MBA2288 5 Ways To Use ChatGPT To Make Money Online + Free Ride Friday
2 Feb 2026 · 18 min
Podcast episode (hosted by Omar Zenhom) that teaches five practical ways to monetize ChatGPT for side-hustles: YouTube scriptwriting, website/code fixes, speech-writing services, affiliate marketing, and running a social media marketing agency. Episode includes tips on iterative prompting and training ChatGPT, sponsor ad reads, and a weekly “Free Ride Friday” giveaway (lifetime access to the $100 MBA Live two-day training).
Questions this episode answers
About 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours.
Denita Nikolova.
Lifetime access to the $100 MBA Live two-day training.
omar@100mba.net
Leave an Apple Podcast rating and review to enter the weekly random draw.
Chapters
Let me tell you about Intuit QuickBooks.
When I was starting out my business.
I remember sitting at my desk late at night not working on my business but cleaning up numbers, tracking and reconciling.
Payments and wondering how this became my life.
But once I automated the admin side of things of my finances, those nights had disappeared and I felt a whole lot better. Outdo it with intuit QuickBooks QuickBooks is the trusted end to end solution that businesses rely on for getting paid, managing finances, paying employees, finding new customers and more. QuickBooks provides a team of AI agents and trusted experts, so doing it yourself no longer means doing it alone. Their payment agent gets you paid faster, their customer agent finds leads, follows up and secures more sales, and the accounting agent automates and categorizes transactions. Get your critical business jobs done with QuickBooks on the Intuit platform.
Ready to save on new tech? It's time for Dell Tech Day's annual sales event celebrating our customers with fantastic deals and benefits. Product perks include Dell Rewards, free shipping, premium Support and more. PCs like the Dell 14 with Intel Core Ultra processors will help you do more faster and with a premium suite of monitors and accessories, you can upgrade your whole setup with amazing savings. Visit Dell.com deals.
Hey oh welcome to the $1 RBA Show. Business lessons you can count on every single day with our daily 10 minute business lessons for the real world. I'm your host, your coach, your teacher Omar Zenholm. I'm also the co founder of Webinar Ninja, an independent software company. I started my co founder back in 2014 and today's episode is Free Ride Friday. On Free Ride Fridays we give away a lifetime membership to one of our programs. We're giving away access to our hundred dollar MBA Live two day training. In this two day training I give you all the tools, strategies and skills you need to become a better entreprene. 100% guaranteed. You can learn more over@100nba.net live and of course if you want to win a free ride, just leave us an Apple podcast rating and review and you enter our weekly random draw we call Free Ride Friday. Listen in on Friday just like today to see if you won. It's that easy. We announced this week's winner a little bit later in the episode. In today's lesson you will learn five ways to use ChatGPT to earn money online. I'm a big believer in getting started as an entrepreneur earning your first dollar and one of the easiest ways to do this is to leverage the just in Case you haven't heard, OpenAI released a pretty sophisticated artificial intelligence called ChatGPT. It's a chatbot that you can ask questions and it can provide you with great information and content. The power and the possibility is pretty endless. But today I'm going to show you specifically how you can use ChatGPT to earn some money to start your first side hustle or business and earn some cash. I'm going to give you some specific examples on how to pull it off, as well as some tips on how to generate the best information and results from ChatGPT, how you can train this AI to give you the best content. So let's get into it. Let's get down to business. It's no secret ChatGpt is super powerful. But how do you leverage that power so that you can build a business around it? A side hustle that can help you earn some revenue, that can later on allow you to build other businesses or that big idea you have. I got five ideas for you. Let's get started. One of the fastest ways to start earning some revenue is to build an audience on YouTube. Now, YouTube's not going to pay you lots of money right from the bat. In fact, there's a few criterias you're going to have to go through before you're going to start monetizing. You have to have a certain number of subscribers and plays, about 1,000 subscribers at the moment, and 4,000 watch hours. But hang with me here. The key to YouTube is to actually create videos that people want and to continually create content for YouTube. YouTube loves great content and it will continue to expose your videos if you're consistent. So how does ChatGPT come into play? Well, it's actually pretty good when it comes to creating short form video scripts. Now, before I share this idea