In short
How to build and launch a $1M+ solopreneur business using AI, specifically by creating an info product (and adapting the workflow to e-commerce/SaaS/mobile apps) and driving sales with Facebook ads.
Guest backgrounds
Samuel Thompson, “launched 100 companies in 10 years,” described as an internet capitalist and heavy AI user. He teaches using Shopify plus AI tools; his background includes drop-shipping-style marketing math and running Facebook ads.
Key claims
You can launch an AI-generated info product quickly (he claims “in an hour or less” to start making money via Facebook ads). Profit is driven by CAC vs LTV and “rigged slot machine” unit economics (conversion rate x AOV x ad spend). He targets ~3–5% conversion rate on product pages.
Notable examples
“The Divorce Bible / win your divorce” ebook built from ChatGPT prompts, formatted with Canva + PDF merge, sold on Shopify. He used an upsell to raise AOV (book $29; upsell to ~$42–$43 average; aiming for ~$58 and a $99 “starter kit”). He generates ad creatives with HeyGen (avatar videos) and Canva, and uses Shopify themes like SoloDrop and Elixir.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOMeet Samuel Thompson
1:07 to 1:50
Introduction of guest Samuel Thompson and his expertise in launching AI-powered companies.
“Enjoy the episode and become a solopreneur today.”
What to Expect in This Episode
1:50 to 2:25
Overview of tools and strategies for launching an info product using AI.
“And the tools that we're using, just name them off.”
Identifying Market Opportunities
2:25 to 3:19
Discussion on market potential, focusing on divorce-related products.
“And, you know, the wedding industry is humongous, right?”
Creating Your First Info Product
3:19 to 4:19
Step-by-step insights on creating an ebook as a low-friction product.
“that's probably a massive market, um, which those people are being advertised to a bunch of different ways, uh, primarily by, you know, family law or divorce attorneys.”
From Idea to Sale: The Process
4:19 to 5:02
How to format, design, and prepare a book for sale using AI tools.
Building a Shopify Store Live
5:02 to 5:48
Live demonstration of building a Shopify store from scratch for the ebook.
“And so, yeah, I think I think just transitioning this like super quick.”
Optimizing Product Listings
5:48 to 7:16
Tips for improving product listings and conversion rates on Shopify.
“All I popped in on chat GPT was I want to write a book called The Divorce Bible, how to win your divorce that helps individuals navigate their divorce and helps them win.”
Using Mockups for Marketing
7:16 to 8:20
How to create appealing product mockups for better visual marketing.
“then all i did was take copy and paste all of these into a google doc uh and then formatted it as a five by seven, which is this size, and then exported it as a PDF.”
Financial Considerations for Products
8:20 to 9:29
Discussion on cost, pricing, and profit margins for selling products.
Choosing the Right Shopify Theme
9:29 to 11:33
Overview of selecting a Shopify theme that enhances conversions.
“But as an example, I also built this, which is the theme that we're going to use for.”
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Exploring Drop Shipping Opportunities
11:33 to 12:20
Introduction to drop shipping products and leveraging AI for business.
“We're going to use this theme to build out the divorce one.”
Success Stories and Learning from Examples
12:20 to 13:20
Insights from successful entrepreneurs about unique product offerings.
Hummingbirds and AI-Generated Products
14:01 to 14:21
Learn how AI can be used to create unique upsell products.
Exploring Template Tools for Product Creation
14:21 to 17:48
Discover how to use software tools and templates for launching products.
“I'm sure I could add more, but just for the sake of the game, let's do it from scratch.”
The Strategy Behind Effective Pricing
17:48 to 21:27
Understand how pricing strategies can affect sales and customer acquisition.
“And so I don't really mess around with the homepage that much.”
Leveraging AI for Copywriting Efficiency
21:27 to 24:19
Explore how AI can assist in generating effective marketing copy.
Maximizing Conversion Rates and AOV
24:19 to 27:41
Learn how to optimize conversion rates and average order value in e-commerce.
Using AI for Customer Reviews and Offers
27:41 to 28:01
Find out how to utilize AI for generating customer reviews and promotional offers.
Validating Customer Acquisition Strategies
28:01 to 29:12
Learn how to effectively validate your product's market demand and customer acquisition strategies.
