[00:01] businesses using content, affiliate marketing, and AI tools. The number one question I get now is where would you start if you had to do it all over again in 2026? And I say, "Honestly, I'd build it around Claude." Not cuz it's the
[00:14] flashiest thing, but because it actually functions like a business asset, and use it yet. So, in this video, I'm going to show you five specific ways and different income streams built around
[00:26] starting point all the way to the model that I think has the best shot at 10K a stack everything together. So, let's get into it. But, before we get started, description below. I'll send you my favorite prompts to use in my AI
[00:40] masterclass where I cover exactly how to pick your niche, develop your content for all. So, make sure to click that link, and let's get into it. most people treat AI and Claude just like a fancier Google. They ask a
[00:55] question, they get an answer, they go back and forth in a conversation. That's That's just a fancier way to do research. The people that generate real income are using it a bit differently. So, they're not just asking Claude to
[01:07] help them with simple things. They're using Claude to run functions inside of YouTube scripts, with my YouTube outlines, my ideation, uh syncing VidIQ to come up with topics, outlines, all of
[01:19] it, whether it's blog posts, YouTube videos, agency work, all of it. Um at scale, one person can do this by themselves. So, the shift is really how Claude can do better than any other tool right now on the market is it can just
[01:33] process massive amounts of information. So, entire websites, reviews, comments, sales scripts, documents, all of it. It can feed it all at once. It doesn't just summarize it, but it also analyzes it. So, it can find patterns, insights, and
[01:46] it gives you something useful. So, it's closer to like a research analyst. It can get all of your research done uh for your business or other businesses. And that capability is basically what makes every business model I'm about to show
[01:59] you actually work. So, one mindset shift before we get into this list is one thing so you stop thinking about Claude as just a feature you use. You can think of it as a function for your business. So, research, deliverables, operations,
[02:12] speeding things up. So, it handles all of those tasks for you, but you still need your own brain and your own strategy in order to implement this. So, this is the business so that you're building. So, here is the first model.
[02:29] their competitors are, what are their competitors missing, what are their customers frustrated about, pain points, all of that. So, most small information, but none of them have dedicated anything really going into
[02:43] that information. So, you can have a Claude workflow where you gather lots of raw material and information from a client. So, competitor websites, G2 reviews, Amazon threads, Reddit stuff, customer interviews, feed it all into
[02:56] Claude. You work through a structured analysis, discover what patterns emerge, what customers are saying, where the market is, and then what comes out is a professional report. Very simple to just sell this report, findings, contest,
[03:09] this something they could read in 30 minutes and have a clear sense of direction. So, you could do intensive one-time research projects. You could create a Claude project that has all of this information in it and is, you know,
[03:23] pages and pages and pages of what to do. And then you can run this very simply for one of these things cuz it takes you literally 10 minutes to do it. So, a one-time research project could run 500 to 3,000 depending on the scope and the
[03:37] something more advanced for a bigger company, it would cost more. retainers, so monthly monitoring, quarterly reviews, So, the barrier to entry here is really low. You don't need a consulting
[03:51] background. You just need to know how to run Claude through a structured process, format a clean, nice-looking deliverable, and find a clients in an the key. Find an industry that you understand. The fastest path to make
[04:05] money with this stuff is understanding the going to an industry you already know the right questions, you know the marketing that they need, and all of that. But, this next model is one I've built my own business around, and it
[04:17] scales differently than anything else on the list. So, affiliate marketing is simple in concept, right? You create content, you recommend products, someone commission. Very simple. The model's been around for decades. I've been doing
[04:30] it for years. But, what Claude changes is how fast you can build that content engine behind it. So, you pick a niche with real purchase intent. Could be with real purchase intent. Could be software, hosting, AI tools, finance,
[04:42] affiliate programs that have meaningful commissions and have been around. Then, you use Claude for your research phase before you write anything. So, you transcripts. You can even have Claude research this for you. So, for example,
[04:57] I have a a Claude project for YouTube video scripting, and I'm going to put in this prompt. Find top-performing video titles and comment sections from YouTube channels in me. I have my niche. I'm going to do something like in the crypto
[05:11] niche. Sure, we can do that. Uh discover topics that drive engagement. What questions keep coming up? Come up with the YouTube titles and thumbnail a strong search intent. Now, this is synced with VidIQ, which is normally $49
[05:25] a month. It's a great YouTube research tool. I was going to cancel my my month. So, you can do all of your keyword research in a month of time, year if you wanted to, and cancel. Claude is actually synced to VidIQ, so
[05:40] it has all of the outlier videos, the keyword research tools, what's actually working, competitor data, all of that. So, from this simple paragraph, it's at what it does. It goes through VidIQ, discovery tools, all the tools, videos
[05:54] loaded. It goes over the breakout data, engagement and comments, trust erosion theme. So, a lot of people are realizing like they're not they're skeptical of these how do I start in crypto type videos.
