How I Built A 1-Person AI Business (So You Can Copy Me)

So, this might be a bit controversial to say, but here on YouTube, there are a lot of videos from people that talk about supposedly great ways to start a business online using AI. Yet, very few

of them actually show how they themselves are using AI tools to make money. But I have I have this case study

money. But I have I have this case study here on YouTube showing how I scaled a one-person AI business to $1,000 a day.

And so, I know through experience how to build a oneperson AI business because I've actually done it. And I've made the AI workflows myself. And so in this video, I'm going to share with you what

those tools and workflows are along with the five-step process I use to do this so that you can just copy me and build your own AI business, too. But before I do, here's the thing, right? I know

through my analytics that most of my viewers on this channel are new viewers who have not seen that case study. So,

I'll quickly explain what my AI business is for them so that everyone is up to scratch. And it's pretty simple. As my

scratch. And it's pretty simple. As my

longtime subscribers know, I personally have an AI print on demand clothing store on Etsy. Basically, one day I was scrolling through Etsy and I noticed that there was a problem. You see, while a lot of good general clothing designs

about specific types of animals such as dogs and cats existed, there were very few clever breed specific clothes. So,

for example, right, there were a lot of funny dog t-shirts that were generic, but there were very few funny t-shirt designs about huskys. So what I did was I used a combination of three tools,

Midjourney, Chat GPT, and Canva to create my clothing designs for me, which I then uploaded onto products using print on demand apps like Printify.

These apps let you sell customized products like clothes online from top merch print shops. It's honestly pretty simple. What you do is you upload your

simple. What you do is you upload your design onto one of their products. Then

you list it in your store for a markup price. And each time a customer buys one

price. And each time a customer buys one from you, the print on demand app sees the order and automatically sends it out to the print shop. They then print your design onto the product, package it up, and ship it out to the customer while

you get to keep the difference as profit. So, I posted AI created products

profit. So, I posted AI created products like this on Etsy, and I optimized them for Etsy's algorithm by using AI tools to write and design my item listings.

And I got my first two sales within my first two weeks. And now, my items earn me passive income every day. And by the way, just quickly, if you'd like to learn more about my store, how it runs,

and how it earns money passively every day, then you can download a copy of my free ebook, The Six Steps at SixFigure Online Stores Follow to Make Over $10,000 a month online with Print on Demand. You can find a link to download

Demand. You can find a link to download my free ebook in the video description below. But anyway, back to the video.

below. But anyway, back to the video.

So, yes, here is the process that I used to create this oneperson AI business step by step. And step one was this. I

came up with a business idea that solved a problem. And it's interesting. This

a problem. And it's interesting. This

step I believe is extraordinarily important to do. And yet, despite the fact that you can use AI to help you do this, which I will show you how to do, by the way, very few people bother to

even do it. Instead, what they always try to do is they try to copy someone else's business idea. And personally, I think that copying other people's business ideas is a trap. And let me

explain why. So, as I said, I solved a

explain why. So, as I said, I solved a problem with my business. I noticed that there was a lack of clothing designs for specific dog breeds such as huskys and so I made that. Well, here's the thing,

right? If you just open a store and you

right? If you just open a store and you copy my business idea and you copy my designs, guess what's going to happen?

Customers are going to go, "Oh, look, there are two stores selling the same design. One store has reviews and social

design. One store has reviews and social proof and the other store is brand new and has none." And so, who do you think they're going to buy from? Are they

going to buy from you with no reviews or are they going to buy from me with reviews and social proof? Obviously,

they're going to buy from me, right? And

so, that is why I think that copying is a bad way to start a new business because when you're new, no one trusts you yet. And so, you need to give people

you yet. And so, you need to give people a good reason to take a chance on you.

And I've found that being the first to solve a problem is an easy way to get people to do that. And there's a specific phrase in the marketing world for what I did. It's called identifying a gap in the market. And I think it's

easy to find these. I just ask myself, okay, what product or service or content piece would I like to have that doesn't yet exist? And then I go ahead and I

yet exist? And then I go ahead and I make that. Simple, right? The thing

make that. Simple, right? The thing

though is that I know that actually coming up with these ideas is harder than it sounds in practice. So, ChatGpt

can be an amazing way to brainstorm ideas like this for free. But, and this is a big butt, you don't want to ask it to come up with ideas for you. Instead,

you want to tell it to ask you a series of different questions that will help pull ideas from your own head of what product or service or content that you

would like but that doesn't yet exist or that you would like but in a new or better way. And chat GPT is really great

better way. And chat GPT is really great at walking you through this process. You

can also modify this prompt too. You can

tell chat GPT that you want it to ask you a series of questions that will help you pull ideas out of your head of products or services or content that you know that other people will want such as

your friends or family and that they'd like but that either doesn't exist yet or that could be made in a new or better way. It's a slightly different approach,

way. It's a slightly different approach, but one that can be just as effective at finding a gap in the market. And again,

just to clarify, while my gap I identified was a product, there are lots of ways to fill market gaps out there.

