Can I show you five different ways to make money with AI art that actually work and along the way teach you genius [music] new prompts for generating stunning AI images that you didn’t know? Well, that’s the challenge I’ve set myself [music] today. So, let’s jump straight into it. One, wisdom story videos. So, check out this YouTube channel. It’s just four months old and honestly, it’s pretty crazy. But, in less than two weeks of posting videos, they had their first viral hit. It was this video here. It’s basically a glorified show with AI art and an AI voiceover and it’s gotten over 2.4 million views, which is insane when you think about it. Because YouTube lets you make money from videos that you post with their monetization program, YouTube AdSense. YouTube AdSense is available in over 200 countries around the world and it lets you earn money by splitting advertising revenue with YouTube on your videos. On average, most videos on YouTube have a $3.30 to $4.40 RPM, which [music] by the way, if you’ve never heard that phrase RPM before, basically means revenue per mill, which in other words means revenue per 1,000 views. So, on average then, a video on YouTube earns $3.30 to $4.40 per 1,000 views that it gets. And so, if you do the math then, it means that on average we can estimate that a video like this which got 2.4 million views earned its creator $7,900 to $10,560. [music] And honestly, it could be even more because some videos on YouTube get an even higher RPM. I know that my RPM that I get for videos is well above $40. So, yes, if we just watch this video for a moment, you can see that it is super duper basic. It is just effectively a slideshow. It is a slideshow featuring AI art, which will just be generated with an AI art app like Midjourney and it’s had a filter put on top of it. And if you were to actually listen to this voiceover, which I’ve muted, it’s just an AI voice. And chances are the script for this video would have also been generated with ChatGPT, too. So, yeah, this is mostly just an AI-generated video. And well, admittedly, I got curious and I decided to come and see if this was the only channel crushing it creating these wisdom stories. And I quickly discovered that, nope, it is not. For example, take this channel here. This channel is just 5 months old and it’s hit over 100,000 subscribers. They make similar wisdom story videos using AI-generated art and voiceovers, and their videos get tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands to millions of views. [music] But that’s not all. Take this channel here. This channel is just 2 months old, but it’s already creating videos that are getting tens of thousands of views with some videos like this one that they posted just 1 month ago getting hundreds of thousands of views. And yes, because I know that somebody is absolutely going to go into the YouTube comments and point this out. To make money from your YouTube videos, your channel does need to meet certain thresholds. You need 4,000 watch hours and 1,000 subscribers. But, well, from my experience, once you get your 1,000 subscribers on YouTube, you’ve usually had to have gotten enough views that you’ll already have your 4,000 watch hours, too. And well, if we come to SocialBlade, you can see that in DreamSpark’s first month of posting videos, they gained 13,000 subscribers, which means chances are they reached the YouTube threshold for monetization within just days. So then, the question is this: How can you generate viral AI art that’s similar? It’s a good question. So, for this challenge, I’ll be generating my AI art with Midjourney as my app of choice. But, [music] you can use whatever app that you like. So, if you prefer DALL-E, you could choose to use that. Or if you prefer a free AI art tool like Leonardo, you could use that, too. Either way, it’s up to you. So, then, I set myself a challenge for this video, to create a similar picture here to this one. And so, to do that, I came and prompted Midjourney, and I described the monk that I wanted Midjourney to generate, including his age and pose. And I also specified the angle I wanted the image to be made from, and I specified the setting, and I described how I wanted the image to feel, and I also noted the quality that I wanted the image to be made in. And look, here’s the thing, right? Some people are surprised when I do what I did here, and ask for an image to be made with less detail. Most people assume that the more detail, the better. But, in my experience, lower detail can sometimes have advantages. So, for example, I think that it can create the feeling of an image being more mystical and calming, you know? Which is why I picked that. So, after that, I set the aspect ratio parameter to also be 16 by 9. The aspect ratio parameter lets you change the size and dimensions of the image that Midjourney [music] generates for you. And so, I picked mine to be made in 16 by 9, because on YouTube, the aspect ratio of a standard YouTube video that isn’t a YouTube Shorts video, is 16 by 9. And then, that was it. I let Midjourney go ahead and do its magic. Now, obviously, in practice, you would want to get Midjourney to do lots of generations for you to pick from, but for this video, I just did one, and out of these, this one here was absolutely the best in my opinion. I think it’s quite stunning. So, then, onto number two, create and sell pillows. So, yes, I think this is pretty cool. But, using print-on-demand, you can make and sell your own cool pillows that feature AI artwork. And there are two ways that you can make money doing this. The first is that you can come to a print-on-demand marketplace, such as zazzle.com or redbubble.com, where you can sell your AI art that you generate onto products that