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New business ideas: $700/mo fake people, $50K zero experience, $14.5K/mo AI agency π€
eBiz Insider
Business Ideas Newsletter
Hey, it's Niall π
Think about the freelancers, coaches and online service providers around you.
For a lot of them, LinkedIn is where they win clients, build credibility, and get found by people with money to spend.
To do that, they need to show up consistently. Not once a month. Not when they feel like it. Multiple times a week.
Most of them aren't doing it:
β° Too busy
βοΈ Hate writing
π€· No idea what to say
That's a real opening. Someone has to write those posts.
Until recently: brutal. Countless hours per client, coming up with ideas, learning their voice, writing everything from scratch.
AI changed the math. One 30-minute interview with a client β then AI finds the ideas and drafts a full week of posts in a single sitting.
You edit, refine, and make sure it sounds like them β but the heavy lifting is done. Clients aren't paying for writing. They're paying to show up consistently without thinking about it.
Here's how it works:
π Monthly retainer, recurring income
π€ AI does the heavy lifting
π° $500β$1,000/month per client to start, $2,000β$5,000 as you gain experience
The AI tool below is built exactly for this β find proven content ideas for any niche, draft posts in your client's voice, schedule a full week in one sessionβ¦
All in around 30 minutes β try it free below π
Then keep scrolling for today's ideas.
Niall Doherty
eBiz Insider
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BORING BUSINESS
$50K in 9 Weeks, Started With No Experience
π According to a recent interview, Hunter Schenewark...
Heard about parking lot line striping on a podcast
Bought a used machine
Decided to give it a go
Zero experience. No connections. Showed up to jobs in a beat-up minivan.

Hunterβs striping machine mid-job
His first job was free β posted on a local Facebook group asking people to vote for which business deserved a fresh parking lot.
From there he sent about 300 cold emails. Churches turned out to be a sweet spot β big lots, empty on weekdays.
My close rate is like 40 to 50%. What I'll say is, "Hey, I'm new to this. I'm going to take my time and do a good job."
First month: just over $2,800.
Second month: $46,825 π€
One church job alone paid $26,000.
Hunter took home just under $20K in profit that month. The key was adding sealcoating β line striping gets you in the door, sealcoating keeps the cash flowing.
There's way more people that want to pay for it than there are people doing the work.
To start, you don't even need to spend $2,300 on a used machine like Hunter did π
Someone could literally start this business with just a roller and some paint. Get your first $3,000 in revenue with paint rollers, then you buy a machine.
Seasonal in cold climates, but the barrier to entry is about as low as it gets π
AI SERVICES
$14.5K/Month With a Hybrid AI Agency (80% Automated)
Adithyan Ilangovan quit his job when ChatGPT launched. His first business flopped. So he pivoted to doing podcast post-production for clients.
After a few months of manual work, he knew exactly which parts could be automated π
We lived through their pain. And it was brutal.
He built AI tools around the repetitive 80% β editing, audio processing, show notes, social clips β and kept humans for the 20% that requires taste and judgment.
The result is AI Podcasting β charging $2,500 to $3,000 per month for 4 episodes.
Revenue: ~$14,500/month.
Zero paid advertising β all referrals π€
π He writesβ¦
Not many people are exploring the hybrid model of heavy automation plus human polish. There is definitely a market premium and demand for that.
Pure AI tools become commodities fast. But AI speed plus human polish? That's a moat.
This model works for way more than podcasting...
Video editing
Bookkeeping
Copywriting
Social media management
Etc.
Pick a service people already pay for, do it manually for a few clients, then let AI handle the grunt work π
AI SIDE HUSTLE
$700/Month Creating Fake People for Brands on Fiverr
A marketing coordinator was helping a client source model photos for Instagram. The photography studio quoted $4,200.
The client said no.
That got them thinking. AI image generators were getting good β but you can't get the same face twice. Different scene, completely different person shows up.
π From a Reddit post...
I started googling around for tools that could keep a face consistent across multiple images and went down a rabbit hole for like two weeks.
They figured out a workflow. Set up a character's look once, save it, reuse that same face across dozens of scenes and outfits.
Listed a Fiverr gig: $30 for 5 photos, $50 for 10, $100 for 25. Clients include a yoga studio, a candle maker, a pet food company, and a language learning app π
The part that makes this increasingly passive is the repeat clients. Their character models are already saved. I know their brand style. A reorder takes me maybe 30 minutes of actual work.
February hit $710 from 15 orders. Costs are ~$30/mo for AI tools plus Fiverr's 20% cut.
Small brands need visual content but can't drop $4K on a real shoot. That gap is yours to fill π
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