Embracing AI for Streamlined Business Operations | EP172

Welcome back to the podcast , everybody . This is another bonus episode . I've been doing a few of these lately and seeing how they're going down with you guys , and they seem to be going down well , so let's continue .

This is going to be a short episode , and that is because we are talking about AI and I'm particularly going to talk about how I use it in my business , so it's not going to be a long episode .

It's not going to be an episode that's going to teach how to use AI , but it is an episode that I think is important , because AI is top of mind for a lot of people right now and different businesses are using it for themselves , but also showing other people how they can use it for their business and for me , I think that AI is something that is always

going to be here . It's something that we're going to have to get used to , and I think it can actually save us a lot of time . Now , what I don't think it can do is replace a human being . We have all been fed up to the back teeth . Can I get an amen ? Listening to those ?

Press one for such and such , press two for such and such , press three , and then you press the button you need and you still don't get through to a human . That annoys the heck out of me and it always will . I'm sure I'm not alone in that . Give me an amen if you agree , and therefore I am not exactly thrilled about AI as a rule .

However , I am certainly somebody who is here to let it help you make things quicker , simpler and easier , especially if you are working in business by yourself . If it's just you , then you are having to do all the things , and anything that you can automate is going to make your life easier and is going to get you to your goals quicker .

So for me , automation and the use of AI is really , really important in my business . I do not use it to talk to people on the phone . I don't think that's ever gonna be something that I do . I really enjoy talking to people and having that one-to-one connection with them , and I don't wanna lose that in my business .

Now , don't hold me to that down the line . Who knows what's gonna happen , but I don't feel like I'm ever gonna lose that personal touch within my business . However , there are certain things that I do get AI to do to help me to run my business in a smoother , more productive way .

So I'm gonna go over just three of the areas that I use AI in , just to give you an idea of how you might want to use it in your business . And just remember that at the core of this , nobody can replace you . You have thoughts , feelings .

There are , there are nuances to being a human that a robot just cannot replicate , so it's always gonna be a human that is going to program the AI to get anything out of it that is remotely good . So let's jump in to these AI usages for my business . So the first one is I use AI to help me with my podcast Scripting .

Now , that might surprise you , and I haven't used it for this one because this one is a personal one to me , so I don't actually need to use it as a script . I've literally got my three bullet points of the three things I wanna cover and I am off the cuff with the rest of it .

However , when I am talking about strategies or when I am talking about different topics that are not necessarily personal to me but are things that I do or things that I've seen or questions that I've seen asked , then I will jump into AI , go over to chat GPT that's what I use and say do me a podcast outline on X and it will produce an outline for me .

And it's only an outline . It's not a word for word script . I could never read a word for word script . I swear to God . It would just sound so robotic . I would sound like chat GPT .

But I do get it to do me an outline and when it does the outline , it gives me an introduction and then it tells me things that I could talk about and it also says at the bottom you know , you can change this . Now , if I was to read exactly what chat GPT wrote , then it would be over very quickly and it would be lacking in examples .

And that is what I add in . I add examples from my own business , I add examples from people that I know and I add in that richness to it so that it actually sounds like something that I would say .

I don't sort of sit there and let it do my scripts and then just read the scripts for Betum , because they don't necessarily sound like me and they don't give that richness , that information that you need , but what it does do is prompt me with ideas .

So if I'm stuck on a specific idea and I'm like I'd really like to talk about three things because I'm a fan of three or five or seven I like those kind of numbers , but I'm not sure what I could talk about in there If I ask chat GPT to do me a script , then it will populate with ideas , and it's ideas rather than a full script .

So it's like , oh , you could talk about X , you could talk about Y , and I go , oh gosh , yeah , yeah , I could use that . I could talk about X , y and Z within that and I could talk about this , and so it actually is an idea generator for me in that respect . So it just gets me over if I'm sort of oh , writer's block . It's a real thing .

So if you sort of sit there and look at a blank page and you just like I have no idea what to write right now I've got a topic , but my mind's just gone blank . Chat GPT just gives you those initial ideas so that you can start . So I use it for podcast scripting .

Like I said , it's just points , it's not the full script , but I have found that so useful . The other thing that I've used it for is to produce emails , email text . So for me I am not great at copy , or I don't think I am , and I don't like to say it often because it's useful whatever you put out , there is what comes back .

So I try not to say that , but at the end of the day , if that's what you're thinking , it's in your subconscious . So that's something that I have to work on . However , because I don't think I'm great at copy , I find that chat GPT is really good at doing emails for me .

So I will say I want to write an email on XYZ , I want it to be witty , I want it to be around 300 words , I want it to include emojis , and chat GPT will do it . Now , I don't tend to use this for my weekly email , because my weekly email is about promoting my podcast episode and sharing that with you guys . So it would just .