“I already know because it happens all the time.”
Leveraging Bonus Gifts for Higher Conversion Rates
29:12 to 31:26
Discover the importance of bonus gifts in enhancing perceived value and boosting sales conversions.
“these should all be digital products or downloads and could you explain why bonus gifts as a strategy is important?”
Creating Compelling Ad Content with AI
31:26 to 34:12
Understand how to utilize AI tools like ChatGPT and HeyGen to generate engaging ad content.
Effective Advertising Strategies for Business Growth
34:12 to 36:54
Learn strategies for creating effective advertisements and utilizing AI for business growth.
“It's like a picture that I took of the book and then I just had it write the copy.”
Realizing Potential Profit from AI-Driven Businesses
36:54 to 40:05
Explore how to identify niche markets and achieve tangible profits through AI-driven businesses.
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00If you're a solopreneur or you want to be a solopreneur, if the idea of having a business 100 % run by AI interests you, this is the episode for you. I brought on my friend Samuel and Samuel is really interesting because he's launched 100 companies in 10 years. But what's even more interesting is a lot of those companies are completely powered by AI. Now, you know me, I'm more of a software guy, mobile apps, SaaS, that sort of thing. he's an e-commerce and info guy but I think we can learn a lot from people like that and in this episode that's what he does he teaches me how to use Shopify how to use ChatGPT how to use HeyGen and how to use all these things within the context of building an info product or building an e-commerce product I got my creative juices flowing so if I got mine it probably will yours now if you made it this far I would appreciate a like, a comment and subscribe because it lets me know I should be creating content like this in the future and it gets you more high quality content in your feed.
1:05So win-win. Enjoy the episode and become a solopreneur today.
1:19We got Samuel Thompson on the pod. This guy has launched 100 companies in 10 years. He's a capitalist on the internet. The guy's playing with AI all day long. And today he's promised to share a lot of sauce. Samuel, by the end of this episode, what are people going to get out of it? You will know how to launch an info product using fully AI and start making money selling that product via Facebook ads in an hour. In an hour or less. And the tools that we're using, just name them off. What are all the tools? Yeah, super, super quick. We're going to use ChatGPT out the box. We're going to use Shopify.
2:00We're going to use Canva. We're going to hire somebody on Fiverr. And then Envato Elements to give us some mock-ups for our images. Okay, awesome. And I just want to give one caveat to the listener, which is that even if you don't want to launch an info product, this is going to help you launch an e-commerce business a SaaS business a mobile app business am I wrong on that no 100 all right well let's get into it dope dope um I mean the first the first thing that I always think about is like what are you going to sell right and so a lot of that is it comes down to offer um the one that we'll talk about today is is this you know divorce book that really came from me getting married in a couple of months.
2:49And, you know, the wedding industry is humongous, right? Like everyone's selling, you know, on Etsy, you have planners and cards and like literally everything you can need on the wedding side. And it's super expensive. And as we were going through the process of planning our wedding, you know, I was looking at the stats and it's like, well, 50 % of marriages end in divorce. And I was like, well, if the wedding market is huge. You know, the divorce market probably is like half the size. And so that's probably a massive market, um, which those people are being advertised to a bunch of different ways, uh, primarily by, you know, family law or divorce attorneys.
3:31And that's a service that's associated with this offer of like when you're divorced, all of that. Uh, but there's other things that you can offer, you know, info products or physical products or any of these other vehicles that you can run with. And I'm a big fan of like super low friction. And so an ebook became kind of the natural like, well, what if I just sold a book that helped people with this specific thing? It started super simple as like a really messy chat GPT generated book onto a perspective landing page that I made in an hour while watching the Laker game, got a couple of sales early.
