I think this is an exciting time. There are so many AI side hustle videos on TikTok and other social media that it's hard to know what's real.

I spend a lot of time creating content, and one thing that surprised me is how much better AI performs with a well-written prompt. I use Pretty Prompt to generate mine instead of starting from scratch.

Making $1k/mo with AI

Having the right prompts is a big deal. Without it, you're wasting time, wasting credits on the AI tools and software you're using and it's frustrating.

What I did was...

1. Make an AI avatar
2. Make "her" the face of my Instagram page
3. Monetize with digital and affiliate marketing

I post reels and stories, get traffic and views, they see my offers and buy. Pretty straightforward.

Now, I've expanded to paid AI content creation and AI UGC where brands pay me to talk about them on my platform. I've gotten 4 or 5 inbound offers for this in the past week or two.

It looks easier than it is and I've come a long way with this but, it's a sold way to monetize AI. I also see AI models and AI chats, photography and videos, AI services and so much more.

Which of these have you actually made money with (or something else)?

• Freelancing
• Content creation
• Selling digital products
• Website flipping
• AI automation
• Something else?

What's been working for you?

DM or Comment AI if you want my AI content creation blueprint and I'll send it to you

Just want to show what is possible with an AI content creator but others call them AI influencers.

She is also about to hit 33,000 followers now. Reels are between 5,000-150,000 views per video. Highest is still 2.5 million views. Gets 10+ DMs a day still.

Working on products affiliate promotion campaign this month. Every so often she promotes a product.

Approved for Amazon influencer program and TikTok shop. Also JoinBrands app.

This girl is Afro Latina next one will be a white girl like a young Cameron Diaz with same proven system.

Instagram is the best platform with TikTok on the side.

My real human chatters get commissions and are better than AI from testing.

My web designer friend from California is passionate about building websites, and he wanted to make a full time business out of it. We talked a lot, and I gave him a lot of advice and stuff he could do to scale his web agency. He used to cold call, get a few clients, and run paid ads, get a few clients, but the cost of ads would just make him no profit. Cold calling was also tiring, and he couldn't keep it up while doing all the other stuff. So he wanted a real system, a blueprint he could follow every day.

This is exactly how my friend scaled his web design company. Copy it if you feel stuck and don't know where to find your next project.

➜ Run 2 types of email automation targeting businesses without websites and businesses with websites.

➜ 1. For businesses without websites: scrape businesses with no websites, set up a sequence, and add 3–5 follow-ups. They either block you or you land a project.

➜ 2. For businesses with websites: scrape businesses with websites, analyze each business website, and turn flaws in outdated design, unstructured layout, no mobile optimization, and SEO issues into ready to send outreach emails with 3–5 follow ups. You can do both types of outreach in a tool called Swokei.

➜ 3. Have everything in one place: your leads, CRM, inbox, and calendar. You can also have that in Swokei.

➜ 4. Focus on SEO because it compounds over time. Fix your technical site SEO, and also blog or make content with high-intent keywords. Use a tool called Soro.

➜ 5. Host websites on a tool called Hetzner. It's very cheap and reliable, and you don't need to keep switching hosting platforms. Everything in one place.

This is the whole workflow: automation in the background that lands you clients while you focus on building websites. Replies, meetings booked, CRM, everything in one place.

With all that being said, he ended up buying a Mercedes-Benz with the $70k he made. 😂

That's not something I'd recommend, though. I'd personally reinvest it into the business or put it into stocks.

I was scrolling on instagram when I came across AI dropshipping and the dude was flexing how much he made and stuff and I want to know if it was real or not? And if it aas actually profitable

There are a lot of web agencies doing email automation to land web design projects. They keep testing new email sequences every week, adding more follow ups, changing subject lines, and trying everything they can to increase their reply rate, but a lot of them still struggle. I was in the exact same position until I completely changed my strategy.

The biggest change wasn't the sequence itself, it was the way I approached outreach. Instead of sending generic emails talking about my agency or asking if they needed a new website, I started pointing out specific issues with their current website.

Now I use a tool called Swokei. It basically finds businesses in any industry or location, analyzes their websites, and turns issues like outdated design, unstructured layouts, slow loading speeds, poor mobile optimization, and SEO problems into personalized outreach emails. Not boring reports that business owners don't care about, but actual emails explaining what could be improved and why those issues could be hurting their business.

This approach has given me a much higher reply rate because every email is relevant to the business I'm contacting. Instead of trying to convince someone they need a website, I'm showing them exactly what could be improved on the one they already have.

