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up agents on your behalf. So, by understanding looping and scheduling, I'm also going to give you a bunch of loop ideas as well to actually show you some examples of what you can do in your, you know, life or your business, um you're actually using AI agents already. You don't need to build an agent, they're built
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Lately, I've been seeing so much rubbish on YouTube. Everyone's claiming that they have the best AI side hustle, and I'm seeing people talk about AI websites, AI UGC, and I feel like there's just an overwhelm of ideas. So, what I wanted to do today was take my experience through running an agency that's done over $20 million in revenue, through running a digital product business, which has done over $6 million in revenue, and give you my honest thoughts on each AI side hustle. So today we're going to go from worst, the side hustles that you see online that I just don't think work, and then the side hustles that I think are super effective and underrated, the best ones in
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Lately, I've been seeing so much rubbish on YouTube. Everyone's claiming that they have the best AI side hustle, and I'm seeing people talk about AI websites, AI UGC, and I feel like there's just an overwhelm of ideas. So, what I wanted to do today was take my experience through running an agency that's done over $20 million in revenue, through running a digital product business, which has done over $6 million in revenue, and give you my honest thoughts on each AI side hustle.
So today we're going to go from worst, the side hustles that you see online that I just don't think work, and then the side hustles that I think are super effective and underrated, the best ones in 2026. And the two best ones are the ones that I'm personally focusing a lot of my energy on right now. This is a space I'm super deep into through my agency. I work with hundreds of creators. I speak to dozens of creators on a weekly basis.
I know the affiliate schemes that are working. I know the models that aren't working. So, I'm going to try and bring all of that knowledge to you as someone that's really invested in AI to let you know where you should spend your time because the reality is you can't do all 13 of these side hustles that I'm going to speak about today. You're better off focusing on one and going all into one. So, I'm going to rank them, give you what they do, the pros and the cons, and you can pick the best vehicle for yourself and your skill set.
So, let's get straight into it. And if you enjoy content like this, where I help you get the edge on AI, make sure to subscribe to the channel. So, we're going to rank things from S tier to Dtier. D being the worst, S tier being the best. And I didn't put anything in this video that was completely crap. I only put what I thought was the best 13. So, even things in the D tier are not inherently horrible, but they're ranked Dtier for a reason.
Then, obviously, the things in the S tier, I think, are top tier, and I'm focusing a lot of effort on them. So, the first thing I'm going to put into D tier is AI clipping. I'm seeing a lot of people jumping onto this now. So, essentially the clipping model is, you know, you work for a creator. There are lots of bounty websites like and content rewards where you can essentially start clipping for a creator and you can use AI to basically clip faster and then distribute content.
Inherently, this isn't a bad way to make money. In fact, I think clipping is actually one of the best ways to make money in 2026 online and one of the fastest ways to make money online. But the issue that I see are people that are claiming that Opus Clip or these new AI clipping tools are going to be able to automate the entire process for you. And the reality is I run a lot of clipping. I run clipping for a lot of creators through my agency.
And what we have noticed is that nothing beats manual clipping. Even if you're going to use AI for the grunt work, that first 50%, it still requires a human with taste to pick the clip that they think is going to go viral so they're not just chucking rubbish out into the abyss. So AI clipping isn't bad. We definitely implement it in some of our workflows, but as a fully autonomous business, I probably wouldn't recommend it unless you're willing to do the manual part as well.
All right, now for the next one, which is also going to go in Dtier, is AI website generation. I was scrolling through Instagram the other day and I kept seeing these reels of people saying like, "Oh, you basically just, you know, call a business which doesn't have a website." And then if they say they'd like a website, you know, you quickly build one before you get on a call and then you sell it to them for $1,000. But think about this realistically, who in their right mind, what unless you're just speaking to like a really dumb business and maybe there are outliers, but who in their right mind is going to pay $1,000 for a website when the arbitrage is literally that person going and using Claude code or lovable or replet or just downloading a free template?
