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中文 In the age of AI, we often hear news of companies using AI technology to replace manual labor, leading to large-scale layoffs. For example, one company planned to lay off tens of thousands of employees, and even in February of this year, it further cut 5% of its workforce. AI is gradually渗透 into various fields, and some predict that 60% of job positions will be affected in the future, seemingly leaving no job absolutely secure. Globally, hundreds of thousands of people have already been laid off due to AI.
However, we don't need to feel pessimistic about this at all. In stark contrast to these layoff reports, more and more people are starting to leverage AI to create new opportunities. For instance, a 19-year-old student earned US$1 million in just three months by using AI to develop a quitting-pornography app. Another university student named Max developed a platform using AI to help professors grade assignments and successfully secured US$500,000 in investment. It's worth noting that they are not professional engineers, but they successfully created their own products and forged their own solo-preneurship paths by skillfully applying AI technology.
Undoubtedly, the emergence of AI has brought about tremendous changes for us. What's even more encouraging is that when new things appear, everyone stands on the same starting line. In today's video, Qi Qi will start by breaking down the four key steps of a one-person business and share with everyone 12 skills that anyone can learn in this AI era.
Before we officially begin, if this is your first time watching my channel, you might not know me yet. I am Qi Qi. I worked in internet companies for five years and unfortunately experienced two consecutive layoffs. After that, I transitioned to the path of "AI + one-person business" entrepreneurship. I have always focused on the application of AI in the self-media field, and my channel also shares a large number of AI self-media monetization tutorials, aiming to help more people use AI to improve the efficiency of their self-media. Now, I have also launched my own set of AI + self-media online courses to teach everyone how to learn AI and operate self-media more efficiently.
So, without further ado, let's dive directly into the topic. If you are currently overwhelmed by various AI information, feeling overloaded, and don't know what to learn or which AI skills you should learn, then please remember this sentence: Mastering the following four core aspects will enable you to truly build your own one-person business from scratch.
First, the first core capability is acquiring traffic. Nowadays, almost all traffic is concentrated online. Whether you are working in a company or starting your own business, the first step to making money is to acquire traffic. As the saying goes, "Even good wine fears a deep alley." For example, a Notion blogger, by sharing their usage tips and template screenshots on LinkedIn and Twitter, earned $1,000 in their first month without any advertising. This is the power of traffic.
Second, you need to have a product that you can deliver and sell to customers, such as a website, app, presentation, or design draft. Previously, completing such product delivery might have required mastering coding and design skills.
Once you have traffic and a product, to truly get your product into the hands of consumers, you need that final push, such as setting up an automated sales funnel or conducting one-on-one online consultations to close deals. And now, AI can help us automate the setup of sales funnels and can even replace most of the basic work of manual customer service.
Finally, because you are only one person, with only 24 hours in a day, it's impossible to do everything yourself. AI can help you establish automated workflows, just like a tireless digital assistant, helping you process data, reply to emails, follow up with customers, generate reports, and even publish articles and information according to your needs. AI can reduce at least half of the workload for all repetitive and trivial tasks.
As long as you master the above four core aspects, you will be able to complete the entire process from traffic acquisition to product delivery and finally to closing the deal. Next, I will talk about the 12 AI skills that revolve around these four aspects.
The first step, traffic acquisition, highly recommends AI writing. Everyone can see that the carrier of traffic is actually the content on various social platforms, whether it's tweets on Twitter, articles on websites, text and images on Xiaohongshu, or videos on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. No matter how complex the form looks, the underlying structure is connected by text content. Therefore, copywriting ability and writing ability are very valuable in the business world and are huge leverage that ordinary people can use because it only requires a pen to complete. And the current AI large language models can magnify this ability by nearly ten or even a hundred times, greatly lowering the threshold for ordinary people to write. For example, Google's recently launched Gemini 2.5 Pro, as well as GPT4o, DeepSeek, Musk's Grok3, Claude, etc., are basically free and have the ability for in-depth thinking and deep research. It can be said that as long as you output a clear demand, they can produce text in any style for you within seconds, and you only need to make minor adjustments based on it. Even if you haven't thought it through completely, and just simply send your scattered thoughts to it, it can also help you sort out your messy thoughts and select the highlights within seconds. For example, my own process of writing copy is accompanied by AI throughout. To make one video, you need to input at least 10 to 20 related articles or video materials, and I will promptly ask AI to help me summarize the text and provide me with a video outline for reference based on the acquired information. When problems are encountered, I can also ask it to answer based on the materials I provide. At the same time, you can also ask AI for ideas when writing titles, quickly selecting based on the scattered keywords we provide. In addition, we can also use ChatGPT to replicate popular notes in just three steps: first, collect popular articles from target accounts and feed them to GPT to summarize writing techniques; then, organize AI's analysis into clear descriptive words; and finally, ask it to generate related content based on this standard. Just wait a few minutes, and your own popular content will be born. Combining with Feishu's multi-dimensional tables, you can also use DeepSeek to achieve batch production, which is incredibly convenient. Currently, the application scenarios of AI writing are very broad, whether it's social media content, SEO articles, briefing proposals, or business plans, basically, if you can think of it, AI can do it.
