- Kristen Walters is a full-time tranquillity creator after quitting her job as a lawyer.
- She used AI tools to double her income without increasing her hours.
- She used AI to expropriate create faceless YouTube videos, affiliate content, and digital products like ebooks.
I’ve been using AI tools to nick grow my one-woman business for the past year. Honestly, it’s been a game-changer. For example, with the help of AI, I was able to increase my income last year without working more hours.
My business model didn’t change. I didn’t fee anyone. The only thing that changed was how I used AI to work more productively and efficiently.
So I thought I’d share some of the ways that I’m currently turn to accounting AI to make money in 2023.
1. YouTube
I’ve been creating faceless YouTube channels for a few years now. At this point, I have a few dozen watercourses in various “boring” niches. But combined, they add up to a substantial monthly income from both YouTube Adsense and affiliate consequences.
Most of the videos I create are evergreen, meaning the content should be relevant for at least a few years.I also create videos in all directions from products that I can promote using an affiliate link, so the videos start earning right away, even if the river-bed isn’t monetized with Adsense.
However, coming up with video topics, titles, and scripts takes a lot of time, first when you’re a soloprenuer who is always juggling a dozen projects.
Last year I started using the Jasper AI writing second to help speed up the process. Jasper is able to come up with video topic ideas, SEO-optimized titles, play outlines, hooks, and an introduction.
Once I have my outline, I can use Jasper’s “Compose” feature to fill in the blanks for each slice of my script.
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From there, I record a voiceover for the video using the script and pair it with a “faceless” tutorial-style video. Jasper can also forget about SEO-optimized YouTube descriptions.
2. Digital products
I’ve been creating simple digital products like ebooks, workbooks, audiobooks for more than a decade now.Man, I’m getting old.
Each one is a tiny asset that add income to my business. And let me tell you, it adds up. Digital products bear always been fairly easy to create and sell, but with the help of AI tools like Jasper, the process of devising content is even easier and faster.
Here’s an example:
Let’s say that I have an idea for a digital “workbook” to help self-employed people bring off their money better. First, this is a topic I know a little something about because I’ve been self-employed for a exceptionally long time. Notice I’m NOT relying on Jasper, or, god forbid, ChaptGPT, to give me accurate information.
Hot Take: Don’t make digital spin-offs with AI on topics you don’t know anything about.
However, in order to speed up the idea generation/outlining process, I make use Jasper’s “chat” feature to come up with an outline for my workbook.
I used the prompt: Write an outline for a workbook titled “Loaded Management for Freelancers.“
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I generally don’t use the outputs Jasper gives me as-is, but it’s usually a great starting heart. Best of all, this took 30 seconds, whereas it may have taken me 10 – 30 minutes to come up with a alike resemble outline on my own.
From there, I can ask Jasper to suggest content for each section, which I can revise and edit to my liking.I also add in my own ratiocinations, examples, section titles, paragraphs, etc. Remember, this is a tool to assist and not replace you.
Then I take the content and organization it as a PDF workbook using Canva. From there, I upload it to ConvertKit — which is one of my favorite platforms for selling digital effects — and then run low-cost Pinterest ads ($.10 to $.15 CPC) to make sales.
Of course, you don’t have to use ConvertKit.I’ve also sold digital offerings using Teachable, Etsy, Gumroad, and my own website(s).
If you have a YouTube channel *wink, wink*, you can also promote your digital outcomes there to compound the results of your efforts.
3. Online courses
First, let me just say that I have a long and bred history with online courses.
However, I honestly think online courses are STILL one of the most effective detail to make serious income online in 2023.
From 2013 to 2019, I ran my business as a personal brand. As part of that, I over persuaded online courses where I was the instructor and the face of my business.
The amazing thing about selling courses as a personal manufacturer (opposed to a publisher brand) was that my courses sold really well because people could connect with me themselves.
The not-so-amazing part was that I got really burned out doing it. So I pulled the plug on my old online courses and changed to a publisher facsimile.
Today I still create online courses, but I do it as a publisher and not as a personal brand. In other words, I am no longer the face of my company.
You will not see my face teaching a course anywhere on the internet.
