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EP218 Beyond Blogging - 6 Unique AI Strategies for Small Businesses
AI Literacy for Entrepreneurs
06/26/24 • 9 min
🌟 Welcome to The 4am Report, with me, Susan Diaz, your host and an AI optimist. Let’s talk about innovative ways small businesses can use artificial intelligence RIGHT NOW, beyond the basics. Today, I'm going to debunk a common myth about AI; and share six unique ways to use AI in your content marketing that go beyond writing blog articles.
On the episode I cover:
✍️ Expanding AI Use Beyond Blog Writing: Many perceive AI as a tool just for generating text-based content, but it’s so much more! I’ll introduce you to advanced, practical applications that can transform your business operations.
6️⃣ Six Innovative AI Use Cases for Small Businesses: From breaking down video content to enhancing your sales processes, these tried-and-tested strategies from our Marketing Power Circle (member-only AI implementation mastermind) will open your eyes to new possibilities.
In-Depth Topics:
📹 Video Content Utilization: How to transform existing video material into multiple content pieces for varied marketing channels.
💵 Enhanced Sales Processes: Utilize AI like ChatGPT and Claude to streamline your sales drafts and follow-ups, making your outreach efforts more efficient and personalized.
🎙️ Simplifying Guest Interviews with Myshowrunner.com: A free tool that eases the podcast interview process by streamlining guest research and question formulation.
♻️ Revitalizing Existing Content: Use AI to update old articles or reports with new insights, SEO enhancements, and user-friendly formats.
🔎 Efficient Summarization for Client Research: Employ AI tools to quickly summarize extensive research materials, saving valuable time and effort.
💻 Optimizing Workshop Summaries: How AI can help you efficiently repurpose past workshop and training content for new audiences or formats.
⭕ Special Invitation: If you’re interested in learning how to implement these AI strategies effectively in your business, consider joining our Marketing Power Circle. Drop me an email or LinkedIn DM and I'll send you more details about our AI implementation mastermind, designed specifically for small businesses looking to scale and innovate.
AI is not a futuristic concept but a practical tool that can dramatically enhance the way small businesses operate today. By adopting a broader view of AI’s capabilities and integrating these technologies into various aspects of your business, you can unlock significant growth and efficiency.
🌟 Keep listening for more insights from upcoming guests who are using AI in groundbreaking ways, and join us next time for more AI literacy discussions on The 4am Report!
Connect with me - Susan Diaz on LinkedIn: Entrepreneur, podcast host, and passionate advocate for using AI to enhance small business marketing and sustainability.
EP217 The Mindset of Thinking 100x with AI for Small Businesses
AI Literacy for Entrepreneurs
06/12/24 • 12 min
Welcome to The 4am Report, where talk AI literacy for founder-led brands with me, your host, Susan Diaz. Today I will be exploring what it means to think exponentially in the age of artificial intelligence and how this mindset can drastically shift your business landscape.
On this podcast, we no longer do intros and outro on audio, so here’s a short note on who I am. I am Susan Diaz, lifetime marketer with over 20 years of experience spanning startups to government sectors. I am the founder of a content marketing firm, and I am focused on how artificial intelligence can turbocharge small business operations.
In this episode you should expect to hear about:
🚀 Thinking Exponentially: How adopting a 100x mindset, with the support of AI, can lead to significant growth and innovation in your business.
💡 The True Power of AI: Exploring how artificial intelligence can be a game changer, not just a productivity tool but a strategic partner in your business.
In-depth Topics Covered:
I love a good metaphor to help me learn and remember. And I hugely value the experts who give me that. And I try to do the same as I speak to, and train, various audiences.
Inside this episode I give you an interesting analogy on how technology evolves and becomes mainstream, relating it to how refrigeration technology, initially developed for preserving life-saving drugs, evolved to widespread uses - including ‘skincare fridge’.
You’ll also learn the three key mindsets for leveraging AI to grow exponentially:
🤖 Strategic Partner, Not Just a Task Manager: Viewing AI as a co-thinker and brainstorming tool, not just as an automator of mundane tasks.
🔍 Workflow Visualization: Importance of understanding current processes clearly before integrating AI, bringing clarity to how AI can fit into and optimize these processes.
🌱 Focused Implementation: The significance of starting with one tool or process, mastering it, and then scaling to avoid overwhelming change and to grow sustainably.
Thinking about implementing AI in your small business?
