7 steps to start your business from ZERO in 2025

so you're trying to start a business in 2025 and you're hoping for extra $10,000 a month from this business but you think it's impossible because it takes so much time to start you need to quit your job and you don't have time well I have great news for you 2025 is an amazing year to start a business and here is why we have the AI tools that empower the businesses to grow faster than ever before just listen to this when I was going through an accelerator in 2015 500 startups they told us you have to

IDE grow by 10% week over week and only one or 2% of startups at 500 startups at Y combinator which is a top accelerator here in silcon Valley were able to do that now at 10% growth week over week is the average of startups at Y combinator and they have these incredible cases where a startup was able to go from0 to12 million in just a year because with AI tools it doesn't matter if you're a beginner or you don't have Capital AI gives you steroids AI makes you this person who can do multiple jobs at

the same time so today I'm going to empower you with AI I will share my best tools for entrepreneurs so listen up write down and start using them to start your business in 2025 and grow faster than ever step number one in starting any business is identifying your Niche finding the right Niche is super important because sometimes you start a business in a niche that's dying but if you start a business in the right Niche that means your business is just going to grow with a niche you have external factors helping you grow and today

AI tools make this process simpler and more effective than ever with the help of these tools you can analyze market trends consumer behavior and competition to identify profitable opportunities that align with your skills and interests here are some powerful tools that I personally used when I was starting my company daily value yumkin are healthy snacks for school-aged kids first exploding topics this tool helps you discover trending topics before they hit the mainstream it anal izes millions of online searches to identify rapidly growing topics giving you a head start on identifying emerging opportunities you know how

people who launched their matcha brands are exploding right now that's because they noticed the matcha Trend years before and launched their company and right in this moment there are hundreds of people working on a trend that is just emerging meaning that their companies will just grow and grow because the trend is going to explode another great tool to identify Trends and I use it a lot for my videos as well is our old classic called Google Trends it's incredibly useful tool for analyzing search Trends across the globe it not only helps you understand the popularity

of specific topics over time it also helps you understand the popularity of topics based on location and seasonality for example we do a lot of test prep and whenever we're thinking of launching a new course I'm like let's check whether I is actually a trending topic in June we're like oh no June is not the time where people are taking ILS so we probably need to launch closer to September or October when this search term is peaking another one is statista it provides comprehensive statistics and reports on a wide range of Industries and markets there

is an AI tool called semrush Market Explorer it uses AI to analyze industry Trends and provide insights into market dynamics and it's perfect for identifying growing markets and understanding consumer behavior in different sectors and the last one is actually my favorite for consumer goods it's called helium 10 and it's uh well known for Amazon sellers I think if you're launching a physical product you will be selling on Amazon anyways and helium 10 also works for Walmart so basically with this tool you can see how much every seller is making every month and they have this

AI tool that helps you analyze emerging Trends and predict the revenue that you can have if you launch that product now that you've identified your Niche I want you to talk about some Basics you know when they say like you need to be ready to accept millions of dollars you need to be ready to grow really fast that means laying foundation for huge growth and I didn't do that when I first started my business I didn't really pay attention to our finance I had a Google spreadsheet which was like really basic and when a tax

season started my accountant was just shocked how disorganized I was and since then I never ever make this mistake again you need to manage your business finance regularly and this is where today's sponsor relay comes in relay is an all-in-one business banking and money management platform designed to help new entrepreneurs take control of their finances from day one really important day one here is why I love relay it's free to sign up with no account fees no minimum balances and no hidden charges whether you're selling a product freelancing or running an online store relay helps

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relay now when you figured out your business idea you fig figure out your business Finance Management some people might tell you like oh it's time to develop your business plan but let's be honest business plans can feel overrated in startup world if someone's starting a company no one's writing 20page documents with finances anymore investors just don't care about spreadsheets they care about your ambition and understanding of the market your vision how persuasive you are how strong you are as a Founder but still having a picture of your competitors and how long certain steps might take

can really help so what I recommend doing at this step is first of all analyze all of your competitors on Amazon see how much they're making or using other AI tools you can use tools like chadt perplexity or deepy so at the day of recording of this video this app completely ruined the American Stock Market because it was created in China and it was trained using just $5 million worth of resources when open AI used billions and billions of dollars uh to train their model which just shows how fast Everything Changes these days so make

sure you start now because the world is moving so quick anyways these tools can help you figure out market trends competitive strategies and time frames for different business models for example if you're working with physical products you need to research howon it typically takes to find Reliable suppliers on platforms like Alibaba get products shipped to your region in real estate you need to learn how much time and money is needed to get an Airbnb ready for the market so there are different timelines for different businesses and it's good to know them before you actually start

bottom line you don't need a traditional business plan just focus on understanding your market and competitors step number three as a creative person I love this step it's called design your brand and as a super creative person I used AI to to create our snack brand but basically it has to have this memorable identity and it doesn't have to be expensive or complicated and I remember I spent days and days coming up with the name lingua trip and later on I realized somebody already had a trademark in one of our key markets but any anyways

with this company I just went straight to Ai and it took me like 10 minutes to come up with a cool name and the app that I used is called namess so you basically tell this app you know I'm building this brand kids snacks healthy donuts and it came up with a name yumkin and I loved it it's like yummy plus munchkin yumkin I feel like it's really good at least all my American friends when I tell them like the company is going to be called yumkin they're like oh that's amazing and the second name

that we have is daily value I think we're going to create a vter situation in my stories on Instagram so make sure you you follow me on Instagram lingua Marina so basically namel uh generates creative and catchy business names based on your preferences and then creators of namx created another tool called brandmark doio this tool helps you create professional logos color pettes and brand guidelines in minutes it's perfect for building a cohesive visual identity without hiring a designer it is crazy how every important aspect of a business can now be hand with AI and this

is why I'm saying this is the Year this is the time of solopreneurs who are very frugal who don't have to hire team they just acquire knowledge of various AI instruments and they deliver and they hustle if you want truly unique and artistic visuals for your branding mid journey is a very powerful AI image generator and is perfect for creating product mock ops website banners or any visuals that make your brand pop up another mix of tools that I like to use are Chad GPT plusd use Chad GPT to brainstorm name ideas taglines or even

brand voice strategies with d you can generate logo Concepts or custom illustrations to bring your brand Vision to life number four probably the most well after Finance the most important build your online presence this is also crazy like we're in the world where your followers don't really matter you can start as a brand new account all you have to acquire is the knowledge of how to go and we've seen with Dubai chocolate you know this lip stain that stays on your lips like we've seen how products go from zero to millions of dollars thanks to

a couple of Tik toks or a couple of viral reels so this is the knowledge you need to acquire we're no longer in the time where you need to just consistently post good content and hope it's going to get traction no no because one viral video can make all the sales like your annual sales I experienced this last last year when we launched a new course and I just created a viral reel I didn't know it was going to go viral but we used a viral concept that was already filmed by other creators and it

just went viral and it generated great sales in December that was like end of year gift from the algorithm to me so you need to acquire knowledge on how to be online but also how to get viral thankfully AI tools make it simple uh to create a website to automate Communications and to manage your social media media uh first of all let's just talk about website builder cuz you need a website you need some online presence right you need an outlet where people can actually pay you money a tool that I like using and the

tool that I'm going to use for my website is called hostinger it allows you to build stunning mobile friendly websites I don't know like I can talk about this for hours but basically we're in the economy where a lot of our purchases for some people like genz their whole purchasing behavior is based on whatever they saw online like I saw this snack I go and buy it I saw that somebody has this nice house I'm looking for something similar like clean Aesthetics whatever whoever I follow they dictate my purchasing Behavior so basically and if you

want to tap into that I saw this quote 2025 is smart people paying beautiful people to promote their product something like that so be one of the smart people paying beautiful people and when Beautiful People promote your product they going to promote it on mobile apps uh so make sure your website is mobile friendly anyways hinger is beginner friendly offers templates for various Industries so you can have your site up and running in hours not days and by the way I'll have all the links below some companies gave me some promotions for you guys so

