# 5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0

Channel: Greg Isenberg
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0SVz12Os24
Duration: 48 min
Language: English
Words: 9694
Transcript page: https://viewrankai.com/tools/youtube-transcript/D0SVz12Os24

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[0:00] what is the promise that you are going to give our listeners by listening to this full episode okay the promise I'm going to make is that depend wherever you are on your your career you're going to come out of this with like some business idea that you can Implement so if you've done like you know you're just starting or you're you know started tons of companies you're going to you're going to get something out of this and this is just data that I've seen and stuff from the front lines that I'm going to share so [Music] we're just going to get right into it you look like why do you dress up like

[0:40] The Rock what are you talking about this is how I normally dress why do you dress the way you dress what are you talking about this is how I normally dress no stra up it's it's totally so I tell you what you look like you look like if if Elizabeth Holmes got in a fight with the rock that's you okay cool that crossover I would love to see Elizabeth Holmes in WWE that would be amazing what would her name be uh Elizabeth no homies no homies yeah okay Cody we don't have that much time and you know how the YouTube and podcast game works yeah we'll get right into it baby let's jump

[1:32] into it um so first one is how to canva YouTube videos but this is just a lead gen funnel to an agency you hire offshore talent that are just really good at canva and it's like unlimited design on canva so was uh talking I got intro to this person uh that uh was like hey I'm trying to start my first company she had worked at as a basically ran Ops for a big creator that you would know the name of and was like I'm trying to go do my own thing uh and so long story short I was like what do you know like this is always the question I start

[2:09] whenever I'm kind of talking to these people and they're like oh well she's like I'm I'm really good at canva right and so I'm like all right well let's just go see if there's like any search volume related to tutorials of course there is it's like how to do XYZ how to make basically XYZ on Cana right like tens of thousands of these Searchers I'm like literally you could just start a YouTube channel and every day you film a video that shows somebody how to do like you know one of these keywords and what this turns into is it's basically going to be top of funnel for an agency right and so

[2:41] she's like yeah I have you know she's from South Korea originally immigrated to the US she's like I you know I have contacts all throughout southeast Asia and just all over Asia that I can basically tap into I was like this is a perfect business model for you go do this and uh I think that this idea is something for like I I had a conversation with uh these young Founders a couple days ago as well they were again another intro that I was taking for a friend and for them they had done a all these physical businesses they're like hey how do I get into digital this is such an

[3:13] easy way to get into digital like we've talked about a similar idea previously on the show where it's just Google ads for XYZ you just like literally show people how to set up Google ads for every type of business imaginable this is that same concept where it's like hey I do these YouTube videos that are long format and you say they're 20 minutes long and it shows this like step-by-step tutorial on how to do this thing people are going to watch that and they're going to be like I don't have time to do this can I just hire you it's just a natural inbound and you've already

[3:40] developed like this deep relationship with those people so that YouTube channel also turns into a revenue generating uh uh um like activ like activity for your business you can make ad Revenue off of that and simultaneously you just like build a newsletter uh from this as well so you get that top of funnel that drips down into the newsletter every time that a new EP or new video that you drop goes live you email that newsletter and then you sell ads to that newsletter so there's like three ways to monetize this thing so anyways uh and that I think that can be done in different phases too

[4:09] right like it could be just you're you're just the Creator and like you're also servicing some clients or that can be leveled up into okay now we manage you know a hundred different clients and I have a team of uh people that are managing each of them individually and then I have actual like I's that are doing the work um so there's like layers to this that you could go and I mean this could be a million-dollar company if you just for the next six months if you just published a video a day on how to do XYZ on canva like you will have an agency

[4:37] that is making you know an 80% margin and doing 80 grand a month okay few few reactions to that one is another way you can monetize is affiliate so not many people know that this but SAS products will give you anywhere between like 10 and 50% of monthly Revenue like recurring so totally like hello do that all day right exctly and then just include them in your workflows it's a natural progression and then in the in the description you're like yo here's my link below they click that it turns into a recurring Revenue stream this is like I again massive hu huge opportunity here if you look at anybody in the print on

[5:20] demand space they're doing this and I I know them personally they are printing money doing this like easily doing 500k a year between courses doing affiliate and then just the YouTube ad Revenue they make more money though off of the affiliate than they do off of the YouTube ad revenue and off of the courses that they sell like that's their biggest uh like you know piece of the pie when you look at their actual Revenue generation and someone someone listening to this is going to be like oh but affiliate is so like spammy or whatever Adobe is literally like a 200 plus billion dollar company and they recently

