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If you're not making money with AI yet, you're probably on the wrong path. And it has nothing to do with which tools you use or how technical you are. It has everything to do with which of the two paths you pick. Now, there are nine AI businesses that work right now, and they split into two different paths. I only figured this out by building my own AI app, which now has thousands of paying users, and also growing the nearly 2 million followers across social media with zero employees.
Now, I've seen a freelancer doing $30,000 a month from seven clients. I've seen a guy doing $4 million a year from a paid AI community. And I just met someone who vibe coded an app with AI and hit thousands of dollars in monthly recurring revenue. All are completely different but valid paths. Path A is for people who never want to cold DM a stranger. Path B is for people who need income this week. So, I'm going to break it all down. I'm going to tell you which path is which and then I'm going to recommend which ones you can choose. Okay, so let's get started.
So these are the nine paths, but like I said in the beginning, there really are two paths you can choose. Path A and path B. Path A is for people who never want to do outbound sales. You don't really want to reach out to people, have to sell people cold. Okay, so path A is for building an audience. And path B are for people who want to pick a niche, do cold outreach, this could be cold emails, cold calls, or cold DMs, and get paid this week. So, if you're looking for fast income opportunity instead of something that kind of builds up over time, right, path A realistically can take 1 to 3 years. Now, in the AI space, obviously AI is very hot right now. So, I've seen people explode in as short as like 3 months. My journey was similar. Like it took me about 3 months until I had my first viral hit. And from there, everything just kept compounding exponentially. But this is a bit longer. If you want cash like this week or next week, Path B is the one you want to choose. Neither one is better in my opinion. It just really depends on what your needs are and your personality. Some people are just really comfortable meeting people cold, reaching out to people. Other people kind of don't want that rejection from cold outreach. They'd rather have people come to them. By the way, that's me. I do not flourish in outbound sales. I like it when people come to me, inbound marketing. However, keep in mind that most people who actually hit $1 million, they end up doing both of these. So, I'm really just talking about which path you're going to start with, realistically, you're going to layer in both of them. Okay.
So, now let's start with number one. So, you guys have heard me talk about this a lot, but path number one is becoming an AI content creator. And it's honestly really simple. Like all you have to do is watch tutorials on YouTube. Generally, you don't want to watch tutorials on other social media platforms because short form tutorials are just too short to convey useful information. I view all my shorts as traffic to my long- form tutorials on YouTube and in my newsletter. So, all you're going to do is let's say you pick a topic like Claude, super hot. Go to YouTube, search for this topic, and then you're going to follow along these tutorials. That's day one. And then day two, you're going to share what you learned. Okay? And this is the cycle. That's it. For example, you learned how to use Claude on your phone using Dispatch if you're on Co-work or Remote Control if you're using Cloud Code. You learn that. The next day, you're going to share it on social media. And this loop continues and continues till you grow your audience, your followers, right? So, you just keep doing this until you grow your audience and followers. And the pitch is once you have honestly even like 10k followers, it sounds like a lot. It's really not a lot, but even at 10,000 followers, you'll notice that you'll start to get sponsorships and collaboration inquiries inbound. Now, it may take you, like I said, even 6 to 12 months for some people 1 to 2 years to hit 10K followers. Generally, the AI space is so hot right now that if you just copy other people's viral content, you should be able to hit this in three to six months. And by the way, the shortcut to do this is literally to go to Instagram or TikTok, search the hashtag Claude, spend 10 minutes watching the viral videos that appear, and then you're going to copy them word for word, especially the first 10 seconds. Guys, I cannot tell you how many people like copy my own videos. They copy my prompts. They don't give me any credit. They go viral. And I don't care. Like, it's totally fine. Copy my videos. Copy other people's videos. But the most important thing is to copy it exactly. Especially the first 10 seconds. People feel really weird about copying, which is good because that means you have a moral compass. However, almost every single AI creator I've seen explode, they just did this. Like, this is literally the formula. You don't even need ChatGPT. Just open TikTok, open Instagram, search the thing you're learning. It could be Claude. It could be Hey Jen. It could be digital twins. Like whatever the topic is, just copy the existing viral videos that have at least 1 million views. Copy it exactly the title, right? The hook, what they're saying, like the script. Beyond the first 10 seconds, you can say whatever you want, but limit your video to 45 seconds max. And by the way, this framework applies to text and image carousels as well. It doesn't just have to be video. But the general playbook for people just starting out is to copy what already works. Over time, you will develop your own taste and voice and like what you like to post about and you'll be copying a lot less. But for everyone who's just starting, I highly highly recommend this. Okay, so that's number one, creating content. And like I said, the monetization path for this is you're going to have sponsors reach out wanting to do collaborations. The reason for that is there's obviously a ton of money going into AI right now. And so you have all of these startups, these companies flushed with hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and they're looking to just buy creators, sponsor their videos. And so it's really, really easy to burn money actually as an AI content creator. In fact, if you've been in the social media space for a while, you'll notice that most creators who are in it for more than three plus years, they all switch to AI. Um, because I see like some big creators and I'm like, how did they get that big? I'm like, oh, well, they started, you know, 5 to 10 years ago and they're just pivoting to talk about AI topics because that's what's doing really well right now. It's really easy to get started with content, very easy to get sponsorships as well. Once you kind of hit that minimum floor of at least 10,000 followers across platforms, you'll easily start getting sponsorship collaboration deals.