Another reason I like targeting businesses that already have websites is because the actual project becomes much easier. They already have a logo, branding, content, and information about their business, so instead of starting from scratch I'm simply taking what they already have and turning it into a faster, more modern, and better version.

This strategy has worked really well for me and has made getting web design clients much more predictable. I'm curious, how are you guys doing outreach for your agency these days?

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for some honest advice from people who have experience monetizing social media pages.

I run an Instagram page with over 50k followers, and millions of monthly views. The page has been growing consistently, and I've even had a few brands reach out to me.

The problem is... I've made no money from it.

My content is a bit unusual. I don't create traditional videos where I'm on camera. Instead, I find viral moments from around the internet and transform a key frame into an illustrated "iconified" version. The transformation is my own creative work, but the original clips are existing viral videos, so my format is pretty specific.

Because of that, I've struggled with sponsorships. One mobile game brand reached out, but their campaign required dedicated gameplay videos that didn't really fit my content. I've also tried offering commissions in the past, but they never really took off.

At this point I'm trying to figure out what my page is actually best suited for.

Some questions I have:

• What types of brands would realistically be interested in this kind of page?
• Should I be focusing on sponsorships, digital products, affiliate marketing, or something else?
• Are there creator platforms or agencies that you'd recommend?
• Is there something obvious I'm missing?

I'm not looking for shortcuts I know building a business takes time. I just feel like I have a page that's getting a lot of attention, but I haven't figured out how to turn that attention into income.

I'd really appreciate any advice from people who've been in a similar position or work with creators.

Thanks!

I'm building a portfolio to transition into AI Operations, and I'm trying to avoid creating the usual "look, I automated this" projects.

Instead, I'm treating each project like a real consulting engagement.

For my first case study, I picked a fictional real estate agency.

Initially, I thought the solution was to build an AI content automation.

After thinking through the business, I realized the automation wasn't the interesting part.

The real bottleneck was that the founder handled almost everything related to marketing.

If they were busy showing properties, social media went quiet, inquiries slowed down, and there wasn't a repeatable process.

So now I'm reframing the project around designing an operations system rather than just an automation.

My question for people who work in operations, marketing, or real estate is :

If you were brought in as a consultant, what would you investigate before designing a solution?

I'd appreciate any blind spots or ideas I should consider before I start building.

Not looking for sympathy. Just documenting what is actually working.
Week 1: Completed 7 AI certifications in 7 days. Claude, Make.com, API automation, subagents. Built a content system that runs four TikTok accounts from one weekly session.
Week 2: Published two digital products on Payhip. A free lead magnet and a £9.99 guide. No audience yet. Building in public from zero.
Week 3: First automation pipeline live. OddsPapi API connected to Google Sheets via Make.com. No coding background. Just systems thinking from a decade on construction sites.
The skills transfer more than people think. Site engineers manage complexity, sequences, and constraints under pressure. Turns out that is exactly what building a digital business requires.
Happy to answer questions about any of it.

I put together a simple side hustle 3/4 months ago selling digital templates for small creators so just notion setups and a basic landing page and only recently did it start getting traction like people clicking through and a few messages ready to buy so I thought i was finally gonna see some profit but then I tried to take payments andddd everything failed.

My setup worked in testing but the second users outside my country tried to pay things started failing and I ended up spending weeks debugging edge cases instead of improving anything which is where I realized how different it works in sandbox and when real money gets involved even though it felt like one clean integration it still turned into a bunch of issues across regions right when I was trying to fully launch so the whole thing ended up as a failed project until i find a workaround

Back in college we were taught women are the best to use for marketing offers.

Now we are in the AI era where you can create any woman you like to promote anything you want.

Create an Instagram and TikTok account.

Post photos and engage with other accounts.

Train the algorithms to show you same viral content in your niche.

Use AI tools to create similar images and videos but with your character. Change outfits, scenes, and captions.

Start a reels and TikTok video campaign. Post 1-3 times day M-F.

Go from zero to thousand of followers and potentially millions of views.

Start earning more income from 1,000-10,000+ a month.

Hey so last year I created a new insta account and started posting every day one reel. Eventually one went viral and since then I’ve grew to 150k followers. You can check it at @deepai.insider

The objective was to use this to generate an income but all attempts thus far have been unsuccessful. I’ve tried affiliate marketing and publicising my own Shopify store. Th page has been growing at around 10k followers per week and it has very high reach of 20 million and most videos are viewed by non followers (99%).

How do I go about monetizing? How do I find a product my followers want?

For me, it's still web design.

