7 Claude AI Second Income Ideas That Can Pay A Full-Time Income

These are the seven Claude AI second income ideas that can genuinely pay a full-time income and I promise at least one of them fits something that you already do, already own, or already know. Now, everybody keeps telling you that AI is coming for all of the work. There's going to be no way that human beings can make money. Well, here's what the actual marketplace data says. Upwork publishes the data on what businesses are actually paying freelancers for and the demand for top AI-enabled skills grew 109% in a single year. AI chatbot development went up 71% and AI integration went up 178%. So, Upwork is doing just fine and right now almost nobody is showing up and I can tell you if you learn these skills that I'm going to talk about in this video, there has never been an easier time to make a second income than right now. And I've been early on this. I was making videos on AI back in 2022, months before ChatGPT even came out. And in 2024, I posted that Claude is better than ChatGPT, especially when it comes to content creation-related skills and business-related skills and this was before anybody else even started using it. Then, I ran it on my own business first because I always want proof of concept before I hand you anything and that business that initially started off as a second income when I was working as a pharmacist with $300,000 in student loan debt has now grown to over $10 million with me and my team using Claude extensively on a day-to-day basis. Now, if you don't believe me, here's proof that I spent over $10,000 just this month with Claude. Now, just to be clear, you don't need to spend anywhere near as much. We just experiment with everything before we tell you guys what works and what doesn't work. So, when I tell you which second income streams actually work with Claude, we mean it because we use it daily and we know exactly what it's good for and what it isn't. So, whether you're someone who just got laid off, maybe you're capped at $80,000 and there's nothing above you, or maybe you're 50 and you're not tech-savvy and everyone keeps telling you that the window is closing, or maybe you're just tired of your boss having the control over the one paycheck that decides your entire life, there's going to be an opportunity on this list for you. Every claim that I make is going to have a named source on the screen with receipts. This is all researched by real human beings and we're going to be showing you examples of real human beings that are doing all of these second incomes themselves. And my personal pick is the last one on the list, so don't skip out early. Now, if you appreciate me making this type of content and you want to see me make more of it in the future, then let me know by gently cheering that like button, and let's go ahead and jump in right now. Okay, so first one on the list is going to be faceless AI content. And I'm opening with this one because it's the one that every guru has sold you since AI came out. And the pitch goes like this. You crank out 100 videos with some AI app, you post them all over, basically spam them across the internet, and you pray that one of them blows up. Volume, luck, and a robot doing all the work. That's the whole business model. Now, here's the problem. YouTube's own monetization policy says it out loud now. To make money, your content has to, quote, be your original creation, and quote, not be mass-produced, generic, repetitive, or manipulative. And they literally renamed the policy for repetitious content to inauthentic content so that nobody could pretend that they didn't know. And then, they enforced it. In January, YouTube ran a sweep, and countless amounts of AI slop channels got deleted. Billions of views were taken off the platform. One person had 16 channels alone, they got 35 million subscribers deleted, and 4.7 billion views deleted and gone. And that's just one person who owned channels. Imagine working for years building up your AI channel empire just to have them all deleted. And there were many channels that were making $30,000 a month that got wiped overnight. And there's actually a website that shows you every channel that YouTube has terminated. You scroll through it, and surprise, surprise, a whole lot of them are AI slop. So, why is this number one on a list of things that actually pays? Because the purge is the opportunity. Most of your competition just got removed from the map, and the exact thing that AI cannot fake, a real human being with a point of view, just became the most valuable asset online. And I'm not guessing at the line between the two, right? Now, Wizard B Comp, who's one of our community members, is a faceless channel example that we like to point to. He started completely anonymous, completely faceless, and later he made the decision to transition into a personal brand channel. But before he transitioned, he got to a seven-figure business. But, he made faceless content in a very specific way, with what's known as the hybrid personal brand method. So, one, he didn't use AI to create all of his content. The source of the content came from him, his ideas, and his thoughts. Two, he used his real voice. This is a big one. YouTube does not like you using synthetic AI voices, even if it's a clone of your real voice. Just have a human being record the content. And three, he basically chose a cartoon character to represent him. And so, even though he was anonymous, it felt like there was a real human being behind the