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Get ready for 2026

As we’re drawing close to the end of 2025 our eyes turn to what’s going to be relevant and how we can actually make money with AI in 2026.

Everyone has a prediction. Most are contradictory. Almost none of them tell you what to actually do.

As AI models, tools and platforms are getting dramatically faster, smarter, and more powerful personalizes and niche offers will be more and more in high demand.

Do these things while everyone else chases shiny objects.

1. Strive to be a 1-person company - reduce your overheads and start relying heavy on AI automations, agents & assistants to run your business like a well oiled machine.

Do this first so you can focus on connecting with new prospects, building relationships and fulfillment.

2. Choose what problems to solve - as AI companies become more sophisticated and start offering more (just look at how fats ChatGPT is becoming a operating system), start looking for painful micro problems that big tech giants will simply ignore because they are too small.

For example don’t try to build the next Sora or VEO, you’ll never win. But what if you build a video tool that does virtual home walkthroughs for the real estate industry?

Super specific and highly targeted but not broad enough for big tech to replace your app. Whatever the offer is think of how it can be hyper personalized for a specific industry, niche or pain-point.

3. Go after niches that are able and willing to pay to solve their pain points.

I spoke to a friend recently and we brainstorming some offers she can launch in 2026 and she really wanted to work with teachers.

But the more we dug in, the more she realized that teachers may be willing, but most like not able to pay for whatever solution she creates. Digging a little deeper a new solution started taking form and the target market emerged - churches. They have clear, painful problems AI can solve and they have the means to afford them.

4. Become more visible. Nobody has the excuse of “I don’t have time to create content” or I don’t know what to post” anymore.

AI has made it possible for every single person to work with their strengths and weaknesses.

If you hate being on camera, start a faceless YouTube channel or clone yourself with use your avatar in videos. If you don’t know what to post, have AI do all the research in your industry on a weekly basis and write blogs and posts for you - and generate the images.

5. Stop waiting to be perfect to launch or grow. Whatever stage you’re in, you will never be perfect. That’s the beauty of being in business.

It’s like going on a journey. Things don’t always go to plan, you have adjust and fine tune (and sometimes you have to pivot).

Think of your business as a living, breathing thing and care for it like you care for children - guide and nurture it in the right direction and take the bad with good - learn lessons and celebrate wins.

6. Build your winning marketing and sales plan. Set your KPIs - data never lies and your data trumps anyone’s strategy.

Execute daily - you have no excuse not to be consistent. Track what works. Double down. Scale what's winning. Cut what's not.

7. Don't try to build a million-dollar business on day one.

Start with one problem to solve. Get a couple of clients and couple of testimonials. Learn what actually works.

Then package it, productize it, and scale it. Every successful business started with messy, manual version 1.0.

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