Vancouver's entrepreneurs and software designers have changed their passion for creating free videos on how to use artificial intelligence (AI) for six-figure businesses and nearly one million social media followers.
Kushank Aggarwal said biv He increased DigitalSamaritan's revenue from around 17% to $350,000 last year, from around $300,000 in 2023.
The revenue comes from partnerships with the brands he mentions in several videos. He also said it comes from paying customers for software that his company developed and promoted on video.
Most videos he has no personal interests without sponsorship, he said.
His over 1,500 video tutorials since 2020 have undoubtedly driven engagement and boosted his social media.
Tiktok shows that his account has 446,100 followers. His Instagram account has 534,000 followers, but his relatively new activity on YouTube has attracted 6,080 subscribers so far.
He estimated that his videos were combined to have around 155 million views.
Making your passion for making videos into a successful social media star is nothing new.
There are many ways to make money from the success of social media.
For example, the Vancouver Airports Authority paid $15,000 a day to $50 a day to $15,000 a salary and $50 a day as part of a post on 80 days of stints, blogs and videos that he lived at the airport in 2011. The point was to highlight the airport hotels in Fairmont Vancouver and the many shops and restaurants within the airport terminals.
Since then, Mah has worked with a variety of clients through the Jaeger Mah video production company.
The following year, Tourism Richmond paid Lindsay Anderson a $50,000 salary plus a $30 scholarship a day to eat at Richmond restaurants and blogs for just one year.
Similarly, when Marriott International Inc. wanted to promote Douglas' autograph hotel when it opened in Vancouver in 2017, Marriott chose influencer ally Pintocci as the winner of the hotel's residency contest for a month free, winning $5,000 on the condition that he would create a social media post about her blog and her experience.
2011 videographer Jaeger Mah won a contest to perform live on YVR for 80 days and was paid to the blog about it. Chongchou
Small business owners can cut out established influencers, run their own YouTube videos, and become social media stars in their own right.
Longtime Vancouver cookware store owners Jed and Regal Greeve closed their chef culture store at 377 House Treat in 2022 as part of a pivot that focuses on building online sales.
They built a studio on a real estate on Vancouver Island and created educational videos posted to YouTube for around 20,500 subscribers of the time. They also blow up the corporate newsletter on roughly 30,000 email accounts, Jed Grave said. biv at that time.
Digitalsamaritan will be launched during the pandemic
The Aggarwal story began in 2020 and generated revenues of around $15,000 to $20,000 from brand partnerships, but most of the work was done simply for the joy of creation.
Revenue jumped to around $100,000 in 2022 thanks to brand partnerships with companies such as Zapier, Jotform and Copy.ai.
“We also had a brand partnership with Canadian tires in 2022,” he said. “It wasn't necessarily about AI, but they wanted content about technology and wanted me to talk about how I could find their new phone app and items in the store.”
In 2023 he realized that he could not only sell software from other companies, but also embrace the background in computer systems and software development for his brother Natic Agarwal.
The brothers added full-time employees and various contractors, and built their own application that Aggarwal discusses in the video.
They have free options and help users generate powerful prompts to plug in to AI chatbots such as the then relatively new ChatGPT after being released on the big fanfare in November 2022.
These prompts also work with follow-up AI chatbots such as Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Gemini and Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Copilot.
According to Aggarwal, rapid Genie is generating significant revenue.
The DigitalSamaritan team then created Map.Sape.Somed.This. This has a free option, allowing users to upload PDFs or reports and create map-like charts that link rectangular box ideas to AI to each other.
“Map. This revenue was a struggle at first,” he said.
“People were using the free plan because the free plan was so generous. We then identified ways that they also have a pricing model that would help them maintain their products without disappointing users.”
Earlier this month, the company launched its third software product, Looplytic. This helps businesses get feedback using surveys.
Instead of having a static survey, Looplytic uses AI to create personalized follow-up questions.
“All follow-up questions are generated based on the answers,” Aggarwal said. “It's much more personalized and the insights you get are much more valuable.”
He is currently looking ahead to further diversify his revenue streams by providing personal consulting to businesses that want to integrate AI into operations.
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