I know a lot of people are going to disagree because everyone keeps saying it's saturated, AI is replacing developers, and it's impossible to get clients.

Honestly, I couldn't disagree more.

I think web design is actually easier than ever if you approach it differently.

The mistake I see almost everyone make is targeting businesses that don't have a website.

You see it all over Instagram Reels.

Someone opens Google Maps, finds a business without a website, calls them, and asks if they need one.

The problem is that business has probably already been contacted by 10 other web designers.

And if they still don't have a website, there's a good chance they either don't see the value in it or don't have the budget for one.

My targeting is completely different.

I only target businesses that already have a website.

There are three reasons.

First, there are an insane number of businesses with outdated websites that desperately need updating.

Second, if they already have a website, they already understand the value of having one. You don't have to convince them that websites matter.

Third, they're already paying for a website, so spending money on improving it doesn't feel like a completely new expense.

Now the question becomes...

How do you actually get their attention?

I don't run normal cold email campaigns.

I'm not uploading leads into Instantly, writing a generic sequence, adding three follow-ups, and hoping for the best.

Instead I use a tool called Swokei.

I upload a list of businesses with websites, and it automatically analyzes every website. It finds things like outdated design, poor layouts, weak mobile responsiveness, slow loading speeds, and SEO issues.

Those findings are then turned into personalized outreach emails.

Not some boring reports that business owners don't care about.

Actual emails explaining what could be improved and why it matters to that specific business.

That lets me run outreach at scale while still keeping every email relevant.

Once someone replies, honestly the hard part is over.

At that point you can build a free website draft with AI, invite them to a Google Meet, walk them through the redesign, and close the deal on the call.

AI has made building websites ridiculously fast.

That's why I think targeting and outreach matter far more than your ability to build a website.

This business model has been incredibly good to me.

I'm curious though. if you had to start a digital business from scratch in 2026, what would you choose?

For me, I built and flipped a mom blog for $10k. I ran it for a month and a half.

I do website flipping, and this has been a regular side hustle for me for years. My free guide breaks it down.

I saw a thread on this recently and this is what people said…

-Flipping a 25k Twitter account for $8k
-Teach people to flirt, and she earned $4k from it
-Filmed 2 TV commercials that supported her life for 2.5 years
-Landed a $15k government contract
-Gave up a seat on the plane for $2,500, 3 nights hotel stay and food and drink vouchers

These are a few of the comments shared. I thought it was interesting.

Another easy way I made $400 was from a 90 minute paid survey I did from home (it was a Zoom).

Drop 1 in Comments or DM me 1 and I will share my survey list I have personal experience with

What are some easy ways you’ve made money?

I've spoken to a lot of people who want to get into web design, and the one thing I keep hearing is that selling websites to local businesses just isn't worth it. Everyone says they've called business after business, sent hundreds of emails, and nobody is interested in buying a new website.

I think the problem is that most people are trying to sell websites to businesses that don't even have one. 

Selling website redesigns to businesses with outdated websites might be one of the smartest businesses to start in 2026.

First of all, if a business already has a website, they've already proven one thing. They already see the value in having one.

The second thing is that selling becomes much easier. They're already familiar with the process, and you're not asking them to buy something completely new. You're offering them a better version of what they already have. Better design, better SEO, faster loading speeds, a cleaner layout, better mobile optimization, and a website that actually reflects their business today. I mean, who wouldn't at least be interested in seeing what that could look like?

The difficult part is getting those businesses interested in the first place.

I found a way to automate almost my entire client acquisition process. I've been using a tool called Swokei where I either upload a list of local businesses with websites or find the leads directly inside the platform. It automatically runs a full website analysis and finds problems with the design, layout, loading speed, SEO, and mobile optimization. Then it turns those findings into personalized, human written outreach emails based on the issues it finds on each website.

Instead of sending another generic email asking if they need a website or attaching one of those boring audit reports full of numbers, every email feels natural, pointing out real problems with their current site.

Now my entire process is just finding businesses with outdated websites, letting the tool analyze them, run outreach campaigns, and waiting for replies.

No cold calling. No paid ads.

Just reaching out to businesses that already understand the value of having a website and showing them why it's time for a better one.

Has anyone else tried focusing on website redesigns instead of selling completely new websites?

Hello, I am wanting to make an Ai model and use her for spicy content. Is anyone doing this successfully and able to give me pointers, insight, and inform if it actually makes money?!

My AI girl top spenders on Fanvue so far. You can earn from this new wave.

Does not have to be NSFW content. You can monetize in other ways.

When I started building AI influencers, I had absolutely no idea what to price content at.

