Summary
- AI is not a magic solution for making money; it just speeds up the process of creating content by assisting with ideation and organization.
- Affiliate marketing combined with AI can be profitable, but be prepared for challenges like increased competition and more difficulty in ranking on Google. Last March, I made about $36,000 through this method.
- Choose a niche you are passionate about, such as RV gear, and use AI to generate a list of related keywords to target. This will help you produce targeted content that can generate affiliate revenue.
- When creating AI-generated content, you must still put in the effort to verify the information and humanize it, as passive income requires active involvement.
- Starting a blog could be cost-effective with an affordable hosting plan like Blue Host, allowing you to launch for as little as $1.99 per month.
- Selling online courses or coaching programs is a lucrative opportunity where AI can assist in planning content, creating course materials, and generating marketing strategies.
- Ad revenue from AI-generated content can be another income source, though it's usually less lucrative than creating and selling your products or services.
- Youtube channels are a viable option for monetization using AI to help generate ideas and create content, but the human touch is crucial for engaging videos.
- Running an AI-powered agency is another way to utilize AI. It requires marketing skills and the ability to provide a valuable service, such as content creation or SEO optimization, to clients.
- Building a business around AI involves understanding that it cannot replace foundational business elements like customer engagement, personal branding, and providing quality services or products.
- The key to success with AI is not copying generic content but using the tools to enhance originality and efficiency in crafting valuable, helpful content for your audience.
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How To Take Action
I would suggest starting with the basics of using AI alongside affiliate marketing. First, pick a niche you're passionate about. Let's say you love RV gear. You can use AI to quickly brainstorm a list of related keywords like "best solar panels for RVs." This helps in creating content that people search for, allowing you to earn from affiliate links. Remember, AI-generated content is just a foundation. You need to humanize and verify it before sharing.
A good way to launch a blog affordably is with services like Blue Host, which can cost as little as $1.99 per month. This gives you a space to publish your content and start building an audience.
If you’re interested in online courses or coaching, AI can help you organize course content or draft marketing strategies. Think about what you could teach, like fitness or a hobby. Use AI tools to structure your programs and even script youtube videos to promote your skills.
For those considering an AI-powered agency, find a service you can offer, like SEO or social media strategy. Use AI to handle repetitive tasks, freeing you to focus on more specialized areas of the business.
To simply explore monetization without much cost, consider starting a YouTube channel. AI can speed up scriptwriting or video editing, but remember to add that personal touch to connect with your viewers.
Finally, always personalize your content and stand out by being authentic. With AI as your sidekick, you can save time and focus more on creativity and strategy to grow your personal brand or business.
Quotes by Author
"AI isn't a magic bullet; it's a speed tool"
"Passive income isn't real, by the way"
"Choose a niche that you actually like"
"AI is not a business; it's just a tool"
"Build something real that will change your life"
Full Transcript
A lot of people claim AI is making them rich, but a lot of people are also full of AI actually makes it harder because everyone is pumping out just tons of random content. Faceless videos with a robot voice, AI blog posts and ebooks, overly generic AI images, spammy AI comments. So, the real question is, how do I create actual content that makes money that isn't generic, that isn't crappy, that actually helps people, but where I use AI as a tool to scale my output? Well, in this video, I'm breaking down the five best ways to actually make money with AI content. Whether you want to do affiliate marketing, ads, coaching, YouTube, and a lot more. Let's get into it. So, number one, the first way to make money with AI content is AI plus affiliate marketing. Now, this one has gotten a lot more difficult over the years with Google making it harder to rank blog posts. You know, lots of random AI content out there, but you know, there are ways to use AI to speed up the process. Just to show you if you're new to the channel that I know generally what I'm talking about hopefully when it comes to affiliate marketing. You can see that uh this is for March. So far, so at the time of this recording, I've made about $36,000 this month in impact. And then I'll be making uh $21,000 in partner stacks, over 50,000 in affiliate commissions. Still, I've made over a million dollars three years in a row or so from affiliate revenue. Um, so yeah, it's a really good business model. It is just getting more difficult to rank content this way in Google, but there's still ways to do it. So, for example, with AI, you could use something like I've created this AI affiliate marketing planner. You basically take the whole thing, you copy it, you paste it into chat GPT or claude. If you want this plus my free AI master class, make sure to click the link in the description below and I'll send you 10 prompts like this that you can use. But here's this. So, I pasted it in and it's really just how do we come up with the keywords to actually make money with affiliate revenue. So, there's Google and then potentially YouTube, too, is a way to make money. Those are the top two ways to make