5 Steps To Your First $1,000 Claude AI Side Hustle (Complete Beginner Guide)

By the end of this video, you're going to know the fastest Claude AI side hustle to your first $1,000, even if you're a beginner. And it is not the one being shoved down your throat right now. This is not freelancing, it's not selling prompts, and it's not building the next AI app. And it's definitely not doing some complicated automation for businesses that you're never going to finish. It is becoming the person who solves a problem that people are already paying to solve, but you have to do it in one very specific way, and that way is what the next five steps are all about. And this is coming from somebody who has personally started a side hustle that made 10K a month and grew it into a business that's now made over $10 million online, and I was using Claude AI before anybody else was talking about it, and I use it in almost every part of my business. And I've also helped my community members generate over $100 million in results, and I recommend to them the same Claude AI system that I'm about to show you in this video. So, here's what I have learned from watching it happen over and over again. Every single time a new technology shows up, there is a playbook that works. And it is not a new playbook. It goes back hundreds of years, and I'm going to show you exactly where it comes from. And I'm so confident in this playbook that I picked a random 50-year-old in my family just to see if it would work on them. And that was my brother Zach. He's in his 50s, he had never made a dollar outside of his career in his entire life, and he is not a technical guy. And 29 days after he started, he was making a full-time income, $214 in a single day, which is a $70,000 plus dollar year run rate. So, if you can pull that off in his 50s with zero tech skills, you've got no excuse. And before the comments fill up with this whole AI is just hype thing, let me get ahead of you. Half the slop that you're scrolling past right now on YouTube is hype. I completely agree with you. It is lazy garbage from people who have never earned a dime in their entire life from what they tell you to do and have no idea what they're talking about. So, this is the honest, unsexy version. It's not overnight, and it is not magical, but it's not BS, either. It's just the one move that pays the fastest. And I'm going to show you real people, real revenue numbers, and real search data along the way so that you can see for yourself that this is not theory. Now, if you appreciate me making this type of content and you want to see me make more of it in the future, then gently cheers that like button and let's jump into it right now. All right, step one is to start where it hurts. So, here's the question that almost nobody asks before they start a side hustle. If you want a complete beginner to hand you a thousand dollars, what actually has to be true? The answer is that you have to make their pain stop. That's basically how business works. Now, maybe right now you're thinking that you want to start an AI automation agency, or maybe you want to build an app. Both of those can work, but I want you to think about why they work in the first place. Take the AI automation agency. Nobody pays for one of those because AI is cool. They pay because their business has operations that are inefficient, and inefficiency costs them money every single month. And that's the problem. The automation makes it stop, and that is the solution. That's the entire business. Because think about it like this, who is more likely to spend money out of the two people here? The person who wants brighter and whiter teeth, or the person who has a crippling toothache? Right, people buy much quicker and they pay more money to get rid of an existing pain. Now, of course, in this case, it's the person who has a crippling toothache that will spend more money. Now, look at an app. There's a tool called WhisperFlow, and the entire product is this. Instead of typing, you talk, and half the people in this industry use it now. So, they do not sit here prompting anymore, they just speak. And that company is now worth two billion dollars. Not because the technology is impressive, and not because they built the most complicated thing in the world, it's worth two billion dollars because nobody actually wants to sit there typing paragraphs into these tools. So, they found exactly where the pain was. They found exactly where the annoyance was, and they found exactly where it hurt. So, here's the rule that I want you to hold on to for the rest of this video. Money flows towards pain. Market demand is just a fancy way of saying that people are already trying to hand somebody money to make the pain stop. So, your job is to just be the person who shows up and fixes the pain. Money already flows in a certain direction, kind of like water. Put yourself in the middle of the stream. Do not walk out into the middle of the desert and try to open a business there where there's no money flowing. So, how do you find your pain? I want you to do something that I call the time machine exercise. Imagine that you had 15 minutes with your younger self. What would you tell that person to save them the most amount of time, money, effort, and heartache. Write every single one of those things down. Pause the video and actually do it if you need to. Because in about 95% of cases, the answer is already sitting on that list. So, in many cases it might come from a profession that you've already spent years in, for instance. Sometimes it comes from the on-ramp to that profession, like the certification or the degree that you got. And very often it comes from a pain that you personally clawed your way out of. Now, of course, there's exceptions to this rule. For instance, there's female dating coaches for men. Obviously, they're not helping the younger version of themself. But, that's why I said this works in 95% of cases, not 100%. Now, an example of this is the community member of mine named Josh took IT and cybersecurity, which most people would call a boring profession, and turned it into $186,000 in a single month. So, what does that work? Well, he teaches other people how to get into high-paying cybersecurity careers. And why do people buy that? Because people are in pain of having a job that doesn't pay well. And the solution to that problem is to get a high-paying job. And one of the ways to do that is with cybersecurity. Now, remember