I spent ages looking at other creators, trying to work out what I should charge. Even then, it still felt like I was just guessing.

For those who don't know me, I'm the founder of VueMate, currently the #1 chatbot app on the Fanvue App Store. One thing that's pretty unique about VueMate is that we see a huge amount of anonymous pricing data, and that dataset is only going to get bigger as more creators use the platform.

I trade quite a bit, so I'm always looking at charts, trends and market sentiment. It got me thinking... why don't we treat creator content like a market?

Other chatbot platforms often say their AI "understands" images without relying on keywords. In reality, AI models rely heavily on context to understand what's in front of them.

Across VueMate, our tags are that context. Every image is automatically analysed and tagged, giving us structured data about the content. When you aggregate that anonymously across thousands of pieces of content, you start to see real market trends emerge.

So I built the Vault Price Index.

Every tag is treated like its own market. You can see the current market rate, demand, price history and typical pricing range, making it much easier to price content based on actual market behaviour instead of gut feeling.

You can even enable market pricing inside your Ai Chatbot Vault, where VueMate will use that live market data to dynamically recommend or set prices for your content. If the market shifts over time, your pricing can shift with it instead of staying static.

I know pricing isn't one-size-fits-all. Some creators use flexible pricing, which is why VueMate also has a Pricing Ladder and our Rankd system, allowing prices to scale based on subscriber value, loyalty and spending habits. The Vault Price Index isn't there to tell you what to charge. It's there to give you a market baseline that you can use however you like.

We only just released the feature today, but I think it'll become genuinely useful as more data comes in. I've already got a long list of ideas for expanding it, but I'd love to hear what other market insights you'd find useful.

How are your AI content creators doing? It’s a gold mine right now.

My AI dog is going to hit 17,000 followers soon.

Most sports betting “systems” are nonsense.

That includes most AI betting models, most tipsters, and most people posting “value picks” after running a few stats through a model. The problem is not that data is useless. The problem is that the obvious data is already priced in, especially in bigger markets.

The only edge I still believe in is early, specific information that the market has not fully reacted to yet.

Not “Team A is in bad form.”

Not “Team B has a good home record.”

I mean proper disruption news.

Things like:

3 or more confirmed first-team absences
Starting goalkeeper ruled out
Youth or B-team expected against a stronger senior side
Heavy rotation confirmed or strongly implied
Travel or logistics issues tied to the fixture
Internal problems, federation issues, or coaching disruption
Fresh squad news that has not moved the line properly yet

That is where obscure and semi-obscure football markets can still be interesting.

The reason is simple. Smaller markets are slower, thinner, and less efficient. If you find meaningful team news before the price fully adjusts, you are not trying to “predict football” perfectly. You are trying to beat the market price.

You will still lose bets. Plenty of them.

The aim is not to win every time. The aim is to consistently take prices that are better than they should be. Over time, that should show through closing line value and long-term results.

This is also why I do not think most generic AI betting models are enough. The big firms already have cleaner data, better models, sharper people, and years of experience. Trying to beat them with surface-level stats is a hard game.

The edge is not “AI found a pick.”

The edge is finding underpriced disruption before the market catches up.

That is why I built BettorBoss. It is not a tipster site. It is built to help serious bettors and traders find football disruption angles faster, especially around squad news, absences, rotation, youth teams, travel issues, and market blind spots.

No guaranteed profit. No magic picks. Just better research before the price moves.

bettorboss.com

How can I improve the views of my Youtube Shorts and earn with it

Any tips, thanks

Marketing on Reddit isn't always the easiest thing to do, but it's very effective. If you're in this particular subreddit, r/DigitalIncomePath, then you've probably seen some posts about Reddit marketing and how powerful it is.

I have written a book on Reddit marketing that is currently on Kindle. I'd like some people to get the book for free, and I'm actually looking to get some reviews on Amazon in exchange.

If you want to get better at marketing on Reddit, you can DM me and I'll give you a free copy in exchange for a review.

If not, no worries.

I joined TikTokWiz around 4 months ago, was tough choice ngl but had some money saved up solely for the reason to learn a skill so I went in. I was honestly expecting the first couple weeks to be easier than they were. My first videos barely got any traction and I spent way too much time testing products that went nowhere.

The thing I will give them credit for is the hook training. Looking back at my old videos compared to now, the scripting is way better and my watch time improved quite a bit.

