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title: 'How to Make Your First $1,000 Online Using AI (No-BS Strategy)'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=IKt8JO6uF-4'
video_id: 'IKt8JO6uF-4'
date: 2026-07-31
duration_sec: 1847
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# How to Make Your First $1,000 Online Using AI (No-BS Strategy)

> Source: [How to Make Your First $1,000 Online Using AI (No-BS Strategy)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IKt8JO6uF-4)

## Summary

In this video, Justin presents a strategy for making a first $1,000 online by building an AI-generated e-commerce store that sells trending viral products. He walks through using StoreBuild AI, Shopify, Zenrop, and Omnisend to automate product sourcing, discount pop-ups, and email follow-ups, with the ultimate goal of generating passive income.

### Key Points

- **The AI-powered passive income model** [00:02] — Sell trending viral products (e.g., sushi socks, heated blanket hoodies) on your own store; the supplier ships on your behalf and you keep the profit.
- **Email capture maximizes profit** [01:14] — Offer a discount via a pop-up form to collect customer emails, boosting sales and creating repeat buyers.
- **Two tools needed** [01:43] — StoreBuild AI builds the store; Omnisend handles pop-up forms and automation. Both have free tiers.
- **StoreBuild AI creates the store in ~5 minutes** [03:52] — It preloads trending winning products across niches; select a niche (e.g., clothing), pick colors/banners, and claim the store on Shopify.
- **Shopify offer through StoreBuild AI** [05:29] — Free trial, then $1/month for the first 3 months instead of the usual ~$50. Link your Shopify URL back to StoreBuild AI.
- **Add products via Zenrop** [06:10] — Zenrop powers StoreBuild AI and sources thousands of products from suppliers; you can browse trending products manually or let AI pick them.
- **Set up Omnisend Wheel-of-Fortune forms** [08:28] — Install the Omnisend app on Shopify, choose a Wheel of Fortune template, and target it to a specific product page URL.
- **Always land on 30% off** [11:55] — Set the 30% slice probability to 100% and the other slices to 0%; the slices must total 100%.
- **Create a Shopify discount code** [12:37] — In Shopify, create a 30% off code for a specific product, copy it, and paste it into the Omnisend form.
- **Display form on exit intent** [15:01] — Trigger the form when the customer moves their cursor to close the window, capturing abandoned carts.
- **Example profit margin** [17:33] — Sushi socks sell at $77, supplier cost is under $10, so profit is over $68 before the 30% discount and about $50 after.
- **Build an automated email follow-up** [18:40] — Trigger an email workflow when someone signs up via the form; wait 2 days, send a ChatGPT-generated promo email, then split by open/non-open and send further follow-ups.
- **Costs and scaling** [25:37] — Omnisend is free to 250 subscribers then ~$11/month; Shopify promo is $1/month; Zenrop charges a usage-based subscription (e.g., $29/month for 1-20 products). Drive traffic with TikTok, Facebook and display ads.

### Conclusion

This is a low-barrier e-commerce model that leverages AI to automate store creation, discount pop-ups, and email follow-ups. With minimal startup costs and high profit margins, the main work shifts to driving traffic to your store.

## Transcript

make your first $1,000 online by using AI to then generate a monthly passive income, then I want to share with you a new real working method that people are already using to do exactly that. So, you've probably seen viral trending
products like this heated blanket hoodie popping up all over your feeds or these sushi socks over here, for example, which online shoppers are going look at this Tik Tok video promoting these sushi socks. It's got over 3
million views and over 400,000 likes. And by using an incredible AIdriven tool and an automation platform, we can make money from these viral trending products, by creating our own online store just like this in literally only a
few minutes from now by selling other people's trending products such as these sushi socks, for example. Now, anytime somebody purchases any one of these viral trending products, that is when the supplier ships that product out to
the customer on our behalf. This is completely handsoff. And every time that happens, that is when we will pocket the profit. Now, to absolutely maximize the amount of money and sales that we can make with this method is if you offer
your customers a discount via a pop-up form just like this, that allows us to collect our customers emails and that will not only maximize sales, but we'll also be able to turn those customers into repeat buyers. And the best part
about this method is this is completely automated, allowing us to generate a passive income. Anybody can get started with this completely for free. And I'm going to show you exactly how to set this up step by step right now. And the
only thing that I ask of you before I show you exactly how to set this up is subscribe to the channel. My name's Justin. Let's get into it. All right. method, the first thing we're going to do is two things. We're going to first
set up our online store just like this using AI, which literally takes a couple of minutes. That online store will contain these different trending viral products which we're going to be driving customers to so that we can make a
profit every time somebody purchases any one of these viral trending products. So let's use these sushi socks as an example. The second thing that we are going to do once we've set up our store to maximize the amount of money that we
can make every time somebody does purchase any one of these products is we want to do this. When somebody comes over to our product page and goes to pop-up form that looks something like
enter in their email to get a limited will enter in my email, click onto where it says spin the wheel to get my limited time discount. Of course, that wheel will spin. It will tell me that I can
will spin. It will tell me that I can now get 30% off, which will dramatically increase the amount of customers that we actually do get. Here is their discount code which they can simply copy and apply at checkout. And when they apply
their discount code and purchase the product, that is when we will make a profit and the profit margins can be exceptionally high with this method. Guys, I'm talking circa 80%. And of course, we've captured their email,
which means in the background, we can send the customer related trending products, turning those customers into repeat buyers, maximizing the amount of passive income that we can generate for every single customer. So, we're going
to be using two tools in order to set this first part up. In order to set up our store, we're going to be using StoreBuild AI, and I'll leave a link in the description of this video. And I'm then going to show you how we can place
these forms onto our store, which we're going to be creating using Omnisend, which is the automation platform. And I'll leave a link in the description of this video for Omni Send as well. So, first of all, let's head over to
StoreBuild AI to create our store for free in literally around 5 minutes. So, I'm going to go through step by step exactly how you can do that using this skip ahead so you get all of these steps right. Now, on the first page, what the
AI basically does is it gives us the most trending winning viral products at the moment for a wide range of different niches such as clothing, pets, tech, and so on. For the sake of this video, I'm going to select clothing, and I'm simply
my free store. You'll then enter in your email address and click onto where it simply pick the color for your store layout. I'm going to go with navy blue. somewhat of a preview of what your store will look like on the lefth hand side
here in terms of the banner at the top of your store. You just want to select any one of these banner styles. I'm going to go with this one over here. onto where it says next Shopify account. It'll then say, "Congratulations, your
store is ready. Claim my Shopify store, which is the e-commerce platform that the AI has built our store onto." So, you then want to click onto where it says register on Shopify over here. I'll then enter my email address in. Click
I'll set my password to get signed up to Shopify completely for free. Once I've done that, I'll then follow the subsequent steps within Shopify, which are laid out on this page right here, making sure that you select the basic
monthly plan to start your free Shopify trial. And by clicking onto the link for storebuild AI and going to register on Shopify, not only will you get access to Shopify's free trial, but even once your free trial is over, which you can cancel
at any time, it's literally $1 a month for the next 3 months. It's normally closer to 50. So once you followed all of these steps and you've registered for the basic monthly plan, you simply want to click onto where it says next Shopify
link. And here is where we're going to link our Shopify store with the store build AI platform by pasting in this link over here, this URL. Once you go back over to Shopify once you have registered, you will see this dashboard.
Simply copy over that URL, go back over to the store build AI platform, paste it in here, go over to save, and then simply click onto next winning products. And finally, you want to add the winning or trending products to your online
store using a platform called Zenrop. Now, Zenrop is the platform that owns the storebuild AI platform and it sources a wide range of different products. Here you can see these products listed on the Zenrop platform.
thousands from multiple different suppliers and you can actually add these products manually to your store as well. You can browse a wide range of trending products on the Zenrop platform to add them to your store later on if you
wanted to. But first, we're going to use the AI to pick those trending products for us. All you need to do is click onto where it says activate Zenrop right here. You'll then be taken back over to Shopify to simply install the Zenrop
app. So, you simply want to do that and follow the subsequent steps again guys on each one of these store build AI pages. They also tell you the exact steps that you need to follow with an accompanying video. And of course,
listing those products from Zenrop on your store are also completely free for your trial period. Now, once you have installed the Zenrop app, we're now I'm simply going to click onto where it says next store build. It'll then say
away. So, I'll simply click onto where it says next go live. And as you can see, the AI is now building our store. Now, this can take up to 1 minute. So, I'm simply going to pause the video. And just like that, our store is now ready.
store. I'm simply going to click onto access Shopify and publish. And to make sure that our customers can access our store to purchase those trending about how to drive those customers to your store in the next few steps. You
want to remove your store's protected password. To do that, I'm going to click onto where it says remove password right here. And our store is now ready and open to everyone. And if I simply click onto where it says view store, we can
take a preview. And there is our store. looks absolutely incredible, super clean. If I go over to catalog over here, here you can see it is preloaded with 10 trending products, including these sushi socks over here, for
example. Now, to absolutely maximize the amount of money that we can make with maximize the amount of customers that you get purchasing products on your store, but you also want to offer a discount to your customers via a form
like I showed you earlier with the help of Omnisend, which is the automation not only create that pop-up form to collect our customers emails, but we're also going to be using Omnisend to turn
those customers into repeat buyers by sending them an automated email simply want to click onto my link in the description of this video for Omnisend and then click onto where it says start for free right here. Now, Omnisend
integrates seamlessly with StoreBuild AI via the Shopify platform. You simply with Shopify. You'll then be prompted to install the Omnisend app for your online store. To do that, I'll click onto where it says install. Install again and enter
in your details to get signed up to Omnisend completely for free. And now you'll see that it will say your store is connected. If you click onto where it says forms, view other form types to view our form templates. There are a ton
that you can choose from, but for this method, I'm going to scroll down and I'm going to filter by the Wheel of Fortune form over here. These forms are highly engaging for this highly effective e-commerce sales tactic. I'm simply
going to scroll down and for the sake of this video, I'm going to click on to where it says limited offer branded Wheel of Fortune form over here. So, before we even edit our form template, you first want to select the product
page that you want the form to appear on. So, going back over to our online store for the sake of this video, guys, I'm going to select the sushi socks over here, and I'm simply going to copy over the URL for this product page. go back
over to our omnisend form template and simply click onto where it says targeting over here and we're going to go over to page targeting options. This form is going to appear on the URL that we just copied. So I'm simply going to
paste it in over here. So that is the page that our form will appear onto because we want to offer anyone who lands onto this product page for these sushi socks for example a discount if they land onto this page and if they
don't purchase the product there and then if they actually move their mouse cursor up to the red X and they go to abandoned cart, we're going to give them a discount. making sure that we close that sale and also making sure that we
have a chance of turning that customer into a repeat buyer. So once you've selected the page that you want your form to appear onto, the next thing that we're going to do, this part is really clever, guys. Now, as you can see, this
is broken down into four different slices, right? You got 5% off, 10% off, 20% off, and 30% off. And because for this method, the amount of profit that
these products that we sell, I'm going to show you how we can view that in just a moment, we can actually afford to offer our customer 30% off. We want to make sure when they spin this wheel, they get the best surprise possible,
making sure that we have every chance possible of closing that sale and earning that profit, turning that customer into a repeat buyer. So to make sure that our spinner always lands on 30% in this example, you simply want to
click onto it over here. And here you'll see the different slices. So you got slice one, 25% probability, and it's the same probability for each one of the remaining four slices. Now, if I go over to slice 4, that is where they get 30%
off. I want to change that probability from 25% to, you probably guessed it, from 25% to, you probably guessed it, 100%, by simply typing it in. Now, these slices need to add up to 100. Right? So, what we now need to do is change slice
what we now need to do is change slice one over to 0% and do exactly the same for slice two and slice three, which I've done. As you can see, this is an incredibly effective e-commerce sales tactic. Now, what we want to do under
where it says slice 4, when they do land on 30%, which 100% of our customers will if they go to abandoned cart, you want to make sure that you actually offer them that discount of 30% off. And that is where you need to enter in your
discount code over here. Now, to very easily retrieve that discount code, you want to go back over to Shopify, and you simply want to click onto where it says discounts over here. and you want to click onto where it says create discount
