I Tried Selling AI Digital Products on instagram to prove its NOT luck

0:05[music] I've made seven figures selling simple digital products on social media, and now AI can do almost 90% [music] of the work for you. But I've noticed that most people are still building and selling digital products the complete [music] wrong way. So, today we're fixing that. I'm going to show you the four best types of digital products to build in 2026 with AI. I'm going to hand you the exact prompts you need to build them, and we're even going to attempt to make our first sale on a brand new AI digital product that we build from scratch over the next 48 hours. All this to prove

0:35that it is not luck and that anyone can do it. So, with that, let's dive in. Before we start building, we need to talk about why everyone seems to be getting rich off digital products right now. Just look at some of the biggest names on the internet: Iman Gadzhi, Shelby Sap, Alex Hormozi. These people have built digital empires selling digital products, and here's why. No inventory, no shipping, usually no employees, and no overhead. You build the product once, and it can sell infinitely. Every sale after the first

1:04one can almost entirely be pure profit. There is no other business model that gives you that kind of leverage. So, I went through and researched thousands of the top accounts, gurus, and personal brands on social media. And here are the four best digital products I found to be the easiest and most profitable to make. Number one is ebooks. These are the lowest barrier to entry of anything on this list. You can build one and sell it thousands of times for anywhere from $9 up to $97. The best part is these are automated delivery, and they have zero fulfillment. Ebooks are where most people start, and before you write them

1:40off, you're going to see why later in this video. Number two are templates. These are spreadsheets, planners, dashboards, content calendars, budget trackers. We can just go over to Etsy and see that people pay real money for these kinds of things that save them time. These sell consistently because people want structure without having to build it themselves. Number three are courses and this is what the big dogs are doing. Iman Gadzhi, Shelby Sapp, Dan Koe, these people are doing millions of dollars a year selling courses. They're higher price point, they're higher perceived value, but they are much more work to build. And as someone who's made millions selling courses, as long as you

2:17have knowledge worth teaching and an audience that trusts you, this is where the real money is. Number four and maybe the highest leverage of all of them are apps. These have the highest ceiling because they're a software, but they're also typically the hardest to create. But the new AI tool that I show you today can actually build mobile apps in minutes. And before you think that apps don't really work on social media, I actually built and marketed this app using a social media account called Let's Talk Mental Health. We were able to onboard almost 30,000 people onto that app in six months just from Instagram. And afterwards, that app that

2:50I built ended up getting acquired. And look, I found multiple other accounts doing the same thing. Apps like these are doing hundreds of thousands of dollars a month built off the back of a social media account. But again, the crazy part about all this is you can now build any of these in a fraction of the time using an AI tool that I'm going to show you today. After considering all these options, I decided that building an ebook made the most sense for me for this challenge. It's the fastest to build, the easiest to sell, and with the right audience, you can make serious money. In fact, again, just last month

3:21we made over $4,000 in sales from scratch off a 27 dollar ebook that we built using the tool I'm about to show you. The point is I know this should work, so let's see if we can make it happen. All right, so research is done, but now it's time to actually start building this thing. And this is where

3:36Manifold comes in. So, this is Manifold. What makes it different from every other tool that I've used is that it doesn't just answer questions. It executes. For anyone trying to build a business online, it basically plans, researches, and can build your entire product on its own. No hand-holding, no back and forth, just [music] results. The interface is simple. You describe what you want to start building right here, you hit run,

3:58then you just watch it do its work. Think of it kind of like having a full team in the background running for you. But Manas does it a lot faster than a team does. Our first step is going to actually be to build the product. So, I'm going to ask it to complete a 20-page ebook called The Wealth Habits Nobody Taught You. We're going to be targeting men over 30 who want to build long-term wealth. Write it in the voice of a distinguished older man who has built wealth over decades. Include seven chapters: The Money Mindset Shift, Why Your Salary Will Never Make You Wealthy, The Assets The Wealthy Actually Buy, How

4:29To Build Income While You Sleep, The Wealth Habit To Start In Your 30s, And The Best Niches To Start A Business In 2026. Make it practical, direct, and full of counterintuitive insights. Then, just go ahead and hit run. And while we're waiting, I'm going to go ahead and hit some golf balls.

4:54Get up! Oh, is it firm enough? Yes, it is. Oh! Okay, so that was fun. Uh wow, look at that. Manas already builds our product and every chapter, every section. I mean, this is crazy. Oh my goodness. I did not expect it to be this good. This is wild. I am just going to ask Manas to change a couple quick things because I want it to look slightly differently, but this is incredible for a V1. So, once you have your product built, we need to set up a store landing page. And before you think you have to go and download one of those old-school website makers, you can now build an amazing

5:32landing page using Manas. To build a landing page with Manas, I'm going to paste a detailed prompt and hit run. I'm going to paste this prompt in [music] the description if you want to copy it. So, Manas just built this landing page that literally 6 months ago would have cost me [music] thousands of dollars to make and weeks going back and forth with a website designer and they just did this in about 3 minutes. And this thing looks amazing. You can even edit anything in this page if you don't like it using this edit button right here. In edit mode, you can select what you want

6:02to edit and explain Manas and hit run. [music] So now all I need to do is set up a checkout page that connects to this button right here. We need to think about the price here. Now you want to go in and research the other [music] stuff that's working. If we just look at some of the other ebooks that are selling online, a lot of them are selling for $9 but [music] that just feels so small. I say we try to sell this for $27 and see what happens. So to create a checkout page, I'm just going to go ahead and use my Stripe but you can use any platform