[5:57] just changed their like we think of them as this you know beautiful ad campaigns product Le growth but it might surprise you that they literally have one of the most killer affiliate programs in the game it surprised me th% they were short form creators like they were spamming short form creators with money right now like everybody I know that's in that space they're telling me this they're like yo they're trying to do brand deals and lock me in and not be able to like work with any competitors basically like non-competes shh don't tell anyone but I've got 30 plus startup ideas that could make you millions and I'm giving

[6:33] them away for free these aren't just random guesses they're validated Concepts from entrepreneurs who built hundred million plus businesses I've compiled them into one simple database compiled from hundreds of conversations I've had on my podcast but the main thing is most of these ideas don't need a single investor some cost nothing to start I'm pretty much handing you a cheat sheet the idea bank is your startup shortcut just click below to get access your next cash flowing business is waiting for you exactly their original I think deal was they'd give you 85% of the cut they just like they just increased it to I think a

[7:28] hundred 100 %c they're literally increasing it so obviously their numbers are working wild yeah also I know canva has an affiliate program I don't know what their percentages are uh I'll try to pull it up while we're doing it live but the other piece of this Greg that I think could even be taken further is like you're gonna find limitations within canva and you're and you're GNA be like oh well I'll just go build this canva app that solves this problem and you immediately have an audience and also a newsletter that you can like get this out to right and so there's this natural progression of like Creator down

[8:02] you know Creator agency software right that that you can go through and again this is It's we're just doing the same strategies like these are this a repeatable thing that you can do in any of these spaces um but I I I think that this can be T like a great great example is we identified this right is is captions within canva are terrible so you go make a captioning software for videos like canva is turning into one of the big biggest video uh like post- production tools that used just globally and their captions just don't exist like you're still having to copy in like an SRT and then

[8:36] like you know actually do the captioning manually and so if you can build out something that you know TAPS in the whisper pulls us back also if you want to build this reach out to me and like we I will partner with you on this and I'll do all the distribution and you literally all you have to do is hit an API from sw.com and like that will be how you get the transcription like we will you just have to to build this app and we'll do a partnership so anyways I'm GNA I'm going to shill that right now that's not even a shill you know

[9:05] come for the ideas stay for the partnership opportunity please please please I want you I want you to inbound me that you want to build this so reach out so on the on the video uh you know the recording of videos you were like he you can record 20 minute videos teach them how to do it by the end of the video they're going to be like I I don't want to do this myself here's what I'm seeing is working go and create a twoh hour video totally make it super long make it the youo sales letters are back baby it's it's gone full circle Russell

[9:40] Brunson has been here the whole time and we're just doing the same thing over and over again it's the the the Earth is a flat circle I swear to God but um if you look at like Ean gazi right he just I I did printed on his last course from my understanding again just back channeling like people that are in that space it is literally sold through like I think it's an hour and a half long like video of him talking through this whole like here's how to start an online agency right and then it sells you into this like 5K like online agency course and that whole entire thing is just it's

[10:17] just a it's just a vssl like that's a traditional vssl that you would use and like spammy affiliate marketing back in you know the early 2000s with clickfunnels so uh yeah anyways I didn't mean to cut you off but I think you're I think you're so right on this of just like this like the long form is winning right now that's kind of unfiltered kind of raw Etc exactly cool uh what else you got idea number two next one do you uh do you know what tip beats are I don't okay so tip beats are uh basically a a subset of uh the hip-hop and like rap

[10:55] space so somebody would go search that' be like a Drake Type Beat I don't think anybody would ever search that now but they would look like Kendrick type beat right and so uh basically it's just like they they're trying to people are looking or or anybody that's like trying to rap is trying to basically find beats that sound like similar to these styles of artists right thousands of keyword search volume uh in this space um the only reason I know about this is that in one point during my life I was like I'm gonna become a producer and like you know when I'm like 20 right and so I was

[11:27] making like trap type beats basically so you can make a ton of money licensing these beats out and also selling these beats right but here's the kicker where I think there's a huge opportunity is uh these AI models for like uh beat production and like kind of like making the sounds that are then layered together are easier than ever to create so I think you could go and you could make you know I'm just traditionally like a producers they go they sit down maybe over a day they make 10 tight beats right that are around this this specific uh like we'll say say got Kendrick type beat you could go and make

[12:01] a thousand Kendrick type beats with these tools and then you build a Marketplace out to basically sell these so the whole distribution strategy and how people do this is they they uh basically register those tight beats right and then they post them to YouTube and when people search you know whatever Kendrick typebeat they again get serve those up but they make ad revenue and streaming Revenue off of somebody listening to that tip beat then within the description they link back to the company and then you can either license or buy that that that beat from from that producer um I think this is a huge opportunity to be disrupted they're like

[12:44] traditionally again you know go look up like a u a producing group called there's one called internet money and it's these kids out of La U they did a lot of uh like for example like juice worlds beats Etc um that's kind of their whole the scene that they're in I mean they're making unreal money doing this there's so many people that are trying to make music right now that are basically just using these producers and then wrapping over the top of it with a mic they bought off Amazon right I think there's an opportunity to capitalize on this and disrupt like what used to be

[13:16] hours of work you can now generate like pretty decent outputs with this AI stuff and it's just going to get better and better so is the biggest Marketplace for this typ beats.com literally that's one of that's one of the biggest ones I'm so out of the game now I don't even know like where where the uh where kind of everybody goes but if you go to YouTube and you search just like any typebeat right there's going to be thousands of these videos that come up you can also bid on these keywords Greg so you can bid to like have your YouTube video show up as an ad for that typebeat so for my

[13:50] understanding it's just a funnel game then right of like you you built out this you know whatever beat this Kendrick type beat do the ad on YouTube it's sends them to the YouTube video and then they literally can listen to the type beat there they go to the link they purchase it that's the whole funnel that you're optimizing for is that that is that whole that whole thing so typ beat.com typ beats.com definitely check it out because whenever I see like an ugly website like this I'm like oh my God there's something here so that's one printing money Printing and then there's uh beat beat Stars the top beat Mark

[14:26] Stars yeah that sounds right so they you know the CEO Abe batan says the best typebeat producers are making 60,000 a month leases for type beats typically cost between $15 and 150 but they can add up quickly YouTube YouTube usually ranks instrumentals higher in search results which can lead to more views and potentially more sales and leases for the track also some of these producers their YouTube channels have like you know 100,000 subs and so every time that they do a drop they're getting Revenue streaming revenue from like this is actually a great business if you want to do something in the creative space like this is an unbelievable business for

[15:04] somebody because you're making money off of the actual streaming you're making money off of selling like the Beats themselves and off of the licensing so it can be a recurring so the licensing how this is structured from like an economic standpoint is you typically like license the beat for like for example you buy it for a year for like $29 and all that means is that nobody else can use that beat during that period that you're licensing it you can also buy the rights to that beat but it's a higher price right we'll say like whatever 295 instead of the 29 but what a lot of times what people do is they go

[15:34] and they'll buy like a batch of these beats right so they'll buy whatever we'll say 10 of them and then they go and they'll make tracks over all of them and then one of those will actually go live into the public right but it's just a numbers game anymore in the music industry especially when it comes to like hip-hop or and like stuff that's like less writing is occurring it's more just like you know ad lib you know it's happening in real time as they're as they're doing the recording like there's great videos talking about this with how the this industry has evolved into punching in and punching out right you

[16:05] basically are just punching in and like you do like you know one verse and then you know it'll be like a couplet or whatever and then you it stops you go back and then you like in prot tools you're just doing this over and over again right and so that's how your whole track is basically being produced it's basically you punching in for every section they're not writing anything down they're not like and and you it's funny because when you talk to old heads in this space they're like this isn't even music like you know this is garbage blah blah blah right but then uh what

[16:33] what's interesting is actually that uh this all originated from Jay-Z so he was like you know notorious for not writing any of his stuff down and so because of that the industry heard about it and there like little Wayne like quit writing because he's like if Jay-Z doesn't write I don't write and so then this just like you know trickled all the way down now to uh anybody that's coming up is kind of doing the same tactic so I tweeted right before this about real estate and I feel like this is kind of like digital real estate I tweeted that you know half nearly half of Real Estate

[17:06] Investors 42% have lost $200,000 or more on a single investment with 45% admitting a bad investment that has almost ruined them financially what are you doing unbelievable just make beats no mortgages only straight up I it's crazy I don't know what going to happen in commercial like everybody I'm talking to is like just freaking out um the things that I hear that people are buying like my my friend who's in this space uh is he's like yo everybody's trying to get their hands off of uh on strip malls that's like what they're obsessed with right now if you're in commercial it's like this mixed use space and any type

