EP 177: 7 Ways To Use AI in Your Business in 2024

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The number one thing that I hear from companies, from individuals, just all of the buzz around generative AI is how do I actually use it in my business? And it's something that, yeah, we've talked about here and there on the Everyday AI show, but we've never had one dedicated show showing everyone specific examples and use cases on how to use generative AI to grow your companies, to grow your careers and to get your time back. If that's what you want to do, if that's what you want to learn, today's episode is for you. What's going on, y'? All? My name is Jordan Wilson and I am the host of Everyday AI. This is your daily live stream podcast and free daily newsletter helping everyday people like you and me not just learn what's going on in the world of generative AI, but how we can all actually leverage it. That's what it's all about, right? You can spend all your time keeping up with, you know, different tools and techniques and AI news, but if you can't put it to use to grow your company, grow your career, you're wasting your time. All right, so we're gonna, I think today's show, I'm extremely excited for today's episode, but I think it's gonna lay the blueprint for how everyday people can start gaining their time back, win your time back. That's what today's show is all about. All right, so we're gonna do. This is a long one, just, just a, a forewarning I'm going to try to go through quickly. So we're going to start with a, a very brief overview of the AI news. All right, so actually just go to your everydayai.com if you haven't already. Why haven't you sign up for the free daily newsletter? Here's a quick preview of some of the different news items that we're going to be breaking down today. So an article looking at how AI use at companies is actually exciting, exploding not just here in the US but globally. Going over a new Fortune report showing AI predictions from top investors and Samsung. Some big news with an event coming up, but they are talking about their increased emphasis on AI in your mobile devices and a quote, all new mobile experience powered by AI. So Samsung is teasing a big mobile AI announcement. So for that news and a lot more, make sure to go to your everydayai.com and sign up for that free daily newsletter. So if you're listening to this on the podcast, thank you as always for joining. Please leave us a a review. Make sure to follow the show. And another thing, I love hearing from you all. This is a, a real, a really community based show, you know, trying to grow the, the biggest group of AI enthusiasts in the world. That's what we're trying to do here@everyday AI. So I want to hear from you. Check the show notes, literally leave the E. I, I leave an email. You can send me an email. I reply to every single one of them. So I want to hear from our podcast listeners. But also know in your show notes there will be a link to come back and watch this video because I am going to be showing a couple of things on my screen but I'm going to be doing the best I can to try to verbally explain what's, what's going on. So for our live audience, I want to know. Hey, thank you for joining us. Brian joining us from Minneapolis. Woozy joining us from Kansas City. What's going on? Lynn from New York. Raul is looking forward to getting the inside scoop. Good morning to Tara and Daniel joining us from Buffalo. All right. Hey, and holding it down for Chicago Cecilia. All right, so for our live audience, I want to know what is your one best Gen AI use case? We're going to feature our favorite one in the newsletter. So for our live audience, what is that one generative AI thing or I guess initiative that maybe you've already seen great results at from your company? All right, let me know. I'm going to feature our favorite one in the newsletter. So again, I think when we're starting out in 2024, trying to start fresh and we're trying to bring context. So whether you are an avid listener of the show and an AI enthusiast or you're brand new and you're just sticking your foot into the waters. Let's quickly explain what the heck is Gen AI? So I say this all the time. Artificial intelligence is not new. It's been around and it's been used in business for years, decades, you know, going back to very early on widespread use, even in the 70s and 80s, right? Generative AI, even though its definition has, you know, changed a little bit recently, it's also not very new. But in short, the quickest way I can summarize what generative AI is is using a simple input and then a generative AI system create something new. Right? So maybe it's a text input that creates longer text, maybe it's a photo input, that creates a video, you know, that you can use on tools like Runway or Pika Labs. So that is what generative AI is. And you know, over the course of the last two years, generative AI has completely changed how business not only gets done, but really just changing the definition of how we work. So just wanted to throw that out there as a little precursor, you know, because we're going to be talking a lot about, you know, different ways to use generative AI in your business. So wanted to get that out of the way first. All right, and here's the other part, and I need to always caution, you know, if, if you're listening or watching, stop using every single tool. All right? And yes, I'm going to be sharing some tools, but that doesn't mean that you should run out and use them. All right, A very, very quick story. Right. So I, my background, I first started, you know, I had about eight years as a multimedia journalist and then I spent about a decade working at a nonprofit. We essentially became an activation agency for, for Nike and Jordan Brand. But that's another story. One thing I did at the nonprofit, one of my