they print and sell, like pillows, for a profit. You just upload your art onto the website and you get paid a commission whenever it sells onto a product like a pillow. But, there is another way, too. You can also come to a general online marketplace like Etsy. On Etsy, throw pillows featuring cute artwork and patterns are also popular. [music] And so, here is what you can do. You can come to a print-on-demand app like Printify and then choose a pillow from the catalog to customize. Then, you just upload your AI art piece onto the pillow and then you can list your pillow for sale on Etsy using the Printify Etsy integration and price it for a markup price. And then, you can earn a profit each time your pillow sells. And I’ll show you something on Etsy right now. There is one style of pillow that is super trendy right now. And that is William Morris-inspired throw pillows. Some stores in this niche have made over a hundred thousand dollars in the past year just selling trending pillow designs such as this trending William Morris frog pillow here. So, if you’ve never heard of him before, William Morris is a historical British designer. He was very famous for revitalizing interest in traditional British style textiles through his artwork. And well, as you can see here on Etsy, when you create designs that look similar to the textiles that he designed, they look really amazing when printed onto pillows, which is why they’ve been so popular with customers. And I’ll tell you something, for better or for worse, Midjourney is amazing at taking inspiration from other artists, especially historical artists, and then replicating their style onto new images. So then, to make my own William Morris-inspired pillow, I first came to Midjourney and prompted it by noting William Morris’s name and I explained the type of image that I wanted and I prompted it with the style that I wanted and I added in the aesthetic and I also added in the prompt butterfly. Since, well, if you take a look at the best-selling William Morris-inspired pillows on Etsy, you’ll usually find that they’re themed around some sort of subject, such as, well, a frog. So, I thought that just as a fun example for this video, that I’d pick butterflies to be my subject. And then, that was it. I just went ahead and I let Midjourney do its magic and create my design. And honestly, I think that the results were pretty cool. And by the way, if you’d like to learn how I and others earn passive income every day from selling print-on-demand products, you should be sure to download a copy of my free print-on-demand ebook, The Six Steps to Six-Figure Online Stores Followed to Make Over $10,000 a Month. You’ll find a link to download my free ebook in the video description below. All right, then. On to number three. Create and sell Midjourney prompts. So, speaking of Etsy, did you know that there is a thriving market on Etsy for Midjourney prompts? Take for example, this set of three PDF files containing Midjourney t-shirt image prompts. The Etsy research app, Alora, estimates that this has made over $27,000. But, here’s the thing. It’s not just Etsy that you can make money selling prompts on. Nope, there is a dedicated marketplace to them called PromptBase. Here, you can sell prompts for any AI app, like Midjourney, ChatGPT, DALL-E, and even Leonardo. But, out of all of them, Midjourney is overall the most popular. To give you some ideas on what sort of prompts that you could create to sell, these prompt packs that I’m showing you right now are currently selling the best for Midjourney on PromptBase. You can see that they usually range from $2.99 to $7.99. Although, something that is interesting is that one of the most popular prompts on PromptBase is actually priced at $14.99, which isn’t actually that surprising when you think about it, given the fact that this prompt is going to save people a lot of money because they won’t have to purchase product mock-up photos, and they won’t have to take their [music] own photos, too. All right, then. On to number four. Storytime videos. So, this here is an example of a storytime video made with AI art for a YouTube channel called Whisper Diaries. It’s in one of the classic popular niches for storytime videos on YouTube, which is creepy stories. Now, creepy stories are a very popular niche for this because one, they can get huge amounts of views, but secondly, and probably most importantly, they can have very high cash earnings. On Reddit, a channel owner in this niche revealed that the average RPM is $11, which basically means that for every 1,000 views that they get, that YouTube pays them $11, which is actually pretty insane when you consider that the average RPM is about $3 to $4. And check this out. If we come on over to SocialBlade, you’ll see that each month, Whisper Stories usually gets around 1.2 to 1.5 million views, getting 1,408,000 views in the last month, which at an RPM of $11 is $15,488 just from YouTube ads. And again, just like with the Wisdom Story videos, these videos are just mostly AI-generated, too. They’re effectively a slideshow of AI art. And if you were to actually listen to the video, which I have muted, you’d hear that it’s just using an AI voiceover, and the stories themselves are probably also just generated with ChatGPT, too. And here’s another cool thing, too. If we go and do a search on YouTube, you’ll quickly find that there are lots of other new channels crushing it, too, in this niche, like Dr. Spooks. You can see that they started uploading videos just 4 months ago, and yet already, they’re now bringing in over 217,000 views a month, which at an RPM of $11 is $2,387 from YouTube ads. Now, of course, I do have to say, if you’re interested in doing this, you don’t just have