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Allen
Perhaps I am missing something here, but what exactly is to stop you from using AI to write how-to books on all the usual crap, selling them on a website the AI creates, creating a YouTube channel to promote them with the AI and be harvesting money from the proles within a month?
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OmegaKV
I think that is a good idea. But one thing that will hold you back is making the website layout look nice. You would also need to find images to place throughout the text, to compete with sites like WikiHow, but I suppose AI could generate these as well.
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Allen
AI can do that as well. With the images, MidJourney is the current standard. You wouldn't really be competing with wikihow A lot of people prefer e-books. In any case, wikihow is stupid, although the e-books would be fairly stupid as well.
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fschmidt
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I asked ChatGPT:

Can I use AI to write how-to books, sell them on a website the AI creates, create a YouTube channel to promote them with the AI and make money from this?

answer:

Technically speaking, it is possible to use AI to generate how-to books, create a website to sell them, and promote them on YouTube. However, there are several factors to consider before embarking on such a venture.

First, the quality of the AI-generated content must be high enough to provide value to potential customers. AI-generated content can sometimes lack the nuance and context that a human writer would include, which could make it less useful or accurate for readers.

Second, it's important to ensure that the content you create with AI is not infringing on any intellectual property or copyright laws. Using AI to create content that is too similar to existing works could lead to legal issues.

Third, promoting and selling content on a website and YouTube channel requires a significant amount of marketing and business acumen. It's important to create a robust marketing strategy to reach potential customers, optimize your website and channel for search engine visibility, and develop a pricing strategy that works for your target audience.

Overall, using AI to create and sell how-to books and videos is possible, but it requires careful planning, execution, and a keen understanding of your target audience and their needs.
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Allen
The usual mealy mouthed non-committal answer you would expect something imitating and NPC to give, but basically the answer is "yes" then.
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Allen
Looking into this issue has at least put my own thoughts on writing useful books on diet and getting in shape and such into perspective. What a stupid idea when books that will almost certainly sell better can be created easily with ai. I don't know what the hell I was thinking of. Actually expressing yourself creatively other than in working out how to harvest the proles' money is for chumps.
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Allen
I'm going to try this. I'll start with 10 short e-books promoting different forms of diet and exercise and go from there.

The trick will of course be getting traffic. YouTube promotional videos are one way, but they themselves need traffic. Any suggestions?

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Clarkton
Understanding how the YouTube algorithm works isn't difficult.

Video traffic = video engagement rates

The trick is to understand the latest trends. For example, short videos are popular and extremely scalable these days. If I were you I would just hire someone that's in touch with modern social media and let them handle marketing.

 
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fschmidt
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You can use an affiliate network like JVZoo to get traffic and handle payment processing.  You can use a website builder to make a 1-page sales funnel to your e-book that includes a promotional video.
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Allen
Yes, that would be one option. The other option would be to use a dedicated sales site like Sellfy or Payhip. That would necessitate using Paypal - the evil payment processor, but on the other hand, doing so would allow me to offer affiliate deals to anyone who also used Paypal. One thing that concerns me about Jvzoo is that most people selling as affiliates there seem to want to shill high value products, whereas my e-books would necessarily sell fairly cheaply. So many decisions are involved. I'll probably want to sell about 10 e-books to start with from a single page, so maybe a bespoke page combined with something like Jvzoo is the way to go. Are any equivalents to Jvzoo any good?
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Allen
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BTW, is your business functioning such that there would be any point in signing up as an affiliate?
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fschmidt
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Allen wrote
BTW, is your business functioning such that there would be any point in signing up as an affiliate?
I am using ShareASale but I will add my own affiliate system next week which will pay a higher commission, so I suggest waiting for that.
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fschmidt
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With affiliate marketing, the goal is to let the right affiliates find you.  So it is important to choose the best affiliate network for this.  I originally wanted to use multiple affiliate networks, but that turned out to be too difficult.  I am using ShareASale.  Most affiliate networks are just horrible.  For example most don't even make their pricing public, and I eliminated those.  JVZoo is the only one besides ShareASale that I thought is usable.  I haven't looked at payment handling services since I handle payments myself.
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Allen
It looks like Jvzoo it is then.
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Allen
BTW, how much should I charge for e-books ~6500 words. I think only $10 would be justified, but perhaps I could get away with more.
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Allen
Here is the site.

https://dietfitnessbasics.com/
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fschmidt
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Looks good.  The "YouTube" link and "Report abuse" link need to be fixed.
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Allen
Fixed the youtube link. The "report abuse" link is the ecommerce host provider's and I can't do anything about it.
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fschmidt
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https://www.youtube.com/@DietFitnessBasics/about

I think this should link back to your website.
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OmegaKV
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Website looks nice
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