first big projects was I looked at our process of onboarding and responding to volunteers. It was about a 34 step process and it took about two hours for each and every volunteer. Right. One of my first big projects, there wasn't really generative AI at the time, was literally reverse engineering that process. And we got it down to I think, five steps and 90 seconds. Right. No big deal. Well, what if you're working with thousands of volunteers a year all of a sudden? You know, we, we actually, you know, did kind of create a little bit of technology around this process and actually won an award for it. But we ended up saving hundreds of hours a year by implementing this new strategy. Okay, so that's what I want you to think when you're, when we're talking about different ways to use generative AI in your business. Don't just look at the shiny tools. Look at where you are spending your most time, your most manual time. Okay. And with that in mind, we talk about this a little bit in our free Prime Prompt Polish Pro course. Yeah, there's a PPP Regular and a PPP Pro. So if you want access, just let me know and I'll, I'll send you information on that. But one thing we talk about is focusing on where you spend your time working. And I'd say the majority, if you are a knowledge worker working At a desk, which is probably what many of us are, you probably spend at least 80% of your time doing one of these five things. Okay? And this is why we're starting, because these are our end goals, right? We need to focus on where we're spending our time, not on shiny AI tools. So these are the five things that you're probably spending at least 80% of your time doing meetings. That includes prep and follow up learning, right? So you're learning new things, whether it's in your industry, you're learning new things about your customers. So that involves a lot of reading, note taking, right? Writing. Yay writing. Everyone loves emails, right? So whether you're writing emails, internal documents for, you know, new procedures, job descriptions, you know, maybe if you're an hr, you know, talent acquisition, something like that, analyzing. So whether that's data analysis and spreadsheets, or charting data or studying trends, you know, related to data, or price forecasting, right. That's analyzing and then presentation. So that can be for, you know, maybe internal pitches to raise money or internal team trainings or, you know, trying to get your initiative improved through corporate, whatever it may be. But I'd be hard pressed if you are a knowledge worker out there, if you work at a computer, if you are working on the Internet all day, I think it's pretty safe to say that at least 80% of your time falls in one of those five categories, right? Yeah, reading, reading emails is on there, I guess. Yeah, good, good point to Cecilia. I guess when I say emails, it's, it's reading and writing. The assumption is if you're reading the emails, you're probably hopefully writing a response. Right? So now let's go ahead and just skip to the end. All right? I know sometimes I, I drag this show on and make you wait for it, but here, here we go. Here are the seven ways to use generative AI in your business in 2024. And these seven, I think are the most, I'd say the. Or, sorry, I would say the easiest way to gain back your time with the smallest upfront commitment. Right. So Most of these seven things are probably only going to take less than five minutes and they will probably give you bare minimum a 5x return on your time invested. Right? So you spend five minutes very easily. You, you know, you hit enter once or use a program once, you're easily going to get 30 minutes of time in less than five minutes. Right. And then when you scale that, that's a lot. So here, here's our seven ways to use generative AI in your business in 2024. Number one, to make meetings more meaningful. Number two, to automate to DOS from meetings. Number three, to personalize long content that you need to learn. Number four, reading and responding to emails. Yeah. And I'm curious, how much time do you spend reading and responding to emails? How many hours a week? I want to know. Number five, competitive analysis in strategic planning. Number six, data analysis and graphing. Yay. Love the spreadsheets. Right. And then number seven, pitch deck creation and improvement. All right, so I love this. So Andy, thanks for joining us. Andy saying perfect, Jordan, I'm spending my day working through my business ops processes, looking into automation. So this is super interesting to me right now. Yeah, I think, you know, Andy, just as an example to what you said, I don't know anyone out there, literally anyone, who cannot benefit from one of these seven things and cannot win back easily, easily. Hours with an S. Hours a day. Okay, that's not hyperbole. I'm not selling you anything. At the end. I am literally saying there are people I recently had a conversation with someone who was saying that they're planning their social media calendar and someone asked that someone else at the table asked, hey, are you going to use AI for that? And this person said, no, that's not really what AI is for. You know, I don't like to be the person that's always, you know, stumping on AI, but I just sat there and didn't say anything. But yes, literally almost any job that you are doing in front of a computer on the Internet, you can save easily and get return on investment easily. 