or any other idea, know that you need to give ChatGPT some prompts. You need to actually ask it to refine its answers over and over and over to get some really good content. And I'll talk more about this later, but don't just ask it. Hey, give me a great script for this topic. That might be a start. But then you want to iterate and ask it to make tweaks and changes and improvements as if you were asking a human being to make edits. And ChatGPT will churn out new content, churn out an improved version of that content. And in this case, when it comes to a video script, ChatGPT is really good when it comes to short form copy, less than 3,000 words. Now it's not the end all and be all. You might have to edit it, add to it, tweak it, but it'll give you some ideas. And I should say you should always Fact check what ChatGPT turns out. It's not always 100% accurate. It's very confident, but not super accurate. But in my opinion, if you're going to use ChatGPT to create brilliant video scripts for your YouTube channel, make sure your YouTube channel is niched and that you're actually helping people accomplish a goal, a task with your videos. Let me give you some examples. Let's say your niche is cooking. The point here is that once you choose a niche now you can go deep into different kinds of how to videos, like how to make the perfect scrambled eggs, or how do you flip pancakes to make sure they're even on each side? Or how to cook a steak without a barbecue. Why do I suggest this tool? Because people are always trying to find answers via YouTube, especially activities, tasks, things like cooking or car repair or style advice. And this will allow your videos to get plays and retention time. And by keep them short, let's say a five to six minute video, you'll get full retention, hopefully if your video is good from top to bottom. And the most important thing in a video is the script. So even if you just do a voiceover and use some stock footage for the images, or you create your own B roll where you're doing the actions that are required to be on camera and then you voice it over later, this is going to make your life so much easier because the script is really the content, the reason why the video is actually good. And of course you can make money on YouTube via Mon. Basically YouTube runs ads. While people are watching your videos, you get paid a percentage of that ad time. Now listen, it's gonna take some time to grow that audience and to grow the views, but it's a start. And it's a great way for you to start growing an audience so that you can build a business around that niche. Idea number two, if you're somewhat technical, you know, a little bit HTML, css, HTML, php, any kind of coding or if you're interested in it, you can learn this very quickly in a matter of a couple weeks with an online course like on Udemy, you can basically start a service to fix websites, fix broken code, one of the superpowers of ChatGPT, its ability to tell you what's wrong with a line of code or a series of code. So you could basically be like a Tech support person where you can charge a monthly fee, where you can fix anybody's website anytime if need be. A plugin's broken, something's wrong. They don't know how to embed a form or a piece of software onto their website. You can provide the service. Several times I've tried to do something on my website. The code is giving me an error. I pop the code to ChatGPT and say, what's wrong with this code? Can you fix it? And they it popped out some better in code. With the fix, I copied that new code and pasted into my site and it worked perfectly. Now the reason why I think this is a great idea is because with very little skills, with very little training, you can become an expert with the power of ChatGPT. Most people are non technical. Most people just need a website to run their business or run their site, to run their hobby, whatever it is, and they don't know how to do what you're what I'm talking about here. They don't even know how to find the code in the first place, copy and paste it into ChatGPT. They probably don't even have a ChatGPT account. Point here is that with a few weeks of training and learning a little bit about the basics of code and development, you can fix a lot of basic website problems if you're open to learning and growing idea number five Speech writing services. Many people fear public speaking, but they need to give a speech. Whether it's a wedding toast or a presentation for work, or maybe even to get a job at an internship, they have to talk about a topic and present. People would be more than happy to actually pay for this service. ChatGPT can actually produce some pretty good results when it comes to topics and speeches. You can even give it prompts to say, hey, add a few jokes, write it in the voice of so and so. Say for example, you like Ryan Reynolds. You think he's funny. You can throw a little humor and say, write it in the voice of Ryan Reynolds. But maybe you like Neil DeGrasse Tyson because you like the way he explains