5 Ways I Used AI to Increase My Income in 2023

Kristen Walters is a full-time content material creator after quitting her job as a lawyer.
She used AI instruments to double her earnings with out growing her hours.
She used AI to assist create faceless YouTube movies, affiliate content material, and digital merchandise like ebooks.

I have been utilizing AI instruments to assist develop my one-woman enterprise for the previous 12 months. Actually, it has been a game-changer. For instance, with the assistance of AI, I used to be in a position to double my earnings final 12 months with out working extra hours.

My enterprise mannequin did not change. I did not rent anybody. The one factor that modified was how I used AI to work extra productively and effectively.

So I assumed I might share a number of the ways in which I am at present utilizing AI to earn money in 2023.

1. YouTube

I have been creating faceless YouTube channels for just a few years now. At this level, I’ve just a few dozen channels in varied “boring” niches. However mixed, they add as much as a considerable month-to-month earnings from each YouTube Adsense and affiliate merchandise.

Many of the movies I create are evergreen, which means the content material needs to be related for not less than just a few years.I additionally create movies round merchandise that I can promote utilizing an affiliate hyperlink, so the movies begin incomes immediately, even when the channel is not monetized with Adsense.

Nonetheless, arising with video matters, titles, and scripts takes numerous time, particularly once you’re a soloprenuer who’s at all times juggling a dozen initiatives.

Final 12 months I began utilizing the Jasper AI writing assistant to assist pace up the method. Jasper is ready to give you video matter concepts, Search engine optimization-optimized titles, script outlines, hooks, and an introduction.

As soon as I’ve my define, I can use Jasper’s “Compose” characteristic to fill within the blanks for every part of my script.

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From there, I file a voiceover for the video utilizing the script and pair it with a “faceless” tutorial-style video. Jasper can even write Search engine optimization-optimized YouTube descriptions.

2. Digital merchandise

I have been creating easy digital merchandise like ebooks, workbooks, audiobooks for over a decade now.Man, I am getting outdated.

Each is a tiny asset that add earnings to my enterprise. And let me let you know, it provides up. Digital merchandise have at all times been pretty simple to create and promote, however with the assistance of AI instruments like Jasper, the method of making content material is even simpler and sooner.

Here is an instance:

As an example that I’ve an concept for a digital “workbook” to assist self-employed folks handle their cash higher. First, this can be a matter I do know a little bit one thing about as a result of I have been self-employed for a really very long time. Discover I am NOT counting on Jasper, or, god forbid, ChaptGPT, to offer me correct info.

Scorching Take: Do not make digital merchandise with AI on matters you do not know something about.

Nonetheless, as a way to pace up the concept era/outlining course of, I’d use Jasper’s “chat” characteristic to give you an overview for my workbook.

I used the immediate: Write an overview for a workbook titled “Cash Administration for Freelancers.“

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I usually do not use the outputs Jasper provides me as-is, but it surely’s often an excellent place to begin. Better of all, this took 30 seconds, whereas it might have taken me 10 – half-hour to give you an identical define by myself.

From there, I can ask Jasper to recommend content material for every part, which I can revise and edit to my liking.I additionally add in my very own ideas, examples, part titles, paragraphs, and so forth. Keep in mind, this can be a software to help and never substitute you.

Then I take the content material and format it as a PDF workbook utilizing Canva. From there, I add it to ConvertKit — which is considered one of my favourite platforms for promoting digital merchandise — after which run low-cost Pinterest adverts ($.10 to $.15 CPC) to make gross sales.

After all, you do not have to make use of ConvertKit.I’ve additionally bought digital merchandise utilizing Teachable, Etsy, Gumroad, and my very own web site(s).

When you’ve got a YouTube channel *wink, wink*, you can too promote your digital merchandise there to compound the outcomes of your efforts.

3. On-line programs

First, let me simply say that I’ve an extended and sorted historical past with on-line programs.

Nonetheless, I actually assume on-line programs are STILL one of the crucial efficient methods to make severe earnings on-line in 2023.

From 2013 to 2019, I ran my enterprise as a private model. As a part of that, I bought on-line programs the place I used to be the teacher and the face of my enterprise.

The wonderful factor about promoting programs as a private model (against a writer model) was that my programs bought rather well as a result of folks may join with me personally.

The not-so-amazing half was that I received actually burned out doing it. So I pulled the plug on my outdated on-line programs and altered to a writer mannequin.