5x if you know what you're doing. All right, Even myself, you know, I get messages all the time. Hey, Jordan, how are you able to do this show every single day? How are you able to create all this content every single day? How are you able to plan for your shows? I use AI. Right. You like. There is very few aspects of your job, of your role that you should not be using AI in. Let me repeat that there. It's probably again, it depends, you know, if you're working with sensitive documents, person, you know, PII or personal health information. Yes. You probably can't use AI at this time unless your your has an enterprise solution in place that, you know, keeps, you know, data privacy and data security and you know, has all those guard rails. But you know, if you're for the most part working on public data or something like that, you should be using generative AI in almost every aspect or element of your work. All right, let's get to it. Number one, make meetings more meaningful. All right, so as an example, you can have chat GPT. So I'm going to try to give a chat GPT example because that's where we spend, I think especially our audience spend so much of their time within chat gbt. But then I'm going to give, you know, some non chat GPT examples too. So before the meeting, you can prompt chat GPT to brainstorm discussion topics relevant to your business calls and goals and also have chat GPT draft an agenda that aligns with those topics. Right. So many times I cannot tell you the amount of time that I've wasted in meetings my whole life. Oh, I want to hear from the audience. How, how many hours? So first question, how many hours are you spending reading and writing emails? How many hours? Let me know. And then secondly, how many hours are you spending in either preparing for meetings inside actual meetings or the follow up that is attached to those meetings? Let me know how many hours for those things because I, I really want to start calculating, right. How much time that we can all save by going through these seven steps. And I think it's a lot. Tara just said too many. Tara can't count. But I'd say a lot of people easily are spending between meeting prep actual time in meetings in the follow up to meetings, easily 10 to 20 plus hours. Right. And that's why the first one is make meetings more meaningful. Use a tool like chat GPT, super easy to help better plan an agenda to only focus on topics that are relevant. So how do you do that? Well, you can use chat GPT. Right. So I have a prompt example here and if you do, yeah, I, I have to throw this out there. I don't use prompts, right. But I know that other people do and they're kind of useful. I like to train expert chats. That's our, our prime prompt polish method, our free course. We do it, you know, a couple times a month. So again, if you want access, just type PPP in the comments or email me ppp. All right, but here's an example of a prompt where I am uploading inside chat GPT transcripts. Okay. Transcripts of a meeting. And then I'm asking chat GPT and I'm telling it to assume the role of an organizational development expert specializing in blank. Right. So yeah, if you want these prompts, if you want these prompts, repost this. Right? That's, that's, that's what we're doing in, in 2024 repost the episode and I send you good stuff and I save you a bunch of time, right? People keep telling me I should be selling this stuff. I'm like, nah, I want to give it away for free. Just repost this. So yeah, if you're watching this on LinkedIn, just repost it. If maybe Twitter is your thing, you can just retweet this episode link. All right? And then I'll send you all these prompts if you actually want them. But a good example on how to make meetings more meaningful is to upload a transcript of your last meeting. Use a prompt like the example that I have here, assigning ChatGPT role and tell it to analyze. Right? Tell it to both analyze. Hey, what went well according to the transcript, what maybe didn't, and then help me better plan my next meeting. Right? Maybe this is a weekly meeting or a daily stand up and you can just ask Chat GPT, hey, give me, give me seven ways to make this meaning more meaningful. I always encourage people when you are using ChatGPT to start very wide in general. So don't say, hey, you know, give me seven ways to. To that we can save time doing project A, B and C with employee D, right? Start general, say, how can I make this based on this transcript, how can I make this more meaningful? You know, assign ChatGPT role and then you can start to niche down from there. All right, hey, great one here, Declan. I got this one. One second. Asking about meeting assistance. All right, so some ways that some tools. Yay. Tools that you can use to make meetings more meaningful. Full disclosure, I use ClickUp. I love ClickUp. ClickUp is a project management tool and they have some great AI features, but some other kind of apps or AI tools that you can use to make meetings more meaningful. ClickUp, supernormal, Fathom, Sembly. All right, all great tools. And make sure you, if you're not already subscribed to the newsletter, make sure to do that. Maybe you're listening to this, driving in your car and you can't take these notes down and you're like, oh my gosh, that would save me 10 hours a week. All of these different tools and techniques are going to be listed in today's news newsletter. All right, number two, automate to do's from meetings. All right, so after the Chat GPT example is after a meeting, you can prompt Chat GPT to identify enlist action items from a meeting transcript which you can then distribute to your team. This aside from learning, I'd say learning is my number One way to gain back time maybe because I'm a learning nerd and I always like to be learning new things. But I'd say the second one is this, you know, or maybe reading and reading emails technically, but this is a huge one. Getting transcripts of your meetings and uploading those immediately. I also know, you know, you know, Zoom now has some good AI features Microsoft Teams has, or you know, Google Meet. So all, all the different meeting platforms, you know, now have AI features that you can kind of get summaries or follow up items. So again, here's an example and to get to what