them. One of the
4:48problems there, a number of problems
4:49there is you're not building your own
4:51business or brand, right? So, you are
4:54trying to piggyback piggyback off of
4:56someone else's business or brand. You
4:58are mostly trying to make money with the
5:01Tik Tok uh creativity fund, which
5:03continues to decrease, or you're trying
5:05to make money with the YouTube partner
5:06program, which continues to evolve and
5:08change. Um, and again, you're going to
5:10be competing against 50 other people
5:13that are all clipping the same thing.
5:15So, you have to worry about you have to
5:16keep looking over your shoulder and be
5:18concerned that uh you're going to uh get
5:22dinged for not original content,
5:24unoriginal content. Um, we've got other
5:27videos here that are talking about uh as
5:29I mentioned, clipping,
5:31AI email copyrightiting, which can be
5:33unique, but again has been around for
5:36hundreds, not hundreds, it's been around
5:38for 10, 15 years. Um, this is what you
5:41should do, and it's really as simple as
5:43this. Let's look at the gurus are doing
5:45real quick. They're making content to
5:49build trust to get in front of a
5:51targeted audience, which essentially is
5:53you. They're building trust to build
5:56their brand to sell something to you.
6:00They're building their brand
6:03to gain trust to sell something to you.
6:07They're not clipping other people's
6:09stuff, right? They're not selling. most
6:12of them aren't selling other people's
6:14products and services.
6:16What you should do, and this is how you
6:17should use AI, whether it's Claude,
6:19Chatbt, whatever. Identify something
6:23that you already have very strong
6:24knowledge in. You don't have to be an
6:26expert. Hell, you don't even have to be
6:27great at it yourself.
6:30If there's something that you're
6:31interested in and you don't have a ton
6:32of knowledge in, watch a few YouTube
6:35videos on it or have I would say just
6:38watch a few YouTube videos on it or read
6:40a few Reddit posts on it and get caught
6:42up. But there's everybody has something
6:45in the world that they are remotely uh
6:48interested in. Everybody has something
6:50in the world that they are interested
6:51enough where they go watch it on their
6:53own. They go engage in it on their own.
6:55That's step one. Find something that you
6:58like to yap about. It really is as
7:00simple as that. Um the other side of it
7:03is whatever content you are consuming
7:05the most, you are now qualified to yap
7:08on it. If you watch gossip videos, you
7:11can now go yap on gossip videos. That's
7:14step number one. Step number two is you
7:17can use AI to help you find what's
7:19trending. Here's a perfect example. I
7:22used AI this morning to tell me what's
7:25trending in my YouTube studio. [snorts]
7:28I said, "Find me trending topics on
7:30Reddit and find me trending topics on
7:32YouTube Studio." That's how I stumbled
7:34across this video title, The Laziest Way
7:37to Make Money Online with Claude in
7:382026.
7:41Find use AI to make your research
7:43faster. Okay, you already have knowledge
7:46and understanding in an area. Use AI to
7:49make your research faster. In your
7:51research, identify what your target
7:54audience wants, needs, what their pain
7:55points are, what are they currently
7:57struggling with. You're going to use
7:59that to create content, and you can also
8:01use that to sell your own products and
8:03services down the line, but we'll get to
8:05that.
8:06So,
8:08use AI to help you do research because
8:11that's what it's really good at. Come up
8:13with content ideas faster. Now, go out
8:16and create the content. Nobody cares
8:18what you look like. Nobody cares what
8:19you sound like. The only thing that they
8:21care about is that you are making
8:23content for them. And you know they're
8:25you're making content for them because
8:27you used AI to help you. So you go out,
8:30you make content for them. Speak
8:31honestly. Uh if you've got a stutter,
8:33nobody cares. Nobody cares about
8:36anything as long as you can solve their
8:38problem. Okay? There are content
8:41creators out there that have a face for
8:44radio. Some might some might say that I
8:46have a face for radio. Nobody cares
8:48about it when you can identify the
8:49problems that they that they have. You
8:51help them overcome. They will follow
8:54you. They'll know you. They'll like like
8:56you and they'll buy from you. And
8:57speaking of like the step final step,
8:59the final step is to use AI to help you
9:02create something that you can sell. In
9:05my opinion, the best things to sell are
9:06digital products. They're great because
9:10you have control. If you're selling
9:12someone else's products and services,
9:14you have no control. Uh with affiliate
9:16marketing, they can stop offering the
9:19affiliate program altogether. They can
9:21say that you don't have any qualified
9:22sales. They can change the payout
9:24methods. When you have your own digital
9:26products, you can create the digital
9:28product once and sell it a million times
9:31without you having to do any additional
9:33work. You can use AI to help you build
9:35out the sales page. So, a digital
9:37product essentially comes down to this.