Like there is no moat. The new tools are now compressing the margin so much on website development. And it's like not a very well-kept secret. Everyone essentially knows this. So maybe a business would pay $1 to $200 to take the work out of it. But at the end of the day, a business is not going to give you like super high margins on website gen, but you're going to have to spend a lot of time on cold calls just to convince a business to buy your website.
So I don't think it's a bad side hustle. If you really just want to make a few thousand and you've got absolutely no other options to get started, then it's okay. But I'm thinking in terms of scalability here. And the things in the A tier and specifically in the S tier in today's video, they can get you to hundreds of millions of dollars. And these ideas to begin with can get you to maybe a few thousand. Maybe AI clipping, if you do it alongside manual clipping, can make you more.
But something that's definitely factoring into my criteria here is the upside potential. Because I believe we should be spending our time on the highest upside things. Now, of course, sometimes you need to spend time in a lower upside vehicle in order to generate enough capital to reinvest into a higher upside vehicle. So, I don't think it's a bad idea to start with one of these side hustles that's easier in order to get into something more advanced later once you're bootstrapped with capital.
But, I wouldn't be picking anything from the D tier for this. There are better ones in the B and the C tier that, in my opinion, are better starter vehicles where you'll learn more and still have bigger margins in the early days. By the way, if you click the link down below, you'll get access to my free school community where I've broken down the exact business model for the S tier idea that I'm about to give you. So, you can claim that down below for free, and that's going to give you a huge head start because it's something I've already spent years developing.
And the school is also my hub for every single resource that I give in every video. So, if you want to stay up to date with the best practices in terms of making money with AI, that is the community where we're going to have all of that. Okay, now we're moving from the D tier into the C tier. Number 11 would be faceless channels. Now, faceless channels actually can make you a lot of money. YouTube ad rev is pretty good.
You can also start to stack sponsorships. You can also do clipping pages, which I've seen do very well on Instagram now. You can basically, you know, create these graphics and carousels that can have comment CTA and then you can funnel them into some sort of product. So, it is scalable and it's also part of my business model. We're doing some stuff in this domain, but as a solo business model, the issue is it does require like quite a deep understanding of content still if you want to do it well. and pure UGC content is getting demonetized on YouTube.
So you still in some cases need the skill of manual editing. You still need curation. You still need to be able to edit the script. A lot of the AI voiceovers are getting flagged as well. So you would need to use like a real human voice over which introduces more of a cost element. So when it comes to faceless content, I much prefer short form than long form right now. I think you're going to do better using faceless content on Instagram in order to market for a product.
So, you can use UGC for an agency, which is actually a separate business model I'm going to get into shortly, or you can run faceless content to pump some sort of funnel. But doing it alone for the ad rev is not a good idea, hence why it's in Ctier. If you combine faceless or UGC content with a funnel, then it actually creeps up into A tier, and I'm going to discuss how you can do that shortly. All right, the next side hustle number 10, which is also going into C tier, is AI voice agents.
I'm also seeing this become quite a popular trend. I actually think it's a massive industry. So essentially what AI voice agents are are fulfillment for local businesses. So businesses can handle both inbound and outbound deal flow with an agent that can answer 24/7. So basically the model is you walk into a business, you understand what the business is trying to do. You build a custom voice agent. It's a bit harder than a website.
So there's more of a moat because you need to train it over time and really understand the complexities of the business and what they're trying to sell. So that process takes a bit longer, but that creates more of a moat. So when you implement it into the business, it can have more impact and you're more likely to get a retainer for modifications and adjustments and maintenance over time with this business model than you are a website which probably requires less changes.
Hence why it's in C and not D. But it is becoming saturated. And I still don't think it is a side hustle which can scale massively. Like if you just run some math, you might be able to charge a company between $500 to $1,000 for this. Obviously once you have some testimonials and a proven track record, you could probably scale to $5 to $10,000. But that is after like 6 months of work. And the question you got to ask yourself with any of these side hustles is, is that worth the 6 months of work, or is it better putting that into a higher upside vehicle?
So, I don't think it's bad, but there's a lot of competition. I don't think the margins are great. And I think to get the proper testimonials that you need to be able to charge more just takes simply too much time, hence why it's ranked at C. All right, one more in C and then we're going to move into the B tier. And that's where I think the business models start becoming really viable. But I do like this one and I almost considered putting it in B and that is AI UGC ads.
