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In this solo episode, I walk through seven ways to land clients for your AI services business — starting with the method that personally got me seven qualified leads in about two hours of total effort. I cover everything from hosting a local AI meetup to knocking on doors to LinkedIn outreach to building agency partnerships, and I break down exactly what to say and do at each step. Every method ties back to one simple foot-in-the-door offer that converts cold strangers into paying clients. By the end, you'll know where to start, what to prioritize first, and how to stack these methods to build a real pipeline fast.

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Timestamps

00:00 – Intro
00:00 – Method 1: Host a local AI for small business meetup
02:24 – The follow-up that makes the meetup worth it
02:50 – Method 2: Door knocking local service businesses
04:47 – Method 3: LinkedIn outreach without being spammy
06:30 – Method 4: Free audits for people in your network
07:10 – Documenting wins and building early testimonials
08:10 – Method 5: Partnering with agencies, coaches, and consultants
09:35 – Method 6: Hosting AI office hours at a co-working space
11:56 – Method 7: Posting your wins on LinkedIn
13:30 – Where to start: the three methods to do first
 
Key Points
 
Hosting a local AI for small business meetup is the single best method to start with. Find a free venue (library, co-working space, or a realtor's office), set up an Eventbrite or Luma page, give a 20-minute talk on basic AI tools, and capture every name, phone number, and email at the door. The magic is in the follow-up within 24 hours.
 
The foot-in-the-door offer that powers every method on this list is a free 15-minute mini AI assessment. You're not selling anything upfront — you're prescribing one simple AI tool specific to their business. That assessment is what converts conversations into paying clients.
 
Door knocking local service businesses is the lowest-hanging fruit if you want a client today. One person went into 30 businesses, got five appointments, and landed two paying clients. If you do 10 walk-ins a week consistently, you will get clients.
 
Partnering with marketing agencies, coaches, and consultants is the highest long-term value method on the list. These partners already have your future clients as their clients, and most of them have no good answer when those clients ask about AI. You become their go-to AI resource and offer a cut of any work they send your way. One good partner can send you 50 to 100 leads over the course of a year.
 
Hosting AI office hours at a co-working space gives you free marketing and free exposure while positioning you as the local AI expert. You show up for two hours, answer member questions for free, and document every single question — those become your social media content and your client pipeline.
 
Every free audit, every question you answer, every text message that says "wow, I didn't know that" is an early win and an early testimonial. Screenshot all of it. These are your case studies for landing the next client and building toward charging $999 for a full paid assessment.
 
LinkedIn is the best platform for landing AI services clients. Post three to five times a week mixing wins, answers to common questions, and real education. Stay top of mind so that when someone needs an AI expert, you're the first person they call.
 
Luma - Event registration platform for hosting and promoting your AI meetup - https://lu.ma
 
Eventbrite - Free event pages to get attendees registered and confirmed - https://www.eventbrite.com

AI Operator Academy - https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/about
 
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In this solo episode, I walk through the exact offer I'm using to make over $1,000 an hour with AI consulting — the AI Concierge Offer — and break it down step by step so you can replicate it. I cover every piece of the infrastructure: the pre-call intake form I built in Jotform, the two 45-minute done-with-you strategy calls every month, the Voxer access setup with a real SLA, and the Notion documentation hub that tracks every automation we build together. I also show you how two Claude skills handle all my post-call follow-up in 30 seconds flat, and walk through exactly how I price this — from $1,000 a month to start, all the way up to where I'm at now at $2,000 a month with a 100% close rate. By the end of this episode, you'll have a complete blueprint to go build your own AI consulting business and land your first paying clients.

 
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 Timestamps

00:00 – Making over $1,000/hour with the AI Concierge Offer

01:40 – The pre-call intake form built in Jotform

03:40 – The two 45-minute done-with-you strategy calls

04:30 – The AOA framework: Audit, Optimize, Automate

06:00 – Voxer access and the 12-hour SLA

08:00 – The Notion documentation hub walkthrough

09:56 – How two Claude skills automate post-call follow-up

12:15 – Pricing: from $1,000 to $2,000/month and when to raise rates

14:23 – How to get the full templates and business model

Key Points

The AI Concierge Offer is a done-with-you consulting engagement, not done-for-you. Two 45-minute strategy calls per month plus unlimited Voxer access — that's roughly 1.5 hours of your time per client at $1,500/month, which works out to $1,000 an hour.

The AOA framework — Audit, Optimize, Automate — is the operating system for every client engagement. You fix the process first before you ever touch automation, so you're not just automating broken workflows.

A pre-call Jotform intake questionnaire sent before the first paid call surfaces the client's biggest bottlenecks and makes the first session actually productive from minute one. If they haven't filled it out, reschedule — it's not optional.

The Notion documentation hub is the renewal mechanism. When clients can see a running quantified list of every skill, workflow, and automation you built together, the $1,500 or $2,000/month fee is easy for them to justify.

Two Claude skills handle all post-call admin in 30 seconds — one populates the Notion call log from the transcript, the other pulls out action items and drafts a follow-up email to the client. Build the infrastructure once and it runs itself.

When you're closing 100% of your sales calls, your price is too low. Start at $1,000/month, move to $1,500 once you have two clients, and keep raising until people push back. Corey is currently at $2,000/month and still closing every pitch.

Cap yourself at six clients. More than that and service quality degrades — and at $2,000/month, six clients is $12,000/month for roughly 9 hours of strategy call time.