brand. And then four, he actually had a air of mysteriousness that made people very curious about who he was, and they'd stick around just to find out who he was when he did his face reveal, which he eventually did. And so, there's a right way to do YouTube automation or faceless YouTube content where you can actually make money from it, and then later on you can choose whether you want to show your face or not, and you can build your channel in such a way where it can evolve over time. And then there's the wrong way of doing it, where first of all, you're probably not going to get views cuz it's way harder to get views without showing your face. Second of all, even if you do get views, chances are YouTube is probably going to ban you or demonetize you. Third of all, if YouTube somehow doesn't ban or demonetize you, it's going to be incredibly easy for other people to copy you. Think about it. If it's truly completely AI generated, what is stopping the 1.5 billion people in India from making the exact same content? Nothing. That's the answer. So, you're going to be competing against 1.5 billion extra people from India, as well as other countries, if you make this type of content. don't need that much money to survive, and they're probably not going to feel bad about just copying your content. And you're not going to be able to enforce anything. And I'm also happy to report that out of all the creators that are in our community, not a single one has had a channel banned, right? Not one, because there's a real human being directing it. Claude is the assistant, but you are the channel. Now, with that being said, if you're curious about how to do YouTube the right way, step by step, as a complete beginner, even if you're not tech-savvy, and you want help picking your niche, and then picking your monetization method, or if you already have a niche, making your niche 10 times better, and then properly monetizing it so you don't have to get millions of views to make money. And that's exactly what I'm going to be going over in the live training that I'm going to be doing this week. So, click the first link in the description and the pin comment below to check that out. Also, I'll be giving away an AI that we spent thousands of hours on called the niche validator that's designed to help you pick your niche, or if you already have a niche, it's designed to help you make it 10 times better. And this is the most popular AI tool that we've ever given out. Literally hundreds of comments from people that absolutely love this. So, do not miss out on that. Additionally, I'll be answering questions before, during, and after the live training. It's completely free, and I look forward to seeing you there. So, click that link in the description and the pin comment below to check it out. All right, YouTube just got 10 times easier and nobody is talking about it. You used to need an entire film crew, and it used to be a full-time job for you to just do any work at all on YouTube. But now, you can get work done in as little as 15 to 30 minutes a day and you can actually grow a full-time YouTube channel. That's exactly what I would be talking about at the live training that we're doing this week. Exactly how to grow your YouTube channel. So, click the link in the description and the pin comment below to check that out, guys. I will be answering questions before, during, and after the live training. It's completely free, plus I'll be giving away an AI that is designed to help you pick your niche if you don't have one in the first place, or if you already have a niche, it's going to help you make it 10 times better. So, really looking forward to talking with you guys. This is stuff that we've never talked about before. So, click that link in the description and comment below. I look forward to seeing you there. All right, next is going to be building and selling small apps. And no, you do not need to know how to code. And this is the only second income on the list that bills people automatically every single month while you sleep. Now, an example of someone who did this is the guy named Peter Levels. And just one app, Photo AI, where you basically just upload some selfies and it gives you a professional headshot, that single app does around $138,000 a month. And he has a bunch of other apps in his portfolio as well. And Forbes has his whole portfolio over $3 million a year with no team, no co-founders, and no investor money. You might be thinking, "Okay, Shane, but that guy is a famous developer." Fair. So, watch the boring version. This is Angus Chang. He built a website that does exactly one thing. It turns PDF bank statements into clean spreadsheets. And that is genuinely the entire company. And it does $40,000 a month. About 39,000 of that is profit, and he has zero employees. >> I bootstrapped this entire business by myself. >> And that's the actual lesson. The mistake that everybody makes here is building something clever. Don't. Pick one annoying problem from a job that you've already worked on and build the boring little tool that deletes it. Because that same job also taught you exactly where those customers hang out. So, how do you do this with Claude? Well, you never make Claude guess. You feed it the real problem first. You open Claude and you say, "Build me a working web app that does exactly one thing." For instance, it might turn a contractor's rough job notes into a formatted estimate in PDF format, and that might save a contractor hours every single day. And guess what? They're going to