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In this solo episode I’m trying something a little different by turning Google’s new “Nano Banana” into a real, revenue-ready workflow. I show how I vibe-code a tiny web app in Lindy, use Nano Banana to stage or pro-grade listing photos for pennies, then pull realtor leads with Outscraper and text polished samples via HighLevel to start paid work fast. I walk through prompts, pricing ($1/photo starter), and a simple pipeline that can scale into $500/month retainers for ongoing virtual staging and revisions. Then I wrap with a clean outreach system you can copy today.
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(00:00):
The craziest AI image editing tool that the world has ever
seen has just dropped thanks to Google slash Gemini.
It's called Nano Banana. And yeah, editing pictures is
cool, but starting businesses based on editing pictures is
even cooler. So throughout the course of this
video, I'm going to walk you through soup to nuts A-Z,
exactly how to use Nano Banana, How to vibe code an app that can
edit pictures with Nano Banana without any coding experience
(00:22):
because I don't have any. And then how to scrape leads of
potential customers, upload themto ACRM and text them pictures
that you edited for them on their behalf without their
permission to get your foot in the door so they can become a
customer of yours and pay you a lot of money every month to add
value to their life. This episode is a certified
banger. I already know it, so let's get
going. So here's what my idea is.
(00:45):
There are two million real estate agents in America, and
about 70% of them list homes forsale that either have bad
pictures or pictures of homes that aren't staged.
And that's a major problem because homes that are staged,
as in homes that have furniture and decorations and everything
in it when the pictures are taken, sell 73% faster than
homes that are not staged. And it's obvious why most people
(01:08):
don't stage their homes. It's hard, it's expensive.
You got to move couches in and out.
I don't blame them, but there's an opportunity there.
Furthermore, homes that are staged when they're listed for
sale sell for six to 10% more. We're talking about 10's and
hundreds of thousands of dollarsof additional value for staging
a home. And if we want to talk about
homes that are listed that have professional photos, those sell
(01:29):
32% faster than homes that are listed with unprofessional
photos. They get 61% more views on
Zillow and they get 118% more online engagement than homes
with unprofessional photos. OK, so that's the problem.
That's the pain point that we'reseeking to solve today.
And now with Nano Banana, we have a solution.
We have a scalable solution because this solution's always
(01:51):
been around, but how tedious andexpensive is it to go edit
photos 1 by 1 by 1? And before I get ahead of
myself, here's what the idea is that I'm going to build, and I'm
going to mark it all within the course of this episode.
I'm going to use a vibe coding tool that uses Nano Banana on
the back end to attach a prompt to a picture that is pulled from
a home that is listed for sale on Redfin or realtor.com.
(02:14):
It's going to edit that picture according to my prompt and then
I'm going to proactively send that edited picture to the
realtor that has that listing. How's the picture going to be
different? Well, if they're not
professional pictures, I'm goingto use Nano Banana to make them
look like they were taken with aDSLR, expensive camera.
Or if they are professional but it's not a staged home, as in
(02:35):
the interior photos have no furniture, no decorations, no
artwork. I'm going to have Nano Banana.
Add all that and then I'm going to proactively give these
pictures for free to the listingagent.
That's my foot in the door to get his or her business for all
of their listings, both present and future.
This is what they call permissionless marketing.
You're doing a job that needs tobe done for someone that has a
(02:58):
problem that needs to be solved without asking permission in the
hopes that you earn their trust and therefore earn their
business. Now, as long as your prompt is
not too complex, which mine willnot be, it costs about 3.9 cents
to edit one picture. If a listing has 30 pictures, 10
of them are interior photos. It's going to cost me $0.39 to
(03:18):
edit all of those pictures for the real estate agent.
Now if I educate that real estate agent and say hey, I'm
sure you probably know what I'm about to tell you.
And I understand that it's very expensive to stage homes, so I
don't blame you. It's also expensive to take
professional photos of homes, soI don't blame you.
But what if I could charge you abuck per photo to make your home
(03:39):
look staged or to make the photos look like they were taken
with a DSLR camera? That is the asymmetric bet of
the century. You've got a 96% profit margin
because you're charging a dollarand you're paying four cents.
They're only paying you $20 to increase the likelihood of their
home selling faster and or for more money.
(03:59):
What do they have to lose other than $20?
And yes, I know what you're thinking.
That's not enough money. We need to charge more.
Don't worry, we will. I'm a capitalist.
You're a capitalist. We're all on the same page.
But I just want to prove that Realtors are willing to pay for
this service. My wife is a realtor.
She gets sold to six ways past Sunday.
Her phone is blowing up. They get sold to a lot.
(04:20):
We got to stand out if we want them to pay attention to us.
