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Local Business Video Ads

Slick short video ads for businesses that could never afford video before

Difficulty
Beginner
Timeframe
2-3 weeks to first paid ad
Potential earnings
£150-500 per ad package; £300-2,000/month.

Script, voice and assemble short video ads for local businesses that have never been able to afford video production. AI collapses the production cost to nearly zero; the budgets already exist.

Why it works

Local businesses already spend on Facebook and Instagram ads - the budgets are real and recurring - but most run static images because video production used to cost thousands. A £200 AI-produced video ad drops into spend that is already happening.

The catch

AI avatar quality has a ceiling and viewers can feel it. Lead with product-and-footage ads, not talking heads, or the ad reads as spam and reflects on the client.

Step by step

  1. Learn one assembly workflow: script with ChatGPT, voice with ElevenLabs, cut in CapCut
  2. Make three spec ads for real local businesses (without being asked) as your portfolio
  3. Lead with product and footage-based ads using the client’s own photos and clips
  4. Sell packages: one hero ad plus two variants for A/B testing
  5. Pitch businesses already running static image ads - they have proven budget
  6. Offer a monthly refresh package; ad fatigue is your recurring revenue

Tools you'll use

Chuck's pro tip

The client’s own footage, cleaned up and cut well, outperforms pure AI generation almost every time - and it sidesteps the uncanny-avatar problem entirely. AI is the production crew, not the star.