Hey team! I'm Jonathan. I have owned a web agency for 15+ years and have been building WordPress websites for even longer. I recently found Ryan's podcast and have been binging just about every episode! I had already started building out and converting old WordPress sites to Astro with Claude Cowork, so I felt like @Ryan Doser and I were brothers from the start! Fun tidbit: After listening to the Rank and Rent podcast episode, I built out a complete site and it's already ranking (albeit on page 4 of Google)! I'm amped to be here and am already so grateful for this community!

I wanted to shoutout the Top Members (MVPs) of the AI Marketing Insiders for the month of June! We're currently over 1,400 total members which is awesome and only growing from here. Special thanks to @Catherine Eadie and @Nesil Ozer for all of their help behind the scenes 🤝 I appreciate all of you, and these individuals are leading the way and pushing this community forward: 30 Day Leaderboard 🏆 1. @Bryan Zimmerman 2. @Rafal Glaz 3. @Nesil Ozer 4. @Henry Haevernick 5. @Joe Joe 6. @Mike Bryan 7. @Terence Collins 8. @Michael Morris 9. @Brooke Wright 10. @Jeff Shipman Other Members on the 7 Day Leaderboard 🏆 - @Robert Barco - @Carlos Rosado - @Wayne St Ledger - @Ron Meyer All Time Leaderboard 🏆 1. @Rafal Glaz 2. @Nesil Ozer 3. @Matthias Lindner 4. @Carlota López-Peredo 5. @Carol M 6. @Shelly Frank 7. @Joe Joe 8. @Randy Smith 9. @Henry Haevernick 10. @Mike Bryan I look forward to seeing the Community Leaderboard for July and beyond 🫡

I thought I'd share this because it might be helpful to some of you, especially if you care about privacy. So as you probably know one of the drawbacks of using LLMs, web based and API, is that almost all major ones, like OpenAi/Anthropic/Gemini etc. retain your input and output data for 30 days. In business and even personal uses it's a problem because you don't have data privacy plus there's additional risk of your data being stolen from their servers. So you have an option... to run a local llm, like Google's Gemma/Nvidia Nemotron/OpenAI GPT OSS/Qwen/Deepseek etc. and everything stay on your computer. I actually tried it few days ago :) but quickly found out that you need a powerful machine to run it efficiently. Think a $15-20k workstation not my laptop lol. It worked but a query that I do on ChatGPT for example, which took 1 minute to complete, took 65 minutes on my laptop 😄. In addition local llms are not nearly as good as API models. But they are good enough for many simpler tasks where top notch advanced reasoning is not needed. And if you/your client can invest in a $15/20k machine to run it it's an option. So I dug deeper and found a more affordable option :). Perplexity offers Sonar/Sonar Pro API. It has Zero Data Retention Policy. None of your inputs/outputs are retained, only metadata. https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/privacy-security Hope this helps!

It was great meeting VIP Member @Dhruv Kar this past weekend! Dhruv was passing through my city (Des Moines, IA) so he reached out and we met up. Great conversation about all things AI. Meeting members in person is the best part of building a community 🤝 If any of you guys are ever in Des Moines, Iowa let me know!

I'm sure we can all relate to this, especially in marketing! 🤣 Some light Sat humour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ [Edit] - Here's the link to what the video is all about https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree