You Ask, I Answer: Best AI for Finding Influencers?

In today's episode, Lead Legion asks which platform is best, which AI platform is best for helping find influencers to work with for your marketing. And the answer depends on who you are, what business you're in, and what platforms you have access to. The my recommended best start would be to say use your deep research tools that you're in any pretty much any AI paid product. So ChatGPT, Gemini, Claud, Deep Seek, everybody's out at deep research tool, and most of them are all pretty good. And you want to start by saying, Well, you know, I'm in this industry, here's who my company is, here's who we sell to, here's who our ideal customers are, and hopefully you have all that data.

Based on all this information, do some deep research about the kinds of people that are influenced, or who are the influencers that influence these kinds of people. Knowing that there's always going to be bias in the data set, so be aware of that. Um, but at least it's a good way to get started. The deep research tools can take, because they all support file upload now, they can take existing data, they can run an analysis on that data to understand the the who your customer is, and then do its best to try and synthesize a the platforms that those people are on, and B, who are the people on those platforms that might be the best fit. Now, there's there's a couple of cautions here.

This is going to find typically the big names because some platforms like LinkedIn are notorious for blocking pretty much everybody. And so the fact if AI knows about influences about platforms is not going to be from LinkedIn itself, it's going to be from things like media coverage and tracking and stuff like that of who the influences are and what activations they are. So it's going to naturally skew towards the bigger people. It's also going to skew towards bigger people on any given platform because that's how AI works. It's probabilistic in nature, which has high probability things.

And so if everybody is talking about, you know such and such an influencer, by definition, that is going to be the big mouths. For good or ill, that's the way probability works. So that's why you need to have such good ideal customer profiles, and you need to have such good buyer personas, and you need to need to have really done your homework on who these people are that you want to influence and then who their influences are. Because without that, you're just going to get the same 10 answers all the time. So deep research would be my first suggestion for as a stop.

The second is I would actually do my own data analysis on the platform of choice, especially if you're using a platform like LinkedIn. Search that platform. So here's the procedure, and you can have your favorite AI tool walk you through how to do this. On your smartphone, or well, I guess you can do it on any desktop computer too. Look on the platform of your choice for the topic or subject of your choice.

Type in as hashtag if the platform's of course hashtags, whatever, and just start scrolling with your screen recorder on recording the video. Record for you know five minutes of time, just seeing uh what's in the feed but on that hashtag. If you want to do this by hashtag, because every platform has curated feeds for individuals, but it also most of them also have a hashtag, and the hashtag is going to get you people that you don't normally interact with who are outside your circle. That's important to find an influences. Search that hashtag, then take that recording, that data from your screen recording, and ask AI to transcribe it.

Transcribe what you see on the screen, and give it a specific format. I want you to transcribe the post content, the post author, and then named individuals in post contents. Why? Because we want to create a data set, and that data set is going to be the people who show up in conversation. Who is who is everybody talking about?

My friend Mitch Joel says this all the time. It's about who we know. It's who knows you. That is the epitome of influencer marketing because influences are not they're the people that everybody else knows and looks to. Look at a Marcus Brownley, look at um uh Brene Brown, look at uh a Gary Vaynercook.

These are all the people that other people reference, right? The even people who are not active on that platform, you know, how often is uh Seph Godin mentioned in marketing circles, even though Seth Godin is not particularly active on I don't think any social media platforms, but everybody he is influential in that space. So if you do that quick study of the space based on what you can see on your phone, you're gonna have a pretty good survey of the landscape, and then once you have that data exploit, that transcript is then trivial to have AI put together something like a network graph. Have it assemble nodes and edges in a network graph of those conversations. And every AI tool will know how to do this to in the programming language report.

You don't have to do the coding. AI is going to do the coding for you. You just have to tell it what you want. And then once you've got the network graph assembled of who is in that space that you care about that you want to understand, then you can start doing stuff like outreach and partnership requests and so on and so forth. All stuck equipic for influencer marketing.

Now, if this sounds like a lot of work, it is. Walk you through step by step how to do each of the name dimension. And it will be able to do that for you and get you up and running sooner rather than later. That's going to do it for this episode. Thanks for tuning in.

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