For hands-on help, consider joining our Marketing Power Circle ⭕ an AI implementation mastermind group that meets twice a month. Together, we focus on automating one business workflow every 90 days, turning your quantum possibilities into actions that will move you far ahead of the curve. Join Here
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EP143 Apple x BBC podcast subscriptions, Oprah's Favourite Things, Meta, Microsoft, Disney Diversity
AI Literacy for Entrepreneurs
11/04/21 • 25 min
EP156 What motivates a diversity rant? with Nita Tandon
AI Literacy for Entrepreneurs
01/12/22 • 27 min
Here's a fun look into the mind of a social impact founder
Marketing during times of crisis with Martin Waxman
AI Literacy for Entrepreneurs
03/25/20 • 20 min
It’s another edition of the 4 AM Report, but instead of asking fellow marketers what keeps them up at night – we want to ask this:
Have you been having some hard chats with yourselves during this bizarrely uncertain (and frankly scary!) time?
🔥🔥🔥 If you haven’t – the time to start that is NOW. 🔥🔥🔥
Let's face it, we all have to market, large or little. It's harder than ever to stand out in a cluttered space of one size fits all and copycat marketing moves.
But while Covid-19 is stealthily spreading around the globe, our marketing worlds have to change:
🦠 Understand that things can - and will - change on a dime.
🦠 Accept that you’ll need to have systems in place to allow you to pivot
🦠 READ THE ROOM!!
🦠 Tone deaf is not the voice you want to be sharing these days
🦠 And yes, it’s time to stop automating your social postings
Our guest this week is Martin Waxman – and he basically does it all! He specializes in Digital and Social Media Strategy, is a LinkedIn Learning Author, a Social Media Professor, conducts research into AI, and leads custom-tailored social media and communications workshops and training for organizations.
Trust us. He knows how to deal with marketing in the time of Covid-19! We’re super excited to have him on to share his expertise with everyone, so have a listen.
Or, if you want a few quick tips, read on – it’s like taking a masterclass without leaving the house. Wait. That’s kind of perfect, isn’t it? #socialdistancing
Relationships Are Everything: Don’t Add to the Noise
“Relationships are long term, ultimately, and it's important for us to remember that, that it's all the different steps we take over time that affects our reputation, how people outside of our organization or our employees are perceiving us. So, if we're committed to doing the right thing if we're committed to helping if we're committed to going above and beyond as much as we can – because there's still that balance between making sure we do what we need to do to keep our organizations running, to keep our employees informed, and hopefully working. All of that is important. And I think it ties into the notion of communicating and really being open in your communications, and possibly increasing your communications but only when you have something to say....really ask, ‘Is this message absolutely necessary in these times, or will it just add to the noise?’ Just make sure that you're not adding to the noise pollution out there, that whatever bit of communications you put out is helpful and is essential in these times.”
Check Tone and Overall Content
“For like maybe the last 10 days or so most people are starting to pick up on the tone or ‘read the room’ thing a little bit. And, you know, there's been a lot of improvement. However, I think some people are actually falling down on the automation, while maybe most social and you know, ads have been checked for tone, one of the things I'm finding is email is quite bad – there’s this perception that they need to be going out to people at this time all the time. And they're continuing to go out and a whole bunch of people I know on social are also the picking on these things and pointing out the tone deafness of it....You know, I am on an email list for a retail clothing outlet that I like, and I shop at all the time. And every day, I'm still getting an email from them 60% off, you know, it's like, ‘Okay, right now, I'm not looking to buy clothes, I don't really need clothes.’ That's not an essential.”
Don’t Be Afraid to Use Humour – But Keep it Simple!
“What humour does is it serves as a little bit of a distraction. And it's a way just to help us forget the situation for a moment. You know, think about something else, get a laugh, maybe relax a bit. I mean, humour is a great tension release. Yesterday, I saw on Twitter, I thought this was this a great thing, that was shared and of course, went viral – Neil Diamond - you know, his song Sweet Caroline is pretty famous. What he did is he recorded a short video from his home so you could see him in front of his fireplace talking, singing Sweet Caroline just him and his guitar. And he changed the words to be appropriate. So instead of ‘hands touching hands’, he said, ‘hands, washing hands’, and that was just so great. And it, you know, it gives you a break. And that's what you need. Now, that said, if your brand is a very, very serious brand and have never dabbled in humor ever, ever, ever, now is maybe not the time to start because people won't be expecting it from you. They won't know how to take it, especially if it's something that's a little sarcastic or satirical, so you have to be careful with that. And I would say if you are thinking of using humor, that's great, but look to your overall brand - brand values, brand character.”
We hope you enjoyed this episode ...
Writing with Lindsay Bell and Melissa Andrews
AI Literacy for Entrepreneurs
03/19/20 • 32 min
What a difference a week makes. Everything seems slightly surreal, but I can tell you it most certainly is real life, as I watch my child bicycle in circles on the driveway in the middle of a school-day.