Declan was saying, he said, what's the general view on sending in virtual assistants such as Fireflies etc to meeting? Is it well received on the other, other side considered ethical? Yes, I, I mean actually let me get to that one slide. Let me finish this decline and then we'll get to that. So in this example I have a prompt that I'm sharing on my screen but essentially uploading again the transcript of the meeting and then asking, you know, giving ChatGPT a little bit more information about my company, you know, also giving it the URL because now if you're using the default mode inside of Chat GPT plus, right? So a lot of these things require the $20 subscription, which again I'm not paid by ChatGPT or OpenAI to say this, it's the easiest 20amonth that you'll ever spend. So if you're still trying to, you know, use different free tools, just pay the $20 a month and you'll easily, easily, you know, make that $20 back the first time you hit enter in the time savings. But a great way to use Chat GPT is just to upload the transcript of a meeting and then to say, hey, write me follow ups, write me a list of follow ups. And then also from that list, you know, because hey, there's different people on the meetings. You know, certain meetings if, if you're all on Zoom as an example, you know, it, it identifies people by their Zoom name and you can say, hey, give me my 10 follow ups. Okay, here's these 10 follow ups. Now for follow up 2 to 4, write an email to George, you know, asking him to complete those. For number five, you know, create a presentation, right? So you can do so many things just with the transcript of meetings, not just organizing yourself for more efficient and more effective and more meaningful meetings, but also your follow up process, your to do list, your, your emails that are associated with meetings. It's huge. All right, so Then getting back to what Declan was, was talking about, you know, sending virtual assistants. Yeah. As an example, a couple other tools here that I have on screen. So Otter AI, I'd say it's probably the leader in the space in terms of, you know, kind of transcribing meetings aside from now, you know, these meeting platforms, you know, like Zoom and Google Meets, you know, having their own, you know, teams meetings, having their own AI baked in. But Otter AI, great, Fireflies AI, Meat Geek, Cast Magic, Big Cast Magic fan. We'll probably get them on the show soon. But Meat Geek, you know, Meat Geek is something, you know, our team uses. So how a lot of these AI assistants work when if, let's just say you're going to a Zoom meeting so you connect them to your Zoom account. So a lot of times if anyone out there has been in a meeting with me, you've probably seen my. It's called, called an AI note taker. Right. And it prompts up a little notice that someone has to click on that says, hey, Jordan is using an AI note taker. And I usually acknowledge it. And I've, you know, never had anyone say, oh, I, I don't want this. Right. Because I tell them it helps me make sure that we capture everything we're talking about and that we have accurate follow up and we don't miss a thing. You know, even, even our clients, they love it. They, they love it because, you know, I'll share meeting summaries with them. Right. So let's keep this going to number three. All right? Personalized long content you have to learn. Are you still running in circles trying to figure out how to actually grow your business with AI? Maybe your company has been tinkering with large language models for a year or more, but can't really get traction to find ROI on Gen AI. Hey, this is Jordan Wilson, host of this very podcast. Companies like Adobe, Microsoft and Nvidia have partnered with us because they trust our expertise in educating the masses around generative AI to get ahead. And some of the most innovative companies in the country hire us to help with their AI strategy and to train hundreds of their employees on how to use Gen AI. So whether you're looking for ChatGPT training for thousands or just need help building your front end AI strategy, you can partner with us too. Just like some of the biggest companies in the world do. Go to your everyday AI.com partner to get in contact with our team or you can just click on the partner section of our website. We'll help you stop running in those AI circles and help get your team ahead and build a straight path to ROI on gen. All right, so you can use ChatGPT to break down complex documents into summaries and even create quizzes for key points to aid learning and retention. Y'. All. This is one of my favorite use cases of Chat GPT. So using the prime prompt polish method, I've actually trained an expert chat that helps me learn AI. Right? Because people are always like, oh, Jordan, how do you keep up with AI? You know, it's, you have to read dozens of hours of articles every single day. No, you don't just train a chat GPT using different train a chat GPT chat using different plugins. And I've trained knows who I am. My chat, it knows what I care about, it knows what I don't. If I give it a 50 page document, it will, you know, I have a chat that's literally trained to do this, can read through a 50 page document. It can pull out just the key findings that I care about and it knows what I care about and knows what I, what I don't care about. It will reframe that long 50 page document in a way that I understand best, right? So I understand best using, you know, sometimes similes and metaphors. So it'll do that for me as well. And then it'll also spit out a little two minute personalized podcast using very human, like voices, right? So imagine, right, maybe you're working on a project and you have a long white paper or this giant PDF and maybe you're like, man, I really only need 5% of what's in here or 10% of what's in here. And I do this every single