For those with a passion for mindfulness and yoga, sharing your inner journey can be healing for you, fulfilling for your reader and profitable too.

One of the most effective ways to start making money online is by launching a newsletter blog, and with AI Tools, the entire process just got way easier!

For example, I chose to build this yoga and meditation newsletter blog on Beehiiv. I’ll certainly be posting data on how this project grew from zero because I am following the same processes that you can also follow. I write about meditation as a newsletter because it is the Fifth Stage of my own PTSD Recovery.

If you've been following my journey as I’ve been writing here and on Medium, you know that I've put myself through a lot. That rough road taught me a lot and if I can help others by sharing my mistakes, then I just have to write this down where other heartbroken and stressed can find this path to relief.

From extreme trauma to personal healing through yoga and meditation, I've come a long way. Now, I'm on a mission to help others find their path to healing and transformation.

Today, I want to share how I've been using cutting-edge AI technologies to plan my startup and grow my new small business idea in some fantastic ways, and how any small town Yoga Teacher can do the same.

Why Meditation Stools and Why Now?

Because of my own knee injury, I started to search for a stool I could use while I’m doing my Dr. Joe meditations. I realized that meditation stools are a simple yet impactful product that people in this community are always using.

I can now write an amazingly detailed product comparison post about meditation stools and link to amazon to earn a wee commission if any of my readers clicks through and buys one.

• But do they really sell lot?

• Which one sells the best?

• And why?

Harnessing the Power of AI

I've been working closely with ai-businessplans.com, where I'm learning to harness some amazing AI tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney and Writesonic to

help me find and write reviews for the best selling products on Amazon and Etsy. These tools have been a game-changer and I’m still just getting used to just how much the AI Tools get done for me. It’s insane, actually.

Perhaps you are struggling with monetizing a blog about yoga or meditation and mindfulness. The journey often seems complex and overwhelming unless we break it down into small steps you can follow.

I've been following step-by-step, hand-holding tutorials that have made implementing these AI tools incredibly straightforward. So let me introduce you to some tools; and share how I’m using them. I’m doing the work now to see just how effective these tools can be for growing my newsletter.

How AI is Changing the Game

One of the big "eye-openers" that shocked me was how AI-Tools can rapidly edit video, process video transcripts and rewrite the content with more effective keywords and better sales copy. Many new blogging processes are so much faster and at the same time I can massively increase the quality of the content that I’m producing.

Here's how:

1. Generative AI Tools: I've used AI to craft detailed business plans and content. It's like having an entire team of content writers but without the cost. This has made my content creation 10x cheaper, 4x faster, and it sure seems 100x easier than doing it all on my own.

2. AI for Visual Content: I’m getting used to creating stunning visual content for my posts. I don’t have to search stock photos anymore, I can create something contextual like a breeze with AI tools.

3. AI-Assisted Writing: Writesonic taps into ChatGPT4 and includes more tools that are becoming invaluable for quickly drafting newsletters, blog posts, and marketing copy. It's almost cookie-cutter easy once you get the flow going.

4. AI-Powered Marketing: Maybe the biggest change for me personally, is that I've been using AI-driven strategies for customer research and keyword analytics, giving me a new starting point in producing content that people are actually searching for.

Why Should You Care?

If you're an entrepreneur, startup, or part of a marketing team, these AI tools are redefining the business of your future. They're certainly redefining how your competition is doing business and I hope that by sharing my journey, I might get some feedback and tips from you and others who follow me. I'm turning my passion for yoga and mindfulness into a thriving online community of authors and yoga teachers and this newsletter that I plan to grow into a full-fledged passive income stream.

I know amazing yoga teachers at my local yoga studio and I’ve met some masters of mindfulness who really could make a passive income blogging about their skills and passion - and I hope to inspire them, and you, with before and after case studies of how these tools are working for me.

Aims of this 3-Hour Set Up:

To help you identify a profitable niche and concept for your meditation stools.

To assist in outlining a passive income meditation stool newsletter.

To guide you through how to use ChatGPT and other AI Tools to save hours of time every day.

Find The Comfy Stools!

Before you start writing about YOUR favorite seat for meditating, find out what meditation stools people are actually searching for… and find out if they are even using that phrase when they are searching!

Use research tools like Helium 10 for Amazon and Everbee on Etsy.

Find out what is selling and dig into the keywords that people are using to search and find these top-selling products. This is the secret key to creating meditation stools where there is a high demand and that’s where you can connect up revenue streams to make this a passive revenue stream.

Hour 1: Conceptualization and Planning

15 Minutes: Craft Your Concept

Use Amazon Best Sellers list to identify top selling listings in the meditation stool market.

