The BEST A.I. Passive Income Side Hustle 2024

In less than a year of being open to the public, this store has made over six figures selling AI digital download art, not revenue earnings. I talked about a similar

side

business early last year and since then a lot has changed now, a year later. We have brand new versions of mid Journey that came out just a couple of days ago and the fact that almost no one has yet taken advantage of this business model, the New Year is the perfect time to go over exactly how to use these AI tools to make some beautiful digital art and sell it online to earn

passive

income

.

The

best

part is that you can start this business from anywhere in the world with just $10. The process is very simple. We will start by making the image and for this we will use an AI image generator called mid Journey, it works by taking a text message basically just one sentence describing what the image should look like and it will take it and turn it into a completely usable and sellable piece of art from scratch we will modify our messages To get the highest quality images possible, once our image is ready we can package it into a NIC looking listing and post it for sale online and wait for the sales to come in as AI does all the heavy lifting.

This is one of the most efficient ways. You could start with

side

hustle

s, but before you continue making a bunch of artwork that doesn't sell, let's quickly look at what artwork sells and how much money we can make with this business model. This first store called Antique White Art is selling them aesthetically. digital downloads of nice painting styles, most of them are a moody rustic vintage style with some kind of drab colors and honestly nothing too crazy, someone could easily justify hanging them on the wall and it would look nice, they have a Constantly professional and considerate seller. is quite familiar with AI generators, it's no wonder why they have been able to create over 600 artwork listings.

What's interesting is that they opened just 22 days after I posted my old video showing you the first method of using AI to create downloadable art now Allura shows that over the last 11 months this seller has been able to generate over 31,000 sales in over six figures in its first year in business. If it's possible for them, it's possible for you. This next work we're looking at has a similar vibe to In the last one, they are again selling these vintage style painting prints by Moody. Basically, they are just using the exact same high converting mockup on all of their listings and selling their artwork for a little over $3 a piece now since they made over 377,000. sales, that would mean they have made over 1.3 million in the last four years or an average of over $33,000 a month since they opened their store in August 2020 again, almost entirely profits, since their only cost are Etsy rates.

I mentioned this. I bought last year and since then they have made over 100,000 sales and $300,000 in profits. If we look at their About section, we can see that they are selling derivative works of old designs, meaning they are remastered versions of original artworks. do something special themselves, which means it's entirely possible to do it with AI. Now there are more stores that have popped up recently, like this Lexington Prince selling AI-generated art that opened just 4 months ago, but has already made over 14,000 sales. It means they are making close to $10,000 a month in

income

within their first 4 months again.

You don't have to trust me. You can look at the numbers for yourself and see if it's legit and something worthwhile. super easy business model where you now just sell artwork as a downloadable file while we're here looking at successful stores that we'd like to replicate instead of creating the images we feel like we have to figure out what types of images sell. Doing your research is very important so as not to waste time when we find a store that sells digital download artwork. We can scroll down to the bottom of the page and see their reviews section.

Here we can click filter and we can filter by latest to see what customers are buying and what they like enough to leave reviews. If we click through to some of these listings, we can see if it's a

best

seller or not, how many reviews this specific item has received, and we can see what the artwork looks like this turns out to be a landscape of wildflowers in a oil painting style. I'll review and save a bunch of successful listings for later so we know what style and vibe to go with our own art now that we don't.

I don't want to copy anyone's listing because that will cause legal problems, but we can use the same ideas for our own art. A second option to investigate is to use a store analysis tool like Aura to analyze a store that sells digital download art and then they can simply go down and filter their top listings to see what type of art they are successfully selling again, just come here to collect concepts for art that we can sell in our own store, now accessing mid-journey is very easy to obtain. You'll just want to go to their website which looks like this and click join the beta.