So you would essentially learn to optimize ad generation through a product like Higsfield. The new seed dance model is a very good video model. You would learn to create ads and I really like the IRL ads like trying to replicate reality. So you know maybe it's like a live reviewer reviewing a product or potentially it's like I saw this format recently which I thought was awesome of like a green screen react where someone was like reacting to a tweet.
So let's say I don't know you are working for a company that has released a looks maxing product or an app or a peptide or something. You could react to like I saw this example of a clvicular tweet and it was a fake AI avatar that was green screen masked over a clvicular tweet saying you know this is I don't agree with Clav. I think this is this like instead I take this peptide because I think and it was really smart because it was trendjacking or famejacking Clav which is a big name.
So the video could get a lot of views but it was using to funnel into a product. This stuff is genuinely really smart. So, UGC ads in themselves are really, really powerful, but I think they're more powerful when they're attached to your own agency or your own product. That's where it's amazing. So, as an add-on, I think it's actually really good, but as a pure agency right now, I think there are a couple of things limiting it.
Firstly, the video models are very good and they're becoming extremely believable. We're still a few months off, so maybe this will skyrocket like a in 6 months and become something every business needs. But B, I think getting in touch with brands, if you don't already have an existing distribution pipeline, which I'm going to spoil one of the rankings, that's definitely going to rank very high because that is necessary to do this.
For example, with my brand that I've developed now, I have over 1.3 million followers across all platforms. I could probably reach out to brands and if I reach out to, I don't know, 100. I might get five willing to give my agency a go because we're already established. We already have a revenue track record. I'm already a creator with a track record. So, it's easy for me to go and land a brand. So the only way that you can really do this successfully is if you combine this with personal brand distribution or company brand distribution which admittedly is a little bit harder than a personal brand where you develop an authority within the niche of scaling.
Like obviously someone that's quite wellknown is like B scales he started in that niche and then he eventually you know became more of a lifestyle creator but the whole niche of like scaling brands with AI. I think that is actually a great personal brand where you can combine the AI UGC ads and get a lot of success. But for me to rank it higher, it would need to be a hybrid of like branding, distribution, and ads. So that would kind of be cheating.
So I've separated them, put this in C, but it can become A tier if it's an add-on. All right, number eight that I considered putting it in C, but actually through the people that I know that are doing this, I'm going to put it in B. I don't think it's going to be in B for long. I think we have like 6 months of it being in B, but it is in B because I've seen it work very well. And that is the AI newsletter model. So what I'm seeing a lot of people do is farming email signups using value content.
And you know this can implement the last thing we spoke about like UGC content creation. It can also be automated through an Instagram or a Tik Tok with CTA into DM funnels that basically you know get signups for a certain asset. We run like a variation with my content as well but now obviously we're doing it through the school where all of our resources are. But people are basically building these newsletters then they're reaching out to sponsors.
They're getting it sponsored and then they might have a premium or a paid add-on that they're adding. Just like the last thing, this works much better when you are already an established personal brand or, you know, an established company brand. It's a little bit hard to establish a newsletter with no distribution. I think you'll be noticing a trend with a lot of the business models we speak about today. They're all made easier with distribution.
And the easiest form of leverage in the distribution era is through content. And that's one of the reasons why, you know, I'm so focused on content because I know it's such an important part of every product we develop. Like we do high ticket consulting, we run an agency, we have info products, we also have software, SAS products. If we don't have anyone to market them to, then they're useless, right? They basically die on the development table and we can't market them and then we can't make revenue to reinvest back into our product.
So, a lot of these things are great. Like running a newsletter, helping AI curate the newsletter for you. I still think it manual touch makes it a lot better. I have like a manual copywriter that is helping me with my newsletters. So, it's not just AI slot. So, we have a moat. But, if you can find a way to do it quicker with AI, helping you with the research, I think it is something that is really valuable because you can farm data and then that data can be used to market future products.
So, I feel like the last two, the AIUGC and the newsletter, they both rely on distribution, but they are genuinely good additions to a distribution profile. All right, the next one, number seven, I've ranked in B. It's definitely a step up in terms of workload, but it can actually make you a lot of money. So, the only reason it's not in A or S is because it might not be the first port of call in my opinion, and it might not be the most scalable, but it definitely is a jump up in terms of the cost flaw.
It is harder to get your first client though, and that is AI small business consulting. So, I've spoken about this in other content, but essentially you are arbitrageing between the information mode of how much you know because you're tapped in. You're watching this channel, you know, you might be in my school, you're probably consuming content of people that really know a lot about AI. You're absorbing this content.
You're probably testing stuff on chord code or codeex yourself. And, you know, believe it or not, you're actually in a very small pool of people that understand this because I believe like the agentic percentage was like 0.5% of the entire global population are using agents every day. Like, that's almost nothing. that is eventually going to go to 20% 30% 40% and then there won't be an arbitrage here but there still is because I speak to small businesses regularly and they're still not implementing AI correctly and because AI is developing so quickly even if they had a consultant come in in the past like for example the new mythos models completely changed how you need to context engineer through loops and graph engineering needed more consulting after the initial consulting okay it's hard to land your first client but once you land a client and if you do a good job there's like a very strong chance you have a repeat customer over time if you do a good job with the first implementation.
I know people personally, I've been speaking to a lot of other creators who have very small personal brands or they've justworked through word of mouth. They're already making 10, 20, 30k a month. So, it is one of the better ones on this list in terms of getting started. But what I think is difficult about it is the trust mode of proving to your first client that you are actually good at consulting. So, probably what you need to structure is a pretty great offer around it either being free or extremely limited cost or only pay if you like it.
Usually, people are fair. Obviously, some people might screw you over, but you know, if you do a good job for someone and you make them the verification layer on whether you did a good job, they're probably going to pay you. You just need to define what that number actually is. Now, if you're asking what my experience is in small business consulting, alongside knowing a lot of other people that have done it, we've started doing it.
We do higher ticket small business consulting. So, if you are a small business and you want the help from me and my developer team, we can probably facilitate that. I don't have the funnel offer for you right now because we are still working internally on fleshing out the offer. But if you join the school community, you'll be the first to know when this actually rolls out. I want to make sure I have a best-in-class offer.
But we've started going into this now and I've been seeing some amazing results in our early testing. And it's definitely something if you already have distribution like me, you know, there's so much demand for it. I get messages all the time on Instagram on X of like, "Hey, can you help my business? Hey, you know much about AI. How do I implement this into my business?" I've had offers of tens of thousands of dollars from people to do it for them.
Especially when open claw came out, it was like everyone wanted an open claw setup, right? That's evolving now. Everyone wants a proper clawed setup. Everyone wants now a business operating system. I feel like that right now is probably the biggest pain point data systems, operating systems like a harness system for business data to plug into because essentially data collection. So being able to, you know, scrape Slack, Gmail, notion, all the tools you use, your messages, etc.
Deliver that data in the correct way to AI and use the right harness to automate work. and then working out what's worth automating and what isn't and graph engineering like that is where the skill set now lies with AI small business consulting it does require you to know about this stuff though now good thing is if you're consuming a lot of content and you use claude code you can brute force a lot of it even if you don't know something if you're just savvy and you have agency and a little bit of lateral thinking you can probably brute force through problems and I think that's really what businesses are paying for businesses aren't paying for an expert so much as they are someone with extremely high agency that's able to use the AI tools to brute force problems and solutions.
They think that they want expertise, but as a business owner that's hired consultants, what I find that I want are hungry people that are willing to brute force problems and arrive to solutions no matter what I chuck at them. I might chuck a very abstract idea. The people that are able to figure it out themselves. They're the people that have extreme value in this economy. Okay, number six is something that I've actually been thinking a lot more about because of Gary Vee.