what we're actually building here. This is the side hustle. It's not a full-time job, and you do not have 60 hours a week to throw at it. So, we cannot afford to pick the option with the worst odds. We need one that has the highest chances of success for every hour that you put in. And so, the first way to give yourself a high chance of success is to pick something that you already know a lot about, right? Let's just say you're racing a 100-m race. If you pick something where you already know a ton about that subject, you're going to be starting on the 90-m line. And of course, even if the other person is way faster than you, if they're starting on the zero meter line, you're going to beat them to the finish line every single time. Even if they're Usain Bolt. And the second way to maximize your chances of success is to sell the pickaxe, not the gold. Because we need the highest chance of success for every hour that you put in, like I said before, and in every single gold rush in history, that has never been mining. So, let me tell you about the guy who got rich the fastest in the California gold rush. His name was Sam Brannan, and he never mined a single ounce of gold. Gold gets discovered near Sutter's Mill, and Brannan owns the only store between San Francisco and those gold fields. So, before he tells a single soul, he quietly buys up every single pickaxe, every shovel, and every pan in the entire city. Then, he runs through the streets of San Francisco waving a bottle of gold dust and screaming that there is gold on the American River. And he did not start that rush to help anybody, he started it because he owned all the shovels. So, he bought pans for about 20 cents and sold them for $15. And in 9 weeks, he made about $36,000, which is the equivalent of 1.5 million dollars today. Literally enough to retire. So, he became the first millionaire in California, and he never touched a pickaxe. Now, there's a second guy from that same gold rush that's worth knowing as well. Levi Strauss also never mined. He sold supplies, too, but he did something extra. He made the jeans that became the symbol of the entire gold rush. Regular trousers got ripped apart panning for gold, but his did not. And so, he was not just serving the rush, he was marketing it so that more people would go mine, right? And as a side note here, if you were panning for gold and your trousers got ripped up all the time, that would be very painful and annoying to you, right? So, he solved a painful problem. But, back to the part about marketing it. This is the part that almost nobody does. It's not just about selling the tools, it's about riding the hype of the thing itself. Think back to the dot-com bubble. The people who got the richest were not the people buying up domain names, it was the people who controlled the narrative and the attention. The magazines, the TV guys, the people standing on stage telling everybody where the gold was. We can do the exact same thing right now, and the way you do it is with content, specifically YouTube. Now, I do want to pause very quickly here and say something. If you were to create an app, your chances of success are exceptionally low. And typically business models like that are a winner-take-all game, meaning there might be a thousand different people that create an app, and one of them takes the entire market share. Right? Just look at social media platforms. There's only a few of them that won, but there were thousands of them that started up. So, you probably don't want to play a game like that, right? You probably want to play a game where there can be thousands of winners, and they just take a smaller slice of the pie. So, much smarter than creating an app is creating a business where, for instance, you help other businesses use AI better, right? So, maybe installing systems and processes using AI into other businesses. Or, you make content helping a specific type of business or person use AI better for their specific uses. So, let's talk about how to do that with content, specifically with YouTube. So, let me show you exactly what this looks like right now today. This is a guy named Nick Sareff, and I want to be clear about something, because I have a lot of respect for Nick. This is not a criticism at all. This is a very smart play. He figured out something that most people have not. About 6 months ago, he put out a video called Claude Code Full Course, 4 hours, Build and Sell. And that video has now done 2.2 million views. Now, watch this. This is the Google Trends for the term Claude Code. Look at where he posted that video. He did not show up after the wave, he caught it on the way up. Now, here's where it gets interesting. If you look at VidIQ, it says that his channel makes about $4.5 thousand a month from AdSense alone. So, those are just the ads that pop up on his YouTube channel, and that's great. But, if you look at his profile, it links out to a paid community, and there's 2,400 members paying $184 a month. And if you were to calculate that out about how much he's making, it's over $400,000 a month monthly recurring revenue. So, ask yourself the obvious question. Why is this guy not out there running an AI automation agency himself? Because he clearly knows how. But teaching people how to do things pays more. It pays faster, and it comes with way less delivery headache than doing the thing yourself. And by the way, this is not a bad thing. I'm not saying that he is scamming people or anything like that. He's just making a smart bet. He could have taken his skills and made a certain amount of money doing the AI automation agency thing himself. And he could have hoarded and just kept all the knowledge to himself. But instead, he's sharing with a bunch of other people how to do it, and he's probably making significantly more money by doing that than if he just did the agency himself. So instead of chasing automation clients one at a time, he's selling the picks to everybody mining that gold. And it's a win-win situation for everyone involved. He's helped a ton of people start AI automation agencies themselves, and he's making more money by talking about it than if he had done the thing himself. But how does he get those 2,400 people into the paid community in the first place? Well, it's obviously his YouTube channel. Now, here's another one. A community member of mine named Shawn. Shawn got into Amazon book publishing before it was big, and he made millions of dollars publishing books on Amazon KDP. And then he starts his channel around 2018. And if you pull up the search data for Amazon KDP, the volume was still tiny back then. Then, it explodes. Probably about six to 10 times the search volume over the following stretch. And Shawn is smart, so he expanded. He kept publishing books, but he also started teaching other people how to do it because again, that's the smart bet. He learned how to do the thing, and he could have kept making money doing the thing, but he could make five to 10 times more money teaching other people how to do it. And that's a win-win situation for both parties involved. Because in many cases, teaching other people how to do the thing scales way harder than doing the thing yourself. And notice the one thing that every single person I have shown you has in common. They all have a YouTube channel, and they all picked a really good niche at the right time as well. YouTube and building your personal brand just got 10 times easier, and nobody's talking about it. And the reason it got 10 times easier is because of AI and specifically Claude AI. And that's what we're going to be talking about in this week's live training that we're doing. Click the link down in the description in the pin comment below. I will be there. I'll be answering questions before, during, and after. We'll also be giving you an AI. This has been designed to help you pick your niche if you don't have one in the first place or if you already have one, it's going to help you make it 10 times better. So, we worked very hard on this AI. People absolutely love it. We've literally gotten hundreds of comments from people that love it, so you do not want to miss out on it. And if you're watching this in the future for whatever reason or it's already past the time of the live training, still click on that link because we will be having more live trainings in the future and you will be the first person to know because it'll put you on a waitlist for that. But with that being said, it's completely free. No reason not to attend. Click that link in the description in the pin comment below and I'll see you on the other side. Now, I already know what a lot of you are thinking right now. Shane, I'm not even good at AI. That is literally why I'm watching this video. Good. You don't have to be good at AI. This works with a skill that you already have. And it is almost always a skill that you have been ignoring because it feels obvious or common sense to you. And here's the thing about that. It's obvious to you, but it's not obvious to anyone else. So, let me show you what I mean with real people and real numbers. Josh teaches people how to get into high-paying IT and cybersecurity careers. And when I first met him, he was making less than a thousand dollars a month from his channel. And we helped him get to five thousand a month, then 10, then 30,000 a month, and then all the way up to a hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars in a single month from his YouTube channel. And here's my favorite part about the story. Because of that channel, he got job offers from two different FAANG companies and he accepted one of them. Then he quit because the channel was paying him so much more than the job was. And he was not a genius and he did not invent anything. It was very simple. He just taught people how to do the thing that he had already done, which is getting into those IT and cybersecurity jobs that he got into. Here's another community member of mine, Antoine. He helps people get into high-paying tech sales jobs. And he's a busy father with multiple businesses, so this is not his entire life, but he's done over a hundred thousand a month. And it doesn't have to be a tech job. For instance, my brother Zach helps people find the right trade career for them. Trades, not corporate, not tech, not a cushy desk job, and 29 days after he started, he was making a full-time income. And last month was his record month, and he made eighteen thousand dollars. And by the way, guys, it doesn't just have to be a job. Clifford runs a channel called College Hacked, and he helps people graduate from college and earn college credits through online schools and do it significantly faster than a normal degree. And doesn't have to have anything to do with your career money, either. This is Cheryl. She helps people have spiritual awakenings. And for years, she was stuck under 50 subscribers. And then she joined our community, and she got to 9,000 subscribers in a few months and got monetized in that same window and started actually making money. So, this was never really about AI. It's about the fact that you already know something that's worth teaching, and you probably do not rate it precisely because it came easy to you, and you can use AI to get your knowledge out there in a way that just a few years ago would have taken an entire team. And you can do it in just a few hours a week, as well. More on that here in a moment. But let's talk about how to find the skill that you would actually get paid for. Because you might be thinking, "Okay, Shane, but how do I know what my thing is? I don't think I'm good enough to teach it." Right? That is the single most common thing that I hear, and it is almost always wrong. So, let me tell you about a community member of mine named Joaquin. Joaquin was 18 years old when we first started working together, and he was making general study hacks and productivity videos. And it was not working, and it was not making him any money. So, I sat him down, and I asked him one question. "What are you actually good at, or what problem have you personally solved?" And turns out, he was a foreign exchange student who got into an elite university in the US. So, we stopped aiming at people who want to be more productive, and we aimed at helping other foreign students get into elite universities. And here's the thing, it's actually the parents who pay for that. So, that's a high-ticket market. And we helped him get to around $80,000 a month very shortly after he launched his product. And he actually had so many people wanting to work with him that he had to close his program and run a wait list because he was getting too many people coming in. So, same guy, same story, but completely different outcome. And I wanted to illustrate this just in case you think that you have nothing valuable to share. Joaquin was literally 18 years old and we found something valuable from him. There's never been a