Dan Martell - Laziest Way to Make Money With AI (Zero Code)

00:00:00.000 Chat GPT is the kiddie pool of AI. While most people are chatting with AI, other people are

00:00:05.600 running entire businesses without lifting a finger. And 99% of entrepreneurs have no idea

00:00:10.660 this even exists. They're stuck manually doing work that AI could handle while they're on the

00:00:15.360 beach. I'm talking leads, outreach, delivery, all of it. I launch a new AI company every single

00:00:21.300 month in my venture studio, Martell Ventures. And I can tell you the only reason they scale

00:00:25.400 is because I'm not the one doing the work anymore, AI is.

00:00:28.740 So in this video, I'm gonna show you how to get customers

00:00:31.460 without even touching your keyboard.

00:00:33.480 But before we go into all the steps,

00:00:35.300 you need to understand the mindset shift

00:00:37.180 that makes all of this possible.

00:00:38.940 It's called the director versus the doer.

00:00:41.380 You are no longer the person who does the work.

00:00:43.820 You're the person who directs the shift.

00:00:46.180 The AI agents are your team

00:00:48.320 and your job is to tell them what to do, not do it yourself.

00:00:52.940 Most people go to the AI, they chat with it,

00:00:55.540 they take the response, they go to some results,

00:00:57.220 they give it to somebody, the person replies,

00:00:58.860 they take that, they go back in the AI,

00:01:00.540 and they're stuck in the middle.

00:01:02.060 I want you to ask yourself, why am I leaving this tool?

00:01:06.280 What am I doing with that information?

00:01:07.960 Can I get the tool to do it for me?

00:01:10.180 Stay in the tool, don't leave it.

00:01:13.220 Because if you do that,

00:01:14.520 then you're building end-to-end automations,

00:01:16.800 not being the person still stuck in the middle.

00:01:18.900 The best way to think about it is treat your AI

00:01:21.500 like a junior intern, somebody that's smart, somebody that you like, somebody that can do

00:01:26.760 a lot of things they can do, but you need to direct. So now let's get into actually how you

00:01:32.120 do this. Step one is attract. We have to build the lead list while you sleep. AI can do everything

00:01:38.080 that you've been doing. Just think about who your ideal buyer is and write down all the information

00:01:43.980 because here's what's crazy. AI can build all of that for you while you sleep. It can research,

00:01:50.480 It can pull, it can gather the contact info,

00:01:53.280 it can grab all their recent activities on social media,

00:01:56.020 it can look for pain points

00:01:57.280 that they've communicated to the world

00:01:59.020 by looking at their profiles.

00:02:00.160 Can you imagine tomorrow morning,

00:02:02.180 you wake up to a warm lead list,

00:02:04.680 people that are ready to buy,

00:02:06.260 actually done the way you love.

00:02:08.240 In the new world of AI,

00:02:09.580 the skill that separates people

00:02:11.400 is the ones that think in systems.

00:02:13.480 Systems stands for save yourself time,

00:02:15.280 energy, money, and stress.

00:02:16.940 And that is what AI will do for you.

00:02:19.340 I know what you're thinking.

00:02:20.480 That sounds easier said than done.

00:02:22.760 It's actually easier done than I've said.

00:02:25.660 It'll take you less time to do it

00:02:27.120 than the amount of time it's taken me

00:02:28.320 to get you to this point in the video.

00:02:29.840 So here's how you actually do it.

00:02:30.940 Let's pretend I have a digital marketing agency

00:02:33.160 and I help brands grow.

00:02:34.680 I help them grow their online presence

00:02:36.200 and I help them scale their revenue.

00:02:37.820 Step one, open Manus.

00:02:39.740 Okay, it's Manus AI, but the URL is manus.im.

00:02:42.480 The reason I'm using Manus is because I've showed people

00:02:45.300 that are 70 years old how to use the tool

00:02:47.800 and they've started to automate their personal life

00:02:50.380 and it's the most approachable one to everybody.

00:02:53.280 All my coaching clients, it's Manus.

00:02:55.100 My team, Manus.

00:02:56.400 For right now, it is the tool that will help you automate

00:02:59.540 without you having to understand the technical sides

00:03:01.660 of any of this automation.

00:03:02.820 So we load up Manus AI.

00:03:04.180 It should look familiar.

00:03:05.040 It's how every AI tool works.

00:03:06.620 So we fill in the prompt.

00:03:07.740 Very simple.

