3 Ways to Make Money With AI in 2025 (Zero startup cost)

Hey guys, Jason here. Today, I'm going to show you three profitable business ideas that can make you a hundred thousand dollars in 2025. Now, these are not the typical business ideas like selling on Etsy or Shopify, but I'm talking about real opportunities that are trending up and will explode even more in 2025. And the funny thing is that most people are still sleeping on them. Now, the best part about this is that these ideas will cost you $0 to start. And I'm going to show you exactly how everything works with real examples of people making tons of money right now. So let's dive in. So the first strategy is TikTok shop. So everybody's talking about this right now, because it's a massive opportunity. So I've been doing business for over 15 years now, and there's one simple thing that you can do if you want to be successful, and that is to get in early. Now, TikTok shop is brand new compared to platforms like Etsy or Amazon. And you know what that means? Way less competition. Now, if you were to list your product on Etsy or Amazon, you'll probably be buried on page 50 or a hundred. But on TikTok, organic reach is insane because we're still very early. And I'm seeing a lot of new products rank on the first page of TikTok shop. And not just that, but if you check Google trends, you're going to see a massive spike in interest for the term TikTok shop just over the past two years. And there's a lot of newer stores that are getting a lot of sales on TikTok right now. So let me give you a real example. So there are shops right now making millions selling basic products on TikTok. So check out this shop selling simple t-shirts. If you look here, they've sold 2,086 units at about $20 each. That is over $41,000 in sales. And that is just for one product. And if you look at the shop as a whole, they've sold 26,000 units. And if you just take an average price off $20, that is $650,000 in sales. Or what about this listing here selling custom phone cases? They've sold 6,800 units at about $5 each, which is $34,000 in sales. And that is just for one product. Now you're probably asking, does it mean that I need to make TikTok videos now? Actually, no, not really. Let me explain. There are shops doing over a hundred thousand dollars in sales without posting a single video from their account. And the shops that I just showed you don't even have videos on their listing because TikTok has a search feature where users can just look for products they want to buy. So for example, if someone searches for mental health t-shirts for women, your products will also show up even if you have no videos, but of course the videos perform better on TikTok, just because, you know, after all, it is a platform made for videos. And your products will just get more exposure with videos. And plus people can see the product being used. Now, if you guys stick around to the end of the video, I'm going to show you how to use AI to create this TikTok videos like these without ever showing your face because I've seen shops go from a few sales a day to hundreds just by adding videos to their shops using AI. But now the big question is how are these new shops getting so much sales? Now think about it. If you try to promote your products on Instagram or YouTube, you have to go to a link, go to another website, maybe you have to put in your credit card details and then purchase the product. There's just so many steps and you lose people during the process. But on TikTok, when they see your product, they click to buy and they check out right there on the app. It's literally two clicks to make a purchase. And this is a massive boost for conversions because I've seen shops getting three or four times higher conversion rates on TikTok shop compared to sending traffic to their own website because less friction equals more sales. Now you might be thinking, does this mean that I have to buy all these products to sell TikTok shop? Because this is where it gets interesting. You can start this business with $0, right? You don't need to buy any inventory or handle the shipping yourself because you can use a print demand company like Printify, which is a sponsor of today's video, they've got everything from t-shirts, mugs, phone cases, wall art, cushions, you know, tons of products that you can sell, and they even have products like supplements, candles, and coffee beans, and as you can see here, they have products specifically optimized for selling on TikTok because this product will be shipped super fast. So you'll always get great feedback from your customers. And they've got pages and pages of these products that you can add right away. So here's how it works. You pick a product from Printify's catalog. You add your design. Printify integrates directly with TikTok shop. So when someone orders from your TikTok shop, the order goes right to Printify. They print it, pack it, and ship it directly to your customer. So you never have to touch the product and you only pay for it after you made a sale. It's completely hands off. Now, Printify is completely free to use, but if you get the premium plan, you'll get up to 20% off all your purchases. So that's basically extra profit margins for you. Now, since I'm a Printify partner, you get one month free Printify premium. So click on my link below and start selling. Thanks Printify for sponsoring this part of the video. Now, let me show you a business model that can make you even more money than running your own shop on TikTok. You're still making money on TikTok, but here's the twist. You're not selling your own products because now you're promoting other people's product as an affiliate. And so many people are making tens of thousands of dollars per week selling products they didn't even create. Now here's why this model is working so well. So unlike running your own shop where you have to test and experiment new products, you're promoting products that are already proven to sell. You're using data to make your decisions because you can see exactly how many sales a product has done before you even start promoting it. And the best part about the affiliate model is that these videos are very simple to make. As you can see, these are just basic product demos, short on your phone. There are no fancy camera setup or no studio lighting, none of that stuff. And actually some of the highest converting videos are just these raw, authentic demo videos showing how the product works, you know, and this works because it doesn't look like an ad and people can relate to videos that are real and authentic. And if you want to get started, you first have to find products that are proven to sell. And TikTok actually shows you which products are selling like crazy and how much you'll make per sale. But even better, I use a software like Hello Data here to even see more details