[17:41] of business can go in there and it's like places that people would go to right whether it's like health care or you know some other random stuff or food or whatever that goes into those rather than these like massive structures so it's gonna be it's gonna be wild over the next like four years yeah but I look at that and I'm kind of like why would I invest in really estate and I know people in the comment section are going to be like dude you're missing out you know like what are you doing real estate is the best they always go tax incentives that's I feel like the mo the

[18:08] biggest is like oh well there's Sol these tax incentives and I'm like but are there really like personally I'm like I don't know like this just feels like a headache like I'm over here and we can push some pixels around and make way more money and then I just buy a digital asset SMP and I don't have to think about it and it just goes up 9% I don't have tenant management I don't have anything and so I think if I don't know there's kind of I feel like two camps like I'm I'm I'm visiting family right now and uh our we have some friends that are up here and like their

[18:38] family's like deep in the real estate game like their world is so uninteresting to me but my world is so uninteresting to them like we have nothing to talk about I'm like ah I'm just gonna I'm gonna get drunk at this party let's be real like we I'm G about to delete eight beers and then talk to you about you know whatever Sports and crypto totally but uh I don't know I think I it's it's fascinating to me because it's I think that you know there's that great quote that real estate is where you meet the dumbest rich people and I feel like that is kind

[19:08] of a truth like the it's it's it's a grind type business and if you can just show up and be like very studious with it like you can make money there in my opinion but there's also you know outliers and all this but I'm just saying on on the you know looking at the bell curve of the average and I'm gonna get total heat in the comments for this but whatever two more digital ideas what what do you got yeah yeah so Random one for you I think that D Toc brands are going to start owning digital influencers so let me take a step back so this idea all came

[19:41] from uh I think it was Zoe Grace morrettes if I if I remember correctly she was the face of coach and then something happened and she like basically she got in trouble and and and in public like the the tabloids you know dragged her through it but coach had just signed this deal with her for like three years or whatever right for her to basically represent coach like within all their advertisements but now suddenly like she is basically like you know bad Goods right like they can't really work with her they probably still have to pay her and so I had this Epiphany like oh this is probably like

[20:15] what is going to happen and this really all stemmed from like what was going on with like Lil Michaela and all these other digital influencers that are out there I think that brands are going to start owning influencers and they're going to create drama and gossip and like just like you see in with like real influencers to basically make conversation happen around their world and their ecosystem right so I'm imagining like you're G to have you know somebody like uh like parade right which is like a underwear company um like they're G to make all these influencers that are all these different body types and again they're just using like

[20:49] versions of stable diffusion and training on it these people aren't real they don't exist but they're going to grow these accounts and they're going to make them interact with each other and like do things in public or whatever right and create this gossip and drama which creates dialogue about the brand which gets deeper buy into the brand for from these from their audiences and I think that this is where this goes because it's going to be a way it's going to be cheaper number one and then number two it's going to be a way to like you're you're basically covering yourself instead of partnering with a a

[21:21] celebrity you're like there's no way that they can mess up and like ruin your brand by being affiliated with it and then also I think that this turns into an asset like just like you and I talk about like oh you have a YouTube channel or you have like an like email list like you're going to be like oh yeah we own these 20 influencers right and ACC cumulative between all of them they do x amount of Impressions per month so that's like you know when you look at a balance sheet that's going to be something that's included in there of like oh this is a a digital asset that

[21:52] we own right like this is some de digital real estate that we own and so I I I think it's going to start out first as agencies providing services like this to companies so you know the first version was like oh L Michaela can we make her famous yes then they're like okay can we offer this as a service to a you know as an agency to companies yes and then what's going to go down further is then it's going to be like this is going to be a team internally at these companies that are like basically building out these whole networks or these communities this is my kind of

[22:20] like thesis on this and where it goes and I I I I think that this is just an inevitability just based on it's going to be cost d for number one it's like this is going to be so cheap to do this and be so effective from a reach standpoint that it's going to why would I do influencer marketing I'm just gonna go and I'm gonna do this thing so yeah it's it's also a convenience thing because finding the right influencer creator for your brand is really difficult and they are literally human beings meaning they change their interests change um so but this person's always on brand they always are the same

[22:58] they always end up like doing the work that they promised uh it's just going to create more consistency and the cost component and it being an asset that you own long term right uh I think that all of those things are just gonna it's just going to n naturally Cascade into this being a a fact of reality for D Toc companies so if you want to create one of these characters how do you create one from my understanding and I'm not deep in the the generative AI space for like uh video and photo um but from my understanding like you can just generate a person or you can be you can license