Install the free browser extension from Helium 10 and visit the listing page for each best-selling Amazon meditation stool. The extra insights, sales data, and keywords that people use to find these top-selling meditation stools are the gold we have come to mine.

Create a spreadsheet and start to collect ideas we can flesh out into an original product comparison post about these top selling meditation stools.

After a general meditation stool search on Amazon, I click on the first best-selling listing and scroll down to find out the categories where this product is selling at the top.

Then I can use the Amazon Best Sellers page to drill down to those categories and find a few of the meditation stools that match the style I’m preparing for the next meditation stool newsletter.

Here are some amazing results from just one example!

Using the Helium 10 Xray Tool, we can get a better idea of the actual sales volume for each of the meditation stools and I can collect the brand names of the best selling product lines. After a bit of sleuthing…

It’s easy to see that there is are steady sales for meditation stools!

Meditation Stool Sales $10,000 Revenue

Is The Research Tool Worth It?

Check out all the data in the free chrome extension. Starting out in the correct direction is such a good idea!

I want to start filling out my spreadsheet with the high volume phrases yet I also want to stay laser focused on the meditation phrases.

This keyword research started with a generic term, found a related high volume phrase and that led me back into a grouping of keywords I had not been considering!

I can collect these phrases and continue to fill out my spreadsheet for later processing with our AI writing tools. We’ll have ChatGPT and Writesonic mash together different descriptions of similar top-selling products and mix our best keywords into it - to create some amazing product blog posts that we can quickly edit for accuracy.

Striking A Gold Mine (83k Per Month)

The Lazyzizi Yoga Chaise is totally new to me, but its making 83k per month in sales volume so I’m glad to learn about it!

Good to be aware of the alternate keywords people may be using to search for the same product - they may have a different use intended.

How To Mine The Gold!

My own book on Yoga and Stress Recovery may not sell as well as the meditation chairs that I can promote as an affiliate. My own happy stories about how yoga and meditation changed my entire life experience… might bring in the audience… but the MONEY might come in from a very unexpected quarter.

Sure I want people to rave about my lifelong mission to share how you can change your own brain through intentional meditation… but, I have to put my ego aside and be prepared to let another star have the front stage on my newsletter and website!

If I want my message to be sustainable and to reach more people, the project needs a revenue stream. And if I can create a passive income stream that makes money without my hourly effort - then this can continue to make money and serve people… making a difference in the world, even after I’m dead.

15 Minutes: Compare What’s Up On Etsy

Use the free Everbee browser extension to compare different top-selling meditation stools on Etsy. Collect more keyword data, sample design titles, and take note of image ideas that catch your eye.

Type in your search and start making a spreadsheet of the top monthly search phrases.

You can make the most of this by stepping through the first letter of the alphabet and uncover more and more data. Collect all the good stuff.

Sort the search results, then open each of the listings.

Once you find the meditation stools, cushions or chairs that are making sales… now we can drill down into this listing and learn what we can from their keywords and sales copy.

Hour 2: Content Creation

45-60 Minutes: Newsletter Setup Time!

Set Up Your Newsletter Blog Choose a platform that integrates both blogging and newsletter features, such as Beehiiv, Substack, or Revue. This way, every time you post a new design, subscribers get it directly in their inbox.

Five Point Newsletter Structure:

1. Build your newsletter to have a similar structure and layout for each issue so your readers get to recognize your content as it’s own brand when they see the email come in.

2. Start with the personal story about the design with a hook at the start that you promise to reveal at the bottom of the newsletter issue.

3. Include a featured meditation product section where you mention the benefits of one of the top-selling items your research has uncovered.

4. Provide the main content of you email newsletter. As a yoga focused blog - I’m interested in helping individual yoga instructors to expand their revenue streams by helping seekers get more out of yoga.

5. Finally, finish your personal story and reveal the answer to the question or the hook you used in the start of the story.

Brand Name

If you don’t have a brand name in mind, use ChatGPT to help you craft a list of 20 different meditation newsletter ideas and put together the parts that stand out to you.

Brand Logo

If you don’t have your own unique logo, check out MidJourney. I’ve been using it for months and will share a dedicated post on how I write and develop MidJourney prompts that create spectacular images.

Use Beehiiv to set up all the basics about your new newsletter. Use the simple default settings to get started. I’m still learning how to make the most of the cool AI Tools in the Beehiiv Newsletters, but for now, we want to get started and verify our site with Google Webmaster Tools to start the process of getting listed in the search engines.

Hour 3: Publishing and Marketing

45-60 Minutes: Design Time!

Craft Engaging Content Designs: This is where the AI Tools start to take all our research and turn it into something unique and amazing, and we can link Amazon products for affiliate revenue. Gather the text from the product descriptions of the item you want to promote and organize the best keywords from the data. Then let the AI writing tool do the hard work of mashing them together into something new.