All right, so without further ado, let's go ahead and build
this app. It's going to be a web app only
used by us for now. For now, and I'm going to use
Lindy to build it. I use Lindy for my AI
automations, but they just addeda vibe coding feature that I'm
really loving. So let's do it.
Here's my prompt. Use Gemini's Nano Banana API to
(04:41):
build a very simple web app where I can upload up to 30
photos plus a prompt to have thepictures edited and then I can
download the photos to my computer.
I'm going to click the build apps button and we're off to the
races. A wall that builds.
I want to show you 2 very cool things.
First of all, here's what Nano Banana is capable of.
I took a random picture of Zillow.
I said make this picture look more professional.
(05:02):
Boom, suddenly this house has beautiful green grass.
OK, not bad, not bad. Then I found another home that
has a picture of this ugly living room with no furniture,
no artwork. It needs to be staged.
This is how simple my prompt was.
Stage this room to look fully furnished and decorated.
I know you didn't see happen. You're going to have to trust
me. It took 4 seconds to spit out
(05:23):
this picture. Boom.
Look at that. And it's the same room.
It didn't hallucinate. It's got the weird tile on the
floor right there. It has the opening on the right.
It has the window in the middle.How much better does that look?
And yes, potential buyers of these homes are going to be
looking at pictures that make the home appear staged with
furniture and artwork and it is not actually staged in real
(05:44):
life. And yes, that's a bait and
switch. But you know what?
It doesn't matter. If I'm a potential home buyer
and I see a beautiful home that looks staged and then I go see
it and it's not staged, who cares?
Am I going to get mad at someone?
No, but I'm going to be more likely to go tour that home
because it looked more beautifulbecause of the furniture in the
picture. So don't overthink it.
Overthinking is the enemy to just launching.
(06:05):
Lindy asked, what specific typesof photo edits do you want the
prompt to support? What file format should be
supported? And do you need any specific
styling preferences on this app?And I said, I'm going to be
adding furniture to photos of empty rooms, all the common file
types, clean modern design. All right, we're going to time
Lindy to see how long this takes.
It's 438 right now. OK, so I hopped over to ChatGPT
(06:26):
5 real quick and I said which real estate website has the
easiest API to work with if I'm vibe coding a web app that will
pull pictures from listings. If you're over here wondering
like what is an API? What is your don't worry, an API
is just a language that softwareuses to talk to each other.
If you get a notification on your phone that was probably
powered by an API and you don't need to know what it means.
(06:47):
You just need to know how to type it into your vibe coding
app. OK while Lindy builds this app,
I'm going to scrape some real estate agents phone numbers.
OK, I'm here now in scraper. I'm going to go to Google,
Google Maps, data scraper, real estate agent.
I'm going to go Oklahoma. Let's go Oklahoma City, 1000 Max
(07:10):
results. All I care about is a phone
number here. OK says it should take 7 to 25
minutes. OK Lindy has a rough draft of
what we're building here. Furniture room editor dot Lindy
dot site. It's asking me to do something
weird with my API key, so I'm going to have it just integrate
(07:31):
that feature into the app. All right, here's how we get the
API key. We are at
aistudio.google.com/API key. We're going to click Create API
key, and my editor is going to blur this out so you don't make
my life difficult. I'm going to create one in a new
project. OK, there it is.
That's it. That's how you create an API
key. You click Create API key, then
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you click copy. That's it.
It's as technical as this gets. OK, Lindy said that it added a
field for my API key. Obviously this is not long term
scalable. I don't want it out there in the
public. This is literally a private
password that should never be shared.
But honestly, I'm just trying tomake a quick video right now and
build a quick business right nowbefore I go to a yummy Thai
restaurant with my wife for our standing Saturday night date.
(08:16):
So we're going to make this quick.
OK, here's what Linda gave me. There's my API key.
Cool cool, cool. Let's add some room photos.
I'm going to go to Oklahoma Cityon on Zillow, OK, And I'm going
to try to just randomly find a home that doesn't look like it
has professional pictures. Oh, got them.
That home needs some work. Oh, you know what?
(08:37):
Let's throw a curveball real quick.
Instead of taking an empty room and staging it, we're going to
take a messy, ugly room. Well, we want to keep it ugly
because it's going a little too far if we make a ugly room
beautiful because that is a definite bait and switch and
people will go tour the house and not be happy, but we're
going to take a messy room. I've never tried this.
It's the first time we're going to take a messy room and make it
(08:57):
clean. How about that?
OK, save image. You know what, let's do it with
two photos because our app is supposed to do it with up to 30.
So there's a lot to work with here.