be willing to pay for it. And maybe you might also say, "One page, no login, works on a phone." And Claude can build a working version in the same afternoon. So, real contractors clicking around in it before you have spent a dollar. When that contractor asked to keep it, the follow-up prompt is, "Add Stripe checkout at $9 a month with a 7-day free trial." And one more thing, because this is the part that people miss. I have a community member that runs Wall Street's Inn. And he already had a stock market analysis software. What he didn't have was people finding it. So, when you're making software, you would have to be aware that building it is one thing, and promoting it and actually finding customers to buy it is another. Because you could have the best product in the world, but if nobody knows you exist, they're never going to try your product out. And for Wall Street's Inn, that industry is very saturated and very competitive. So, make sure to pick niche industries to make software for. Luckily, that wasn't much of a problem for Wall Street's Inn because they shifted their strategy from SEO to YouTube. So, people actually get to see how their software works visually. And that promotes it to people who are following the stock market. And Claude will build whatever you point it at. Your job is pointing at a problem that you have personally watched people suffer through. So, next is going to be content repurposing. So, a community member of mine, Wiz, who we mentioned before, built this exact business. And it's safe to say that it grew into a seven-figure business. And almost everybody who hired him already watched his YouTube videos, so the videos did the selling before he said a word. And Wiz basically runs a Twitter and LinkedIn agency, where he takes large pieces of content, which could be in the form of an interview, and he creates viral Twitter and LinkedIn posts about them. Now, he uses interviews and if you want to run the same thing, you can do it that way, but if you have a customer who's really busy and they just have a lot of content, you can just repurpose their content that way as well. Because here's the thing, every founder who records anything is sitting on footage that they already paid to make. And none of them do anything about it. So, your entire job is making the thing that they already made actually work. So, a 90-minute recording becomes clips, show notes, social posts, and a newsletter. And you can sell a month of work, not just a clip. If you're thinking you can't edit, well, the real product is deciding which 40 seconds out of the 90 minutes matter, and the actual cutting of the work, you can easily hire somebody from the Philippines to do for $3 an hour. Or you can just use Claude to do it as well, and there's even specialized AI tools such as Opus that will find the best and juiciest clips and cut them for you automatically. So, here's the prompt. Here's the transcript of a 90-minute podcast with timestamps. Find the 10 moments that would work as a standalone vertical clip. And for each one, give me the exact in and out timestamps, why it holds attention on its own, the six-word hook to burn on the screen, and the caption. Then you mine everything that you didn't clip, and now write the show notes with the chapter markers, 20 posts pulled from the parts you didn't clip, and the newsletter, all in the host voice. So, what Claude can't do is watch. It reads words, so it might miss the moment that only works because of a face or a pause. So, that way you can still scrub the 10 marked spots yourself. Next, let's talk about creating and selling your own online course. And this is where your second income stops tracking with the actual hours that you work. So, here's an example. This is Chris Haroun. He made a course called An Entire MBA in One Course. And it's one course, and in his own words in an article with Entrepreneur, it has sold close to 500,000 times and generated, quote, a passive income stream of seven figures in net profit. Now, here's the part that I want you to notice. He did not invent anything, right? He worked at Goldman Sachs. He worked at hedge funds. He did venture capital. And then he recorded what all of that taught him. And he got paid twice for the same 20 years. And you probably already know something that people ask you about for free, right? Your friends, or your co-workers, or your patients, or your clients, or your customers, or people that you help. They come to you for certain advice. And that's the course, right? That's the thing that you want to make a course on. Now, most people don't even make a course in the first place because they think it's just way too hard and it'll take a long time to write it and get it out. That's something that Claude can help with. And then of those who actually do finish a course, many of them can't even promote it. And again, that's something that Claude can help with. But let me give you an example, right? So, this is a community member of ours, and his niche sounds like a joke, right? This is Steven, and he teaches one piece of very niche CAD software, which is Siemens NX. That's it. Nearly 40 years in fabrication and design, and he just teaches the one program. And right after releasing it and using our Claude AI systems to promote it, he made over $12,000 in course sales, with about 90% of that revenue coming directly from his YouTube channel. And the coolest thing is, one of the people who bought his course on this super niche software that only certain types of engineers use is an