affiliate commissions recommending products uh and services. So, number one is this. And you know, I put in RV gear as my niche. It'll just ask you for a niche you want to cover. And then it gives me all these different keywords that I can target for affiliate revenue. Things like best solar panels for RV, water filters, surge protectors, leveling blocks, solar hose kits, backup cameras, dehumidifiers, showerheads. You get the idea that there's actually when it comes to affiliate marketing, there's so many more products out there than you would ever think exist. So you could put in like baby safety gear and there's like a thousand different keywords you could target. So this tool, it's kind of made to find the low competition, middle longtail keywords that are going to be searched for. They're not going to have no search volume, but they're not going to be the most most competitive out there. So that's one way to look at it. You can see the article that's created from Google for something like the best solar panels for for example is something like this where it's just a simple intro with keywords the top recommended products in a list format and then just text right so how do we create that well we can use the second prompt here the AI content generator we take this we paste it into chat GPT and it comes up here and it'll ask you what niche do you want to cover so I just put in RV gear as an affiliate niche to write content on and it comes up with a ton of is about solar panels, portable generators for RVs, surge protectors, leveling blocks, backup cameras, tons of different things here that aren't too competitive, that are somewhat longtail, but they are being searched for. You can see these are articles like from Gear Lab here, the best solar panels of 2025. It's a simple introduction and then they're created. This has a bunch of fancy uh graphics that you don't necessarily need when you're just starting out, but it's text section for product one, text section for product two, and all of that down the list. So, how do you actually create that content? Well, you can use another system prompt that I have here that you can get. We just take this content generator, paste this into chat GPT, and I put in best solar panels for RV. And then what it's doing, it gives you the title, gives you a metad description, gives you an introduction, and then really just gives you what are the ideas. So, you have to match search intent still. This isn't completely passive income business. Passive income isn't real, by the way, but um main headings and bullet points. It's like this matches search intent pretty well. So, like why should you invest in it? Key factors to consider, and then get into it. So, have a little bit of background, then get into it. It'll give you the right products to choose from and then covers installation tips, maintenance, a conclusion, and then it gives you a bunch of good semantic keywords you can add into an article. So, this is completely free just using this uh AI content generator, getting it to this point. Then what you would do is you would take this, you would copy it, paste it into WordPress, edit it, humanize it, check that this is actually true. We're not going to be making recommendations based on AI, right? This is why I say you choose a niche for this kind of stuff that you actually know about. So, there's a lot of steps to this process and it's getting hard over time a little bit for just affiliate marketing to work on Google. You could use something that's like this on YouTube, create a video on solar panels for an RV. The caveat there is you actually have to show it. You actually have to have it and show it, but the view count and making affiliate commissions would actually be a little bit easier rather than ranking for it on Google. So, these are all considerations, you know, to take in mind when you're when you're thinking about going down this journey of making money with AI content. It's not a magic bullet. You can't just copy and paste stuff, make faceless videos, and make money. There's ways to do it. And it's really a way to come up with the ideation of everything, outlining everything, and just speeding up the content production. But first, the most important thing is choosing a niche that you actually like and can see yourself talking about for the next couple of years to create enough content and consistency over time to do that and then become a personal brand in that niche using AI as a speed tool. Now, real quick, when you're ready to launch your blog, make sure to click my special Blue Host link below this video. It's my affiliate link and you'll get 75% off. It's a $1.99 a month to get started. So, basically, you go to this page. It's normally 12 bucks. You can get it with my link for just $1.99 a month. You click get started now. It'll take you to this. You just choose basic. The basic plan is fine. And then you can just go to this. You can either put in a domain name if you already own it. Put in your own name cuz I recommend personal branding. Or just choose it later. or you can choose a variation of your name like adamsadvice.com or something broad enough to keep it good. But I can say just choose domain later to get the deal and then it takes you to the checkout page where you can get basically a year of hosting and uh free domain for the year and you'll check out for $23.88. So a lot of other hosts like are they faster? Are they better? Maybe. But they're also like $2 to $400 a year whereas Blue Host you can get for just $23 a year. If you're going to start a full business for a year, you might as well do it for the cheapest way possible. So again, go to the YouTube description, click the Blue Host link, and you'll get that $1.99 a month web hosting to start your blog. All right, let's get to number two on the list, and that is AI Plus courses and coaching. So, there's a lot of people that are selling their own programs, selling their own