🥯 Today on Bagel Bots

• 💰️ Monetization Insight: Automate Sales, Close More Deals Daily

• 🔧 Workflow Builder: Build and Sell AI Chatbots in One Weekend

• 💡 Today’s Prompt: Turn Your Story Into a High-Converting Website

• 🧰 Featured Tool: Automate Email Support and Monetize With Hiver

• 🧪 Fresh Apps: 5 AI Tools to Launch Fast + Earn Faster

• 🌎️ AI Market Pulse: Target, Salesforce, NVIDIA Go All-In on AI

• 🖼️ Which Image Is Real? AI or not? Take your best guess.

💰️ Monetization Insight of the Day
 Busywork to 100% Selling: My AI Sales Transformation

Sales used to consume 70% of my time on administrative busywork instead of actually selling—until I turned Lindy into my automated sales team. Every day, Lindy handles lead enrichment, sends personalized cold emails, manages follow-up sequences, and updates my CRM automatically. What used to take me hours of manual research, email crafting, and data entry now happens while I'm focused on high-value conversations with actual prospects. The transformation has been dramatic: more deals closed, better conversion rates, and deeper customer relationships because I'm spending time solving problems instead of managing spreadsheets.

Here's the game-changer: Lindy doesn't just automate tasks—it maintains the personal touch that closes deals. It researches each prospect, crafts personalized outreach based on their specific business challenges, and nurtures leads with perfectly timed follow-ups that feel human. But what really sets this apart is how Lindy captures and organizes meeting notes from every sales conversation—whether on Zoom calls or in-person meetings—so I never lose track of important details or follow-up commitments. While I'm focused on building relationships during calls, Lindy is documenting everything and keeping my pipeline organized. The result is a sales process that runs 24/7 without sacrificing the relationship-building that actually drives revenue. I'm seriously considering launching my own sales consulting business to help other professionals implement this exact system.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• Automation amplifies personal selling: AI handles busywork so you can focus on high-value conversations that actually close deals

• Consistency drives results: Automated follow-ups and lead nurturing never miss opportunities that manual processes typically drop

• Scale without losing touch: AI maintains personalization at volume, letting you handle more prospects while building deeper relationships

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🔧 Workflow Builder
Build a Chatbot Business in 8 Steps (Even If You're Not Technical)

Goal: Help small businesses implement basic customer service chatbots and charge $500-$1,500 per setup.

Steps:

1. Identify Your Target Market Use ChatGPT or Claude with this RTCE prompt: "Role: You are a business consultant specializing in small business automation. Task: Identify 10 types of small businesses that receive repetitive customer questions and would benefit most from basic chatbots. Context: I want to offer chatbot setup services to businesses that handle common inquiries like hours, pricing, booking, or product questions. Examples: Restaurants, salons, fitness studios, dental offices, retail stores, or service providers." Choose 2-3 business types to focus on initially.

2. Research Competitor Pricing and Services Spend 1-2 hours researching what other chatbot service providers charge in your area. Check Upwork, Fiverr, and local digital marketing agencies to understand market rates. Use this research to position your pricing competitively while identifying service gaps you can fill.

3. Learn Chatbot Creation for All Platforms Master ManyChat for social media automation (Instagram and Facebook), and learn Tidio or Chatfuel for website chatbots. Practice creating conversation flows for both social media interactions and website customer service. Focus on Instagram comment automation, Facebook Messenger sequences, and basic website chat for common questions like hours, pricing, and appointment booking.

4. Set Up Your Service Infrastructure Use Lindy to automate your client acquisition workflow including lead finding, outreach emails, consultation scheduling, and follow-up sequences. Configure WebWave to build a simple service website showcasing your packages, pricing, and chatbot benefits with clear before/after examples.

5. Create Standardized Service Packages Develop three clear tiers: Basic ($500 - social media automation only), Standard ($800 - social media + basic website chat), Premium ($1,500 - full multi-platform automation with advanced flows). Define exact deliverables like number of automated responses, platforms covered, lead capture integration, and follow-up sequences included in each package.

6. Launch Local Business Outreach Use your Lindy automation to identify 50-100 local businesses in your target categories. Send personalized messages highlighting specific pain points chatbots solve: "Never miss customer inquiries after hours" or "Reduce repetitive phone calls by 70%." Offer free 15-minute consultations.

7. Deliver Your First Projects Build social media chatbots using ManyChat and website chatbots using Tidio or Chatfuel based on client needs. Set up automated responses for social media inquiries, website visitor questions, lead capture forms, and follow-up sequences. Test all conversation flows across platforms, provide training on managing both social and website automation, and document the time savings for the client.