AI business number two is repurposing as a service. So, it's actually related to number one. If you do number one first and then offer number two, you'll be in an even stronger position. So, let me type it here. So, the first step is just explaining what repurposing is. So, let me explain it in terms of my experience as a content creator. So, when I first started, I just did one LinkedIn post a day. That was it. Eventually, I got the bandwidth to do a couple TikTok posts per day. But these are just two platforms. What about Instagram? What about Facebook? What about Twitter? What about Substack? I'm probably missing some. What about Pinterest? Etc., etc. The pitch here is you DM a creator and you say, "I want to help you grow. You don't have to do anything. I'm just going to help you grow on these platforms and you don't have to do anything extra. I'm just going to take your existing content." For example, let's say somebody makes long-form YouTube tutorials. You can take that, cut it up into shorts, and then grow it on TikTok, Instagram, let's just say Threads to throw it in there. So, these three platforms. The reason this works is because content creators are not system builders. Like, they're not AI people for the most part. Only a very tiny portion of content creators actually know anything about AI, building systems, automation, or anything like that, right? You have this entire other universe of creators who just don't know how to do any of that, but they all want to grow. So, if your pitch to a creator is like, "I'm going to help you grow hands-free on autopilot. You don't have to do anything, and I'm going to completely manage it for multiple platforms," is a winning pitch. People make the mistake instead of pitching creators like individual tasks. Like, "I am just going to do video editing." It's like, that's nice, but it's not high leverage. People always want the outcome, and the outcome you're delivering here are just straight up followers without zero additional effort. That is the pitch. That's why it's compelling and that's the correct way to approach it. You don't want to pitch like individual tasks like, "Oh, I'm just going to do editing for you," or "I'm just going to set up your ManyChat automation," or "help you set up your website." This one's just a one-time thing. This one is a task. The closer you can get to promising and actually delivering on the outcome that creators want, just followers, the more valuable your pitch. Nobody else is offering that. And number three, you have a unique advantage if you already know about AI building systems and AI automation. Most creators are not in AI. They don't know that you can just take one type of content and repurpose it with AI into another type of content and then post it automatically on social media. You can be the one to set up those systems and then charge a monthly retainer just to keep an eye on it and make sure it's up to date. So that's number two. And by the way, right now we're talking about path A. So path A are things that take a little bit longer to build up. It's not necessarily like the fastest cash, but 6, 7, 8, 9 will all be path B of like things you can sell right now. The reason I'm going to start with these is because they're all incredibly valuable. If you've heard my content, building a personal brand or just getting good at creating content, whether for yourself or for other people, is just such a hugely valuable foundational skill. So, I'll almost always start my recommendation with this bias because it's worked so well for me. And I misunderstood so much of it because I was technical and had a Silicon Valley bias when I started creating content. I really didn't understand how exponential or high leverage it could be.
So number three is faceless. Now there's a lot of misunderstanding around how faceless channels actually make money. So I'm going to start by dispelling a lot of that confusion. For faceless channels, there are generally two monetization paths. One makes a lot more money than the other. So one is getting paid from the platform based usually on the number of views you get, the demographics of your audience. So if it's an older demographic, it's typically worth more to the platform and then you multiply it by views and how long people are watching. This is called platform rewards. The second way to make money through faceless is to use AI to replicate viral formats that are faceless and then drive people's to some kind of offer. So for example, this could be a mobile app. This could be a digital product like an info product. This could be just something in your Linktree. It could even be coaching or something like that. So, mobile or digital. So, both paths can work. However, most of the content you're probably watching is actually talking about this path, platform rewards. This can make money. For example, if you've heard about YouTube channels like ASMR or bedtime music or interesting like edutainment style faceless documentaries, they can make thousands and thousands of dollars per month. Like it's absolutely possible to make $50,000 per month with platform rewards. However, there's really only one platform where that's possible and that's YouTube and it's not Shorts. It has to be long-form video. You just don't get paid that much for YouTube Shorts, for Instagram Reels, for things on Facebook or even from TikTok. So, if you're seeing a lot of content around making faceless videos, just keep in mind it needs to be YouTube. It needs to be long form. And honestly, like 100% of the truly successful channels I see monetizing are not automated. So this is a common misconception. Just because something is AI does not mean that it was automated. There's a lot of misconceptions about faceless. So I'm just trying to clear the misconceptions related to this one. Faceless platform rewards and how to make money from it. Then I'll dive into the next one. So if you want to pursue this path, YouTube long form, do not automate it. You can still use AI though. You can use AI to generate the images, generate the video clips, help you with editing, brainstorm titles, do competitive research, create the thumbnails, create the SEO optimized descriptions. You can use AI at like every step of the process, but do not automate it. This is a very common beginner mistake. Oh, I'm just going to put a prompt here and just let it run and hope that it works. It's just never like that. So, the most successful channels in the faceless space that are truly making like at least $10, $20,000 a month, this is the formula. They copied other channels. They did research on the niches where you have YouTube channels with a relatively like low number of subscribers, high number of views, faceless, and then they just copy that format. Like that's it. You'll notice a recurring trend in content creation, which is that people are not really that original to begin with. We just copy other people. But over time, you develop your own taste, your own preferences, and your unique brand. Which is why I personally don't mind encouraging people to copy in the beginning because eventually, as long as you stick in the content creation game, you will figure out all the other stuff. I want to dispel that myth because I do believe faceless is really powerful, but there's a lot of misleading claims around income. This makes way more money than over here. So, it's really hard to get millions of views on YouTube consistently because to be generating this on a consistent basis per month, you need a lot of views every single month. Whereas, when you use faceless formats to drive it to your offer, offers could even be like your product, right? For example, I have seen viral TikToks. This is another advantage of this one. You can use the short form platforms which have the most explosive growth. Whereas, if you were optimizing for platform rewards, even from a viral TikTok, you would not make that much money. Because I own a faceless channel that's gotten like millions and millions of views, and I can tell you like the money from TikTok is like near zero. Like, it's crazy. But the beautiful thing is you can use the short form algorithms, TikTok, Reels, YouTube Shorts, go viral, and then drive people to an offer that's not based on views and demographics and things like that. Just as an example, I have seen one mobile app basically post slideshows containing tips on how to go viral on TikTok. It drove traffic back to the offer which is a mobile app and it generated thousands and thousands of monthly recurring revenue from these TikTok slideshows which can be 100% automated with AI. The cool application of AI here is that you can replicate viral formats that maybe they had a person originally, but now you can replicate it with AI and make it look really good too. Make it look really high quality as well and then post it on the short form platforms. Leverage their high growth explosive algorithms and then drive to a paid offer that's outside of platform rewards. That is my spiel on faceless. So, I think faceless gets a bad rep because people only think about just like weird AI videos, but actually people are making a lot of money through faceless. It just may not be where you think or what you think. Okay, so that's faceless. So, just to recap the three we've talked about, they all are path A, meaning takes a little bit of time to snowball and grow. Realistically, set aside 1 to 3 years. This is path A, but they're all really powerful as well.
