Brief Summary
This video discusses opportunities to leverage AI for financial gain in 2025. It highlights the importance of niche selection based on passion and market size, before outlining five key AI-driven business models: AI agents for various business functions, translation services, AI podcast services, AI data visualisation, and AI website building. The video also emphasises the importance of acquiring customers, suggesting targeting recently funded companies as a prime strategy.
- Niche selection is crucial, focusing on passion and large market cap companies.
- AI agents can automate tasks in sales, marketing, analytics, and finance.
- Translation services cater to the increasing globalisation of businesses.
- AI can transform blog posts into podcasts and create short-form social media clips from long-form content.
- AI data visualisation simplifies complex data, driving traffic, backlinks, and conversions.
- AI website building is easy and lucrative, especially when targeting new businesses.
- Targeting recently funded companies on Crunchbase is a good customer acquisition strategy.
Picking Your Niche
To effectively use AI services, it's important to first identify a specific niche. Start by considering your passions and interests, as this will fuel your dedication. Research companies within that area, focusing on those with substantial market capitalisation, ideally in the billions. While it's good to start with a niche, aim to expand to the broader market over time. Consider your existing skills, such as video production, design, or content creation, and avoid broad targets to ensure efficient resource use. Remember that even giants like Facebook and Amazon started with niche audiences before expanding.
AI Agents
AI agents are a significant opportunity, acting as the "body" to the "brain" of AI models like ChatGPT. These agents can automate tasks, such as matching CVs to job postings and submitting applications. Businesses across various sectors are seeking AI agents for sales, marketing, analytics, and finance. Platforms like crew ai.com allow you to build these agents without extensive coding knowledge. In sales, AI agents analyse leads based on interactions and engagement, helping teams prioritise effectively. For marketing, they personalise content to improve conversion rates. In analytics, they identify traffic sources that generate the most revenue, and in finance, they determine customer lifetime value and campaign profitability.
Translation Services
Translation services present a high-potential opportunity due to increasing globalisation. Successful brands are international, and translating content into multiple languages can significantly increase revenue. MrBeast and Apple are examples of entities using multilingual content. Tools like 11 Labs can translate and transcribe content into various languages. Many businesses need these services, creating a market for translation of websites, blogs, social media content, and videos.
AI Podcast Services
The podcast market is experiencing substantial growth, projected to reach $47.83 billion in 2025. AI can be leveraged in two main ways: converting blog articles and newsletters into podcasts by cloning voices and using text-to-speech software, and creating short-form social media clips from long-form podcast content using tools like Opus AI. For the latter, uploading the same long-form clip multiple times can yield a variety of short-form clip recommendations, allowing for selection of the best ones.
AI Data Visualisation
AI data visualisation involves creating images, such as infographics, that simplify complex data. Infographics help people understand complex information visually, explaining the meaning of colours and their impact on conversions. Companies pay for this because such content often goes viral, generates backlinks (improving Google ranking), and increases customer conversion rates. Tools like Pictochart can use AI to create visually appealing infographics from data sets.
AI Website Building
AI website building is a straightforward opportunity, particularly targeting newly formed LLCs that need functional websites. While tools like 10web exist, many businesses are either unaware or unwilling to use them directly. Success in this area requires developing expertise through practice, understanding which prompts yield the best results. Offering SEO optimisation and blog content as add-ons can further increase revenue.
Getting Customers
Customer acquisition is crucial for any AI business model. One effective strategy is to target recently funded companies listed on Crunchbase. These companies are under pressure from investors to grow quickly and are more likely to outsource work. Offering services with a "pay if you like it" approach can help build a portfolio of case studies, enabling you to charge higher rates later.