[23:33] somebody's likeness and then like make a person based off them um and then you're basically like training a stable diffusion model or training uh what's the new model that just came out it's absolutely insane we've been playing with it I can't think of the name it's uh flux yeah flux unbelievable crazy I'm curious to see what happens there if they get just like I don't know who you would sue but they just H their ass absolutely handed to them um but uh I think you would take one of those you basically would train it based off that person and then you would go and have them you know live out their life and

[24:06] their lifestyle and then craft this like narrative it's almost like this story that's being told through this individual like I'm imagine like you know you know fantasy and like how there's all this lore that happens behind the scenes and like that's actually what gets like like fan bases to be just so bought into that fandom is because there's all of this lore behind that this is just a version of that but four Brands like you're going to make all of this lore and all of this you know and people are going to be fine with it that it's fake right like they're fine with fantasy being

[24:37] fictional and but what it does is it creates this dialogue and you're going to see these communities like develop around this where it's like oh just like there's a Lord of the Rings like you know subreddit that discusses what did tolken mean here or you know take that for any of these other fandoms it's you're going to see the same thing happen but around Brands like just how they used like you know used to see this for like Kanye or whatever it's going to be I I think that brands are going to be able to stimulate this and it's again it's super early days I think it's just

[25:03] going to be like an owned media asset that's cheaper but longterm you're going to be able to like craft these interactions and and maybe they even like have their own YouTube channels right and it's like hey fam blah blah blah I did a new haul here's what I got from parade right or whatever you know whatever that ends up looking like so um I I don't know I just I I I think that there's something here that's going to evolve that's just going to be kind of in this realm of getting Valley but it's just so cheap to do it now it makes sense quick ad break let me tell you

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[26:12] that's why I invested in it they're so confident in their approach that they offer a 30-day Sprint with 100% money back guarantee who does that nowadays so check it out highly recommend boring marketing.com yeah and they're 100% going to do YouTube videos I mean the first version of little Michaela was just these like pretty flat images and then it became like super realistic and then they started doing like little short form videos uh gifts type things so of course yeah it makes total sense that as the technology catches up uh you'll be able to make well I mean you can today you make essentially face video by the way quick

[26:50] quick hilarious thing I I went on Cloe and I asked um to give me the step steps of how I'd create an avatar like Lil Michaela and clo says I apologize but I cannot recommend ways to generate AI avatars or deep fakes that impersonate real people without their consent as it's illegal basically and I was like turn on turn on their go to perplexity and turn on their model it would answer anything and it's my favorite thing ever like you have all these companies and they're putting on guard rails and perplexity is like no we're just going to like answer anything that you ask us we're doing this live I'm I'm boom so do

[27:28] you do it mid Journey D to staple diffusion Focus which is a free alternative you craft your prompt you do something like a photo realistic 3D render of young woman digital influencer style similar to Lil Michaela with specific features clothing style background setting um you generate and refine that um use the face lock feature to to maintain consistency across multiple Generations uh you use a you use AI powering eding editing tools like mock moi. a and even canva has one and you can even use face swapping technology to maintain consistency across different poses there you go that's super interesting I know in the beginning they were just doing like a face swap uh for

[28:12] my understanding where it was like this they would have like a model with a similar body type and then they would just like basically change the face and that was like the the quick way that they were doing it um yeah man I just imagining this like you combine it with like he Jen or one of these where it makes the digital avatar version of you and it's like an entirely you know fictional human but imagine that for Instagram for Tik Tok for like long form YouTube videos Etc and that that person is a representation of a of a brand they're a face to a brand and I mean

[28:42] just to attach this to another idea like why are iconic Founders so impactful to Brands it's because people like have a hard time like thinking about a brand like in their minds like in like you know think think about Apple and you're like okay maybe the logo maybe the letters Etc but now think about Steve Jobs and like you can see his face in your mind right and so I think what this does is when you make these digital influencers is you you put a face to a brand which becomes very powerful and like a high leverage Point long term what do you say to people

[29:12] who uh will say no no no I will never fall love a digital brand what do you say to those people a digital Avatar it's the same people that say uh I delete every cold email and return and say it's spam that I send out like I think you're not interacting with the world as the average person does right like I think for a lot of people they I don't know it's if you're in Tech you're living a way different life than the average person right but like if there's this gossip and like it's entertainment like this company is basically G to be providing entertainment to you I think