either monthly recurring coaching programs with live Q&A and stuff, or just coaching in general through Zoom, one-on- ones, or courses or things like that. So, how can we use AI? Well, what I've also created, these are all custom, by the way. So, this is a course business niche and offer generator. So, I'm going to paste this into chat GPT and see what happens. I haven't done this in a few days. So, all right. First, I need to answer a few questions. What topic are you interested in teaching or helping people with? Do you want to help people make money or teach a hobby or skill? Do you have experience or success in this area or you learn as you go? Because you don't have to be the biggest expert in the world. So, let's really just brainstorm this and think about it. I'm going to say I'm going to do one example here of I want to teach people fitness to lose weight. I'm going to teach this is a I guess it's a hobby skill. And do I have any experience? I'll be learning as I go. I'm going to say I'm in learning as I go. Some experience. You can kind of just customize this however you want. You don't have to make it perfect. And it'll come up with a bunch of different ideas for your course business. It'll come up with the offer. It'll come up with the audience. And let me just show you this. So, here's uh subniche ideas in order to create content. So, if you're a course creator, you're going to be creating content on YouTube or blog posts or all of that. So, beginning home workouts, body fat, losing body fat, mindful fitness, light training, so structured business model. The core offer is the beginner fit blueprint, a six week step-bystep fitness, nutrition habit program for those who want to start working out. It's 997 weekly video lessons, daily trackers, printable checklists, all that kind of stuff. You can also have affiliate links, AdSense, and sponsored content. So that's the key is in this whole AI thing, the best way to make money online is to actually have your own program, your own product that you're selling where these passive things can work um as a secondary backup uh revenue source. So there's upsell and downell ideas, breakdowns of the product format. So course, community live Q&As's blah blah blah. So would you like me to move forward with this? Yes. Let's say yes. I'm just going to say yes. And then it'll also give me after that a full YouTube content and growth strategy over the course of 90 days. So very simple to use and this is really good for brainstorming especially if you're you're like I don't want to just do affiliate marketing with the website. I want to actually eventually create my own community, my own program because there's so many teaching opportunities out there and people paying for it. So you know there's core content categories and it gives you 20 SEO optimized video ideas for weight loss. So like my 5 minute morning routine that changed my body. I did this every day for two weeks and lost weight. These really good kind of viral type of titles that people want to see and then it'll give you legitimately a funnel strategy, too. So, all the way from the lead magnet. So, when they're watching YouTube video, hey, if you're interested, make sure to, you know, click the link below. You'll get my 7-day beginner weight loss kickstart PDF and then from there goes to the email sequence, what the emails actually are, what they're about into the sale, into community building, optimization, all of it. So again, another prompt AI can really help you with this framework with creating the video ideas with outlining YouTube videos and we'll get to that a little bit more, but it can really help you a lot with this, you know, ideation and process for your course business. Let's get to number three on the list and that is AI plus ad revenue. So how it works, we're talking about monetizing AI generated content through AdSense or Mediavine or you know generally blog posts, but you're not focused on affiliate revenue. You're focused on just ad revenue. So banner ads. So this is a situation where you're not writing best of affiliate content, but you're writing any type offormational content to get a lot of traffic and make ad revenue. So what you kind of do here is you can see like this is what the ads would look like. Like I have this on my own blog here. This is Mediavine. It has right sidebar ads, a bottom one that kind of just sits there, and then every 3 to five paragraphs, it will add ads in as well. So that's what it looks like. For this, you want to go after a niche. So I have another AI niche hunter here. I copied this and pasted it into chat GPT again and I said my niche here. So you want to have like if you're going for ad revenue, you want the highest volume things that a ton of people are searching for, but they're not going to like buy something. So for example, blogs that you see with a ton of ad revenue are things like recipes, right? You can scroll through everyone's life story down to when they first learned about that chicken soup recipe when they were 8 years old at their grandmother's farm and how amazing it was. is because they're getting ad revenue for all those ad views and they're getting takes forever to get to the recipe. Or another one is like tattoo ideas or party ideas or living room ideas. All of these posts that have a ton of searches, but people are just looking for general surface level stuff. They're not ready to buy something yet from that search. So ad revenue is kind of like the last resort of monetization. That's true on YouTube and true for blogging. If you can make money with your own product, you're going to make a lot more. Affiliate revenue will make you less than that but more than ad revenue and then ad revenue is kind of last. So with that I put in party ideas and it gave me five subniche ideas for content. Kids birthday parties, adult themed parties, seasonal bridal milestone. I said adult theme party. So again, you can