7 AI Shop Ideas that Make More Than Your 9-5 (Beginner)

Today I'm sharing with you seven

beginner

-friendly product

ideas

that could easily scale to replace a 9 to 5 income. I've grown what's close to a multi-million dollar business that uses the same structure as these

ideas

so I'm going to share it with you and pay off. much

more

than most nine-to-fivers. I've curated these ideas with scale in mind, so after testing and making sure there's a market for that product on Etsy, you'll still be able to scale it beyond seven. or eight figures on Shopify, so without further ado let's get straight to idea number one, which is selling pet collars.

We all know that focusing on customers' emotions is the best way to generate sales and that's why these personalized pet collars sell like crazy. that there are entire stores dedicated to simply selling these products, this store, for example, that simply sells patterned dog collars, has made over a million dollars in recent years and this customizable listing has generated an estimated income of 140 thousand dollars there. There are

more

stores like this where they sell other items, but their dog collars drive the majority of sales and have been hugely successful over the past three years. Their dog collars are almost exactly the same as what we just saw, just with different Pattern Options: Some

shop

s on Etsy take a different approach, like these stylish suede bands and metallic metal buckles, but it's fundamentally exactly the same product and as you can see both can be very successful and there are a couple of ways you can run this business, the obvious answer.

It would be to order all the products, such as the bands, buckles, and engraving tools, and learn how to assemble the products

your

self, but an even easier and safer method would be to simply ship the necklaces directly to

your

customers, pretty much the only thing you can do. we would need to start it's a layout so let's

make

one mid-journey it's a text to image generation AI that we've probably all seen before using it it's really easy you just give it a message which is just a line of text that tells it what type of image you want to generate and when you press Enter it will generate the image right in front of your face, but there is a trick that we can use to always generate seamless patterns to use on the collars, you can write pretty. almost anything you want and at the end of the message just add the board tile and this will print a perfect pattern almost every time.

I now have a video dedicated to this so you can watch it if you're interested. more details and now with that pattern done all we would have to do is apply it to the dog's collar and then fulfill the orders that came in and that's where printify comes into play printify is a print on demand company that offers all types of Products white label like these that you can ship directly from the USA. All you have to do is choose a product like this dog collar right here and upload some type of pattern or design to it and you can choose which buckles you want to sell.

Additionally, you can connect your Printify account to your Etsy store and you will be able to list products directly from Printify on Etsy. Now, when a customer comes and buys that dog collar from you, Printify will have that design printed and shipped. right to your customer's door, you'll never have to hold any inventory, print or engrave products, and you'll never have to pay for products until you've made a sale. This is the type of business where after you see some success with printing. Upon request, you can scale to sell other types of products and move to a private website on Shopify.

The barrier to entry is very low, meaning there is a good amount of competition, so you would have to

make

really good listings and products to stand out. without having to run ads, but if the competition scares you then this next idea might be a little better for you and that is to sell renaissance pet portraits. These are just super fun portrait images, basically, of your pet's face on top of some sort of lifelike appearance. body and make a lot of money, basically, a customer sends a photo of their pet and will receive back a Photo

shop

ped image like this, either as a digital download or as a physical print.

This shop called Van Wolf averages about 244k dollars per year just from their Etsy shop and their entire focus is this style of painting, now this other shop called tiny Fluffy sells basically more of the same products but they are all very similar styles to each other and they have also had great success with their doing business on Etsy and I know what you are thinking, yes there is very little competition and you can make a really high profit margin but these images are probably very difficult to make and you're probably right, but there is a much easier method to get similar images.

Now the easiest method would be to buy the design directly from someone who already knows how to do it on a website like Fiverr. If you did this, you could basically try selling the product yourself without having to worry about learning anything new in the second. The option obviously uses AI, but it's not perfect, so you would have to use a bit of your own skill to make this work. I came back halfway through the trip and started trying to create a message that would give me a portrait like the ones sold. and honestly, this was pretty easy to accomplish.

I asked for a mascot in a military uniform and then added some detailed words to the end of the message to see what kind of results I could get. Now, these images look great and exactly what I would like if I ordered one, but as I mentioned, first there are some problems: the uniforms and backgrounds won't always output exactly the same thing because the AI ​​doesn't really do that and second, they don't they can be used. client photo to generate pet face now mid-travel has implemented some features like blend mode to merge images that you might want to use together, but I couldn't really get this to work well.