week. Again, going back to your most repetitive manual tasks, right? So if you're doing the same thing over and over, bare minimum, you should be training a chat in Chat GPT using our free PPP method. I'm not selling anything to help you better learn content and to personalize learning for you. Right? It's, it's, it's still, I've, I've used, and this is not an exaggeration, I've used thousands of AI tools over the years. Yes, I am that person. And there is still, to me, no greater. For me personally, there's no greater benefit to generative AI than to be able to simplify and to personalize long form content to just the things I care about. Because here's the reality. I'm not even mad if you do that with this podcast. Yeah, sometimes I Blab a lot. You can just, you know, doubt like go to, go to YouTube. You know, all, all our podcasts go to YouTube and you can just do the same thing with me. You say, hey, I only care about A, B and C. Here's my company hit. You know, you don't have to listen to a 20, 30, 45 minute podcast. You can just get what matters to you. All right, And I want to keep knowing, I want to keep knowing from our audience. So if maybe you're just tuning in now, what is your we're going through our seven ways to use AI in your business. What's your favorite way? What is your best way that you've gained back the most time using a generative AI tool. We want to feature our favorite use case in the newsletter. All right, so again, here's an example of how to do it inside of Chat GPT, right? So saying in this scenario, you know, have Chat GPT assume a role and then you say you have a strong background in and then you know, put the background. So Chat GPT knows that yes, that doesn't work very well, but it at least gets gets you off to a good start. And then again, so whether you're using Chat GPT default that has access to browse with Bing and uploading documents, you can essentially have it Google or Bing your company, right? Do people say that being your company is being a verb, you know, to browse with being your company, to browse with Bing, you know, whatever learning resource you are using or to upload it and then to spit it back in a voice that makes sense to you. Right? It's, it's such a great way to learn. All right, so some non Chat GPT AI tools to help you better personalize long content that you have to learn. Quillbot Great for this. A couple Chat GPT plugins actually here, summarize this. Adify is a great service. It's something that I've, I've been using Adify for more than a year now, does a great job analyzing YouTube videos. You can even use. You know, one thing that Google Bard is good at now thankfully because yeah, I'm sometimes harsh on Google Bard and their new Gemini release. I don't think it's that great. But the extensions, when they work, Google Bars extensions to connect to YouTube, your Gmail, your, your Google Drive, it works pretty well. So Google is great for this too, right? To summarize long YouTube videos, ask your PDF and web reader. Those are two of my favorite chat GPT plugins as well, all right. Tara says she likes it. Bang it. All right, so. Or yeah, Natalie says you can say duet it. Duet it, yeah. Google duet. All right, number four in our seven ways to use generative AI in your business in 2024. Read and respond to emails, like Cecilia was mentioning earlier and let me know. I. I don't know if any. If anyone responded. How many hours a week do you think you spend not just reading and responding to emails, but also doing the, I guess legwork or to doing the research work that is required for you to properly respond and read to emails? Let me know. Is it two hours a week? Is it ten hours a day? Some people live in their emails. Some companies have gotten a little better using project management tools and AI systems. So maybe not, but I'm curious. But, you know, hey, Chat GPT can help you draft replies to common email queries and to sort emails by priority based on the content sender. Yes, you can do so many things with ChatGPT that people don't know. A lot of times you're relying on plugins for some of these things. Right? Which is why I'm saying you have to have ChatGPT plus for these things. But, you know, using, especially when you use the zapier plugin within Chat GPT, which we did an entire episode on, so don't worry. And we have some short tutorials on our YouTube channel as well. But there's so many things, even with reading and responding to emails and, you know, different documents that you may have in your, you know, Google, Google Drive as an example, or your OneDrive, whatever you're using, you can do all those things even within chat GPT with the Zapier plugin. All right, this LinkedIn user said 10 to 20 hours per week on emails. That's a lot. I can't see your name LinkedIn user, but you can do these things and hopefully it'll go faster. All right, so again, you can use Chat GPT for this. Yeah, you can just copy and paste an email into Chat GPT and say, hey, I'm trying to. You know, I've seen people personally struggle and spend an hour plus writing one email, right? Because they're not sure how to word it, right? They're. They're not sure how to properly convey their thoughts via email in a way that doesn't seem brash or in a way that, you know, strikes the right tone between seriousness yet, you know, helpful teammates. People spend so much time trying to properly respond to and write emails in the right way. It's crazy, right? But you can use Chat GPT for it. You know, upload again. Never upload into Chat GPT or any other AI system. Any private, confidential, sensitive, proprietary information. Right, but you can take out anything in that email if it is private and just, you know, put in a different name or whatever. Right, but don't put private information, confidential information into Chat GPT. But you can change it. You can say, hey, here's