just see the insane amount of different keywords around here like adult pool party ideas, casino night, masquerade parties. Like some of this stuff might get a little interesting. uh maskearing stuff, adult luau party ideas, backyard movie night. Like there's a million different keywords you could write here. And it's kind of like finding the goal here is finding a seed phrase that you can really dominate. So for example, with tattoo ideas, think of all the keywords around tattoo ideas. There's like Viking tattoo ideas, mom tattoo ideas, dad tattoo ideas, uh Greek god tattoo ideas, tree of life tattoo ideas. Like there's thousands of potential keywords you can write about when you have a seed phrase like that. Same with party ideas, 40th birthday, 50th birthday, wedding, anniversary, all those different things. Or business names, tattoo shop business name ideas, car wash business name ideas. I did that a lot with my blog for like YouTube video ideas, kids YouTube video ideas, couples, art, fitness, lifestyle. You can come up with a seed phrase. Then you have a list of like 50 or 100 keywords or you just copy that format and they're searched a ton and you just start publishing these really easy list posts for affiliate revenue. So that's another avenue to go in. Number four on the list is AI plus a YouTube channel. So basically how this works, you start a YouTube channel, you use AI to speed up the scripting, the editing, and then you can monetize with ads, affiliate sponsorships, and your own product. So again, we have an AI YouTube idea generator. I'm going to copy this whole thing, paste into here, and it'll give you some ideas. So what is your main niche of interest? So, I'm going to say cryptocurrency currency trading is my YouTube niche that I'm interested in talking about. It'll be some good brainstorming here. Let's dive into this. So, all right, here's subniche ideas. So, video ideas that you could do. Number one, beginner crypto trading. All kinds of videos there. Number two, technical analysis. So, my three favorite crypto trading strategies, live swing trading, how I spot winning setups, technical patterns, AI and bots, so using AI to trade, crypto news, just general stuff like this coin's going nuts, that coin's going nuts, whatever it is, personal trading, how I made this, how I did this. So, these are all really good video ideas. Now, it says, which subnets would you like to focus for keyword research and 20 targeted ideas? I'm just going to say beginner crypto trading. Does it make sense? If you're starting a channel, a YouTube channel, you don't want to go you want to have some broad mass appeal videos. You don't want to go down the rabbit hole so deep where no one is searching or looking for that thing. You want to be specific, but you can have a lot of good ideas. So, this will give you all of the video ideas that you can get started with. So, day trading for beginners, mistakes, spot versus this, beginning success stories, best crypto trading apps, how to read charts. So, really just you don't have to do all of these. So you just pick the ones that you like best and then you get started. And again, if we want to get started, this is all free stuff. So I have a YouTube script generator here and we're going to paste this into chat GPT. Hit enter. And I'm going to choose one of these keywords. I'm just going to say how to read crypto charts. That'll be the YouTube video idea. And I'm going to paste this in. How to read crypto charts. And again, you can get all of these. Click the link in the description below. There's 10 of them. Not every single one's video might be in there, but a lot of the really good ones are. you'll get my free AI master class, how to work with me more on your AI content strategy, all of that. So, it gives you uh the full outline and script for this. So, uh in the ADA format, so this is pretty good. Ever looked at a crypto chart and thought, "What the hell am I looking at?" So, you would edit this intro because the first 30 seconds of a YouTube video is really important. And then main video outline. So, then if you know about this topic, you can show stuff, you can talk about it. You don't need a fully fleshed out written script like these types of videos that I do right here. I just have a Google doc that has some notes so I remember what to talk about and then I'm kind of just riffing it and showing different things. But if you have the main stuff and you know the topic, then you know what to show. You can talk about it pretty easily. You talk about main topics throughout the video content and then you end the video. So again, YouTube ideas and the full outlines what you're going to talk about. All that stuff can be sped up so much that what used to take 5 hours of preparation might take 10 minutes. So again, with YouTube, it's YouTube ads, affiliate sponsors, and your own product. So you should be teaching on YouTube because teaching talking head style video like this, you can make a lot more money. You don't have to go out and shoot stuff outside and it's uh it makes it a lot easier for monetization. All right, and we'll get to number five on the list and that is starting an AI powered agency. So an agency model is selling services. That could be SEO services, video editing services, any type of thing that you're creating a mini agency. You have clients, you're doing the work on behalf of the clients, and you can eventually scale your team and make money that way. So, it could be a done for you service. It could be something like you do content planning, keyword research, and content writing. You could do AIO writing, AI optimization writing, where you're creating 10 to 20 articles a month for a brand. You could be doing local SEO and local marketing, local like Google My Business, Facebook, things like that. You could be doing technical analysis, you could be doing anything from design to UX to video editing to short video editing, all of those. So really, when you think about running an AI powered agency, uh we'll get you some ideas with an AI tool, but you want to think in terms of thousands of dollars a month, not hundreds of dollars a month. You can get hundred a couple hundred a month maybe from a local business, but what is that thing that you could sell for $3,000 a month per client? Maybe it's creating, you know, taking their short form videos and then adding the captions, editing them, uploading them, doing something like that. Or maybe it's doing link building for a client. Or maybe it's writing articles every month for a client. It's just work that you can eventually outsource, hire a team, and scale. It's the agency business model. And here's the agency prompt that I have. It's a system prompt. I'm going to copy this and paste it in. So it says, "Drop a service idea." And I'll give you a complete breakdown across all categories. I'm going to say I want to do do I want to do YouTube strategy. So there's agencies. So ideas for content creators. Um also like feedback on titles and thumbnails and analytics. Sure. I'm YouTube strategy. There's actually people that charge $6 to $8,000 a month to do this. Again, it's finding the right target person. A random person off the street is not going to pay $8,000 for a YouTube strategy, but a YouTuber who has money will. So, again, it's kind of targeting it there. So, who your target audience is? It covers that. So, solo YouTubers, creators. So, it's like how do you find these people? Who are they? What are their pain points? Stagnant growth besides posting consistently, uncertainty, all of that. So then it covers a unique selling proposition or unique value proposition. We'll grow, we'll do all of this stuff. It'll give you the right pricing model, pricing idea. So again, this is all brainstorming what agency you'd want to run. Give you a one-time audit, monthly retainer price, group coaching and support, service delivery, what's the best format for service delivery, how do you do lead genen and marketing, and it all kind of ties together. So if you see like I'm going to do content strategy on YouTube to build this service business, then I can use AI prompts for YouTube, create outlines and scripts for that with those ideas. But you have to there's basically three phases to making money with AI content and none of them include AI. AI is the idea idea engine behind it and it can speed up your own content creation, but it should not be used as the copy and paste faceless YouTube videos, AI generated blog posts without your input. It's a speed tool to speed things up, but you need a real business behind it. AI is not a business. It's like saying I'm, you know, it's like saying a computer is a business. It's just a tool. It can't run your entire business for you yet. you know, there are AI agents and things that you can do to help scale even further. Once you maybe have an agency and you have a team of AI agents that's actually creating a lot of this manual stuff. So then you have AI agents that are creating maybe the blog post outlines and getting it and getting into WordPress automatically with make.com. And there's, you know, you can really build a business around AI using it as a speed tool, but you have to understand the back-end business fundamentals of what you're doing and either build a personal brand or a service-based business because there's really three phases to it. There's audience generation, which is things like YouTube and blog posts or social media. So, you need a system to create content and publish it regularly in your niche using AI to outline and make it faster to get what you need faster. I can use AI to kind of come up with video ideas, create outlines, and do things faster, but I'm still creating the video, right? I'm still doing those things. Then there's lead generation in the middle. How do I funnel those people who are watching my stuff into leads, into my email list, into affiliate sales, getting me ad revenue, all of those things? And then finally, sales. So that's backend sales systems, the actual funnel, which I have other videos on exactly how to set it up from YouTube and blog posts into a paid community. You have to build all this stuff, but it's audience, leads, and sales, and AI can speed it up, but it can't do it all for you. So, a lot of people say, "I got rich with AI, and I'm making money in 30 days with AI, and all I did was create this faceless rain video on YouTube." And it's just there are people that can watch that, right? That's like kind of the Fiverr version of making money. If you want to make 20 bucks, make a rain video, right? do it for a year and try to get some ad revenue, right? That's you can, but if you want to make a real business and actually make some money that will change your life, you have to actually build something real. And that's going to take time and AI can help speed it up a little bit, but you have to stand out from the noise. If AI is a sea of crappy content, then you need to use it effectively to speed up, but create quality stuff and actually help people. That is the key. you know, I have my own coaching, my own courses and stuff like that, but you never have to join it. You can just watch all the free YouTube stuff. People will still complain and say, "You should talk about this or you should talk about that." But it is what it is. So, I hope this video sheds some light on the main ways to make money with AI and content, but not the magic bullet to make money overnight. It takes work. It takes dedication. It takes building a true brand for yourself in the 2020. So, I hope you found that useful. Again, if you're interested in any of the prompts that I had, make sure to click the link in the description below. You'll get the top 10 plus my AI master class covering stuff in more detail. So, I hope you check that out and then again, check out other videos on my channel. Like it if you haven't.