to only create and post spooky stories. You can pick whatever story time niche that you like, but for this example for this video, I’m just going to run with spooky stories. And I’ll set myself a challenge to see if I can generate my own similar AI art picture of a suburban American house like Whispered Stories did here. So, first of all, I’m actually going to open up Midjourney settings. I’m going to switch back to their older 5.2 version, and I’m going to use the medium level of stylization for this picture. Because sometimes, as you will see, Midjourney’s older versions can sometimes be better at generating the type of art that you want compared to their newer versions. So then, after choosing those settings, I described the image that I wanted Midjourney to create for me, and I also described the architecture that I wanted the house to be in, and I described how detailed I wanted it to be, and I added in that I wanted it to have strong use of negative space. And that is because negative space, if you’ve never heard of that phrase before, means to have empty space around the focus of the image. And so, you can see with this picture here that the house doesn’t take up the whole picture, and there is space around it, adding to the creepiness. And so, in addition, I also added to my prompt the feeling I wanted the image to have, and I added in the type of lighting I wanted the image to have, and I also set its aspect ratio parameter to be 16 by 9. Since, again, standard YouTube videos that aren’t shorts are in a 16 by 9 ratio. And then, after that, I just let Midjourney do its own magic and generate four images for me, and the results that it created were pretty good in my opinion, especially variation one. Now, as I said, there is a reason why I switched back to using Midjourney 5.2. And it’s because if we come back and change it in the settings to the current latest version, which is version six, this is the results that it gave me using that version and the same prompt. You can see that it is drastically different, isn’t it? It is absolutely nothing like I wanted. So, if your AI image generator app has different versions, it is absolutely worth it, in my opinion, to play around with them. So then, on to number five, shower curtains. Yes, so just like the pillows, there are two different ways to create shower curtains using AI art that you can then sell for a profit to earn money online. The first is to come to a print-on-demand app like Printify that sells customizable shower curtains, and then upload the art that you generate onto it to make your own custom one to sell. You can then list your Printify shower curtains for sale on an online marketplace like Etsy. If you browse through the top-selling shower curtains on here, you’ll see that the best sellers usually average and range in price from about $50 to $70, such as this trending shower curtain here that is selling for $72, which means that this is an item that has very high profit margins. Because on Printify, you can buy shower curtains for as low as $28.56 with shipping costing an additional $5.29. And so then, as you can see, using an Etsy profit calculator, the profit margins, even after selling fees for this, are over 40%. But, that is not the only way that you can make money, too. Nope, you can also come on over to a dedicated print-on-demand marketplace like Zazzle.com or Redbubble.com. Shower curtains are a surprisingly popular product on these marketplaces. And one trick that you can do when you’re doing product research on Redbubble is you can sort designs by best selling to see what are the top-selling products. And doing this, we can see that this shower curtain here, featuring two cowboy cats in this cool vintage style, are one of the best-selling shower curtains on Redbubble. As you can see, part of the visual appeal of this is that it doesn’t look like a real image. It looks like it was photoshopped. So then, let’s set ourselves a challenge. Can we use AI art to create our own similar image? But, this time, we will keep the cool cowboy theme, but instead of theming it around cats, let’s instead theme it around dogs. And to achieve this, I’m actually going to go back into Midjourney settings and switch it again to be a different version. This time, 5.1. Because, as I’ll show you shortly, 5.1 is going to give us drastically different results compared to the other versions of Midjourney. So then, after that, I prompted Midjourney by describing the type of image that I wanted, and I added in the minimalism prompt so that we don’t get a complex scene, and I also noted the style that we wanted, and I also added in that it is photoshopped, and very importantly, I added in the prompt that it is fake. So that Midjourney doesn’t try to actually draw us a realistic-looking cowboy dog. And then, I went and then also added in the color palette that we want, and I also set the style parameter to be 500. You can choose anywhere between 1 to 1,000 for it. The higher the style, the more Midjourney will make the image look artistic in exchange for not sticking as closely to the prompt. And then, that was it. I just let Midjourney come and do its magic. And do its magic it did. I will freely admit that of the results, version two in the top right corner was slightly terrifying, but version four in the bottom right corner was very cool. And you see, here’s the thing about Midjourney, right? If I changed the version to be a different one, as you can see here, the results would have been drastically different, and not quite what I wanted. So, for example, version six created some very cute results, but they were too realistic. So, if the AI art generator you’re using has different modes or versions, don’t be afraid to switch them up.