this long email thread. I'm stumped. Right? Tell Chat GPT. Or you can, you know, use a prompt like I have on the screen here. But you can say, hey, here's my company. Right? If you're using the default mode, it can use browse with Bing. You say, hey, here's my company. Everyday AI. Your everyday AI dot com. Someone has reached out to me about wanting to come on the podcast, but I know that they're just trying to promote their company and there's really no value in it for our audience. Please write them a nice professional response that says, hey, we know you're just pushing your crappy product, but we would welcome you to come learn. Right? I could spend, you know, I could probably write that pretty quickly, but some people might spend 10, 15, 20, 30 minutes writing something like that because they don't know how to word it. Right. I'm a journalist. Writing for me is very easy. But you can use ChatGPT. Yes, Eric, thank you for the comment, Eric. Eric says he's finding Bard with Gmail. It's awesome. Yeah, except Eric Bard has been very slow to roll out a lot of their extensions to certain workplace accounts. Right. So if you're using a personal Gmail account, you probably have access to all the extensions. If you are a smaller company like my company that uses Google Workspace, you still do not have access to all of these features, which is a huge bummer. So I can't even do that yet. All right, so here's some other AI tools to help you read and respond to emails. And if this is you, if you're feeling like that LinkedIn user, you know, Natalie said only two hours a week, so that's not bad. Natalie. But someone else said 15 to 20, 20 hours a week reading emails. We have a whole episode, a whole 20, 30 minute episode on how to use AI to read and respond to your emails. There's a lot of different ways. Let me just rattle off a couple different AI tools that can help you do this. Hyper Type, Shortwave, Flowrite, Drat Lab, Ellie, Magical, Jasper, Max, AI and Merlin. All right, so again if you want access, I'll, I'll send, I'll send you all the whole, you know, my little presentation on screen with all these tools and all these long prompts. If you want to try them again, just make sure to reshare or sorry, repost this LinkedIn post or you know, go on Twitter and hit that little retweet and I'll send it your way. All right? All right. Yeah, Andy's, Andy's saying he feels it, he said with you, Jordan, very annoying for smaller businesses not to have access to Bard with Google workspace accounts. Yeah, get it together, Google. All right, number five in our seven ways to use generative AI in your business in 2024, competitive analysis and strategic planning. Yeah, this one's huge. So you can generate reports on market trends and competitor activities by prompting Chat GPT with specific quiz queries about your industry. So again, I just have an example here on the screen of a prompt that you could put into Chat gbt, you know, in this example saying please assume the role of an AI driven strategic business analyst with specialization in and then a placeholder for your area of expertise and then saying start by visiting this company's website and then you can give Chat GPT access to all of your competitors websites. I would probably do that with a plugins mode and using a plugins pack, but you can literally. Which I don't understand why more people aren't doing this. I think specifically with Chat gbt people think it's, you know, it's, it's a blog post writer or creative content writer. Yes, it is. But guess what, I don't even really use it for that very much. So much of what I use Chat GPT for is like competitive analysis and strategic planning. Right? Especially if you're a small business owner. Right. I'm the CEO of a small company. I don't always have the availability, you know, to hire consultants. Right. So a lot of times for me Chat GPT is a consultant. So what I'll do is maybe I'll find, let's say I'm working on, you know, lowering customer acquisition costs in a LinkedIn ad or something like that. I'll probably get five different, you know, good articles that I find on Google. I'll get two or three, you know, good YouTube videos, maybe a good podcast. I'll use different plugins inside of Chat GPT to analyze the best findings from there. But then at the same time using Chat GPT plugins, applying it all to my businesses, my problems, my challenges, and even letting Chat GPT know, here's the resources we have, here's what we don't have, uh, here's all of our competitors. Here's some best practices for what I'm trying to do. For as an example, lowing customer acquisition costs on LinkedIn ads. Now please, for my business, for my specific use cases, write me a ten step strategic plan, right? Start broad niche down, all right? And if this is you, if you are like, oh my gosh, that sounds great, but I don't know how to do it. Yeah, we are going to start helping companies do this, you know, doing some strategic AI consulting. So you can always check the show notes or just, you know, to email us, you know, reply to any newsletter. Hit me up on LinkedIn and let me know if that's you. May Britt, what's going on? May Brit? May Brit is asking, curious what you think. Which AI has your preference for writing copy at scale? There are so many to choose from. Chad GPT writes circles around everyone else and it's not even close. People like to think Anthropic Claude is great at this. It's not. People like to think, you know, Google Bard is great at this. It's not, you know, you might think, you know, po or PI or you know, any other, you know, 50 large language models, llama, etc, it's Chat GPT always. And here's why. Chat GPT, unlike any other, any other large language model out there is the only one that can accurately visit websites you tell it to, right? I've done so many videos on this because people don't