This will ask you to join their Discord server where you can create the images. Obviously you'll need a Discord account, so go for it. Be sure to sign up if you don't already have Discord. It's completely free. You can use Mid Journey for free at first just to get started and see how things work before you commit fully, but if you're going to sell the images you want to pay for one of the plans where you'll have commercial rights to your images, so that the cheapest plan is now only $10 a month to keep you super organized and make things super easy for you on Discord just click this plus button and hit create my own for me and my friends and then just give it a name and then go back to the mid-trip server, look for one of these general chat rooms where you can find the mid-trip bot and you can click on it and hit add to server. and then just choose the server you just created from the drop down menu, we can access the server we just created on the left side and this will allow us to generate images without seeing each other's images, but with all that configured out of the way.

Let's finally start making some artwork, so we'll go down to the chat box section and type a forward slash followed by the word imagine. Now this is where we can enter a message so we can make an image of a hillside full of wheat and flowers now I can also add a command at the end of this message like: followed by an aspect ratio maybe 4x3 to change the expected aspect ratio of the image that is generated after pressing Enter and just waiting a few seconds. an image that doesn't look too bad, this will give us four different options with controls underneath, so the button on the right will redisplay the message and give you four new images based on the exact same message, the buttons below will create more variations. of the corresponding image and the top row of buttons will enlarge or enhance the corresponding image if you want, so that's the basics, but there are things we can do to get even better art since we know what style of art is already selling , we can adjust our medium. trip to produce those types of images, let's write a forward slash and this time let's write the settings.

Now this will open the settings page where we have several options to work with. First, the model we will use to generate images now as well. although version 6 is already available and produces high quality images, version 5.2 is the one we are going to use as it has better features at the time of recording, then we have the stylization settings, now these options control how much brightness or chaos you have the picture. AI will be added to your image if we generate the same message at different times. You can see that the higher the stylization, the wilder the image looks and the lower the stylization, the more realistic it looks, as we know that crazy AI style images do not.

It's not selling that well, we just want to select medium or low for now. We can also set our generator to Raw mode and this will give us a more realistic image and the rest of the settings don't matter much so we can just press discard instead of just trying to create the perfect message from our imagination. The second strategy we can use is to go to the Mid Journey website and simply press log in at the bottom and this will take us to the explore page from here. We can search for the concept of the image we want to make, for example, an oil painting of a field with tall wildflowers and wheat.

Here is a list of images that match our search and that we can review when we find one with a style we like. we can click on it and then go up to the top and press copy on the message once it's done generating the image. It's much closer to the same image style that we already know works so well because we're using a message that's proven to work. work, you can obviously use this method and then go in and modify the message to mark your images so that you get the right Vibe now. The third strategy is the most advanced but will give you the best results.

Start by finding a public domain. image that fits the same environment or similar idea to the one we are trying to create. I use this website called raw pixel which has a huge library of free public domain images, when a good one like this comes up just a picture of a lady picking from a tree I just want to take a screenshot or download the image back to half of the trip. I can type the SL description forward and this will allow me to load the image I just found. This B command basically reverse engineers that image. in messages we can use to create more similar images, but this is where it gets really powerful instead of just clicking generate on one of these messages, what I want to do is right click on the image that we uploaded and click copy link now when you go to generate one of these messages.

I'll paste that link at the beginning of the message. This uses the original image we uploaded almost as an initial canvas to generate the new image. The generated result is almost always much closer and much more realistic. We may still have to generate many different images to get the right one, but this method makes it much easier to get great images. Once we finally find an image that looks good, we can enhance that image and then we'll have new controls below to finalize it so we have the zoom controls that will just zoom out on the image, which is nice if it's too close, but for now I'm just going to use the top scale control which is just inside the middle of the travel to enhance the image and make it as high quality as possible, this makes our image almost completely ready to use and we've still only scratched the surface.

I've been able to use AI to make a snowy winter tree, a snowy Treeline landscape, rustic Rocky Mountains, and even some sailboats. which have been proven to work and sell at this point, before we can start selling the artwork for money we need two things to resize it to popular aspect ratios so people can use it however they want and get great mockups so that our images look really professional and high quality to resize the artwork, there are several free ways to do this, this is really easy to do. I can open the image in something like preview on a Mac.