He's been pushing this narrative, but I think it's actually massive. I was doing some research into it yesterday and look, this one is one that I'm less familiar with to be completely honest versus the other stuff that I'm actually doing or have done or know people that have done it. I'm less familiar with this, but I ranked it pretty high because my early signals were that this is a massive opportunity, not only for people that want to automate it, but are willing to host.
And this is AI shopping or live shopping, especially on Tik Tok. You've probably seen those videos maybe of like these Chinese clip farms where they have all these UGC creators basically like selling live products. I think the whole experience around shopping is shifting. I think live shopping is massive. If you look at some of the numbers, it's honestly mind-blowing. And people are making so much money on Tik Tok shop.
So, if you are a human that's willing to present content, you could obviously use AI to facilitate the back end. So, hunting the products, optimizing the funnels, the ads, helping you, you know, arbitrage product delivery, find the cheapest factory, like actually getting good products and research, that's one way. And then you could host these live events manually if you're good at selling on Tik Tok. If you're not so good at that, then you could even look into UGC creators, which it's a little bit expensive right now to run live video.
Like, it's very expensive actually, but maybe it's something that becomes a lot cheaper longer term. So, I'm less wellversed in this, but I ranked it relatively high in the B category because I think it's a trend that's clearly accelerating. Okay, now into the A tier, stuff that I really know well because I've been doing this one specifically for 3 years. Number five, and honestly, I could have ranked it higher, but I don't think it's a business model you can lean on its own, which is why it's number five.
But that's AI trading and investing. So augmenting your trading either through algorithmic trading or you know automatic alerts and automatic execution and automating your investing. So that might be market reports every single morning getting automated detailed reports of like insider trading, congressional trades, everyone that starts making money. This is probably more of a phase two for a lot of you. But if you start making a lot of money, you need to invest it.
Obviously you can invest back into the business, but you need to diversify against the business and compound in markets. And if you're going to compound in markets, you need to be using AI because AI is the best data processing and execution tool that we currently have available. So AI trading is like a must if you touch investments or trading at all. So I've spent the last 3 years digging into AI trading bots. I have a dedicated channel, Mars Deutscher Finance, where I go a lot more into the investing side of things.
This channel is a lot more about the pure AI and business side of things. that AI trading is something that I'm deeply involved in and is a big part of my life because, you know, I've been investing for the last seven years and now I'm augmenting a lot of that with AI. And, you know, I'm at the stage in business where I've already made a decent chunk of money. Not all of that can go back into the business. It's simply too risky.
I'm now investing in stocks, I'm trading, I'm running algorithms, I'm running hedging, and all of that has been massively aided by these new AI models. So, it's definitely a high one, but maybe for those with a little bit more capital or even those that are just trying to trade and are trying to augment their trading. But where I converge from a lot of people on the internet is I don't think trading alone is a smart strategy.
I would be much more comfortable if people were running a business or a side hustle or had a job and then were trading as their option B like alongside it as opposed to just trading. Like I see these people going all into trading. I've personally done that in the past. It makes you too emotional because all of your money and your income and like how much you need to pay rent, it's all reliant on you hitting trades which makes emotional discipline terrible because sometimes you need to hold a trade through an extreme draw down to stick to your thesis to see the upside.
But you know if you're reliant on it to pay your rent and the trade's down 30%. You're probably just going to cut it even if the thesis is still intact because it's too emotionally visceral when it's attached to your livelihood which is why I recommend starting another one of these side hustles alongside AI trading. And if you do that then that's the best way to use it. And that's the only thing preventing it from me putting it in S tier cuz it's genuinely very good and I've got lots of videos on it.
All right, number four, which is A, and this is the one I'm focused on, is AI high ticket consulting. So technically, this is the same as small business consulting because small businesses might pay higher ticket, but obviously as you start to move into medium and, you know, bigger enterprises, the ability to charge 20, 30, $40, $50,000 for implementation severely increases. So high ticket consulting is something that you probably won't be able to start straight away. you probably need to start with low to mid-t small business consulting and work into high ticket.
But there is a saying in business and you know I'm a big fan of Horoszi and I've consumed a lot of his content and something he says is like if you can sell to the rich because he found that when he sold to the rich not only were they more likely to buy but he caused them less headaches whereas whenever he sold to the poor they were paying less but they're actually creating more headaches. Rich people don't care as much about money because they have a lot more.