00:03:08.680 Find the 50 e-commerce brands

00:03:10.020 in the health and wellness space

00:03:11.140 active on Instagram and Facebook.

00:03:12.780 That tells me the early adopters or they're active

00:03:14.880 who post in the last 30 days, also qualifies them.

00:03:18.360 Pull their company name, their website,

00:03:19.900 their social media, their handles, recent topics into a table. You can even add stuff like make

00:03:25.640 some assumptions on what their revenues are based on what you find on LinkedIn. You can do a lot of

00:03:30.440 stuff there, but I just want to keep this simple and fast for all of you guys to get this result.

00:03:34.800 So do this for your business. And the coolest part to make this really simple for you, I'm going to

00:03:38.860 save all the system prompts, all the templates, everything I share with you below in the

00:03:43.140 description. So you can just copy and paste it for yourself. And then I hit enter. Step two,

00:03:47.900 It's gonna open up a browser

00:03:49.640 and automate the scraping of all the information that I need.

00:03:53.700 This is things that most people pay interns for,

00:03:56.360 agencies, or maybe you've been doing this for the last year

00:03:58.700 and you no longer have to do it.

00:04:00.520 It'll go and figure itself out.

00:04:02.100 And if it gets stuck, guess what?

00:04:03.320 It'll just ask you how to solve the problem.

00:04:05.900 And you can notice it already found a website

00:04:08.080 that lists the top 50 brands that I might wanna sell to.

00:04:10.960 It even asked me, do I wanna do a wide research search

00:04:14.160 so that I can make it faster and more accurate?

00:04:16.120 In this step, Manus goes,

00:04:17.200 hey, I've got this information. I can do this like massive research project, but it is going

00:04:21.500 to cost some money. So it prompts you first. So it doesn't go and just start charging your credit

00:04:24.840 card. But because I just want the initial list, I don't need it to do that. But if I wanted to,

00:04:29.380 it would literally spin up a bunch of different agents to accomplish this process to get it done

00:04:33.540 faster. So it keeps doing the research. It finds all the information I asked for, and then it

00:04:37.600 creates a table into a spreadsheet. Done. Automagically. I know. You're like, how did it

00:04:43.980 in that it's ai stop pretending not to know now you've got a list full of leads but here's where

00:04:51.020 most people fail they either don't reach out to those leads because they're like i don't think

00:04:54.860 the person will buy from me they get inside their head or they send them some generic messages copy

00:05:00.220 and paste crap that they find on the internet that's where this next step comes in step number

00:05:04.700 two i call this convert we want to personalize the outreach so now that we've got all the research 0.97

00:05:09.900 done. It's got the lead list. I can now ask it to write personalized outbound messages. I can do

00:05:15.400 email, LinkedIn, Instagram, whatever way you want. And then you can ask it to track to see if there's

00:05:20.680 been a reply so that you can get engaged. It's kind of crazy because it'll monitor your inbox

00:05:24.640 and notify you when someone is interested. I use this all the time. I even built a custom GPT to

00:05:30.420 personalize outreach so that if I have people on my email list and I want to invite them to

00:05:34.400 something, it writes a very short and personalized email based on their situation, what they've

00:05:39.660 posted online. Now it gets reviewed, but then that way it takes 90% of the effort off of my plate or

00:05:45.460 my assistant's plate, which reminds me of a quote I love to share with people, which I believe broke

00:05:50.080 people get good at doing tasks. They like get excited about doing, doing, doing, but rich people

00:05:54.160 get good at avoiding them. I am lazy. I do not want to repeat something I've done before. I call

00:05:59.200 it dry. Don't repeat yourself. And if I can use AI to automate stuff that isn't a human connection,

00:06:04.800 I'm doing it. So here's how we actually do it in Manus. First, you got to take the lead list

00:06:09.000 And then we add this prompt, which is act as an expert in sales and marketing.

00:06:13.160 Draft a personalized email to each brand on this list.

00:06:15.920 Reference their recent social media posts or campaign.

00:06:18.800 And this is my intro.

00:06:19.800 I help brands scale their online presence and increase revenue without burning ad budget.

00:06:23.740 Ask if they'd be open to a 15-minute call.

00:06:25.800 It wrote the email.

00:06:26.680 I can open it up.

00:06:27.380 I can edit.

00:06:27.920 It's in my spreadsheet.

00:06:29.000 Notice that it personalized the subject line, the text.

00:06:31.900 You can customize this.

