AI Business Setup Checklist: Step-by-Step Guide for Infoproduct Entrepreneurs

Here’s a checklist you can use to set up an online business using AI tools (especially an infoproduct business).

Step 1: Select Your AI Tool(s)

First off, you need to select an AI tool to walk through the subsequent steps. I suggest you use ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini, but you can use whatever tool you prefer (provided it’s known to be a reliable tool backed by a reputable company).

Step 2: Research and Select a Niche Market

Take these steps:

• Develop a list of profitable, evergreen niches with the help of an AI tool.
• Determine which niches you’d like to work in and add your existing niches to the list if desired.
• Research these niches to confirm that they are indeed profitable and popular.
• Ask your AI tool to develop a buyer persona/profile.
• Gather additional information about the audience/market from your AI tool.

Note that you can also use your AI tool to do things like analyze market trends, create audience surveys, and similar tasks for this step.

For the purposes of this checklist, we’ll assume you’re setting up an

infoproduct business. You’ll want to:

• Ask the AI tool what types of infoproducts this audience wants.
• Confirm this information by doing product research.

Step 3: Develop Your Branding Strategy

Take these steps:

• Ask your AI tool to generate branding ideas for your business.
• Use the tool to help develop logo concepts.
• Generate unique selling points with the AI tool.
• Develop a strategy for growing brand recognition with the help of AI.

Step 4: Set Up Your Website

Take these steps:

• Brainstorm domain names with AI.
• Purchase the domain name.
• Secure a webhosting account.
• Set up your site using WordPress (Do it yourself or outsource on Fiverr or Upwork).
• Plan your site structure with the help of AI.

Step 5: Plan and Create Products

Take these steps — you can do the brainstorming with the help of AI:

• Review your research to see what products are popular/profitable in your niche.
• Plan your sales funnel (lead magnet, tripwire, core, backend offer)
• Plan upsell and cross-sell products.
• Plan bonus products to go with paid offers.

Start with the lead magnet and start creating your products. Take these steps with AI:

• Generate your outline.
• Use detailed prompts and feed your outline in to create the product itself (work in small sections for larger products).
• Tweak manually to match your writing voice.
• Use your AI tool to spellcheck, grammar check, and improve readability.
• Ask the tool to generate dozens of titles for you to pick from (and test).

Create a calendar for when you’re going to create the rest of the products in your sales funnel.

Step 6: Plan Your Advertising Strategy

Take these steps:

• Ask your AI tool to help you plan your advertising strategy as a whole.
• Request content marketing ideas and topics from your AI tool.
• Ask the AI tool to generate keywords for SEO purposes.
• Ask the AI tool to generate content ideas for social media.
• Ask the AI tool to help you plan a paid ad campaign.
• Ask the AI tool to write the ads for your campaign.
• Ask the tool to help plan content for your affiliates.
• Ask the tool for ideas for lead magnets to build your list.
• Ask the tool for joint venture ideas.
• Consult with AI for help on how to implement any traffic-generation method or other ideas.

And so on — design your overall ad strategy, and then have AI help you learn about each method and implement it.

Step 7: Create Content

Take the following steps, where you have AI:

• Help plan your content.
• Outline your content.
• Create your lead magnets.
• Create emails for your autoresponder.
• Create blog posts.
• Optimize blog posts for the search engines.
• Create guest content.
• Create social media content.
• Create webinar scripts.
• Create video scripts.
• Create podcasting scripts.
• Create press releases.
• Create marketing pieces (ads, sales letters, etc.).

Step 8: Use AI for Customer Service

Take these steps:

• Use AI to create templates for inquiries.
• Use AI to create help/support documentation.
• Use AI to create a customer service chatbot.

Step 9: Track and Test

Take these steps:

• Consult with AI about what to test in your business.
• Use AI to generate testing alternatives (e.g., multiple headlines to test).
• Ask AI to help you improve your content.

Step 10: Scale and Grow

Take these steps:

• Consult with AI about how to scale and grow your business.
• Use AI to develop streamlined systems and processes that will scale with your business.
• Ask AI what tools and platforms it recommends for scaling a business (for example, if you have an ecommerce storefront, a platform like Shopify will easily grow with your business).
• Check with AI to determine what types of common/repetitive tasks you can automate, and which tools it recommends for this automation.

Conclusion

As you just discovered, AI tools can help you with a wide variety of the tasks you need to set up and run your online business. Even aside from this checklist, you’ll want to frequently review your tools and processes to determine if there is an AI tool that can make a task faster and easier to complete.