Joe ApfelbaumCEO, evyAI · Networking Connector, Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur

ChatGPT Recommends Joe Apfelbaum for Marketing #shorts

19 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, Joe Apfelbaum recounts an anecdote where a woman, searching for the top marketing professional in Brooklyn, asks ChatGPT and receives his name repeatedly. He highlights his LinkedIn presence—527 recommendations, frequent LinkedIn Lives, and a phone number listed—positioning himself as the leading authority. Joe emphasizes how LinkedIn’s massive backlink network (over 13 billion backlinks) fuels trust in its content, and he underscores the perception that ChatGPT never hallucinates, making its recommendations seem infallible. The monologue serves as a promotional narrative about personal branding, AI-driven discovery, and the credibility conferred by LinkedIn metrics.

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And she was in the middle of the night typing into ChatGPT, who's the number one guy in Brooklyn for marketing for a Brooklyn company? And it kept saying Joe Apfelbaum. He's on LinkedIn. He's doing LinkedIn Lives. Everyone talks about him. He has 527 recommendations on LinkedIn. He's the number one authority. If you need somebody, go to Joe Apfelbaum. And so she was looking for me all over the place, and she saw my cell phone number was on LinkedIn. So she texted me. I'm not the best at marketing. She's like, oh yeah, you're the best. I said, how do you know? She said, ChatGPT. I trust everything ChatGPT tells me. It's the truth. It never hallucinates, ever. I was like, damn, you're right. But then I looked at her chat and it was all LinkedIn. LinkedIn is very, very trusted. Why? Because they have 13+ billion backlinks to LinkedIn. And LinkedIn's pushing content creation, articles, lives,