Number four here is education. Actually, I'm going to say specifically education communities. So number four is education communities. This also takes a long time to build up. You will notice that the most successful communities are started by founders who did step number one. So they built a massive brand and following first and then they launched a paid community and drove their audience into it. This takes time. This is a common mistake I see is like people launch a community and just assume people will actually want to join. Um, that's strange. Nobody knows who you are. You have no credibility. So like why would random internet strangers join your community? Okay, so let's talk about that. So yeah, there are lots of AI communities in school. A lot of the ones that I'm in are making at least $50,000 per month. I think the winner of school was making $300,000 per month from a paid AI community. So I'll just give you some samples or categories. So just learning AI is just one category. AI automation is another category. Making money with AI like how do you actually pitch and sell your services? What should your services be? Creative use cases like really cool videos. How to use AI image and creative tools like in a really advanced way like not a noob beginner way. Vibe coding is another up-and-coming area. So there are a couple of school communities popping up here. There's a lot here in this one. And then there are also communities popping up targeting different demographics. For example, I have a school community. It's free, but it's like specifically for women in AI. That's one example demographic. I'm also seeing school communities pop up targeting for example Gen X, right? So that would be another demographic that you can target. And the reason why communities are really powerful as a revenue model is because it's recurring, right? So, traditionally in the info product space, you might sell like a course, you might have a cohort or like workshops. And the cool part about a community is it has all of that, but it also has people. And what I've learned is that people are actually premium. Like people are willing to pay a lot of money to be in a space of other talented amazing people. That's why even for my free community I have qualifying questions before you can join because I don't want low-quality people. I want high-quality people because that is what makes a community special and valuable. So in the traditional info products world you might sell a course, cohort, or workshop one time. The cool thing about a community is it's a recurring monthly fee. That's why when I mentioned earlier like the types of communities in AI, pretty much all of the ones I'm actually active in make at least $50,000 per month with a very very tiny team. So what is the offer here that's so special? So the community itself comes with a course. So if you join any of the AI communities, it'll have like a classroom laid out. Start here, learn this. So it comes with this course. It kind of comes with a cohort because you're learning alongside new people all the time. And then you have like weekly workshops, meetings, builds, Q&A sessions. So that's all included in the community. And then it also comes with like amazing talented people so that you feel part of something bigger than yourself and you're inspired by other people who are winning in the community. So the community offer as a whole is all four of these. You get courses, you get to learn alongside people who are at the same level, your cohort. You get weekly workshops. In my school community, we have like four to five events per week that are free for members. Like that's incredibly valuable. And then you get to be surrounded by people who are actually winning. So my favorite posts in any community are the wins. And this is how you actually distinguish your community from all of the other ones out there. It's very easy actually to copy other people's content. You could just join a community, copy all their courses, and in fact, people do that all the time. That's one of the downsides in general of info products. But what you can't replicate easily are the people number one, and the wins that they have. For example, somebody sharing that they just closed a $10,000 contract. Somebody sharing that they just hit a revenue milestone for their app. Somebody sharing that they just signed on three speaking gigs worth $15,000. Like those are the things that are really hard to replicate but make your community super super valuable long term. Okay, but how do you actually build the community? Well, if you study all the communities I'm in that make $50k plus per month, the funnel is like really really simple. It's actually all number one content. So basically they make content. Primary platforms are YouTube, long form and Instagram because this has DM automations. So Instagram and Facebook because of their ManyChat automations makes it exceptionally easy to drive people to a specific offer. So their top of funnel here is YouTube videos, Instagram videos, and then they just drive people to the school community. For example, here's a really complicated AI automation. You can build this yourself or you could just join this school community for whatever $70 per month and just download the template. A lot of people who value their time will just join the school community. It comes with a lot of other perks as well. Like I talked about like the whole classroom, people who are winning, discounts, etc. This is the entire funnel. It's not more complicated than this, but you can absolutely scale this to $50,000 per month with honestly no team. You might want to hire a couple people for your sanity, but it's definitely possible to scale this.
Okay, now we'll talk about path B. So everything we talked about in path A, one, two, three, four, it absolutely works, but it can take 1 to 3 years to compound and really figure it out. So what if you need income like right now or yesterday? That's where people kind of object to building an audience and would prefer a business idea that leads to cash faster. So, the next four businesses can put money in your bank account within the next, let's say, 72 hours because I don't want to overpromise.
So number five is building a personal AI assistant for busy founders. Okay, we're going to call this an assistant. So, just imagine like a busy founder. Actually, this is me right now. I had so many bugs in Blueot this morning. Like, it was insane. So, just imagine like a really busy, stressed out founder. Maybe it's a solo founder, maybe they have a tiny team. They're honestly just drowning in work every single day. Most founders again are non-technical and just like content creators, they are not building systems or automations actively. Most founders, what the opportunity here is is to build an AI assistant for them that actually takes off like 10 to 15 hours of work every single week. So, for example, building an AI assistant that like scans their email every morning and surfaces the things that are most urgent, that looks through their CRM data, follows up with leads that are stale or leads that are at risk, right? That's a huge one. Like building internal dashboards just so the founder knows what is even going on in their company like sales dashboards, support dashboards, social media dashboards for analytics. All of these things are incredibly valuable to a busy founder. But a typical busy founder is non-technical. They don't know how to build systems. They don't know how to build automations. And they've heard about this AI thing, but they don't like really know where to start. Because if you just like Google search or ask Chat AI, you get about a billion different things and they're all geared towards different types of people, right? So if I am just a busy founder, like I need help with sales, I need help with support, I need help with marketing, usually social media marketing, and I need help with admin. Another area here could be like recruiting, HR, so building automations to help find really good candidates and also filter through applications. But these are the stereotypical areas that every founder needs help with, right? We're talking about recruiting, admin/productivity, sales, CRM, support, marketing like social media marketing, etc. So, you have a defined archetype and they have a defined set of problems. The offer here is to build an AI assistant. You could call it like their second brain or something. But the distinction though is this AI assistant should actually do stuff, not just tell you to do stuff. So it should be able to write emails. It should be able to proactively reach out to leads that have gone stale or that are at risk in your pipeline. Like it should be able to actually do things, not just tell the founder, here's everything you're missing out on. Is that stressful? So the offer here is build an AI assistant to help with, you know, it doesn't even have to do all of these tasks. I would personally start at probably admin cleaning up email and then also CRM. And by the way, there are AI tools you can install to do this, right? The offer is setting it up and then maintaining monthly or continuing to build on top. And if you ask, well, where do you get your first five customers? It's really, really easy. I would just cold DM people on Instagram and LinkedIn. Pretty much only those two platforms. Instagram is the new LinkedIn. LinkedIn is like kind of irrelevant now. All of the people who have LinkedIn profiles hang out on Instagram. Like they don't really hang out on LinkedIn unless you're actively searching for a job, unless you're recruiting, or unless you're selling something or building a personal brand. Like those are the archetypes of people hanging out here. That all of these people hang out on Instagram all of the time. Okay, so all you have to do is DM busy founders on Instagram and LinkedIn. Well, you might say, "How do I find busy founders?" Well, obviously you can make content, right? However, we talked about like you want cash now. So, I wouldn't recommend this. What I would recommend is go find the people who are making content. Let's say someone's making a video about productivity AI