The AI Income Stack

Exact gig titles. Exact prices. What to do on day one for every tool in the stack. Drop your email and it opens right here — no download, no waiting.

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Followers are rented. The algorithm can turn them off tomorrow. An email list is the only audience you own — start it on day one, not day 1,000.

1. Free up to 10,000 subscribers. Build one landing page with one freebie — a checklist or template. One evening of work.
2. Write one welcome email that sounds like you, not like a brand.
3. Put the link everywhere your work lives. That's it. Let it stack.

First dollar math: 100 emails you own beat 10,000 followers you rent. This page you're reading runs on exactly this play.

Fastest first dollar on this list. Buyers are already searching — you just have to show up with one gig.

1. Pick ONE gig with real demand: AI voiceovers, AI product photos, or product descriptions written with ChatGPT. One. Not three.
2. Title formula: "I will [exact result] for [exact person] in 24 hours." Example: "I will record a natural AI voiceover for your YouTube video in 24 hours."
3. Price ladder: $10 basic → $25 standard → $50 pro. Start at $10 — right now you're buying reviews, not income.
4. Deliver same day. Ask every buyer for a review. At 5 reviews, raise basic to $25.

First dollar math: 3 orders at $10 = your first $30 online. The 3 reviews are worth more than the $30.

Most certificates are wallpaper. Two actually move a resume for AI work right now:

1. Google AI Essentials — under 10 hours. Teaches the tools every job post now asks about. Do this one first.
2. IBM AI Developer Professional Certificate — the deeper one. Put it on LinkedIn before you even finish it.
3. Both are free to audit. Pay only when you want the paper. Audit, do the projects, screenshot them into your portfolio site (recipe 4).

First dollar math: a cert doesn't pay you — the interview it unlocks does. Free to audit means your only cost is hours.

Your work needs an address. A real one — not a link-in-bio page you rent.

1. Get the $2/month plan and a .com.
2. One page: your name, what you do in one line, 3 work samples, one button — "Hire me" → your email or WhatsApp.
3. Ship it tonight. Ugly and live beats perfect and invisible.
4. Put the link in every gig, every DM, every bio you own.

First dollar math: $2/month. One client who trusts you because you have a real site pays that back 50x.

The move nobody tells you: automate yourself first, then sell the setup.

1. Free plan. Connect your Instagram.
2. Build ONE automation: anyone who comments "TOOL" on your reel gets an auto-DM with your link.
3. Run it for 2 weeks. Screenshot the numbers.
4. Now sell that exact setup to small businesses and creators for $100–$300. Your own account is the proof it works.

First dollar math: 2 setups a month = $200–$600, and each one is an evening of work you've already done once.

The $5 voiceover machine. This is the voice in my own AI videos.

1. Starter plan. Pick one clean voice and stick with it.
2. Sell voiceovers for reels, Shorts, and ads — 60 seconds of studio audio takes you 5 minutes.
3. Plug it into recipe 2: your Fiverr voiceover gig now costs you pennies per delivery.

First dollar math: at $10 per order, 3 orders cover the month. Everything after is profit.

Don't do all six — that's how nothing ships. Pick one recipe — if you're unsure, start with 1 — run it this week, and tag @marcohergi when the first dollar lands. I repost wins.

Everything above is someone else's tool. These are mine — no affiliate in the middle, and you should weigh the recommendation accordingly.

5 AI Agent Prompts — free. Five prompts lifted straight out of the system running on my machine. No upsell inside the file.

The Solo Builder's Claude Setup — $19. How I configure Claude to do the work of several people. The actual config, not the theory.

15 Autonomous Cron Job Recipes — $29. Fifteen automations that run while you sleep. Full prompt, cron expression and output format for each. Works with any scheduler.

The AI-Run Store — nothing for sale yet. A store no human operates: my autonomous AI reads what people complain about, builds a page for it, and measures who raises a hand. Two live pages so far — you're watching it hunt, not buying anything.