Jeff (Jeff For Local Marketing) warns that many local businesses have been forgotten as consumer behavior shifts (people bypass Main Street), and he reports a statistic from an AI workshop: roughly 90%+ of local businesses are unaware of AI's coming impact. The video aims to highlight the challenge and urge preparedness.
It becomes forgotten because we zip past it at 70 or 80 miles an hour and we no longer go down Main street and see the cute little restaurant or the antique store or all these kind of things and all of a sudden that that business is no or excuse me, that city has kind of, if you will, fallen off the map and it struggles. So they have to work extra hard to let the people know that while we're going down the highway at 780 miles an hour there's an opportunity to come and see them. Well when that happens imagine how challenging it is for a local business to get back on track. Now here's a stat that I picked up from being at a four hour workshop over the weekend on AI and this was part of the discussion that almost none, now when I hear almost none, let's say 90% or more of local businesses a have no idea this is coming and it's not coming.