Like take YouTube for example. Years ago

now, people that I personally knew had said that the Shopify video tutorials that they had found on YouTube were boring or difficult to follow. So, I

made this tutorial here to try and solve that problem for them, and it massively kickstarted this channel. So yes, there are lots of different types of problems out there that can be solved. But the

key is picking the one that you think that you can solve the best. Then once

you've figured out what problem you will solve, we can move on to step two, which is to use AI to create our money-making solution. And to do this, we need to

solution. And to do this, we need to create a custom AI workflow. An AI

workflow, if you've never heard about that before, is just a series of tools that we will use to achieve a goal. So

for me, this was my custom AI workflow I used for getting AI to help me design and create niche clothing designs. Step

one in the workflow was using chat GBT to help me come up with any slogans that my design needed. And then step two in the workflow was using Midjourney and AI art generator to generate the picture or

pictures that my design needed. And then

step three was using Canva, the AI powered graphics editing app to combine my slogan with the image midjourney created to create and finish my design.

So that was my personal AI workflow, but depending upon what business idea you have, yours could look very different.

So remember earlier how I was showing you an example of me using chat GPT to brainstorm different business ideas.

Well, it did actually help pull out an interesting gap that would be fun to fill. It was this. It was to create a

fill. It was this. It was to create a children's book aimed at introducing kids to the concept of AI. similar to

those popular children's books like this that you see out there designed to introduce kids to the concept of money.

So this book here, it was self-published by the author themselves. And now it earns some passive money every day through the Amazon self-publishing service called Amazon KDP. So then what

we can do is we can come to Chat EP and explain our new business idea and then ask it to create an AI tool workflow that we can use to create the book. Now,

chat GBT, as you can see, will come up with a nice workflow that we can utilize. But here's the thing, right? In

utilize. But here's the thing, right? In

addition to creating this workflow, you can see that it's also suggesting specific individual tools that you can use for each stage of it. And

personally, I wouldn't just rely on Chat GPT's recommendations for specific tools because AI tools do change a lot and Chat GPT's training data isn't always up

to date with these rapid changes. And so

instead, I like to use Perplexity for picking these. Perplexity is an AI

picking these. Perplexity is an AI powered search engine. It crawls the internet looking in all sorts of places such as Reddit and YouTube videos to find up-to-date discussions and reviews

about which tools people are finding the most helpful right now at this very moment. So, I like to turn the search

moment. So, I like to turn the search tool on and use this to find the top AI tools people are using at this very moment for each step along the workflow.

So when I asked perplexity for the best AI tools here for creating a book layout, it's research gave me a lot more tools to consider compared to chat GPT.

And so what you can do is you can try each of these out and pick the tool that you like the most. And here's a quick tip that you should definitely know about. While most paid AI tools out

about. While most paid AI tools out there will either let you use it for free or they will let you have a free trial, not all of them will. So, if you have a low starting budget and you need

to utilize AI tools that are either free or have free trials or free account versions, let Perplexity know, it will then find the best tools at each stage along your workflow that are within your

budget. And it's interesting, right?

budget. And it's interesting, right?

With this new limitation, the results that Perplexity gave me were actually quite different. But yes, once you've

quite different. But yes, once you've created this workflow, we can now move on to step three, which is to use AI to get free traffic and sales. Yes. So,

personally, I'm not a super big fan of using paid advertising for a new business. I prefer to focus on using

business. I prefer to focus on using free traffic methods instead. And the

way I like to do that is by piggybacking off of already popular websites to drive traffic for me. So, for me, I of course picked Etsy to list my dog clothes onto since, as I said, it's already super

popular. Every month, hundreds of

popular. Every month, hundreds of millions of people visit here, which means that I don't have to market or advertise my store myself since Etsy is already effectively doing it for me. So,

yeah, think about what popular website that you can piggy back off of to advertise your new business. For

example, if you're going to be creating mobile videos, then you'll likely pick Tik Tok, Reels, or YouTube shorts to post them on. Or if you're creating and selling books, then obviously Amazon is a good website to list and sell them on

using their KDP program. Or perhaps

you're going to be promoting DIY products through an affiliate marketing blog. Well, in that case, Pinterest

blog. Well, in that case, Pinterest might be a good way to push people to your blog. And you see, here's another

your blog. And you see, here's another great thing about popular websites, right? Whether it's Etsy or Tik Tok or

right? Whether it's Etsy or Tik Tok or YouTube or Instagram or Amazon or Pinterest. Either way, all these popular