You might have thought before that creating a beautiful poster, product image, or cover image required learning Photoshop and layout skills, but I'm telling you now that AI design has completely broken this barrier. You only need to know how to make requests and provide reference images, and AI can help you generate images that are at least 70% satisfactory. If you are a designer yourself, then after receiving a client's request, you can ask AI to quickly generate demo images based on the text requirements, quickly confirm with the client using the demos, reduce ineffective communication, and increase your image production efficiency tenfold. For example, if you have a product image you want to create, you only need to find some reference images and ask ChatGPT4o to help you replicate them. The method is very simple. For example, we give GPT these two images: one is our product image, and the other is the style image we want to imitate (such as composition, color tone, and lighting), and you will get a high-quality AI-designed image. In addition to GPT, these two tools below are also very useful: Ideogram and Midjourney. Especially Ideogram, its interface and usage logic are very similar to Midjourney, and it can be said to be an ideal alternative. Its handling of logos and poster images is very impressive, and Ideogram offers 40 free image generation credits every day. As long as you are familiar with the operation of AI image generation software and unlock AI design skills, whether it's posting on Instagram, creating presentations, or designing e-commerce product images, for any visual content, you are your own company's design director.
Earlier, it was mentioned that in terms of traffic acquisition, besides free traffic, paid traffic is also a very important part. Paid traffic requires the production of advertising creatives. For example, if we search for TikTok product promotion short videos on Fiverr or Upwork, you will find that the price of a single video ranges from $10 to $200. If you want to pay to run ads and A/B test 10 products, you also need to wait for delivery and go through repeated adjustments and communication. This will significantly reduce your evaluation efficiency. But now, websites like Pictory.ai and Heygen can automatically generate complete advertising creatives in minutes. For example, you can ask them to help you write scripts, select your favorite live models, let them help you generate voiceovers, and the narration also supports multiple languages and tones. You can also add animated subtitles and background music, and even automatically edit dynamic product shots based on the context.
For example, if you want to run a channel, want to shoot videos, or if you can't edit videos, or even don't want to speak, what should you do? Actually, you can learn to use AI to create digital humans, clone a real version of yourself, or create a virtual IP like me. Currently, good tools for creating digital humans include Heygen and Ji Meng. For example, before, many people wanted to create faceless anime IPs like Qi Qi. Now, Ji Meng can completely help us achieve this, and it can also accurately lip-sync, with better results than what I have now. This is the digital human effect I saw online that other bloggers created using Ji Meng, supporting different animation styles, and the overall performance is very smooth. If you still want to create a real-person IP to get closer to the audience, you can also clone yourself. Here, let's take Heygen as an example. First, we go to Heygen and select Avatar. Here, you can choose two types of digital humans: one is sitting in front of the camera with only expressions and gestures, and the other has body movements. Here, I suggest everyone can start by trying Still. Then, record a 2-minute full-body video, upload the video, follow the instructions, and wait for it to generate. Next, you can choose to directly enter the script and let it help you generate it directly, or you can upload a recorded audio.
After creating your own digital human IP, if you still want to be lazy, here’s a treasure tip: even your voice can be cloned by AI. For example, tools like ElevenLabs or MiniMax can almost perfectly replicate your way of speaking, your tone, and even your emotions.