complex things. And you can also say, but also add the nuance of Neil DeGrasse Tyson. And of course, whatever you end up with ChatGPT you can modify and change and edit. And I actually recommend that because then you add your own flavor to it and your own branding and there you go, you got a speech for somebody that they can use for their next toast presentation or whatever it might be. Now this might sound like a side gig but it's a great way for you to earn some money and learn how to run a business, right? How to treat clients, how to invoice, how to service a customer, how to market, how to sell, how to fulfill the service. And even if you're not a fantastic writer, it definitely gives you the confidence to modify an existing piece of work. Number four. I think this is probably the easiest and most profitable idea. Become an affiliate marketer. Affiliate marketers basically promote other products and get a commission when people buy through their affiliate link. Now, one of the most common ways affiliate marketers make money is through a thriving blog. They choose a niche and then they talk about different products in that niche and, and why they should buy it. For example, maybe you're in the niche of footwear now, one of the things about having a thriving affiliate blog is coming up with great ideas, coming up with consistent ideas that you can then publish as articles or reviews for each product. You could tell ChatGPT, hey, look up this product. Learn about the new Nike Air Dell Dons, these are new pair of basketball sneakers. And it could do some research for you, like tell me what technologies does that shoe use and what are the colorways it comes in and what makes this shoe different? And then you can take that information and write some great articles based on it. Once you write the article, you can throw back to ChatGPT and say, hey, improve upon this or give me a different iteration or add one joke per paragraph or add a statistic and a reference to that statistic for each point that's made. You can come up with a new, improved version of that article.
Okay, does this happen to anybody else? You sit down with a juicy QPC, some McNuggets, and those golden fries from McDonald's. Then you take a long sip of your sprite because you can still hear your mama saying, don't fill up on that drink before you eat your food. But you're grown now, so you do what you want.
Share and share alike with the 20 piece McNuggets from McDonald's for just $6. Limited time only. Price and participation may vary. Cannot be combined with any other offer.
ClickUp just solved AI's biggest problem, and it's saving 4 million teams from productivity loss every day. Unlike ChatGPT and other AI tools, ClickUp converges all your work into one plat platform so your AI super agents have full context to prioritize tasks, execute workflows, and draft documents instantly. Teams using ClickUp finish work 30% faster and cut meetings in half. Try ClickUp for free today and get 15% off AI upgrades@ClickUp.com podcast that's C L I C K-U P.com podcast all.
Right, number five, fifth business, fifth idea that you can use ChatGPT so that you can earn some cash. A social media marketing agency. Now, the reason why I left this one for last is because it's my favorite. Because ChatGPT is actually fantastic when it comes to giving it already made content and coming up with something new. So if your job is to market a business's content through social media, then you can come with great little snippets, quotes, social media shoutouts, ideas from existing content. So for example, if you're promoting a blog post, you would just post the blog post inside of ChatGPT and say, hey, come up with five Twitter content pieces or tweets. You got a podcast, transcribe it and do the same thing, same thing with a video. Use a tool like socialmonials or Buffer or meet Edgar and you could schedule out all this great content for your clients. Social media profiles. Go over to canva.com, which also uses AI in their app to come up with some great images or videos that go along with your social media pieces. Create whole videos and reels with Canva just using the combination of ChatGPT and Canva. The reason why I love this idea is because you can get customers on retainer paying you monthly some pretty good fees for taking care of all their social media. Their job is to give you their latest content, like their blog posts or newsletter or videos, and you can make sure that their social media feeds are filled with great content based on the things that they've created to promote that, to promote that blog, that YouTube channel, that podcast, helping them get more exposure and hopefully more followers and more likes and listens and all that kinds of stuff. Now, I promise you that I'm going to give you some tips when it comes to using ChatGPT to maximize your results. Now, you have to remember that ChatGPT is artificial intelligence, which means you need to train it to be smarter. If you want the best results, you need to give it some prompts before