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3 profitable side gigs you can do with OpenAI’s Sora AI video tool
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OpenAI’s Sora, a new AI video generation tool that creates high-quality videos from text descriptions, presents several potential business opportunities. Here are three ways to monetize this technology:

  1. Prompt Engineering Services
    • Develop expertise in crafting precise text prompts that generate optimal video results with Sora
    • Target specific market niches to differentiate your services
    • Build a portfolio demonstrating your ability to create exactly what clients envision
    • Study Sora’s capabilities and limitations to provide expert guidance
  1. AI Video Creative Agency
    • Offer full-service video production using Sora’s capabilities
    • Learn complementary video editing skills to enhance and customize AI-generated content
    • Begin by creating free sample videos for local businesses to build a portfolio
    • Develop service packages at different price points for various client needs
    • Focus on commercial applications like marketing videos and social media content
  1. Content Creation Business
    • Generate video content for social media platforms including Instagram and YouTube
    • Utilize ChatGPT for script development and content planning
    • Target lucrative niches such as finance, business, or technology
    • Create consistent, high-quality content to build audience engagement
    • Monetize through platform revenue sharing, sponsorships, and brand partnerships

For any of these ventures, use this storytelling framework to market your services:

  1. Ordinary World: Identify client’s current situation
  2. Call to Adventure: Present the opportunity or solution
  3. Crisis Challenges: Address potential obstacles
  4. Results or Reward: Showcase expected outcomes and benefits

Looking ahead: While Sora’s release presents immediate opportunities for entrepreneurs, success will likely depend on developing unique expertise and establishing early market presence as competition increases.

Note: Sora is currently in testing phase, so business plans should remain flexible and adapt as the technology evolves.

3 lucrative side hustles you can start right now with OpenAI's Sora video generator

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