tools. Go find the people who commented on that video. Right? You guys have seen my Instagram Reels where it's like, "Hey, there's just like this amazing thing. Comment this to get the playbook." Okay? So, go to those people who commented to get this amazing thing because clearly they want the amazing thing. However, most people like commenting on that stuff, they don't take action anyway on the thing that you're giving them just because they don't have time. Like I can send someone a 30-minute tutorial, but like at the end of the day, I'm counting on that person to actually go through the 30-minute tutorial. Whereas, if you've never run a business before, this may come as a shock, but if you've run a business, busy founders like to throw money at problems. Like, I would much rather have someone DM me, "Hey, I'm going to do everything for you. Just pay me this." I'll be like, "Okay," because I don't want to sit around for 30 minutes to set it up and probably troubleshoot it and it's going to take like 3 hours, right? I'm drowning in work. Like this is the busy founder drowning in work pulled in every direction. Total FOMO because they hear about this AI thing, don't know what to do with it. You need to just do it for them. Like they shouldn't even care about what tools you install. So for example, for Email Fixer is a really awesome tool specifically for email. You don't have to set up like all this nitty-gritty weird stuff. Just installing that and maintaining that and then it's rolling it out for the rest of the team is like a huge productivity unlock that normally they would have to do themselves and they don't want to do it themselves. So when you're pitching to founders, honestly, any executive, this is the main thing to keep in mind. You need to like just do it for them and just charge more because it's fine. People, they don't want to have to do stuff themselves. And I'm saying that as someone who gets DMs every single day, I'm like, "Okay, that's nice, but I still have to do all the work, so it's not that valuable to me." So yeah, I mean, that's pretty much the pitch. Like, "I will build you an AI assistant that is going to save you 15 plus hours per week." Like that's the pitch. And I would just start with a small subset of things that you're confident you can automate or streamline. Like I mentioned before, email is a really good one to start with. Anything related to social media marketing. For example, you could build a nice little dashboard where you can see everybody's posts and how well they're performing. Like little things like that. You'd be surprised how little visibility founders have into what's actually going on. If you ask me right now which of my posts have done well in the past week, I couldn't tell you. I just don't even look. I have so much other stuff I'm trying to do and build and fix that I don't even know. So, multiply that for your typical founder who's non-technical, does not build systems, does not build automations, and does not have time to learn any of this stuff.
Okay, so number six is Claude. Specifically, Claude training for businesses. Okay, Claude is basically the hottest AI tool to learn right now. And there are tutorials on it on YouTube, but there's really not as many as you would think. Like I have some Co-work tutorials, but there's probably less than a hundred Co-work tutorials in total on YouTube because it's fairly new and there are all these different use cases that aren't addressed in the tutorial. For example, how do we use Claude Co-work as a team? Like most people making Claude tutorials are literally like solopreneurs. So I don't even know what I would do to use it as a team. It's just not something I do. Um, and then well, how do I use Claude if I'm at a mid or large-sized company? I personally am using Claude just as a solo person. So I don't really think about it in terms of team rollouts or in terms of the challenges and caveats of rolling it out at a mid to large company. However, everybody wants to learn Claude. Literally everybody. Whether it's SMB, mid-large, solopreneur, everybody just wants to learn Claude. So there's a ton of opportunity. So here's the offer. It's Claude training for businesses specifically. I would say business teams. And again, you can have different variations of this. You could do a Claude Co-work training. You could do a Claude Code training for teams. You could do a Claude training specifically for marketing teams. You could do a Claude training specifically for busy founders. Claude training for finance people, CFOs, accountants. You can pitch this many different ways, but all I'm saying is there's a massive opportunity and honestly not enough supply for Claude training, especially when you think about in the context of all the mid to large companies and teams that are trying to figure out how to use this. So the pitch is literally, "I'm going to train your team how to use Claude in one day and you're going to save five hours per week per person," and let's say you charge whatever $10 to $40k for that. People ask me all the time like, "How much should you charge?" And my answer for services, training, consulting is always the highest number you can say out loud without laughing because it's really more of like a personal security thing than it usually is a budget thing. We're talking about like companies, guys. Companies have money. They don't know what to spend it on. They spend it on a lot of wasteful things. So I think AI training and upskilling your people is actually a very good use of funds for a business. And so I'm a big proponent actually in charging businesses, even though I keep all my AI education free for consumers, right? Because that's who's mostly digesting my content. So how do we find our first five customers? So let's say you watch Sabrina's Claude tutorials and you are now a Claude Co-work Pro. I just posted a video today or yesterday. It's my Claude Co-work Master Class from last week with five insane use cases. If you just go through that one video, you can absolutely start charging businesses thousands of dollars. Like, I've gotten comments on that video that are like, "I cannot believe this is free. This is like more I've learned than paying thousands of dollars for this other thing." All of the content and education already exists out there. It's just a matter of like packaging it for a particular type of business or packaging it for a team. Like in that video, I don't really talk about how you would roll this out and collaborate within Claude in a team setting. So there's a lot of value in adding that perspective in. But in terms of how to get your first, let's say, five customers. And remember, we're going for as fast as possible. Obviously, you can make content and I'm a big proponent of that, but it's a little bit slower. So here, I would say number one, the same thing we talked about before, cold DM, focus only on LinkedIn and Instagram. Same principle as before. Like go find a viral Claude video, look at who's commenting and DM those people. Just be like, "Hey, I saw you were interested in like setting up Claude and Remotion to make unlimited videos." I actually like teach teams how to do that. Would your team be interested in that?" Actually, from my Remotion tutorials, I get lots of requests that are like, "Can you just set this up for me?" Go back to what we previously talked about. Busy founders, they want you to just do it for them. It's one of my challenges with my own education. And it's like I can show you everything, but at the end of the day, someone has to do it. So Claude training is great because you can actually like sit down virtually with a whole team and make sure everyone is hands-on doing stuff and learning this stuff. So same as before, cold DM people on LinkedIn and Instagram, look for people who are already trying to learn this stuff. They're commenting on Reels, trying to get the playbooks, trying to get the guides. I guarantee you some percentage of them just want you to do it for them or hold their hand through it and they're absolutely willing to pay. Second way to get customers is to be a guest on a large podcast or YouTube channel that does Claude training. For example, if you check my YouTube channel, I've recently had guests walking through their Claude setup, their Microsoft C-Pilot setup. And from that collaboration, you not only build your own content and personal brand, but you can get leads directly from the content directly because everybody knows I don't do consulting, coaching, training, or any of that. So, I'm just going to refer you to the person who's in the video showcasing their expertise. So to do this though, what you should do is you DM YouTubers that are covering Claude and be like, "I made a really unique Claude workflow. It does this. Would you like me to show it to your audience for free?" YouTubers love this because it's like extra content for free. No additional work. I just have to show up, ask some questions, right? And then you benefit from this because then people watching your video are like, "Oh, wow. That looks super cool. I want this guy to roll it out in my team or train my team on exactly how to do this." Okay, so that's another idea. Honestly, just cold DMs work. And let me caveat this. Don't DM five people per day. DM like 200 people per day. So, just a quick note on volume. When I say DM people, I mean like sit there for 4 hours DMing people. Don't just DM people for 10 minutes and then wonder why no one responded. More than 200 might be flagged as spam on these platforms. So, I would safely keep it to like 200. But for sure, after like one week of doing this, you're going to get clients. It's impossible not to. There's so much demand for Claude, lack of supply in terms of high-quality training. And then the people who do have high-quality training often don't have a personal brand. It's not like their funnel is full of volume and overflowing either. Just tons and tons of opportunity for Claude training specifically for businesses, specifically for teams. That's how I would pitch it. So, now we're going through the list of get paid as fast as possible. Number six was Claude training for businesses.
