0:02 What's the laziest way to make money
0:04 with AI in 2025 as a beginner? As
0:06 someone who's made millions with AI
0:08 products in my company, Martell
0:09 Ventures, I'm going to share with you
0:12 the five ways I would make money with AI
0:14 if I was starting from zero. I'll even
0:16 teach you how to find and sell it to
0:18 customers and show you the cost, effort,
0:21 and potential for each one. Now, I'm not
0:23 talking about a get-richqu scheme. These
0:25 are real money-making ideas where AI
0:26 does most of the work for you. So, let's
0:29 get into it. Starting with number five,
0:33 AI thumbnail design. You can get paid to
0:34 design those thumbnails that you see on
0:36 YouTube that you have to click to watch
0:38 the video. It's designing high
0:41 converting YouTube thumbnails using AI
0:43 products like Midjourney, Photoshop, and
0:45 Canva AI. Here's the problem. Most
0:46 people think that it's just like vibe
0:48 designing where you just like I'm really
0:49 good at prompts and I just touch and it
0:51 creates images. That's not what I'm
0:53 talking about. The cool part is is the
0:55 cost is low to get into it. The effort
0:58 is medium. It's not that hard and the
1:00 potential is actually pretty high right
1:02 now with the rise of personal brands. On
1:04 the low end, you can make 50 bucks a day
1:06 doing like five thumbnails for 10 bucks.
1:08 But on the high end, and this is what we
1:11 invest in, is 200 to 400 a day where
1:13 we're paying for 4 to eight highquality
1:15 thumbnails at 50 bucks each. And you
1:16 might think to yourself, who would pay
1:18 for this? And I'll be honest with you, I
1:19 didn't even know this was a thing. I was
1:22 visiting my buddy Sean at space station.
1:23 I remember walking down the hallway and
1:26 he introduces me to a guy that's in a
1:27 room and he says, "That's our thumbnail
1:30 designer." He had two monitors testing
1:32 different things and iterations and he
1:33 worked on five different channels and it
1:35 made me realize that the pros that
1:37 actually make money with YouTube will
1:38 pay for this and that's why you got to
1:40 get good at it. So, this is how you
1:42 learn thumbnail design to get paid the
1:43 big bucks. Number one, you have to
1:45 analyze dozens of viral thumbnails in
1:47 your niche. There's tools like one of 10
1:49 and view stats that will help you find
1:52 those different sites and study exactly
1:54 what they're doing today because it will
1:56 change to stand out on YouTube. Number
1:58 two is create a portfolio of thumbnails.
2:01 Literally collect your favorite
2:03 thumbnails to build a body of work that
2:05 you can use as reference material when
2:06 you're designing your own. Number three
2:08 is model best performers. This might
2:10 make a lot of sense, but the truth is is
2:12 using chat GPT, you can upload the
2:14 portfolio of thumbnails that you found
2:16 and then use that as the base foundation
2:18 to design new and better ones. Now,
2:19 you're probably thinking to yourself,
2:21 "Well, this sounds great, but how do I
2:23 find customers?" Let me teach you my
2:25 audit to deal process. It's how all my
2:29 agency friends sell what they do easily.
2:31 Number one is to pick a niche. I don't
2:32 care if it's automotive, personal
2:36 development, doctors, running, the
2:38 riches are in the niches. So, pick an
2:39 industry that you personally love, that
2:41 you would love to create thumbnails for.
2:44 Number two is scrape the leads. Build a
2:46 targeted list of potential buyers. And
2:48 I'm talking go on LinkedIn, go do your
2:51 research, and just build a massive
2:52 spreadsheet. I call this mapping the
2:54 universe for your market. Number three,
2:56 run an audit. So, if you're doing AI
2:58 thumbnails, go to their YouTube channel,
3:00 run through the whole video catalog,
3:02 give them suggestions on how you make it
3:04 better. Record yourself doing a quick
3:06 Loom video, 60 seconds or less. And then
3:08 if you can add some examples of what you
3:10 would do if you worked with them, add
3:12 value to their life before you ever ask
3:14 them for a dollar. Number four is offer
3:16 service. So this is a quick fast action
3:18 bonus. Some kind of guarantee to reduce
3:21 the risk to get your foot in the door.
3:22 Something very simple, not expensive.
3:24 They can make a decision. They might get
3:25 the email from you with the video and
3:27 reply and say, "Sounds like a deal. Take
3:30 the payment." Trust me. Get on the call.
3:31 after they've paid. Now, once you do
3:33 some great work, you can offer them
3:35 stuff that might keep you around longer.
3:37 Which brings us to number four, AI blog
3:40 generation. Essentially, you create
3:42 content that's highly specific for your
3:45 customer that gets them awareness in
3:47 their market. So, top of funnel,
3:48 midfunnel, and bottom of the funnel.
3:50 Every piece of content serves a
3:51 different purpose, and that's what makes
3:53 it different. Even going as far, and
3:54 this is where you get paid the big
3:56 bucks, I'll share in a second, is to
3:59 make it work for AI. So now with the
4:00 search being the new chat prompt,
4:03 companies want to rank inside the AI
4:04 language model so that their business is
4:07 recommended when people ask questions of
4:08 the universe for how they should solve
4:10 their problems. The cost to get started
4:12 is very low. There's no tools involved.
4:14 You just start using the free tools. The
4:16 effort is low. You literally just start
4:18 asking the AI what you should do to work
4:20 with these customers. It'll tell you.
4:22 The potential is medium. And the reason
4:25 why is because blogs long-term with AI
4:27 getting so good at this, it just may not
4:29 be as relevant as it is today. Because
4:31 you could create five really good blogs
4:33 per day at about 10 bucks a piece for
4:35 some of these larger SEO farms out
4:37 there. On the high end, you could be
4:40 making 200 to 500 a day because if you
4:41 get good on this on the high end, you
4:43 can get paid to help people rank in some
4:45 of these new AI language models or get
4:47 paid through affiliate revenue by
4:48 creating content with links to products
4:50 you get paid when people buy. One of my
4:52 clients, Timmer, is actually using AI to
4:55 create SEO blog posts from podcast
4:57 episodes for clients. And he makes over
4:59 100,000 a month doing this. This is why
5:01 I think AI can support but not replace
5:03 the human process because the most
5:05 powerful stories still come from the
5:07 human experience. AI just helps us tell
5:09 them better. So, this is how you get
5:12 started. Number one, model, then modify.
5:13 And what you want to do is you want to
5:15 find the top 10 blogs in every niche
5:18 using tools like SEM Rush or Uber
5:19 Suggest so that you can see where their
5:22 outliers sit to find the patterns.
5:24 Number two is to actually use Chad GPT
5:27 or some other AI to create a portfolio
5:29 of writing samples using the best blogs
5:32 as inspiration. Don't copy, but use it
5:34 to train exactly what you want the
5:36 outputs to look like so it's going to
5:38 work for you. Number three is you got to
5:39 rank in search. So that's why there's
5:41 these tools like rank.ai AI to help your
5:43 blog post rank not only in Google but
5:45 also in the large language models like
5:48 Chad GPT. And I know this sounds really
5:49 simple. The challenge you're thinking
5:51 is, well, where do I find the customer
5:52 going to pay me the money to do their
5:55 SEO? Run the audit to deal process. It's
5:57 the same thing. It's so simple, so
5:59 powerful that if you just do a little
6:01 bit of work up front, show the buyer
6:02 that you know what you're doing, and
6:04 make it really easy for them to buy from
6:05 you, they will. Which brings us to
6:09 number three, the faceless YouTube
6:11 channel. This one's wild because I was
6:13 like, I don't think AI can really
6:16 replace somebody like me. It turns out
6:19 that I've been consuming AI generated
6:22 YouTube content for years. I didn't even
6:24 know. There are those YouTube channels
6:25 that you've seen where there's a person
6:27 talking and there's a bunch of B-roll
6:29 explaining the concept, but there's
6:31 nobody on screen and they get hundreds
6:33 of thousands of views. If you understood
6:36 the CPMs, those people are making 50,
6:40 60, $70,000 a month off of YouTube ads.
