Niall Doherty's Blog, page 5
September 1, 2025
Making Money From Taylor Swift’s Engagement
Fery KaszoniFounder of Search Intelligence £10 Million approximate annual revenueLast week Taylor Swift announced her engagement on Instagram 
Digital PR specialist Fery Kaszoni tweeted a couple of days later…
For this specific placement, we did a story for our property client:
How to replicate the garden where Taylor got engaged, on a budget.
We wrote up the tips within minutes.
We found journalists who write about Taylor Swift, general lifestyle and gardening.
We sent them the email.
Within hours, the story started landing big links, as every journalist needs a fresh and unique angle to vibe with the Taylor engagement trend
It is still not too late to react, as there is a lot of buzz right now about the engagement.
I’ve heard this referred to as “news jacking,” where you leverage big news stories to land press mentions and backlinks for you or your clients 
Sounds like it’s the core service Fery offers via his agency, which earns about £10M per year.
Lots of demand for this kind of service, and fun work if you’re creative 
She Earns Up To $10K/Month Making Short Videos
Alexa MachadoUGC Creator $7500 approximate monthly revenueAlexa Machado gets paid to create User Generated Content (UGC) 
She recommends you give it a try…
If you don’t mind being in front of a camera I’m a UGC creator making ads and content for brands! It was my side hustle and now I make 5-10k a month with it!! All you need is a smartphone to film with
See examples of her work here 
Elsewhere she talks about pricing…
I just finished collabs for lip syncing and shorter videos for 150/video. Going rate for UGC is around 200 and short videos around 100-150. The pay is for the fact that the brand will be generating $ from the content + the effort put into prepping and filming, not the length of the video itself
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Earning $10K Per Day From Repackaged Software
Sander StageCo-founder of Buildable $300,000 estimated monthly revenueCheck out Buildable.co 
The All-In-One Platform For Your Online Course Business
In the video on the homepage, co-founder Sander Stage says he earned $6M+ selling his own courses 
But he was using several tools to run his course biz, costing him $2000/mo…
Eventually, I decided something had to be done and thus Buildable was born, essentially a software that combines all the competitors’ tools into one unified platform [for only $127/mo]
The kicker: Sander didn’t build his platform from scratch 
It’s actually just a white-labeled version of HighLevel (aff link), customized and marketed to course creators.
Says on the Buildable homepage that they have +6k creators on the platform.
Which means they must be earning at least $300,000 per month (could actually be 2x that) 
I’ve seen dozens of examples of HighLevel-based businesses following this playbook…
Pick a niche (ideally one you have some experience with)White label HighLevel and customize select features as neededPromote it as your own software built especially for that nicheAugust 25, 2025
This Work Ain’t Always Fun But It Can Pay “Ridiculously Well”
WDID1000AI Trainer $1,064 earnings in 1 monthI wrote about Data Annotation before, a site that pays you to train AI 
One guy reported earning $25/hour “fact-checking” the output of various AI models.
No experience, flexible schedule, perfect for introverts.
Two people recently shared how much they earned from the same site in July 
The second guy says he typically puts in 10-15 hours per week, which equates to about $10/hour 
Someone else commented…
There’s no waitlist, but there’s a fairly long entry test that not everyone passes. The work can range from something super fun and easy (I had one recently where I just had to generate images with distortions and classify the distortion, super simple) to absolutely grueling (pages on pages of instructions, create long rubrics for a long prompt + system prompt, evaluate and edit at every step based on your rubric).
To be fair, some of the hard work pays ridiculously well and if you do a good job, you eventually have an endless amount of it available. But again, it’s not fun work.
Earning €125,000/Year From His Job Boards
Wouter MeensEntrepreneur €125,000 annual revenue
Wouter Meens tweets…
Over the past year, my job boards generated around €125,000 in total revenue, with a profit margin of approximately 95%. About 85% of that revenue came from my two largest job boards.
He doesn’t name them but one is likely sustainablejobs.nl, a niche Dutch-language job board 
How Wouter started that…
for about 9 months we send out messages on Instagram (this was 2021) to organizations in sustainability and offer them to post unlimited amount of jobs for free.
That way we received around 250 job posts in the first 9 months. Which gave a boost to website traffic via Google for Jobs, gave as content to share in socials (so the followers started to grow) and job seekers became more inclined to sign up for the jobs newsletter.
then after 9 months we changed to paid job posts only.
The tough thing about this business model
Job boards are two-sided marketplaces. No jobs = no candidates. No candidates = no jobs. It can take 2–3 years to grow from scratch.
A shortcut? Buy a job board with existing traffic and clients.
Sure, it costs money — but you skip the hardest part: the cold start.
Try Acquire.com or Jobboardsearch.com to find listings.
Learned This Skill On The Side To Earn $3000/Month
Chris MisterekWeb Designer $3000 monthly revenue
From an interview with Chris Misterek…
About 6 years ago, Chris went through a split from his wife…
“I had to figure out a way fairly quickly to learn how to make some extra income on the side for me and my 3 daughters”…
He didn’t want to leave his full-time job, but his salary wasn’t enough to support him and his family.
A friend suggested he look into doing some web design. So, Chris found some free online courses and worked through them as quickly as he could…
Chris started out on a platform called Code Academy. At the time it was 100% free. (Chris said they now have some paid courses, but you can still access all the same stuff he did for free.)…
Chris’s first clients were all friends and family. He did his first job for free, then after that one he started a fair price as he was still learning.
He made $500 for his first website. Then he started doubling his rates, he charged $1,000 for his next job, then $2,000, then $4,000.
Before long he was earning $3000/month consistently with his web design side hustle 
I reckon there’s still plenty of opportunity in this space.
Much easier to build websites nowadays but most people don’t have time to figure it out themselves, would rather hire someone with a little experience.
That could be you 
$150K Per Month From a Niche Note-Taking App
Michael ReiderCo-founder of Yung Sidekick $150,000 monthly revenue Pat Walls tweets…
Free business idea based on a couple interesting tidbits i heard recently:
– Met a girl last week making $20k MRR with an AI note taking app for a very specific subset of therapists
– My mom, a therapist, is attending a webinar this week about how to utilize AI to automate the note writing process. She is very tech-averse
– Quote from my mom: “the worst part of being a therapist is having to write notes”
The biggest challenge is the HIPAA compliance etc, but that’s probably also a decent moat.
Meanwhile, Yung Sidekick is an AI note-taking app for mental health clinicians that earns $150K/month 
Origin story…
During therapist interviews somebody casually mentioned that documentation swallowed absurd amounts of their time… every single one confirmed the pain without prompting.
Many professions spend a ton of time on documentation.
All of them could probably use a customized AI note taking app
$10K+ Per Month Helping Dog Trainers
Josh BoutelleFounder of Digiwoof $10,000+ estimated monthly revenueCheck out Digiwoof, a marketing agency for dog trainers 
Run by a husband and wife team in Oregon, they provide services like…
Website and graphic designSocial media marketingProcess automationEmail and SMS marketingThey’ve built their agency on HighLevel (aff link), and provide many services via that platform
Digiwoof recently received an award from HighLevel for having 100+ sub-accounts (ie. clients).
With a minimum price of $97/mo per sub-account, they’re most likely earning $10K+ per month 
Looks like their website has only been online since 2021, so a relatively new business.
To follow in their footsteps, first pick a niche you already have some connection to, so it’s easier to find your first clients 
Then use HighLevel to deliver in-demand services to that niche. (Or just copy Digiwoof’s services, every niche needs those.)
I’ve seen other $10K/mo HighLevel-based businesses focusing on niches like
August 21, 2025
People Are Making Up To $150K/Month Doing This
Nick Naskida writes…
I’ve been deep in the faceless content world for months now. These creators work on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts, making AI content without ever showing their face. No personal branding needed, just good AI tools and hustle.
His top-rated way to make money with faceless, AI-generated video?
Running an AI Creative Agency
This is hands down the biggest money maker I’ve seen.
Learn to create viral AI content with tools like Midjourney and RunwayML, then make ads for businesses.
I know multiple people doing this who are making serious money ($20k, $50k, $150k per month). If you stay on top of AI trends, you can create engaging ads in a few hours and charge $500-$3,000+ per project…
Most AI agency owners start by making their own faceless accounts go viral first. This proves they know what they’re doing when they pitch clients…
This takes the most work but has the highest upside.
I agree, big upside there.
Get good at making faceless videos that get views, and the sky’s the limit 
Might be worth playing around with some AI tools, see if you have a knack for this.
$75K From This Faceless Channel Launched in January
Medieval Times DiscoveredYouTube Channel $9,000 estimated monthly revenue Posted on Threads back in March…
This Faceless YouTube Channel Started 4 Weeks Ago and Have Made over $3k+ in the past 28 days:
Inuit Discovery Niche
11 videos / month
3,000,000 views a month (so far)
~ $5 rpm (earnings per 1k views)
Only took 1 month to reach these results. Pretty solid niche.
What’s keeping you from starting a faceless YouTube Channel
The channel: Medieval Times Discovered
Script, images, voiceover… all appears to be AI-generated
Easy to find critical comments on the videos, for example…
Some pictures shown here are from different era and places
Despite that, the channel has racked up 15 million views.
At ~$5 rpm, that works out to $75,000, or about $9K/month
I’m guessing the people behind these faceless channels test out different niches, post a video on each new channel, see which one takes off, then double down.