8. Scale with Recurring Revenue Offer monthly maintenance packages ($50-$150/month) for chatbot updates, new features, and ongoing support. Use Lindy to automate follow-up sequences that request testimonials, generate referrals, and upsell existing clients to premium features or additional platforms.

Estimated Time: 8-10 hours initial setup, then 3-5 hours per client project

Revenue Potential: $2,000-$6,000/month with 4-8 active clients plus recurring maintenance fees

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💡 Today’s Prompt
Build Your Personal Website with One AI Prompt

Build a clean, high-converting personal website in one day using AI. This prompt gives you a complete site blueprint—bio, homepage copy, and visual style—based entirely on your experience and goals. It solves the “where do I even start?” problem most solopreneurs face by giving ChatGPT everything it needs to generate a polished, professional web presence. Perfect for freelancers, creators, and anyone who wants to attract clients or build their personal brand without wasting time.

👉 Use the prompt + check out my example output here

Clear Ask:
You're a brand strategist and web copywriter. Help me create a personal website that tells my story and attracts the right people.

Context & Purpose:
I want a website that builds trust, highlights my expertise, and helps me get hired, land clients, or grow my audience—fast.

Inputs You Provide:
• Name + Title/Role (e.g. Sam, UX Designer)
• Who you help (e.g. SaaS startups, creative teams)
• Top skills or strengths (e.g. storytelling, automation)
• Career highlights (1–2 key wins or milestones)
• Current goal (e.g. get freelance clients, build audience)
• Tone of voice (e.g. bold, calm, quirky)
• Visual preferences (e.g. minimal, vibrant, dark theme)
• Favorite quote or motto (optional)

Instructions for ChatGPT:
• Write a first-person bio (2–4 standout sentences)
• Create homepage copy: headline, subheadline, About Me, What I Do
• Suggest optional sections (e.g. testimonials, featured work, contact CTA)
• Recommend visual style: 2–3 keywords, font suggestion, color palette
• Make it polished, skimmable, and easy to plug into Carrd, Notion, or Framer

Perfect Output:
A complete personal site blueprint: compelling bio, homepage copy, and a clean visual style—ready to build in one day.

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Featured Tool: Hiver

What It Does:
Hiver turns your Gmail inbox into a shared helpdesk, allowing teams to manage customer support, sales, or client communication directly from email—without switching platforms.

How to Monetize or Automate With It:

• Offer outsourced customer support services to small businesses using Hiver.

• Use Hiver to manage client communication for a high-retainer agency (e.g. SEO, ads, design).

• Automate shared inbox workflows to save time managing client inquiries or orders.

Getting Started:
Sign up for Hiver, connect your Gmail account, and create a shared inbox for a service-based side hustle or freelance business.

Fresh Apps

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🔗  Needle: AI qualifies leads and books calls directly from your site

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🌎️ AI Market Pulse
Retailers Turn to Tech, AI, and Robotics in Latest Industry Shifts

AI automation is accelerating across major corporations as companies prioritize efficiency over human workers. Target is testing smartphone-controlled shelf access to reduce theft while improving customer convenience, while Walmart pilots similar technology at select locations. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff reports that AI now handles 50% of the company's workload with 93% accuracy, leading to layoffs of over 1,000 employees as the company pushes toward full automation. Meanwhile, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang outlined a vision featuring billions of robots, hundreds of millions of autonomous vehicles, and vast networks of robotic factories—all powered by NVIDIA technology.

Why this matters for your income: Every major corporation is asking the same question Salesforce just answered: "Can AI do this job better than humans?" The gap between companies wanting AI transformation and knowing how to implement it creates massive opportunity for entrepreneurs who can bridge that divide. While Target automates theft prevention and Salesforce replaces entire departments, smart operators are positioning themselves as AI implementation specialists helping businesses navigate this transition. The companies making these changes need consultants, system integrators, and solution providers—not more employees.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• AI replacement is now mainstream: Major retailers and tech companies are moving from testing to full implementation, proving AI adoption is accelerating across all industries

• Implementation gap creates opportunity: Companies know they need AI but don't know how to deploy it—that's where entrepreneurial income streams emerge

• Scale of transformation is massive: NVIDIA's vision of billions of robots and autonomous systems shows the size of the market for AI services and solutions

👉️ Read the full article here

🤔 Which image is real?

One of these images is real, and one was created with AI. Vote for which one you think is real, and tell us why you voted that way. My only goal is to choose such good photos that the majority of votes are wrong.

The last edition’s results—58% were right!

Did you vote in the poll from June 27th? The top image was real! Go back and see the photos here. So what do you think? Are you getting better at spotting AI vs. not?

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