Pinterest. Either way, all these popular websites these days are run using AI powered algorithms. And these algorithms use AI to choose which products or content to show people. So, for example,

I've been watching recipes lately on Tik Tok that use New Zealand specific ingredients that I can find at my local supermarket like Wheat Bixs instead of American ingredients that I don't have

access to. So, you can see in my for you

access to. So, you can see in my for you page that Tik Tok's AI algorithm has shown me this New Zealand specific recipe video. And well, this could be a

recipe video. And well, this could be a great way to bring in customers to all sorts of businesses. For example, you could bring in customers like me who want to buy a course that features New Zealand specific recipes. And when

you're browsing through Etsy, you'll be shown different products based on the AI powered algorithm, picking the ones to show you and picking which ones to ignore. And so, because I've recently

ignore. And so, because I've recently been looking at printable activity packs for my niece and nephew, you can see its AI algorithm has personalized some items for me that are thingss I might like.

And so what we can do is we can create a custom optimization workflow for any popular website which will help us optimize our content or products for whatever their AI algorithm wants. So

here is my optimization workflow I've created for Etsy. First I use Plexity to do a search and to find the best keywords that top selling products in my niche already using. Then once it's finished creating this report, I can

then download it. Then I use chat GBT to take these keywords and then to turn it into a product page listing that is optimized for the algorithm. I upload

the keyword document that I got from Plexity. And then chat GBT creates

Plexity. And then chat GBT creates different choices and optimized titles, descriptions, and listing tags for me to pick from. Then next, I like to use

pick from. Then next, I like to use Claude as an editor because while chat GPT is great at creating technical content like optimized product pages, it is less good at then turning them into

natural sounding writing. Whereas Claude

is an LLM which is trained on honesty, helpfulness, and harmlessness, which means that it's really good at creating natural sounding writing. So, I give it Chat Chap's optimized listing. And I get

Claude here to edit it into its final form. And as I showed in my case study

form. And as I showed in my case study video, by doing this, I was able to get my first two sales fast within my first two weeks on Etsy. But as I said, every website's algorithm is different, and

each of the AIs look for different things when picking and choosing which content or products to push and which to ignore. So, while my workflow is great

ignore. So, while my workflow is great to copy, if you're selling products on Etsy like me, if you are instead using a different website to piggy back off of, then I recommend coming to Chat GPT and

asking it to create a custom optimization AI tool workflow that you can use to optimize your contents or products for its algorithm. And then

again, I recommend using Perplexity to research and look up the best current up-to-date tools for each stage along the workflow and trying each of these tools out and seeing which ones you like

the best and then combine them together to create your own custom workflow. So

then after this, we can move on to the next step. But first, a quick word from

next step. But first, a quick word from today's sponsor, me. Yes, as my longtime subscribers know, due to the fact that there are lots of shady YouTube sponsors, it can sometimes be hard to find a sponsor that I trust to sponsor

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my videos. So, since I couldn't find one for today's video, I'm just going to sponsor it instead to let you know that if you'd like to learn more about how I use AI to create print on demand products and then optimize them for

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description below. But anyway, back to the video and on to step four, which is to use AI to create your business branding. So, for this step, I have one

branding. So, for this step, I have one specific tool that I use in my AI branding workflow that I definitely recommend that you use. And then I have two other tools that I use that are flex

tools and you can pick and choose them based on your own personal preferences.

So, first of all, to create my branding for my store, like my banner and my logo, I use Canva. This is an AI powered graphics editor. They have a generous

graphics editor. They have a generous 30-day free trial for their pro version, which includes all of their editing tools. So, this is a very budget

tools. So, this is a very budget friendly option. And importantly, they

friendly option. And importantly, they have built-in branding templates for all of the popular websites out there. And

so, as I don't think there's any other tool that has this, this is one which can't really be replaced in our workflow. So, for example, let's say

workflow. So, for example, let's say that you had decided for your new AI business that you were going to create a new YouTube channel. Well, they have branding templates in here already for this, but for me, of course, I created

an Etsy store. And as you can see, they have branding templates in here for Etsy as well. So, I just clicked on the

as well. So, I just clicked on the banner to make my own store banner. And

then I chose through one of the many base designs already included to use as a base to customize. So, for example, if you were opening a print on demand store focusing on the gardening and floral

niche, this design here would be a really nice one to use as a base. But of

course to create your own branding assets, you need to have a brand name.

So that's where I use chat GPT. Now this

is a flex tool in my workflow because if you prefer using another AI LLM like Gemini or Claude, that is fine because all of them are pretty good at just

coming up with good catchy brand names.