make sure you click the link and see like what kind of promotion they have some companies just never replied anyways uh it doesn't matter I still use them but yeah make sure to check all the links below then another thing email and text very important we're going to use omnisend for my new company basically omnisend personalizes messages and tracks performers helping you optimize your marketing efforts build funnels automate everything that you're doing and now social media automation oh my God so first of all train Chad GPT to be your great help in analyzing Trends I

always do this when I have some video go viral I copy the comments from that video to chat GPT and well it already has the memory of who I am but if you're just starting from scratch you can say like hey this entrepreneur launching this product this Niche here's a real maybe you take some body else's real here's a reel that went viral in my Niche here are the comments to this reel analyze these comments CU clearly people liked this video analyze what exactly they liked about this video and generate more ideas that can go

viral I chat with chat DPT about this all the time another thing you do is like dumb scrolling you don't need an AI app for this you just scroll and scroll and scroll and you save videos my threshold is over a million views like if I see a video that got over a million views that's a good video for me to not going to copy but everybody copies each other but it's like let's take the inspiration from here and just change it to my topic and then this is how you go viral and that's the

only way to do social media in 2025 there are some apps hot suit it helps you not only schedule posts but also check Trends and generate content ideas based on what's performing well in your industry so you don't need to just scroll if you are not good with editing please try out capcut I think is back in the US it was blogged I use it all the time so try capcut as an editor another tool that I love using if you're doing talking Hood videos is descript it's an all-in-one tool for video editing audio transcription

and captioning perfect for producing polished videos and podcasts if you talk for too long Runway is another very powerful AI platform for creating and editing videos it offers features like background removal video generation from text to images unbelievable like two years ago if you told me like Marina you will be generating videos from text i' be like come on it's going to happen in 2040 no it's already happening in 2025 3D modeling lip sinking it's perfect for high quality con creation Opus clip I use it all the time for my short videos because I just

love these videos I like to sit down and talk but we in the era of short videos so I want to make sure you see more of me and we use Opus clip to take videos like this and transform it into videos like these and it's not just cutting the videos it's also analyzing the virality potential for Tik Tok Instagram reals or YouTube shorts and of course if you're camera shy you're like Marina I'm not like you I don't want to be in front of the camera I don't want to do embarrassing dances and sing

in front of the camera you know there are no excuses in 2025 you can use nid to create stunning videos quickly with customizable temp templates and AI powered editing feature and drag and drop whatever and you can create perfect content for marketing campaigns ads and social media content there is another one called vo by Google they generate high quality videos based on text if you want to have a persistent character in all of your Communications you can create a virtual Avatar or AI generated voice there is an app called haen that lets you create any

Avatar you can think of it can be you it can be somebody else can be non-existent person it can be a cartoon character whatever you want haen can help you do that another app is called hour one use this tool to create LIF likee AI avatars for your video another app that we love using is called 11 Labs it's just crazy how many apps we're using I'm just naming and naming them and they all of them are so good the thing is I'm not removing my team really I'm just empowering every single member of the

team to be more productive so 11 Labs is something that all my producers use because it generates realistic voiceovers for videos anyways this is me talking this is not my AI Avatar and this my real voice but I might go somewhere in a week to interview an amazing person and then the advertiser in this video might be like oh could we please change this line and I don't have my mic when I'm traveling but what my team can do is that they can create my voice with 11 labs and replace some sentences that need to

be replaced so try as many tools as possible see what works for you and create this perfect stack for every aspect of your business including the social media step number five customer service you know when we started lingua trip I was doing all the customer service I created a Google doc with all of the frequently asked questions it was so old school now excellent customer service can be provided with AI power chat Bots that are available 24/7 and it surprises me even small businesses that creators start if they are like communicating with me without AI