6:41 Now, the cost to start on that one is
6:43 medium because there's more tools to get
6:45 started. You need some of the editing
6:46 software. The effort is medium because
6:48 there's some skills you got to develop
6:50 storytelling in the narrative arc and
6:52 how to create good hooks and clips and
6:54 packaging. And the potential is high
6:55 because what I love about it is it
6:58 allows you to build and keep stacking
7:00 income because the more it grows, the
7:02 more you'll make. So on the low end,
7:04 yes, small channels might only make $10
7:06 to $50 a day, and there's a lot of
7:08 effort up front to build to that first
7:11 10,000 subs, but on the high end, you
7:14 could be making $500 a day or more.
7:16 Monetize not only through the YouTube ad
7:18 network, but also affiliate links.
7:20 Here's how we get started. Number one,
7:22 pick a niche. I'm thinking categories
7:24 that I know I can sell either
7:27 affiliates, brand deals, or get paid top
7:29 CPMs, cost per thousand based on what
7:31 people are paying today for other
7:32 YouTube videos with that kind of
7:34 content. The second is create your
7:36 scripts. And again, this is where we
7:38 want to use tools like Chad GPT to
7:40 outline them and to really find our
7:42 narrative style. See, what you want to
7:44 figure out is what's your signature
7:46 video type? And it all comes from the
7:48 script. It's the language you use. It's
7:50 the cadence. It's the way you open up.
7:53 How do you explore it? Try to find a
7:54 unique voice for you to create your
7:56 faceless YouTube videos. Number three,
7:58 build your avatar. And again, it could
8:00 be faceless where there's no person, or
8:02 you can use synthesia or 11 Labs to
8:05 generate a virtual AI avatar of you
8:07 talking so that it reads the scripts,
8:08 but you're never on camera. Number four
8:10 is post and iterate. See, most people
8:12 talk about 10,000 hours and you get
8:14 really good at something. It's not
8:16 10,000 repetition, it's 10,000
8:19 iterations. Meaning, every time you post
8:21 a new video, try to make it 1% better.
8:23 Which brings us to number two, AI
8:25 website building. When a business
8:27 starts, they need a website. And there's
8:29 22 million small businesses in North
8:32 America. And in the past, they're used
8:35 to paying 5, 10, $25,000 for a website
8:37 that you can use AI to build it. There's
8:39 literally these new no code building
8:41 tools. And you use AI to generate not
8:43 only the imagery, the copy, but the
8:45 whole code structure. And you can still
8:47 charge a lot of money if you're good at
8:48 what you're doing. And you can use these
8:49 tools that we're going to talk about
8:51 later to have businesses pay you top
8:53 dollar because they understand a website
8:55 is that important. The cool part is the
8:57 cost is low because there's not a lot of
8:58 software you got to pay for or people
9:00 you got to hire. The effort is medium
9:02 because there's some technical skills
9:04 you may need to learn like hosting. And
9:06 then the potential though is massively
9:08 high because if you perfect that one
9:09 offer, you can scale it because think
9:11 about every new business that needs a
9:13 website every day. On the low end, you
9:14 might only make a hundred bucks a day,
9:16 and that might be like generating one
9:18 new website a day, but honestly, that's
9:19 for very small businesses. On the high
9:22 end, you could be making $500 to $1,000
9:24 a day because you have multiple clients
9:26 and you're upselling them. Check this
9:29 out, AI SEO, and hosting and AI
9:31 automations because you have the
9:32 relationship with the customer. And it's
9:34 kind of scary how many of these design
9:36 agencies are going to lose all their
9:39 work to some 17-year-old kid doing it
9:41 with AI. The most valuable real estate
9:44 in 2025 isn't on Earth. It's on the
9:45 internet and it's going to be built with
9:47 AI. So, here's how we get started.
9:48 Number one, you got to pick a no code
9:50 builder and get really good at it. I
9:52 like frame AI, Bolt or Reloom for people
9:54 just getting started. Number two is you
9:56 want to generate the custom copy with
9:59 chat GPT and then visualize the copy
10:01 with midjourney. And the last one is
10:03 build two to three example websites to
10:05 show buyers your skill. like actually
10:07 build stuff maybe for your parents or
10:08 for yourself that you think is a cool
10:10 idea that demonstrates the quality of
10:11 your work. Now, I know you're probably
10:13 asking yourself like, "How do I sell
10:15 this thing?" Run the audit to deal
10:17 process. Which brings us in number one,
10:21 AI automation agency, which is like the
10:24 hotness. Now, the cost is medium because
10:26 maybe for some projects you're going to
10:28 need some software and pay for pro
10:30 versions of it. And the effort is medium
10:31 because there's a learning curve if
10:33 you're new to this. But the cool part is
10:35 is I taught it to my 12-year-old son.