These are messy rooms. It's terrible photos, bad
lighting, etcetera. OK, so we'll try it with two
pictures. Go back to Lindy.
Here's my prompt. Make these bedrooms appear more
organized and less messy, but don't change the color of the
(09:20):
floor or walls. It still needs to be the same
room. Make the pictures appear like
they were taken with a DSLR withgreat lighting.
How cool is this? So I upload the photos and then
there's a preview right here. I've got my prompt.
I'm going to copy that just in case it glitches on me.
And the submit button says add furniture to rooms.
Now I'm throwing it for a loop because that's not what I'm
(09:40):
asking it to do, but let's see. OK, it went really fast.
It took about a second per photo, 2 seconds total.
Either it glitched out or it's just really fast.
Downloaded a zip file. All right, here's what it did.
Drum roll please. Oh didn't change anything.
The pictures are the exact same,but at least the the core
(10:01):
functionality works. It just appears that it's not
actually using the API because nothing changed.
Let's go ahead and do the same prompt within Nano Banana.
Upload the same 2 pictures and see what it spits out.
There's a good lesson in this. You're building a business and
you hit some friction. You will always hit friction.
There will always be problems toovercome.
You can go one of two ways with it.
(10:21):
You can find a plan BA workaround something not as
good, not as scalable, but it keeps the momentum going, keeps
the progress. Or you can just say, meh, I'm
going to look at Instagram or next on to the next.
No, stop. Keep it going.
Do things that don't scale. All right, this is a little
embarrassing, I'm not going to lie, but I figured out what was
happening with all these bugs. It wasn't using my API because
(10:44):
my API wasn't ready to use yet. I had to connect.
Billing took three clicks. Now everything's working.
I redesigned the app a little bit.
I made it more simple. OK, here's what we're working
with. Let's try this.
I'm going to upload a picture, and I'm simply going to say add,
add furniture. Now, this is my app.
I just built this process. OK, took about 12 seconds, and
look what it spit out. Click to view isn't working, but
(11:06):
whatever, Download it. All right, there we have it.
It's gorgeous. It furnished the room.
OK, so my app is working. Now we're going to go back to
outscraper and we're going to look and see if it's done.
Done. Awesome.
OK, cool. Now we're going to download it.
OK, let's go ahead and open up this data in Google Sheets.
All right, here we are. I'm going to delete all of the
(11:27):
columns that I don't want or need.
I don't need any of this stuff. I want the name, the address,
the phone number, the type of phone number ain't good to go,
all right, We only want cell phone numbers.
We're going to highlight all these, going to delete
everything except mobile, and we're going to delete everything
that is unclassified. OK, we are left with 562 real
(11:53):
estate agents in Oklahoma City that have cell phone numbers.
I no longer need this column because I know they're all
mobile. I want to remove the duplicates
data cleanup, remove duplicates data has header row.
Boom cool. 542 left. Awesome.
Let's go ahead and remove the plus one in space from these so
(12:15):
they can all be standardized. Awesome.
Cool. OK, now what we need to do is
get all of these leads out of Google Sheets and into a CRM
like High Level. I've used High Level for years.
I love it. It's way cheaper than HubSpot,
and it can do a bunch of other things as well.
OK, here's the leads. Remember, we've already scrubbed
them. We've deleted most of the
columns. We're just going to hit file,
(12:36):
download CSV. Then we're going to go into my
High Level account. We're going to click contacts,
import contacts. Next, click the upload.
Boom, we got to map them all out.
Name, phone, street, address, city, postal code, state.
Cool, easy enough. Next, now very, very important
(12:59):
part of this process, I need to check this box, add imported
contacts to a workflow. I'm going to show you that
workflow in a minute. It's not hard to set up.
Check the box and then I'm goingto go to the workflow that I
already set up for the purposes of this business of this video
real estate staging new lead, and I'll show you how that works
in a minute. OK, very important that I do
this correctly. I need to add tags to these
(13:21):
imported contacts. I created A tag called real
estate staging that will help meseparate these contacts from
other contacts I have in high level that I'm using for other
initiatives. And now this specific tag is
tied to a specific pipeline slash workflow, which I'm about
to show you. So this tag is not just to keep
me organized, but it's to trigger an automation, which
(13:42):
I'll show you here in just a SEC.
Start bulk import. All right, now I'm going to
click on opportunities and then I'm going to hit this drop down
here and go to real estate staging pipeline.
Boom. Now you can see them coming in.
Remember I uploaded about 450 something here.
They are. OK, now I'm going to go find a
home for sale in Oklahoma City that one of these Realtors has
(14:03):
listed and I'm going to find onethat has pictures that are not
staged. Boom, here we are.
