$100k Per Year Business-in-a-Box
Designed for the Solopreneur
Designed for the Solopreneur
Imagine a business that runs itself without you, and with no employees.
Only the owner, with AI automating everything else end-to-end.
Product design, copy, marketing, emails, ads, and sales/support.
What’s that?
It can’t work?
No one wants that?
Only giant companies can do this? Not individuals?
Well…..It’s…. almost here.
I’ve been waiting for the tech to make it possible for YEARS.
I’m Frankensteining the pieces of it together for myself, right now.
When I describe my idea to people in my generation (I’m 41), they laugh.
Sometimes they just shake their head.
“Running a business is hard work, and if you’re trying to avoid that, you’re only going to fail!”
^ There is some truth to that. If I didn’t spend years in customer support roles and have a few years of sales under my belt, how would I ever know how to train a chatbot to be effective to take over sales and support on my website?
Back when I was building my chatbots manually with conversational flows that I had to type out myself, that was 1001% the reality.
If I didn’t know how to convert sales, it would be just as ineffective. I had to refine the bots over time.
Only, that’s not the reality anymore.
Along came ChatGPT and made every chatbot I ever created obsolete pretty fast. And I’m so glad it did.
It used to take weeks to build a bot, and months to fine tune it.
I was using platforms like ChatAmmo, and Botstar.
The GPT powered chatbot I just deployed on the website I am building/testing, took 3 days.
Now I am using Orimon AI, which is shaping up to be a decent salesman too. Not quite there yet, but almost.
OrimonAI has specific roles built into it, which are specialized trained data sets to create a sales-specific role, or a customer support specific role.
There are many bots to choose from that I’ve read great reviews about, but Orimon is the one I am using at the moment, so that’s why I share it.
Let me be clear here, I do not think every product or service is suitable for this. There will be many things that will require a human touch.
The product you choose to sell has a lot to do with whether or not people mind having it sold to them by an automaton.
Digital goods, small ticket items, clothing and apparel, vanity items, and more, all perfectly suitable.
AI related services where people expect AI to be running the business too
What is not particularly suitable for end-to-end automation for an individual to run and maintain?
Hick ticket sales, complicated physical technology items that incorporate complicated software that needs support, medical technology, and all things that exist beyond the scope of an individual source of income for one person
And — it is still true and I won’t deny it — many customers in my generation and older will always be wanting the human touch, especially with certain products.
That said…. I think about this generationally as well…. and I want to be ahead of the curve.
My Generation
Back in my day, we used to build giant companies with hundreds of employees, just to make and ship and single product, all butt naked, in 9 ft of snow!!!!
My generation and those before me — we are the hard-work-mantra generations. It’s part of our programming.
And I think after thousands of years, it’s also built into our species.
There will always be a satisfying feeling to hard work and the sense of accomplishment that comes after sincere sustained efforts.
There will always be a place for hard work. It won’t magically vanish. This is true for all generations. (I’m not trying to say you don’t ever work hard gen Z, but you certainly seem to like to work less, and I am FINE with that… read on to see why)
Areas of hard work, will shift to new areas.
When harvesting equipment was invented, people no longer need to plow by hand.
The engine took the work away from horses and many people
Computers— so many people were afraid of loosing their jobs to computers back in the 90s, and many did, but we also gained the ability to accomplish more as Individuals, than ever before.
The work of 5 secretaries is now done with software almost everyone is using.
The Future Generation
The next generation — have you noticed that many of them do not like a phone call? Many in my nieces generation (she’s 16) — practically demand text. They seem to get frustrated at phone calls.
The youngest generation….. the gen who will be 25-30 in about 10 years — will they mind at all if they purchase from AI sales agents?
When the younger folk become the bigger consumer base, how much more feasible do you think it will be to set up a fully automated store?
How many of those who already earn income creating content and generating value in other creative ways outside of traditional employment, would love to have a business that can run itself while they TikTok?
I’m not looking at the RIGHT NOW, even though I have had some success with automating my own customer support tasks into bot hands. I am eyeing the near future and positioning myself.
Hard Work Will Still Exist
I am NOT trying to say we will eliminate all hard work and become like the movie Wall-E, but rather — I see a future where we will free up more time for INDIVIDUALS so that they can have an income that doesn’t depend on a 40 hour obligations, yet still have a real business that provides a useful product/service to people who want or need it, without demanding all of their time.
We can still work harder, if we want to. We could, run several of these businesses in the same time that it used to take many people to run one single business. Or you could run one of these, while being an avid hiker most of the time, like I want to do.
I see a future where individuals and groups can have fully automated businesses, much like people in decentralized finance have set up Decentralized Autonomous Organizations.
Decentralized Finance is much further along in this process of autonomy than the general e-commerce world.
What I am doing now is really just seeing how far I can push this idea using several available workflow solutions to accomplish it.
My current project uses several platforms to create workflows that automate Print on Demand product design, ad and creative copy, ecom blogs, email marketing, and I tie it together with a nice chatbot.
No, I am not a millionaire yet.
And I am far from 100k so far this year.
The people who built the workflows I am building upon aren’t, they have already made several million. (www.wondrai.com)
But they are a full company with a team.
I am trying to do something way different. Their ideas have empowered me further.
I’ve made less than 80 sales in the last 2 months on my first attempt at total end-to-end automation, which… for Print on Demand, isn’t much profit at all.
I’ve had Print on Demand niche stores in the past that generated far more profit, much faster.
But I have a totally different goal here, and I am pushing boundaries of what can I can do.
The goal right now is finding the right AI to automate ads and video content creation, without me having to manually create all that. I have’t been pushing it full bore.
I have an AI tool for video that I love working with that I use for all my video content now (www.kapwing.com), but sadly it cannot be connected to my API driven workflows, so I am still on the hunt for something that can integrate in a more automated way.
I literally want this thing to run itself, and maybe I check in once or twice a week to make sure nothing has blown up.
I can already automate social media posts. I mean automating engaging video content for attraction marketing, as well as engagement.
I am not creating this concept with the idea of doing whatever it takes to make the business work by any means. Nope. That’s not the point at all. The means matter.
Here is the store I am building/testing at the moment, specializing in intricate all over print designs, all generated by AI :
I am testing, planning, testing, replanning, modifying, and the only goal is making a BUSINESS that suits a LIFESTYLE, not merely …. building a successful business.
If it can’t run itself and only need my attention in emergency circumstances, then it’s not doing what I want yet.
To learn more about what I am building at the moment and all the tools I am using to piece it together, check out my other blog post here :
End-to-End-Automated Ecommerce Store, Print on Demand
The 4 Simple Tools I Use to Automate my Print on Demand Store End to End with Artificial Intelligence.
Thank you for reading!
Until next time….
Onward and Upward Everybody!
-Chris
Automated Income Lifesyle w/ Chris Morton YouTube
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