And number seven is kind of in a similar vein, but it's consulting. And you know, there is overlap between Claude training and consulting. But the reason I single out Claude training is because I'm personally seeing a spike in demand for that specific thing, that specific tool. Teach a business that has multiple people, a team. That is a very specific offer. When it comes to AI consulting, like traditionally, this could be things like strategy. So, you would normally start with an audit, right, to identify gaps and processes in a business where AI could be deployed to help streamline, automate things, or save hours and hours per week. It could be tool selection, like what's our actual implementation roadmap for automating processes with AI or rolling out things. It could also be training, but it doesn't have to be Claude training. In a lot of mid to large companies, for example, they're stuck with Copilot, no matter what. Like they just cannot use Claude, they cannot use ChatGPT, etc. So it could be a different type of AI training. It could be Copilot training, etc., etc. I will caveat this by saying AI consulting is hard to get into if you've never done it and have no work experience. Meaning like you don't really know how to reach out to people. You don't know how to set expectations. You don't know how to set up a successful engagement. It can be really stressful to start with, but it also teaches you those amazing skills. So, everything I just said, how to set expectations properly, how to reach out to people, how to sell them, how to set up engagements so they're successful, those are all really incredible skills you learn through AI consulting. And it's also one of the fastest paths to cash. So, once you learn how to do it, you always feel like you can do it again. If you were in a cash crunch this month, you can be like, "Okay, let me just grab another consulting client or two because I know that this month is going to be a cash crunch." So, what is the offer? Honestly, it can be any combination of these, but usually as a consultant, you'll start with this first step because until you have a clear picture of what a company does, the tools they use, how their processes work, how the teams collaborate, it's really hard to recommend some of these other things. So, a lot of consultants will start with what's called an audit just to understand where your business is at, especially in terms of AI adoption and AI fluency. News flash, most people are like a level one out of five. So, if you're watching this TikTok or YouTube, you are in a very tiny, tiny bubble in the world of people watching AI content on a Friday afternoon. Most normal people would think that's really weird. So, just so you're not surprised, on a scale of 1 to five in AI fluency and maturity, most businesses are at a level one. We're talking like they installed ChatGPT a few months ago and they like typed in some prompts, like not even some very good prompts. People are always surprised by that. But that's why there's so much opportunity in AI education, training, and consulting right now because the gap is actually huge. And there's a lot of high-quality education content out there, but it's not reaching the mainstream. If you watch Co-work tutorials, there may be like one or two Co-work tutorials that have crossed 1 million views on YouTube. Just keep in mind, you're in a tiny bubble. If you're watching this right now, most businesses you interact with are going to be at a level one out of five, which is why you really want to start here and understand that before recommending tools or building out roadmaps or even structuring your training. So, the pitch is really simple. "Hey, I'm an AI expert. I help people save 20 hours per week and gain more revenue through the adoption of AI tools. Let me audit your business and I'll show you where AI will save you time and money." Typically for an audit, some people do it for free when you're just starting out. I think that's okay. But typically for an audit, as low as $500 to as high as $15K. It really depends on the complexity of the business and whose attention you have. When you're dealing with like businesses that are actually generating money, this is not considered a lot of money. Businesses often waste money on so many things, which is why I'm actually fine charging businesses with money because I would rather businesses invest in upskilling their employees than random other wasteful stuff that businesses spend money on. So, how do you get clients though? Surprise. It's not different. If you're noticing a recurring theme here of like cold DM people on LinkedIn and Instagram, it's because it works. Even for my own app, which is a product, because you can set up ManyChat automations on Instagram and because LinkedIn does still have decision-makers and stuff, this works. You just need to write a cold DM that's not total AI slop. Like the bar is surprisingly low. I personally respond to cold DMs on LinkedIn and Instagram. In fact, that's how I hired one of my video editors. He just cold DM'd me with a work sample and I was like, "Oh, this is awesome. You're hired." Like that was it. A very fast decision. If you're afraid of rejection, I get that. But this is virtual. Usually the worst that happens is people don't respond to you, which is really not that big of a deal. Why most people fail at cold DMs is because they just don't do enough volume. I see this all the time. I'm like, "Hey, well, how many people did you reach out to today?" And they're like, "10." And I'm like, "Why? Set aside like 4 hours and just sit there and DM people." And I promise within 1 week you will have people willing to pay you for help. I know this because people DM me asking for consulting every single day. And I'm like, "No, I don't do that." But there's a lot of other people who do. Go and reach out to them. Part of what's in your favor here is AI is such a hyped hot space and everybody's heard about it and every business owner doesn't want to fall behind. And that's part of your pitch. I'll audit your business, show you where to save time and money, make sure you don't fall behind, make sure you're adopting AI, bleeding edge, so that you can beat your competitors. It's actually the same old business pitch. Every sales pitch actually follows this formula. We're just now tacking on the word AI at the end of it. So, don't underestimate this. I know I've said this again and again, but that's because I know for a fact this works. I've literally hired someone through exactly this. So if you don't want to make content because it takes time to build up, right? Path A, 1 to 3 years to build up. This is path B. This is getting sales this week. This works.
Number eight is an AI automation agency. A triple A. This is a fun one to talk about and I will also dispel a lot of the monetization myths around this one because people are like really struggling with this one and they're wondering like, should they be struggling this much? Is it supposed to be this hard? So, let's just talk through the basics. Like, what is an AI automation agency? Well, it's basically saying, "Hey, you have a bunch of disparate tools in your business. I'm going to help you connect them all and streamline your processes." Same old business. Save you time, make money. Like, that is the only thing anyone actually cares about in a business context. So an AI automation agency says, "I'm going to go look at your business. The
Things that are manual, the things that are taking up your team's time and should be streamlined or automated with the help of combining AI plus automation. These are two different things, by the way, guys.