6:29like Stripe, Kajabi, anything that's able to deliver some type of an ebook after you've created it. And whatever tool you use, you want to make sure that that customer receives an email immediately after they buy with that ebook that they bought. Otherwise, you're going to have some unhappy customers [music] and trust me that is not a good feel. Great. So now we have our landing page, our product, and our checkout all set up and automated. Now it is time for us to go and start marketing this. There are two ways that we're going to try driving traffic to this, organic [music] and paid. Now personally, I am an organic guy. I

7:01prefer getting my traffic organically but a lot of people like [music] running ads because if you can figure out how to put $1 in and get three or $4 out, you [music] have found a money glitch in the system. We're going to start with organic first and to do that, we're going to come back over to Instagram to one of my AI influencer accounts [music] named Richard Hale. This guy has grown from zero to almost 200,000 followers [music] in less than 3 months and this is why I love organic marketing on social media. Every reel drives people to his profile. Those people see his bio and if we put a link on this page, they

7:34might end up buying and that's the organic funnel. These social media platforms have made it so easy for you to reach your customers for your business. Now again, this account was started less than 3 months ago. So all you need to do is go and build an AI influencer like this. And I have plenty of other videos on my channel that show you how to do that. But here's an even cuttier way that you can drive traffic to your landing page using organic marketing on Instagram. I'm going to set up an automation using a tool called ManyChat. That way, when you're scrolling Instagram and you see Richard

8:04Hale pop up on your explore feed, at the end of the reel, he's going to say comment the word guide if you want me to send you my ebook where I share everything I know about building wealth. And here's what that'll actually look like in one of our reels. Comment wealth and I'll send you my exact blueprint to build so you can

8:20start scaling today. Now when someone comments on that video, they receive this message which takes them to our landing page that we built with Maness. Now the second way that we're going to try to get our first sale is using paid marketing. To run paid ads, we need three things. We need a Facebook ads manager, we need ad creative, meaning you have to create content still just like you would for organic, and then you need to put a little bit of budget behind it to make sure it reaches your target audience. So for this, I'm not going to do anything crazy. I'm just going to put in $20 and

8:51hopefully we get a sale out of that, but we'll see what happens. When you're in here, you want to make sure that you're targeting your audience. You can have Facebook do this for you, but I'm just going to choose men from 30 to 55 interested in wealth, investing, and financial independence. Great. So our ad is now live, the organic is running, both funnels are now pointing at the same landing page, and now we wait. Look, I've done this dozens of times and it never gets any less nerve-racking. You've built the product, you've set up the funnel, you've launched the marketing, and then there's this moment where it is completely out

9:24of your hands. You just have to kind of sit around and hope that something happens. So we're going to check back in a few hours and see if we have our first sale. Six and a half hours later. All right, so it's been a few hours and so far we have not made any sales.

9:42What? I'm not in panic mode yet because we are starting to get some traffic to our landing page site, but it does tell me two things. One, we should probably switch up the creative that we used on the ads because it doesn't look like this is converting super well. And then two, we definitely need to post more organic content. All that organic content needs to drive to the landing page. I'm really hoping that we can make this work because I've seen some DMs in here where people are actually asking for the ebook. So that tells me that there is demand for it, but if we're going to get a sale in the first 48

10:14hours, we got to make some changes and we got to do it fast. 48 hours later. Okay, guys. So, it has been a long 48 hours, but I do have something exciting to report. We were able to get our first four sales on our digital product in 48 hours. And I'm going to explain how we did it. So,

10:37first off, the ads did not work at all. We ended up spending $40 on ads and we made nothing back in return. I do think that over time Facebook ads do optimize once they learn who your audience or your ideal buyer is, but we did not get any return on the ads. So, technically we're out $40. But, organically, and again, I love organic, we were able to generate four sales at $27 a pop. So,

11:01that is what? I'm not good at math, but somewhere over $100. So, all in all, we made over $100 on a brand new digital product that did not exist 48 hours ago. But, what does that mean for you? Well, if I'm able to do this in 48 hours, there is no reason that you should not be trying to build your own digital product. And you can build once and sell infinitely. Again,

11:24templates, apps, courses, ebooks, etc. And start making money on the internet. Now, some other key stats that are worth mentioning is that we had about 270 website views on our website. We got four buyers. So, that could probably be optimized even further. But again, what does all of this mean to you? Basically, if you're able to build a digital product like we made 48 hours ago, and then you're able to get 270 people onto that landing page, it is very likely that you are going to make money. The internet is changing so fast because just a few years ago to build something like this, it would have taken days. And

11:59if I think back to the app that I built that was acquired, that literally took like 6 months and $20,000 to build. But today, you can literally build that on your laptop in a matter of minutes using tools like this. So, the real key that moves the needle is your marketing. And that's why this channel is all about ways that you can get views on social media and actually turn that into a profit. Look, there's a reason that all the top personal brands on the internet are selling some form of a digital product. They don't require a lot of time to build as you saw in this video,

12:29and they are extremely profitable and scalable when you build them right. So, my challenge for you is to go and build your first digital product, put it out there, and see what happens. You might not get it right on the very first try, but that doesn't mean that it's a failure. As long as you're able to find a way to get traffic onto your digital product using social media like we did with about 250 website viewers, it's very likely that you are going to make some money online. If you guys want to see more challenges like this or just continued results on this, please comment below and let me know. This was

13:01a super fun and also a kind of exhausting video to make, but I had a great time making it, and I hope you learned something about the digital product game. I genuinely can't wait to see what you guys come up with. I'm sure you'll build something better than we made in this video, and with that, I

13:15will see you on the other side.