[29:48] that people are going to engage with that they like entertainment we're constantly entertain more than we have ever done before it's honestly shocking to me these Brands aren't doing this already like why are I mean why why aren't there more creators just on salary it's like literally your job is to make a YouTube video a week about some topic that's related to us or whatever right I I mean that's crazy to me that that isn't that isn't the thing if you ask young people what's their top job like what do they want to do they say YouTuber right like gen Z that's literally their response so why aren't

[30:19] we doing that like why aren't we hiring these kids at whatever the price is 50k a month it's their first job out at college and it's like yo you're a YouTuber like go like your measurement of success is how viral these videos go like and you just it treats it like it's like an in-house thing so anyway just these are the things that I've been thinking about in relationship to like where I feel like all this technology is going so I have two thoughts on that on that question one is when you watch the movie Avatar uh do you not connect with the characters if you watch Family Guy do

[30:52] you not you know connect with Peter Griffith of course of uh of course you do of course you do um so that's one and number two you're not going to know the difference you're going to be scrolling Instagram you're going to be on YouTube shorts you're going to be on Tik Tok you're going to see a Creator who has content that you're interested in and then only on video 4 are you're going to ask the question wait is this a real person dude they sold only fans for these people have you seen a what's her name fit atana uh the one out of Barcelona it's this like Art Collective um it's like AI

[31:28] fit AI t i n a or a yeah AI T N A atana Lopez okay she's fake and like it was this Art Collective that did this and they're like yo let's make this influence or Mak her famous and then they're like let's sell only fans and see what happens and so they do this I don't think they're nudes but it's like them selling like you know whatever her wearing like uh like like lingerie I think is what they ended up doing they sold like 20 grand of it in the first 24 hours like this is what is happening I don't think people understand this like

[32:07] I look at young men and I'm like yo I I feel like I took the last chap like Chopper out of Nom like I can't imagine being 22 right now and you're just like living in like a city and can't meet anybody because it's like work from home remote you suddenly have access to like there's this other one that I heard is going viral it's called candy Ai and it's like one of those chat with girlfriends but they'll also send you nudes like I I can't even imagine what that is like like right now like if you're if you're young and just like coming into like the dating world so

[32:35] anyways this all this stuff is about to get so messed up again I think that this is gonna become a normal thing right like it's going to become these people like again these influenc and again it's it always starts in art it starts in these collectives right and they're like oh can we do this and they figure it out and then what naturally happens like it's going to trickle down into like like direct a consumer and then that trickles down into B2B and like this is an inevitability that will happen over time like imagine like a corporation right like a torture 500 like they would kill for this they're like you're

[33:10] telling me we can have like the same spokesperson for the next 300 years they never age they're always on brand and there's never a scandal with them and they're just like we build this owned media asset over time absolutely they're going to do that like they're gonna do that tomorrow right but it it's got to it's got to get established enough and the ideas to get concrete enough for that to arrive there I need another idea I just I need it all right uh next one is like a pretty simple one but um so have you ever written a uh email HTML yeah okay it's mind-numbing right this is like one

[33:47] of my first things I ever learned to program absolutely mind- numbing so it can just like AI is unbelievable at writing it like unbelievable and so I think there's an opportunity uh there's tons of search volume around email HTML generator I think you just make an AI powered version of that and there's still people that are trying to program like these HTML emails right like this is a Ab absolutely huge thing there's tons of offshore agencies that do this for you but you can just go in and prompt back and forth and you can probably do this in Claud already in a hacky way but I think that the way that

[34:21] I would have it it's just mimic what cursor so has done but do it just for email templating where it's like you have have like a a box where you're prompting it's like writing the code Out Below that and then over to the right it's like visualizing what that email is going to look like I think that was what the UI would be and then the distribution strategy would be like uh email templates for XYZ industry like email templates for e-commerce email templates for blah blah blah and then you do like a listicle style blog post and then bid do Google ads on keyword phrases related to uh uh like email

[34:56] template or sorry email HTML generator so it's like really bottom of funnel do a conversion event for the signup and like I think that this is easily you know one of those businesses that you could build get it to 20K Mr and then sell it for you know a million plus and be a solo Dev solo founder and like that's your whole strategy is just that and then to build out the initial uh organic links I would just go and like submit it to all of these AI directories and uh like that's how you'd get the initial domain Authority from there then take that and like you know publish all these articles

[35:30] uh uh that are related to to like building email templates out but your thoughts I mean Nob brainer idea proven paino and you know it's pretty obvious on how to scale it doesn't take a lot of people and I always get this I you know I get this feedback from people there you know people are always like why don't you do share ideas that don't cost a million dollars to build this doesn't this this doesn't C cost much to build like how much do you think this would cost to build oh man I think that you could build this for three grand like you could go to my homies they're called