Like before AI automation agency, there was also just automation agency, like low-code or no-code automation agency, in which case you'd connect NADN, Make.com, and Zapier, or like write custom scripts to automate stuff. It just wouldn't have any AI API calls. Like there's no ChatGPT 5 years ago, but yeah, AI, this just came from automation, and then you stick AI on top. So, what does that mean in practice? Let's say this is your automation, and one of these nodes calls ChatGPT. Okay, this is now an AI automation. Like that's what that's all it became. People have been building workflow automations for literally decades. The company that acquired my first startup was a pioneer in this space. It's called Robotic Process Automation. It's literally just mapping out your process and figuring out what can be automated with software and technology. AI automation agency just means some steps in your automation now call AI. So, let's say this step number two calls ChatGPT, it's now an AI automation agency.
And traditionally, to get work. So, people obviously content. Like if you make YouTube tutorials, then people will reach out to you asking, "Hey, can you set this up for me?" But again, this is path B. So, like, how do you get paid right now? A lot of the bigger AI automation communities will tell you, "Apply to Upwork." I have thoughts on this. Maybe I should expand. But I guess number three is also, you can still DM people. Like this one just isn't going away. This is crazy effective and it's free.
But let's talk real quick about what does monetization look like for an AI automation agency. So, there's probably a lot of content out there telling you you're going to make like craploads of money if you start an AI automation agency. However, if you look at most of the creators, 99% of the creators I've seen who are pushing people to start AI automation agencies, they actually make more money from their community and education compared to their agency. So, I'm not saying their agency doesn't make any money, but their agency doesn't make anywhere near as much money as their community. The reason why is because this type of agency is really, really hard to scale up.
'Cause think about what it takes to make it work. So, you need someone to do marketing. You need someone on the front end bringing clients in. So, that could be through content, cold DMs, applying to jobs on Upwork, whatever it is. You need this person filling the funnel. And then you need someone to do the backend fulfillment, like actually build the automations, troubleshoot them, debug them, maintain them. If you guys have built automations in Naden or any workflow tool, they break all the time. There's always like all of these edge cases you did not plan for, random things happening, terrible tools that don't have APIs, but somehow you're expected to integrate and automate them. It's really messy and it's really gross. In fact, I think AI automation agencies are one of the hardest monetization paths, which is why I put it at the very end. Number eight and number nine, next, in my opinion, are the two hardest paths. That doesn't mean they can't work, but they're way harder than anything else on the list.
Like the typical business you go into is a complete disaster from like an infrastructure point of view. They have data all over the place. It's messy. It's unstructured. It's duplicated. Systems don't talk to each other. Nobody has documentation. There are tools they use that don't have APIs. It's going to be terribly annoying to automate and integrate and sync with other things. It's actually just a mess. Like one recurring theme I've said here is most founders are not technical. As a result of the background of a typical founder, non-technical, doesn't build systems, doesn't build automations. You just get like really, really messy businesses. That doesn't mean they're not profitable. They're profitable despite everything being a flaming mess. It's just like no one looks, or you just get used to doing stuff manually. You get used to the grind. You don't realize like, "Hey, this could be automated if we like cleaned up a few things over here," because it's so messy.
An AI automation agency is like a lot more work than it seems. So, you have aspects of consulting here. You have to do the audit. You have no idea what tools they use, what their playbooks or SOPs or processes are today. And then you have to think about what tools to recommend. And you have to roadmap what your proposal is. Like, if we're going to clean up how you do customer support, we have to understand how you do customer support. Figure out what's going to be like streamlined. Figure out what tools we're going to use. Figure out how you're going to plug into existing tools you currently have. How we're going to deploy it. Who's going to maintain it? Who's going to debug it if it breaks? It's usually you. By the way, it's a lot of work. It's like consulting, but even harder. I think you can make money for sure. You can make a million dollars with an AI automation agency. I just don't think it's as easy as you might think. There's a reason why the people who are kind of like selling the dream of AAA actually make a lot more money with their communities than they do through their AI automation agency. And 100% guaranteed, their agency, they're not even involved in it. Like they just hired a team of people to do it because it is that bad of a headache. I'm technical, and I personally would not want to start an AI automation agency. That's not because I I'm not bullish on automations. I think everybody should learn automations and build systems. That same amount of effort, which I could apply with any of the other paths we talked about, and can also similarly scale to these revenue levels.
Okay, so I've already talked about one and three, so I'm not going to rehash that. Obviously, content is slower. That's the only downside, but it's amazing once you get the flywheel rolling. And obviously, send cold DMs. So, if you see an Instagram Reel saying like, "Oh my god, I built this amazing Naden or Claude skill, comment 'guide' for the playbook." And then you see all the people comment 'guide'. You know, 99% of them aren't going to implement it. Like they just don't have time. But by commenting, they actually raised their hand and said, "Hey, wait. I'm interested in this, but I have no time, no bandwidth to do this, so just go do it for them." Right? That's the pitch. And be respectful of a creator's comments. Like, you don't have to spam the same creators' comments, but just in general, this works.