10:37 Like anybody can learn this if they're
10:38 willing to just put their head down,
10:40 search and consume that information
10:42 instead of drowning themselves in
10:44 personal development podcast. Like it's
10:46 time to go learn. And the potential is
10:49 high because you will be at the
10:51 forefront of artificial intelligence.
10:53 You'll be helping businesses reduce the
10:55 complexity in their business and you
10:57 will find new opportunities cuz you're
11:00 sitting in those companies. On the low
11:02 end, you could be making 200 bucks a
11:03 day. That only takes one or two small
11:05 clients that you automate their
11:07 workflows every week. You just work on
11:08 it. On the high end though, you could be
11:11 making a,000 to 2500 a day because
11:13 that's where you're integrating their
11:15 current tool sets with other software
11:17 integrations. You're helping them with
11:19 lead generation. You're figuring out how
11:21 to improve the back-end workflow so they
11:22 can increase their capacity to work with
11:24 more customers. So, the problem you're
11:26 solving is for bigger customers that
11:28 have more money, which means they'll pay
11:30 you because the problems you solve makes
11:33 them more money. Here's my rule. Every
11:34 person on my team has to understand how
11:36 to do this anyway. Even my head of
11:39 finance sat down for 3 weeks and built a
11:41 complete endto-end process to automate
11:43 all the bookkeeping. This person loves
11:45 spreadsheets, didn't know anything about
11:47 AI. Automation isn't about replacing
11:49 people. It's about freeing them to focus
11:51 on what matters most, about being
11:54 creative, focusing on results. Really
11:56 figuring out what part's going to move
11:58 the needle. And anything that's just
11:59 processing information or moving things
12:02 forward can be done by a computer. So,
12:04 here's how we get started. Number one,
12:06 create a course of action. Just ask Chad
12:08 GPT, if I wanted to start an automation
12:10 agency, what are the top 10 steps I
12:13 should do? Be detailed, be very concise,
12:15 and it will tell you. Number two is
12:17 master one automation use case. See,
12:19 most people that get into this start
12:20 thinking about like all the freaking
12:22 things they could do with AI. And you
12:24 could, but then you're not really going
12:26 deep on anything. I'm talking about like
12:28 cold outreach, team training, building
12:30 bots, onboarding, automation, like pick
12:33 one specific area and go deep because
12:36 specialists get paid. The third, join a
12:38 community. You want to be around other
12:40 people doing the thing so you can learn
12:42 faster. I like Dave Eelar if you're more
12:44 technical and you want to build like aic
12:46 systems. If you want to learn like
12:48 content and automation, go follow
12:50 Stephen Pope and join their communities.
12:52 Now, I understand this one's a little
12:53 harder to run the audit to deal process
12:55 because we're talking about internal
12:56 workflows. But what you do instead is
12:58 you just reach out to customers and say,
13:00 "Hey, I'm new. I'm looking to build some
13:02 case studies. I will go fix this problem
13:04 for you for free. It costs you nothing.
13:06 All I ask is that if I overd deliver on
13:08 what I promised that you allow me to use
13:10 this project as a case study so I can
13:11 share with other customers going
13:13 forward." That's the win-win. They get
13:15 free problem solved. You get a case
13:17 study, you do five to 10 of those. Trust
13:19 me, they'll want to keep you around if
13:20 you're good, and they'll refer you to
13:22 people they know. Now, if you're
13:25 actually building real AI technology,
13:27 like real products, real software, not
13:28 just doing this automation stuff, and
13:29 you want to see if I might be interested
13:31 in partnering with you, then just find
13:33 me on Instagram and send me the word
13:34 venture, and we'll have a chat to see if
13:36 what you're working on makes sense. But
13:38 if you want to learn how I go from zero
13:40 to a million this year, click here and