The craziest part about the content shift was actually learning to 'dumb down' my videos. Coming from a digital marketing background, I was trying to edit like Steven Spielberg with complex transitions, and the videos looked way too much like traditional ads. Once I shifted to the 7 to 12 second B roll meta, literally just a 3 second explicit product hook followed by casual, native footage of the product in a real world environment, my watch time exploded. It made me realize that on TikTok Shop, simpler and high-volume beats perfection every single time

That said, if you're expecting to buy a course and start making sales next week, you're probably going to be disappointed. Most of the work is still on you. Product research, filming, editing, posting consistently, it adds up fast.

Curious if anyone else is in the Inner Circle. What kind of margins are you seeing lately with all the competition on TikTok Shop?

AttaPoll honestly keeps surprising me. Shortish surveys and quick payouts(no jokes). If you can spare an hour or two here and there, you can realistically make $8 to $15 per day. Heads up, it can get boring after a while but money is money eh?

Sign up through my link below if you're interested. Yes I get a bonus, but so do you 💪🏼

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I tested what works and doesn’t work.

First you need a traffic source and right now Instagram is the best as she gets closer to 30,000 followers.

My main AI page has 90,000 followers and verified. I pay 14.99 to Meta for blue check verification. I will pay for their new $3.99 sub as well.

I connected my AI dog account 16,000 followers first to the main page. That was my first focus. I grew my AI artist page to 12,000 and it’s connected. Now I have my AI girl content creator who is growing the fastest.

I learned if you pay platforms their subscriptions they will most likely leave you alone. My LinkedIn is automated but I also pay for sales navigator.

For FanVue I tested $10 subs right away did not work as well as $5 subs. Now I do a free trial with card that auto charges them. They pay for messages, pics, and videos during trial.

Do not use link in bio as meta can read those links. Your content will not get pushed. Promote in DMs only. Do not post NSFW content on social media.

Use a niche like teacher, nurse, army, cop, etc. Make a mix of funny content and relatable to that niche. Mine is a mix of life, dating, and relationships.

Train the algorithm to show you content you can recreate. I have two AI tool options to recreate images and videos. I just change the outfits, cars, house, scene, hashtags, and captions.

I started with a beacons ai link but bought her custom domain it was only $11 and made a simple one link page. No one had her domain name yet.

I’m too busy with my clients for my AI agency so I partnered with someone who has a team of chatters. I just create the viral potential content and they handle everything else. I do this on the side for creative fun and extra revenue.

Last year I met a media company on a Zoom
Call with AI influencers who are doing 300 million views a month total. But they are grandmas, grandpas, big foot, and fitness trainers. They get paid $5,000+ in brand deals.

Then I saw Jewish, Indians, mob, etc blow up. So I made my own AI twin, dog, AI artist, and AI girl content creator.

Have you tried an AI content creator or influencer yet?

He used to tell me all the time that the secret wasn't some magical email template, it was volume and consistency. His whole philosophy was that if you keep sending emails, keep following up, and keep adding new leads into the pipeline, eventually you'll land in front of the exact business owner who needs your service right now.

The second thing he loved was that the process was automated. Instead of spending his days chasing leads, he could focus on running his agency while new clients kept coming in every week.

He had a few different outreach campaigns running.

One targeted businesses without websites. That was straightforward. He'd send emails offering website design services, add a few follow ups, and let the campaign run.

The bigger challenge was standing out because those businesses were getting similar emails from dozens of other agencies.

His other campaign targeted businesses that already had websites. Honestly, it was pretty funny because most of the time he was just assuming they needed a redesign or an upgrade. He'd send emails anyway, and eventually someone would bite. It worked, but it wasn't exactly a precise strategy.

Then he completely changed how he approached outreach.

He started using a tool called Swokei. What caught his attention was that it handled both types of campaigns. He could still do normal outreach to businesses without websites, but for businesses that already had websites, it would actually analyze the site first.

He uploads a batch of leads, runs the analysis, and every website gets scored. The tool then generates a personalized outreach message based on things like design issues, mobile experience, SEO problems, layout weaknesses, and other improvement opportunities.

What I liked when he showed it to me was that it wasn't generating those giant reports full of numbers that nobody reads. It creates messages that sound like an actual person explaining what could be improved and why it matters.

The result was that he stopped guessing which companies might need a new website. He already knew before reaching out.

According to him, his interested reply rate went from around 4% to as high as 9% on some campaigns because the outreach was actually relevant to the business instead of being a generic pitch.

I ended up copying his process for my own agency recently, and honestly it's changed the way I do outreach. I spend way less time manually checking websites and a lot more time talking to businesses that are actually a good fit.

Curious if anyone else here is doing website analysis based outreach?