The best thing you would probably do would be to generate an image with a body you liked and then use Photoshop to remove the pet's head and replace it with your clients pets image and then apply a watercolor filter to hide the imperfections as they do all the other stores again, you would need to use your own brilliant brain to figure out all the steps and skills involved, but there is a lot of potential here to earn much more than a traditional nine to five income, plus there is a lot of room here to climb a make the biggest Shopify you can To sell someday, should I make a full video on this business idea or one of the ideas in this video?

Let me know in the comments section. The following idea came to me because I spend money on these products for my own business. I'm talking about selling digital graphics and clip art. This store called Heather Roberts Art sells digital download graphics and clip art and her store has had great success over the last three years. He has earned approximately 2.3 million dollars, which means he probably makes profits of 54 to 60 thousand dollars per month here is a very similar store that also sells digital graphics and clip art and his 3.3 million dollars in sales equals about three hundred and seventy thousand dollars every year and again that's about 91 profits since As far as digital downloads go, there are a lot of stores like this, but these ones caught my eye in particular because they're doing something a little different.

When I was browsing, I noticed this list and it may look normal, but it is actually done. using completely AI, which means that the AI ​​did all the work to create these mushrooms and so far they have made $448 in profit, not all of their 5000 products were made using AI, but many of the new listings are and it is very easy to make graphics. like these, if you know how, halfway through Journey, you can write whatever type of graph you want to generate and just make sure you include a white background at the end of The Prompt and this will generate whatever type of graph you just described.

The nice thing about this is that you can run it through an image background remover to remove the white background and then use an image scaler to improve the quality if necessary and then you'll be left with this simple cropped graphic that we could put up for sale. Now, that alone isn't too difficult, but there is something we could add inside the message that will allow us to generate tons of images from a single message when you find a message that works like this, a watercolor style carrot on a white background, you might want to try it with more elements than just a carrot.

What you can do is go into the message and add two braces where the word carrot is and then you can write as many elements as you want. make sure you separate each one by a comma and I can do the same for The Styling, so instead of just watercolor I can add some braces and I could say watercolor, oil painting, hand drawn, vector graphic, etc., and now, when I press Enter it will ask me if I want to generate that many images, just remember that each time it runs it will give you four variations for each message, so 10 messages become 40 images.

Now I could leave this to generate and when I come back I would have 80. Potential images that I could use in my store now this business will most likely get a little boring because you have to post a lot of images to be able to compete with the other stores, but with the goal in mind to make about fifty. thousand dollars a month I think this is a solid opportunity and definitely competes with most nine to five people. The hardest part of this business would definitely be the consistency and ability to create the perfect props a few days ago when I was researching that quick trick. that I just gave you, I found something quite interesting, there are shops on Etsy that literally sell quick guides, these guides are as simple as they sound, they basically just explain how to use and talk to AI depending on what your goals are, there are all kinds of guides . from specific middle of the road guides on how to create particular looks to these big guides that cover huge amounts of material, the shop that caught my eye is called fixly and they've only been on Etsy for about seven months and have already made over forty thousand dollars, so I guess projected over the course of the year, as they continue to grow, they will definitely reach six figures again, almost all profits, since it is a digital product.

Now it's pretty easy to make that kind of money at a nine to nine price. five, but considering that this is a new store with only 93 listings and that the competition is not only very low but they all have terrible listing images, I think you have a good chance of standing out and getting some sales if you enter this niche for Para To do this effectively, you'll need to have some experience with prompts and using AI tools, but if you're doing any of the ideas above, you'll pick it up pretty quickly. The best way I have found great information on directions is by coming. to Twitter and using the advanced search feature this allows you to enter the keywords you are searching for so I would like to find tweets that contain the word message and then we can also include GPT chat or mid-ride in this section and finally I will search for tweets with at least 500 likes to find only the best tweets.

You'll see that we started getting information like how to make Chat GBT write like a human and that tweet went really viral or right here 12 pointers for marketing. You could compile much of this information and curate it into a guide that you could sell to people who don't know how to use AI programs or don't have time to learn all the tips and tricks. With your own idea number five, you can start very small, but it has the potential to be a multi-seven figure business on Etsy alone and that's just selling candles. This store called Perfect Match Shop has built an entire business around selling these fun, tell-all candles.

There are many stores that sell these types of candles, but this one stands out in particular. His store makes $1.66 million, averaging $524,000 a year, with a pretty big number like that. I was wondering how they got there. I went a little deeper. I walked into this store and found out that the top 20 listings generate 80 percent of the sales and specifically the top 10 listings, just five of those top 10 listings generate almost fifteen thousand dollars a month, which means that about one percent of their listings generate 40 percent of their sales, but they still had to list at least 559 candles to find that one percent that sell very well and that doesn't include all the potential listings they removed, so remember that if you are Starting any of these businesses it takes a lot of time and practice to make things that really sell, but luckily for us this one is pretty easy.

The two main candles this shop sells can be found directly on printify and that meansthat all we have to do is make one. nice design and upload it to the candle and the print on demand business model we talked about earlier will take care of everything else. I can use chatbt to generate a list of funny, trademark-free sayings that I can include on my candle labels related to any topic. that I can think of along with a good font recommendation and see the list generated before my eyes, then I can go into a design program like figma or canva and just paste the saying in and then choose a good font and then I can take that design and upload it directly to printify and you can see it applied directly to the candle and as I mentioned before once an order comes in for that candle it will be printed and shipped directly to the customer, this business again on principle.

It would be very easy to execute because there are only funny sayings on the candle labels. If you are also looking at t-shirts and mugs for more inspiration, I think it will be very difficult for you to run out of ideas now that there is a website called Market Pulse that shows the top 100 sellers of the last 30 days. Based on the number of sales, the crazy thing is that between five of those top 100 stores they have collectively sold over 92,837 Tumblr wrappers, this business seems really simple, although they sell an individual wrapper for a dollar or two or they sell packs. for about seven dollars, the store we're looking at went from zero sales to over 73,000 in eight months, which means it made between 120 and 198 thousand dollars in just eight months when I was looking at the pictures, I can't say it with security, but these little graphical errors in some of the designs don't really look like a human is making them on top of that.

Seeing how many designs these tumbo wrap shops are making, I think it's very possible that they are using AI to achieve this, when I tried it out for myself, I used the exact same method as before to see if we could generate a lot of ideas just by a message, except at the end of the message I added dash dash AR for the aspect ratio and then the numbers 349 colon 262. and now when I generate our images, it will convert them to the correct aspect ratio for a tumbler wrap. Once they were done generating, I used the same image scaler as before and then when I applied it to Tumblr and printed, you can look, it fits perfectly if you go back and see what the mid-journey community is doing on the website from Mid Journey, you can see that there are actually a lot of layouts similar to the ones wrapped around the Tumblr cell, so looking at their prompts might give you something good. inspiration I know this business idea isn't the most glamorous, but it's gaining popularity right now.

I think you could get on this and make some money. You would also see what designs are sold as digital products and you could apply them. to physical vessels and ship them too or create new boat designs and start building your own brand on a website. This next product idea may not be for everyone, but it goes to show that you can sell just about anything and they just Turns out they now sell fabric prints at this store called Spoonflower, they sell pattern prints on fabric and on wallpaper, so It's not just a product, but the patterns work either way.

This is probably as simple as it gets when it comes to repeatable business. Everything they are doing. is to make good patterns and sell them on wallpapers and fabrics and before I show you how much money you have made because you have made a lot, I wanted to show you that you have really worked hard on this, you have dozens. of thousands of listings and although they have probably designed less than half because they publish their patterns on multiple products, they have been extremely dedicated to creating and publishing patterns, most of the patterns are extremely simple and almost anyone who watches this video could make a pattern of the same quality, it's just that most people don't want to spend the amount of time this would take, especially with tools like mid Journey, it would be easier than ever to generate a pattern and upload it for sale on a fabric or background. screen as to how much money they have made, they have made over $7.2 million on Etsy online and that doesn't even count what they have made on their personal website.

Hopefully, what this shows you is that you can build a brand on almost anything, scale it, and turn it into what is probably an eight-figure business. I have a ton of links and discount codes for you to get things like 40 free listings on Etsy so you can legitimately start your business completely. free, as well as many other useful resources right under the Subscribe button, so be sure to check them out. Let me know in the comments which products you want to see individual videos about and as always, I'll talk to you soon.