engineer that was working at Meta. And right, and this person had never spoken to him in his entire life. So, the best engineers in the world were buying his course. Now, let's talk about how to do this with Claude. It's the interview move again, right? You say, "Interview me one question at a time until you understand a skill that I have that people would actually pay to learn." Then let's talk about who's stuck without it and the result that they get. Then give me another six modules, the lessons inside each, and the single transformation that this course sells. And that module map comes back in minutes. Then the follow-up is write the sales page and the five email launch sequence. And the rule is simple, right? Sell it before you build it. Take real money from five people first, and then let their questions build the curriculum. And if five people won't put money down, Claude just saved you three months. Now, obviously, make sure to over-deliver to those first five people. Basically, just give them free coaching. And you can, of course, drip your course out one module at a time. So, maybe one new module each week, and then you can present it live to the five people who bought your course. But, you might be thinking, "Okay, Shane, but a course sounds like a lot of work." Okay, then don't build one. Promote somebody else's. That's exactly what my brother Zach does. Right? So, he's 50, he spent nearly 30 years in the trades, and he's about as technologically challenged as a human can be. And he doesn't sell anything on his own outside of his career. And he recommends CourseCareers, trade training that answers the one question that his audience asks him all day long, which is, "Which trade should I pick and how do I develop the skills for it?" And then he promoted other products as well. And because he was promoting other people's products, he was able to get to $18,000 in a single month. And notice something, almost every person that I've mentioned in this video has a YouTube channel, right? They make content online. And that's not coincidence. Every single side hustle on this list works, but they all need one thing, and that is traffic. Some people would call this distribution. But, basically, people need to know that you exist. If they don't know that you exist, they're not going to buy your stuff. And YouTube is without a doubt the best way for them to find you. Now, you can make the YouTube content, and then if you want to make social media content on other platforms, what you can do is syndicate the content to the other platforms. But, YouTube is the best platform, and you should treat it as your mother platform, and then syndicate the content from your main videos. So, Zach works about 4 hours a week, and Claude does the rest. And again, if you want me to walk you through exactly how we helped Zach set that up, I'm going to be running a free live training this week. Link's in the description and the pin comment below. Should be the first link down there. And just for showing up, like I said, you get my niche validator. It tells you which niche actually pays you or fixes the one that you're already in, and that's the decision that everybody gets wrong. And it's the one that decides everything else, because you want to choose the right niche where you know who you're talking to, you know what problem you're helping them solve, and therefore, you know what content to make for them and what you can sell them. And most people get this completely wrong. All right, YouTube just got 10 times easier and nobody is talking about it. You used to need an entire film crew, and it used to be a full-time job for you to just do any work at all on YouTube. But now, you can get work done in as little as 15 to 30 minutes a day, you can actually grow a full-time YouTube channel. That's exactly what I'll be talking about at the live training that we're doing this week. Exactly how to grow your YouTube channel. So, click the link in the description and the pin comment below to check that out, guys. I will be answering questions before, during, and after the live training. It's completely free, plus I'll be giving away an AI that is designed to help you pick your niche if you don't have one in the first place, or if you already have a niche, it's going to help you make it 10 times better. So, really looking forward to talking with you guys. This is stuff that we've never talked about before, so click that link in the description and comment below. I look forward to seeing you there. All right, next is making business plans. And there's many places you could sell this, but one place would be Upwork. And here's an example. This guy's name is Evan Fisher. He started writing business plans on Upwork at a point where he had about $10.21 in his bank account, and he grew that into a million-dollar one-person business writing business plans and even the pitch decks that go along with them. And his firm's website now says its pitch deck and investor strategy have helped startups raise over $5 billion. Now, read that number again because he started with $10.21. So, nobody is coming to save you, and nobody has to. And business plans are not going to be that hard even if you don't have experience because Claude is your partner in writing here. So, a business plan is mostly structure, meaning the market, the numbers, the strategy, and the story written in a format that investors expect. And Claude already knows the format, so your job is to bring the specifics, which Claude can also help you do. And if