Google's NotebookLM turns research into a full slide deck in minutes. Add sources, ask questions in Chat to get cited answers, then use Studio to generate slides with graphics and stats. The presenter walks through building a presentation on making money with AI, from gathering sources to exporting polished slides.
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Let me save you hours and hours by creating presentations with AI. Today I'm going to show you how you can use NotebookLM to find your sources, cite your sources and create a beautiful presentation in just a few minutes when it would have normally taken hours. All right, so let's dive in. I love NotebookLM for a few reasons. Number one, it's part of the Google suite so you know it's secure. And number two, it has so many deliverable outputs. So let me show you some of the new things that NotebookLM offers. So first of all, you go to notebooklm.google.com that's how you get here. I hit create a new workbook. So I'm currently in a blank workbook. So let me explain these three areas and then I'll get to how to create a presentation. So we, we have sources, we have chat, and we have studio. So here's what I'm going to do. I am hosting a presentation in Club Jam on Thursday, which is tomorrow all about how to make money with AI. Now I have some resources that I'm going to share, but I would love some ideas from other creators. And so what I'm going to do is I'm going to hit add sources and you can actually search the web. Now you used to have to go get the links website. Whether it was like a YouTube channel or a website, you'd have to go get the links. And now it allows to do fast or deep research. So I'm going to hit fast research and I'm going to simply type how to make money with AI in 2026. So you can see right over here, it's researching websites and it does a quick search if you click that Deep thinking. It does take a few more minutes. So I'm going to hit view and these are the resources that it's suggesting. The Complete guide to AI Agent Monetization. The best way to start an automation agency. I don't really want that. I want like quick wins here, like 10 micro SaaS ideas for solopreneurs in 2026 from Lovable. So I'm going to take it in. Demand skills 2026. AI data driven for fractional Skills. Heck yes. And then this one, How AI influencers are making money. AI trading strategies. I don't want to get into that data monetization. That sounds a little too advanced for my group. No offense. We just don't like to talk about data. Affordable AI powered tutoring. Yes. So I'm going to import those sources and then I'm also going to add my own source where I actually already did a presentation, how to make money with AI. So I'm going to upload that file. All right, so I uploaded that. You can see here, here's my train your brain. So all about how to make money with AI. So okay, we have that. You can either select all the sources over here that you've uploaded, or you can pick and choose which ones you want to create your content from. Because I went through each one, I'm super interested in all of these sources. So in the chat here I could simply say, what are the best ways to make money with AI in 2026? Now this becomes a little bit of an LLM type chat, like ChatGPT, but instead of talking to the entire Internet, we're just talking to these 10 sources that I have here in my notebook. So that way it's, it's not so much like taking it from the whole world and getting all these different perspectives matters to my audience and create content that way. So this is going to answer me back and cite sources. So let's see what it says. Build niche micro SaaS solutions. So tools like Lovable, which is a vibe coding platform like Mocha, AI like Replit, like Built for four, you can go ahead and create, you know, job boards, client portals, payment recovery strategy, kind of internal web apps. You can also deploy and monetize AI agents. So legal assistance, customer service agents, SDR agents. You could also oh gives you pricing models on how to price for those. You could do a monthly reoccurring and then some specialized AI freelance services. So this is exactly what I was going for. So let's see, this is kind of what was in my presentation. So AI video generation and editing, AI integration. This is a huge thing. Data annotation and labeling, photo restoration, I love doing that with Nano Banana, voiceover agency, resume optimization, local biz chatbots, and then become an AI influencer. You could use things like Higgs field AI to create characters. You could do corporate consulting and ethics. You could be the AI governance person, auditing and certification, ethical AI consulting and data monetization. You could also launch affordable AI education. So AI for coders, AI for creatives, AI for freelancers, you kind of get the gist. So I do like this. And guess what? When you really like an answer, you can actually save it and make it a source too. So I'm gonna go ahead and pin this over to the other side so you can just hit save note. And now it's right here and I can always have this Even though I'm going to continue on in my chat. All right, so this studio is the cool part that I wanted to show you. We could turn this information, not this chat, but all these sources into some sort of podcast. We could create a video, a mind map, reports, flashcards, quiz. But we're here today to create a slide deck for my presentation. So what I'm going to do is hit this little pencil and you can do a couple things here. You can make it detailed or clean with talking points that support you while you speak. I'm going to go ahead and do detailed deck and then I'm going to do default because I want it a little longer. You can choose your language, plenty of different languages here and then here you can describe the deck that you want. So create a high level presentation for my audience who are small business owners looking for ways to create more income. Show them how they can learn AI to create multiple sources of income, outline each one, provide how to get started and what they could charge for each service. All right, so I'm just going to go ahead and hit generate and then that takes a few minutes and we'll come back and see what it created. Okay. It took about five minutes or so, but my presentation's done. So let's take a look. I'm going to make it a little bigger. Okay. The AI income roadmap. And you can see here, like the design looks pretty good. Each slide is super designed with custom statistics, numbers, the market reality. Why now? AI Enhanced Service provider Career Document Optimization Meeting Intelligence, Creative Marketing Services. This is exactly what was in all the sources just put together in a cute way. Oh, this is funny. This was exactly what I put in my presentation earlier. This is actually my great grandfather and this is my dog. So I wouldn't put the. So I had two different versions. So I had like photo restoration. But then I also had a dress up your pet idea. And I can see here it put it together. Virtual Media Empire, Print on Demand Swag, the micro SaaS builder. Like, this is literally everything I asked it to do and it looks great. Quick tip. So like if you're putting this together and it's not exactly what you would brand it as, you can also download this and put it into like Canva or Gamma or whatever you like to use for your exact PowerPoint or presentation creation tools. But this, I will tell you, it always gets me to about 80, 90% of what I want. And, and this is just one of the tools that I like to create presentations in. But this is the type that I love when it's kind of a more abstract or different type of presentation where it's not mine. Like if I'm doing a keynote, if I'm doing something that's a paid presentation, I may use this plus some of my own inspiration. But for a training about a random topic, this is such a cool way to create a presentation. So anyways, this is not a whole overview of NotebookLM, but just about presentations. And I hope that you learned a few things. Remember, if you want to learn more, you can go to school.com jamout AI and we have an amazing classroom full of training. We have a very fun communicative community as you can see here. And then we do live training at least three times a week, sometimes four. So I hope you join us. We have a seven day trial. If you just check out my link in bio and hopefully I see you in the club.
