5-Figure A Month "AI Mug" Side Hustle
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5-Figure A Month "AI Mug" Side Hustle
Mug shops are boiling over on Etsy, with some sellers earning over $20,000 per month. One floral print shop brings in $5,000 monthly from a single mug design.
Another shop sells $1,000 worth of a similar floral mug each month.
These sellers aren't managing inventory or shipping out truckloads of mugs though. Etsy connects them with suppliers like Printify who handle printing and fulfillment. The sellers simply design, list, and collect profits.
Now, you've probably heard of print-on-demand before...and may think it's oversaturated. Especially in a niche as simple as mugs. A year ago you'd be correct.
But thanks to AI art tools like midjourney, anyone can create 100% unique designs and carve out a lucrative piece of the mug pie.
Popular eComm YouTuber Alek Sheffy put together an in-depth video on how to use AI tools to quickly generate unique, high-converting mug designs in minutes. Including the specific prompts and techniques to automate your own print-on-demand mug empire.
Watch the full video
Inside Elon Musk's Struggle for the Future of AI
Elon Musk has long sounded the alarm on artificial intelligence, warning it could one day surpass and even threaten humanity. But as AI rapidly advances, Musk sees the colonization of Mars as suddenly far more urgent.
He believes spreading human consciousness throughout the universe may be our best hope if runaway AI leads to calamity on Earth. The race is on as Musk tries to ensure both rocket and robotic technologies outpace the AI threat.
His over-riding mission has always been to assure AI developed in a way that helped guarantee human consciousness endured. That was best achieved, he believes, by creating a form of artificial general intelligence that could “reason” and “think” and pursue “truth” as its guiding principle.
In an exclusive with TIME, legendary biographer Walter Isaacson provides an in-depth look into Musk's AI crusade. Isaacson, who's written the best-selling biographies of Steve Jobs and Benjamin Franklin, releases his newest book on Musk this week.
Prompt of the Week
An AI prompt for marketers is a text input designed to guide an AI like ChatGPT in generating creative marketing ideas and copy. It helps you leverage AI to enhance your campaigns and decision-making processes.
This week's prompts can help you come up with an attention-grabbing, memorable tagline. Whether it's for your business, a product/service you're selling, or your personal brand...an unforgettable tagline is powerful. It has the power to evoke sensory responses which can leave a lasting impression and forge a deep connection with your market.
"Just Do It"(Nike): You picture a champion athlete standing victorious on the podium...
"Snap! Crackle! Pop!" (Rice Krispies): You hear the jingle...
“Finger Lickin’ Good” (KFC): You can practically taste the greasy fried chicken on your lips...
The full prompt is too long to include in this newsletter. But here's a sneak peek:
A tagline is a short and catchy phrase that a business uses to help people remember it. It is like a mini-message that tells everyone what the business is all about in just a few words. Taglines are important because they help to make a company stand out from others and can show what makes them special.
A great tagline can stick in people’s minds, encouraging them to choose that business when they need the products or services it offers.
Here are some examples of famous taglines to model:
“Just Do It” (Nike): A simple directive encouraging people to take action. It’s motivational and broad, allowing various interpretations that can cater to different individuals.
Unique Value Proposition:“Think Different” (Apple): Presents the brand’s unique approach to technology, encouraging creativity and individuality.
See the full "Unforgettable Tagline Prompt" here
Unraveling AI
Subscriber Submitted Question: "How can I avoid spam filters and other penalties when using AI-generated content?"
Our Answer: We're going to go rapid fire here. Ready? Carefully review AI-written content for proper grammar, spelling and punctuation. Typos, awkward phrasing and repetitive text can seem spammy to search engines. Read every post aloud to catch errors and improve flow.
When it comes to SEO, be careful not to over-optimize with keywords. Don't jam posts full of keywords or repeat the same phrases over and over. Search engines penalize keyword stuffing. Include keywords naturally where relevant. Then, vary sentence structure and word choice so phrases don't look copied.
Make sure to validate facts, data and product claims cited in AI written copy. Inaccurate or misleading information gets flagged as low quality content. Finally, check back regularly to see if your content gets flagged. Staying on top of alerts can prevent long-term reputation issues.
Tool to Try
Team GPT - Finally, a way to use ChatGPT together with your team in the same web environment. Team GPT is a powerful collaboration tool that enables users to collaborate on threads and prompts, get charged only for their usage, and share their best conversations.
The Team GPT platform also offers a host of other advantages not available on standard ChatGPT, like the ability to organize your chats and prompts into folders and subfolders.
Measure your team's ChatGPT usage with detailed insights like:
- Ranking of the top users.
- Number of chats and messages.
- Adoption rate of the whole company.
Plus, Team GPT says they're 10x cheaper and faster than ChatGPT. You pay only for what you use. And with Team GPT you can eliminate the wait limits of ChatGPT Plus with priority access to the OpenAI API.
Example for a team of 20:
ChatGPT Plus costs $20×20 = $400/month, while Team-GPT would cost ~ $40 + $110 (of API usage) /month.
In The News
Slack Is Getting In on the AI Game
Looking for a summary of work discussions you might've missed on Slack? Slack AI is designed to help.
After sharing plans this past spring to introduce chatbot technology to its platform, Slack is rolling out a set of features powered by artificial intelligence. The company unveiled its new Slack AI on Wednesday, along with Slack Lists. Slack is testing both functions this winter before releasing them on a larger scale.
With Slack AI, in-app capabilities will include channel recaps that provide key highlights and one-click thread summaries that give you the gist of a thread. Another feature will be search answers, a question-answer feature that returns related messages, files, channels and an AI-generated summary.
Otter.ai Launches New OtterPilot for Sales
AI transcription company Otter.ai launched OtterPilot for Sales. The platform builds on the features introduced to the Otter in February, providing automated sales call notes and AI-powered insights to sales representatives after the call has finished, including budget, authority, need, and timeline.
Additional sales-specific features include the ability to automatically sync sales insights directly into Salesforce. Integration with HubSpot is right around the corner as well.
“One cohort of users who we saw using OtterPilot was salespeople,” said Sam Liang, co-founder and CEO of Otter.ai. “Sales reps do a lot of calls every day and it’s actually a big pain point for them to enter the data [from those calls] into Salesforce. With Otter, AI automates that process so, not only can OtterPilot for Sales listen and take notes at the end of the call, it can automatically pull that information into their CRM.”
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Podcast
Adam Nassor, who calls himself the 'Autistic Hypnotist' joins the show to talk all things AI and persuasion. In this episode of the AI Marketing Stacks podcast:
🤖 Adam's surprising ‘Anti-Guru’ marketing angle that exploded his client's social following from 300k to 2.5 million…
🤖 The powerful “Heart Model” that allows you to instantly mind-read your prospects and customers….This revolutionary prompt cuts through the BS and reveals their true desires, fears and motivation…
🤖 How a mind-bending new AI tool organizes Adam's ideas and knowledge for him … This "second brain" links concepts across projects, connects notes to his calendar, and even writes for him...
And so much more.
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