There was a $60,000 price cut, which means this probably isn't
selling and maybe it's not selling because the home is not
staged correctly. I'm going to click on all the
photos. Boom boom boom.
I'm going to pick one. Cool, let's pick this dining
room right here. Save image as OK, now this is a
(14:26):
little manual, but we can automate this later.
As much as I love showing videoshow to automate everything, it's
really not important in the early stages because often times
we get so caught up in automating and perfecting and
over optimizing everything that we never actually get to launch
the thing. So automations and time saving
tactics can come later. So part of this is going to be
(14:47):
done in a non scalable way just so we can get moving so we can
have some momentum under our feet.
OK, let's go into this app that I vibe coded.
We're going to upload the picture and I'm simply going to
say add furniture. The most simple prompt ever.
While this is processing, let's go back to the listing and see
who the listing agent is. Brenda Hockel.
OK, awesome. She should be in our scrape
(15:09):
list, but there's a chance she isn't.
Let's check. OK, boom.
Pictures done. We're going to look at her.
Right there. Looks a lot better.
We're going to download it. Awesome.
Now let's go back into our contacts.
There's Brenda right there. Perfect.
Click on her name. We're going to Scroll down here.
Click on additional info. You can see a ton of custom
fields in here. File upload.
(15:32):
There it is. Real estate staging.
That is the custom field that I added to all of these contacts.
That is also a trigger. When I upload a photo to this
real estate staging section, it will trigger an automation to
text that person. I'm going to show you how it
works in real time. Upload a file.
There it is. Click save.
(15:54):
OK, look at that. OK, that's a text.
Me uploading that file triggereda text.
Let me show you how and where and why that text message
happens. We're going to click on
automation. These are some of my workflows,
real estate texting setup and look, total enrolled one, active
enrolled one. That's Brenda.
(16:15):
I just texted her. Click on that.
Here's how it works. Contact changed.
Real estate staging has changed.OK, that's the trigger.
That was me uploading the photo that triggered this SMS.
Hey, first name. I saw your listing here on
Zillow and noticed you didn't have staging set up yet.
I went ahead and mocked up a demo.
Interested in more? Let's chat.
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And then it puts in a link to the picture and then it will
connect it to an opportunity, which basically turns it from a
contact to a warm lead. And here's how I have the
settings if you want to pause itand copy those.
Now, when this happens, it will also update the pipeline, which
I'll show you right here. You go back here, opportunities,
real estate saging pipeline. Look at this.
(16:58):
This is called a Kanban board. Companies like Trello and
Pipedrive do this really well. And so as part of that workflow,
it automatically moved her from just a new lead to a text sent.
And then it'll go a step further.
If over a certain time period she doesn't respond, it'll go
into no response and then I willautomatically follow up.
If she does respond, then it will go into response.
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If she calls me or I call her, it will automatically go to
called. And then as she proceeds down
the pipeline, maybe I give her some free samples.
Maybe I sell her a few pictures.Maybe she joins a monthly
recurring plan for 500 bucks a month for unlimited revisions to
unstaged photos. I can continue moving her down
the pipeline and then I can assign a value to her as a lead
(17:40):
or as a customer. So you can see the value of the
total leads or total customers at any stage in the pipeline.
Super cool stuff. If you click into the
opportunity, you can create a task with automatic reminders.
You can book an appointment through here.
You can add notes. It's ACRM, right?
But on steroids. And then if I want to navigate
back to our conversation, our text conversation, I can just
(18:02):
click that bubble right there and we're good to go.
So that's a wrap. Nano Banana is pretty
incredible. It's kind of fun to say that,
and it unlocks a whole world of new business opportunities.
This is just one of thousands, but just like in your hometown
there's a dozen auto repair shops, there could, should, and
will be hundreds if not thousands of agencies out there
one day doing little tasks like these.
(18:24):
Nothing is too niche, nothing istoo small anymore.
We're on a planet with 8 billionpeople and we're all connected
by the Internet. There could be 1000 of these
agencies that just edits photos for real estate agents and
there'd still be room for everyone.
If you want to take this a step further and you want us to do
all the high level automations and pipelines and workflows for
you or even build a high level website for you, we can help you
(18:45):
with all that. I have a private community for
people that are serious about building or starting a business.
It's called TK Owners. You can find us at tkowners.com
and it includes a $97.00 a monthhigh level account.
We have a master account and so we can have unlimited sub
accounts under us. So for $99.00 a month to be in
TK Owners, 97 of that is paid for if you use any of these high
(19:05):
level features. In addition, you get weekly AM
as with me, weekly AM as with podcast guests that have had a
Slack group with over 400 founders and founders to be in
it, and all of these other features that you're going to
enjoy the heck out of. So whether you join us at TK
Owners or not, no worries. Just go do something.