00:06:33.220 If you're like, oh, I don't know if I like that response.

00:06:35.600 Cool.

00:06:36.220 Tweak it.

00:06:36.900 Play with it.

00:06:37.500 Just track it so that you know what your response rates are.

00:06:40.240 I've seen all kinds of emails work.

00:06:42.500 This is just an example to get you started.

00:06:44.660 And again, I have the fill in the blank template

00:06:46.200 below in the description.

00:06:47.520 Even though Manus can send those emails from your inbox,

00:06:50.560 it can't mass do this.

00:06:52.320 So that's where you're gonna maybe wanna connect a tool

00:06:54.100 like Instantly, Smart Lead, or something similar

00:06:56.240 so that it can do the marketing automation for you.

00:06:59.260 And I'm honestly not surprised

00:07:00.680 if Manus adds that feature in the near future.

00:07:02.920 Now that it's written the emails and you've sent them out,

00:07:05.700 You could say, every 24 hours, review my email for replies to these outreach emails. If anyone

00:07:11.320 replies with interest, not just telling us to stop, send me a notification and message on Slack,

00:07:16.160 you've got a reply from a potential customer. The point here is that I want to show you that

00:07:20.260 it can monitor your email and let you know. That's what's called end-to-end agentic workflows.

00:07:25.320 The goal bar is now you just wait. You go do other work, and eventually if you get a response,

00:07:28.740 it'll tell you. Now, before we keep going, I've got something exciting to tell you.

00:07:32.240 I want to meet you.

00:07:33.580 Yes, you.

00:07:35.080 I've never done this before, but I've been bugging my team.

00:07:37.320 And I said, look, I want to meet the people that follow me.

00:07:39.540 So I want to fly you out to hang out with me and my team.

00:07:42.160 And we're going to tour the office.

00:07:43.420 We'll go for a hike.

00:07:44.360 You'll come with me in one of my supercars.

00:07:46.460 We'll even personally customize a full agentic AI system for your business.

00:07:51.500 But there are some rules.

00:07:52.600 Number one, you got to be subscribed to this channel.

00:07:54.800 Two, you got to be following me on Instagram.

00:07:56.940 And third, DM me the word giveaway on Instagram.

00:08:00.200 And I will be checking that you're subscribed

00:08:02.240 and follow me, so don't cheat.

00:08:03.680 We'll be closing submission one week

00:08:05.620 from the time this video gets dropped,

00:08:07.520 so don't sleep on this, because this could be you.

00:08:09.800 I'm excited.

00:08:10.660 So if you've been watching and you feel like you're a fan

00:08:12.620 and you're like, this is the time, enter in.

00:08:15.120 All right, back to the AI workflow.

00:08:16.800 So now you got leads, you've got meetings booked

00:08:19.080 because people replied, now the pressure's on.

00:08:21.900 You need to actually deliver.

00:08:23.400 But most people get stuck here

00:08:24.660 because they're drowning in work

00:08:26.160 that they don't have time to respond,

00:08:27.900 but that's about to change.

00:08:29.480 Step three, deliver.

00:08:31.080 AI does the work.

00:08:32.820 Yes, I know you're the genius.

00:08:34.480 You are the person and you're the artist

00:08:36.220 and you craft things,

00:08:37.360 but AI can actually do a lot of the deliverables.

00:08:39.640 It's not just about organizing files

00:08:41.200 and creating the final product.

00:08:42.860 It actually analyzes data.

00:08:44.480 It can find the insights.

00:08:45.680 It can build branded reports for you.

00:08:47.600 You can create the prompts that generates the output

00:08:50.140 that these people don't know how to do

00:08:51.600 because you're the expert.

00:08:52.540 You review it and then you send it, that's it.

00:08:55.400 Even at Martell Media,

00:08:56.840 a lot of the stuff we do is very artistic.

00:08:59.000 but there's processes that is manual.

00:09:01.180 So for example, taking a transcript of a training I've done

00:09:03.660 and extracting all my insights,

00:09:05.100 I'm talking quotes and contrarian takes and one-liners.

00:09:08.260 So now I have Manus that monitors a folder

00:09:10.700 and as things get saved there,

00:09:12.080 it analyzes, it processes it,

00:09:14.160 and then it saves it in Notion.

00:09:15.520 That way my team can pull all the inputs there

00:09:18.000 and put the outlines together

00:09:19.180 so that I can just sit down and have a lot of fun

00:09:20.800 and I don't have to think too hard.

00:09:22.100 Most people don't understand

00:09:23.640 that automation is the biggest form of leverage

00:09:26.040 and the coolest part is they'll give you speed.

00:09:27.900 And if you don't have speed,

00:09:29.620 that's the tax you pay for not having the clarity you need.

00:09:32.800 So let's have some fun.

00:09:33.900 Let's say that I just heard back from AG1,

00:09:36.260 the green powder company,

00:09:37.820 and now we're gonna use Manus to do all the research

00:09:40.320 to give it a specific proposal.

00:09:42.500 So here's the prompt.

00:09:43.700 Analyze AG1's online presence, review their website,

00:09:46.320 Instagram, Facebook, and recent ad campaigns

00:09:48.060 from the last six months.

00:09:49.540 Find reoccurring patterns and insights,

00:09:51.380 focus on engagement, what posts, ads,

00:09:53.480 and content formats drove the most interactions,

00:09:55.660 what message worked and what didn't

00:09:57.920 put all insights into a table.

00:09:59.940 You can see it starts doing the research.

00:10:01.480 It pulls up their socials, the website,

00:10:03.440 all within the app automatically.

00:10:06.260 I didn't have to go out and find their Instagram

00:10:08.140 and give it in the information.

00:10:09.660 We already did the research before

00:10:11.040 and now we're just saying, hey, let's double down.

00:10:13.180 Now you can check out the full detailed analysis

00:10:15.840 that would have taken any human weeks to put together.

00:10:18.680 This is like 60 hours worth of work

00:10:20.680 from the research to the leads, to the personalized emails,

00:10:23.500 to now creating the proposal

00:10:25.060 that you're going to send over to create some value in advance. When people say to me, it's like,

00:10:28.780 I don't know how to make a business. I'm like, please stop. You can automate your whole business.

00:10:33.720 You can ask AI how to start the business. You can ask AI how to create the business. You can ask AI

00:10:37.080 how to generate everything. You can use AI to monetize. So now that's just the research. Now

00:10:42.740 I want to make it presentable. So what do I do? Back into Manus. You can ask it, create a presentation

00:10:47.900 report with these insights, go to their website, pull their branding, colors, logos, fonts, and

00:10:52.240 replicate it in the presentation style.

00:10:54.480 Make it look like it came from their team

00:10:56.480 in terms of visual style.

00:10:58.000 And now it starts creating a full presentation.

00:11:01.300 It pretty much makes it look like something

00:11:03.380 their team should have done,

00:11:04.380 but you can get paid to do it,

00:11:06.020 and they're gonna get excited

00:11:07.100 because they feel like it's hyper-personalized. 0.83

00:11:09.060 It's not some generic garbage,

00:11:10.560 especially like when people use their own templates.

00:11:13.020 It's like, why not customize it to the brand

00:11:15.660 of the company you're talking to?

00:11:17.120 And with AI, it can do it for you.

00:11:18.720 It found the brand colors, it presented the information,

00:11:21.700 It visualized it with the diagram.

00:11:23.480 It created the overview of each slides.

00:11:25.600 The best part is I can ask it to save it as a public link,

00:11:27.920 and then I have a link I can email to them

00:11:29.860 to make it really simple, not a PDF they gotta download.

00:11:32.580 And they're like, holy cow,

00:11:33.460 they built a custom website with the presentation.

00:11:36.300 So I have a presentation here,

00:11:37.860 but I can turn it into a website,

00:11:39.320 but just asking Manus to publish it to a public URL.

00:11:41.900 Now they've got a website with my presentation,

00:11:44.200 which makes it look like the effort that I did

00:11:46.380 to win their business is huge.

00:11:48.660 Nobody's doing this.

00:11:49.520 the people that are, are winning big time. Imagine you sell homes and you can personalize

00:11:54.520 the proposal by asking the AI to go through their social media feed, pull pictures of their family

00:11:59.460 and merge the photos of the house that they asked you about with pictures of their family

00:12:03.740 in the photos. Yes, it can do that. And then you send that to the potential buyer and they go,

00:12:09.060 holy cow, the proposal is custom with photos from our family. They're going to tell everybody about

00:12:14.960 you. They're going to be at dinner tonight, telling their friends, they're going to be

00:12:17.620 shown their coworkers. And this can all be done through AI with barely touching your keyboard.