and you want to go to amount off products. We want to offer a specific percentage amount off a specific product. I'll simply click onto that and you want to select the product that you want to offer the discount on. So, where
it says percentage, I'll first say 30% and where it says applies to specific collections, I'll click onto this dropdown, go over to specific products, go over to browse specific products, and here you'll see all of these trending
store, right? You can see the different colors and sizes, for example. We'll find those sushi socks if we can, which should be right at the bottom. There they are. I'm going to click onto both of these. go over to where it says add
and then I'll go over to where it says generate random code. You can type in your own discount code if you like. I will simply copy it and then go over to where it says save. Going back over to omnisend. I can then paste in that
discount code over here. That will allow our customers to retrieve their discount. Now I'm then going to click onto where it says layout to change the colors of each one of these slices. You want to make sure they're contrasting
in a little bit too much. So I'll simply click onto our wheel of fortune. Go over to any one of these slices. Let's say slice one for example. And I'll change the slice color simply by clicking onto the color over here and changing it to a
contrasting color over here for example, which I've done our 30% in a bright green. Now when any of our customers enter in their email and spin the wheel to then land on 30%, they'll then get a message that looks like this. This will
contain our discount code and of course they will be subscribed allowing us to send them an automated email follow-up with other trending product promotional emails which is how we can turn a large chunk of those customers into repeat
buyers. Now before we launch our form very crucially you want to go over to where it says display over here. This is how we determine how our form will display on this page. Do we want this form to pop up after a number of seconds
the customer is on this page? Maybe that's definitely a viable option. And there are other options as well. But something that works really well is when you make this form pop up for those customers who go to close the window.
When they go to abandon cart when they show intention of exiting the window. So I'm going to click onto where it says exit intent right here. meaning this form will display when the visitor or potential customer is about to leave the
page. And of course, you can edit any of the text on the form. I'm happy to leave it as is, but I am going to change the form name to something recognizable, method. You'll see why to change the form name. I'll simply click onto where
it says edit, and I'll change it to something recognizable, such as 30 discount, for example. Click onto where it says update. And if I click onto our wheel of fortune again, what you also want to do, guys, is for the losing
that you tick this box over here where it says make this a losing slice. discount code despite the fact that one of those slices. So, I'll do exactly that for slice one, two, and three. And
enable form. with our form now being live on our online store. If I go back over to our online store, let's say I'm trending products, and I click onto these sushi socks over here, for
example. And let's say that I just don't have my credit card at hand. Let's say I purchase the product there. And then, for example, I may then proceed to leave for example, I may then proceed to leave the page by dragging my cursor over to
the red X until our form pops up just like this. Get your limited time discount. Enter your email to start spinning. As a customer, let's say I enter in my email. I click onto where it says spin the wheel. And to my delight,
says spin the wheel. And to my delight, it lands on 30% off. That may then incentivize me as a customer to get my discount code by copying it over here. And I may then buy two lots of this product. Even since I'm getting a
discount, I'll click on to where it says add to cart. I'll check out. And that is when you will make a profit. And again guys, the supplier which is sourced via Zenrop actually ships the product out to the customer on your behalf. You will
just pocket the difference. And I want to show you how you can view the amount of profit that you make for each one of those sales that you generate. If you go back over to Shopify, if you go over to where it says products over here, you
will see the full list of those winning trending products on your store. Let's say that I do click onto those sushi socks over here, for example. I can then click onto the different variants for those sushi socks. You can either get
five pairs or three pairs. If I go to five pairs over here, for example, I can then click onto it. As you can see, the price is set at price is set at $77. The cost from the supplier is under
$10. Meaning we get a profit of over $68 even with a discount applied of 30% $68 even with a discount applied of 30% from 68. That's around $50 in profit.