At the moment I nonetheless create on-line programs, however I do it as a writer and never as a private model. In different phrases, I’m now not the face of my enterprise.

You’ll not see my face instructing a course wherever on the web.

As a substitute, I create area of interest manufacturers round particular matters, then create on-line programs to promote in reference to the model.The method of utilizing Jasper to assist create a web-based course is similar to the method used to create every other digital product.

It begins with asking Jasper to give you title concepts and a pattern define for the course.

Here is an instance:

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From right here, I’d observe an identical course of to making a digital product or YouTube video script — simply fill within the sections by myself or with Jasper’s assist.

As soon as I am proud of the script, I would rent a freelancer on Fiverr to file the teachings or do a voice-over with a tutorial or presentation-style video. I favor to promote my on-line programs utilizing both Teachable or Thinkific.

Nonetheless, if you happen to do not wish to put money into a course platform that you simply management, you possibly can at all times add your content material to Udemy or Skillshare.

However simply remember that you’re going to be on the mercy of their ever-changing guidelines.

4. Affiliate content material

In the event you’ve ever typed ” earn money on-line” right into a search engine, I guess one of many first belongings you noticed was “internet affiliate marketing.”

Internet affiliate marketing is nice since you receives a commission for selling another person’s product. There isn’t any customer support, no stock, no overhead. Simply revenue.

The issue with internet affiliate marketing is that it is actually arduous to earn money with it if you do not know create affiliate content material that results in a sale.That is the place most individuals get caught.

It is quite a bit like that episode of South Park the place the underpants gnomes attempt to clarify how they plan to earn money stealing folks’s underpants…

Section 1: Steal underpants

Section 2: …???…

Section 3: Revenue!!!

However what occurs in Section 2?

Within the internet affiliate marketing world, Section 2 is the content material and messaging that’s used to persuade somebody to buy the product you’re selling in an effort to make a fee.

Because it seems, this half is absolutely troublesome for most individuals. However that is the place AI might help.Jasper has a number of templates that I’ve discovered to be extremely helpful relating to creating content material to advertise affiliate merchandise.

These are:

AIDA Framework,
PAS Framework,
Persuasive Bullet Factors
Earlier than-After-Bridge Framework,
Mini VSL (video gross sales letter), and
Touchdown web page template.

These are advertising templates that you may enter info into concerning the product you wish to promote, and they’re going to assist you to write persuasive content material that you should use in your web site, in an e-mail publication, on social media, YouTube, TikTok movies, and so forth.

Alternatively, you should use the Jasper Chat characteristic and ask it to jot down you an article, gross sales pages, social media put up, and so forth., to promote no matter it’s that you’re attempting to promote.

Here is a very easy instance of utilizing Jasper to jot down affiliate content material.

For this instance, I’ll go to Amazon and click on on this random canine feeder and water dispenser. In the event you’re within the Amazon Associates program, you may make about $3 each time somebody clicks your hyperlink and buys this product:

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All you must do is copy the product title and outline proper from the Amazon web page and pop it into Jasper.

Right here I am utilizing the AIDA advertising framework in Jasper to create my content material:

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Then I may use this script for a TikTok video, social media put up, advert, or as the beginning of an extended assessment article that compares a couple of product.

It is a actually easy instance, however I feel you get the gist of it.

Perhaps? If not, go away a remark.

5. Publishing

I left this one for final as a result of I do know it is *kinda* controversial. I do know there are folks on the market creating rubbish content material in mass portions utilizing ChatGPT and attempting to promote it as a “e book” on Amazon.

I’m going to strongly encourage you NOT to do this as a result of I do not assume these persons are going to win in the long run.

To start with, Amazon is not dumb.

I snoop round Fb and Discord teams devoted to self-publishing, and those that attempt to recreation the system are getting their accounts shut down in droves.

I simply learn a narrative about some man that was making six figures a month on Amazon KDP after which received his account shut down for some TOS violation for utilizing AI content material that was plagiarized. It is simply not well worth the gamble.

If you wish to construct a sustainable enterprise within the self-publishing world that has longevity, be very cautious relating to AI-generated content material, particularly in case you are publishing on Amazon.

On the very least, you higher be including numerous your individual content material, rewording something AI-generated, enhancing, proofreading, and operating it by means of a plagiarism checker.

Higher nonetheless, if you happen to can afford to rent an editor.

However that being mentioned, there are nonetheless some moral use circumstances for AI relating to publishing.

Listed below are just a few methods I am utilizing it in my publishing enterprise in 2023: