The very first AI service I ever sold was a Speed to Lead agent. I (stupidly) priced it at a $1,500 one-time payment. No retainer or recurring revenue of any kind. The reason this was a bad idea is because that agent kept delivering every single month. My client's average deal size was $11,000, and the agent was consistently bringing him 1 to 2 additional deals per month. I charged $1,500 once for something making my client over $11,000 in new revenue every single month. That mistake made me...
8 days ago • 4 min read
Today's Corey's Notes is brought to you by Hyperagent. I'm using Hyperagent to build an AI services business from scratch and documenting the entire thing on YouTube. Hyperagent is offering my audience $1,000 in free credits with this link. Episode 1 of the From Scratch series (Spotify/Apple/YouTube) shows how I'm using Hyperagent to find leads and build client deliverables in minutes. Enjoy! I'm setting out to prove a point. I hear so many lame excuses about why people can't sell AI...
17 days ago • 4 min read
We're a lot closer to AI agents building other AI agents than most people realize. A great example of this is my friend Nick who sells managed AI agents for $5,000 per month per client. The coolest part of his business model is that he's not the one building them. His personal agent, Dewey, does the actual work of building and setting up his clients' agents. Dewey buys software with his own card using Agent Card. He checks his own email through Agent Mail. He texts Nick back and forth on...
23 days ago • 3 min read
On July 29th I'm hosting my second AI for Business meetup here in Charlotte, and I'm incredibly bullish on in-person events right now for 3 reasons. First, as AI floods the internet, people will crave in-person connection more than ever. A room full of real humans is becoming the scarcest asset in marketing. Second, in-person communities are harder to build than online ones. More logistics, more friction. Which is exactly why the reward is bigger when you get it right. Hard to build means...
30 days ago • 4 min read
Growing up, when I was first getting into business, I naively believe that if you build it, they will come. I thought a great product would market itself. Customers would show up out of nowhere. The person with the best product would always win. Then I started cutting my teeth in the real world of entrepreneurship, building businesses and creating products, and I realized nothing could be further from the truth. The best product rarely wins. In fact, the best product usually loses, because...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
About ten months ago I got my start in AI and immediately started testing offers. I wanted to find that perfect offer. One that: People would actually buy I enjoyed delivering Made real money Took some time (and lots of trial & error) but I finally found it. And today I'm going to share the background story and how you can copy it. Nine months ago I was at lunch with a friend. He's the top commercial real estate broker in a neighboring city. Listing properties, leasing properties, running an...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
I was listening to an old interview with Jeff Bezos last week, and one thing he said stopped me cold. Someone asked how he set Amazon's strategy in the early days. He said he asked himself one question: What will always be true about what a customer wants? He landed on three things. Lower prices. Faster delivery. More convenience. Then he built the entire company around those three answers and never deviated. That focus made Amazon the most valuable company in the world and made him, for a...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
The first AI service I ever sold was an AI audit. I still firmly believe AI audits are the single best foot-in-the-door offer if you're new to selling AI services. I sell them for $999 all day long, and people love them. They almost always lead to me selling even more expensive services to the same client. But there's one problem with an audit. Once you sell it and the client pays, you have to turn around and sell them something else. Over and over again. There's no recurring revenue baked...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Today's Corey's Notes is brought to you by Hyperagent. I've been using Hyperagent as a more secure, easy to use AI agent to build out my AI Concierge business. Hyperagent is offering my audience $1,000 in free credits with this link. On my latest podcast (Spotify/Apple/YouTube) I talk more about how you can use it to create a high-margin AI services business from scratch. Enjoy! I was one of the first people to get my hands on OpenClaw when it dropped back in January. Right away I could see...
2 months ago • 5 min read