Prompt: “Create 5 variations of the following meditation stool product description. Make only slight variations without adding features that are not mentioned. I will include a list of keywords and I want you to replace semantically related wording in the product descriptions with the keywords I’ve provided.”

Stories Captivate: Share the inspiration behind each product you feature. This is what will connect your audience to clicking through your listings to the product itself. How is this product important for your personal healing journey? Personal anecdotes make your content relatable. Brainstorm some actual, real experiences and then ask ChatGPT or WriteSonic to rewrite your story into a longer format.

ChatGPT Prompt: “take this personal story about how my knee started to feel pain after a seated meditation and expand it into a more detailed story, start with a nearly clickbait beginning and reveal the answer in the final lines of the story — begin with an emotional story of the unexpected knee pain when I stood up after meditating and how this knee pain lingered for several days — finally I found a stool that was created for correct posture while meditating and my knee is feeling a lot better again.”

Use ChatGPT to generate your story around the top-selling meditation stool theme, and then edit the draft into something that really is personal, as I’ve done with the post you are reading now.

Use AI Tools To Supercharge Amazon Product Affiliate Sales

15 Minutes: Social Media:

Promote each new product review post as a unique revenue stream. Each product you promote is a unique place to build your network. Find the company page on LinkedIn and connect with the company reps. Follow what the company is doing and engage with their content and you can benefit from their network! Share snippets, photos, or short videos of your meditation stools on platforms like Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook.

More Publishing Options For Growth

Medium.com MiniNet: Create your own dedicated publication on Medium and post related products together. (I’ll talk more about the power of connecting different blogging platforms in a future post.)

Collaborations: Follow fellow bloggers in your niche on Medium and engage with their content. Find niche related publications that accept guest posts. Find the affiliate programs for meditation products so you can build many income streams from your mindfulness stories.

Engage: Keep a small daily routine for engaging in the community of yoga and mindfulness bloggers on Medium and in LinkedIn Groups. Take note of those groups with the best engagement and activity so you can share your future posts. Respond to comments within these communities. Your engagement will grow your followers which increases the effectiveness of your next content.

Build and Nurture Your Community

Engagement is what sets your content apart from the ocean of product review posts out there. People love a story and people want to connect and to be heard. The more you promote other authors and encourage subscribers to share their experiences, the faster your own following will grow.

Plan Product Groupings

While you continue to research products daily and create new content around a new top selling product, we always have the aim of building 6 to 12 products in the same category so you can fill out your first category of products. It doesn’t have to be a large collection, but organizing related products together will add credibility to your newsletter website it provides a high quality experience for your followers while also boosting your number of revenue streams.

Curate Ideas Every Day: Be sure to use the free keyword research options on Everbee and Helium 10 and keep building out your spreadsheet of the best selling and most popular meditation products. Create your own flair for your style of product review posts and refer your readers to these top-selling products through your referral link.

Add Value: Include exclusive interview notes from your company connections you have nurtured via LinkedIn, or create some unique new video short clips about the product that haven’t been featured on anywhere else.

For example, Video AI tools like AutoClip AI can let you process product videos from the manufacturer and use these new and unique short clips within your promotional posts… linking through your referral link, naturally!

Design: You can ask ChatGPT4 to browse the Canva plugin to find a range of premade design templates, or you can consider hiring a five-star professional on Fiverr for layout and design to ensure your product line is visually appealing.

Publishing Options

Self-Publishing: Platforms like Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing or Blurb and even Etsy Publishing allow you to retain creative control and earn higher royalties. Once you have self-published a product line, you can apply to have Verified Author Status on your Medium Profile which immediately makes your profile stand out.

Traditional Publishing: If you’ve built a significant following, traditional publishers might be interested. They handle production, distribution, and marketing, and while they also take a larger cut of the profits, these deals can help you dramatically grow your lucrative email newsletter.

Celebrate and Expand

Once your newsletter issue is out, celebrate with your community. Your new product review post is now another revenue stream and a powerful way to build your newsletter subscribers. It creates a feedback loop of growing your passive income potentials.

In conclusion, your love for yoga and mindfulness REALLY CAN be the foundation of a thriving online community and a successful newsletter that grows into a full-fledged product line. With passion, correct research into what is actually selling, along with consistent posting and engagement with your followers, your love of yoga can take you places you’ve only dreamed of. Happy meditating!

All thanks to the power of this crazy new generation of Artificial Intelligence tools. If I can do it, so can you. Join me and let's redefine the yoga business of our future, with AI.

Sending you love and positive energy.

You are worthy, you CAN recover—and thrive!

Jim Moore, Moore Meditations.