Content and marketing businesses

Produce, package, or distribute marketing and entertainment content for brands, creators, or audiences.

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Sources: Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast · My First Million · Young Entrepreneurs Forum

Digital reputation management agency

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Monitor feedback, improve online visibility, respond to negative reviews, and strengthen public image.

Problem: Reputation issues and lack of expertise in managing online reviews and perception.

For: Local businesses, medical clinics, law firms, consultants, and e-commerce brands

Business-to-business appointment setting agency

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Contact potential business clients and schedule qualified meetings for sales teams.

Problem: Difficulty finding qualified leads and booking sales calls.

For: Marketing agencies, software companies, insurance firms, and real estate services

Examples

  • Email outreach
  • LinkedIn outreach
  • Cold calling
  • Direct outreach

E-commerce store management service

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Handle daily online-store operations for owners who are overwhelmed by the workload.

Problem: The burden of managing store operations alone.

For: Shopify, Amazon, and WooCommerce store owners

Examples

  • Product uploads
  • Customer support
  • Inventory updates
  • Order tracking
  • Email marketing
  • Website maintenance

Digital service agency using free tools

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Deliver digital services with free or freemium tools and charge for outcomes.

Problem: Businesses' need for affordable digital marketing, content, SEO, email, or automation support.

For: Businesses needing digital services

Examples

  • Social media content planning
  • Basic SEO audits
  • Email campaign setup
  • Website content optimization
  • Automation setup

Customer-acquisition agency for senior living facilities

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Help senior living facilities increase occupancy by bringing in new residents.

Problem: Low occupancy and weak marketing or lead generation.

For: Senior living facilities and nursing homes.

Examples

  • A facility making $6,000 per month from each resident could pay $6,000 for every new resident brought in.

Web development agency for local businesses

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Build improved websites for businesses by sourcing web developers and selling the service directly.

Problem: Outdated or ineffective business websites.

For: Real estate agents and other local businesses.

Examples

  • Real estate agents contacted by email.
  • A lower-ticket offer of approximately $500 per month.

إنشاء مواقع لشركات الخدمات المنزلية المحلية

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العثور على الشركات التي تملك مواقع ضعيفة أو لا تملك مواقع وإنشاء مواقع جاهزة لها.

Problem: غياب الموقع الإلكتروني أو ضعف الموقع الحالي وقدرته على جذب العملاء المحتملين.

For: شركات الخدمات المنزلية المحلية في يوتا.

Examples

  • شركات تنسيق الحدائق
  • شركات التكييف والتهوية
  • شركات السباكة

Video-focused music studio

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Offer live band recordings with video rather than competing only as an audio recording studio.

Problem: Combines recording and video production for promotional content.

For: Bands seeking live demos and social-media or booking content.

Examples

  • Live recordings for Instagram and YouTube

Local deep-reporting website

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A subscription publication covering local government, businesses, and community stories with greater depth than press-release aggregation.

Problem: Fills gaps in local investigative and community journalism.

For: Residents who want thoughtful local reporting and businesses seeking access to engaged local readers.

Examples

  • A local version of Texas Monthly

Launch shared postcard campaigns for local service businesses.

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Aggregate advertisers into a single local postcard and sell them targeted exposure to homeowners.

Problem: Provides local businesses with a relatively low-cost way to reach nearby households without building a mailing list.

For: Local home-service businesses, restaurants, bakeries, real estate professionals, and other businesses serving homeowners.

Examples

  • Landscapers
  • Plumbers
  • Home cleaners
  • Junk haulers
  • Carpet cleaners
  • Window cleaners
  • Real estate businesses

Upsell marketing services to postcard advertisers.

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Use the postcard relationship to sell websites, Facebook marketing, Google SEO, AI-agent services, or bundled packages.

Problem: Gives participating businesses a destination and additional customer-acquisition services beyond the postcard.

For: Advertisers that need additional marketing support or lack a website.

Examples

  • A website plus a shared-postcard placement
  • Google SEO plus Facebook marketing plus postcard placement

Productized branding agency

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Offer branding as a focused agency service rather than general website or product design.

Problem: AI-generated products can look generic and need branding to stand apart from imitators.

For: Startups and technology companies seeking differentiation and a consistent visual identity.

Productized copywriting agency

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Use AI-assisted copywriting to deliver copy at scale through a standardized service.

Problem: Businesses need copy while AI makes production faster and reduces the number of people required.

For: Businesses that need ongoing copywriting.

Examples

  • Alex Lieberman's copywriting agency

Recurring creator-content production service

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Provide ongoing short-form video clips, podcast editing, or thumbnail designs to content creators.

Problem: Creators need a continuous supply of clips and thumbnails for ongoing content distribution and testing.

For: Content creators and YouTubers.

Examples

  • Viral Cuts

Use physical gifts to promote high-value services such as SEO, AI consulting, accounting, or real estate services.

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Pair a memorable gift with a relevant audit, offer, or sales message.

Problem: Difficulty getting attention and booking meetings through increasingly noisy digital outreach.

For: Businesses selling services with high average contract value or lifetime value.

Examples

  • An SEO agency used cakes with QR codes linking to Loom-based SEO audits.
  • An AI consultant could use a QR code linking to an AI audit.
  • A real estate agent could send cakes to listing agents before their listings expire.

Use personalized gifts for customer retention and referrals.

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Send gifts after a customer milestone to exceed expectations and keep the company top of mind.

Problem: Customer churn and lack of ongoing brand recall.

For: Businesses with existing customers and meaningful repeat or referral value.

Examples

  • A cake sent after a customer has been retained for one year.
  • A home builder sending an annual box of nuts to past customers.

Launch a solo productized agency for a digital skill

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Offer a clearly defined digital service that customers can buy online without a custom sales process.

Problem: The traditional agency process requires forms, quotes, calls, proposals, estimates, and multiple meetings before delivery begins.

For: Customers needing digital services such as design, marketing, copywriting, or social media management.

Examples

  • DesignJoy
  • Productized design services
  • Productized marketing services

Produce AI-generated faceless videos for clients

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Use the same Claude, Higsfield, voice, and editing workflow as a service for other people.

Problem: Reduces the time and cost of producing scripts, visuals, narration, thumbnails, and edited videos.

For: People who want faceless YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram content.

Examples

  • Faceless YouTube channels
  • Faceless TikTok pages
  • Faceless Instagram pages

Real estate ad machine

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Produce listing-specific marketing packages for real estate agents.

Problem: Agents need help with graphic design, copywriting, listings, and social media posting.

For: Real estate agents, especially the top 5%

Examples

  • Graphic design
  • Copywriting
  • Social media posts

Content service for under-monetized creators

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Build content plans and generate videos for creators who do not yet have a product.

Problem: Creators may have an audience but lack a monetized product and content system.

For: Viral content creators with 5,000 to 10,000 followers

AI influencer

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Create a realistic-looking fictional influencer with a defined identity and recurring content plan.

Problem: Maintains a steady stream of social content without relying on a human creator.

For: The operator building the influencer business

Examples

  • Character visuals
  • Backstory
  • One-month content calendar

Advertise an iPhone repair store on bar wristbands.

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Place the repair-store message on inexpensive wristbands distributed to college students around bars.

Problem: Keeps the repair business in a customer's memory when they wake up with a broken phone.

For: College students who may break their iPhones while going out.

Examples

  • The wristbands cost 2 cents each.