because with this tool, I can see what are the current best selling products, you know, how much those products are generating and even which videos are performing the best. So I can kind of see the format and try to do it for myself. Now, in order to be successful with this, you have to pick the right products. And what I found is that this works best with products under $50 because anything under $50 is considered an impulse buy. When somebody sees a cool kitchen gadget or a beauty product for $29, they don't think twice and they just buy it. Now, the next question is how do we get this product to review? Because you see a lot of these creators, they're holding a product that they're promoting. Now you can actually request a sample from the brand and they'll send you a product to review because you don't even need to spend any money buying the products to promote. Because like I said, this business costs $0 to start. Now, if you want to request a sample, you can go to your affiliate dashboard and order a sample from the brand. Now they usually approve this within 24 hours because they do want that exposure, but if for some reason you don't get approved, you can just grab it from Amazon because you know, spending 20 bucks on a product that can make you thousands in commissions, I think is a no brainer, but just as a reminder, if you're going to promote products like supplements, you want to keep in mind that just to share your personal experience, make sure you don't say that it cures anything because TikTok watch this stuff very closely and you don't want to get your account shut down. Now, a question that a lot of people are probably asking right now, what if I don't want to show my face on these videos, can I still do TikTok affiliate? Yes, because this is where AI comes in because you can create videos like this with AI using this tool called Arcat's AI, because if you look at these videos here, the AI looks very realistic and you can make it say anything you want by uploading your own script and what's even crazier is that they actually just released a cloning feature where you can make the AI even hold the product, which makes it even more real. So if you guys want me to do a deep dive video on how to do that, let me know in the comments below, cause that deserves another video, but make sure you subscribe so you'll get notified when that video is up. Now, what I love about this business model is that there's zero risk. So if your video doesn't work, it doesn't matter, right? Make another one. You're just investing time and not money. Now, the third strategy that I want to share with you guys is this one unique way of making money on TikTok without being an affiliate or having to build a TikTok shop. Now, what most people don't realize is that there is a massive gap in the market because we know that videos convert way better than images on TikTok. And there are thousands of TikTok shops that don't have these videos, either they don't want to be on camera or they don't have the time to create these videos, because if you look at TikTok, there are tons of print demand shops on TikTok right now that make decent money just from static images. But imagine how much more money they can make if they have videos promoting these products. And that's where you come in as what I call a growth partner. So as a growth partner, you'll approach these shops and your offer will be to create video content with a goal of increasing their sales. So you can either charge a fixed fee for these videos, or you can take a percentage of the sales increase. So there's literally no risk for them to engage with you. Now, there are tons of ways you can structure the pricing, which I'll get more in a second. But you're probably now thinking, are you asking me to film and create all these videos because I don't want to be in camera myself. Now, of course, we're not going to do that. Can we can use the AI tool to create these videos for us? We're going to use this tool to produce this video at scale, right? Because if you look at this tool, there are tons of AI avatars you can choose from, and they're adding even more avatars every day, so you'll never run out of characters. And of course the shop owners don't need to know exactly how you're doing it. They just need to see the results. So here's how you get started. You want to find shops with no video content and you want to offer them to create their first video for free because you want to show them that this works. Right? Because once they see the sales increase, they're going to get hooked. Now, of course, you can also target the second group, which are TikTok affiliates. You can find existing people who are doing TikTok affiliate, but maybe they're struggling to produce more videos, maybe because they're doing everything manually. Now your job is to come in and help them produce more videos for them because more videos equals more money. Now the second group of customers is even more exciting in my opinion, because think about it for them, creating product demo videos takes a lot of time. If you're promoting 10 different products, that is 10 different filming sessions, 10 different setups. But what if you could create 50 different variations of product videos in the time that it takes them to make one? Now for pricing, you get a few options. You can charge a flat fee per video. So let's say $50 per video, or you can also offer a commission structure. I can tell them I'll create your videos and I only make money when you make money. And this is perfect for affiliates because they're already earning commissions. And you're just taking a percentage of something that they wouldn't have earned without your videos. So let's do a quick math. So let's say you charge $50 per video and you can create 10 videos using AI. That's already $500. Or if you're on the commission structure, if your videos can help an affiliate generate an extra $10,000 in commissions and you take 10% of that, that's already a thousand dollars per video. And because you're using AI, it really doesn't take much time. But the key to all this is that you've got to establish yourself as a video production service and not as an AI service. Because you're selling the outcome, which is more sales through better video content. So whether you use AI, traditional video or combination of these, it doesn't really matter to your clients. They care about results. And what makes this business model so powerful is the scalability. So once you get some traction, you can handle multiple clients simultaneously because the AI will do all the heavy lifting and you can just focus on getting more clients and optimizing the videos. So if you guys want to see the step-by-step on how I create this video with ARCHATS so you know exactly how to do this for your clients, you want to click on this video here and I'll see you there.