Welcome back to this week’s Side Income Roundup, Monday, June 29.
This week is about doing the work once and letting it pay you on repeat. A few of the biggest moves in marketing right now are quietly automatic, earning in the background while you get on with everything else.
📢 The quiet email setup that out-earns your big sends by 28 to 1
🛠 An AI that builds a full ad campaign from one product link, plus Google Pay’s friction-killing checkout
⚡ Pinterest now hunts down fresh buyers for you, and Reddit opens a new shopping ad slot
📝 Last week’s Reddit method for finding a $1,000/month affiliate niche
🤖 Meta’s new AI ad tools that find the buyers and build the creative for you
Let’s get into it.
THIS WEEK’S BIG IDEA
📢 The emails earning 28x more than your campaign blasts
Fresh 2026 ecommerce benchmarks just landed, and one number jumps off the page. Automated flows like welcome, abandoned cart, and post-purchase earn around $1.58 per recipient, while the one-off blasts most sellers spend their week writing earn about $0.06. That is a 28 to 1 gap, from emails that make up only a tiny slice of total sends.
The lesson isn’t to send more email, it’s to set up the few that run themselves.
Our Take: Pick the one automated email you don’t have yet, usually the abandoned cart, and switch it on today, because one flow can out-earn a month of manual blasts while you sleep.
TOOLS OF THE WEEK
🛠 AdGPT Go Live
Paste in one product URL and Go Live generates a full campaign for you, including AI video ads, UGC-style clips, social creatives, and search assets, all in minutes.
🛠 Google Pay direct checkout
Google now pulls a shopper’s saved Wallet payment options straight onto your checkout page, cutting the friction that quietly kills carts at the final step.
Our Take: Drop a product URL into AdGPT to build a full campaign in minutes, and if you run a store, switch on Google Pay direct checkout to rescue the carts you lose at the payment step.
TODAY’S QUICK WINS
⚡ Pinterest’s new customer-finding tool
A toggle inside Performance+ campaigns now lets you upload your customer list so Pinterest’s AI chases fresh buyers who resemble your best customers, instead of wasting spend re-serving people who already bought.
⚡ Reddit launches integrated shopping ads
Reddit now shows a carousel of products beneath relevant community threads, putting what you sell in front of people who are already discussing the exact topic.
Our Take: If you run Pinterest ads, upload your customer list and turn on New Customer Acquisition so your spend chases fresh buyers, then keep an eye on Reddit’s new shopping ads.
FROM OMC
📝 The Reddit Goldmine: How I’d Find a $1,000/Month Affiliate Niche in an Afternoon of Scrolling
How I’d dig through subreddits you already read to find a buyer-ready affiliate niche, using the real complaints and product requests people post every day. It’s honest market research without a single keyword tool.
Our Take: Open one subreddit your audience hangs out in and read the complaint threads, because the problems people repeat are the offers they’re quietly asking you to put in front of them.
AI SPOTLIGHT
🤖 Meta launches advanced AI ad features
At Cannes Lions, Meta rolled out AI tools across its apps that find likely buyers, generate the creative, and steer campaigns toward purchases on their own, with a big expansion of Advantage+ automation.
Our Take: If you run paid traffic, put a small test budget behind Meta’s new AI tools, let them find buyers and build the creative, then judge them on actual sales.
UNTIL NEXT WEEK…
Here’s your move this week:
✅ Switch on one automated email flow, starting with abandoned cart
✅ Run a product URL through AdGPT to build a campaign in minutes
✅ Turn on Google Pay direct checkout to rescue lost carts
✅ Upload your customer list to a Pinterest Performance+ campaign
The sellers who pull ahead this summer aren’t grinding harder, they’re setting a few things up once and letting them earn in the background.
Talk soon,
Aidan
P.S. This Wednesday I’m showing you how a brand-new YouTube channel can earn its first $100 before it ever hits 100 subscribers, and why ads are the last place that money comes from. Keep an eye on your inbox.