Just go launch something. You can just do things.
So do them. Hey guys, if you're still
(19:25):
listening to this, it's probablybecause you haven't had a chance
to take your air pods out, You're still mowing the lawn,
you're still driving, what have you.
If you're still here with me, I would really, really love and
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If you want to go the extra mile, share this episode with a
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It would mean a ton. Hope you have the best day of
your life today.
The craziest AI image editing tool that the world has ever
seen has just dropped thanks to Google slash Gemini.
It's called Nano Banana. And yeah, editing pictures is
cool, but starting businesses based on editing pictures is
even cooler. So throughout the course of this
video, I'm going to walk you through soup to nuts A-Z,
exactly how to use Nano Banana, How to vibe code an app that can
edit pictures with Nano Banana without any coding experience
(00:22):
because I don't have any. And then how to scrape leads of
potential customers, upload themto ACRM and text them pictures
that you edited for them on their behalf without their
permission to get your foot in the door so they can become a
customer of yours and pay you a lot of money every month to add
value to their life. This episode is a certified
banger. I already know it, so let's get
going. So here's what my idea is.
(00:45):
There are two million real estate agents in America, and
about 70% of them list homes forsale that either have bad
pictures or pictures of homes that aren't staged.
And that's a major problem because homes that are staged,
as in homes that have furniture and decorations and everything
in it when the pictures are taken, sell 73% faster than
homes that are not staged. And it's obvious why most people
(01:08):
don't stage their homes. It's hard, it's expensive.
You got to move couches in and out.
I don't blame them, but there's an opportunity there.
Furthermore, homes that are staged when they're listed for
sale sell for six to 10% more. We're talking about 10's and
hundreds of thousands of dollarsof additional value for staging
a home. And if we want to talk about
homes that are listed that have professional photos, those sell
(01:29):
32% faster than homes that are listed with unprofessional
photos. They get 61% more views on
Zillow and they get 118% more online engagement than homes
with unprofessional photos. OK, so that's the problem.
That's the pain point that we'reseeking to solve today.
And now with Nano Banana, we have a solution.
We have a scalable solution because this solution's always
(01:51):
been around, but how tedious andexpensive is it to go edit
photos 1 by 1 by 1? And before I get ahead of
myself, here's what the idea is that I'm going to build, and I'm
going to mark it all within the course of this episode.
I'm going to use a vibe coding tool that uses Nano Banana on
the back end to attach a prompt to a picture that is pulled from
a home that is listed for sale on Redfin or realtor.com.
(02:14):
It's going to edit that picture according to my prompt and then
I'm going to proactively send that edited picture to the
realtor that has that listing. How's the picture going to be
different? Well, if they're not
professional pictures, I'm goingto use Nano Banana to make them
look like they were taken with aDSLR, expensive camera.
Or if they are professional but it's not a staged home, as in
(02:35):
the interior photos have no furniture, no decorations, no
artwork. I'm going to have Nano Banana.
Add all that and then I'm going to proactively give these
pictures for free to the listingagent.
That's my foot in the door to get his or her business for all
of their listings, both present and future.
This is what they call permissionless marketing.
You're doing a job that needs tobe done for someone that has a
(02:58):
problem that needs to be solved without asking permission in the
hopes that you earn their trust and therefore earn their
business. Now, as long as your prompt is
not too complex, which mine willnot be, it costs about 3.9 cents
to edit one picture. If a listing has 30 pictures, 10
of them are interior photos. It's going to cost me $0.39 to
(03:18):
edit all of those pictures for the real estate agent.
Now if I educate that real estate agent and say hey, I'm
sure you probably know what I'm about to tell you.
And I understand that it's very expensive to stage homes, so I
don't blame you. It's also expensive to take
professional photos of homes, soI don't blame you.
But what if I could charge you abuck per photo to make your home
(03:39):
look staged or to make the photos look like they were taken
with a DSLR camera? That is the asymmetric bet of
the century. You've got a 96% profit margin
because you're charging a dollarand you're paying four cents.
They're only paying you $20 to increase the likelihood of their
home selling faster and or for more money.
(03:59):
What do they have to lose other than $20?
And yes, I know what you're thinking.
That's not enough money. We need to charge more.
Don't worry, we will. I'm a capitalist.
You're a capitalist. We're all on the same page.
But I just want to prove that Realtors are willing to pay for
this service. My wife is a realtor.
She gets sold to six ways past Sunday.
Her phone is blowing up. They get sold to a lot.
(04:20):
We got to stand out if we want them to pay attention to us.