[06:07] passive income. They're pulling top performing videos. They're driving comment section revealed. Distrust and fatigue, altcoin pump videos smells like a scam, 98% of people lose money, yada yada yada. So, then it goes into search
[06:23] research tool to see what is actually being searched for like crypto passive stuff. And then gives 20 video ideas to build it around. The trust gap, which is the biggest unmet need, is to spot the scams. Is it too late? Is another one.
[06:38] stocks, crypto for beginners, all of these different ones for top 20 videos, if a coin is actually worth anything, how to research a project. channel, which could be really good. This is all from one single paragraph.
[06:54] a full cluster. So, like reviewing content, comparison posts, supporting content that and you know, best crypto tax platforms, best crypto software, all of that. You just get into a strategy consistently over the course of
[07:09] time. And then this structure can compound in a way that individual videos can't. So, from those topics, you have Claude create the full scripts from them. You can have it I could just put in create a script full or an outline
[07:23] called the boring crypto strategy no one on YouTube talks about. Boom, comes with a really strong hook of an introduction, five points, outro. He use it you the something. You know, have your own unique take on things. You're a teacher
[07:36] affiliate commissions, your own products and things like that, but teach it. AI point where you can do this a lot faster. So, affiliate marketing is not like an overnight success, right? This organic business organic views take time
[07:51] started with affiliate marketing from day one, add the links into your YouTube description. It makes this model one of the most durable ones online. You have a large library, a backlog of eventually 50 videos, 100 videos that are just
[08:04] sitting there getting views years later, right? So, it's a it's an asset library. win, but it's a long-term content play you can do. But, think of it this way, don't want to do that, what if businesses paid you directly for your
[08:19] expertise, which is number three. If you think about what's happening in almost every company right now, leadership knows AI matters. They read the headlines. They're like, "We're going to spend more money on AI and tokens, and
[08:31] we need to replace all our workers with AI and all of this." But most of them are very stuck. They're realizing that AI doesn't solve every every problem out tools to use. They're they're just going through Claude tokens, and they're not
[08:44] how to get their own team to use AI effectively. They don't know what to measure. So, this gap is a decent opportunity. So, the consulting model down with a business on a call or in person, you walk through how they
[08:58] currently operate. This is higher ticket stuff. There's people that are charging five figures a month to bigger businesses to do this. So, you're manually that AI can handle? Where are the bottlenecks? What's eating up the
[09:10] time, the team, the resources, the tokens, the things that require human judgment versus don't?" And you deliver a full road map. So, a prioritized list of AI implementations tailored specifically to that business
[09:22] one does, how to get started. So, a typical standalone audit for this would be on the low end for a small business, small to medium-size business 1,000 to 5,000. For larger businesses, it could
[09:34] be 10,000 a month for a period of months as you learn and help them implement we're making money here with AI, if anyone can do it and it requires no expertise and you can just do it in five seconds, it's not going to make money.