There's no point , there's nothing there for it to require . But in my funnels , when I've got like a webinar funnel or a sales funnel or a class funnel or something like that , then there is a possibility that chat GPT might be better at creating the email flow for that than I would be .

So I can go in there and say , okay , so somebody's taken a class and this email is to encourage them to go and look at my sales page or something like that . You could just play around with it . But I play around with those ideas and I use it for that purpose . I also use it more so for titles .

I really like using it for titles because I don't feel like I'm very good at that hook , getting that hook from a title . So in my software that I use FEA Create , which is linked in all the show notes in the bottom there .

I am an affiliate for FEA Create , which means that if you decide to sign up , then I get a commission of that if you use my link . So just wanted to be clear with that . But I use it every day .

I absolutely love it and they have an AI feature within there that you can give it a little description of what your email's about and it will give you titles for your email . So that is what I use it more for than writing the full email itself .

But if I'm doing a funnel , I might use it to write the emails as well , but I love it for coming up with catchy titles . The last thing that I use it for and I don't know whether this is actually it's only these three things that I use it for .

I have to have a think , but these were the first three that came to my mind and that is my podcast Collateral . So I use Buzzsprout for my podcast , which many of you already know , and they have introduced a new feature recently called Cohost AI , and it is absolutely bloody fantastic . If you have seen an improvement in my show notes recently . That is why .

Because I don't have time to sit there and write concise show notes , I certainly don't have time to sit there and write a transcript for my podcast , and this Cohost AI does it for me . Is it 100% accurate ? No , but do I care ? Not really .

So I will read through the show notes section that it creates for me and I will make any adjustments that I feel necessary to make it authentic to the episode , because sometimes it gets some ideas and it pulls what I've said and it comes up with a different thing , and I'm like that's not what I said , so I will change that so that the show notes make sense

for the episode that it's attached to . The transcripts , however , are there to help people who are possibly hard of hearing , but also to help with SEO . So for me , I lead them as is . I am not gonna go through a 40 minute episode checking that every single word is correct .

I feel like it does a good enough job that you get the gist of the episode and you'll get the main points from the transcript it creates , and I expect that it will improve over time .

The other thing that it does for me is produce title options , so it will produce up to five title options for me to choose from for my episode , which are all so much better than anything I could ever come up with , and it also produces a blog post and social media posts , as well as chapters for the episode , so it is really comprehensive .

It does a lot of the text-based work , and text is where I fall down , guys . I am so slow at typing , I am so slow at thinking and typing , and I have genuinely believed that keyboard dyslexia is a thing , because every time I write on the keyboard , the number of times that I get letters mixed up is unbelievable .

I wrote the word chance earlier in an email and I spelt it C-H-A-C-N-E . That's not right , and I do it all the time mix up the letters within words because my fingers , my head's thinking quicker than my fingers or vice versa , I don't know . But if I was to write it down by hand , I wouldn't have any issue with it .

So it is solely for the keyboard and chat . These AI bots help me to avoid , you know , making silly spelling mistakes left , right and center . So that is the other way that I use it . So I really enjoy using AI to help me with these things .

And one of the other things that chat , gpt and these AI things can help you with is help you come up with your course content . So you may have heard me recently talking about my teacher and mentor , amy Porterfield .

She is absolutely fantastic in the world of list building and course creation and she has recently released a new resource all about how you can get AI to help you with your course content . Now I have spoken about how courses are a great way to diversify your business and increase your income streams .

I think it is a brilliant option for you to have within your business , especially if you are a small business owner who can't necessarily multiply themselves to get more time in the day . A course can be something that can be selling in the background whilst you are doing other things . So I think it's a really useful thing .

But a lot of people get hung up on that idea of the time that it's gonna take to produce a course or , just like I said , how chat GPT actually saves me loads of time around my podcast , from creating the scripts to doing the show notes for me . Literally I record and edit and everything else is done by AI .

At this point , you can get AI to help you with your course content . So if you are interested in finding out how AI can help you create a course , then I want you to go and grab Amy's free resource . It is linked in the show notes , but if you are not in a place where you can get to those easily , you can go to donneedcom .

That's D-O-N-N-A-E-A-D-E dot com . Forward slash Amy-AI-Guide . I hope you grab that download . I hope you give chat GPT a go . How might you use it in your business ? Come over to social . Follow me on Instagram . Donner , underscore , ead underscore and let me know how you use AI in your business Currently . If you do .

If you don't , how might you use it in your business ? Grab that free download from Amy in the show notes . Donneedcom forward . Slash Amy-AI-Guide and I will see you in the next one . Bye for now , so let's get started .