single community member we've ever worked with that didn't have anything valuable to share. You absolutely have something. So, how do you find yours? Well, let me show you. This is a Claude skill that I built called the Niche Validator. You open it up and it starts interviewing you. You answer these questions thoroughly because the better your answers are, the better answers you get back, right? It's that old rule, garbage in, garbage out, or GIGO. So, make sure you put good answers in and one quick tip that will change how you use this, use the voice feature. Do not sit there typing to AI, just talk to it like you're talking to a friend. It's basically like sitting down and having a conversation with me because it has been trained on thousands of hours of us helping our community clients pick their niche. So, the third link is going to be a pack of Claude skills and the light version of the Niche Validator is in there. So, click the third link in the description to access that and that can get you started. Now, the reason it's the light version is because it needs to be personalized to you and there's a certain way of doing it which I'll be going over in the live training this week. And so, that's the first link in the description and the pin comment below and that's where one, you'll get the full version and two, you'll get training on exactly how to find your niche. Plus, we're going to go a lot deeper on actually finding the skill that you can make money from and how to actually monetize it. So, definitely do not miss out on that. Click that link in the description and the pin comment below and I look forward to seeing you at the live training. But, this brings us to step five and that is now you just post. This is the step where everybody assumes the real work is and it is not. The people who are winning right now are making the simplest content on the platform. Look at what my brother Zach actually makes. Screen share, barely any editing, almost like he's on a Zoom call with you, right? He makes three videos in about one to two hours and that's a few hours a week total. And he writes his scripts in about five to 15 minutes. So, he told me he spent less than four hours a week growing his YouTube channel from zero to a full-time income in the first year. And he even got to a full-time income within the first month of starting his channel. Here's another one, Nurse Jen. She writes her videos with Claude, feeding it her own information and her own experience, and that takes her 30 minutes to an hour for three scripts. Then, about 2 hours to record, and she barely edits because she records in software that handles the editing with AI. So, look at these videos, recorded with a laptop webcam, no studio, no lighting rig, no fancy lens, and I would rather she tells you the numbers than me. >> First month was right around 6,000, the second month was right around 8,000, this month will be right around 10,000. >> So, first month after getting monetized was about $6,000, then $8,000, then $10,000. And you only need about 1/6 of what she made in her first month to get to $1,000 from your Claude AI side hustle. Now, by the way, you might be thinking, "Well, Nurse Jen got hundreds of thousands of views on her videos." And she did. She has three videos with over 600,000 views now. But you don't need to get a lot of views to make a lot of money if you're selling the right thing. And let me show you an extreme example. Our client Carla has a tiny channel with about 1,400 subscribers. Her videos are lucky to get 100 to 200 views per video, and yet she still closed a $106,000 single contract from one of her videos. Right? So, you don't need a big channel if you're targeting the right type of person, which is what I talked about before. And I want you to see how many different ways that you can get to that first $1,000. Now, there are backups on top of backups here. The platform will pay you directly for the videos themselves once you cross 1,000 subscribers, and you can recommend products that you already use and take a cut of that, which is called affiliate marketing, and that's really as close to passive income as you're going to get. Or you can teach the skills that you already have, and you can charge one single person $1,000, or charge one single person $1,000 for you to just do the work yourself. And that's the thing about YouTube that I don't think people appreciate enough. It is the only place that will pay you to market your own skills while you are marketing them. Every other platform on Earth makes you pay to advertise your products and services. This one pays you to do it. Now, I know that 99% of you are going to grab the free Cloud skills, come to the free training, and watch my other content, and you're going to get a ton of value out of it. I see the comments. I see the DMs. I see the emails. Hundreds of them from you guys telling me that you got a ton of value out of my free stuff. And I know that most of you are just going to do that, and we are never going to end up working together, and that's completely fine. I always want to make sure that I give 10 or even 100 times more value than what I receive. being said, there's a small number of you, 1%, maybe 0.1% of you, that want a one-on-one mentorship experience. Or you want us to literally just do the work for you. If that sounds like you, go ahead and book a call by clicking the link in the description and pin comment below. It should be the second link down there. On this call, we'll figure out where you are right now, where you want to be, we'll make a plan to get there, and we'll see if we're a good fit to work together or not. But, we are very limited in the amount of people that we can work with, right? To get the kind of success stories that we have, we have to have a team of absolute superstars working very closely with you. And that's why we can only accept about five people right now. And historically, we only accept about 18% of people to get on a call for the program. So, only apply if you're very serious about growing and making money on YouTube, and you know the expenses associated with that. With that being said, check out this video right here to see exactly how we helped Nurse Gen go from zero to a full-time income and being able to quit her job and travel all over the United States in a camper van, literally living her dream life, even though she started this at 60 years old. And you can check out that video by clicking right here.