If you’re one of those who has heard a lot about AI, its capabilities, etc. but haven’t made a single dime using it. If yes, then this is the right post for you!
I know there are many people who haven’t made a single penny on the Internet, but time has changed. Because of AI tools, the thing that took us hours to do manually can be done in seconds. Various fields like, content writing, graphic designing, programming has completely changed with the arrival of AI. These things use to take hours and hours of work and proper skills to create something, but with the arrival of AI, everything changed!
AI chatbots can generate thousand word long written content in seconds, create a working computer program just with a simple line of text prompt and generate realistic images too, just with a simple text prompt.
These were some basic use cases of AI. Right now, AI tools are available to help you do everything in the digital world. Either it’s a simple chatbot to solve your customer service needs or an automation system to automate your entire business, there are AI tools for everything.
In this post, I’ll show you, how you can make your first $1,000 using AI in 2025 with a step-by-step guide. So, make sure to stick with us till the end. It can be really helpful, especially if you want to start a side hustle using AI. If you work on it, then that side hustle can later turn into a full-time job as well.
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Step 1: Pick an Easy Way to Make Money with AI
The first step to make money with AI is to pick an easy, but profitable way to make money. There are various ways to make money with AI, but here are four of the easiest and fastest way to make some cash. Out of these four, choose the one you think would work the best for you and get started!
1. Sell AI-Generated Digital Products
We all have heard and used digital products like, ebooks, printables, posters, stickers, etc. right? What if I tell you, you can create these products using AI and sell them to make money.
Digital products like ebooks and printables can be created in less than an hour using AI tools. For example, you can use ChatGPT to write your ebook, use Canva’s AI features to create printables and stickers. Not just these, there are various other digital products you can create using AI and sell to make money.
Here are some digital products you can create using AI in no time:
- Ebooks
- Social Media Post Templates
- Planners
- Stickers or Cliparts
- Study Notes
- Posters, etc.
To write, you can use ChatGPT, to create designs, you can use Canva and to generate images, you can use either Midjourney or Leonardo AI. All these tools offer free plan, so you don’t need to spend any money to create your digital product.
After your digital product is ready, you can sell it on marketplaces like Etsy and Gumroad to get sales. Alternately, you can also create your own website using Payhip to sell your digital products if you want to!
2. Offer AI-Powered Freelance Services
If you don’t like selling products, then you can sell AI-related services to make money. Several businesses and personal brands like coaches, social media influencers, etc. are always looking for some kind of help. Either it’s writing emails and blog posts or creating graphics and editing videos, you can provide these services and do the work by using various AI tools.
Here are some freelance services you can provide using AI:
- AI Content Writing: You can use tools like ChatGPT and SEO Writing AI to generate writings for blog posts, emails, video scripts, etc.
- AI Video Editing: You can use Invideo AI or Pictory AI to create and edit videos.
- AI Voiceovers: You can use ElevenLabs to create realistic human-like voiceovers from text.
- AI Graphic Design: You can use Canva’s AI feature to create new designs or use the pre-made templates in it to create designs.
To sell your services, you can either create an account on freelance platforms like Fiverr and Upwork or market your services on social media to find clients to work with!
3. Monetize AI-Generated Content
In my opinion, this might be the easiest way to make money out of these four, because you don’t have to sell anything yourself to make money with your content. This might also be the right fit for you, if you love creating content, whether it’s written content or content in image or video form.
Here are multiple ways to make money with your content:
- Blogging: you can write blogs using ChatGPT or SEO Writing AI and monetize it through ads, affiliate marketing and sponsored posts.
- YouTube: you can create YouTube videos and monetize them with ads, affiliate marketing and sponsorships. You can use ChatGPT to write video scripts, ElevenLabs to generate voiceovers, and Invideo AI to edit your video.
- Social Media: You can create tweets using ChatGPT and Instagram posts using Canva to grow your social media following and make money with sponsorships and affiliate marketing.
To get started, first you need to pick a niche to create content about. Then, you can decide what type of content you want to create, i.e. written, image or video content. After that, you need to create content and post regularly.
If you’re creating blog posts with AI, then make sure to edit them (add your own touch) before publishing, otherwise the post won’t be much valuable and your site won’t get approved on ad networks.
Here’s a Complete Guide to Start a Successful Blog That Makes Money in 2025.
4. Earn with AI Affiliate Marketing
You can earn commissions by promoting someone else’s product using AI. This concept of making commissions by promoting other’s products is popularly known as affiliate marketing.
To make money with affiliate marketing, you need to join an affiliate network and find a good product to promote.
Here are some popular affiliate networks that gives instant approvals to new affiliates:
- Clickbank
- Digistore24
- JvZoo
- WarriorPlus
- Amazon Associates (it’s getting a little strict nowadays regarding new affiliates)
- Fiverr
- Systeme.io
After you find a good product to promote, you need to create content to promote the product in order to make money. The best way to promote such products is by starting an affiliate marketing blog. If you can share valuable content to the audience through your blog, then they will definitely buy the product from you and you’ll get your commissions for the sale.
If you want, then you can also start a YouTube channel or other social media channels to promote your affiliate products.
You don’t always need to generate sales to receive affiliate commissions, some affiliate programs pay you whenever you generate a new sign-up to their tools and services. So, choose what type of affiliate product you want to promote and get started!
Step 2: Setup Your Business
At this point, I believe you have chosen the best way for you to make money with AI. Now, it’s time to set the business up and running.
Depending on the money making method you choose, you may need to build a website and multiple social media handles. If you have to create a website to sell products, then you can use Payhip, but if you want to start a blog website, then you can create a website on WordPress using simple website builder tool like ZipWP.
ZipWP is an AI-website builder that can create a stunning WordPress website for you in minutes. You may need to build a website to showcase your past works while trying to sell your freelance services. ZipWP can be the best tool to do that as well.
If you want to start a YouTube channel, then check out my blog post on Complete Guide to Starting a Money Making YouTube Channel in 2025.
Other than that, you may need to post your gigs on freelance platforms to promote your freelance services. Do it if necessary. Fiverr and Upwork are the most popular freelance platforms, but they may not be suitable for beginners. So, you can find other freelance platforms and post your gig on them alongside Fiverr and Upwork to increase your chances of landing new work opportunities.
Step 3: Promote Your Business
The last and the most important step to make money with AI is promotion. Without getting traffic, you won’t make money, so generating traffic is the most important part.
To sell your digital products, you can either spend some money and run paid ads or promote your products on social media platforms like Pinterest & Facebook to get sales. In case of Etsy, you can improve your product listing’s SEO to reach more people and get more sales.
To promote your freelance gigs, you can promote your gigs on LinkedIn and Facebook groups can also be a great place to find new clients to work with. Other than that, you can contact local businesses near you to sell your services.
To get traffic to your content, you can use platforms like Pinterest and Flipboard. Creating SEO-optimized content can also be a great way to drive organic traffic to your content, but that takes some time. You can promote your content on relevant Facebook groups and online communities to get more traffic.
And to get more affiliate sales, you need to create content that is actually helpful to people. Nothing comes for free! You make something, only when you can give them something! So, providing value through your content should be the key focus to generate more affiliate sales.
Wrapping it up
So, this was a step-by-step guide to make your first $1,000 using AI. Remember that, you won’t make money from tomorrow itself, if you start from today. It takes some time to get things into place, but once it does it’s not going back anytime soon.
Let me know, which method will you choose to make your first $1,000 with AI in the comments down below! And if you found this post helpful, then make sure to share it with your friends and don’t forget to flip it on Flipboard.