4:09it then graduated to like oh i should probably you know try to make a little bit more money or put a little bit more effort into it which is what this page that you're looking at right now which i built in click funnels um is actually four and so what i was trying to do is convert higher and get a higher aov right and create a bunch of content for this um conversion rate went up which is awesome um but click funnels long term is not really where i want to live with this product and so i want to do shopify and if anyone's seen me on kerner stuff they've seen me do some of the stuff with the hummingbirds and all of those uh and so shopify is like my preferred go-to platform and so i figured while we're hanging out we might as well just build it live and do the entire shopify build from zero uh what themes we use all the tools how we write all the copy how we do all of that how i think about the conversion side um and see where it takes us tracks let's do it yeah i mean i find it just honestly hilarious that you're about to get married and you created uh your insight was around on divorce hey dude you know it works like i said to you before like when when you know 300 copies of the book showed up in my front door my fiance was uh jokingly concerned she was like what are you what is what's going on here And I was like, baby, it's it's for econ.
5:33Come on, get with it. Yeah. And so, yeah, I think I think just transitioning this like super quick. What I can do is just show how I actually wrote the book. So this was pretty simple from the start. All I popped in on chat GPT was I want to write a book called The Divorce Bible, how to win your divorce that helps individuals navigate their divorce and helps them win. sick like literally a 30 second prompt um then it worked through like the structure right part one part two all the chapters uh all the way through and then all i do is go like all right please write chapter two right and then it writes chapter two you know do the next chapter all the way through to give you like a super bare bones uh book right i think this book this first version of it was, you know, maybe 70 pages, just enough to give me something to sell.
6:35And then once I had a little bit more like sales actually coming through the door, I went through and did a deep research report on it and then gave it a little bit more direction around what those chapters should be based on that report and made it much more robust. I mean, this book for being AI generated is actually really good and it lands at 197 printed pages um and is really in depth with case studies and examples um which basically was just me changing the prompt from like please write chapter 10 uh to write chapter 10 but make sure it's x number of pages or x number of words to this number of words uh you know make sure to include a case study right like that sort of vibe then all i did was take copy and paste all of these into a google doc uh and then formatted it as a five by seven, which is this size, and then exported it as a PDF.
7:30And then all I did was design the book cover. I just use the Canva template here. This is literally like one of their out of the box templates. And I just changed the copy on it to be when you're divorced. Then you take this as a PDF. You do what's called a PDF merge. There's a thousand free tools on the internet for that and you just put a pdf one then the pdf of the book and then a pdf of the back cover which is this um and it puts it all together into one pdf file that is your book start to finish um as you can see there's there's more books coming dude we're gonna we're gonna try to get ltv up on this um but yeah so you do that then all of a sudden you you have a book um and then it's really easy like you start looking into how you need these mock-ups and and stuff for content which you'll see as we start to build out the shopify store um pretty simple it's it's literally just envato um and so envato elements it's like i don't know 15 bucks a month um you just go grab templates i don't think i've ever used this it's fire i literally use it three times a week um because all you do is so like has all these product mock-ups for books right or literally whatever you want like you could do you know a car wrap like for a truck um any like that you download these you pop it into photoshop you upload uh your cover here uh and then it literally just like places it on the book which is sweet um which then gives you your product photos um um or just like any stuff you can also we'll do it on chat gpt to like how to generate some of these as i as i need more content as we get through um but you know up until this point it's it's been like uh how do we do minimum viable product on this does it work how do we get it to work um and how do you get like at the end of the day at the end of the day it's all like a math equation right and so like cac versus ltv and really like you want your cash conversion cycle to be negative so you're like all right how do i spend 20 to sell this book for 27 and it costs me seven dollars to ship so that it's that break even at a minimum um i was able to get to roughly break even on this uh but i struggled to push aov up and like that's where i want to go into Shopify multiple product listings a little bit more of like an offer creation to try to drive it up and better attribution from meta as I run those ads and so that'll be the main switch which we can just get started on Shopify is awesome there are two there's a there's a bunch of themes that exist um that can make your life a lot easier one that i talk about a lot is uh called solo drop this is specifically designed for single product stores uh it's conversion optimized you can literally just buy it and it has a bunch of these plugins already built in um this is actually what hummingbird is built on um which is this one and so this is a solo drop theme super basic basic um but like conversion optimized right where it's like you can put these scene pieces on you built this right this is your company yeah all through solo drop um and so right like you get multi-tier discounts like a bunch of that stuff that you would need to be able to convert and so it's pretty easy to just pop in and start filling in copy and imagery um i'm not necessarily proud out of this page.
11:24But as an example, I also built this, which is the theme that we're going to use for. This is also an AI product, by the way, which is a fun one. We're going to use this theme to build out the divorce one. Right. And so you can see kind of the call outs that it has here selling fast, right? Like a bunch of this stuff that you would want to boost your conversion rate are built into a few of this themes. This one's called Elixir. This is what we're going to use for divorce um yeah like this was also similarly fully an ai product uh that i just was testing um all of this stuff is is ai generated if you're looking for products to sell uh suppleful is an awesome starting place um they are white label like supplements and like personal grooming products uh and so you can look through all of these they let you put your own brand it's basically drop shipping supplements um and so huge fan of that because you can just use that to get your product squared up obviously your margin is going to be a little bit worse when you do it this way welcome to drop shipping um but to test something and like validate that it works before going and trying to fill an moq at you know a legit manufacturer like a merit manufacturing or someone similar this gets you in the door to like test products faster a knox is another great one um they're more skincare and so like you know face moisturizers and a bunch of that stuff like we've all seen ads for products like these um and i don't want to say that all of them are are using stuff like this but i know a bunch of bigger brands now that like started testing offers using this as their fulfillment back in um and so same system that will do on the happies and then this one on the hummingbirds this is just sugar so that everyone knows like it's just sugar just sugar there's a guy on amazon that's done 30 million dollars selling sugar as hummingbird nectar on uh over the last 10 years and his branding is like atrocious has never ran a facebook ad in his life and i was like dude if he can sell 30 million dollars of it's literally sugar that's what hummingbirds eat sugar water um i could probably try to sell some of this direct consumer.
13:39And so I'll probably end up going funny enough. I'll probably end up going to a baking mix manufacturer for this one because they have sugar and just be like, I just need sugar. That's it. And so I think that's hopefully the plan. We'll see. We're going to launch this one again, probably like end of March, early April as it gets into spring, just because that's when the hummingbirds start to migrate north. You can read about it all in my hummingbird 101 uh book that was also ai generated that's an upsell um and when you when you buy hummingbird food um and so uh that'll be its own but back to solo drop great tool not super expensive either i think lifetime's like 200 yeah that's dope um elixir is the one that i've been using more um I don't remember their pricing.
14:34$175 for one license. I'm sure I could add more, but just for the sake of the game, let's do it from scratch. So you basically go in here, and then they have these templates that you see. You can see that the one looks probably pretty familiar. Is this supplement one? That's my happies. There he is. um and so it's like literally just a clone of that just to test it um i like that one so i'm just gonna go with that because i already know it and we can move faster on this um beauty template access supplements oh the discord group is kind of cool um i gotta say sam like i'm not i don't know this about me but like i'm a software guy mobile app sass that sort of thing so like yeah this whole world that you're sharing like i had no idea existed dude like it's nuts it's like uh i mean it's all like it's rooted in drop shipping right like during covid that's like where i really cut my teeth i was like i sold like eight hundred thousand dollars of a teeth whitening product that i found on on aliexpress um and what it did it's interesting because similar to you like i spend way more of my time like personal time really in in like agency world and and software um but my approach to marketing is all in dropshipping where it's it's like so routed in in the math right like because when you're a dropshipper when you're 19 and you have a thousand dollars like you have to find a product in a marketing angle that like makes your math work super well um and so it's literally all been it's it's like drop shipping mentality applied to those other things like for our agencies like we run facebook ads that's it and so it's like i just run it because i do it like dropshipping like it's it's econ import theme upload a zip file when you buy the elixir they will send you a zip file um beauty that's not the one that i bought but bucket we'll just see where it goes and so that goes in there 30 minutes in dude we're gonna do this watch i have faith yeah oh yeah no i'm i'm like invested in this now like i need i need to know how to do this myself i got you yeah we'll wait for that to load um yeah i mean a lot of a lot of this theme makes it so you're just in like content creation mode right like you're just trying to load up all of the different elements of it that allow for it to start to work um luckily i have a bunch of that already and so like we don't have to go from from zero zero but we'll be able to do it i'm gonna need another fresca dude license required good thing i have one pop that in there boom okay we've got the foundation um i always start when i'm doing this uh you're running when you're running ads at a product direct consumer on Shopify, 90 % of the time you're running that directly to the product page of which we need a product.
17:50So I need to do that. And so I don't really mess around with the homepage that much. It's mostly just like some filler content because no one's really going to see it. And so this is when you're divorce. One thing I'm going to do on this one is call it the starter kit because I want to push AOV up, right? If it's just the book, it's hard to sell a book for 70 bucks. Like it's just not really, it's just not really going to be a thing. Description doesn't really matter. Let me see if I can find a easy copy of this. By the way, for people who are thinking about what should my price point be, you can just ask ChatGPT if your price point makes sense.
18:39So if you're like, hey, when you're divorced, I'm trying to sell it for$79. ChatGPT is probably going to tell you it's a bad idea if you just say, my buyer is going to... You have to explain who your buyer is in your avatar in like somewhat in pretty good detail like average what they're gonna be you know their average salary that sort of thing yes agreed wholeheartedly look at our little guy dude totally ai generated just the way you like it just the way i like it dude i'm always down for a little ai-ness okay cool so now we've got our product in here we're gonna list this product at so when i was running the ads i was selling the book for 29 bucks um and i was i had a one click upsell on the back so like if you go through this funnel um right like you put in all of your information you hit next and there's a there's a bump offer i'm not going to click it because it's going to auto fill my personal information uh and so i won't but there's a button that lets you like add a 17 or 18 product onto it and so it pushes your aov from 29 if they if they if they buy it it's it's 48 mine was landing on average at like 42 43 and my cac was roughly like on good days it was sub 40 on bad days it was like 45 and so it all kind of settled into like a break-even funnel um but i know i can acquire customers sub 45 and so like when i think about pricing here it's like all right how do i get this to like you know 58 and then compare that price at you know 99 bucks for the starter kit um and then we'll save that product pop back to the theme that we're going to build edit theme let's see if it gives me my product yellow look at that dude we've got ourselves a product uh 99 of traffic is mobile so i'm only thinking about uh mobile optimization um then you're just really filling in all of the content here right um and so obviously this this template is built around uh some sort of beauty product to some degree um and so dude for the sake for the sake of the game dude password disabled for the sake of the game just just for your the audience i have never done this before but like is we're going to take this we're going to pop into chat gpt i'm going to send this link i'm going to say look at this website and give me all the copy based on the content of the book and the fact that the book helps people going through divorce win focus on major value props dude let's see if this works dog this would be pretty nifty i guess i could give it my other one too the one that already has a bunch of the copy because that was that was going to be more of my um stuff oh proven strategies to protect your kids yep yep yep when i'm running these i'm it's like all it's mostly it's mostly copywriting which is sick because chat gpt helps with that um i mean shit we'll just v1 it let's just do what it did right yeah and obviously like if we were doing this for realsies we wouldn't just take like the first output oh no yeah you're reworking it i mean i i have a bunch of like that reworked copy on this page yeah right so like i basically asked it for a bunch of ideas and headlines and then just went through and started grabbing bits and pieces about it um but yeah i mean most of this stuff like i i didn't like come up with the i don't i've never been i've never been married you know what i mean like i can't talk about divorce like that um but luckily luckily other people have talked about it on the internet and chat shebe knows how to find it um and so i think that that's the move um one piece that i like is this little uh emojis benefit list this is fire um and so this is like what are the five main benefits of this product uh write them each in 40 characters or less oh love it dude just so on the nose you gotta protect your kids dude you gotta protect your kids you know we can't be messing around boom protect your kids oh i could do more than 50 characters let's do do it again but max 75 and you're doing it longer just because uh because it fits right so like to me that just feels like wasted conversion space um but i don't want it too long to go to two lines and it starts to eat up screen real estate on the page um and so that's my general approach so and from meta what sort of conversion rate is good on a page like this um yeah i love that question um i would say if you're sitting between like three and five on something like this you're in like a reasonably good space um there's so many variables with it most of it uh is a function of like price and like type of uh product so like you can imagine like if you've gone and shopped for clothes on you know i don't know jcrew.com like you might add a bunch of stuff to cart but you might not buy and so like their their percentages are different than on something that's like a direct like please purchase this right now um but three to five is what i was hitting on hummingbirds at a little bit of a cheaper price point but a little bit less value um and so that would be really where i would target for this cool yeah i guess if you're under three you probably need to rework your copy your offer if you're over five you just want to pile as much traffic as possible to this page yeah and and if you're over five uh depending on how your your math is looking you might you might consider raising your price um right because again it's all math it's like is it's it's cost of traffic times conversion rate times aov right and so it's like if you can go and bump your price by more than 20 and your conversion rate only takes a 10 hit like not yeah like 10 of the five right so it goes to 4.5 but you push your price up mathematically your row as goes up right because like your cost of traffic maintains equal you just pull more cash out of the back um and so you're testing that which is like why i always do this compare at price like i'll do price testing right i'll run a thousand dollars worth of ads at this thing at 58 see where my metrics lie and then i'll be like okay this right now has this holiday sale and it's like we're gonna call this the new year sale and it's like all right we're gonna go do a I don't know a St.
26:33Patrick's Day sale and it's going to be a lower amount what is the impact of conversion rate versus AOV and on ROAS because like all this is like all I'm ever trying to do on e-com is I'm not necessarily trying to go build some massive brand I'm just trying to create like what I would call like a rigged slot machine where I know I can put a dollar in and get a dollar and 30 cents out and then it's like how do how do i put as many dollars into that thing as humanly possible while that math holds and then when that math is why i've done 100 companies like when that math stops holding i just go and do another thing that gives me that degree of return um and so that's why i like info on on this sort of stuff is like you could just shut this thing down to get like tomorrow and launch another ebook at the next day if you think that it has a better chance at running that math.
27:24And so it's not as much of an LTV game here. I think it makes sense to like play into it. And I like talking about it because like if if someone had like 24 hours in the day and they were like going to make this their business, they would treat it a little bit differently than I do. And they'd go deeper and they definitely launch more books and they would try to push LTV up and they'd launch a community on the back for, you know, divorced parents and like grab 199 bucks a year for a facebook group of like yeah like these are all the people that have gone through what you've gone through like there's so many things that you can do on the back of like validating your own ability to generate customers around a specific offer right and so it's like i always just start with this stuff because it's easier um to literally just like validate that part because if that's all that's all that's all entrepreneurs are trying to do at the beginning of launching anything is like can i profitably acquire customers like can i acquire customers at all because if you can't then what are you doing and then you just move on to the next product um okay so that's all there 2025 verified results latest and most up-to-date product based on modern science that's hilarious based on customer reviews I already know.
28:41I already know because it happens all the time. Yes, I'm going to put fake reviews on here to start and then I will replace them as I get real ones. I promise. That's always the game. But you got to just see what it's going to look like. Limited time free gift offer. This is sick. This is a great opportunity to use AI. um create a list of five free bonus gifts they receive when they buy the book these should all be digital products or downloads and could you explain why bonus gifts as a strategy is important? Yeah, it's just perceived value. It just boosts conversion rate, right? So like you could you could sell the book at at twenty nine bucks and have a standalone like funnel for that.
29:39Or you can throw in other stuff that makes them feel like they're getting a better and better deal. The way that I try to think about it on these is giving enough variety here where somebody will see one of them and be like oh shoot i really need that right like whatever this one is let's see free custom where's brush um right like divorce evidence checklist somebody might see that and be like oh i actually need that and then it's like part of this bigger purchase right and so just it's a conversion rate thing more than than anything right custody preparation like somebody's going to see that that knows that they're going to be going through custody situation and they're like oh yeah like i need that and then we're going to go to one line preparation template um it's just value add like what what can you do to give the customer more of what they um need and like drive their desire to buy this thing up um all these icons i would do the exact same thing um of like canva here so like what is that first one financial financial protection quick guide actually dude i was over here designing some things so like financial protect all that is is a screen this is a this is actually just a canva template um and so whatever we want to call any of these like we can toss in and you can just do these ones in canva uh to make all of this stuff and so it's like cool they get all this stuff for free they purchase it this is all like conversion rate stuff um that people are looking for like you do all that description so then you could go here write a three sentence product description
31:44do you do you prompt the way that i prompt or are you like firing away like some some pretty robust prompts yeah i feel like the way you prompt is like very to the point rudimentary like you're not there's no fat you know no it's just i just need this dude i need this i'm i'm more of like a i'll rarely prompt something that's one sentence interesting so you know and i don't know you know sometimes maybe you get better if you're if you're more direct and you're just like one sentence but i also think that giving that extra context is helpful oh for sure for sure i think there's like uh part of this is like we're under a shot clock and so it's moving quick exactly but i would say i'd like generally that's my style of like because i i am very rarely trying to get a final output out of ai i need like i i want like a 80 head start right so it's like i'll grab these and be like all right like that's cool and then i'll edit this stuff a little bit more part of that is like i've also been running ads and like writing copy for a very long time and so sometimes it's just faster for me to just like what give me the idea and then i can write around it and so that's a little bit of a different approach to that yeah so this i mean this process like we can keep going through it i think people probably get the vibe right like you are filling in all of this copy with stuff from chat you just ask chat gpt for specific stuff um this stuff this is all uh hey gen and so if you want good photos and videos of people um like holding the product i generally do it through hey gen um which is pretty fun uh there's definitely nuances with hey gen one thing that i found with hey gen that's really good is there uh you like it's with 11 labs too but like the voice cloning feature is like i think the problem with ai video is like they don't always get the fluctuation or like what's that called with your voice like the like fluctuation i think yeah right like they don't they don't capture like how someone would actually say it um and so a big piece of it uh for me has been going and creating the video but doing it with a voice that i cloned of myself saying the script um which is a pretty pretty fun one i make a bunch of these dude all the test different stuff um so these when you make like the avatar four i basically just like pick one of their that's hilarious steven's gonna see that and laugh um i pick one of their avatars and then you can put in the product photo and then it generates like a bunch of images of the person before you turn them into like a talking video and then i just screenshot that and roll them into like you can see it on on all of these right like that's that guy and that's just a screenshot of a preview that they give me before they generate the full video um and then you do this with chat gpt too is like you just say write a write a 45 second script uh for an ad that is a customer reviewing the book and then you'll just pop you'll edit it but like then you'll just pop that into your hey jen and it'll generate i don't know if you'll be able to hear this but see how it's like just it's a little funky but when you do the voice clone thing it works a lot better but then you can go and like create a bunch of those ads and so you have all these images and then you just start building out the ad creatives in canva you take those images you're you're grabbing all these headline copies uh directly from here that's his all right uh cool thanks now write 15 high converting static ad creative headlines um so then you take all those you'll you'll toss them into these are literally dude like they're all just templates directly out of canva like you're just loading in images it's all like what is the headline uh And that's like when you're testing it.
36:18Right. Like this is the same. This is an ad creative. Right. It's like a picture that I took of the book and then I just had it write the copy. Right. Like this one works so well. Dude, people do not trust their divorce attorneys at all. They're always my highest performing ads, dude. It's crazy. it's like no stuff that your lawyer won't tell you and it's like that's the people right that are buying but yeah like all these are just like images that i took all this stuff is the same all ai generated with a little bit of love and then these headlines right like it'll just pump out headlines like this right most people lose their divorce before court great headline the book your lawyer won't hand you right like all of this sort of stuff that that can get used in in copy across the board right so like when you scroll through here right like this is just what they gave me like divorce is war win yours right it's all just the copy that um i'm pulling out of chat gpt and so again once you once you go through and have this whole con all the content filled out right like using the hey gen stuff using the chat gpt stuff um i mean you can even some of these images are generated directly with chat gpt right generate an image of this sort of person holding this sort of or the screenshot of the product um to get a bunch of those and then you just doctor them up in canva and then you publish this on whatever your domain is going to be and you go and run the ads um and the ads are like i said kind of like primarily statics like you just find like templates like you can see these are the recently used ones that i have like this is literally the template right here it's like i didn't come up with anything i just grabbed whatever the available templates were um to get those ads live and then toss all of them in in a campaign on facebook tested at you know i generally like minimum 50 bucks a day but like if your product is more than 50 bucks a day i would just whatever your product is priced at if you know you can get one purchase off of that ad spend to break even it's like where i would start um and so for this if i push it at 60 bucks i i would probably run it at 100 bucks a day just for the love of the game um but like you can start with with like 50 bucks a day pretty easily and so i don't know what else is worth like going deep like they'll literally if we keep going it'll just be like copy pasting all of this over time you know basically dude you've basically shown how one person could use ai to you know build a business that looks feels smells tastes like a really, really big business and, you know, hopefully impact people, you know, hopefully, hopefully this win your divorce book, like when I, you know, looking at some of the, the content, like it seems valuable to me as a man who's never even contemplated divorce, but you know what I mean?
