Easiest Online Business Idea using AI to start with $0 ($25,743/ month) 🚀

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Kate Hayes walks through starting a digital product business with no upfront money, a model she claims has earned her the majority of her income over the past four years and averages over $25,000 per month in passive revenue. Digital products are files or links delivered instantly, with no inventory or shipping. Types include printables (such as wall art and invitations), templates (such as slides and social media posts), and online courses, which can be faceless using screen recordings or slide decks instead of talking-head video. She recommends creating printables and templates in free Canva (versus paid Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator), editing video in free iMovie, and hosting courses on Kajabi, her preferred all-in-one platform, mentioning Teachable and Teachery as alternatives. For selling, she contrasts marketplaces like Etsy and Creative Market, which offer a built-in audience, with selling direct via an email list, which she says converts higher. The automated funnel is: post searchable, valuable content on YouTube or Pinterest, offer a lead magnet in exchange for an email signup on a simple landing page (built in Kajabi or Kit), then send an automated welcome sequence of about five emails that provides value before presenting paid offers, followed by regular emails.

Key takeaways

• Digital products (printables, templates and courses) are created once and delivered instantly, with no inventory, order fulfilment or shipping
• Start for free with Canva for printables and templates and iMovie for video editing; courses can be faceless via screen recordings or slide presentations
• Marketplaces like Etsy offer built-in discovery, but the creator favours selling direct to an email list for higher conversion and independence from algorithms
• Build the funnel with searchable content on YouTube or Pinterest, a free lead magnet, and a simple landing page to collect emails
• Automate a welcome sequence of about five emails that delivers value first and then introduces paid offers, then keep emailing on a regular cadence

Episode details: published February 18, 2025 · 16:27 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kate Hayes’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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