Editing is the last hurdle, but for beginners, editing is a nightmare. You might need to spend a lot of time first learning professional editing software, learning to add subtitles, background music, and transitions, and you have to repeatedly adjust and then publish to different platforms. One person simply can't handle it. But actually, we can completely use AI to help you complete this. What used to take two hours of work can be done by AI in 5 minutes. For example, tools like Jianying (CapCut), Filmora, and CapCut can help you liberate your productivity in AI editing. Take Filmora as an example, it's very beginner-friendly. Here are some particularly practical functions, such as automatically editing multi-camera footage, automatically selecting the most suitable footage according to the different social media platforms you want to publish to, and allowing you to remove unwanted objects. There's also a function that is very suitable for creating Shorts or clip accounts called Smart Long Video to Short Video. You throw a long video into it, and it can automatically cut it into multiple short videos, which is very suitable for editing content like interviews or podcasts. It can even complete publishing with one click. Besides that, Jianying is also very worth trying. It supports AI cutting, automatic dubbing, and subtitle addition, and it also recommends popular background music, which is very suitable for beginners. By the way, if you see this and can't remember everything, Qi Qi has already compiled all the skills, tools, and corresponding learning resources mentioned in this video into such a document, which will be shared with you at the end of the video.
Next, let's talk about the second key aspect – product delivery. Here, I will mainly talk about the delivery of digital products. In this internet age, apps have become basic infrastructure. We switch between various social software or various tool-based apps every day. Now, we don't need any coding skills to develop software using AI. For example, currently useful tools include Replit, Lovable, or Cursor, etc. The first two have relatively lower barriers to entry. You can directly tell them your ideas, and they can automatically generate interfaces, button logic, and functional flows for you. Cursor's functions, on the other hand, are more professional and have higher flexibility. For example, like this 16-year-old high school student with zero programming experience, he used AI to develop and launch an app within 3 days. And this app is a small tool that helps everyone evaluate their mood and engage in mindfulness training. The entire development process was done using Cursor. This high school student was only responsible for providing ideas and debugging. And the weight loss app and Twitter fortune-telling app I shared on my channel in the past, which were developed using AI, have already earned considerable income for this developer. I think it's a very certain opportunity right now. Previously, creating an app might have been the privilege of programmers, but now it's different. The key is to grasp market demand, and one person can develop, test, and launch it. If you are already excited after hearing this, but don't know which skill to start learning from, or if you prefer a practical process from 0 to 1, then I would like to invite you to participate in our upcoming 7-day free AI entrepreneurship training camp. This is an intensive training for 7 consecutive days, completely free of charge. I will personally guide you through a complete set of AI monetization processes, from traffic acquisition and product delivery to automated operations. Or click the link below the description to grab a spot in this 7-day training camp and take the first step towards AI monetization.
Okay, after product delivery is settled, let's talk about the third key aspect - sales conversion. Many people think that once the product is made, customers will naturally buy it. But those who sell well never rely on luck, but rather on a well-built sales funnel. The so-called sales funnel is the entire process of guiding potential users from seeing you to eventually buying from you, step by step. We call it a funnel because this process is shaped like a funnel: the top is wide, where potential customers first interact with us, and the bottom is narrow, where the final sale is completed. For example, if 100 people come into contact with your brand, maybe only 20 will eventually place an order. So what we need to do is to get as many people as possible to be willing to spend money. Therefore, optimizing sales is crucial. In every 100 people, if we can increase the number of people who finally place an order from 20 to 30, or get buyers to spend more, then we can generate more profit. A sales funnel generally consists of four stages, and each stage has various methods to attract customers to the next stage. For example, a high-converting landing page makes people can't help but take a second look and add to the shopping cart. Another example is email marketing. The newsletter you regularly receive is a common method. It can continuously care for customers, provide value, answer questions, and push the latest products or limited-time offers, making people not want to miss out. Traditional sales funnels often consume a lot of manpower and resources. The sales department of each company will have many people responsible for different marketing stages. Now with the help of AI, you can automate the entire process using the internet. Or even email marketing, all of it can be done with the help of AI. After understanding the concept and importance of the sales funnel, then the most crucial part of the sales funnel is the landing page. We go to Fiverr and search for "sales funnel". The market price for building a basic landing page is around $150. If you want to make it more advanced, it will be in the range of $400-$600. Everyone also finds when watching YouTube that basically every blogger's description below their videos has their own products listed and guides viewers to leave their email addresses to lead them to their private domain for the next step of sales conversion. And websites like this can actually be completely replicated with AI without having to spend money on outsourcing. For example, tools like Mixo, Framer, 10web, or Durable can all help you accomplish this. Especially for those who are just starting out as freelancers, small business owners, or those who haven't made money yet but want to validate their ideas first, speed is a kind of competitiveness. Because the operation is not complicated at all. For example, take MIXO. After we open it, we just need to enter our ideas in the dialog box, and it can automatically generate a website draft for you, including the brand name, pictures, logo, email collection functions, everything you need, and it can go live in a day. If you are not satisfied with any part, you can also fine-tune it yourself. For those who want to test their entrepreneurial ideas, this function can basically cover your basic needs. If you are looking for greater flexibility, you can try Framer. You can choose your favorite template, enter your ideas and webpage positioning, or you can build it module by module, modifying everything from fonts to colors. In summary, all of these AI tools can help you with this.