For the next few months at least, with the spread of the Covid-19 virus, we are all facing uncertain times.
So, we waffled a bit about releasing this episode of the 4 AM Report. Clearly, asking people right now what keeps them up at night is a loaded question.
But then we all talked - as a team - brought our collective years of experience together, and ultimately decided this: Yes, things are upside down right now. Yes, people are more anxious than ever.
But many of us – and YOU - in the digital space are still trying to serve clients and help peers who might need crisis communications advice.
And we felt with ALL sincerity that this week’s episode of the 4 AM Report – which focuses on writing, writing, writing – might actually be of some help to people right now.
Plus, if nothing else, one of our guests sings a Glen Campbell song. What the heck does Glen Campbell have to do with writing for the digital space? You’ll have to tune in to find out.
Take a break. Have a listen and a laugh, because we do get a little silly. And I think we all need to allow ourselves some laughter at the moment.
And if you prefer a sampling of what writing tips and tricks we share, read on.
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Writing for the User Experience (UX)
“A few years ago, I set myself a little goal - I wanted to write websites which had under two under 2000 words in it in total, meaning other than the blog posts and content sections, which gets, you know, regularly updated with larger pieces. A website should actually have very little content is my general thinking. I think time has passed where you're told, sort of long drawn out explanations of how your product or service, or whatever it was, worked and how it benefited the universe - that kind of thing - nobody wants that now anymore. So, to my mind, there's a huge element of visual that's come into writing to make it user friendly. How would this fit into a box? Is this more than eight words? Would it get cut off in the email, subject headlines, those kinds of things.”
BREAK ALL THE RULES
“I was trained to write for media like a PR background. So, I followed the CP style book, you had to write out the numbers one to nine in word form, and then you'd start at the digit 10 and go up like, there's all these rules, right? You'd have to write this way, or you would get zero on projects. But I know now that I write digitally, it seems like all the rules have kind of gone out the window. It's kind of you can invent your own, you can do things your own way.”
“I would say like when you're writing, you need to have fun with it, as well. So, as you're writing, start thinking about how you can break a sentence up how you can keep it simple and as clear as possible and just break the rules throughout - the grammar Nazi rules that you used to follow. You know, you can’t start a sentence with AND, and you can't start a sentence with BUT, you can't do this. You can do that. You can actually do anything! As long as it's interesting and engaging, and it actually means something, at the end of the day, you know, you're writing to a person, how would you talk to them?
“I think of it as just like punching almost. Short. Sharp. Shocked. Run on sentences just drive me crazy. You know, you can be very impactful with your writing by just getting like, you know, four or five really powerful words, and then cut that sentence off . I mean, as long as it works, you don't, don't try and force it. But I think there's something very powerful about short, impactful writing.”
Writing What You DON’T Know!
“What I usually do is I try and approach it as if I'm writing a story. So, I'll go out and read as many stories on that subject that I can manage in the time frame that I allocate myself, researching other people's content to see what's going on in that space. I'll go read it, make some notes, some key highlights, and then I'll start expanding on those points. And what I find really helps me as well is to just write like, sometimes you get stuck when you're trying to think of ‘What am I going to say and how am I going to make it sound good?’ like first I just write whatever is off the top of my head, I just write as much as I possibly can. And then I go back later, and I fix it or add some research or some stats to support that view.”
“I may be bored to tears – but not intimidated. Hemingway said, write drunk, edit sober. (laughter) Also, read!! Like, read everything, like Melissa was saying, read, read, read, just read for your own personal benefit. I read everything. I read science stuff, I read fictional history, I read real history. And then all o...
#68 - Staying Sane in the Covid-19 Second Wave with Gini Dietrich
AI Literacy for Entrepreneurs
10/14/20 • 22 min
Hello friends, and welcome to the second wave of Covid-19!! 🦠🦠🦠 Ok, we kid, we kid, welcome to another edition of the 4 AM Report.
Wait. We DON’T kid! We ARE inching into the dreaded “second wave” and BOY are we not ready for this! 🤬
Rolling shutdowns are already occurring, and we’re thinking it’s going to be a long, cold winter. 🥶😷🥶
Our guest this week, Gini Dietrich, has been juggling a full household on lockdown while being the powerhouse behind umpteen numbers of properties nestled under the Spin Sucks brand.
She’s an author, featured speaker, and owner of a 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸Chicago based 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 PR/Marketing/Comms agency - plus super hilarious, ridiculously smart, and an all-around great person.
We talk:
🦠 Life during this looming second wave of Covid-19.
🤯 The emotional shift that comes with “Oh no. Not AGAIN!”
😴 Its impact on sleep...glorious, delicious sleep...why hast thou forsaken us??
