🥯 Today on Bagel Bots

• 💰️ Monetization Insight: Launch Backup Revenue Streams With AI

• 🔧 Workflow Builder: Help Businesses Survive AI & Get Paid for It

• 💡 Today’s Prompt: Turn Your Hobby Into a Content Engine With AI

• 🧰 Featured Tool: Automate Landing Pages That Learn and Convert

• 🧪 Fresh Apps: Automate Content, Code, and Client Ops With AI

• 🌎️ AI Market Pulse: Turn Career Chaos Into a Consulting Opportunity

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

💰️ Monetization Insight of the Day
How Income Diversification Creates Real Freedom

Most people think hedging risk only applies to stock portfolios, but the biggest unhedged risk most professionals carry is relying on a single income stream. What happens if you get fired tomorrow? Can you still pay your mortgage, your kids' tuition, your car payment? Most people live one layoff away from financial disaster, even if they're making six figures. That's not security—that's vulnerability disguised as stability. Over my past 13 years in business, I've seen that the most successful people have multiple streams of income and never stress if a couple of things don't go their way.

Here's what changed everything for me: I started treating my income like a diversified portfolio, using Refresh.me to track all my different revenue sources and see how they protect each other. My day job, Bagel Bots, consulting opportunities, investments—each income stream shows up as a separate line item, giving me complete visibility into my financial security. I could lose my job tomorrow and still maintain my lifestyle because I've built systems that generate money independently. The beauty is that building these backup income streams is easier than ever with AI handling the heavy lifting—I use Lindy to manage follow-ups and client communication across all my different revenue sources. While your colleagues stress about layoffs and corporate restructuring, you're building the kind of freedom that wasn't possible even five years ago. AI has made income diversification accessible to anyone willing to stop trading time for money.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• Diversification beats job security: Multiple income streams provide real protection against economic uncertainty, not corporate promises

• AI removes the barriers: Technology now handles the heavy lifting of building and maintaining multiple revenue sources simultaneously

• Freedom is the goal: True security comes from knowing you can make money from anywhere, not from hoping your employer needs you forever

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🔧 Workflow Builder
Build Your AI Disruption Advisory Service

Goal: Launch an "AI-Proof Your Business" consulting service that helps small businesses prepare for AI disruption through strategic planning and competitive analysis, positioning you as the go-to expert for AI readiness at $197 per consultation.

Steps:

1. Create your "AI-Proof Assessment" framework using this prompt - Use this exact prompt in ChatGPT or Claude: "You're a business consultant. Create a simple 15-question assessment checklist that helps small businesses (5-20 employees) identify: 1) Which of their current processes could be automated by AI, 2) Where competitors might use AI against them, 3) What AI opportunities they're missing, 4) Their biggest vulnerabilities to AI disruption. Format as a professional checklist with yes/no and short answer questions."

2. Build your professional service presentation - Use Looka to create branded materials and Unbounce to build a simple landing page highlighting your "AI-Proof Business Assessment" service with clear before/after scenarios and pricing.

3. Target and research businesses most at risk from AI disruption - Use LinkedIn to identify local service businesses, consulting firms, and traditional companies that clearly haven't adopted AI but have 5-20 employees, then use Seamless.ai to find their contact information and decision-maker details.

4. Set up automated outreach campaigns - Use Lindy to create personalized email sequences targeting your prospect list, highlighting specific AI risks for their industry and offering your assessment as the solution with automated follow-ups.

5. Conduct standardized 90-minute assessment calls - Follow your framework to evaluate their current operations, identify AI threats and opportunities, and document findings in real-time using simple note-taking and basic business analysis.

6. Deliver professional findings report within 48 hours - Provide a clear assessment with 5-7 specific recommendations, priority rankings, and suggested timeline for AI adoption that positions you as the logical choice for implementation support.

7. Upsell implementation and ongoing advisory services - Offer follow-up packages ranging from $497 strategy sessions to $2,500 AI implementation projects, turning one-time assessments into recurring consulting relationships.

Estimated Time: 5-6 hours (2 hours framework creation, 1 hour marketing setup, 1 hour outreach setup, 1.5 hours first client delivery, 30 minutes optimization)

Revenue Potential: $1,500-$6,000/month from 8-30 assessments at $197 each, with potential for additional revenue from implementation services ranging from $497-$2,500 per project.

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💡 Today’s Prompt
Build a Content Channel Around What You Love

This prompt helps you turn any personal hobby into a structured, monetizable content channel using AI. It gives you custom content ideas, visuals, and a realistic posting schedule based on your audience, platform, and available time—so you can stay consistent without burnout. Whether you’re into cooking, travel, or gaming, it’s the easiest way to start sharing what you love while quietly building toward monetization.

👉 Steal the prompt + check out my example output here

Clear Ask:
You're a content strategist and AI assistant. Help me turn my hobby into a content channel by generating content ideas, visuals, and a posting schedule tailored to my audience and platform.

Context & Purpose:
I want to share something I love, stay consistent without burnout, and explore monetization later—using AI to remove friction and help me start quickly.

Inputs You Provide:
• Hobby or interest (e.g. cooking, solo travel)
• Target audience (e.g. beginners, creators, Gen Z)
• Platform(s) (e.g. TikTok, Instagram, X, newsletter)
• Time commitment (e.g. 30 min/day or 2 hrs/week)
• Content format(s) (e.g. short videos, blog posts)
• Style & tone (e.g. aesthetic, sarcastic, motivational)
• Monetization later? (Yes/No + ideas if yes)

Instructions for ChatGPT:
• Break the plan into 3 parts: Ideas, Visuals/Scripts, Schedule
• Suggest 1–2 AI tools for content creation or repurposing
• Match schedule to time commitment and platform
• Add 1 consistency habit and optional monetization angle

Perfect Output:
A ready-to-launch content plan based on my hobby—complete with ideas, AI tools, and a realistic schedule I can start using today.

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Featured Tool: Unbounce

What It Does:
Unbounce uses AI to build and optimize landing pages that automatically adapt to boost conversions—without manual testing or coding.

How to Automate With It:

• Smart Page Optimization: Let Unbounce’s AI run A/B tests and automatically send more traffic to the highest-performing variant—no manual split testing needed.

• Lead Routing and CRM Integration: Automate lead capture and send contact info straight into your CRM or email platform using built-in integrations and Zapier.

• AI Copy + Layout Suggestions: Use Smart Copy and Smart Builder to instantly generate high-converting headlines and layouts based on your goal—skip the blank page and manual tweaking.

Getting Started:

1. Sign up for Unbounce and choose a Smart Builder template that fits your use case.

2. Enable Dynamic Text Replacement and CRM integrations to automate conversions and follow-ups.

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🔗 Yatterplus: Auto-schedule and repurpose social posts to drive traffic with AI

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🌎️ AI Market Pulse
Global Job Displacement Opens AI Consulting Goldmine

A new study reveals 62.75% of remote job seekers are overqualified for available work, with mid-level professionals increasingly taking data entry and customer service roles just to survive while AI reshapes entire industries. Meanwhile, highly qualified specialists from Nigeria to the Philippines are competing globally for basic remote positions, creating a massive underemployment crisis that traditional career advice can't solve.

Why this creates income opportunities: Millions of displaced professionals desperately need guidance transitioning from traditional careers to AI-powered income streams, but most career coaches and consultants are still giving outdated advice about resumes and networking. These professionals have money to spend on solutions—they're just trapped in a system that no longer values their existing skills. This creates unprecedented demand for consultants who can teach practical AI monetization, remote business building, and alternative income generation to educated professionals who refuse to accept career downgrades.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• Career Transition Consulting: Displaced professionals paying $2K-$5K for guidance on building AI-powered businesses instead of competing for undervalued remote jobs

• Global Remote Business Training: Help professionals leverage geographic arbitrage by teaching them to build location-independent income streams rather than chase traditional employment

• AI Skills-to-Income Programs: Position yourself as the expert helping overqualified workers transform their existing expertise into profitable AI-enhanced services and digital products

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🤔 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—55% were right!

Did you vote in the poll from June 14th? The bottom 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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