All right, so without further ado, let's go ahead and build
this app. It's going to be a web app only
used by us for now. For now, and I'm going to use
Lindy to build it. I use Lindy for my AI
automations, but they just addeda vibe coding feature that I'm
really loving. So let's do it.
Here's my prompt. Use Gemini's Nano Banana API to
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build a very simple web app where I can upload up to 30
photos plus a prompt to have thepictures edited and then I can
download the photos to my computer.
I'm going to click the build apps button and we're off to the
races. A wall that builds.
I want to show you 2 very cool things.
First of all, here's what Nano Banana is capable of.
I took a random picture of Zillow.
I said make this picture look more professional.
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Boom, suddenly this house has beautiful green grass.
OK, not bad, not bad. Then I found another home that
has a picture of this ugly living room with no furniture,
no artwork. It needs to be staged.
This is how simple my prompt was.
Stage this room to look fully furnished and decorated.
I know you didn't see happen. You're going to have to trust
me. It took 4 seconds to spit out
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this picture. Boom.
Look at that. And it's the same room.
It didn't hallucinate. It's got the weird tile on the
floor right there. It has the opening on the right.
It has the window in the middle.How much better does that look?
And yes, potential buyers of these homes are going to be
looking at pictures that make the home appear staged with
furniture and artwork and it is not actually staged in real
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life. And yes, that's a bait and
switch. But you know what?
It doesn't matter. If I'm a potential home buyer
and I see a beautiful home that looks staged and then I go see
it and it's not staged, who cares?
Am I going to get mad at someone?
No, but I'm going to be more likely to go tour that home
because it looked more beautifulbecause of the furniture in the
picture. So don't overthink it.
Overthinking is the enemy to just launching.
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Lindy asked, what specific typesof photo edits do you want the
prompt to support? What file format should be
supported? And do you need any specific
styling preferences on this app?And I said, I'm going to be
adding furniture to photos of empty rooms, all the common file
types, clean modern design. All right, we're going to time
Lindy to see how long this takes.
It's 438 right now. OK, so I hopped over to ChatGPT
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5 real quick and I said which real estate website has the
easiest API to work with if I'm vibe coding a web app that will
pull pictures from listings. If you're over here wondering
like what is an API? What is your don't worry, an API
is just a language that softwareuses to talk to each other.
If you get a notification on your phone that was probably
powered by an API and you don't need to know what it means.
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You just need to know how to type it into your vibe coding
app. OK while Lindy builds this app,
I'm going to scrape some real estate agents phone numbers.
OK, I'm here now in scraper. I'm going to go to Google,
Google Maps, data scraper, real estate agent.
I'm going to go Oklahoma. Let's go Oklahoma City, 1000 Max
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results. All I care about is a phone
number here. OK says it should take 7 to 25
minutes. OK Lindy has a rough draft of
what we're building here. Furniture room editor dot Lindy
dot site. It's asking me to do something
weird with my API key, so I'm going to have it just integrate
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that feature into the app. All right, here's how we get the
API key. We are at
aistudio.google.com/API key. We're going to click Create API
key, and my editor is going to blur this out so you don't make
my life difficult. I'm going to create one in a new
project. OK, there it is.
That's it. That's how you create an API
key. You click Create API key, then
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you click copy. That's it.
It's as technical as this gets. OK, Lindy said that it added a
field for my API key. Obviously this is not long term
scalable. I don't want it out there in the
public. This is literally a private
password that should never be shared.
But honestly, I'm just trying tomake a quick video right now and
build a quick business right nowbefore I go to a yummy Thai
restaurant with my wife for our standing Saturday night date.
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So we're going to make this quick.
OK, here's what Linda gave me. There's my API key.
Cool cool, cool. Let's add some room photos.
I'm going to go to Oklahoma Cityon on Zillow, OK, And I'm going
to try to just randomly find a home that doesn't look like it
has professional pictures. Oh, got them.
That home needs some work. Oh, you know what?
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Let's throw a curveball real quick.
Instead of taking an empty room and staging it, we're going to
take a messy, ugly room. Well, we want to keep it ugly
because it's going a little too far if we make a ugly room
beautiful because that is a definite bait and switch and
people will go tour the house and not be happy, but we're
going to take a messy room. I've never tried this.
It's the first time we're going to take a messy room and make it
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clean. How about that?
OK, save image. You know what, let's do it with
two photos because our app is supposed to do it with up to 30.
So there's a lot to work with here.
These are messy rooms. It's terrible photos, bad
lighting, etcetera. OK, so we'll try it with two
pictures. Go back to Lindy.
Here's my prompt. Make these bedrooms appear more
organized and less messy, but don't change the color of the
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floor or walls. It still needs to be the same
room. Make the pictures appear like
they were taken with a DSLR withgreat lighting.