understand and they don't believe me and they always try to prove me wrong and I'm just like, yo, just go watch this video, you know, Claude or Cloud Claude. It's Claude. All right. Claude from Anthropic. Even, you know, Bing, Bing co pilot, you know, which used to be called Bing Chat. All of them hallucinate, make things up. Even when you say summarize this article, right? I literally done this live on the show. I've done it. You know, videos, if you give them a URL, sometimes it might summarize that, but all it really does is it queries, right? So if that large language model has query ability, it queries the keywords in the URL, which sometimes will bring up your URL, sometimes it won't. So you run into hallucinations. So at least for me, May Brit, I'm a lot of times training a tone of voice off specific articles, off specific YouTube videos. So the only one that consistently does that is ChatGPT. All right, that's number five. Here's some other tools, some great tools for AI, tools for competitive analysis and strategic planning, Alpha Sense Brand Watch Coral Data Openly AI and Rival Flow AI. Again, you will have plenty of examples in the newsletter. We're going to be sharing all of these, so don't worry if you can't get jot down notes fast enough. All right, we're getting there to the end. Number six, data analysis and graphing. This one is huge. This one is huge. All right, so, so you can just simply direct Chat GPT to analyze data sets and explain trends which can be used to inform the creation of graphs and charts. The best thing is we have, we teach in our PPP Pro, so our Prime Prompt Polish Pro course, we have a plugin package inside Chat GPT that literally does exactly this. You know, it can grab, I think in the example and I probably done it once live on the show before is it can grab data off of a hundred plus page PDF. Not just data that's on one page, it's on multiple pages. So you can talk to your document and say, hey, go find this data in this long document, then put it in a spreadsheet that I can download and from that data from the document that's now in the spreadsheet, create a graph that I can edit. Right, you can do that all literally with one click of the enter button. You know that specific task, I teach that in the PPP Pro course. That's from what I used to do in my old role, you know, because like I said, we used to work a lot with Nike and Jordan Brand. And what that meant is we had teams of people, teams assigned to read like Nike's annual impact reports, taking notes, grabbing data from there and then we would create charts. Because we were working on multiple year programs with Nike and Jordan Brand, it was a big deal. We had to take it seriously. We had to do our research, we had to really go after, you know, RFPs and to create long pitch docs. Right? Those tasks used to take 20, 30, 40 hours. Now two, three minutes. People don't understand the gains that you can get from using generative AI today are insane or insane. Again, I'm not selling anything. At the end of this course, I am encouraging you to use generative AI. All right, an example, an example. Data analysis and graphing. Yes, you can do that simply within Chat GPT in the default mode. You can upload a document, you can upload a spreadsheet, you can put, put A long prompt like you have here, you know, not just asking Chat GPT to analyze the content in the document, but to also have it browse the Web. That's another easy win for people that people don't understand that. Now, Chat GPT's default mode is technically multimodal, which is great, right? You can upload documents. It has the whichever name OpenAI is using, whether it's advanced data analysis or code interpreter. So it can interpret your code, it can browse the web. You know, you have dolly access. So now the default mode is actually great, right? So you can use these prompts on screen. You can upload your. You can upload a spreadsheet. You can ask Chat GPT to analyze it a certain way. You know, maybe there's tens of thousands of rows or tens of thousands of data points and you're. You're searching for a needle in a haystack. Guess what? If you take your time and properly tell Chat GPT what a needle is, doesn't matter how big the haystack is. Doesn't matter. It'll find it if you do it properly. All right, so that's an example for number six, a couple other great data tools. So these are some bigger ones, right? But I mean, Microsoft 365 copilot, that's got to be up at the top. Very few people have access to it, but. And we did an entire episode on a couple episodes on Microsoft 365 Copilot. Not the free version that they just released on iOS and Android apps, but the bringing generative AI to your entire desktop. There's no better way right now to analyze data when you can do it across multiple programs and it lives within your desktop. GitHub Copilot, also amazing for data analysis. Google Bard. Yes, I did put Google Bard on here. Something it's actually pretty good at now is data analysis coefficients. That's a Google Sheets plugin that I really like, or Google Sheets extension that brings some good AI functionality if you're like me and if you don't have all of Google's AI features across its suite of products. And Bardeen, big fan of Bardeen in their AI capabilities. Last, last, but definitely not least, pitch deck creation and improvements. Yes, this one's a great one. You can do this literally inside of chat GPT with plugins mode. I've done at least three different tutorials on our YouTube channel, and we share those every single day in our daily newsletter on creating presentations, whether it's, you know, PowerPoint presentations, Google Slides Presentations, whatever your flavor is. But you can use Chat GPT to draft slides, content, including bullet points, draft summary speaker notes, whatever it is, right? I could, and maybe I'll do this