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Any recommendations for B2B services I could offer to ecom? I'm good at web scraping, data mining, and AI stuff, but can't decide whether to focus on e-commerce or sales as my target vertical — what would have the most demand?

I would definitely go B2B sales businesses. The issue with ecom is that a lot of the introductory, bottom-level, foundational stuff you're capable of selling is already taken care of by most out-of-the-box ecom software. A good example is abandoned cart sequences — way back in the day you'd talk to an ecom business losing people at the cart and build them an abandoned cart sequence, which made them a ton of money. But that's very low-hanging fruit, and Shopify and all these other platforms have that built in now. Not saying you can't do it better, but keep in mind you're a beginner in this industry, so it's likely you won't be able to create the most sophisticated, nuanced deep systems right off the bat — meaning it'll be difficult to compete with out-of-the-box functionality that's already 80% of the way there. So I'd definitely go sales. There's just so many more low-hanging fruit in B2B sales right now. There's no one unified B2B sales platform — sure, people use Salesforce for enterprise, Asana or Trello or Pipedrive for smaller to mid-size businesses — but there are so many opportunities there. Not to mention, it's far easier to quantify return on investment with people whose whole job is quantifying return on investment.

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What services could be offered for e-commerce businesses by someone starting an AI automation agency or coaching business? I'm confused about which niche to choose and what services to offer.

Most low‑hanging e‑commerce fruit—like automated product descriptions, recurring emails, and checkout flows—is already handled by platforms, so you need to look beyond those basics. If the store is mostly B2C, reframe the problem as B2B: help the owner reach retailers, distributors, or influencers and set up partnership automations. In practice that often means building an email campaign and an affiliate funnel that contacts influencers, gives them free products, and tracks resulting sales. Many influencer‑marketing services are generic and lack personalization; you can improve them by scraping a creator’s recent post, paraphrasing it as an icebreaker, and offering a simple promo or swag kit. You can also layer AI into newsletters or marketing sequences—using survey data, product‑history, or other signals to personalize outreach. For coaches who feel stuck on choosing a niche or services, the real issue is a lack of confidence; pick three niches you feel about 70 % confident in and start acting (LinkedIn cold outreach, short videos, Upwork applications) rather than waiting for certainty.

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For starting an AI-driven business, what is your advice for picking a niche or industry to target?

I have three major rules for picking a niche. The first is it needs to be high ticket — a single customer that I gain for the client has to make the client a lot of money. Can't do 20 bucks a month SaaS here; you need to do things like $5 to $10,000 a month retainers. Number two, it needs to be not compliance-heavy. I don't want to enter into a niche as a beginner if I have to deal with HIPAA or SOC 2 or a bunch of regulatory compliance stuff around fintech — that just doesn't make sense. My only goal as a beginner starting an AI business is to gain as much experience as quickly as possible and then roll that over into some sort of bootstrappable income. And the third thing is I want data that is easy to scrape. I don't want to work with industries where I actually have to consult the freaking yellow pages or something like that. I want data on businesses that typically have websites, typically have easily accessible email addresses or phone numbers, and so typically that means digital businesses. So that's the way to do it.

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I already have outreach skills from B2B sales and I'm learning low-code automation well, but I'm not sure which workflows/automations to actually pitch — project management, CRM, lead gen? I don't know what people would actually pay money for. If I could figure that out, I'd be set.

I get some version of this question basically every day. The reason you're asking it is because you don't yet understand the problems most businesses actually suffer from. The vast majority of businesses I work with — mostly B2B agencies and B2B tech/SaaS products — tend to struggle with three things: front-end lead generation, inefficient client onboarding systems, and bad fulfillment/project management full of unnecessary manual work. Once you understand those problems, it's not hard to know what people will pay for — anything that solves one of those three and helps them make more money. Practically, the fastest way to get unstuck: spend an hour picking 2-3 candidate niches (say, videographers, B2B creative agencies, recruitment companies), join Reddit communities for people who own those kinds of businesses, and scroll top to bottom reading what questions and problems people are actually posting about.

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