ChrisWP

I find it best to raise prices only when other people in your niche/sales avenue are doing the same. This way you never get undercut. You want to still be affordable without undercutting yourself but you also don't want to have too many other people charging less.

This works surprisingly well around the holiday season which is coming up. I was talking to someone I used to work with who is now a full time entrepreneur and he said this is his one secret to boosting holiday sales!

I have heard of people using AI to train AI so I don't see why not. I am just not as versed on how to do this. I have heard of this before and it does make sense to take this approach. You don't want to end up making low-quality AI stuff yourself!

You can do YouTube shorts. I know someone that did that for their shop. They made creative videos and just linked back to their store at the end with a link in the description and it worked fairly well. The videos have to be able to grab attention though.

That is actually a really solid idea you have there! I think the best approach would be to start somewhere like Etsy. That may be the best platform for it as they offer digital sales and they don't take as high of a percentage as other places. If you gain some traction, you can start adding tags to the digital blueprints that tell people to go to your own website and offer special blueprints there that aren't on Etsy.

Hmm I would have thought other ones would have been performing better. Thanks for actually listing off some more niche topics. AI makes sense since that is what people are all obsessed with at the moment. Same with those weight loss drugs.

I was looking into print on demand places and these are both recommended as the top two for keeping the most revenue. I dug a bit further and it would appear they are owned by the same people/group? But they still offer different features and platform difference. My question is what are the differences between the two? I want to know which is better in 2026. I find older things from 3+ years ago talking about it but I want some current information and data from people that have used the platforms.

Would you mind sending those to me as well? I want to see what you found and play around with some videos for advertisement purposes. I was looking into promotional videos and they all recommend using font like this now.

There are plenty. I was messing around with this 3 or so years ago and learned how to set it up watching YouTube videos lol I ended up moving away from the platform because they changed a feature that I was making use of.

It just means you are triggering for an invalid certificate or it is expired. This can sometimes happen at random and self-correct itself but it is rare. If you recently transferred your DNS to Cloudflare, I have heard of that giving people trouble too.

You could end up spending a lot of money doing this. Some domains are quite expensive depending on the words used and these prices seem to go up year after year. I personally wouldn't do this because the way the internet works now, everything auto-corrects.

Can AI do these well now? Last time I tried was maybe 3 or 4 years ago and they were all terrible. lol Maybe things have changed now. I will have to see what it can do. I would imagine paid ones are better than free.

It seems AI is very much the future but how much of it will we be using? I am not sure. I know they used to say the internet would never catch on and here we are. They were wrong about that. People are saying the same thing now about AI but all the money is painting a different picture. Just like back when the internet was new, big names were putting all sorts of money into it. I am seeing the same thing with AI. So I am wondering how can someone like me stay ahead of the trends and know where things are going?

Filmora and Canva. I think @dannydobbs is right though about people using paid options. I don't see any that are free that don't either limit your use or put watermarks on the video. You might be better off finding an AI platform you like that can do this and more and just paying monthly for it.

I have had to hire people before but for temporary work. It was more or less getting some websites set up, custom code and that. Stuff I would not be able to to myself. I am not sure I would ever be in a position to hire people full time but I think the "right time" is different for everyone.

It can go either way. Sometimes it can hurt the site, sometimes it won't make any difference. I think it really depends on what kind of ads you use. I wouldn't flood your site with a bunch of them. Maybe test having one per page first and see how it does. You can also do embedded link ads which are less annoying for people.

There are so many now, I wouldn't know what to recommend. I guess comparing your earnings would help. See which one would allow you to make the most with the least amount of effort. But also make sure they pay. I have heard of some places getting sales on people's products and not telling the creator.

For someone looking to expand into other niches, I think focusing on evergreen content is a good idea. So for those of you that don't know, evergreen just means that the content/information will always be relevant or useful. One big example is weight loss. People will always be gaining and losing weight. This is why this niche does so well. I know with those weight loss shots, it has opened up a new avenue for people that put information out there to talk about those since they are so popular now. Anyways, what sorts of niches would you say are the best in terms of evergreen content?

They are promoted because of the watch time. If people stick with the videos for over 50% of the time, then YouTube pushes them. I am starting to see more stuff I normally wouldn't as well but this is because of the suggestions being on.

Yeah, I agree about using AI. I didn't even think of that tbh but it would make sense that it could help analyze your accounts for you. People use to pay to have this done but AI can easily do it for free and with less time.

I have only used a handful of these and of the ones I have used, Unbounce seems to have the best feedback and ratings. It is fairly expensive though. I was gifted a free 1 month trial otherwise I would have went with something else.

Overall? It appears to be vlogging. I have seen new channels on YouTube blow up in only a few months and they focus on vlogging their day to day life, travels, etc. Outside of that, outdoor videos do well. Things that focus on nature, camping, etc. and an overlapping niche is educational. Videos that teach you something always do well.

I know this boosts them a lot. I tend to struggle with this. I have tried different things I have found online but some only work a little bit while other tips and tricks don't work at all. I am trying to figure out a way to have most of my posts get a good level of engagement because I know it helps to amplify my posts.

If you had poor bounce rates this could impact traffic by signaling to search engines that your content is not any good. I am not sure how AI would cause this unless the majority of your traffic was AI and it suddenly stopped.

You can bounce around content post ideas with AI platforms like ChatGPT, Jasper, and Copy.ai which can help you try to strike the algorithm better. Both Canva and Adobe Express can help you with video and picture generation if you need it. I think there are also AI platforms that post for you but you need to look into that more for yourself as I have never done that.