As a business owner and agency owner who educates people in my local community about AI (through the library and small businesses), I wanted to share a few ways that I have discovered that people can implement AI without feeling overwhelmed. The suggestions that I am giving below aren't to say you have to incorporate them all, but just pick one or two and as you get comfortable, incorporate a few more that make sense for your business... - You can use ChatGPT as your partner to run ideas by- analyze your strategy, challenge your approach, assist you in identifying your target audience if you are just getting started. Use the "voice" mode and ask it to ask you challenging questions to get to the core issue you are having based on the topic and it will transcribe the conversation on the back end so you will always have it. - You could create an app through vibe coding that holds your SOPs or Training information (nothing confidential or proprietary) so new people joining your team can learn from that tool vs. you or a team member having to take the time to train them (instead, you can question what they learned afterwards or have AI create a flash-card or memory based quiz, crossword, etc. to test their knowledge in fun/creative ways) - You can include a web chatbot on the home page of your website to answer questions about your business and even schedule appointments - You can reinvigorate your email list by having ChatGPT come up with creative email campaigns per quarter that are 75% educational (about your industry or business) and 25% Calls to Action for Sales so they don't feel like you are consistently selling. Ask AI what perks you can offer your customers (like birthday discounts for their birthday month or referral rewards). If you use a platform like GHL, you can set everything up with automations on a quarterly basis as well. - You could get a voice concierge agent that works 24/7 and never misses a call if you are a business that could benefit from that. They sound human, and their knowledge-base knows everything about your company and website and it can answer most questions and book appointments if connected correctly to your calendar. - You could use AI to create presentations for you. I am speaking at an AI Summit next year, and I put the information I wanted to talk about in Claude, then asked it to fill in any gaps about AI I might have overlooked or missed that would be important to cover for that audience and asked it to put it into more of a "TedTalk" type format...then once I liked the result, I took it to the presentation creation app (Gamma) and in about 50 seconds, I had the full presentation with images and graphs completed. Game Changer!

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Most owners are interested in AI, but something blocks them. Common fears • “It will sound robotic” • “It will mess up and damage trust” • “My team will not adopt it” • “It will create more complexity” • “I do not want to rely on tech” Which one is yours Reply with the fear and your industry. I will respond with how to implement safely, without risking your brand.

One thing I keep seeing with AI-driven funnels and automations is this: AI can create content faster than ever, but email delivery is still the bottleneck. You can use AI to: - generate copy - personalize at scale - segment users intelligently - trigger emails based on behavior …but if the underlying email infrastructure isn’t solid, none of that matters. Tools like SendGrid and Amazon SES are popular in serious setups because they give teams: - control over sending volume - predictable delivery behavior - the ability to separate different types of traffic (transactional vs promotional) - flexibility to plug into custom or AI-driven workflows What often gets overlooked is that as AI increases output, email volume grows faster than most ESPs are designed to handle by default. That’s usually when people start running into throttling, warmup issues, or inconsistent inbox placement. Curious to hear how others here are handling email delivery as their AI workflows scale. Are you sticking with traditional ESPs, or moving closer to infrastructure-level tools?