#114 · $350K/M AI Automation Expert Answers Questions For 80Mins
I recently hired someone to handle my newsletter. We’re building a big email sequence; I already have about 30,000 subscribers. The plan is to monetize the list, use it for outreach, and keep the audience engaged through regular newsletters.
I'm about to publish a video on my main channel covering this topic. I can see you're just starting with about five videos, experimenting with thumbnail templates and using AI for images—pretty accurate. Keep doing what you're doing; if you scaled up to 100 videos or 25 times your current output, you'd easily surpass 3,000 subscribers. I'll soon release a video detailing exactly how I approach this in the automation agency space, because lots of people want to replicate my growth. I've noticed channels copying my Instagram content outright, so I might as well share my secret sauce and monetize it.
I start by scraping AI‑focused news sites and subscribing to newsletters that feed the latest developments into a content pipeline. I then use AI to draft scripts, make minor tweaks, and load fifteen scripts into a teleprompter to record them in one take — about fifteen minutes of footage. I send that raw video to my editor, Shub, who cuts it into individual shorts, adds thumbnails, and prepares them for posting. Leads come primarily from the newsletter funnel: I’ve gathered a few thousand subscribers, with roughly twenty‑five hundred new sign‑ups in the past thirty days, which then feed into my other offers. I’m still refining lead tracking, but the newsletter is the main source.
To find thousands of YouTube creators with emails, start by searching YouTube for a relevant keyword (e.g., 'automation'). Filter the results by view count—say, only channels with 100K+ views. Grab the channels from those videos, then feed those channel lists into an email scraper (such as Apify/Ampify) to pull out the associated email addresses. Those emails can then be loaded into your outreach platform (like Instantly) for your campaign selling content ideas or training video systems.
I can approach it with three main content pillars. First, awareness content that covers the latest AI news—anything new, free, or just launched. Second, implementation content that shows how to actually use AI tools, like deep‑seek tutorials, so it’s not just dry theory. Third, no‑code content that demonstrates using AI via APIs with platforms such as n8n or Make.com. I’ll also add a fourth pillar focused on "AI money"—showing how to monetize the tools rather than just how they work. Each piece will include a clear CTA back to my YouTube channel for detailed guides, and I’ll sprinkle short YouTube clips or intro snippets to keep interest high and drive cross‑platform traffic.