I tried to build a fully functional Marketing Agency in under 10 minutes using a new AI tool. The goal was to turn a simple photo of a hoodie on my floor into a professional ad campaign without a camera, model, or studio.
📄 THE "GIFT" EMAIL TEMPLATE (Copy this, fill in the blanks, and send it to local businesses to get clients)
Subject: I made a video for your [Product Name] (Free)
Hi [Business Name],
I saw your shop on [Etsy/Instagram] and loved your [Product Name], so I decided to make a quick mock-up video and some on-model photos for them to see how they would look.
I attached them here completely free. Feel free to use them on your Instagram or listing if you like them!
If you ever want the rest of your catalog done like this to boost your clicks, let me know.
Best, [Your Name]
0:00 Wrinkled hoodie → 10-minute side hustle challenge 0:37 Why bad product photos kill sales 1:14 Etsy sellers with the same problem 1:51 “Try on clothing” in Bandy (upload the hoodie) 2:14 Pick a model + hit generate 2:36 The before/after is kinda wild 3:17 “Product in hand” test (AI fails + quick lesson) 3:47 Multitask tip while AI renders 4:11 Video ad from an Amazon link (no photos needed) 4:41 Script styles + quick previews 6:16 Final video render (avatar focus) 6:55 Full product image set (one click) 7:59 Reviewing the finished image set 8:23 Running the same upgrade for an Etsy listing 9:23 Packaging + sending value first (not spam) 10:26 Simple cold outreach rule that works 11:00 “Marketing company” recap in ~10 minutes 11:40 Challenge to viewers + offer to help 11:56 Outro / God bless / wrap
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This is a wrinkled hoodie.
My name is side hustle slim Jim and my challenge today is can I take this
wrinkled hoodie needs to be ironed, washed probably.
Can I take this hoodie and turn it into a full marketing company in 10 minutes
and get my first paying customer?
And of course we're going to be using AI to make this happen.
And the tool we're going to be looking at today is bandy.ai,
but they are AI tool for e-commerce visuals creation.
So we're going to see if we can start a marketing company, create some ads,
send them to some people selling online and see if we can turn this into a side
hustle.
But let's say I have an e-commerce store and I want to sell this hoodie.
Well, I have a problem because I'm not a model. I'm not very creative.
I don't have a creative eye.
I don't really have a studio and my photos would probably look something like
this. This is what my photo would probably look like. And my foot,
Oh, that's gross. Foot would probably even be in it.
Or I had my son try to help me with this one and then his foot's in it.
There's also this cat and a towel and a Bible.
But if I put this photo on my e-commerce store for my hoodie,
do you know who's going to buy this hoodie? No one,
no one is going to buy this hoodie.
So I looked on Etsy and actually I found these really cool hoodies. Okay.
These are pretty amazing,
but the photo is just the hoodie laying on the ground on the wood floor.
They have the same problem I have. And you know what?
They're probably losing some money. So they, you know,
there's two people bottom in the last 24 hours. So they're making some sales.
These are super cool hoodies, but the photos are not the best.
So the side hustle I'm going to try,
I'm going to take my hoodie use a tool called Bandy AI to create a full
professional marketing campaign in under 10 minutes.
And then I'm going to email businesses like this to see if they want my help in
getting better images to sell more hoodies.
So first let's turn my boring floor photo into something that looks like a high
end brand.
So we're going to go to tools here on Bandy and we're going to go on to try on
clothing. So then let's add a single garment. We'll do that. We'll do this one.
We'll see if this works. It's a terrible image.
Let's not do the one with Hayden's foot in it. Let's do,
let's do the one with it on the floor. I think that'll work better. Okay.
Then we select a model. Let's do a guy. Oh my goodness. Okay. Let's do a guy.
Oh, we got a lot of models to choose from. Who do we want wearing my hoodie?
By the way, Bandy, if you're looking for other models, I am available.
Let's have this guy. Young man, hoodies, young man.
Let's have him be wearing this. Okay. Then you can choose your resolution.
Let's do two by three and let's do create. Okay. So I actually did two sets.
This one, I just let them pick the model. Those look really good.
So that's my, my sweatshirt, my hoodie.
And on here's with that particular model that I chose. That looks really nice.
I think this is my favorite. It fixes the lighting,
kept the logo intact and that is my hoodie. So again,
it looks like we hired a professional model to make this,
but in reality it costs nothing. So, and again,
you can do the same thing for accessories, make a product video, create poses.
I'm going to use this product in hand feature, you know,
for wanting some social media posts.
Let me go ahead and upload the photo of my son holding it in his hand.
If Bandy can do this, then it's pretty amazing.
Let's see what they can do with that. That's a garbage picture that I gave them.
Okay. So the, the image with my son, it didn't work out. And this, you know, AI,
sometimes you do have to mess around a little bit.
The one I did on the floor worked really well.
The one where I had my hands in there, AI gets confused with.
So I'm trying this other image. We'll see how AI is able to do with that.
While we're waiting for that. Again,
one of the purposes of AI is so that you can multitask.
So you don't sit here and just watch it spin and like, Oh, let's,
what's going to come out, go do other things and then come back. It's,
it's a way to multitask, like having your own employee. There we go. Okay.
So with my image that worked really well, you know,
so these could be some great images for social media.
Then if you're really wanting to impress a client,
then you're going to need a video ad. And these can take a long time.
These YouTube videos take quite a while for me to put together. Okay.
It's not super easy, but if your client, you know, sells on Amazon,
you don't even need photos. You can just grab their links.
So I'm just going to take, this is the same. This might even be, no,
it's not a zip up. So it's not the exact one that I bought, but it's very similar.
I'm going to go back to Bandy with this, enter a product link.
I'm just copying, pasting that link. Then let's go ahead and send it.
So literally all I did was take a link and paste it into
Bandy. Then AI is going and getting the product information from Amazon. Okay.
And then they will have you verify that this is what you're doing. Confirm.
Now they're putting together a script. All right. Hey guys,
ever wondered how to stay cozy and stylish? Yo fam.
So you can pick which one you want. Let me show you Gen Z response bubble,
emotional three reasons why I'm going to do one. I think that's the best.
Okay. Then it's going to make a preview clip for me, right?
So they gave some preview videos.
Ever wondered how to stay cozy and stylish during those chilly days?
Well, I found the perfect. Let's try the next one.
Ever wondered how to stay cozy and stylish during those chilly days?
Well, I found the perfect solution.
Fashion lovers are going to hate me for talking about this, but all the states.
Well, I found the perfect solution. The Nike men's hoodie. Oh, okay.
I was going to say it's the lips aren't sinking. Oh no.
But it says accurate lip sync will be available after rendering.
So we just got to pick which one we like. Oh.
Nike men's hoodie made from a hundred percent polyester with soft brush back to
deep lining. It's the ultimate grab for warmth and comfort.
The adjustable drop frame and roomies are absolute game changers for my daily
job. And trust me, this hoodie blends everyday functionality with style.
So don't wait. I ain't got like the quick transition. The best.
Something big is happening right now.
Warmth and style transforming those.
Upgrading your entire cold weather look can actually be with the Arctic police
jacket.
You can elevate your winter style effortlessly while staying warm without
breaking the bank. Well, I found the perfect solution.
The Nike men's hoodie made from a hundred percent polyester with soft brush
back to deep lining.
Ever wondered how to stay cozy and stylish during those chilly days?
Well, I found the perfect solution.
The Nike men's hoodie made from a hundred percent polyester with soft deep
lining.
So let's do, I like the quick transition, the avatar focus.
Let's do that. No, we just want one video. All right, let's generate this.
I mean, and that didn't sound like a robot. AI has come such a long way.
It used to be you AI generated some audio and it was, hello,
I would like to buy this sweatshirt, but it's come a long way.
That sounded like a person looked like a person. So again,
if I hired an actor, I mean, that's going to cost a few hundred dollars,
but here what it would cost me 54 credits. So while we're waiting for this,
again, we want to multitask, but let's go, let's click product image set.
I'm going to open a new tab and all sorts of other tools that you can do,
but let's go here and let's go to product image set.
So we're going to go to product image set and then let's, let's,
can we use one of my creations already? Yeah.
Use this one of this guy wearing a Nike blue hoodie. Okay.
So it's going to get work, get to work on the product image set.
Let's go back here and check out the video that we created.
So don't wait.
Okay. We've got a video at the product image set. I mean,
it put together a plan. It just took this image, Nike blue zip up hoodie,
category men's active wear. I mean,
this is useful information just if I wanted to list it design and construction,
color and texture key selling points. What did it put for that brand authority?
Nike? Yeah. I said, AI is smarter than I am. So here's the smart plan.
Let's go ahead and start generating. Okay.
So here's the images that it gave me focuses on the brand focuses on the feature
of the zip up. Somebody wearing it, somebody wearing it, doing athletics,
somebody wearing it day to day. I mean, this is really good.
Functional kangaroo pocket adjustable hood focuses on the features. I mean,
this is pretty amazing, honestly. I mean,
this is a game changer for e-commerce and you know,
I like this too because this is good for consumers also. You know, if we, again,
going back to that Etsy brand Etsy shop, where did that go? I mean,
this is nice and I guess they, they do have some other images.
This wasn't the one that closed it. Yeah, there it is. Honestly,
if they had a product image,
if all they did was run it through this bandy AI and got just better images,
that would be better for the consumer.
Like I don't really understand what this hoodie does. You know,
it needs better images for this. So let me take this image, do a new chat,
get them a product image set on Etsy. So again,
they put together a smart plan for what they're going to,
the product images that they're going to make for this.
Let's go ahead and generate these. Okay. So we've got our images here.
Let's go ahead and let's download all these images and then we're going to,
let's do the business side of it.
So we're going to reach out to this Etsy seller and just say, Hey,
would you like these images? You know, provide some value first.
You don't just go ahead and spam. Hey, do you want me to, can you pay me money?
Don't start off that way, but let's upload.
I use Gemini to help kind of put together, to take all these bandy images.
I have this Etsy listing.
Their images are not great.
Can you put together a, an email?
You put together a, an Etsy message to this seller,
just showing them the images we made and that they can use the images however
they want.
And if they would like the rest of their catalog done to boost sales,
let me know best Jimmy.
So then Gemini I'll put this together into a message that I can send to this
Etsy shop. Do I, hopefully I have an Etsy shop. I surely I do.
Surely I have an Etsy account. Can I attach, can I put a link to them?
Maybe, maybe that'll work better because an email,
you could just put the images in there. Finding their email might be better.
We'll just do product images folder. Put all these in here. Share this.
Anyone with the link and come check it out. Images. Okay,
I'll go ahead and just send this.
So I don't consider this isn't spam because I'm actually offering value.
Like she actually will might be help, you know, thanks for sending that.
And if they, you know, with that thing, somebody doesn't work out,
they just get some value. I'm just sending over value.
This is the way to cold reach out to people. Okay. Don't just send, Hey,
pay me $400 and I'll do this and that.
That's not a good way to do cold outreach, but you send some value first.
And you could go through a bunch of different Etsy sellers.
Find some that have images that aren't good.
You can find some Amazon sellers that have images that aren't good.
You could use a tool like bandy to start your own business.
But hopefully you can see this took about 10 minutes. Okay.
And I put together a full marketing company.
This could be my new business. This could be my side hustle.
This is what I could spend my days doing. Of course it's not.
I'm building apps. I'm doing YouTube. I got a ton of other side hustles.
I got kids. That's a side hustle in and of itself.
But I'd love for one of you to grab the reins with this. I'll help you.
I'll help you get this off the ground.
Say I want to start a marketing business that does this,
that helps Etsy shops have better photos using AI.
You don't need a $5,000 camera to start a marketing agency.
You don't even need a camera to start a marketing agency.
You could have done this whole thing without a camera. We're in crazy times.
So don't just sit on the sideline.
Find a way to use AI to start your side hustle to make a little money on the
side link for bandies down in the description. Someone in the comments,
please start this business and I will help you.
I'll make a video about your journey. God bless you guys.
I appreciate you watching. Thanks so much and have a great rest of your day.