Listen! I know, you’ve thinking for a long time to start a profitable side-hustle using AI-tools. But you haven’t started it yet. Why? Because you don’t have a clear idea on what to do and where to start? AI-tools have money making so easy that even teenagers are printing thousands of dollars every month using it. So, why can’t you?
At this point, there is an AI-tool to help you in nearly every field out there. So, to start making money with such tools, all you need is a good business idea and a way to promote it. Even if you have a great business idea, but don’t know how or where to promote, then you won’t be able to make money.
So, today, I’m going to share four different business ideas that you can start using AI tools and I’ll also share some proven ways to promote and grow these businesses. All these four are service-based businesses, so you can start them as a freelance gig in the beginning. You can convert them into an actual business and start scaling, once you land your first few clients.
The best part is, nearly all these business ideas can be started using free AI-tools and you don’t need any kind of skills or past experience to get started!
1. AI-Powered Graphic Design
If you have a creative mind and love designing stuffs, then you can start an AI-powered graphic design business. You know it, with the recent update, ChatGPT’s image generation skills have become better than we ever thought it could be. So, this could be the best time to start a graphic design business with AI. You don’t have to be a graphic designer to start this business.
Just with a simple one-line prompt, AI-tools can craft shockingly good designs. So, if you can write detailed prompts, then you can craft insanely good quality images using AI. You can create logo and sell it to small businesses, you can create social media posts for bloggers and influencers, design banners for advertisements, and so much more.
Best AI Tools for Graphic Designing:
- Canva (Magic Design Feature)
- Looka (best for logo design)
- Kittl (best for creating design templates)
- ChatGPT
Let’s say a bakery owner wants you to create an Instagram post for a cake sale. You can ask ChatGPT for post ideas, including the design, caption idea, etc. Then, you can use Canva to create your design within minutes.
How to Get Clients:
- You can create a simple portfolio using Canva to showcase your designs.
- You can create an account on multiple freelance platforms to promote your services. Offer your services on Fiverr, Upwork, or Facebook groups.
- You can ask small businesses in your area, if they need help with any kind of design. If they do, you can sell them your design service.
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2. AI-Powered Social Media Management
Most businesses either don’t have the required skills to grow their social media handles or they don’t have the time to do it. And that’s where you can use AI-tools to help them. You can help businesses, bloggers, and even influencers in creating content, posting content and creating a growth strategy for their social media accounts. To offer this service, you need to have some basic knowledge of how the social media platform works. You also need to be updated with the trends and updates on social media.
You can provide the details of the business to ChatGPT and ask it to create a social media marketing strategy. Other than that, you can also use ChatGPT to create captions, hastags, descriptions, etc. for the social media posts. To schedule content, you can either use the scheduling feature provided by the platform itself or you can use a scheduling tool like Tailwind.
Btw, remember one thing! As a social media manager, you will only create posts that are simple and takes no time. If the business needs some highly edited videos or picture-perfect graphics, then they will hire a professional to do it. Your job will only be to post it.
Best AI Tools for Social Media Management:
- ChatGPT (for writing captions and for generating hastags and content ideas)
- Canva (for creating content)
- Tailwind (for scheduling posts)
Let’s say, a coffee shop wants 3 Instagram posts a week. You can ask ChatGPT to generate caption ideas like “Wake up, Espresso Calling!☕” and then, you can use Canva to create the designs. At last, you can schedule the posts using Tailwind.
How to Get Clients:
- You can start by helping a friend’s business or a local shop nearby.
- Then, you can share the results by posting them on your own social media accounts or by adding them to your portfolio.
- You can offer weekly or monthly package to businesses for your services.
3. AI-Powered Product Descriptions & eCommerce Listings
In recent times, the craze for dropshipping business model is growing rapidly. Many people want to start selling products by creating their own online store, but they come across various problems. One of such problem is, product title and description writing. Without a detailed and simple to understand product description, customers won’t be able to understand the product properly. So, you can use various AI-tools to craft a better product description.
For your product to rank higher in search results on marketplaces, your product listing needs to be fully SEO-optimized. You need to add keywords through your product description. For this, you can again use an AI-tool to craft a SEO-optimized product description.
People don’t want to read a boring piece of text with no proper writing outline and stuff, so you can give the entire info of the product to AI chatbot like ChatGPT. Then, ChatGPT will create an easy to understand product description with a proper outline and structure.
Best AI Tools For Creating Product Descriptions:
- ChatGPT (for writing product descriptions)
- Surfer SEO (to make your product description highly SEO-optimized)
- Google Keyword Planner (to find keywords that people are search for, so you can add them in your product description)
Let’s say, an Etsy seller wants you to write a proper product description for his candles. So, you can take whatever information you have about the candle, paste it into ChatGPT and ask it to craft a product description that is both, well-structured and SEO-optimized. You can also use ChatGPT to craft a catchy and click-worthy title for your product.
How to Get Clients:
- You can search for a specific term/product on Etsy, let’s say a Candle. Then, find the product listings that are showing up at the bottom of the search page.
- After finding such products, contact the shop owners and offer your product description creation services.
- You can offer to create 3 product descriptions for free to show how effective your work is.
- After that, you can charge $100-$250 per product description.
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4. AI-Powered Email Marketing & Newsletters
Many people don’t realize this, but emails are still one of the best ways for businesses to connect with their their customers. Many business owners do know about this, but they don’t know, what to write about and how to write. They fear to write emails thinking their email might not be helpful to the customer and their email unsubscribes will increase. Even I had this same fear in the beginning, when I started my newsletter. So, you can help them remove this fear by coming up with good topics to write email about and by writing the email on their behalf. Believe me, if you can impress a business owner with your skills, you’ve landed a job for life.
You can follow other similar newsletters/email lists in your niche to come up with good topics to write email about, or you can also use ChatGPT to come up with ideas. After that, you can again use ChatGPT to craft the best possible email you can. You may need to make some changes to the email generated using ChatGPT, but that won’t take much time.
Best AI Tools for Crafting Emails:
- ChatGPT (for writing email content)
- Kit or Beehiiv (for hosting your email list/newsletter)
- Grammarly (to check the grammatical mistakes in your email)
- BeeFree.io (to design good-looking email templates)
Let’s say, a fitness coach wants you to send weekly emails to his mailing list with different fitness tips and offers. You can just go to ChatGPT ask it to write “5 Easy Exercises to Do at Home”. After it comes up with the email, make the required changes, add the offers you want to promote and either send it immediately or schedule it.
How to Get Clients:
- Reach out to coaches, bloggers, or small business owners. If you have a friend who is a blogger, coach or business owner, contact them.
- Then, offer them a “free sample email” to showcase your skills.
- Charge $100-$500 per email depending on the length and topic covered in the email.
Wrapping it Up
So, these were 4 service-based business ideas that you can start using various AI-tools for free! All you need to do is, find clients and provide them good quality service. If you can do this, you’ll have customers that will purchase your services till the time, their business is up and running. I’d suggest you to focus on quality more than quantity, so you can charge more for your services and get more customers through referrals from your existing customers.
