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New business ideas: $115K/mo spreadsheets, $588/mo AI agent, $500K coffee trailer 🤑
eBiz Insider
Business Ideas Newsletter
Hey, it's Niall 👋
Did you check out the marketing report I shared on Tuesday?
I fed the whole thing into AI and asked it to come back with the most doable business ideas based on the data.
It gave me 7 🤯
#1 on the list: AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) Consultant/Agency.
AI referral traffic at HubSpot is up 1850% and converts 3x better than traditional search.
But almost nobody specializes in optimizing content to get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc. The report calls it "AEO" – optimizing for AI answers instead of Google rankings.
A freelancer or small agency could charge businesses to audit and restructure their content for AI visibility. Brand new niche, very little competition.
That's just idea #1.
The report is packed with data like this to fuel your next side hustle.
Grab it below 👇
Then keep reading for more fresh ideas.
Niall Doherty
eBiz Insider
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$115K/Month Selling The Same Thing As Everyone Else
📝 u/Ornery-Essay-7457 writes…
There's a brand called Smart Women Society. They sell budgeting templates. Google Sheets and Notion stuff. The exact same category that like 10,000 other sellers are in.
They're doing $115K a month.
The brand is real — Smart Women Society has 50,000+ customers and a full Shopify store.
What separates them from the other template sellers? Not the product. Not the price. Just who they're selling to 👇
They took a commodity product and pointed it at one specific person. Not "people who want to budget." Women who want financial independence. That's it.
Every piece of content, every ad, every product variation is just a different way of saying the same thing to the same person with a different pain point angle.
Reportedly running 64+ ads and 24 product variations – all targeting that one avatar 👀
The positioning IS the product. The niche IS the moat.
The whitespace is still wide open: men's budgeting, Gen Z debt payoff, freelancer cash flow, newlywed finances. None of them are owned like this one is 🤔
AI MARKETING AGENT
AI Does All His TikTok Marketing (Agency Idea)
📝 Oliver Henry writes about his two iOS apps – Snugly (AI room redesign) and Liply (lip filler preview).
Problem was, he had no time to promote them.
I have spent years manually creating TikToks for my apps. Designing images, writing captions, posting every day.
So he wiped his old gaming PC, installed an open-source AI agent framework, and gave the machine a name: Larry.
Larry now handles almost everything 🤖
He generates AI images, writes captions, adds text overlays, and posts TikTok slideshows as drafts. Oliver's only job: add a trending sound and hit publish.
My part takes about 60 seconds. Larry's part takes 15-30 minutes. That's the magic. He does 95% of the work.
🤑 Within 5 days…
- 500K+ total TikTok views
- 234K views on the top post
- 4 posts over 100K views
- 108 paying subscribers across both apps
- ~$588/month MRR and growing
Cost per post: about $0.50 in API calls. Even less with batch processing.
The hook that did best 👇
"My landlord said I can't change anything so I showed her what AI thinks it could look like" – 234,000 views.
It's not about the product. It's about someone else's reaction to it.
The opportunity here: brands need TikTok content, most have no idea how to make AI-generated video work. An agency built around this system could charge serious money 🔥
MOBILE BUSINESS
$500K In Year One From a Converted Airstream
📝 From a recent video on Avery Amstutz, 28, Memphis…
I bought an Airstream trailer for $6,000. Turned it into a coffee trailer and we made over $500,000 in the first year.
The business is called Byway Coffee Company. The tagline: "coffee worth chasing around town."
We park all over the city. We are open 7 days a week. We can be at the park. We can be at your school. We can be in the neighborhood.
New menu every month. Signature drink is an ube vanilla cold foam latte.
Avery originally projected $150K for the whole year. The actual numbers blew past that 👇
- First few months: $11-18K/month
- Several months hit $30-50K/month
- Year one total: over $500K
Roughly $100-130K profit on that $500K revenue. And Avery's buying 75,000 cups at a time to keep costs down 🤑
The mobility is the whole brand – not a limitation. Customers track where the trailer will be each day.
No fixed rent, test new spots daily, and it doesn't have to be coffee – smoothies, juice, açaí bowls 😎
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