474: 4 Easy AI Side Hustles To Start In 2023 (Work From Home) – Family First Friday

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In this episode, I’m going to go over four simple businesses that you can start from home using artificial intelligence. In fact, I’m going to show you exactly what these businesses are, explain how you can start doing them for yourself. And I’m going to give you real life examples of regular people who are making thousands of dollars per month doing these businesses. What’s up everyone. You are listening to the My Wife Could Her Job podcast, where I teach you how to make money online by exploring different tools, strategies, and understand how to leverage human psychology to grow your sales.

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Welcome to a special segment of the show called Family First Fridays, where I go solo to give you my thoughts on how to make money without sacrificing your lifestyle. Now, if you haven’t picked up my book yet, The Family First Entrepreneur, head on over to mywifequitterjob.com slash book, fill out the form and get over $690 in free bonuses. Also, if you are interested in learning how to start your own e-commerce store, make sure you sign up for my free six day mini course over at mywifequitterjob.com slash free. Now this first business.

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is one that you probably wouldn’t even consider to be possible to make money from. Selling enamel pins. Now according to Google, the enamel pin market is valued at over $2.5 billion and is expected to grow to $4.5 billion in just a couple of years. In fact, the AMBE found that 43 % of millennials own at least one enamel pin. Now if you look at Etsy, there are tons of sellers killing it online selling enamel pins online. For example,

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Frost Dragon Designs has made over $168,000 selling cute animal pins in just the past couple of years. Now my friend’s 14 year old daughter makes over $1,000 per month selling opossum pins online. Opossum merchandise, who would have thunk it? Now looking on Etsy, these pins sell for around $10 on average depending on the size of the pin. If you look at Alibaba under custom and animal pins, you’ll find that you can buy these pins in lots of 100,

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for between 10 and 30 cents a piece. That is literally a 100x markup, which means that you can make a huge profit selling these. Now the hardest part is coming up with clever pin designs, which is where AI comes in. Right now, the best AI graphic design tool is called Mid Journey, and it’s super cheap to use. Mid Journey is a computer program that can make pictures from words. And you can tell Mid Journey what kind of picture you want, and it will try to make it for you.

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For example, you could say, make me a picture of a cat or make me a picture of a tree. Now Mid Journey is still relatively new, but it can already make some really amazing pictures. So for example, let’s say I wanted to make some cute opossum images for an enamel pen design. I would simply go to Mid Journey and tell it to draw me a cartoon opossum. And within two minutes, Mid Journey came up with these designs.

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By the way, know this is a podcast and you can’t see the images, but if you look at the show notes, you will see the images that Mid Journey came up with. Now all these images that Mid Journey generates are high res and can be easily converted into an enamel pin that you can sell. You simply send a design to an Alibaba supplier and they’ll turn these into pins that you can sell for 10 bucks or more. And then once you have these pins, where can you sell them? Well, the easiest and best place is to just list them on Etsy. Remember my friend’s daughter.

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who sells opossum pins. This is how she made her first $1,000 in sales. And the first thing that she did was join opossum groups on Facebook. Yes, these groups exist, and you can find a Facebook group on practically any topic. Now she spent the first three weeks engaging with other members of the group, and then she posted the following. Hey, opossum lovers, I’m a small artist looking to see if it’s worth it to manufacture these opossum enamel pins. Would you buy these?

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not trying to advertise, just get opinions. Now after she asked this question, responses started rolling in. Yes, yes, love, for the love of Jesus, take my money now. And then what she did after she got a whole bunch of feedback is she had these pins made and pointed everyone over to her Etsy store. And what’s amazing about her story is that just posting on these Facebook groups verified that her pins were going to sell before she spent a single dime on inventory.

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Now the next business model is to sell specialized t-shirts, mugs, and other merchandise via print-on-demand. Print-on-demand is a business model where a seller creates a product, such as a t-shirt, mug, or poster, and then prints it on demand when a customer orders it. This means that the seller doesn’t have to buy any inventory upfront and only pays for the product when it is sold. Print-on-demand is a great way for sellers to start an online business without a lot of upfront money. It’s also a good way for sellers to test new products and designs

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without having to worry about them sitting in inventory if they don’t sell. Now there are a number of pod services available and they all work in a similar way. You create a product listing, upload your design and set a price. And when a customer orders the product, the pod service prints it and ships it to the customer. By the way, if you purchase my book over at thefamilyfirstentrepreneur.com, I will send you a three day workshop on how to get started with print on demand for free.

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just go over to mywifeglutterjob.com slash book or thefamilyfirstentrepreneur.com. Now the hardest part about selling print on demand products is coming up with a catchy design. But by leveraging the power of AI and artificial intelligence, it’s actually super easy. So hypothetically speaking, let’s say you’re really into fishing and you want to sell t-shirts for fishermen. All you got to do is fire up ChatGPT and ask AI to come up some clever t-shirt designs. Now ChatGPT is a computer program

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that can talk to you, answer your questions, tell you stories, write music, and even come up with clever puns and slogans. Here’s exactly what you need to do. Just go to chat.openai.com and open up a free account, and then ask ChatGPT to give you 10 catchy phrases for fishermen for a t-shirt design. This is exactly what ChatGPT returned. I’ll read you some of these entries. They’re pretty clever. Reel them in, hook, line, and sinker. Fishing, my happy place, my peace of mind.