I can click this edit button and then I can select the crop. tool here, I can enter an aspect ratio and I also just want to make sure the resolution is 300 DPI. From here I can save this file and repeat with whatever other aspect ratio I want to offer, so now we can. make the artwork, all that is left is to post it for sale somewhere online, there are many options for this but I think the most obvious is to simply post it for sale on Etsy as they attract hundreds of millions of monthly visitors to your website. more than enough demand to meet the current supply of listings, this will also ensure that we can sell our artwork at the highest price and keep the business as

passive

as possible if selling on Etsy seems like the right decision to you as you already know it works , you can follow my free quick guide that will have your store open and ready to start selling in less than 10 minutes.

It also has a link that will allow you to open your Etsy store and get the first 40 listings you post. free, each subsequent listing only costs you 20 cents before we post our artwork for sale, although there is one thing that is very important to understand: the stores we have reviewed that have hadThey have always followed the same rule of publishing their artwork on these professional mockups which have once again been proven to generate sales with this business model. We don't even have to buy models. We can use them halfway through the trip to do them. All I have to do is repeat the exact same process to make the art. except this time we're making mockups.

I can simply describe what type of mockup I'm looking to make and then after going through several generations and giving it some time to make the images, I was able to create some cool mockups. In just a few seconds again, you can follow these same three test prompt strategies by looking at the Mid Journey website and using the image description prompts to create some cool mockups. To use the mockups, we have to edit them slightly. This is also easy to do. This website is called photop, which is a free alternative to Photoshop, but you can obviously use Photoshop if you have it.

All we have to do is drag our AI mockup image and the art design that we are going to apply. I can zoom in on the artwork so that it looks like it's going to fit into the mockup and then I just want to hide this layer. Now I'm going to choose the rectangle selection tool and just make a simple selection of the frame area. Now I can unhide the artwork and click the mask button at the bottom if I change the combination mode from normal to multiply the artwork. Perfect match with amazing look. You can also watch my Photoshop Mockup Script video which will show you how to make hundreds of mockups in a few minutes using an automated script if of course you are interested in this point.

We should be almost ready to upload our images to Etsy. There is only one last step left. These files will be too large to upload directly to Etsy, so what we will need to do is upload each set of images to a website like Google Drive or Dropbox. This way I can create a thank you letter or just have GPT do it for me and then inside this letter I can put a download link to that Dropbox or Google Drive file. This is what I will upload as my digital download file. of the actual artwork, since it's a much smaller file size, they'll download the PDF and follow the download link so they can download all the aspect ratios they might need for that image if you've made it this far in the video.

You're at least considering this business as a possibility, so here's what I would do to scale this business to six and seven figures first. While selling digital downloads is nice, some people want to be able to just purchase the physical print without having to download. the image and print it themselves, we can do it using print on demand. I've used a platform called printify in my own businesses for the past few years, since it's an Etsy approved integration, setting it up for your store is very easy. I can go in and select the poster or canvas I want to sell my designs on.

I can simply drag the design directly onto the poster I'm selling. I can choose all the sizes I want to offer for sale and once I'm done designing it. I can post it directly to my Etsy store when a customer purchases this physical print. Printify will have a warehouse that will print the design and ship it directly to the customer without you having to do anything. It will just keep it. the difference is that your profits are basically drop shipping art. I now use the Premium plan as it makes all the products a little cheaper, meaning I can keep more profits, but you can still sign up completely free to try things. and when you use my link below and sign up using code Alec you will get 2 months of free premium.

I personally maintain separate stores for my digital and physical products, so that's another thing to keep in mind. I really want you to do it. Be successful with this, like the companies we saw early last year, only a few people actually took action on the video I posted, so this year maybe I'll make some changes. I'll have links to tons of free resource coupons and discounts. below, so don't be afraid to start