I started my account with updating.ai on Sept. 8. Today I'm seeing ChatGPT as my #1 traffic source (and Gemini at #6). That was fast!

Just filmed a quick 13-min convo with longtime member @Venkat Maddala and… whoa. He quietly spun up a trust-first system that’s pulling real business owners into his world—during normal 8–5 hours—without chambers, cold outreach, or ad spend. Highlights from the clip: - Went from <100 → 6,000+ followers (aka audience of buyers) in ~4 months - Closed 7–8 clients in ~60 days at $100–$400/mo (recurring) - It’s all trust → traction: targeted FB groups, simple posts, compounding engagement - No bots. Real businesses commenting, DM’ing, and raising hands - Works even if you can’t attend local networking (no travel, no random “spray & pray”) If you want us to drop the 5-part training (audience building, group strategy, content that converts, engagement engine, ethical outreach) with blurred proof shots and step-by-step, comment TRUST below and Venkat or I will tag you when it’s live tomorrow. WINGMAN PASS MEMBERS - Keep eye out for an notification :) Let’s close the trust gap and flip the script from chasing to attracting. 🚀

Had a call with a plumber that's in our local business group. They dropped out of the map pack and didn't know why, even though they just got a new site built about 6 months ago. That immediately triggered an alarm, so I did a site audit. Turns out the web guy they hired had no idea what SEO was and basically had wiped them out. She was NOT happy, especially since it's going to take a new site that's done right. What I did do is offered to get her going with AI SEO so she could start getting faster results, cheaper, while we work on a site plan. We bundled our automated reviews, the NFC/QR cards, and Updating's middle tier for $197/month. It was a no-brainer for her, so she signed up. Easiest sale ever!

Just 1 day after the live training I closed my first customer! I’m starting my first couple of clients at just $20/mo, but will increase soon! The offer is wide open as no one I have talked to has a plan for AI search! Thanks again @Jeff Schwerdt for the awesome course you put together for us 😊

EDIT - Listen to the second video - The AI Spotlight works. This is from a real world demo call. Early Bird - "Anti-Labor" Day Special is Live - https://jeffherschy.com/spotlight Original Post Below :) Last night I couldn’t sleep. My brain was racing a million miles an hour because I finally cracked a problem I’ve been wrestling with for months. By 11pm I was up, scribbling notes, writing outreach copy, and even buying a new domain. By 1:45am, I had the bones of a brand-new system that changes the game for agencies and local businesses. I’m calling it AI Spotlight — built around AI SEO (what business owners call it) and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) (what it actually is). Here’s the big shift: ✅ SEO = rankings in Google. ✅ GEO = visibility in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Siri, etc. SEO gets you found.GEO gets you featured. And I’ve finally found a way to deliver GEO as a hands-off, done-for-you service that takes 10 minutes to set up, and then runs automatically. 👉 I already have clients paying $250–$500/month for this. 👉 It comes with 30-day guaranteed results (AI referrals in analytics, or money back). 👉 I’ve paired it with a back-end monitoring system so you don’t need to mess with Google Search Console. This is a core + trend combo: reviews & reputation (core) + AI SEO/GEO (trend). It’s the perfect foot-in-the-door that makes business owners perk up, because they’ve heard about AI SEO but have no idea how it works. I’m putting everything together under the AI Spotlight brand and will be teaching it this Labor Day weekend as my “Anti-Labor Day” project. Want in? If you want access to this system — the same one I’m now offering in my own agency — type SPOTLIGHT down below. I’ll give you: - The setup process (10 minutes start to finish) - The fulfillment tools (done-for-you) - The monitoring/reporting system (no more guessing) - The exact cold outreach I wrote at midnight last night