How cool is this? So I upload the photos and then
there's a preview right here. I've got my prompt.
I'm going to copy that just in case it glitches on me.
And the submit button says add furniture to rooms.
Now I'm throwing it for a loop because that's not what I'm
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asking it to do, but let's see. OK, it went really fast.
It took about a second per photo, 2 seconds total.
Either it glitched out or it's just really fast.
Downloaded a zip file. All right, here's what it did.
Drum roll please. Oh didn't change anything.
The pictures are the exact same,but at least the the core
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functionality works. It just appears that it's not
actually using the API because nothing changed.
Let's go ahead and do the same prompt within Nano Banana.
Upload the same 2 pictures and see what it spits out.
There's a good lesson in this. You're building a business and
you hit some friction. You will always hit friction.
There will always be problems toovercome.
You can go one of two ways with it.
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You can find a plan BA workaround something not as
good, not as scalable, but it keeps the momentum going, keeps
the progress. Or you can just say, meh, I'm
going to look at Instagram or next on to the next.
No, stop. Keep it going.
Do things that don't scale. All right, this is a little
embarrassing, I'm not going to lie, but I figured out what was
happening with all these bugs. It wasn't using my API because
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my API wasn't ready to use yet. I had to connect.
Billing took three clicks. Now everything's working.
I redesigned the app a little bit.
I made it more simple. OK, here's what we're working
with. Let's try this.
I'm going to upload a picture, and I'm simply going to say add,
add furniture. Now, this is my app.
I just built this process. OK, took about 12 seconds, and
look what it spit out. Click to view isn't working, but
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whatever, Download it. All right, there we have it.
It's gorgeous. It furnished the room.
OK, so my app is working. Now we're going to go back to
outscraper and we're going to look and see if it's done.
Done. Awesome.
OK, cool. Now we're going to download it.
OK, let's go ahead and open up this data in Google Sheets.
All right, here we are. I'm going to delete all of the
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columns that I don't want or need.
I don't need any of this stuff. I want the name, the address,
the phone number, the type of phone number ain't good to go,
all right, We only want cell phone numbers.
We're going to highlight all these, going to delete
everything except mobile, and we're going to delete everything
that is unclassified. OK, we are left with 562 real
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estate agents in Oklahoma City that have cell phone numbers.
I no longer need this column because I know they're all
mobile. I want to remove the duplicates
data cleanup, remove duplicates data has header row.
Boom cool. 542 left. Awesome.
Let's go ahead and remove the plus one in space from these so
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they can all be standardized. Awesome.
Cool. OK, now what we need to do is
get all of these leads out of Google Sheets and into a CRM
like High Level. I've used High Level for years.
I love it. It's way cheaper than HubSpot,
and it can do a bunch of other things as well.
OK, here's the leads. Remember, we've already scrubbed
them. We've deleted most of the
columns. We're just going to hit file,
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download CSV. Then we're going to go into my
High Level account. We're going to click contacts,
import contacts. Next, click the upload.
Boom, we got to map them all out.
Name, phone, street, address, city, postal code, state.
Cool, easy enough. Next, now very, very important
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part of this process, I need to check this box, add imported
contacts to a workflow. I'm going to show you that
workflow in a minute. It's not hard to set up.
Check the box and then I'm goingto go to the workflow that I
already set up for the purposes of this business of this video
real estate staging new lead, and I'll show you how that works
in a minute. OK, very important that I do
this correctly. I need to add tags to these
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imported contacts. I created A tag called real
estate staging that will help meseparate these contacts from
other contacts I have in high level that I'm using for other
initiatives. And now this specific tag is
tied to a specific pipeline slash workflow, which I'm about
to show you. So this tag is not just to keep
me organized, but it's to trigger an automation, which
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I'll show you here in just a SEC.
Start bulk import. All right, now I'm going to
click on opportunities and then I'm going to hit this drop down
here and go to real estate staging pipeline.
Boom. Now you can see them coming in.
Remember I uploaded about 450 something here.
They are. OK, now I'm going to go find a
home for sale in Oklahoma City that one of these Realtors has
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listed and I'm going to find onethat has pictures that are not
staged. Boom, here we are.
There was a $60,000 price cut, which means this probably isn't
selling and maybe it's not selling because the home is not
staged correctly. I'm going to click on all the
photos. Boom boom boom.
I'm going to pick one. Cool, let's pick this dining
room right here. Save image as OK, now this is a
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little manual, but we can automate this later.
As much as I love showing videoshow to automate everything, it's
really not important in the early stages because often times
we get so caught up in automating and perfecting and
over optimizing everything that we never actually get to launch
the thing. So automations and time saving
tactics can come later. So part of this is going to be
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done in a non scalable way just so we can get moving so we can
have some momentum under our feet.