39:33Right. Yeah. Um, so what's really cool is I think this, this shows some of the opportunity that you know how many thousands of different niches and thousands of different products exist it's crazy and it's not you know it's it's one of those i i try to tell people like the hummingbird stuff like uh there there's no part of me that's ever trying to convince somebody that this is gonna be like the next billion dollar idea but like i i i have like very tangible proof that things like this can make you a hundred thousand dollars in profit a year right and it's like it's it's a like me running hummingbirds at this point other than the fact that i was manufacturing it myself like it really takes me about 90 minutes a week to like make some new ads look at the ads that are working make a couple adjustments and then like the ads do all the heavy lifting right like instead of me having to sit there and be like dude i gotta produce, you know, six YouTube videos a month in effort, I can also just probably go spend money on ads to like create that rigged ATM.
40:44Um, and for me, it's like, I just want, I want the ads to do the heavy lifting. Um, and so it turns into, I mean, I have a handful of these I've, you know, shown you three already, um, and have another one that I'm going to launch, whenever I can find two hours.
41:06It's simple. It's like find an offer that makes sense and try to make your math work. Sam, thanks for coming on. I really enjoyed this. I'm feeling a bit inspired. It's reaffirmed my belief that understanding how good info people do things and some of the tools that they use could be applied to mobile apps and SaaS. I'm about to get to work. You've got my brain spinning. let's go um and uh you'll have to come back on hopefully uh once i get it live we can do a we'll do a facebook ads version where i go deeper on that half of it um and so that's easy that sounds good yeah comment uh on youtube what you want to learn from from samuel uh in the part two of this Facebook ads, you name it.
41:54And until next time, I'll include the links where you can go and play with a lot of these tools, templates, where you can follow Samuel on the internet. And I encourage you to have some fun and go build some cool things. Easy money. Take care, dude. Sick, dude. We'll talk.
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Today I’m joined by Samuel Thompson, an internet capitalist who’s launched 100 companies in 10 years, and he walks me through a live, end-to-end build of an info product using AI. We break down how he goes from idea → AI-written book → mockups → Shopify product page → ad creatives in a ridiculously short amount of time. The big takeaway is that this isn’t just “info products,” it’s a repeatable launch system you can apply to e-comm, SaaS, mobile apps, and pretty much anything where customer acquisition matters. We also get into the real game: CAC vs LTV, conversion rates, and how to build what Sam calls a “rigged slot machine” you can scale.
Timestamps
00:00 – Intro
02:32 – Choosing the offer
05:36 - Writing ebook with ChatGPT (outline → chapters → upgrade quality)
07:30 – Mockups with Canva & Envato Elements
10:25 – Shopify themes that convert (Solo Drop + Elixir)
12:05 – Finding products to sell
16:28 - Building the Shopify Store
21:16 – Using ChatGPT to generate product-page copy fast
24:13 – What “good” conversion rates look like (3–5% target range)
28:51 – Bonus gifts strategy = perceived value + conversion lift
33:26 – HeyGen for AI photo/video ad assets + voice clone insight
35:37 – Canva static ads + high-performing angles
38:57 – Big picture: one person can build a “real business” with AI
Key Points
Sam’s launch loop is offer → AI asset creation → Shopify page → Meta ads → iterate on math
Start with low-friction products (ebook/info) to validate customer acquisition fast
The real framework is CAC vs AOV vs conversion rate, not “brand vibes”
3–5% conversion rate is a strong target on a direct-response product page
Use bonus gifts to increase perceived value and lift conversion
Static ads + strong angles can outperform everything when the message hits
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