chat but I'm like come on it's 2025 you have to use a chat but it's easier for me cuz it's 24/7 it's easier for you you can focus on what you really love but basically there are so many tools that can offer support handle inquiries even like automate sales there's one called Salesforce Einstein Salesforce Einstein offers AI powered CRM Predictive Analytics and sales Automation and actually all of these CRM tools like HubSpot that we're using as well they have free periods for smaller businesses and I highly advise you to start using something so again maybe

you have three customers maybe you have four customers but you learn how to work with them because you need to be ready for your business to explode and once it starts exploding you won't have time to create a perfect customer support system you have this time now so please pay attention to the tools that I'm mentioning play with them see what works for you use them when you have three or four clients CU then you're going to have millions and the system is going to handle them for you but basically Salesforce is perfect for managing

customer relationships sales pipelines streamlining your customer service processes zenes aai is something that we use at linguar trip it basically automates customer support with personalized responses task Automation and realtime insights so what I did when we discovered zendesk I just copied and pasted my FAQ into zenes and then our customer support took over and you can create tickets there it's one of the greatest tools out there it's suitable for business of all sizes providing 24/7 support and improving overall customer experience step number six streamlining operations because you don't want to be stuck in day-to-day with

your business you want to be growing as an entrepreneur you want to be meeting people and you know as Steve Jobs said the entrepreneur's job is to interview the most talented people 60 to 70% of your time it's really hard when you're just starting out but you have to have this mindset like in two years all I will be doing is going to conferences exploring your opportunities for my business not just doing operations and in order to be able to do that you need need some tools that can help with operations zapier it automates repetitive

tasks and integrates hundreds of apps with ease you can basically create workflows for returned merchandise or for some particular requests when something needs to be done manually but you tell the AI bot how to process every single request another app that I love using is called Otter AI remember how we used to have an assistant to take notes during meeting or I would take notes now I have otter it transcribes convers ation summarizes meetings and provides realtime insights helping you stay organized and focused it will be like oh you just talked to this person about

that create this task for you shall I help you with this shall I analyze this it's like a real assistant that follows you to every meeting that you have online and offline as well and another tool that we love using is Trello it's a simple project management tool that helps you organize tasks set deadlines and treack progress trello's automation feature Butler makes managing workflows even easier by automating repetitive tasks and of course you can always start using Google products my favorite Google products like Google Sheets Google Docs Google meet I use them all because they're

so powerful free and available in all countries of the world and the last step is to analyze and improve if you don't have numbers if you don't know how to control the numbers you can't really control and grow your business something that I've learned 14year Journey since starting the business starting my company in 2011 an established businesswoman right here anyways and analyzing data and improving your business strategies is essential for growth with AI po analytics you can make informed decisions and optimize your business performance and honestly AI is like a business coach it's just incredible

how I started using AI when I have a problem be like hey you know what would Elon Musk do if he was me or I have this situation like this this and that what should I do shall I reply to this or what's the action plan I had a scam call a couple days ago and uh like the way they talk to me I got really scared so the first thing I did not go to my husband the first thing I did I like Chad GPT does it sound like a scam to you what should

I do and they're like yes this is scam block them stay calm like it's crazy how Chad jpt became our business coach as well but there are some apps that you can use as well you can use rose to automate data analysis and generate reports quickly this tool allows you to create AI powered formulas to improve your business decision making in using real-time data relay the tool we talked about already you manage your Finance with this all in one platform that helps track expenses set up automated transfers like taxes and you know your Security fund

and it makes it easy to stay on top of your financial operations by using these AI strategies you can start and grow a successful business in 2025 with no money or experience you can become an entrepreneurial Powerhouse and it's going to be just you and your amazing AI apps many of them have free starter versions which means you can start right now with no money and get to the point where you growing 10% week over week and please come back to this video and tell me Marina thank you for this I started a company and

it's growing and you inspired me to do this because this makes me feel so good and it makes me continue making these videos for you and sharing my knowledge as an entrepreneur living in silon Valley thank you guys so much for watching this video up to the very end I'll see you very soon please subscribe bye