you don't know how to do this, there are a lot of free resources that can help you make business plans. Just as an example, there's this girl here on YouTube named Jillian Perkins, and she basically outlines how to write a business plan, and that video actually got 2.6 million views and made her over $13,000 just from AdSense alone, according to ViewStats. So, you could watch that video, learn the structure for free, and then let Claude do the heavy lifting. And the gist here is you would tell Claude something like, "Write me an investor-ready business plan for this company with the market, the numbers, and the strategy laid out in the format that investors expect. And then, you just paste everything that you have about the business below that, whatever the investors want to see, and you should have a very solid business plan at that point. All right, the next one is ghostwriting, and I picked a specific person for this one because he answers the question that everybody watching has about H. So, this is Michael Levin. He left a law career, Columbia Law, and became a ghostwriter. An entrepreneur reports that he now charges over $100,000 per book. And he's written or ghostwritten more than 1,000 books across 35 years. Over $100,000 for one book that nobody even knows that he wrote. Now, here's the honest part because I'm not going to sell you a fantasy. Claude will absolutely do the transcript to outline, the chapter structure, the first drafts, and the line editing as well. What Claude will not do is win you the $100,000 client. And that's a human being sitting across from another human being. But, the reason that fee is that high is that the work used to take a year, at least. 3 years or 5 years writing their books. But, you can help them write it a lot faster, and it really doesn't take that long, not even close to that long with the help of AI now. And by the way, you don't have to do books. You could be a ghostwriter for LinkedIn or Twitter, right? So, land three executives at $2,000 a month, and your month starts at $6,000 before you've opened your laptop. An example of that, by the way, in this niche is the number that the guy himself posted. There's a channel called Nicholas Cole and this video called How to Become a LinkedIn Ghostwriter: Five Steps to Land Your First Client did really well, and it's a good place to get started. ghostwritten for over 300 founders and executives. And he publicly stated that he made $3.7 million from ghostwriting in 5 years. So, how do you do this with Claude? Well, the whole business is voice matching, and that's exactly what a Claude project full of their old posts is for. So, basically, you'll load it up, right? Find everything that they've ever written, all the content that they've ever made. And then, you typically also interview them as well. So, you load it up, you interview them, and you say, "Read the 20 posts in this project and write me a voice guide, sentence length, how they open, the five opinions that they repeat, the words they never use, then draft eight posts in that voice from the call transcript that I just uploaded. And the raw material is one recorded 45-minute call per month where you basically just pull real opinions out of a very busy executive, and that is the skill that they're paying you for so that they only have to spend one hour a month on it and you take care of everything else. And you along with Claude can turn those opinions into a month's worth of content. So, the next one has to be the best dollars to hour ratio on this entire list, and that is going to be stacking YouTube affiliate and Amazon influencer. So, Business Insider profiled a guy named Jud Allbrings. He's a stay-at-home dad and he makes more than $20,000 a month between YouTube and ad revenue and affiliate commissions, and he works about 8 to 10 hours a week. And Business Insider verified that income with documentation. So, this is not some random screenshot on Twitter. And Jud is actually one of our clients, right? He's part of our community. And he went from $7,000 a month to a $24,000 AdSense month alone right after starting to work with us. And he closed his first $3,000 coaching client as well. And all of it is screenshot backed. Now, here's what I actually want you to take from Jud and it's not the 20 grand, it's the stacking. Same videos, same audience, three separate revenue lines running through them all at once. AdSense was at the floor, affiliate on tools that he genuinely uses, and he became an Amazon influencer on top of that. Well, I highly recommend that you attend our live training this week. Click the first link in the description and pin comment below. It's completely free and we'll go deep into exactly how to do this. But with that being said, we also have some resources which we'll put in the description and the pin comment below. It'll be the third link down there. They can help you get started on this and they're going to be free Claude skills, free prompts, etc. And the truth is, this is the thing that works better than anything else because every second income idea on this list actually does work. And honestly, most second income ideas out there in general do work, but they all have one thing in common and that is they need traffic. And making content on YouTube is one of the easiest and best ways to get that traffic. Now, one thing you need to take into account is where do customers of any of these ideas actually come from? Because all of these can work if the customers know where to find you, and that's what makes