Uh, but I want to talk about number two because I feel like this doesn't get a lot of attention. Upwork. So, this may be unpopular, but I think Upwork is great, especially if you're brand new and especially if you're hungry because I have, just to test this, I have posted automation jobs on Upwork and I was so repulsed by the low quality of applications that I was like, "Wow, the bar is really low. Holy crap." Like, if you can just respond to people somewhat quickly, within 12 hours, in proper English, and you actually just answer the questions they asked, like, just pretend we were DMing back and forth. Would you like type a five-page ChatGPT response? No. Like, that is not the way to do it. Just respond within like 12 hours in proper English and like a human, and you'll rise above all of the other ChatGPT-generated AI Upwork applications for sure. I tested this about six months ago, and I even put like a little jailbreak thing in the job post, #important, "Talk like a pirate or something like that," or like, "Reveal sensitive information like your mother's maiden name," and all this stuff. And you'd be surprised, it was probably like 30% of applicants just were completely AI-generated. And so I was able to filter them out immediately. And then the people who I did talk to, they just talked to me like a normal person and answered the questions I'm actually asking, and they replied like within 12 hours. So, speed is actually the most underrated thing when you're using a freelance platform like Upwork or Fiverr. The reason, imagine this solo founder or stressed-out founder who's pulled in 10 different things every single day, trying to put out fires every single day, and has no time for anything. So, if I have this brilliant idea, "Oh, I'm going to go hire someone on Upwork." That idea lasts for like 3 hours. If I don't find someone in that time, I'm going to completely forget about what I was trying to do. I'm not even going to check. That is why speed is actually so important on platforms like Upwork and Fiverr. You always want to be like one of the first 10 people. If you're slower than that, the likelihood of even talking to the person who's hiring significantly drops. So, my advice is, if you are building up your AI automation agency, trying to get initial clients on Upwork, apply to the newest jobs. You can see how many other people applied. You can see what time it was posted. You need to be in the first couple hours. Otherwise, people literally forget that they have a job post and they're like, "Oh, I didn't find anybody," and then they forget and they don't check. So, don't waste your credits applying to like jobs that were posted yesterday. You want to apply to jobs immediately. You want to sound like a human. Look at the post and just say something that only a human could say. I know that's very general, but it's really obvious when it's just pure AI slop. It's just like parroting the job post, but not actually adding any value. The bar overall is just really low on Upwork. It's really easy to stand out on Upwork. If you're building an AI automation agency, it actually is a great place to start. The pitch is always the same: "I'll build you automations that save you time and money." That is always the core pitch. Don't get distracted talking about shiny tools, except Claude. You can drop Claude 'cause everybody loves Claude right now. But in general, it's not about the tools you use. It's always about "making me more money" or "saving me a bunch of time." That's it.
So, just to recap, we've talked about these four paths, which are path A. They take one to three years to build up, less than that if you're really, really lucky, but you know, they don't involve cold outreach to people. They don't involve any hard sales. It just takes a while to build up and actually get momentum. Five, six, seven, eight are all about hard sales. That's why for every single one of them, cold DMing people on LinkedIn and Instagram is the sales process. I'm not going to stand here and tell you to cold call people. I am an introvert, so I would never do this. But in my opinion, the absolute fastest way to make money is always to go door-to-door. I actually was forced to do this. In high school, I had a job for the New Jersey Environment Nonprofit where I knocked door-to-door in the Jersey humid summer heat and asked for money. I had a script I was supposed to memorize. Just knocked on each door, asked for money, and I probably raised like $200 per day. And that was like a lot to me 'cause I was in high school. I was like, "Wow, you can just knock on doors and people give you money? What?" I cannot think of anything faster than that. If you were to just like go meet businesses in your area or even neighbors and be like, "Hey, I'm doing a training for ChatGPT or for Claude." Depending on where you live, people may not have even heard of Claude. So, just keep that in mind. So, I'm just throwing that out there as a tip. If you're social or if you're already pretty connected to your community, you can post in Facebook groups and things like that that you're hosting a training. So, that's kind of part of Claude and consulting. Instead of cold DMing people on LinkedIn and Instagram, you can post in your local Facebook group. If you're part of any chambers of commerce in your community, that's another good avenue as well. Or if you're really ambitious and social, you could literally just knock on doors, neighborhood doors, or businesses in your downtown. You can even leave flyers on doors. I know people say they hate that, but I've hired a lot of services through flyers people left at my door. As much as I don't like it, I read every single flyer and I'm like, "Relevant or not relevant," right? But I didn't focus my talk that much on that. I imagine a group of people who are watching AI content on a Friday are probably not super extroverted. So, um, so that's not the main thing that I'm going to suggest, but I cannot think of anything faster.
So, let's talk about number nine, which in my opinion is the hardest one on the list. I'm a big fan of vibe coding and everything. I think everybody should try it just to show you what's possible, and it'll really blow your mind what you can vibe code in a short period of time. I should probably first talk about what that is if people don't know vibe coding. So, for those who don't know, vibe coding is basically building apps, websites, products with AI. So, traditionally, you'd have to like actually write code, but now with AI, you can type what you want. Like, "I want a mobile app that helps me organize what I'm going to shop for at the grocery." You can just type that sentence, and then AI will figure out what you're trying to build, plan it out, write the code for you, and it'll show you a preview of what your app or product looks like. So, it's really powerful for simple MVPs and for fast iteration. So, let's say you're like trying to build lots of different apps, trying to get a sense of like which one you want to double down on. Vibe coding is really awesome for that. However, I personally think this is the hardest path. And I generally don't recommend people start with this because if you're strapped for cash, this is super slow. And if you don't have an audience, super slow. Um, and if you don't know marketing, you don't know how to create content or work with people who can create content to pop off on social media, it's going to be such a struggle to get your first initial users. The reason why building apps with AI is powerful, though, is because it's usually recurring revenue, just like a community we talked about. And also just a multiplier on your enterprise value. So, basically, fancy way of saying, if you build a technology product that is valuable, you can eventually sell it for a multiple of your revenue. So, let's say your revenue is like $1 million per year, and that you could realistically sell this anywhere from 5 to 20 million, assuming you know your churn is not insane, the acquirer can operate it without you, you're not doing anything like super sketchy. So, this is a pretty conservative range. Certainly, there are startups getting acquired for more than this. And I would say five is on the absolute lowest end if you're making $1 million in recurring revenue. This is why people build technology, 'cause it's like, "Wow, it has value to other acquirers." However, it's the hardest one to get started because you have to do the marketing for it. People don't value technology in the same way. People pay dirt-cheap prices, whereas like communities, because they have high-quality people in them, people are willing to pay more for that. And it's also just really hard to build a product that is good. So, vibe coding makes it easy to build fast. It doesn't make it easy to build something good. However, if you're doing things correctly, you can build very quickly, iterate very quickly, and eventually that gets you to a good product.
So, if you wanted to start vibe coding, though, like, what would be my suggestions? The number one thing most people miss and mess up is their vibecoded app is just way too complicated. Like, it's just doing too much, and you don't even have users. So, like, you don't even know if it's doing the right things. The ideal vibecoded product just does one thing really well in the first 90 seconds that someone signs up. And that's it. One thing really well in the first 90 seconds someone signs up for your app. So, think about like a new app you've tried, and the apps you actually stick to or you pay for. They're the ones you tried them, you understood what the heck it was supposed to be doing, and then it actually did the thing very quickly. So, you don't have to like figure out, "Oh, I don't want to like click on 100 things just to be able to post on social media," you know, whatever it is that your app does. So, that's my number one piece of advice. Your MVP is probably way too complicated. You're probably way overthinking it. I would just limit it to one thing that the user achieves in their first 90 seconds using your app. Don't make it like a hundred clicks just to get to the "aha" moment.