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Born to fish, forced to work. Keep calm and fish on. Life is better with a fishing rod in hand. Anyway, you can actually have ChatGBT generate unlimited puns and slogans until you find one that you like. As you can see here, the ones that I read for you, they’re pretty clever. And if you don’t like any of the ones that you get, just ask ChatGBT to give you 10 more. Now personally, I like the slogan, keep calm and fish on. And once you have the slogan, the next step,

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is to create an image that matches the slogan for the shirt. Now remember the mid-journey example I gave earlier with the possum pins? Well, I fired up mid-journey again and gave it the following prompt. Draw me a relaxed man on a boat peacefully fishing. And once again, within about two minutes, it gave me four AI-generated images to match my slogan. And once again, if you want to see these images, go over to the show notes. But these look pretty amazing. I decided to go with the image in the lower left in case you guys are looking at the image in the show notes.

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And then I fired up my favorite photo editing software and added the slogan to the image to generate a photo. Now the final step is to get this photo on a t-shirt. Right now, my favorite print on demand companies are Printful, Gelato, and Custom Cat. Now Printful does all their own printing in-house and the quality is fantastic. They also have a super easy to use tool that allows you to create a t-shirt, mug, or whatever you want in a matter of minutes. Now all you gotta do is drag your design on the shirt, size it up,

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Position it how you want and you’re done. Now, if you want to see a picture of what my final t-shirt looks like, just go over to the show notes for this episode below. As you can see, it looks pretty good. And it’s something that I literally threw together in five minutes. You can sell these t-shirts for about 20 bucks and pocket roughly $7 to $8 per shirt. Okay, this next business model is going to blow your mind. Are there any parents out there listening to this podcast right now? Well, back on my kids a little.

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I used to always bring coloring books and activity books to dinner so that my wife and I could eat in peace. There’s actually a huge market for these types of books for very specific niches. For example, when my kids were little, I purchased a Chinese New Year coloring and activity book and they loved it. Millions of these types of books are sold every year. To find out what types of books people are searching for, all you got to do is use a tool like Jungle Scout to do some keyword research. According to Jungle Scout,

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Dinosaur activity books for kids gets about 5,900 searches per month, and it’s pretty easy to rank for. If you were to create your own dinosaur coloring books, you could make some money. Now once again though, the problem is that you need to come up with dinosaur designs to include in your book. Now to create coloring book images, it’s time to fire up Mid Journey again. Here’s the exact prompt to use. Draw me a cute Tyrannosaurus Rex drawing for a coloring book.

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It should just be an outline of a T-Rex that a human can color in. And AI generates some pretty amazing images here. Now the final step is to compile all these images that were generated from AI into a book that can be sold on Amazon KDP. Amazon KDP stands for Kindle Direct Publishing, and it’s a special platform that helps people create real books that are printed on demand. And it is literally the easiest way for authors to create books without any upfront cost. It’s free to sign up.

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and Amazon KDP offers a fixed 60 % royalty rate on paperback sold. Now once you set up, you must put together a book in a format that Amazon understands. And the software that I like to use is called BookBolt. BookBolt is a low-content book publishing software that allows you to create books from scratch without writing a single word. It offers a variety of features to help you with the research, design, and listing of your books on Amazon KDP. So basically this tool is going to help you design a cover, add text and images to your pages,

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and then format it so that you can sell the book on Amazon KDP. It even has built-in software to help you create crossword puzzles, sudokus, word finds, word scrambles, and more in a matter of minutes. In fact, you could literally put together a high-quality children’s activity book in about 30 minutes or less. Once again, there’s no upfront cost to any of this. You put the book out there, and if you chose keywords that get high search volume, Amazon will bring you sales. Now, this final business idea is probably one of the easiest to pull off.

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and doesn’t rely on any other company for production. You can sell your own stickers. According to Google, the global sticker market is valued at $4.16 billion. And it’s pretty obvious that stickers are a big deal by just looking at the top sticker sellers on Etsy. For example, Pamela Zagaretsky has made over a million bucks selling unique stickers and greeting cards online. And the beauty of this business model is that you can run this business from home. There are a couple routes you can take here.

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The first one is to use a print on demand service, which takes care of both printing and shipping. But if you want to maximize your profits, consider printing and shipping the stickers yourself. All you need is a standard printer, an electronic cutting machine, and some sticker paper. And honestly, it’s actually simpler than it sounds. You can even skip the cutting machine part and just cut them out manually at first before you invest in a machine. Now for shipping, I just recommend getting some sturdy mailers that you can pick up from Amazon for around 27 cents a piece.

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And this ensures that your stickers won’t get damaged in transit. You can print your shipping labels using Etsy’s shipping label tool, and regular printing paper will work just fine, but adhesive labels can simplify the shipping process. And as for the designs, you guessed it, use Mid-Journey to generate images for your stickers. Here are some key ones that I generated of fish, just as an example that you can see in the show notes. All you do is some keyword research to see what people at Etsy are searching for.

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and then list these stickers on Etsy. Now I’m just gonna be upfront with you guys. Probably these four business models that I just specified aren’t gonna make you life-changing money, but if all you wanna do is make a couple thousand dollars a month and you’re having problems getting started with a business that you can run from home, try these four simple AI businesses first and you’ll find that once you get a couple of sales under your belt, you’re gonna be really excited about starting a business.