YouTube the best second income idea out of all of them because it unlocks all of the side hustles and all the second income ideas on this list. Because you can be good at anything and just promote what you're already good at, right? So, instead of starting a race at the very beginning, you start the race 90% of the way done because you're just going to teach people on YouTube about something that you're already good at, something that you already know a lot about. Whereas, if you just go and try some random thing out there, you're going to have to learn the whole skill and that's going to be like starting the race at the very beginning. And the best thing is Claude can do most of the heavy lifting for you, even if you're not tech-savvy. And this works because Claude has made all of this 10 times easier. And a perfect example is my brother Zach, right? He spent 30 years in the trades and like I mentioned before, he's not very tech-savvy. He's never made a video in his life. And he started a channel about the trades and by day 29, he made $214 in a single day in AdSense. That's a $78,000 a year run rate, so he went from zero to a full-time income in less than 1 month. And then closing out year one, he made over $18,000 in a single month. And it's not just the trades. Remember Steven? Siemens NX, one piece of CAD software, $12,000 in course sales, 90% of it straight off of YouTube. And he was literally just teaching what he already knew a lot about. And that's something that almost everybody in our community has in common. We help pull the right niche out of them so they don't have to go from zero to 100. They just get to go from 90 to 100 because they're literally just teaching stuff that they already know. And just because it's common sense to you doesn't mean it's going to be common sense to most people out there. And it doesn't even need to take a big channel. This is Carla for instance, and her videos get 100 to 200 views each. And when her channel had about 1.5 thousand subscribers, she landed a $106,000 a year contract from a video that got 100 to 200 views. So, yeah, attend my live training, click that link in the description and the pin comment below if you're interested in that. It is without a doubt the best second income you can possibly do. Now, I know 99% of you are just going to enjoy my free videos. You're going to enjoy the free resources that my team and I spend hundreds of hours putting together. And you're going to enjoy the live training that we're doing this week. Definitely attend that. Don't miss out on that one. As well as the AI that we give away in the live training and the step-by-step guide on how to get started. Right? You're just going to get all of that completely free and it's going to give you a ton of value and we are never going to end up working together and that is completely fine. I always want to give 10 or even a hundred times more value than what I receive, but I also know that there's going to be a small percentage of you out there, 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. So, if that sounds like you, go ahead and click the second link in the description in the pin comment below to book a call directly with myself or my team. 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, only book a call if you are very serious about growing and making money on YouTube. We are very limited in the amount of calls we can take and we're even more limited in the amount of people that we accept into the program. Typically, we only accept about 18% of people who apply. So, only do this if you are very serious about growing and making money on YouTube, treating it like a business, and you want to start right away. And if that sounds like you, click that link in the description in the pin comment below. Should be the second one down there. The types of people we typically work with are going to be professionals with at least 10 years of experience or people who are overachievers, but basically people that have something to teach, right? They have experience to teach other people. It doesn't have to be business or making money related. We have people in the relationship niche like Damian and Kennedy that made it to a full-time income. We have people in the spirituality niche. We have lots of people in health or fitness niches, right? Anything where you can help other people solve their problems. Those are the types of people that we like to accept in the program. We also work with business owners that want to get more views, grow their brand, get more leads, get more sales from YouTube. Additionally, it helps with every other marketing process that you have in your company and it really just helps make your company better in general because the leads that are coming from YouTube are going to be very warm and they're already going to know, like, and trust you. But, we also work with YouTubers who are getting a lot of views, but struggling with monetization. And we also work with YouTubers who are crushing it, but they want to crush it even harder. And we work with people who have large followings on other social media platforms or they have like a book or something like that and they want to bring that audience over to YouTube cuz they know that YouTube is the best. So, if that sounds like you, click that second link in the description and pin comment below and we look forward to talking with you. And also check out this video right here where we go over exactly how we got my brother Zach from zero to full-time income in less than 1 month.