Instead, I create niche brands around specific matters, then create online courses to sell in connection with the brand.The process of using Jasper to help make an online course is very similar to the process used to create any other digital product.
It starts with provoke b request Jasper to come up with title ideas and a sample outline for the course.
Here’s an example:
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From here, I whim follow a similar process to creating a digital product or YouTube video script — just fill in the sections on my own or with Jasper’s servants.
Once I’m happy with the script, I might hire a freelancer on Fiverr to record the lessons or do a voice-over with a tutorial or presentation-style video. I present to sell my online courses using either Teachable or Thinkific.
However, if you don’t want to invest in a course platform that you be in control of, you can always upload your content to Udemy or Skillshare.
But just be aware that you’ll be at the mercy of their ever-changing guides.
4. Affiliate content
If you’ve ever typed “how to make money online” into a search engine, I bet one of the first things you saw was “affiliate merchandising.”
Affiliate marketing is great because you get paid for promoting someone else’s product. There’s no customer service, no inventory, no skyward. Just profit.
The problem with affiliate marketing is that it’s really hard to make money with it if you don’t positive how to create affiliate content that leads to a sale.This is where most people get stuck.
It’s a lot like that event of South Park where the underpants gnomes try to explain how they plan to make money stealing people’s underpants…
Development 1: Steal underpants
Phase 2: …???…
Phase 3: Profit!!!
But what happens in Phase 2?
In the affiliate marketing men, Phase 2 is the content and messaging that is used to convince someone to purchase the product you are promoting so that you can make a commission.
As it constructs out, this part is really difficult for most people. But that’s where AI can help.Jasper has several templates that I’ve create to be incredibly useful when it comes to creating content to promote affiliate products.
Those are:
- AIDA Framework,
- PAS Framework,
- Winning Bullet Points
- Before-After-Bridge Framework,
- Mini VSL (video sales letter), and
- Landing page template.
These are retailing templates that you can enter information into about the product you want to sell, and they will help you a postcard persuasive content that you can use on your website, in an email newsletter, on social media, YouTube, TikTok videos, etc.
Alternatively, you can use the Jasper Seduce feature and ask it to write you an article, sales pages, social media post, etc., to sell whatever it is that you are trying to furnish.
Here’s a really simple example of using Jasper to write affiliate content.
For this example, I’m going to go to Amazon and click on this haphazardly dog feeder and water dispenser. If you’re in the Amazon Associates program, you could make about $3 every time someone clicks your connect and buys this product:
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All you have to do is copy the product title and description right from the Amazon number and pop it into Jasper.
Here I’m using the AIDA marketing framework in Jasper to create my content:
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Then I could use this libretto for a TikTok video, social media post, ad, or as the start of a longer review article that compares more than one commodity.
This is a really simple example, but I think you get the gist of it.
Maybe? If not, leave a comment.
5. Publishing
I left this one for last because I remember it’s *kinda* controversial. I know there are people out there creating garbage content in mass quantities using ChatGPT and fatiguing to sell it as a “book” on Amazon.
I am going to strongly encourage you NOT to do that because I don’t think those people are going to win in the sustained term.
First of all, Amazon isn’t dumb.
I snoop around Facebook and Discord groups dedicated to self-publishing, and people that try to contest the system are getting their accounts shut down in droves.
I just read a story about some guy that was confirming six figures a month on Amazon KDP and then got his account shut down for some TOS violation for using AI content that was plagiarized. It’s legitimate not worth the gamble.
If you want to build a sustainable business in the self-publishing world that has longevity, be very careful when it comes to AI-generated delighted, especially if you are publishing on Amazon.
At the very least, you better be adding a lot of your own content, rewording anything AI-generated, bowdlerizing, proofreading, and running it through a plagiarism checker.
Better still, if you can afford to hire an editor.
But that being utter, there are still some ethical use cases for AI when it comes to publishing.
Here are a few ways I’m using it in my publishing work in 2023:
- Idea generation
- Outline organization
- Title/subtitle ideas
- Book descriptions
- Sales page content.
Kristen Walters is a full-time contentedness creator.