So percentage- wise, even 2030,000 to someone with millions of dollars, they don't value it as highly as someone that's making a couple grand a month that is, you know, spending $100 proportionally, it's actually more for them, even though it's low ticket. So high ticket consulting is great because you're simply going directly to the pool with the most capital and often times fulfillment is easier, but it's only easier if you have the infrastructure.
And I think to develop the proper expertise and infrastructure, you need to do lower ticket before you can move into high ticket. And that's where the next one comes in, which is ranked number three. And honestly, based on the success in my own business, I could almost put it number one, but it's really close. And you'll see why. And that is AI digital products. Digital products are amazing because there's no fulfillment.
I mean, sometimes there's fulfillment if it's info. But if you structure the work up front and you develop a product that you know you can market, it's usually a create once, earn forever or earn for an extended period of time quite type of game, which is extremely powerful. Digital products are the way that most creators are making their money. Technically, an info offer or a course is a digital product. Typically, any sort of SAS bundle, like some sort of application that's been vioded, an application on the app store, trading indicators if you're a trader.
All of these are digital products. I built a couple, a back testing software. I have Mars High Club, my info product. I'm developing other digital products now like digital agents. All of these things are great because, okay, there's an upfront cost and there's an upfront development time, but once they're created, they're assets you own forever. You can keep making adjustments based on new models, but they keep making money forever.
So, it's not like an agency business where you're just constantly in the business dealing with client headaches. This is extremely scalable, but it does rely on the next things that I'm going to talk about to properly make money off them, but they are absolutely fantastic ways to monetize and you don't need a huge personal brand to market them. Obviously, it helps massively, but the other things I've spoken about, you know, like getting data through newsletters, like running UGC content, that can all help you sell a digital product.
And you can even add digital products onto consulting. So if you're doing small business consulting, you can add a digital product on top as a reoccurring layer. And if you're really smart, you can build out a stickiness profile where you build a digital product to help fulfill. So the client is always reliant on paying a subscription to that offer. So you might consult them, but you might use your own application or product as part of that consultation process.
So they're highly incentivized to continue using that. So it creates stickiness. And there are all sorts of ways that you can engineer that, which is why I think they're so powerful as a tool. All right, moving on to number two. And the number one I think is by far the best and is so important if you're going to make everything else work. Number two is an AI automation agency. So, small business consulting is hands-on and takes a lot of time.
High ticket consulting clearly can take a lot of time and requires you to have a lot of expertise, but AI automation because agents are so good at it now, has a lower barrier to entry, but it's still a concept that is foreign to a lot of business owners and even individuals. So essentially an automation agency hinges on you understanding what a business or a client profile's bottlenecks are, understanding their workflows, automating those specific workflows and then you implement that automation into the business.
So instead of consulting the entire business, you are essentially packaging specific workflows. Now the best part is this can be done as a digital product as well. So there are things that I'm working on which are essentially plugandplay workflows for people that want to get into creating content. Even on the AI trading and investing side, you could build and package digital products which are essentially agentic workflows that can help you execute trading and investing.
So these are great because automations can be sold as digital products or they can be sold as one-time deliverables to a client. And the good part is it's more verifiable because instead of working with the client and saying, "Oh, we'll do everything for your business." It's like, you know, what are the three workflows you want me to automate, you just automate those workflows and then you move on to the next business.
So it's more scalable. Can I make as much money as high ticket consulting? No, but the reason it's number two is because of the scalability factor and the barrier to entry. I've done a video on graph engineering, which if you want to start an automation agency, it's probably the number one video that you need to watch if you want to understand this concept. Once you watch that video, this will make a lot of sense and you'll start to realize how you can actually implement that for businesses and individuals.
I like this as well because it's also lower ticket. You could also market to retail. Pretty much every person needs this to some extent in their life. Obviously, if you charge less, you're going to probably deal with more headaches, but you're going to attract a much larger audience. And then you could use this as something that you can use to scale into small business and of course, like higher ticket consulting. So, that is why it's in number two.