In addition to building automated sales funnels, AI can also help you quickly find sales leads. Previously, in sales, you had to find lists one by one, and sometimes it could take two or three hours just to find a potential customer. But now there are many AI tools that can help you increase your sales speed. For example, Clay, on this platform, you can customize searches for local businesses or specific companies, from preferences to size, and even whether there are negative reviews online. You can also choose to search directly on LinkedIn for the companies you want, directly search on Google Maps for the local businesses you want, and find contacts in HubSpot. At the same time, you can also choose multiple data sources to find target emails with one click. All you need to do is enter the company name and company domain. For example, this young man used Clay to retrieve the addresses of his competitors, find related companies in the surrounding area, and automatically send emails to these companies to promote his own company's new services. Even the restaurants where they had dinner were directly selected by Clay based on the company addresses.
When you sell products, don't you often have the experience of opening your private messages and finding that 8 out of 10 messages are repetitive? It's not that you don't have the patience to answer these questions, but rather that they are too repetitive and inefficient. For example, tools like N8N, Zapier, and Coze can all build such intelligent sales customer service agents. Let's take Zapier as an example. It's quick to get started, supports a large number of e-commerce platforms such as Shopify, Gumroad, and Etsy, and can connect forms, customer service messages, Google Sheets, and other tools to automate the customer service process with one click. N8N, on the other hand, is more suitable for advanced users. If you have some technical knowledge and basic skills, you can combine various APIs to create automated processes. For example, after a customer asks a question, it can automatically pull data from Notion to reply or send an email to notify you to handle special orders. This workflow, for example, is built using N8N. It can also build more complex workflows, and you don't need to explore this building process yourself. It's super quick to get started. There's even something more impressive: Apollo.io. This website allows sales teams to directly upgrade to AI sales departments. Everything from finding customers, writing opening emails, sending follow-up emails, arranging meetings, and recording deals can be automated. Even CRM reports are automatically generated for you, just like hiring an AI sales assistant to work for you for 7 to 12 hours. This is the strongest ally for individual entrepreneurs.
After talking about sales, we move on to the last section, which is automation. This involves using AI to save you time by automating trivial tasks, allowing you to focus only on the most crucial things. Here, we will still use Zapier and N8N. These tools can help you connect tasks between different platforms. For example, when you publish a YouTube video, it can automatically share it to Twitter, Instagram, and Email. When someone fills out a form, it can also automatically synchronize the data to Notion or Google Sheet. When you update a report, it can automatically send a Slack notification to your team. Taking it a step further, you can connect WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook with one click, and then connect more specific instructions within each process. With such automation tools, the entire process doesn't require you to do it yourself. Everything can be set up by simply clicking options, and you don't need to write any code.
Because 90% of our market research, content creation, and sales conversion actions are carried out online, here's another powerful tool to share with you, which is the AI browser. I also call it an "AI entrepreneurship partner." It can accompany you throughout your research process. Currently, some good AI browsers include DIA, Arc, and Deta Server. With an AI browser, we no longer need to install a bunch of Chrome plugins. Taking the Deta Server browser as an example, when Browse web pages, videos, or blog content, its built-in AI chat assistant can help you quickly summarize information. In addition, when you are Browse a webpage and see useful content, you can directly select it and let it generate interactive charts with one click.
After performing a series of actions, data analysis is also necessary as it can help you adjust your direction. Many people may not be good at using Excel to create spreadsheets, but now you don't need to learn these skills at all. You only need to learn how to use AI for data analysis. When your database grows larger, with Excel exceeding tens of thousands of rows, or with a bunch of messy data in Google Sheet, you can directly feed them to AI and let it help you extract key points, and even directly generate very intuitive visual charts, directly saving me two days of my life.
After watching today's video, you might have already realized that a business that used to require a team to operate can now be managed by a single person as long as they learn the right skills and build a well-organized solo business system. I believe that AI is definitely not here to replace you, but to enhance and amplify your existing abilities. In the age of AI, the human brain no longer competes on effort but on the ability to build systems.
