🥯 Today on Bagel Bots

• 💰️ Monetization Insight: Turn Voice Notes Into Actionable Business Ideas

• 🔧 Workflow Builder: Create YouTube Packages. Let AI Do the Work.

• 💡 Today’s Prompt: Validate Your Business Idea in 1 Hour

• 🧰 Featured Tool: Polish Sales Copy with AI in Seconds

• 🧪 Fresh Apps: Automate Sales, SEO, and Content—All With AI

• 🌎️ AI Market Pulse: New AI Model Slashes Costs by 99.5%

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

💰️ Monetization Insight of the Day
Why I Never Lose Another Good Business Idea

Most people let their best ideas disappear the moment they think them, but I've turned my iPhone into a business idea capture machine. Every day, I use the Voice Memos app to record random thoughts, business ideas, and tasks as they pop into my head—whether I'm walking between meetings, sitting at my desk, or just having a spontaneous insight during downtime. Then I copy the iPhone transcript and paste it directly into ChatGPT using a simple RTCE prompt to have it build a solid outline or summary of what I want to dive deeper into.

What used to be scattered, forgotten thoughts now becomes structured action plans within minutes. ChatGPT takes my rambling voice memos and transforms them into organized to-do lists, prioritized business ideas, and research outlines that I can actually act on. Use Motion or Reclaim.ai to schedule time blocks for reviewing and acting on your organized ideas. The compound effect is massive—better ideas, faster decisions, and nothing important slips through the cracks. While others lose their best thoughts to mental fog, I'm systematically capturing and converting every insight into potential revenue.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• Capture beats perfection: Recording messy thoughts and organizing them later produces better results than trying to think clearly in the moment

• AI amplifies natural habits: Your phone becomes a business intelligence system when paired with simple AI organization prompts

• Ideas need systems: Use scheduling tools like Motion or Reclaim.ai to ensure your organized insights actually get implemented instead of forgotten

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🔧 Workflow Builder
Launch AI Video Script Service for YouTubers

Goal: Provide YouTubers and content creators with weekly video scripts, titles, and thumbnail ideas for their niche for $77/month, scaling across multiple creators with minimal time investment per client.

Steps:

1. Choose your target creator niche and content framework - Focus on one specific YouTube niche (fitness, business, gaming, etc.) and create 4-5 recurring video types like tutorials, reviews, trending topics, and personal stories that creators in that niche consistently need.

2. Build your AI script generation system using this prompt - Use this exact prompt in ChatGPT or Claude: "You're a YouTube content strategist for [NICHE] creators. Create a complete video package including: 1) Engaging video script (8-12 minutes), 2) 5 clickable title options, 3) 3 thumbnail concepts with descriptions, 4) Hook ideas for first 15 seconds. Make it engaging and optimized for retention."

3. Set up your service branding and subscription page - Use Looka to create professional branding materials and Unbounce to build a landing page targeting YouTubers who "struggle with consistent content creation but need to post weekly."

4. Create sample packages with professional voiceovers - Develop 2-3 sample script packages for your niche and use ElevenLabs to create professional voiceover demos that show potential clients exactly how their scripts will sound when recorded.

5. Find and target struggling YouTubers in your niche - Use Apollo.io to identify YouTubers with 1K-50K subscribers who post inconsistently or have declining engagement, focusing on creators who are active but clearly struggling with content consistency.

6. Build outreach campaigns with personalized samples - Create personalized pitch emails that include free script samples tailored to each creator's specific style and recent video topics, demonstrating immediate value.

7. Set up automated delivery and client management - Use GetResponse to create automated weekly delivery emails with organized script packages, feedback collection forms, and renewal reminders to maintain consistent service.

8. Scale with systematic content production - Develop templates for different video types, create batch production schedules, and establish quality control processes that allow you to serve multiple clients efficiently.

Estimated Time: 5-6 hours (2 hours system setup, 1 hour branding/landing page, 1 hour sample creation, 1.5 hours first client acquisition, 45 minutes weekly per client thereafter)

Revenue Potential: $770-$3,850/month managing 10-50 creators at $77/month each, with potential to scale to $7,500+/month as you refine content systems and expand to multiple YouTube niches or add premium tiers.