And number one in S tier is the thing that I'm spending most of my time on. I'm doing it [clears throat] right now. I do it for hours every single day. I'm always thinking of new ways to make it even better. And that is focusing on media, specifically AI media and distribution. This is the moat that will enable you to do any of the other stuff that I've talked about. The only reason that I can do high ticket, small business, UGC, ad funnels, consulting, digital products, all of this at once is because I have one thing, distribution.
So, no matter if you're working for a client, you need to master distribution to help you get an edge. Or if you're trying to run like a scalable business model towards retail, you're still going to need this. You're going to need this even more so. And that is the public trust and the leverage of how many eyeballs you have. Basically, the number one mantra in my business is just keep growing top of funnel. Honestly, my funnels aren't perfect.
I don't have a bunch of products launched right now cuz I like to take my time making sure my offers are actually good. I don't just want to spam stuff and release lowquality services into the market. So, you know, I could be better on that side, but I know that if I just keep focusing every single day on distribution, so making content, getting better at going viral, onboarding other creators into my network, and utilizing network effect, I'm always going to be able to do a launch at any point or a product at any point and be successful with it.
So, it doesn't really matter what one of these business models you pick. The first few hours of your day, in my opinion, should just be focused on how do I get more customers. And if you're focused on how do I get more customers, it's naturally going to mean distribution. Now, distribution, obviously, through content is the highest leverage, but it can also be through paid ads. It could also be through clipping. It could also be through providing value to other creators or other service providers that can help you grow your network.
So, it's not just as linear as like start posting on Instagram or start posting on X, but that is often the easiest way to get your foot in the door to make all of those other things easier because anyone can vibe code an application now. Anyone can think of something and make a fancy landing page and even develop a full product, but how do you actually market it? Well, you need eyeballs, you need distribution, and you need the ability to get that product in front of people.
And that's why this is my number one focus in 2026 with whatever I do. It's also compounding leverage because, for example, these YouTube videos can get views for months. I have videos still getting thousands of views now that I posted 6 months ago that are still generating fresh leads. So, you can basically create a piece of content once and you can keep benefiting from it 6 months later. That's how you know some creators, they'll go on holiday for a couple of months and they're somehow still able to make hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars because they've got this old content library still running hot.
Obviously, there is, you know, supplementation that you need to do to make sure the flywheel keeps going. So, it's in your best interest to keep producing content and keep, you know, jumping on the newest trends, but it's something that is going to build extreme leverage. Now, I don't currently have something to sell you here. I don't currently have an offer. I could probably do distribution consulting. It's something I've thought about.
I don't think it's worth my time right now, but if you do join my school below, it's free right now. I dive deeper into this stuff. And whenever I do have an offer for this, and it could potentially be a free offer, that's where I'm going to let you guys know. But maybe I'm open to doing like a, you know, some more Q&As's on distribution cuz it's clearly something that I'm passionate about. know about and you know I spend a lot of time on it every day.
Every single day I scroll through my X feed and I look at trends. Every single day I look at the results from the AI agent scanners that I've built to identify trends. Every single day I film shorts or long form. So yeah, it's something I put a lot of time into cuz I know all of that other stuff that I've spoken about which I'm doing because I am running an agency. I am launching digital products. We do have consulting planned.
I do have a newsletter. We are running UGC ads. We are exploring faceless. Like all of that comes off the back of number one in the S tier. So, come be a part of the free school if you just want to learn more about this stuff and also get the full breakdown for exactly how I'm doing that, which is in our resource library, which is free if you join. And I'm sure it's something we'll dive into a lot deeper on the channel.
So, let me know what you thought of these side hustles. Is there anything that I missed? Cuz look, let's be honest, there are hundreds. I did pick the 13 I thought were the most relevant to speak about today, but anything I missed, anything you disagree with, let me know in the comments below. And I'll be responding to a few comments below, giving you my thoughts. You can actually send voice message replies in comments now, which is very cool.
I could do that for some of you guys. So yeah, see you in the next video. Hopefully you enjoyed.
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