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This AI-generated supermodel earns up to €10k/month 💃
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This AI-Generated Supermodel Earns Up To €10K/Month
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55-Year-Old's Engraving Hobby = $200K/Year
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This AI-Generated Supermodel Earns Up To €10K/Month
(FYI: no nudity via the links in this story but it's still borderline NSFW 🙈)
🤖 Aitana Lopez is an AI-generated influencer who has racked up 190K+ Instagram followers in a few short months.
Euronews reports…
Last summer, Rubén Cruz, her designer and founder of the agency The Clueless, was going through a rough patch because he didn't have many clients.
Rubén says…
We started analysing how we were working and realised that many projects were being put on hold or cancelled due to problems beyond our control. Often it was the fault of the influencer or model and not due to design issues.
So…
They decided to create their own influencer to use as a model for the brands that approached them.
Aitana is monetized via sponsorships and Fanvue (an OnlyFans alternative) 💰
Euronews again…
The virtual model can earn up to €10,000 a month, according to her creator, but the average is around €3,000.
As of this writing, Aitana has a link to sports supplement company BIG SUPPS in her Instagram bio. And here are two posts (tap on hair), which link to OLAPLEX, a haircare brand.
Rubén revealed a little more about the creation process…
In the first month, we realised that people follow lives, not images. Since she is not alive, we had to give her a bit of reality so that people could relate to her in some way. We had to tell a story.
She was created as a fitness enthusiast, determined and with a complex character.
😕 It might have worked a little too well…
One day, a well-known Latin American actor texted to ask her out. This actor has about 5 million followers and some of our team watched his TV series when they were kids… He had no idea Aitana didn't exist.
Euronews adds…
The agency believes this could help bring down market prices [for models] and give a boost to small companies that cannot afford big advertising campaigns.
I can easily see AI models and influencers becoming commonplace.
Could even be that real-life celebs will license their image to a company like The Clueless, which would then generate an AI version of them that posts regularly on social media 😵
Also, how long before we see this for pets?
Imagine an AI-generated cat that's a bit more expressive than the real thing 🙀
That would likely sell a lot of kitty litter.
Also, I should mention the original AI influencer here. That'd be lilmiquela. She's been around since 2016 and apparently earns more than $11 million per year 🤯
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55-Year-Old's Engraving Hobby = $200K/Year
Rodney Melton is the founder of Melton Memorials, which specializes in creating gravestones for pets 😔
CNBC reports…
[Rodney] started his side hustle for two reasons. His friend’s dog Molly died, and he happened to own a $15,000 engraver for his stone-carving hobby. Molly’s concrete headstone turned out well, and Melton decided to open an Etsy shop in March 2021.
Apparently…
The store brought in $207,000 in 2022 revenue… About 65% of that was profit, Melton estimates.
⚒️ But it was slow progress in the beginning, with each headstone taking Rodney about 5 hours to create…
At first, he could only fulfill 16 Etsy orders per month.
The extra cash was great, he says, but he wanted to shorten his lead time. After researching online, he discovered that his process was somewhat obsolete.
So…
Three months after opening his store, he spent $7,000 from his savings on sandblasting equipment, because an expert online told him he’d “be crazy” not to.
The equipment cut his production time down to 45 minutes. In the second half of the year, he brought in between $5,400 and $8,300 per month.
Then…
Melton invested [another] $38,000 — from both his savings and the previous year’s proceeds — in a laser engraver, further cutting down his production time.
In other words, Rodney invested quite a bit of time and money making his business more efficient, which laid the foundation for his $207K year in 2022 🚀
And now it's become a family affair…
[Rodney] quit his job and enlisted his wife to help him make pet headstones full-time. Last year, he hired his daughter and daughter-in-law, too.
Rodney is based in Arkansas, and I expect there could be a market for this kind of thing in other areas.
It also reminds me of the guy in Slovenia 🇸🇮 earning $4000/month selling concrete sculptures online.
Seems less people want to work with their hands and craft physical products nowadays, but that likely means there are lots of opportunities there 🤔
Also, shout out to this article on Side Hustle Nation, where I first heard about Rodney…
🗂 $20K/Month Freelance Developer
From the archive, published May 2022…
IMO freelancing remains the simplest and most reliable way to start earning online.
Freelance developer Tyler Wanlass recently shared why he stopped charging by the hour and moved to a flat weekly rate…
Over the last several years or so I’ve completely moved away from hourly or project based pricing. Instead, I simply charge a flat weekly rate, usually in the range of 3-5K USD per week (I now have 15+ years experience).
He also shares in the comments 💬 how he found his first freelance clients…
Early on I found projects anywhere I could. One of the first sites I built was for a teacher at the time. I found then (and still do!) it helps a ton to let everyone around you know that you’re looking for projects or available for work. Essentially seed it and when a project comes up you’ll be top of mind.
If you’re offering any kind of freelance service, be sure to let everyone know about it. Mention it regularly to friends, talk about it on social, be active in local and online communities where prospective clients hang out.
Also, if you work from cafes or coworking spaces, you can use the back of your laptop screen as a billboard for your services (example) 💡
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