[09:48] no such thing as passive income or get rich quick or any of that stuff. That is not true. So you have to learn that the higher the more skills you develop over time, the higher you can price things. So in this type of agency consulting AI
[10:02] model where you're using Claude, you're creating projects, workflows, all of that, doing it for businesses, you start small. You just start for $500 to a local business. You develop the skills required to then go over higher tier
[10:14] businesses, maybe medium-sized businesses or regional offices. And then you just go up from there. Some people say, "Who's going to pay $5,000?" Well, there paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for things. Google just paid
[10:26] billion dollars a month for stuff, right? It's all relative to what we're working with, but your skill level will dictate how much money you can charge skill to start learning. You can start small and just continue on where you're
[10:40] you have real experience in a specific industry, you might know about like you could charge more because your advice is more precise. The client knows and understands you understand their world. So for beginners, the path is
[10:55] know. So you could do an audit for a few people you know in exchange for a testimonial, have a few good results on your belt to start working from. The next model has recurring revenue, which is actually pretty interesting. So most
[11:07] established businesses have a ton of content out there. They have a podcast running or a YouTube channel with some videos like a software company's YouTube channel, right? They might have 50 videos or a stack of like webinar
[11:19] recordings or a bunch of emails that people don't read, right? So the content published and then essentially basically disappears. So no one's going back for it. So a good thing you could offer is you take a single piece of content like
[11:33] podcast episode or something. You use Claude to extract the core ideas. You restructure them or reformat it and put it on a relevant channel. So a 45-minute podcast could become a very long article on LinkedIn, three or four social posts,
[11:47] What a lot of people are doing well like businesses, they have a podcast, but they don't really know what to do with it. You take that podcast on video and you publish it on YouTube. But you don't just publish the whole hour-long podcast
[12:01] as one video. You publish the hour-long version the episode, and then you take as videos, and now you've just published four YouTube videos from one podcast. their channel, you're doing all of these different things. If you do this well,
[12:15] to the platform, so you're kind of specialist adapting content. So this is maybe people on LinkedIn. They record content all the time, but they don't
[12:27] how to distribute it properly. So this could be recurring. You could charge something like $2,000 a month for this. Higher volume clients will push this further. So as long as they keep trading content, you keep repurposing it, you
[12:39] and helping, and that is a good agency model to run that way. Now this last model we're going to talk about, this is where you stop trading time for money models were service-based. Affiliate
[12:52] content. You're still doing work to get paid. All right, so this one's a little all the solutions that you've been building for clients and you turn them what this looks like. Say you've been doing the AI consulting thing, you've
[13:06] helped a dozen businesses set up let's say internal documentation workflows knowledge base, how to create a knowledge base to support stack, all of that point that doesn't just become consulting knowledge, that's actually a
[13:21] system that you built. So with AI you build your own systems, you package it. So this would be a prompt library, a full setup, a fully configured Claude advanced you can make it the better.
[13:33] With a video walk-through, you sell it for $500, $1,000, $5,000 depending on the complexity level. So you package this and sell a working solution so that no one has to build it. And this is where niche expertise comes in. You
[13:46] build a lightweight AI-powered tool designed for a specific workflow. So it could be like a proposal generator for an agency or an intake system for a law firm or something that in some area that you know where you can build a Claude
[13:59] workflow with a simple interface and then you sell it either as a monthly subscription like software or a one-time fee. And it's kind of interesting. We're in this world where the the idea between high-ticket coaching, consulting, and
[14:13] just courses, and all this stuff is kind of kind of and software is converging with AI into one thing. So if you're charging $3,000 for a AI workflow, is are you an agency? Are you If you have a video, you're kind of teaching them as a
[14:27] course? Are you going to coach them on how to use it? But it is software, too. So it's all kind of like you picture that three-tier pricing website page and everything's kind of converging where if you can teach, you can do you can use AI
[14:39] to develop both what is a software, but also a useful tool that they're using and you can teach them on how to use it and you're the expert. Well, you're kind of running an agency that's selling passive courses that's teaching, but
[14:52] it's kind of this converging of all time for that. So the more you can up-level your skills and learn those things, the higher your potential revenue ceiling.