[36:05] HTML burger.com these dudes out of Bulgaria and tell them I sent you they love this and be like yo I'm trying to build this tool like literally give them a wireframe tell them to text act that you want they'll come back to you with a quote and you could probably have this live and I'm guessing they could probably do it in three to four weeks and it would cost you three to five grand is what I what I would what I would estimate just based off of random builds I've done in the past for them I mean all this is is like super simple UI with some API calls then like a sign up

[36:33] flow like that's pretty straightforward and then stripe connection like that's that's all this is I wouldn't even make it free either I would like I would I would I would have no premium I would have it like B pay pay to play um and then have a pro tier that you can they can bring their own API key if they want it's like 249 one time one time payment and they bring their own API key and do as much as they want I think with those things loone and then you know probably could throw throw it up on Hacker News and that would go viral I'm assuming get

[37:03] some friends to upvote it and like strategically post it so that it hits North it goes uh it like rides uh rides Europe into North America and I think that you could get this thing probably to like 5K a month in the first I I bet in in a week you can do it I know I said last idea but I need one more idea just because you know why because there's people listening to this that are in the deep end that are here that they deserve the bonus idea I love it so this one is more of an Ops game um but I think anybody could do this so we we talk

[37:38] about this a lot just offline but like short form creators don't actually make that much money right it's like a very especially in B2B it's just very hard to make like really substantial money in that space um I think there's an opportunity to and we're testing this actually right now but basically build out newsletters for them that are like for their target audience so like imagine they do like design right or like they talk about design and you go out and you uh you build out this you know you find anybody that's interested in design so interior designers Architects Etc get all their emails and then for the content super

[38:15] straightforward you just have that that short form Creator you you tell them hey you sit down you record a video for 30 minutes of you just talking through whatever has happened in the last week that you found interesting like any insights any data Etc record that send it over to us we turn it into a transcript we turn it into an email newsletter we figure out your voice you know all the vocabulary that you use and mimic that based off the transcript that you provided send that back to them they okay yes no they Redline it at that point you have this like content That's Unique it's original and then you send

[38:47] that out to this audience that's high value in the B2B space that they're in then from there I think that you could like and again this is what we're testing is just using beehive boost as a way to uh get the initial revenue for this so that it self funds its own growth and then from that you then go and you sell ads but if you have enough of these right then you go and you I mean imagine you have whatever 50 different newsletters that are all in these different spaces you go and do an ad ad you know an ad buy or sell uh to

[39:18] uh you know somebody that's in those like in those related Industries so I'd probably do one that's like in this a specific product category like you know focusing on anybody that works in like a growth org right so head of growth head of customer experience you know whatever whatever that ends up being but I think this is very symbiotic uh I think the short form creators are trying to figure out how do they do long form and make more money and creating unique like just newsletter content on a repeated basis is extremely hard I think for a lot of people like just doing that like especially if it's a daily right or like

[39:51] three times a week that's a very hard thing to do but if you ask most people they can sit down and talk about a talk for 30 minutes like no question right like we just did it like this this is a great source of original Source material that you can then repurpose and turn into these newsletters and then you just run it you just have it be TurnKey this thing's in the background growing for them it's making money a check shows up to them every month and they don't have to think about it I think that's a huge business opportunity and again it's just an Ops game you could build this

[40:20] literally on top of SW AI right like the company that we own so um yeah sizewise how big could this get man I don't know I I know with like 100k list um we can you can build those lists in about 12 months right to get them to 100,000 Subs um and if you're doing four a week I I bet you could probably get people to buy in so it's like every send is like I don't know probably three to five grand depending on the industry so I think one of these could make probably 20 grand a month so you have a hundred of them you know whatever that ends up

[40:54] being uh what is that two million a month something like that I mean my math is probably way off on this I'm not as deep in this game I you'd have to ask people that are more in the newsletter space um I think that it's it's somewhere in that range probably though and then it's like how do you aggregate all of these together and then do a media buy for you know a larger company where they're like okay we want to buy out ad slots across all of them for the next whatever like two quarters Etc the other thing to note is the newsletter is an asset so if you have

[41:25] 100,000 Subs especially B2B at the worst case it's worth call it a dollar at the best case it's worth $10 if it's worth $10 that's a million dollar asset that you're sitting on there's your real estate if it's worth a dollar then it's $100,000 still a lot of money 100% And and think about that like as an exit for these creators right so it's like okay cool like over the next 12 months we're going to do this work and we're going to sell this list at the end of that 12 months or whatever million plus or even if it's 500k I mean you're talking about uh two hours of work a month for the