And they're also all pretty good at coming up with other types of text branding, too. So for me, I also wanted

branding, too. So for me, I also wanted to add in a short subtitle to this banner. So I just asked Chat GPT to

banner. So I just asked Chat GPT to create some options for me and it did a really good job. So once I had my new business name and store tagline, I just came back to Canva and I finished off

creating and designing my brand graphics. And there is a third Flex AI

graphics. And there is a third Flex AI tool that you might want to consider too. And that is choosing an AI image

too. And that is choosing an AI image generator. Because you see, you take

generator. Because you see, you take logos, right? I also used Canva to

logos, right? I also used Canva to create a store logo because there are lots of logo designs already included in Canva. So, you can just pick one and

Canva. So, you can just pick one and customize it. But what if you wanted to

customize it. But what if you wanted to customize and add your own icon image to it? Well, an AI image generator is

it? Well, an AI image generator is probably the best way to get exactly what you want because you can just ask it for what you want and it will make it custom for you. So, for this, I

personally use MidJourney since well, it is my favorite AI image generator out there. I've had really good results with

there. I've had really good results with MidJourney. The main downside though is

MidJourney. The main downside though is that this is not free. So, if you need a free AI image generator, I recommend taking a look at Leonardo. They give you free credits each day to use. And

currently, this is my personal favorite AI image generator that is free. And

then, if you want to edit your images, you've got two good options. So, Chat

GPT is honestly pretty great at doing this. I can upload this icon to it and

this. I can upload this icon to it and ask Chat GPT to make some tweaks, and it will make the changes for me. So, if you prefer to use a textbased AI to do this,

then chat GPT is great. But also, Canva is very good at this, too. If you prefer to do manual editing yourself, since they have a bunch of different AI tools like their background remover and color

editor to make specific AI enhanced tweaks yourself, so this is really just a personal choice. And then you can move on to step five, which is scaling and growing profits. Okay, so I've said this

growing profits. Okay, so I've said this before, but most people think about using AI to just automate boring, repetitive tasks, but for me, I think that it truly shines when you find ways

to use it to automate your highlevel tasks, which require highlevel thinking.

So, for example, I like to use AI as a chief financial officer. So, once I've got a store that's got enough sales, I then give it to AI and then ask it to identify ways that I can increase

profits in sales. And this is my current AI workflow for this. As long as you have any type of data, whether it's sales data or YouTube analytics data, anything really, this workflow should

work. So, first up is Zebra AI, my

work. So, first up is Zebra AI, my latest new addition to my workflow. You

can upload any data you have and it will turn it into very easy to understand graphs. This lets you visually get a

graphs. This lets you visually get a look over how your business is running and makes it easier for me personally to understand where my business strengths and weaknesses currently are. Then next

up, I use chat GPT and I use the Thinky model. And remember, all account types,

model. And remember, all account types, including the free one, have access to the Thinky model. And I will tell it what I want it to make me, which is

basically a report similar to what a CFO would make. And I also add in any

would make. And I also add in any questions or notes that I personally noticed from the Zebra AI graphs. And

then I get chat GPT to analyze the data.

And this here is where the magic truly happens. By turning on the thinking

happens. By turning on the thinking model, you can see that it's going to be spending a lot more time analyzing the data compared to the standard model trying to create the most detailed report possible. You'll get a much

report possible. You'll get a much longer better answer this way. So I sped it up for the video obviously, but the full report took 3 minutes for chat GPT to generate. So now what I like to do is

to generate. So now what I like to do is I like to come and copy this report into a text document. Then I come to notebook which is Google's AI powered research tool. This lets you upload information

tool. This lets you upload information to it like chat GPT's report and it will convert it into simple and easy to understand study tools to make absorbing this information a lot faster. So I like

to use the mind map tool to turn my report into a visual mind map. The chat

box will also explain each section of the mind map for me. Plus I also really enjoy using the audio overview which turns my data into a really engaging AI

podcast to listen to. So, I'll put this on in the background when I'm doing something else around the house, like cooking. It's amazing. It's kind of like

cooking. It's amazing. It's kind of like being able to listen to a business mentor tell me in simple, easy to understand ways how I can personally be making more money while I'm being

productive around the house. It's

gamechanging. So, here's a little snippet from the AI podcast of them talking about how I could improve my Christmas sales in my example store

using the CFO report that Chat GPT made for me.

Okay. So, given that focus, what specifically should change for Christmas according to the report?

First recommendation, start earlier.

Earlier then than maybe you are now. The data shows strong November and December volume. So,

shift your first listings to mid-occtober. This gives you a crucial

mid-occtober. This gives you a crucial window to test your creatives. While

CPMs, that's your cost per thousand impressions on ads are typically lower.

Ah, get more bang for your buck before the holiday ad rush really hits.

Exactly. Beat the rush a little. See,

that is pretty cool, isn't it? So, if

you'd like to learn about even more ways that people are earning money online, be sure to watch my next video here on screen and I will see you in the next video.