227: 5 Surprising Ways to Make Money with AI (Even If You're Not Techy)

Foreign welcome to the Creators MBA Podcast, your go to resource for mastering the art and science of digital product entrepreneurship. My name is Dr. Destiny Kopp and I help business owners generate consistent revenue from their digital product business without the need to be glued to their desks, constantly live launching or worrying about the social media algorithms. I hope you enjoy our episode today. Hi there, Destiny here and welcome back to the Creators MBA Podcast. And today we're not just talking about using AI to save time in your business. I'm going to be talking about how you can use AI to help actually make money no matter what niche you are in. So whether you are a course creator, maybe you have a membership, or you're a coach or a service provider, AI isn't just a tool that you can use behind the scenes in your business, which we know that that is a really great way to use, can also be part of your offer and it can be part of what you sell. So in this episode I want to show you five practical ways that you can integrate AI into your business in a way that directly leads to new income streams, higher value offers, and more irresistible digital products. So let's dive right in. Now, there are three key ways online business owners are already making money from from AI and I want to break them down for you. The first is teaching or guiding others how to use AI. And this one is super simple. So if you already teach something, what I want you to do is consider layering in AI. As an example, a productivity coach might teach something like plan your week, which with ChatGPT. A membership for content creators might include monthly AI trainings that help people create their content faster. And you don't have to be an AI expert. You just need to show people in your niche how to use it. The second way people are making money from AI is they are selling AI powered assets. So I want you to think like templates, journals, checklists, pattern generators, social media kits or planners that are AI generated or enhanced. So you can sell these like on your website or through your membership or through any system that you have. The third way people are monetizing AI right now is embedding AI inside your offer. And this right here is my personal favorite. AI becomes part of your delivery. So maybe your coaching program includes a custom GPT that helps clients prep for sales clause, or maybe your membership includes an AI assistant for crafting their content. So in this case it becomes part of the experience and the transformation. So now I want to talk about five ways you can add AI to your current offers and possibly Even charge more for them. So let's talk about specifics here. The first is creating a custom GPT or chatbot for your clients or students. So in this situation, you're going to build a custom GPT inside of chatgpt, but no code is required to do it. So you're going to train it with your frameworks, your FAQs and your tone of voice. So now your clients can get answers 24 by 7. So you can use it as a bonus or you can charge for for access to it. The next way is to bundle AI tools and trainings into your offers. So if you are like a service provider or a coach, you can create a bonus library like how to use AI for and then whatever your specialty is. So this might include some templates, some tutorials or some walkthroughs. This is a great way to do this because it increases that perceived received value. The third way is to offer done with you AI sessions or templates. And I would say that this is a really great upsell. So you can hop on zoom and create AI enhanced content together. As an example, you can walk a client through building an AI generated lead magnet or a sales page. So something like that would be fast, it would be fun and would be highly, highly valuable. Another way to kind of do this is like for instance in my memberships and I'll give you a very specific example here. So last month in the part time Passion club, I had a workshop where I helped people build their irresistible lead magnet. And this is basically what we did. We used AI. We created it together on that workshop. So so they walked away with their AI generated lead magnet. We had the registration page set up, we had their welcome sequence set up. We had all of that done in the workshop and we used AI to do that. The next way is to build AI enhanced digital products. So instead of selling like a very plain planner or guide, you, you can sell an AI assisted version. So maybe that's a workbook that helps them brainstorm using AI prompts or digital download that creates custom content for them. So we do this a lot of times in hobby school with some of the planners and journals that we sell. And in fact I'm working on another membership for hobby school where this is exactly what we're going to be doing here. The fifth way is you can license your AI content or your prompts. So if you have built really great prompts or workflows, sell them, you can create a monthly subscription or toolkit. Now I would say that this is perfect for B2B or niche memberships. So for example, you could do like marketing prompts for therapists, sales prompts for creative. So there's a lot of opportunities there. So let me go into some very specific examples just to kind of spark your idea here. One example might be a parenting coach Sales an AI meal planner that runs a family Meals with AI workshop. A digital artist can create coloring books with Mid Journey and can sell them. A business coach can add a custom GPT to their mastermind that helps their clients write sales emails. Perfect. A knitting teacher offers AI generated pattern builders to their students. These are ways that you can help your clients and students get faster results and also make your offers feel more modern and valuable. So here's what I want you to take away from this episode. You do not have to pivot your niche to make money from AI. You just need to have a look at what you're already doing and ask yourself where could AI make this faster, easier or more valuable? So start with one small, small experience. Build a bonus, offer a one time training or create your first custom GPT. And if you need help doing that, I have a very short $9 training that you can sign up for and I will walk you through how to create your first custom GPT. And if you want help weaving AI into your business and offers, I want you to come out and check out the Digital Product Growth Lab. That is where I dive into all of this and more to help you build a sustainable scalable income using digital products and tools like AI. I'm going to drop all of those links in the show notes and thanks for listening and I'll see you next time. Thanks for listening all the way to the end. I hope you enjoyed this episode today. If you love the show I you hope, I'd appreciate a review on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast platform. Have a great rest of your day and bye for now.