Just under. Now on the back end, when we do collect our customers emails, that's when we can turn them into repeat buyers by going back over to Omnis send and sending a promotional email for any one of these other trending products. Let's
say this heated hoodie blanket over here, for example, to anyone who entered in their email address into that form that we created and named 30 discount. To do that, I'll simply click onto where it says automation over here. I'll click
onto where it says explore all workflows and I'll simply click onto where it says create from scratch. Now, what you want to do is first establish who you want to send the email to. We want to email anybody who entered in their email
address into our pop-up form, which we know is called discount 30. So to do that, I'll simply click onto this first activity over here to define how a person enters the workflow, so to speak. And on the right hand side, I'll click
onto where it says trigger. We want to say the person who we want to send an email to is someone who subscribed to marketing or entered in their email address into our form. And if I go to trigger filters over here, add trigger
filter, I can say they entered in their email address into the form that is called 30 discount. I'll then click onto where it says save. And anybody who entered in their email address into that form to get that discount code, I'm
going to give them 2 days by adding a delay activity. I'm going to say wait for two days. And two days later, we're going to automatically send them an email by dragging in this email activity right here promoting this heated blanket
hoodie. And to send the email, we'll need a subject line, some preheader that appears beneath the subject line when it appears in your customer's inbox, the sender's name, and of course to write the email itself. So, first to
write the email itself, what you can do is simply head over to chatgpt. And I've simply said, write me a short email promoting a heated blanket hoodie with product page. And I simply copied over the link for that product page. And I'll
simply click on to enter. And immediately, Chat GPT will draft that email for us. It's even given us a subject line as well. So, the first thing I will do is copy over this subject line with these emojis. go back
over to Omnisend and simply paste it in. And you can actually use Omnisend's built-in AI to come up with all of these as well. For example, where it says preheader, if I click onto this AI symbol over here, it's given us a few
suggestions such as wrap yourself in comfort and never feel cold again, which it's got from the subject line. Now, for the sender's name, you're just going to put your name or the name of your online store. And I'm simply going to scroll
down and click onto where it says edit content. This is where we're actually going to be writing our email. I'm going to go back into chat GPT. Our email is already ready for us. I'm going to copy over that email completely. Go back over
to Omnisend and I'm simply going to click onto where it says email body and select any one of these templatized content blocks such as title and paragraph 2 which I will drag in. I'm going to delete the content block for
this title since we don't need it. And with my email copied already, I'm going to select all of the placeholder text here. Right click, click onto paste, and bit by adding in some spaces between paragraphs, deleting some of this
placeholder text, such as first name. And I'll delete these two content blocks as well since we don't need them simply by clicking onto the content block and clicking onto this trash can symbol over here. Go to where it says finish
editing. And at this stage, I could just click onto where it says start workflow. This will mean automatically anybody who enters in their email address to retrieve their 30% discount for those sushi socks will receive 2 days after
retrieving that discount another promotional email for a trending product in a niche that we know they already have an interest in. That being the blanket. But I don't recommend that you start your workflow with simply one
follow-up email. You want to take it a step or many steps further. So obviously everybody who receives this email, some people will open it, some people won't. distinguish between the openers and the non-openers to determine which follow-up
email that they get and when they receive it. Let me show you what I mean. So let's say that we want to wait 2 days, which is usually best practice to actually open an email. So, we're going to say we'll wait 2 days to see whether
they actually opened the email. And to figure out whether they opened the email or not, you can add a split activity over here. I'll simply drag that split activity in. And the rule that we will give that split activity. We want to
figure out how they engaged with the message or didn't engage with it. So, for example, did they open the message or did they not? And you can select property as well. We want to figure out if they opened an email and we want to
figure out if they opened this email. That is our subject line for this one right here. I'll simply click onto where it says save over here. Now, if they did open the email under where it says yes, what I recommend that you do is to send
them another follow-up email, but not anytime soon. They're already engaging with your emails. So, give it another 5 days. For example, again, I'll simply drag in a delay flow action over here. It will say wait for 1 minute by
default. I'll replace the one with a five. Replace the minutes by days. And underneath that delay, that is when you want to drag in another email activity. And in the exact same fashion that we used earlier using a combination of both
chat, GPT, and Omnisend AI, you can then craft an email to promote one of these other trending products in the exact niche that we know they've already shown an interest in. Now, if they did not open the email, that means your subject
line was not too alluring. And since you've already waited two days for them to open your email, which they haven't, you're all good to send them another follow-up email to try and re-engage that email subscriber by sending them
another promotional email for another product, obviously with an entirely different subject line. And you can see how you can extend out these automation workflows. And for those who do engage with your emails where the open is yes
after 2 days, you can essentially send these customers emails every single week. And these can be multi-re repeat buyers. And once you're happy with your automated email workflow, you can simply click onto where it says start workflow
over here. And now anybody who enters in their email into your form to retrieve their discount will receive that automated email sequence allowing you to turn many of those customers into repeat buyers. And that is how you can
absolutely maximize the lifetime value of your subscribers and customers. Now, before we talk about how we can drive traffic to our store, I first want to mention that it's important to optimize your store fully. In terms of each one
of the trending products listed on your store, you want to have a corresponding automated email workflow. Again, to maximize the lifetime value of every single customer and email subscriber that you get with this method. Now, I
barriers to entry when it comes to setting up your own e-commerce store just like this, which can generate us a real long-term passive income. And as you saw, the startup costs to start an online business like this are extremely
low, actually free. But as you do grow your business, there are some very minimal costs involved. Let me break them down. So, with Omnis, for example, it's completely free to use for the first 250 subscribers that you collect.