00:12:22.760 So now you've automated delivering fast and the clients are happy. But what happens when you

00:12:27.360 actually want to grow? See, most people get stuck doing the same thing over and over again. And what

00:12:31.580 you need to do instead is you got to stay ahead. And you do that by step four, automate everything

00:12:36.860 else you need to scale. You can run your entire organization from one tool. So for example,

00:12:42.580 my assistant Ann uses Manus to automate all of her repetitive tasks. He used to have a small team,

00:12:48.300 doesn't need the team anymore. The messages, the answers, the replies, the scheduling,

00:12:52.260 all through Manus. So my question to you is what are you going to do to stay on top of this?

00:12:57.320 Because I'm just showing you the beginning, but if you don't pay attention, you're just going to

00:13:00.900 get left behind. And just to get you brainstorming a little bit more, here's what else AI can do for

00:13:05.720 you. So I'll give you three examples. And the cool part is I've got prompts for them all below in the

00:13:09.620 description. You can do content research. You can do client feedback analysis. You can do business

00:13:14.320 insights. Manus will handle it all. You just have to prove and execute. That's how we scale. So you

00:13:20.320 set all this stuff up, the automation, the systems. But this next question is the one that really holds

00:13:26.220 people up. Step number five. So what do you do now? When AI can do everything, how do you actually

00:13:32.840 differentiate yourself? The way I think about it is it always comes down to three things. Taste,

00:13:37.920 vision and care that's what makes you you that's what makes you irreplaceable that's why people

00:13:43.360 buy from you business is not b2b it's h2h human to human let me break it down for you taste is you 0.86

00:13:50.600 knowing what good looks like most people cannot tell you what a great facebook ad looks like

00:13:55.720 ai can generate a bunch of ads but only somebody with taste can know that so you have to teach

00:14:00.820 yourself vision understanding where the future is going and vision for me is seeing a future that

00:14:06.340 doesn't exist yet but should and the third is care and this is the h2h part this is where

00:14:12.340 you actually focus on the people you understand what drives them what are their motivation you

00:14:17.620 build your emotional intelligence see when ai can solve every problem your heart is what makes you

00:14:23.220 stand out so to build your taste you want to go and study the best examples of whatever you do

00:14:28.740 to build your vision you want to start researching and understanding where the world's going and

00:14:33.060 and start communicating that with other smart people.

00:14:35.640 To build your care, you wanna start asking people,

00:14:37.940 be curious about them, understand what makes them tick

00:14:40.280 and work on your own psychology.

00:14:42.040 The reason I'm so excited about this

00:14:43.580 is AI will give you all your time back

00:14:45.940 so you can focus on being even greater at what you do,

00:14:49.460 which means you should get better.

00:14:51.700 Improve your skills around taste, vision, care,

00:14:54.120 improve your ability to learn AI, automate more,

00:14:57.380 teach it to other people, teach it to your team.

00:14:59.500 Honestly, be a trusted resource for your customers.

00:15:01.980 They're all struggling with the same thing.

00:15:03.600 Now that you know this, why don't you show them?

00:15:05.880 But here's the question,

00:15:06.980 what are you pretending not to know?

00:15:08.920 I tell people all the time,

00:15:10.640 if you wanna learn AI, ask AI.

00:15:12.740 And people continuously come to me asking me,

00:15:14.720 how do I learn AI?

00:15:15.800 In that question, they're pretending not to know

00:15:18.080 that AI can teach them,

00:15:19.860 that AI's programming language is English,

00:15:22.080 that this is the first technology in the history of mankind

00:15:24.360 that can teach you how to use it better.

00:15:26.920 The internet didn't do that, mobile didn't do that,

00:15:29.360 crypto didn't do that, AI does that.

00:15:31.900 I really wanna challenge you to stop doing the work

00:15:34.700 that AI can handle, stay in the tool

00:15:37.460 so that you can focus on the things

00:15:38.960 that only you can bring to the table.

00:15:40.620 And again, if you want all the prompts,

00:15:42.180 they're below in the description,

00:15:43.360 but if you wanna participate in the giveaway

00:15:45.560 and come hang out with me and the team

00:15:47.560 and actually build some of this stuff with me,

00:15:49.900 make sure you're subscribed to this channel,

00:15:51.540 follow me on Instagram and DM me the word giveaway.

00:15:54.320 And if you wanna use AI to scale your content,

00:15:56.860 click the link and I'll see you on the other side.

Dan Martell - March 19, 2026

Laziest Way to Make Money With AI (Zero Code)

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