If you also want to start from scratch and build your own AI-powered one-person business system, I invite you to join our 7-day free AI business breakdown training camp. From understanding to practical application, we'll avoid useless efforts and focus only on the most effective actions. After 7 days of intensive, high-density training, you will be able to build your own one-person business monetization system. Scan the QR code on the screen above or the link below the description to register for free. At the same time, upon successful registration, I will also give you an extra copy of the "2025 Solo Business AI Monetization Super Guide." The 12 skills mentioned in the video, along with the corresponding AI tools and quality learning resources, have all been compiled in this document and will be given to you for free. When you start on the right path from the first step, that's my Rapid Content Marketing Traffic System, which is about to be upgraded to version 4.0, adding a systematic course on AI traffic operation. This is not just a course teaching you how to use AI tools, but a practical monetization system designed specifically for solo businesses. We will break down the SOP roadmap of the AI automated marketing system to make each step very clear. At the same time, we will teach you how to build an AI+content workflow, produce content across all platforms such as YouTube long videos, etc. We will also directly provide you with high-conversion sales page templates and teach you how to use AI to design sales funnels that can automatically close deals. We will also teach you how to build your own AI intelligent agent step by step to realize your digital online avatar, so that even when you are sleeping, AI can help you work automatically. The course content is very, very practical; I can only show a part of it here. What I want to say is that the wave of AI is unstoppable. In this era, you only need a systematic approach and a little courage. If you are willing to take the first step, you will find that you are more capable and have more choices than you think. Okay, that's it for today's video. See you in the next one.
The fact that AI is replacing humans has already happened, and AI-powered solo businesses are breaking through. AI is definitely a major trend in the next 5 years, and in this trend, everyone is equal, and everyone has the same learning opportunities. How can ordinary people build a solo business? To help everyone accelerate making money using AI, with 6 years of experience in social media marketing, and in the past two years, with over 1,000 students, you can make your time more valuable. All traditional positions that can make money are worth redoing with AI. No more going to work or clocking in, purely online work. The first is traffic acquisition, which is the ability to acquire customers. Only by acquiring accurate customer traffic can you have business. The second is product delivery, which is simply the ability to build products, but now AI tools can help you. The third is sales conversion, and the fourth is automation, automating all repetitive workflows. Therefore, the most core skill for traffic acquisition, their essence is actually copywriting. Without any investment, you can get a 90-point copywriting. It can instantly generate three titles for us: e-commerce product descriptions, and email marketing copy. You don't need to become a top writer first; instead, you can first become an expert in using AI for writing. The second skill is AI design. AI can quickly generate one for you, and then by throwing in a simple descriptive phrase, you can quickly handle it yourself. The third skill is AI advertising creative design, and in fact, your time and costs are very high. The fourth skill is AI digital human voice-over, but if you don't want to show your face, you can let Heygen match the corresponding lip movements. The fifth skill is AI automatic editing. With copywriting, images, IP materials, and even dubbing all ready, a video can easily take 4-8 hours to edit, not to mention planar tracking. If you feel there are too many skills and tools, product delivery is the best product for a solo business because it doesn't require physical stores or inventory. The sixth skill is AI no-code app development. Everyone is on different social media platforms, and it can pass review directly in one go. This is about AI independent developers and AI traffic operators, and then using AI to help you achieve it. Scan the QR code on the screen above. Sales conversion, the bottom is narrow, attracting attention, building trust, explaining value, and guiding orders. For example, the landing page mentioned earlier, the seventh skill is building an AI marketing funnel. The landing page can introduce the services it provides because launching a website today means you can start collecting emails and testing user feedback tomorrow, just like the layout of an article, like a personal website, product landing page, portfolio, sales page, or booking system. The eighth skill is AI lead generation. You can directly find people and invite them to dinner. The ninth skill is AI intelligent customer service, such as questions about price, how to order, returns, or coupons. Its interface is simple, and many experts on YouTube teach you how to operate it. The core of this part, the tenth skill, is the AI all-around assistant. You can use Zapier to connect multiple processes. The eleventh skill is the AI entrepreneurship partner. The AI browser is our partner in solo business entrepreneurship, giving you advice. The twelfth skill is AI data analysis because data is your mirror. Use good tools. The ability to build systems is the core logic for breaking down how AI-powered solo businesses make money. In addition, I also want to announce even bigger news: teaching you how to quickly generate threads, Xiaohongshu content, and short videos. You don't need to become a Superman to succeed.