[41:58] Creator like that's all they have to do to make this happen and then you just do a REV share with them all the way through so it's profitable and then you have this exit that occurs I mean it's again this is a great this is a great business it's why we're experimenting in it and see if we can happen early data looks like you can do this so if you're a short form Creator that's in B2B reach out I want to work with you and like learn about what you're trying to do um but I I think that again this is a huge business opportunity to your point

[42:24] because you can you can exit these things right and you can just walk away from them a lot of the times that's how it functions it's like cool you've got this list like you already have trust with them like they just take it over like they just take over and you walk away and you don't have to think about it there's no earnout it's just like you know buy and walk type type of type of sale they want you to walk away dude totally exactly that's their best scenario 100% I think you could do this probably you want to know the Shady version of this of course okay okay

[42:58] so if you believe in HR uh for early stage companies don't listen to this part uh so the kind of gray version of this would be you build this for like already a creator that exists and then like make the sending name from them and just use the content the podcast content or whatever it is that they're putting out in public already and just grow this list and then get it to like 10,000 be like hey we built this email newsletter out for you already do you want do you want partner with us on this and then and then you basically just take that and you know grow it from

[43:34] there or you get it to 100,000 and then you sell it without them ever knowing and that is the Shady gray version of this that you could 100% do because this information is already in public that you could scrape from so and full transparency we are doing this I really want to but we are not doing this that's right all right well that's perfect that's a perfect way to end the Pod Cody where where could people learn more about swell and and and follow your follow you yeah yeah yeah so uh I'm most active on Twitter I will continue to call it that and and Linkedin those are kind of the two

[44:09] places um you can just reach out as well toh Cody actually message me there when I get my email I get it goes banana so I need to make a public one um but uh one last thing too if you're an e-commerce company that is has like a ton of SKS uh we just made this new company it's called Landing C basically we do AI powered programmatic SEO uh we build like thousands of collection Pages we're seeing unbelievable results for our clients that we're working with uh and I want to work with you if that's if you fit that criteria so we're just working with Shopify WordPress should be live by the

[44:42] end of uh September uh but yeah reach out um we basically like build these Pages out at scale and then function as like a SEO agency that's that's building all these collections so and uh thank you for coming on man thank you for coming on thank you for having me man I always gets me gets me juice baby I had I didn't eat today I had three coffees so that I could be manic for Greg I will say I will say this you were the most viewed podcast on my YouTube channel the Reddit one baby until the I took it back so and my Reddit one now

[45:19] has like 130,000 views if you're still listening to this that's why he didn't have me back he's like this little [ __ ] so he can't be top on my he can't be the top three videos on the channel no let's let's let's bring let's bring Cody back let's let's make this video so if you liked Cody and you like the ideas uh the best thing to do is tell us in the comment section Cody Cody comes in there here and there so um and and just like the Youtube video um so you get more of this in your feed so Cody also sub to Greg's newsletter it's one of the best

[45:54] on the internet right now if you want to learn about cash flowing businesses I'm going to shill that straight up all day long I never shill it Greg Eisenberg decom check it out um it's one of the best on the internet you always say that because I just put your tweets in it all the time I mean that's a part of it I mean you just got leverage over me right but in reality though I I learned something from it every time and again I'm I'm in this world right and if you're in the same world you're trying to F figure out how do I build cash

[46:18] flowing businesses this is the place like his newsletter is the place that documents how to do that in real time I appreciate that man I appreciate that and I I've been following you for a while now and you're one of the real ones on the internet there's only like a handful of people that are that are out there sharing the sauce um they share the sauce baby to Ser you live to serve and I love that community service man it's mandated by uh Idaho like my parole officer said I had to do it so no but but in reality I I'm a you know I'm built online I'm a

[46:54] child of the internet like my whole career is entirely that and so this to me is like a way to basically you know give back to it and and I mean this stuff didn't exist when I I was going to like you know 150 view videos on how to do Google ads right and like that's what I was building my career off of some dude like like with a potato for a mic and you can't even hear you know you can't hear what he's saying and that's how we were like structuring campaign so if if there's any for this it's it again I think it adds to the to to the

[47:26] community and educ that next Generation so it's it's it's I I love to do it live to serve I'll be back anytime you want me all right man I'll see you soon peaceg [Music]

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