for fun if, if I have time, I could take a transcript of this podcast right when I'm done and I can have Chat GPT, I can upload the transcript and I will say, use, browse with Bing, find all of these different, you know, products and services and features that I talked about in this. Make sure to include additional resources on those. And then create a, you know, a 21 page presentation, three pages for each of the seven ways to use generative AI. I mean, I already have the presentation on my screen, so I don't know why I'd want to do this. But you can. That's the thing that people don't understand, the ability to repurpose content. So you know how we talked about earlier, right? Like better, more meaningful meetings, better meeting feedback. You know, you can do the same thing with transcripts. Transcripts are huge. Transcripts are, I think right now so underutilized in creating better content. But you can create a pitch, right? So maybe you have a big team meeting and you are preparing and you're having a meeting about, you know, landing your next big client. Maybe it's a sales meeting and you're going after that whale of a client, right? And you have all the key stakeholders on this zoom call giving their two cents and ideating, right? Take that transcript, pop it into Chat GPT, even the default mode. Take your time, train the chat, but say, hey, here's our transcript. Here's the, here's our website, here's what we do, here's the client we're trying to land. Here's what they do, here's where our overlap is, here's our shared value, right? Or you can even ask ChatGPT that just by providing the name and the URL and. But then you can just say, hey, create a 15 page presentation. Here's a URL that goes over best practices for what should be included in a sales pitch presentation, right? So you don't even have to outline it. You can just find an article and say, follow this format. Here's my transcript of us talking about the client that we're trying to land. Here's the client's information, here's what we're pitching them. Create a presentation. Done. I've literally done this in a four minute video. All right. Some other, here's some good ones too. If you're sticking around to the end These are some of my favorite AI tools, if I'm being honest. Right. And again, yes, like I said in the beginning, don't go into shiny, shiny tool mode. Focus on what matters. All right? But if you are doing a lot of pitch deck creation or internal documents that you just want to look better, here's some great AI tools. Tome, fantastic, beautiful AI Pitch.com, wonderslide, Journey IO and Canva. Yeah, Canva. Canva's their magic suite, I think is what it's called. They did a couple episodes on this, but yeah, you can just Type in a 10 word description and canva will create an entire presentation for you that then you can go in and, you know, you can edit things as needed. That was a lot. Here's the takeaway, y'. All. And, and Chrissy, thank you. Chrissy says she's in HR starting a consultant business. This info is gold. Thank you, Chrissy. Lynn says I've taken your PPP course a couple of times, dying to use plugins. So yeah, if you want access, I have all these prompts in this presentation. If you want access to it, just repost this, repost this, you know, on LinkedIn or Twitter. So if you're listening to the podcast, we always include the, the link to this LinkedIn live stream. But I'm gonna end here, I'm gonna end here because this was a long, this was a long episode, right? I'll say this, if you're new to generative AI, I just gave you, I just gave you the blueprint on how to win back your time immediately. Immediately. Like I said, most of these things, most of these tools, techniques, whether we're talking about Chat, GPT or these other AI tools, most of them take less than five minutes to set up and use. All right? In most, all of them minimum have a 5x return on time invested. All right? You have to do it right. People think that all AI is an a finger snap shortcut. It's not. You have to learn the system, you have to train it properly. You have to go through a couple revisions, but then at that point, all of these different seven ways to use generative AI, minimum have a 5x return on time invested. That's the thing people don't understand about generative AI, about large language models, they're better than us. They're better than us. If you take your time to learn them and to train them, they are faster, right? I've won national writing awards, ACP Story of the Year. I was a Pulitzer fellow. Chat GPT. When I train it is a better writer than me. It is faster because it can analyze things faster than me. It can mimic my tone of voice. It can write 30 times faster than I have than I can. I've literally done the test taking my words per minute and then doing the same thing in chat. GPT right? If you're new to Generative AI, I just gave you the blueprint. All right? If you're not new to Generative AI, if you're a fan, if you're using it already, I hope even just going through these seven use cases is going to help you win your time. Back to number one make meetings more meaningful 2 automate to dos for meetings 3 personalize long content you have to learn 4 reading and responding to emails 5 competitive analysis and strategic planning 6 data analysis and graphing and 7 pitch deck creation and improvements. Thank you so much for joining us. Go to your everydayai.com we're going to have so much more. We literally write yes, I'm a human. Yes, I write the newsletter almost once I end this podcast. So a lot more info in today's newsletter. So make sure to go to your everyday AI.com Sign up for that free daily newsletter. Thank you for joining us. Go win back your time using generative AI in 2024. Thanks for tuning in and we'll see you in another episode of Everyday AI. 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