Links Mentioned

AI Operator Academy — community with the full AI Concierge Offer business model, Jotform template, Notion hub template, and both Claude skills included: https://www.skool.com/aioperatoracademy/about

Voxer — walkie-talkie style async voice messaging app used for client communication between strategy calls: https://www.voxer.com

Jotform — form builder used to create the pre-call AI concierge intake questionnaire: https://www.jotform.com

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I sit down with Leon van Zyl, who ran a web design company for 10 years and now teaches over 700 people how to build real applications with coding agents. We walk through his exact workflow for building professional, client-ready websites using Google Stitch for the design system and Claude Code for the build — no coding skills required. Leon shows the difference between a one-shot AI-generated site and what you get when you front-load the design system before touching code. By the end, you'll have a repeatable workflow for going from design concept to finished website — including custom AI images that match your brand.

Links Mentioned:

Google Stitch: https://stitch.withgoogle.com

Claude Code: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code

Cursor: https://www.cursor.com

Next.js: https://nextjs.org

Stitch MCP Server Docs: https://stitch.withgoogle.com/docs/mcp

Stitch Skills: https://stitch.withgoogle.com/docs/skills

Timestamps

00:00 – Intro

00:06 – What you'll learn: design systems for client-ready websites

02:04 – Jumping into the screen share

02:25 – The problem: one-shot AI websites look terrible

03:52 – The Stitch workflow result: side-by-side comparison

07:32 – Starting from a vanilla Next.js project

08:50 – What is Google Stitch and how to get started

10:00 – Prompting Stitch with brand details, fonts, and colors

13:00 – Why design systems matter for coding agents

16:00 – Iterating on the homepage before building more pages

17:44 – Sharing Stitch designs with clients for approval

21:23 – Setting up the Stitch MCP server in Claude Code

23:18 – What an MCP server actually is (simple explanation)

25:56 – Pulling the design system into your project

28:47 – Memory files: Claude.md vs Agents.md explained

33:24 – Converting the Stitch design into a working website

35:06 – Installing the Stitch React Components skill

41:11 – When to use this workflow: client work vs personal projects

44:27 – Viewing the finished website vs the Stitch mockup

48:27 – Downloading and converting images to WebP for performance

53:46 – Generating custom AI images with Nano Banana Pro

58:14 – Final result with branded AI-generated hero image

01:00:48 – Key takeaways and wrap-up

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Introducing The Amazon Wholesale Podcast! This is a show where I'll be interviewing established wholesale sellers and diving into the deep end of wholesale to educate you about the space. In this episode, I had the pleasure of talking to FBA Elijah. He is a newer seller in the Amazon space and so he was asking lots of questions about Amazon and how to scale. He is already CRUSHING it on Amazon, so I hope you all learn a lot from this episode! I hope you all enjoy!

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Introducing The Amazon Wholesale Podcast! This is a show where I'll be interviewing established wholesale sellers and diving into the deep end of wholesale to educate you about the space. In this episode, I had the pleasure of talking to My Amazon Guy. He is someone who is SO knowledge on all things Amazon. He has done it all and there are few people in the Amazon space that know more than him. I hope you all enjoy!

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Introducing The Amazon Wholesale Podcast! This is a show where I'll be interviewing established wholesale sellers and diving into the deep end of wholesale to educate you about the space. I met with Julian, a college freshman who is going places in Amazon wholesale. He had reached out to me a couple of months ago asking to meet with me and get some advice on how to improve his wholesale business. In this call we talked all about getting started in Amazon wholesale and the transition from Online and Retail Arbitrage to wholesale. If you are a new seller and want to learn more, I HIGHLY recommend giving this a listen.

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Introducing The Amazon Wholesale Podcast! This is a show where I'll be interviewing established wholesale sellers and diving into the deep end of wholesale to educate you about the space. In this episode I talked to one of the biggest guys in the Amazon space. Warner Fields is such a great guy and we had a talk about the pros and cons of both Amazon Wholesale and online arbitrage. I hope you get a bunch of value from it!

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Introducing The Amazon Wholesale Podcast! This is a show where I'll be interviewing established wholesale sellers and diving into the deep end of wholesale to educate you about the space. In this episode I talked to two people who help me run my wholesale network group. This episode was PACKED with unbelievable value. I recommend listening to this episode at least twice. I hope you all enjoy! Join the Wholesale Network: https://www.wholesalenetwork.io/

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Introducing The Amazon Wholesale Podcast! This is a show where I'll be interviewing established wholesale sellers and diving into the deep end of wholesale to educate you about the space. In this episode I talked to three people who are part of my wholesale network and people that really are a joy to be around. They help me learn and grow everyday and it is great to see them winning everyday.

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Introducing The Amazon Wholesale Podcast! This is a show where I'll be interviewing established wholesale sellers and diving into the deep end of wholesale to educate you about the space. In this episode I talked to 3 people who are part of my wholesale network and people that really are a joy to be around. They help me learn and grow everyday and it is great to see them winning everyday.

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SOFTWARE I USE: 

💻 SmartScout (Tool for finding brand-direct wholesale accounts - 25% off your first 3 months): https://partners.smartscout.com/?fpr=corey89 Code: COREY25 

💰 SellerSnap (Best Amazon repricer on the market - 15% off first 3 mos) https://referrals.sellersnap.io/l/BrandRocket/

💵 Seller Investigators (Get automatically reimbursed when Amazon owes you money - first $500 in reimbursements FREE) Code: corey https://sellerinvestigators.com/reim/ref/corey

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