Welcome back to this week’s Side Income Roundup, Monday, April 6.
AI isn’t just changing how we create content anymore. It’s changing how customers find, evaluate, and buy from online businesses. This week we’re looking at what that means for you, plus some tools and platform updates worth knowing about.
🔍 The shift from search rankings to AI recommendations
🛠 Klaviyo’s new AI email builder, WizCommerce video generator, and free Affinity design tools
⚡ WordPress.com opens the door to AI-powered content management
📦 Shopify makes every store shoppable inside ChatGPT and Copilot
🤖 What “agentic storefronts” actually mean for your business
Let’s get into it.
THIS WEEK’S BIG IDEA
🔍 The Biggest AI Marketing Trends for 2026
The way customers discover businesses is shifting fast. Instead of typing keywords into Google and scrolling through results, more people are asking AI tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI Mode to recommend solutions directly. That means the old playbook of optimizing for search rankings is no longer enough on its own.
What matters now is whether AI systems can easily understand and recommend your business. That comes down to clarity, consistency, and structured information across every platform where you show up, from your website to your social profiles to your product descriptions.
Our Take: Pick one platform this week and clean up your business information so it’s clear, consistent, and written like a direct answer to a question.
TOOLS OF THE WEEK
🛠 Klaviyo Composer
Klaviyo announced Composer, an AI agent that generates full email marketing campaigns and automation flows from a single text prompt. It’s currently on a waitlist, but worth getting your name on if you use Klaviyo for email.
🛠 WizCommerce AI Video Generator
Turns static product images into social-media-ready videos with lifestyle shots, closeups, and 360-degree spins in minutes. No videographer or editor needed.
🛠 Canva Affinity 3.1 (Free)
Canva released version 3.1 of Affinity, its professional design suite combining photo editing, vector design, and page layout. It’s now completely free for everyone.
Our Take: Klaviyo Composer is one to watch. If you use Klaviyo, join the waitlist now. In the meantime, try WizCommerce’s video generator on a product image this week to create a social-ready clip.
TODAY’S QUICK WINS
⚡ WordPress.com Opens AI Agent Access for Content Management
AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT can now directly create, edit, and publish content on WordPress.com sites through natural conversation. It works on all paid plans at no extra cost, and every change requires your approval before going live.
⚡ Meta Adds AI Creative Tools to Advantage+ Campaigns
Meta rolled out three new AI features for Advantage+ campaigns: auto-dubbing video ads into other languages, AI-generated background music (no licensing fees), and persona-based image generation for different audience segments. Early results show an 8-30% performance lift.
Our Take: If your site runs on WordPress.com, connect an AI agent and test drafting a blog post through conversation this week. And if you’re running Meta ads, try AI background music on your next product video, because free always beats paying for stock audio.
FROM OMC
📝 How to Use Claude CoWork to Automate Your Affiliate Content Planning
If content planning is the thing that eats up your time each week, this post walks through how to use Claude’s CoWork feature to automate the research, outlining, and scheduling so you can focus on the parts that actually require your brain.
Our Take: Set aside 30 minutes this week to test one AI-assisted content workflow. Even automating just the research step can save you hours every month.
AI SPOTLIGHT
🤖 Millions of Merchants Can Now Sell in AI Chats
Shopify activated “Agentic Storefronts” for all eligible merchants, which means products from 5.6 million stores are now discoverable and shoppable inside ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Mode, and the Gemini app. No extra apps or integrations needed, and merchants keep full ownership of customer data.
Our Take: If you run a Shopify store, this is live right now. Make sure your product titles and descriptions read like clear answers to the questions a shopper would ask an AI assistant, because that’s exactly how people will find you.
UNTIL NEXT WEEK…
Here’s your move this week:
✅ Clean up your business info on one platform so AI can recommend you
✅ Connect an AI agent to your WordPress site
✅ Check your Shopify product descriptions for conversational search readiness
✅ Build your first $27 pocket product this weekend (see this week’s blog post)
The businesses that make it easy for AI to understand them are going to have a real advantage over the next year. Start small and start now.
Talk soon,
Aidan
P.S. This Wednesday I will be talking about how to create a small digital product in a single weekend. If you’ve been planning something bigger and need a great roadmap to do so, keep an eye on your inbox!
