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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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What automation ideas can I build and sell to IT companies as a subscription, and how do I choose and market them as a beginner?

He explains that IT companies are service businesses and follow the same funnel as any other service business: lead generation, sales (discovery/scoping call), conversion (proposal/agreement/invoice), onboarding (kickoff call), fulfillment (building IT systems), and retention (ongoing management/managed service). Because the funnel is universal, you can adapt systems from other niches—cold‑email, speed‑to‑lead (PPC), content (SEO), automated referral/follow‑up/reactivation, proposal generator, asset generator, CRM, sales admin, webhook‑triggered kickoff calls, AI‑generated project briefs, and a template library for one‑click implementation. The key is to take a bird’s‑eye view, draw inspiration from adjacent niches, and teach the client to fish rather than give them a fish.

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What's the best offer right now, given how much the AI agency space has changed? Is it selling a full AIOS?

Not for beginners — if you already have a big brand, YouTube channel, and a working Instagram funnel, you could sell an AIOS, but as a total newbie, don't. Instead, pick a specific lane, ideally something tied to reach/acquisition: creative-generation systems (ad creative testing across Google, Facebook, TikTok, etc.), automated prospect research for cold email/LinkedIn icebreakers, and speed-to-lead systems (immediately following up with anyone who opts in from an ad, maximizing show/booking rate — even something as simple as calling a lead twice instead of once, or texting back a missed call automatically, can double conversion). Also strong: automated follow-up across SMS/email/DM for anyone who's expressed interest, and inbound lead-magnet systems (e.g. ManyChat-based funnels tied to a creator's content). The common thread: focus on a narrow, specific lane that produces a clearly measurable revenue outcome — that lets you proportionally scale a client's revenue in a way that's easy to prove and sell.

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Can you talk about e-commerce in general regarding AI and what parts would you automate?

I'd automate anything that drives growth—for e-commerce that means getting total eyeballs on your brand. I also automate other things, like a campaign that scanned Reddit posts in 30‑40 relevant subreddits, compiled the last 24 hours of posts, and had humans post soft‑sell snippets recommending the product. Those are genuine, human‑sounding comments (not the obvious AI slop like “Everything was lost until I read XYZ book”), and they work well because they’re just more eyeballs on the brand.

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Is niching down to marketing agencies a good option for an AI automation agency, and what assets can I send to marketing/creative agencies that aren’t just AI‑generated?

I think marketing agencies are great; I niche down with them and make more money than most with an equivalent service. Whether you need to differentiate depends on your goals—if you aim to be the Uber of automation agencies selling to marketing agencies at $100M/year, you'll need more differentiation than just 'marketing agency'; if you want a tiny niche, you can target whatever you want, especially if you have experience to stand out. As for assets to send to marketing or creative agencies that aren't just AI‑generated: you can build them whole HTML websites (customized with context) and host them; generate newsletters from templates; create PPC ad creatives based on trending ad‑library content; produce high‑quality proposal templates; make slide decks; essentially any day‑to‑day marketing agency deliverable can be generated with AI, but the biggest impact is the customized HTML template because clients are impressed by receiving a full website.

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