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New business ideas: $35K/mo recycling cash, $170/hr flipping Macy's returns, 8.7M views from $1 AI videos 🤑
$1 to make with AI. Hit 5.3M views on one video alone.
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Hey, it's Niall 👋
A fresh batch of business ideas for you today.
A guy who noticed his local gas station's ATM was a goldmine – now pulling in $35K/month.
A dad with a newborn who went live online with zero followers and now makes $170/hr flipping liquidation pallets.
And an AI video setup costing $1 a pop that racked up 8.7 million views in a month.
Three ideas, three very different playbooks – take your pick 🤑
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AUTOMATION AGENCY
$1 AI Videos – 8.7M Views in a Month
📝 Someone on Reddit described how he built a system that auto-generates reaction-style marketing videos using AI.
It scrapes viral TikToks, figures out why they blew up, generates AI reaction clips with text overlays and product b-roll, then auto-posts across 12 TikTok and Instagram accounts.
Results after one month? 8.7 million views. One video alone hit 5.3M 🤯
Cost per video? About $1.
His approach 👇
When a format works, milk it with lots of variations and copy it across all accounts.
The trick is narrowing the automation to a very specific type of content. You can clone the automation for different content, but each have their own skill file.
Doing this manually would cost a lot more…
Hiring someone instead of automating it would add (at least) $500 per person per month. Might need 2 people to manage those accounts.
That's $1,000+/month – replaced by ~$1 per video 🤑
Could be a neat agency play: set up AI video pipelines for brands, charge $1,000-2,000/month, and your actual costs are a few hundred bucks 😎
CASH MACHINES
$35K/Month Recycling Cash (Some Dude In a Pickup Truck)
Giani used to be a full-time police officer.
Then he noticed people at his local gas station always using the ATM for lottery cash. He asked the owner who owned it…
some dude that comes in a pickup truck
So Giani got his own machine. Then another. Then another 👇
Today he runs 83 ATMs across multiple states, earning $35,000/month in surcharge fees. All managed from his phone 🤑
He notes the advantages of owning ATMs vs vending machines…
My inventory is cash and all I'm literally doing is recycling. I don't have to go to Costco, BJ's, pick out whatever flavor people want. I don't have to deal with health inspectors.
A machine costs about $2,800. Internet box is $10/month. And the cash you load? It cycles back to your account when customers withdraw.
His barber shop location nets $340/month after expenses. His best spot – an ATV rental place – pulls in $3,000 to $5,000/month.
Bad location? No problem…
ATM is a movable asset. You could just move it from location to location till you find a good one.
He also hires "loaders" for remote machines – they use their own cash and earn $1 per transaction. One convenience store 2,000 miles away nets him $740/month –completely hands-off 😎
Your local barber shop or nail salon probably doesn't have an ATM yet 🤔
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LIVE SELLING
$170/Hr Flipping Liquidation Pallets on Live Streams
Kip Roland's Amazon business got suspended at the worst possible time...
I was literally in the hospital. My wife had just had the baby and Amazon is calling me about my account.
So he bought a load of kitchen appliances – under $5/unit, Macy's customer returns – and went live on Whatnot with zero followers.
It was a total leap of faith. I was like, we're probably not going to sell anything.
He sold 150 items in under two hours 🤯
Ten months later? $450,000 in revenue, ~$100K profit. He now averages $680 profit per 4-hour stream – roughly $170/hr.
The trick is sourcing high perceived value items cheap. He buys returns from major retailers at up to 90% off through B-Stock...
Buy with math, sell with emotion. There's no better example than live selling.
He's not alone 👇
Shannon Jean made $557K profit flipping luxury handbags from Costco liquidation auctions solo.
Another reseller, Joe Earl, bought 600 pressure washers in 10 months – never used one before – now heading for six figures.
You could start this weekend with stuff you already own 🔥
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