you start rolling up your sleeves. Let me give you an example. I was creating a video script for a webinar I'm doing for our affiliates over at Webinar Ninja. We're launching Course Ninja. It's coming out of beta and I wanted to create a video for the registration page for the webinar we're doing for our affiliates to show them how to become better affiliates and sell more, of course NINJA so they can get more commissions. So as you can see, this is a bit of a complex idea I'm asking ChatGPT to do. So I take it in stages. I first need to kind of teach it like a student what I want it to do. So first I say, hey, tell me what Course Ninja is. It comes back and tells me an answer. It's not a really correct answer. So I say, go to webinar ninja.com courseninja and give me a description of what Course NINJA is. It did this. Now, the description was much better because I gave a direction. I then said, hey, I want to create a video script that is two minutes long for affiliates, of course Ninja. It gave me a script, but the script was not really what I wanted. It was talking a little bit about partners and not an actual affiliate program. Didn't fully understand the whole affiliate part. So I told it, hey, Course Ninja has an affiliate program that helps affiliates sell Course NINJA for commission and earn money. So again, I'm teaching ChatGPT what it is. It got it and it modified the script based on that. Then I said, okay, great. And it gives you like basically the basic version of that. I say, okay, wonderful. I need you to give me some statistics and some references to statistics to beef up this script. I then teach it again. What I wanted to include. I'd say, hey, coursenge is all about the belief that live learning is the future of creators. Online. We believe that the future is live training because live training is far more effective and gets better results than recorded video. I then say, here's a few studies and I reference the studies that prove this. Now include this information in the script. Now we're getting a really good script together. I then say, hey, research Omar Zenholm myself. It researches it. I said, can you please write this in the voice of Omar Zenholm? So as you can see, I'm teaching it. I'm teaching it, I'm teaching it. And even with the end result of the script looks great, but I'll still make some edits, I'll still make some changes to the script, move things around, give my own flavor, maybe change the intro a little bit. I'll then even then pass it to my content writer Connor and get him to improve it. But we have really fast forwarded the process. Notice I still do a lot of writing myself. I still have Connor, a writer, because this just means I can accelerate and create more content with the power of ChatGPT. It's not a replacement of a writer. It's an enhancer that wraps up today's lesson. And hey, go ahead and try one of these strategies, earn a buck or two and tell me how it goes. Email me over@omar00mba.net if you love the podcast. The best way to say you love it is to hit, subscribe or follow. By doing that, you tell the algorithm, hey, this show's pretty awesome. You also get our next episode automatically. Today is Free Art Friday, so let's see who won this week's free ride. And the winner is Denita Nikolova. Deniza's review says insightful. Five stars, a ton of value. Keep rocking. Thank you Deniza for that amazing review. Your mission is to email me over at omar@100mba.net so I can hook you up with the lifetime access to the $100 MBA Live program. You can join us live and have lifetime access to the recordings. It's a two day event. Can't wait to see you there. If you want to win a free ride, just leave us an Apple Podcast rating and review and you enter our random draw. Listen in on Friday just like right now to see if you want. It's that easy. Before I go, I want to leave you with this. Technology is moving very, very fast and there's something new every day. When something comes up like ChatGPT, take a look at what you're already doing and see how you can enhance what you're already doing, speed up, improve, modify, make better, whatever you're already doing. That way you're not adding more to your to do list, you're actually taking things away. So it's kind of, kind of offload some tasks for you or speed things up for you or get you better results. This is really what technology should be doing, is optimizing the tasks you're already doing. Thanks so much for listening and I'll check you in Monday's episode. I'll see you then. Take care.
Of.
Bob Evans. Creamy Mac and cheese and buttery mashed potatoes are made for the moments you can't plan, like last minute school costumes, glitter explosions, or when little Liam brings three friends for dinner. No plan, no problem. Say hello to plan B O B from Bob Evans. Because when you bring out the Bob, you can take comfort in knowing you'll always have something delicious on the table, no matter what the day brings. When you need comfort, bring out the Bob available now in your refrigerated section.
