New business ideas: $1M/year community, $30k/mo dog walking, genius AI idea 🤑

March 14, 2025

eBiz Insider Business Ideas Newsletter

Hey, it's Niall 👋

Writing to you from snowy Andorra ❄️

I just published a new video you might like…

Also dropped a big thread on X yesterday…

Alright, let’s get stuck into a fresh batch of business ideas 👇

SHORT FORM VIDEO AGENCY

Genius Idea: Start This Agency Without Any Skills

👉 In a recent video, Chris Koerner reveals…

Your ticket to starting a profitable cash flowing business in 2025…

You’re going to start a short-form video editing agency without any skills. You’re going to charge less than everyone else but make more than everyone else because you’re going to use automated software…

Go to this website [opus.pro], grab a YouTube link from any creator in any niche, and do exactly what I’m doing right here. Generate 5 to 20 clips, DM or email them, and say, “Hey, I did a thing. I edited this video for you.” 

The truth is, AI did it for you with just a few clicks—but they don’t care.

You can say, “I know you normally pay $50 to $80 per short-form video, but I’ll do it for $30. It will look better and be faster because I use AI”...

You pay a one-time small flat fee for the software, and then you charge $20 to $80 per video. You can create 10 videos with just a few clicks. It is an extremely asymmetric bet.

Looks like Opus isn't a one-time fee any more, but they do have a free trial and a limited free plan.

Or you can probably find an alternative with a lifetime deal on AppSumo (aff link).

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PAID COMMUNITY

This Paid Community Earns At Least $1.75M Per Year

Stumbled across Everything Marketplaces the other day, a paid community for marketplace founders and leaders 👀

Founded in 2020 by Mike Williams, who previously "built, launched, & scaled two marketplaces to successful acquisition."

Everything Marketplaces has 2500+ members paying $99/mo or $699/year = at least $1.75M annual revenue 💰

I reckon there will eventually be a successful paid community (if not several) for every professional industry.

Smaller example: Geekout PRO, a paid WhatsApp community for social media managers.

522 members paying $6/mo = $3132 monthly revenue 🤑

Sounds like this is fairly easy to pull off – especially with platforms like Skool or Nas.io – if you already have an audience that values your expertise.

If not, try partnering with someone like that 🤝

You set up and manage everything while they focus on adding value to the community.

AI TRAINING

Charge Companies $1K Per Employee For This

💬 Safwaan tweets…

Someone should release a course on "How to get the best out of Cursor/Windsurf"

- 48-hour sprint, cohort-based, over a weekend
- Charge companies $1k per employee

If you can turn a 1x engineer into a 2x engineer, this is a no-brainer for employers

Cursor / Windsurf = AI-powered development tools 🤖

Really, there could be a course like this for every popular AI tool or platform.

Recall that 🇫🇷 French-language AI school that took off recently…

If you're more of an AI generalist than a specialist, pick a niche and tailor all your free and paid training accordingly.

For example, AI productivity tips for 👇

  • Salespeople

  • Teachers

  • Secretaries

  • Real Estate Agents

  • HR Professionals

MEME BREAK

Entrepreneurs Being Their Own Boss

DOG DAYCARE

$30,000 Per Month From Their Mobile Doggy Daycare

Check out this article 👇

The business is Happy Tails, based in NYC. They come to you, pick up your dog, take them on adventures 🐶

Started during the pandemic…

Our vision was simple: to provide pets an opportunity to socialize and have fun outside of their home…

We purchased a 1994 Dodge Caravan for $6,000, gutted the inside and started going door to door to pick up lucky pups and take them out of the city to go on hikes and explore new areas.

Sounds like Instagram was key for getting the word out 🔥

They grew fast and bought more vans…

From the start, we had consistent monthly revenue... On average, each van was generating over $10,000 a month, and our expenses were gas/tolls and staffing.

Reminds me of that $16K/month flower truck lady, taking a traditional stationary business and making it mobile 🚚

This kind of business could thrive in many places.

TEACHING

Simple Business: You + Student + Notebook

📖 From the book Anything You Want by Derek Sivers…

Let's say you have a vision of making an international chain of enlightened modern schools.

You picture it as a huge, world-changing organization, with hundreds of employees, dozens of offices, and expensive technology.

But instead of waiting for that, you start by teaching somebody something this week.

Find someone who will pay to learn something, meet him anywhere, and begin.

It will be nothing but you, a student, and a notebook, but you'll be in business, and you can grow it from there.

With that in mind: what do you already know that you can teach someone? 🤔

Start with that.

Examples of people making good money teaching what they know 👇

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