💣 The “six-month wall” of burnout people hit when faced with uncertainty and upheaval.
🎉 Plus, when you do grab that elusive sleep, the incredible power of dreams!
Give yourself a mental health break and have a listen!
About Gini
Gini Dietrich is the founder, CEO, and author of Spin Sucks, host of the Spin Sucks podcast, and author of Spin Sucks (the book). She is the creator of the PESO Model and has crafted a certification for it in partnership with Syracuse University. She has run and grown an agency for the past 15 years. She is co-author of Marketing in the Round, co-host of Inside PR, and co-host of The Agency Leadership podcast.
#71 - Use the Anchor Theory for an Explosion of Content with Susan Diaz and Will Lamont
AI Literacy for Entrepreneurs
11/04/20 • 15 min
Wake up world, it’s time for the 4 AM Report! 💫🎉💫
Hard to believe we’re looking ahead to 2021 already, because GURL, this has been one long, MOFO year!!! 🤯🦠🍷🇺🇸🤯
But here we are. Still tickin’. ⏰ Today is all about the anchor theory of content marketing – and making your planning easy as 🥧🥧🥧!
How to take your anchor content and: Spin 👏 that 👏 thing 👏 into 👏 as many 👏 things 👏 as you 👏 CAN!! 👏
Think of the four formats:
❶ Written format
❷ Audio format
❸ Video format
❹ And, the graphic or image format
And use them all to expand upon your anchor piece.
Before you know it, you’ll be 🏊♀️ 🏊♀️ 🏊♀️ swimming 🏊♀️ 🏊♀️ 🏊♀️ in a river of content, creating SEO magic, and driving people back to your website!
#You’reAnExpert! 🤣 Have a listen for tips and tricks. And here’s to 2021! 🥂🍾🥂
EP284 Capitalizing on growth for a cash rich exit
AI Literacy for Entrepreneurs
12/19/23 • 23 min
Welcome to a new episode of The Cash Rich Exit Podcast, where host Colleen O'Connell-Campbell chats with Mark Lerohl, the visionary behind First Tracks Capital. This episode delves into the minds of investors and what they seek in companies, offering a unique viewpoint for business owners eyeing a prosperous exit.
Here are some highlights you should expect - so hit play!
🤝 We explore the crucial elements that attract investors to potential acquisitions. Mark sheds light on the key factors that make a company an appealing target, providing valuable insights for business owners looking to position their companies for a cash rich exit.
💡 The growth capital gap in Canadian market and the importance of empowering Canadian businesses in their journey from break-even to positive EBITDA; and potentially towards a lucrative exit within 3-5 years.
🌐 The challenges and strategies in finding and investing in pre-IPO companies in Canada. Often word of mouth and strong relationships play a significant role in identifying promising opportunities.
📈 The importance of investing in companies with substantial growth potential. Learn how capital can be effectively utilized to expand into new markets or scale operations and how a company's ability to grow justifies valuation increases.
🚀 Private equity investing and partnerships - prioritizing collaborative partnerships that focus on mutual growth rather than mere value extraction.
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EP195 The 15-minute generative AI business case for marketing (artificial intelligence 101)
AI Literacy for Entrepreneurs
07/12/23 • 12 min
Welcome back to The 4am Report!
🎙️ On this podcast, since 2018 we've asked Founders and marketing leaders “what keeps you up at night?” And the answers range from funny, to relatable, to downright dystopian! In the current world, the number one answer to that question is: artificial intelligence.
Starting with this episode, The 4am Report is taking a thrilling turn as we dive into the world of AI and its impact on supercharging your marketing 🚀
From exploring AI-powered tools to the endless possibilities of automation and personalization, your host, Susan Diaz, content marketer, community builder, and category creator, the founder and CEO of one of the world’s first AI agencies, will bring you lessons and conversations that will help you stop seeing AI as "one more scary thing to learn", and instead to deploy it as a power tool! 🌟
Get ready for insightful discussions, practical tips, and thought-provoking interviews with industry experts, all centered around leveraging AI for better marketing for founder-led brands 🤖💥
In today's episode, Susan gives you the 15 minute generative AI business case for marketers, diving into:
🤖 What generative AI is and why ChatGPT from OpenAI is a global phenomenon
🤖 Why using AI is not “cheating”. And why small business must incorporate it to create ease and productivity
🤖 Learning to view generative AI as Robotic Process Automation (RPA) for the human mind
🎧 Listen to this episode now for that and a LOT more 🎧
🚀 If you're serious about incorporating AI into your business to relieve bandwidth without breaking your budget, you may need to give yourself “the AI advantage”
Deets 👉https://cp.digital/the-ai-advantage/
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