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New business ideas: $175/mo selling old text, $1200/mo niche AI app, $1937 domain flipping šŸ¤‘

eBiz Insider Business Ideas Newsletter

Hey, it's Niall šŸ‘‹

Happy new year!

To kick things off, I've completely updated my big list of ways to make money online.

There's also a video versionā€¦

I'm aiming to do a lot more video content in 2025 so let me know if that's helpful, and what other videos you'd like me to make.

Just hit reply or comment on the video šŸ‘

Alright, let's jump into some fresh business ideas.

PUBLIC DOMAIN PUBLISHING

$175 Monthly Passive Income Selling Old Text on Amazon

Check out this video from Jason Hamiltonā€¦

An example of a public domain book he's selling on Amazon: The Faerie Queene Book 1

The original text was published in 1590 šŸ“–

Jason elaboratesā€¦

most of the work that I did for that public domain content I did like 3 years agoā€¦ that has continued to make me between $150 and $200 every single month completely passively

The keyā€¦

you can't just go copy and paste your copy of Pride and Prejudice or Treasure Islandā€¦ and then just publish it and hope that it'll start making sales.

Amazon requires you to do something with it to make it unique and and potentially valuable to a customer

3 ways you can do that šŸ‘‡

  • Create an original translation

  • Provide original annotations

  • Add original illustrations

Jason notes that it's easier than ever to do those things nowadays with AI tools šŸ¤–

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AI-POWERED APP

Their Niche AI App = $1200 Per Month in 9 Weeks

šŸ“ Felix Heikka posts on Redditā€¦

So my brother and I have spent the past 8 months building 3 projects, 2 of which failed, but one of them recently hit 2200+ users and $1200+ MRR in a little over two monthsā€¦

itā€™s not crazy money yet, but itā€™s the fact that it shows a lot of potential for growth that makes me so excited for this.

Their product is Buildpad, which is essentially ChatGPT but for founders.

You might think most people would just use ChatGPT instead.

šŸ’¬ But consider a recent tweet by Dan Shipperā€¦

The biggest opportunity for startups in AI according to Granola founder @cjpedregal?

Build a Ferrari-level experience. Use the most expensive, cutting edge models.

Big companies canā€™t do this because they have millions of users.

Granola = an AI notepad for meetings that recently raised $20M.

So clearly there's still lots of opportunity out there for niche AI apps.

What niche or audience are you familiar with? šŸ¤”

Could you build an AI-powered app that provides them with a Ferrari-level experience?

AMAZON FBA

$12,000 Monthly Profit From His Amazon Store

Luu is based in Houston, Texas and started an Amazon FBA business three years ago while still in medical school.

Nowā€¦

with my store, Iā€™m currently doing 150k a month.

Luu is a partner in five other Amazon stores, and says the minimum net profit margin they aim for is 8%.

So his main store should be earning him at least $12K profit per month šŸ’°

Luu started with only $800, raised by donating plasma.

He focused on retail arbitrage to start: buying goods in physical stores then reselling them online for a profit šŸ˜Ž

Later he started doing online arbitrage (buying and reselling online) and wholesale (buying in bulk from wholesale suppliers).

Sounds like Proven Amazon Course (aff link, reviewed here) was a key resource for Luu šŸ‘

MEME BREAK

Getting Ready For Another Year of Entrepreneurship

PRODUCTIZED SERVICE

Earning $10K Per Month From His 1-Person Agency

Chris Poka is the founder of Designpulse, a productized design and development service that's pulling in $10,000 per month šŸ¤‘

Sounds like the key to his success was learning to use Bubble, a no-code development toolā€¦

I couldnā€™t code, and this made building easy. Within six months, I gained enough knowledge to start freelancingā€¦

I started a Bubble agency. I got leads through Bubble, so all I had to do was close.

You'll find Designpulse listed on Bubble's agency marketplace.

Along the way, I noticed that most Bubble agencies didnā€™t pay much attention to UI/UX design, so I started learning UI design and how to use Figmaā€¦ Combining Bubble and design was the perfect combo for me.

That got Chris to $3000/month consistently šŸ’°

He got to $10K after introducing the productized service approach and working his ass off for several months.

I reckon there's plenty of room for more Bubble developers.

Apparently almost 5 million apps have been built on the platform but there are only 341 agencies in their marketplace šŸ§

DOMAIN FLIPPING

Bought a Domain for $0, Sold it 4 Months Later for $1937

Reza Taheri explains how in this video šŸ‘ˆ

He bought these domains in December 2023ā€¦

  • gegi.co.uk

  • gegi.uk

Nabbed them both from names.co.uk, where you can get these TLDs free for the first yearā€¦

  • .co.uk

  • .uk

  • .org.uk

Reza listed both his domains for sale on dan.com in March 2024.

A month later, he received an offer to buy the first domain.

After commissions, he earned $1452 šŸ¤‘

(He covers in the video how he could have saved almost $200 in commission fees if he'd made a simple change.)

Reza has since gone on to sell 2 more domain names, bringing his total revenue to $4514 in about 9 months šŸ’°

He has some good tips for domain flipping in the second half of his video, ending withā€¦

Flipping domains isnā€™t a get-rich-quick  scheme. You need to have patience and consistency. 

Sometimes, it may take months  before you sell your first domain. However, once you get the hang of it, you can build  a nice stream of income.

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