9:39You have an idea. You need to have a
9:40sales page. You need to have an order
9:42form and you need to have the product
9:45and a thank you page. You can use AI to
9:47help you build all of that stuff out.
9:49There are tons of websites and uh videos
9:52out there that will and in including
9:54mine that will actually show you and
9:55teach you and tell you how to build out
9:58a website. So, use AI to research that
10:01faster. Use AI to help you build out
10:03those things faster. and then you can
10:06get to everything 100 times faster than
10:10uh than if you were doing it yourself.
10:12Now you might be asking Alustin, what
10:14type of digital product? The first
10:16digital product that you create should
10:17should solve a small and specific
10:20problem. So within your target audience,
10:23within the people you're trying to help,
10:24there is a clear and immediate problem
10:26that they're facing. Um for example, a
10:30lot of people that watch my content have
10:32never made $100 online. I could create a
10:34digital product, whether it's a
10:36workbook, a blueprint, a cheat sheet, an
10:38ebook, or a guide, teaching them how to
10:40make their first $100 in 30 days. Okay?
10:46First immediate problem that they're
10:47running into solve it for them. Then you
10:50can create more digital products down
10:51the line to help them solve additional
10:54problems. So, I would do something like
10:56this. My first digital product for you
10:58would be teaching you how to make $100
11:00in 30 days. Okay, great.
11:03Now, and and one thing that I like to
11:05tell everyone is every solution creates
11:06a new problem. Now that you've made your
11:08first $100, people want to know how to
11:11make their first $1,000 in a month or
11:14how to make $1,000 every single month.
11:16That number wants is going to continue
11:18to get bigger and bigger and bigger um
11:21as people keep hitting their goals and
11:23objectives. And if you hit somebody, if
11:25you help somebody hit that first small
11:27number, they're going to come back to
11:28you when they want to achieve that
11:30bigger number because you've done
11:31something that other people haven't and
11:33can't done do. Uh, see, nobody cares
11:36what you look like or sound like. I've
11:37just stumbled over my words 100 times
11:39and people will continue to watch
11:41because I'm solving a problem. So
11:44anyway, the first thing that you sell,
11:46sell it, sell it for $9 is going to
11:48solve the first and immediate problem.
11:51The second thing is going to solve that
11:53next step up. And as you continue to
11:56solve problems for them, they're going
11:57to continue to come back to you and you
12:00can use that for content ideas. You can
12:01use that for digital product ideas.
12:04That's the lazy way is a digital product
12:06because you create that thing once and
12:08you can sell it 24 hours a day, 7 days a
12:11week. Unlike with clipping where you've
12:13got to constantly do research and figure
12:14out what's working and compete against
12:16everyone else. Um, unlike with creating
12:18a service where you've got to constantly
12:20go out and find new clients and and uh
12:23retain old ones, unlike dropshipping
12:26where with drop shipping you've got to
12:29uh continuously do research and figure
12:31out what people need, with uh a digital
12:33product all you have to do is continue
12:35to use AI to create content ideas to
12:38keep driving traffic to your digital
12:40product. Let me know what you think. Let
12:42me know if you've experienced um
12:44everyone telling you the laziest way to
12:46make money. And this video is a
12:47condescending video. Um, if you've
12:50experienced this uh trend where
12:52everyone's telling you the laziest way,
12:54but then when you watch their videos,
12:55you realize that they're not actually
12:57doing what they're telling you to do,
13:00let me know in the comment section
13:01below.

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