As you grow your email subscriber base beyond $250, you can upgrade to the standard plan, which is literally around $11 per month, allows you to send over 6,000 emails per month, 24/7 priority support. It's a truly intuitive
platform, not a steep learning curve at all, as you would have seen in this video, and it really does help to maximize the amount of money that we can make with this method. In fact, here's a data point for you. For every $1 the
average e-commerce store owner spends with Omnisend, they get around $68 back in return. That is real data highlighting and really illustrating the highlighting and really illustrating the high ROI with this method. And of course
to build the online store itself, it is completely free utilizing the store build AI platform which does leverage the Shopify e-commerce platform which is the best e-commerce platform that you can use. And of course that again also
offers a free trial and even beyond your free trial it's literally a dollar a month for the next 3 months. And by leveraging store build AI we also save a ton of time due to the fact that it preloads already trending winning viral
products onto our store as we saw earlier. Now as you do grow your store and you start to scale to maximize the amount of money that you can make. You do want to add more trending products to your store over time. You want to test
those products are earning you more revenue than others. And to do that, you can simply go over to Zenrop and you can browse a ton of different products that they have on the platform sourced from a wide range of different suppliers. As
products. You can even utilize their trending products feature over here to view all of their trending products. Now, to add these trending products, including the preloaded trending products, to your store throughout your
Shopify trial period, it is completely free. But there are some minimal costs beyond that. They operate on what's known as a usagebased subscription, which basically means the number of products that you have on your store is
how much you get charged per month. So, for example, if you have one to 20 linked products on your store, it is $29 per month. I think we have around 10 and this is completely free for the duration of your trial period. So minimal cost
involved, huge profit margins, giving us the leverage to collect email subscribers by offering huge discounts circa 30%. Massive ROI. We basically set up the entire process utilizing AI to automate the entire thing. This is one
of the lowest barrier to entry online business models that literally anybody can set up to generate a long-term passive income. Now, to actually drive rolling, I recommend a few different sources of traffic. One of them is Tik
Tok, especially for these viral trending products. As you saw at the beginning of this video, one Tik Tok video I showed you promoting those sushi socks amassed over 3 million views. Now, in order to create Tik Tok ads, it's actually pretty
easy. And in order to know exactly how to do that, when you set up your online store, guys, when you get to the last step, if you click onto where it says click onto where it says join free
program, you'll get free access to a ton of these different short videos that Zenrop has created, which covers a wide range of different strategies that you can utilize to drive traffic to your store to start generating a real passive
income. Specifically, one of those modules is this one right here, making Tik Tok ads. It's literally around 4 minutes long. I strongly recommend watching this video despite only being 4 minutes long. It covers everything you
need to know when it comes to creating Tik Tok ads that actually drive traffic and conversions on your store. I also recommend watching this video right here on Facebook ads. Facebook ads are a particularly effective method when it
comes to driving traffic to your store, especially for trending, winning viral products, attracting a high number of what's known as impulse buyers. And I also recommend utilizing display ads as well. And if you want to know exactly
how to use display ads to drive traffic to your store to generate a real long-term passive income, I strongly recommend watching this video right here. And if you got value from this video, please make sure that you smash
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