[15:08] and then you kind of stop. You hit a ceiling. And a single service with a fixed client capacity can only scale so far before you burn out. So the they're doing something differently. They're either doing multiple revenue
[15:23] streams. Like right now I'm doing affiliate and courses and I run a local affiliate and courses and I run a local business as well and sponsorships and ad revenue. So there's five different things. And the era of making 100k a
[15:35] month from just affiliate marketing might be over. But if you can stack five then you can make it work. If you're doing the AI consulting model, maybe you teaching this stuff. So always having two income streams in this AI world, I
[15:50] think two or more actually makes more sense. If you're creating, you know, AI teaching some of that stuff on YouTube, too. That's how you get clients. So actually content is leading to B2B clients. That's kind of new in this new
[16:03] clients. That's kind of new in this new era of AI is mass market. Everyone sold courses, but businesses are still buying solutions and learning how to use them. So if I made a course on YouTube, how to create a really high-quality YouTube
[16:16] channel, I could sell it for a 500 bucks to people or a thousand. But if it's for businesses, how to teach your business how to generate and scale leads and sales through YouTube, well, there's creators charging 6,000, 7,000,
[16:29] or 8,000 dollars for that. So it's this new thing. If you go content mass streams. Affiliate, sponsorship, courses, all that. If you go AI consulting higher B2B model, you want to have an asset that
[16:45] generates leads, which is content, which is either LinkedIn or YouTube. So you're something, which just helps when you're learning. So here's what that could look like in practice. So the flywheel you start is with content. So you pick a
[16:58] niche where businesses need help with AI, you build affiliate content in that That does two things. It can generate affiliate commissions and it builds an trust you when it comes to AI implementation inside of their industry.
[17:13] they want help. That's your consulting pipeline. Those are sales that you link from your YouTube channel, right? Or you could do prompt packs from LinkedIn. Comment below and I'll send them to you. And then you work on
[17:26] way. You do the consulting and you work across multiple clients. You start you're hitting pain points. You see the same bottlenecks. They're asking the same questions every time. That's your signal to then productize the solution.
[17:40] That keeps working. You turn it into a system. So we're now saving time instead of doing all the work, which for a client might take 10 hours, we now have this systematized product which makes it take a few hours to help them set up and
[17:52] you can charge more for it. So then you have three income streams running. You could have affiliate income, consulting income, and product income. Each one the audience, the potential pipeline. The audience funds the consulting. The
[18:05] the product scales and your team scales. So the highest ceiling version of this is what I call the AI operations agency. Not a freelancer, but it's a business that helps companies fully integrate Claude across how they operate. So the
[18:18] knowledge base, configure Claude projects for different teams, create the content systems, train the staff, provide ongoing support for a monthly fee. So you're not delivering necessarily one-time project, but you're
[18:31] entry-level project here package could cost 2500. Comprehensive implementation could cost 5 to 10k a month. I've seen people charging this to larger businesses. What justifies the pricing here is you're not just selling AI.
[18:45] You're actually going into the business and coming up with actual solutions. So that's what business is. It's helping people make more money typically. And if you can do that for an effective rate, then and you're giving the
[18:58] results, that's what works. So really the real opportunity with Claude right now, it's not becoming the best prompt engineer. It's not just copy-pasting stuff and creating AI slop content, faceless YouTube channels hoping it
[19:11] makes money. It's becoming either an agency and the person who helps businesses integrate AI before competitors and just figuring out a product that you want to sell. It's not the fastest path people that
[19:24] are chasing that, but it's really just picking a model, choosing a workflow, creating content to get both leads and just build an audience around what you're teaching. And it's kind of the convergence of software, agency
[19:37] services, and building an audience all in one platform. Make it B2B where you lead need way less views to actually make a good amount of money. So, if you're interested in learning the exact process, you can get my AI Masterclass
[19:49] your niche, develop your content plan, and start building this thing once and get that by clicking the link in the description and the pinned comment useful. Please like the video. It really helps out a lot. Subscribe to the
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