Making $$ with AI Marketing

Making $$ with AI Marketing

Author: Greg Isenberg March 30, 2026 Duration: 27:18
I break down the seven distribution strategies every vibe coder and builder needs to actually get customers. With 200,000 new projects launching daily on platforms like Lovable, the real bottleneck is distribution and I believe the wealthiest people over the next decade will be marketers, because code is now commoditized. I walk through each strategy with step-by-step instructions you can start this week, from MCP servers and programmatic SEO to acquiring newsletters and building AI repurposing engines. Timestamps 00:00 – Intro 01:07 – The Great Flip: Distribution Over Engineering 03:08 – The Build-First Trap 04:18 – Strategy 1: MCP Servers as Your Sales Team 06:49 – Strategy 2: Programmatic SEO (10,000 Pages) 10:09 – Strategy 3: Free Tool as Top of Funnel 13:03 – Strategy 4: Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) 15:48 – Strategy 5: Viral Artifacts (Make Outputs Shareable) 18:56 – Strategy 6: Buy a Niche Newsletter 21:40 – Strategy 7: AI Content Repurposing Engine 25:13 – Final Takeaways Key Points Distribution is the new moat — AI can build the product, but it can't build your audience or brand. Building an MCP server in 2026 is like building for mobile in 2010; early movers will own AI-native distribution channels. Programmatic SEO can scale to 300,000 monthly visitors if you create 10,000 quality pages that each pull just 30 visits a month. Free tools act as always-on marketing: you can vibe code one in a day, ship it by lunch, and it markets itself forever. Answer engine optimization (AEO) is where SEO was in 2010 — Peter Levels saw AI referrals jump from 4% to 20% in one month. You can buy a 10,000-subscriber niche newsletter for $5,000–$20,000 and inherit a direct channel to your exact audience on day one. The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.com LCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/ The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/ FIND ME ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenberg Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/

Greg Isenberg, the CEO of Late Checkout who has previously advised platforms like Reddit and TikTok, hosts a twice-weekly conversation designed to spark entrepreneurial thinking. The Startup Ideas Podcast is less about dry business theory and more about opening a window into the process of identifying opportunities. Each episode serves as a catalyst, presenting listeners with actionable concepts and the reasoning behind them. You'll hear Greg dissect market gaps, consumer behaviors, and emerging trends, translating them into tangible ideas for potential ventures. The aim is to build a consistent habit of creative exploration, pushing beyond the initial "what if" to consider the "how" and "why." This podcast functions as a regular dose of inspiration for anyone feeling stuck in a rut or simply curious about the mechanics of building something new. It’s a resource for aspiring founders, side-hustlers, and innovators who appreciate seeing the blueprint before the ground is broken. Tuning in means joining a forward-thinking dialogue where the next big idea might just click into place.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Podcast Episodes
ChatGPT Images 2.0 Is Here. I Tested Everything. [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 32:15
In this solo episode, I walk through ChatGPT Images 2.0 and show exactly how to use it to build creative assets that move a business forward, from brand visual directions to UI mockups to apparel mockups and editorial il…
Hermes Agent clearly explained (and how to use it) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:00
I sit down with Imran Muthuvappa to get a hands-on walkthrough of Hermes Agent, a personal AI agent that ships with built-in memory, 40+ tools, and pre-installed skills out of the box. Imran walks me through why he migra…
Claude Design blew my mind [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 59:59
I go live and get my hands dirty with Claude Design, Anthropic's new design tool in research preview. Across roughly an hour, I run a real workflow end-to-end: pulling a product idea from Idea Browser, generating wirefra…
Seedance 2.0: Make 100 AI Ads in 33 mins [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 33:17
In this episode I sit down with my friend Sirio, one of the most creative AI minds I know, to break down Seedance V2. Sirio walks us through the exact use cases, prompts, and tactics he's using to build on top of this mo…
My Claude Code marketing stack (It just works) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 35:22
I sit down with Amir, who's back on the pod, and we walk through the full stack of taking a business idea from zero to a validated, A/B-tested landing page in a single session. I use Idea Browser's new MCP integration wi…
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 35:25
I sit down with Ras Mic to break down how AI agents actually work and why most people are using them wrong. Ras Mic explains the mechanics of context windows, makes the case that agent md files are largely unnecessary, a…
How I use Lindy AI to run my life [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 31:06
I sit down with Flo, founder of Lindy, to get a live demo of their new product, Lindy Assistant, an AI executive assistant that lives in iMessage and works proactively across email, calendar, Slack, Notion, and 100-plus…
23 AI Trends keeping me up at night [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 31:36
I go solo on this episode to walk through the full list of AI trends and opportunities keeping me up at night — literally. From the one-hour company stack to ambient businesses, vertical AI, the agent economy, and the re…
I Built an AI Agent Company (From Scratch) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 46:41
I sit down with Dotta, the pseudonymous co-founder of Paperclip, the open-source agent orchestrator that exploded to 30,000 GitHub stars in under three weeks. We walk through a live demo where I pick a startup idea from…
What is Firecrawl? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:27
I break down Firecrawl and it solves AI’s biggest blind spot, access to clean web data. I walk through the full AI agent stack every builder needs, explain why this is the "AWS moment" for web data, and share a dozen sta…