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New business ideas: $1000 AI automation, $5K/mo directory site, $400 local biz 🤑
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Hey, it's Niall 👋
As you know, I love me some marketing hacks.
A few I came across recently…
🍕 Pizza Box Scratch-Off
A local pizzeria printed one winning scratch-off on every 100 boxes – free pizza! – then shared celebratory photos on Instagram.
Orders jumped 30% that month.
🍩 Donut Delivery Resume
25-year-old Lukas Yla dressed up as a Postmates driver and delivered boxes of donuts to 40 tech companies. Inside each box was his resume.
He scored 10 interviews.
🍔 Secret Menu QR Code
A boutique burger joint slapped tiny QR-code stickers on napkin dispensers around town. Scan and you unlock their off-menu burger deal.
They sold out of that special 3 weeks straight.
(Just realized: all those examples are food-related. I must be hungry!)
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Then definitely check the first resource below 👇
Followed by my usual batch of 5 fresh business ideas.
Niall Doherty
eBiz Insider
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AI AUTOMATION
He Sold This Simple AI Automation For $1000
👀 Mike Futia in a recent video…
I want to share an automation that I sold to a client for $1000…
The use case was I had a client who worked for a CRM and they were looking to convert customers… and part of their strategy was to find unhappy customers of competitor products.
They were manually researching these review platforms like Trustpilot, looking for negative reviews, and then manually reaching out to these folks.
So I built them a flow inside of Gumloop that automates the research part. You give it a list of competitors and this workflow will go out and scrape the reviews.
The end result is a simple Google sheet 👇
We’ve got the link to the Trustpilot user, we’ve got the review itself, then we’re using AI to categorize the sentiment – was it negative, was it neutral, was it positive – and then we’ve got a date of the review as well.
Mike goes on to show how he built the automation in Gumloop, and suggests pitching the same thing to potential clients in your niche 😎
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PERSONALITY
5 Entrepreneur Personality Types & The Best Biz For Each
In a recent video, Layla Pomper lists and explains 5 entrepreneur personality types 🧐
Architect: Loves designing self-paced experiences; builds polished products to sell repeatedly.
Fixer: Enjoys solving unique challenges; delivers custom, high-touch services each time.
Teacher: Translates complex concepts into simple lessons; loves delivering in-person aha moments.
Craftsman: Pursues mastery by refining and repeating a signature service or craft.
Host: Thrives on facilitating connections; builds communities and networking experiences.
💬 Layla goes on…
For each of those five personality types, I'm going to match you with one of the business models that I think would be the best match for you, having been through offering these myself.
Her picks 👇
Architect = course business
Fixer = bespoke services
Teacher = training business
Craftsman = productized service
Host = group program / membership
SPRINKLER REPAIR
A Boring Business That Quietly Makes A Fortune
Asked on Reddit…
💬 One response…
Sprinkler repair. My dad did it and stopped because he felt like he was scamming people lol.
Going rate to replace a sprinkler head is $150. The head costs $20-30 and you just have to dig a little hole and unscrew the old head and screw on a new one. Or if the pipe is cracked and leaking you just splice a little pvc.
Another person commented 👇
That's a good one because it doesn't take a lot of certifications or anything complex to work on sprinklers.
I just paid a little over $400 yesterday for sprinkler repairs. A few days ago I noticed a "wet spot" in the yard. The sprinkler was damaged in a storm where a big tree fell over on my yard, not too bad but at some point it needed to get fixed.
I didn't want to stand out there digging a hole to expose <whatever the broken PVC pipe was> so I paid $400 and my problem went away while I sat in the air conditioned house.
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PRODUCTIZED SERVICE
His Productized Service Biz Earns $5 Million Per Year
📝 Sam Shepler tells his story in a recent interview…
during my senior year of college… I didn’t have a ton of marketable skills, but one thing I did have was decent video production skills and a knack for marketing…
With a couple friends, I started a video production agency, Skyscope Creative, that peaked around $750k before we sold it
Later…
I needed to pay some bills and I asked myself, “What can I do that I know will at least generate some revenue relatively quickly” and “Can I take a part of what we did at our previous agency and productize it? ...
I ended up “unbundling” one of the core most popular services of our agency — testimonial videos — and then set about productizing it.
That was the beginning of Testimonial Hero, which now earns $5M per year 🤑
And a nice framework there for starting your own productized service business…
👀 Look at successful agencies and the services they offer.
🎯 Unbundle one of their core offerings and focus on that that.
DIRECTORY WEBSITES
His Directory Site Earned $4976 Last Month
Piotr Kulpinski launched OpenAlternative, a directory of open-source tools, about 2.5 years ago 🚀
His monthly update for June…
🌐 259k pageviews (-25%)
📝 480 open source tools published (+6.2%)
📈 46,714 tool clicks (-36.3%)
💰 $4,976 revenue ($3,499 MRR) (+35%)
Monetization…
Advertisements
Expedited + featured listings
Affiliate links
What other “alternative” directory sites could you build? 🤔
An interesting example I found recently: MySkypeAlternative.com
No idea how that's doing but it's the kind of site that could earn a decent monthly income on autopilot 😎
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