OK, let's go into this app that I vibe coded.
We're going to upload the picture and I'm simply going to
say add furniture. The most simple prompt ever.
While this is processing, let's go back to the listing and see
who the listing agent is. Brenda Hockel.
OK, awesome. She should be in our scrape
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list, but there's a chance she isn't.
Let's check. OK, boom.
Pictures done. We're going to look at her.
Right there. Looks a lot better.
We're going to download it. Awesome.
Now let's go back into our contacts.
There's Brenda right there. Perfect.
Click on her name. We're going to Scroll down here.
Click on additional info. You can see a ton of custom
fields in here. File upload.
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There it is. Real estate staging.
That is the custom field that I added to all of these contacts.
That is also a trigger. When I upload a photo to this
real estate staging section, it will trigger an automation to
text that person. I'm going to show you how it
works in real time. Upload a file.
There it is. Click save.
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OK, look at that. OK, that's a text.
Me uploading that file triggereda text.
Let me show you how and where and why that text message
happens. We're going to click on
automation. These are some of my workflows,
real estate texting setup and look, total enrolled one, active
enrolled one. That's Brenda.
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I just texted her. Click on that.
Here's how it works. Contact changed.
Real estate staging has changed.OK, that's the trigger.
That was me uploading the photo that triggered this SMS.
Hey, first name. I saw your listing here on
Zillow and noticed you didn't have staging set up yet.
I went ahead and mocked up a demo.
Interested in more? Let's chat.
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And then it puts in a link to the picture and then it will
connect it to an opportunity, which basically turns it from a
contact to a warm lead. And here's how I have the
settings if you want to pause itand copy those.
Now, when this happens, it will also update the pipeline, which
I'll show you right here. You go back here, opportunities,
real estate saging pipeline. Look at this.
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This is called a Kanban board. Companies like Trello and
Pipedrive do this really well. And so as part of that workflow,
it automatically moved her from just a new lead to a text sent.
And then it'll go a step further.
If over a certain time period she doesn't respond, it'll go
into no response and then I willautomatically follow up.
If she does respond, then it will go into response.
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If she calls me or I call her, it will automatically go to
called. And then as she proceeds down
the pipeline, maybe I give her some free samples.
Maybe I sell her a few pictures.Maybe she joins a monthly
recurring plan for 500 bucks a month for unlimited revisions to
unstaged photos. I can continue moving her down
the pipeline and then I can assign a value to her as a lead
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or as a customer. So you can see the value of the
total leads or total customers at any stage in the pipeline.
Super cool stuff. If you click into the
opportunity, you can create a task with automatic reminders.
You can book an appointment through here.
You can add notes. It's ACRM, right?
But on steroids. And then if I want to navigate
back to our conversation, our text conversation, I can just
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click that bubble right there and we're good to go.
So that's a wrap. Nano Banana is pretty
incredible. It's kind of fun to say that,
and it unlocks a whole world of new business opportunities.
This is just one of thousands, but just like in your hometown
there's a dozen auto repair shops, there could, should, and
will be hundreds if not thousands of agencies out there
one day doing little tasks like these.
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Nothing is too niche, nothing istoo small anymore.
We're on a planet with 8 billionpeople and we're all connected
by the Internet. There could be 1000 of these
agencies that just edits photos for real estate agents and
there'd still be room for everyone.
If you want to take this a step further and you want us to do
all the high level automations and pipelines and workflows for
you or even build a high level website for you, we can help you
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with all that. I have a private community for
people that are serious about building or starting a business.
It's called TK Owners. You can find us at tkowners.com
and it includes a $97.00 a monthhigh level account.
We have a master account and so we can have unlimited sub
accounts under us. So for $99.00 a month to be in
TK Owners, 97 of that is paid for if you use any of these high
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level features. In addition, you get weekly AM
as with me, weekly AM as with podcast guests that have had a
Slack group with over 400 founders and founders to be in
it, and all of these other features that you're going to
enjoy the heck out of. So whether you join us at TK
Owners or not, no worries. Just go do something.
Just go launch something. You can just do things.
So do them. Hey guys, if you're still
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listening to this, it's probablybecause you haven't had a chance
to take your air pods out, You're still mowing the lawn,
you're still driving, what have you.
If you're still here with me, I would really, really love and
appreciate a five star review onSpotify, Apple, or wherever you
get your podcast. It would mean a lot.
If you want to go the extra mile, share this episode with a
friend that might have an interest in starting a business.
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It would mean a ton. Hope you have the best day of
your life today.
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