AI-powered side hustles to try in 2024 💪

Hey AI Puppies, 

Welcome to the first AI Puppy newsletter of the New Year!  🎉 We’re thrilled you’re here, and we can’t wait to bring you even more AI tips and tricks throughout 2024. 

Whether you’re a full-blown techie or new to the scene, there’s an AI strategy out there waiting to transform your approach to work. Are you ready to find it?!

But instead of focusing on tools and tactics that streamline your day job, this week, we’re focusing on something a bit different: the side hustle.

Is launching a side hustle on your list of New Year’s Resolutions? You’re in luck – keep reading to get the rundown on how AI can unlock two of the most lucrative side hustles:

✅Educational content and course creation

✅Faceless YouTube video content

The New Year is already underway, so let’s get into it!

AI-Powered Educational Content

If you have expertise in any field, you also have an untapped side hustle: educational content.

Digital courses and educational content have exploded in recent years, so much so that the Online Education market is expected to reach $87.5 billion in 2024 🤑

Whether it’s a specific coding language, e-commerce, data science, cybersecurity, personal development, finance, design, or email marketing, someone out there wants to learn more about your niche!

Pricing for these types of courses varies greatly, but most sell for at least $50, and some go for over $1,000 👀

So how can you get started?

As always, step one is to pull up ChatGPT. We asked this very question, and here’s what we got:

Don’t worry – that’s not all AI can help with. Each and every one of these steps can be completed using AI, too!

The easiest way, of course, is to continue the conversation. Here’s an example with the prompt….

I am an expert in writing website copy for apparel brands. I want my course to target recent college graduates, and I want them to be able to write web copy that converts by the end of the course. Can you please outline 5 learning objectives that would make sense for this course?

Once you’re through the brainstorming stage, you might want something a bit more robust. 

Enter Heights Platform, an AI tool that… 

🍎Builds online courses for you

🍎Generates recommendations to improve your content

🍎Edits your products as you go

It even hosts your course for you, so you don’t have to leave to get it published! Here’s what the dashboard looks like:

Once you get the course going, it can live in the background as you rack in the $$$. 

Happy teaching, puppies!

AI-Powered YouTube Videos

Want a slice of the content creator economy? Even if you have 0 videography experience or hate being on camera, AI makes it possible to launch and grow high-quality channels 📹

There’s even an AI tool that blends ChatGPT and specific video expertise: VidIQ. 

In fact, two of VidIQ’s top features are literally called ChatGPT for YouTubers and AI Coach. They’re free to use and easy to connect to your channel with an email sign-in 👏

If you don’t yet have a YouTube channel up and running, head over to ChatGPT and ask for help coming up with a niche and/or a direction – just like in the educational content example! As always, provide as many details as possible and go back and forth as much as you need. 

Now, once you have a channel up and running (even if you haven’t posted yet), the ChatGPT for YouTubers interface will look like this:

Just like with ChatGPT, you simply ask for help and refine responses with follow-up questions. If you’re starting from scratch, use the AI Coach to come up with your first video topic. 

Once you have that initial topic planned, here’s an example of how to make your first faceless video a reality (this one is long, so bear with us):

1. SCRIPT: Go back to ChatGPT, Claude, Jasper, or any other writing-focused chatbot. Ask it to write a script, and provide a target word count, topic, and how you’d like it structured (5 sentences per section, one minute per recommendation, etc).

Here’s the first two segments we got in ChatGPT with the prompt “Can you write me a 1,000 word YouTube video script on the 5 most important things a new dog owner with a puppy should know? Please write about 150 words per recommendation, as well as an intro and outro.”

2. VIDEO: Head to invideo, an AI tool for easy video creation. This tutorial will get you up to speed, but you can also keep things simple and use one image as the background for the whole video!

3. VOICEOVER: Within invideo, you can record your own voiceover for the script directly in the platform, or opt for its AI-powered narration feature, too. For the AI audio option, you only need to copy and paste that script.

4. THUMBNAIL & IMAGES: for your thumbnail or any images you want to add to your faceless video, you know where to go: Midjourney! We’re partial to that image generator, but you can use whichever you like most. If you need help knowing what’s best, go back to VidIQ and ask for advice specifically on thumbnails. 

5. TITLE & DESCRIPTION: now that your video is ready to be posted, head back to VidIQ’s AI coach. In the chat, the prompt ‘write me a description’ will automatically pop up! In just a few seconds, it’ll generate click-worthy titles and descriptions.

And that’s it! As your channel grows, don’t forget to circle back to ask for advice on growth and what to make next 🐶🤝🤖 

Your Next Assignment

No matter what side hustle you’re a fit for, everyone’s assignment is the same: head to ChatGPT and ask for beginner steps on how to launch it 🧠

👉For bonus points, list out an AI tool for each of the steps ChatGPT gives you

As always, we’ll be posting our latest finds and creations all year long! Give us a follow on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and TikTok  to catch the latest 📲

Enjoy the weekend, puppies! We’ll be back next week with more 🐾👋🐾

Cheers,

The AI Puppy