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💡 Today’s Prompt
Is Your Idea Worth It? This Prompt Tells You

This prompt helps you validate any business idea in under an hour using AI. It walks you through market fit, competitor positioning, real-world demand signals, and monetization potential—so you can decide whether to build, pivot, or scrap the idea before wasting time or money. It’s perfect for solopreneurs, creators, and indie founders who want fast, strategic clarity without the usual guesswork.

👉 Run the prompt + check out my example output here

Clear Ask:
You're a startup strategist and AI researcher. Validate my business idea by analyzing demand, audience fit, competitor positioning, and monetization potential—all in under an hour.

Context & Purpose:
I want to avoid building something no one wants. This validation should give me fast clarity on whether the idea is worth pursuing, where the gaps are, and how to position it effectively.

Inputs You Provide:
• Business idea description (1–2 sentences)
• Target audience (e.g. freelancers, SaaS founders)
• Business model (e.g. product, subscription, service)
• Platform/channel (e.g. web app, Shopify, newsletter)
• Competitor examples (optional)
• What I want to learn (e.g. demand, pricing, risks)

Instructions for ChatGPT:
• Break analysis into 4 parts: Market Fit, Competitors, Demand Signals, Monetization
• Include 1–2 AI tools for research (e.g. ChatGPT, Google Trends)
• Use clear formatting and honest insights
• End with one recommended next step (e.g. test, pivot, or build)

Perfect Output:
A no-fluff market validation snapshot—clear demand signals, positioning angles, and go/no-go insight I can act on immediately.

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Featured Tool: Smartli

What It Does:
Smartli uses AI to instantly improve and optimize written content for clarity, tone, and engagement—perfect for sales pages, cold emails, and lead magnets.

How to Monetize or Automate With It:

• Polish Client Copy at Scale: Offer editing services to creators, coaches, and marketers by running their copy through Smartli and delivering high-converting revisions.

• Optimize Cold Email Sequences: Use Smartli to rewrite and test email copy for higher open/reply rates—then package this as a done-for-you outreach service.

• Enhance Digital Products or Landing Pages: Improve sales copy, lesson intros, or lead magnet descriptions for your own assets or as a service for others.

Getting Started:

1. Sign up at Smartli.ai and import a sales page, email, or landing page draft.

2. Use the AI editor to instantly optimize tone, structure, and clarity—then test or deliver.

Fresh Apps

🔗 Keap: Automate lead follow-ups and sales workflows using AI

🔗 Surfer SEO: Optimize blog content with AI for higher organic rankings

🔗  Writesonic: Generate marketing copy with AI to sell products faster

🔗 Twain: Use AI to rewrite outreach emails that convert better

🔗 TubeBuddy: Grow YouTube revenue with AI SEO and thumbnail testing

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🌎️ AI Market Pulse
Chinese AI Revolution Opens Free Model Goldmine

Chinese startup MiniMax just released an AI model that costs 200x less to train than GPT-4 ($534K vs $100M+) while delivering comparable performance and offering completely free access to developers worldwide. This isn't just another AI announcement—it's economic disruption that's already forcing OpenAI to slash prices by 80% and wiping $600 billion off Nvidia's market cap as the entire AI cost structure collapses overnight.

Why this creates income opportunities: Millions of businesses are overpaying for expensive Western AI models when free alternatives now deliver similar results, but most companies don't know these options exist or how to implement them safely. Meanwhile, entrepreneurs who've been priced out of AI businesses suddenly have access to enterprise-level models at zero cost, creating massive demand for guidance on model selection, implementation strategies, and navigating the geopolitical complexities of using Chinese AI tools for business applications.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• AI Cost Optimization Services: Businesses paying $2K-$10K for consultants who can evaluate their current AI spending and migrate them to free or lower-cost alternatives without sacrificing performance

• Free Model Implementation Training: Entrepreneurs and small businesses investing $297-$997 in courses that teach them to leverage free Chinese AI models for content creation, automation, and business development

• Model Selection Consulting: Companies paying premium rates for experts who can navigate the technical and geopolitical considerations of choosing between expensive Western models and free Chinese alternatives

👉️ 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 wrong!

Did you vote in the poll from June 18th? 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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