Hey, it's Niall 👋

Try this: open ChatGPT and ask it to name the best roofer in your town. One business gets named.

Here's the strange part – it probably wasn't even trying.

And its competitors have no idea they're losing customers that could be theirs.

A whole industry grew up around getting businesses to the top of Google.

The same thing is forming around AI answers right now – and the field's nowhere near crowded yet 👀

Which makes me wonder how long that lasts.

The opening's sitting in plain sight: find the businesses AI never mentions, show them the gap, help them fix it.

That's a service clients pay for 😎

Some people are starting to call it AEO. Most business owners haven't heard the term yet – which is exactly why it's wide open.

No technical background needed.

The hard part's already handled below – you'll see where any business stands in AI search, who's beating them, and exactly what to fix.

See it for yourself – try it free below 👇

Beyond that, I've got the usual batch of fresh business ideas for you.

Niall Doherty
eBiz Insider

TOGETHER WITH HUBSPOT

HubSpot AEO

Picture this. A buyer opens ChatGPT and asks for a recommendation in your category. Your competitor's name comes up. Yours doesn't. And that buyer never makes it to your website.

That's happening right now in markets everywhere. And most teams don't know it's happening because it never shows up in their analytics.

HubSpot AEO shows you exactly where your brand stands in AI search, where competitors are getting recommended instead of you, and tells you specifically what to fix. No expertise needed.

Try it free for 28 days. Just $50 a month after.

RANK AND RENT

He 'Rents' 230 Local Websites for $185K/Month

Luke Van Der Veer builds plain little websites for local service businesses – carpet cleaners, roofers, restoration guys – then rents the leads to a real contractor in that city for an average of $900–$1K/month 🤑

230 sites in total, 80% of them rented out – big months clear ~$215K, slow ones ~$155K.

Averaging ~$185K/month in recurring revenue.

Luke's niche criteria 👇

• Blue-collar service (phone-driven, no licensing, low seasonality)

• Cities of 50K to 400K people

• Google Maps full of businesses with no website and few reviews

• Yelp or Thumbtack ranking above the actual local providers

Then he builds a simple hub site, one page per service, going deeper than everyone else on page one…

Once ranked, he forwards the calls to a vetted contractor. He prices the rent at roughly 10% of the revenue those leads should generate – a site he expects to drive ~$10K of work rents for ~$1K/month.

Lately, for higher-ticket niches, he's switching clients to a straight rev share instead: 10–15% of actual revenue, tracked through read-only access to their CRM.

And Luke reckons the model holds up nicely in the AI era 🤖…

Which underserved city and blue-collar niche could you claim first? 🤔

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DIGITAL PRODUCTS

$623/Month From Etsy Printables (After 14 Honest Months)

Tired of "$10K in my first month!" flexes?

A seller called Devvirat posted the un-hyped version on Reddit 👇

He started at $0/mo and crept up to $623/mo by month 14 – slow, but real 🤑

He's got 34 products now, but the income is lopsided...

His one regret: building stuff he thought was cool instead of what people actually search for 👀

The fix is dead simple – type a keyword into Etsy's search bar and see what autocompletes, then check whether the top listings are actually selling.

The product that turned things around for him was a plain Google Sheets budget spreadsheet.

The whole shop now runs on about 3–4 hours a month 😎

Pick a problem people already search for, make one clean template, and let it sell on repeat.

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TOGETHER WITH MARKETBEAT

7 Stocks to Buy Before the Robots Take Over

The next AI trade may not be another chatbot.

It may be surgical robots, automated warehouses, smart factories, and machine vision systems already reshaping how companies operate.

MarketBeat’s new 7 Stocks to Buy Before the Robotics Revolution report reveals seven companies positioned across the automation boom, from robot builders and AI chip leaders to machine vision providers and factory automation giants.

This is where AI gets a body.

And as labor shortages, wage pressure, and supply chain stress push more companies toward automation, these stocks could move before the robotics story becomes impossible to ignore.

The report normally sells for $29.97, but it is free for a limited time.

Send My Free Report

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LIVE SELLING

Pastor Sold $2M of Golf Gear Live (Zero Followers to Start)

Clinton Benninghoff runs a golf shop in Midland, Texas, and preaches on the side. In late 2024 he opened the Whatnot app, hit "go live," and started auctioning clubs.

He had zero followers. 65 people showed up anyway 👀

That's the magic of Whatnot – the algorithm pushes your show to people who already want what you're selling. No audience required.

He sold a putter for $300 that first day. A year later his channel had done $2 million in sales 🤯

Margins run 20–25% live vs ~38% in his shop, so that's sales volume, not profit. The payoff is speed – stock that took a month to clear now moves in minutes.

His pastor instincts give him an edge – he calls out every buyer by name.

On why they keep coming back…

You don't need golf gear. Pick a niche you know, grab cheap inventory off clearance racks or garage sales, and go live 🔥

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