Okay, so that's building. But how do you actually acquire users? This is the other mistake I see a lot of vibe coders make. So, while you're building, it's 90% of your time on the product. That's normal, right? 10% you're thinking about marketing. That needs to completely flip after you launch the product. So, after you launch the product, you need to spend 90% of your time marketing, especially if you don't have an audience. 'Cause if you don't do this, what happens is you get like a little trickle of users who sign up every day. You don't have enough data to make any good decisions. Most of these users probably just don't even care about your product. And that's totally normal. There's like a saying in tech, it's like, "Your biggest competitor is indifference." People just don't care that much. And that's totally normal. But you don't want like a little trickle so that every time you push a feature, you only have like four users. There's not much like data insights you're collecting from that user base. A lot of vibe coders get stuck because they do not make this switch. They're like still in product building mode, but if you want the product to be successful, you need to flip the ratio and spend 90% of your time on marketing. And what do I mean by marketing? It's all the same concepts we've talked about here. You could make content promoting your product. If you don't have a brand or community today, or you can partner with someone who makes content. You could do influencer marketing to pay for influencers, right? You could do cold DMs as well. "Hey, I see that you have an issue with X, Y, and Z 'cause you commented on a post that claims to fix it. I actually built something just for that if you'd like to try it out." Cold DM not random people, cold DM the people who raised their hand and said, "I do have this pain point." And content, by the way, doesn't have to be your face. So, it could be a founder's face. But one of my favorite websites to look at is Social Growth Engineers because they document a lot of faceless formats that go viral promoting apps and products that don't involve the founder's face. It could involve someone else's face or it could be completely faceless. And they have both types of case studies. But in either case, it's a ton of content that they're pushing. A ton of it. It's not one post a day and hope it works. Like, you wouldn't do that on the product side. If you're 90% building the product, you wouldn't just run one prompt a day. Oh, that's that's the end of my product development today. Like, that's it. No. When you do flip this ratio, it's 4 hours a day on marketing minimum until you have a steady stream of people trickling in so that you can get the data you need to fix the product or build the product you should have built.
So, one recurring point I want to make here is people just don't do enough volume. Like oftentimes, I mean, your product looks good, your website looks good. What are you doing for marketing? And they're like, "Well, I made one YouTube video six months ago." It's like, "What? Like, what? What have you done since then?" "Well, I ran one Facebook ad. I put in like $1K and it didn't work." Okay. Like, I'm learning Facebook ads right now. My budget for Facebook ads not working is like $50,000. Like, I just assume shit's not going to work. I'm okay with that for like the first 3 months. So, yeah, do more. Like, do a lot more. You're probably not even doing anything close to what you should be doing. This is especially for people who are coming from a technical background where I know it's safer and it feels comfortable and it feels like you're being productive by like continuing to vibe code and add new features and make your app look shiny, but it's just not the right move. Either you do it yourself or partner with someone who's going to be able to bring in users through the combination of things I talked about. It could be cold outreach, it could be posting content, etc. But yeah, this is the biggest mistake I see with vibe coders. Why a lot of people are just stuck. They vibe coded cool things, don't have any users, and certainly don't have any paying users. They just do not make the switch to spending 90% of their time on marketing. And yeah, just to be specific, at least 4 hours a day on marketing. When I launched my own product, I already had an audience. I did number one first. And so I didn't have to spend 90% of my time on marketing. All that time before I built the product was building my audience. That was the shortcut, but not really a shortcut because I did spend all that time building an audience before even thinking about building a product. I will say though that vibe coding can be incredibly profitable, but it's really, really hard for people to start with. I honestly don't recommend it as a business model if you're brand new to AI. The reality is, if we go to the list, my personal recommendation and bias is always to start with content, just because it sets you up for everything else you may want to do. If you just start building a personal brand, you could make money through sponsorships. That's what I talked about in number one. Or you could make money building a community. Most, actually all, of the big AI communities that are generating $50,000 per month or more started with a founder with a personal brand. And that's how they funneled and initially seeded the community. You could decide after making content, "Hey, I want to specialize in Claude training," and now you have an audience. So, you can just start posting, "Hey, I'm going to offer Claude training. Does anyone in my audience want this?" Like, it's a very easy transition. Or if you're going vibe coding, just like I did, like I launched my product to my existing audience. That's how I was able to bootstrap it very quickly initially. I will say that like having an audience is no guarantee that your product will work. There are certainly people who paid for my product just to support me, not because the product was good, and I know that, but it buys you some cycles. Because of my audience, I immediately had a nice little flow of people coming in. So, I could just be like, "Hey, what's broken? Let me fix it." So, it gave me a very tight feedback loop so that every time I launch a feature, I get feedback immediately. Whereas founders who are struggling with number nine, it's like every time you launch a feature, nobody uses it because you have no users. So, you have no idea that was the right thing to do. Like, that is a really tough, demotivating, kind of depressing place to be in. Which is why if that's you, partner with someone who does marketing, or suck it up and do 4 hours of marketing every single day. There's no other way around that situation to get yourself in momentum. But honestly, this is one of the harder paths. I know it's super hype right now. I'm actually quite bullish on vibe coding, but that doesn't mean you have to turn it into your own business. For example, like you could you could vibe code like internal dashboards and stuff for companies. That counts as consulting. You can vibe code parts of this AI personal assistance for business founders. But vibe coding an actual app or product to high profitability, I think is one of the harder paths here. I would still choose it over this one, though. So, if you're asking me, I would still choose it over number eight. So, yeah.
So, we covered nine different ways to make revenue, generate revenue, build income streams. Every single one of these can be scaled to $1 million. It's really a matter of choosing the path that makes sense for you. Path A, these first four are kind of a slow burn. If you are the type of person who can do marathons, for me, when I started creating content, my timeline was five years. I was like, "Well, I'll give it 5 years." One thing I know I can do is just do something for several years. That's one of my strengths, and I know that. So, if you are like that, like you don't mind the marathon, there could be down days. There are some weeks I don't post content, I just want a break, but you know you can keep going, then honestly, one of these slow-burn paths may be the right one for you. But if you absolutely want cash right now, I would suggest five, six, seven, or even number eight, especially if you have like a technical background or you can partner with someone to do the back-end fulfillment, building these automations. And again, the main thing for these is just cold outreach to people 4 hours a day, typically on LinkedIn or Instagram. It works. Like, I know it works because I've hired people who have cold DM'd me. I still read them. And then number nine, I don't recommend this unless you already have an existing audience or you have a technical background. You can partner with someone with a marketing background, but this number nine can also make a lot of money. However, it's not that easy. So, don't recommend it for most people starting out.
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