You Ask, I Answer: How to Create Case Studies with AI?

In today's episode, Baya Baya, I don't have no idea. Uh asks, how do you use AI for creating case studies? Ah, yes. That depends on what kind of case study you mean. Are we talking like one page or sales case study?

Like, hey, here's the how we generated 80% more of this or that. Or are we talking like Harvard Business School, like this, you know, B school use case. It can create all of them. You can create any of those things. You just have to be clear about what kind you want.

I'm going to presume, since this is a uh a typically marketing oriented uh show and stuff, but you mean the uh the commercial use case, like the hey, here's how we did an awesome thing for this brand, come hire us case study, and not a formal academic one. First and foremost, you obviously have to have something that you did that's worthy of mention. Uh, if you don't have that, writing a case study is real hard. Second, um, you need to have the ideal customer profile or buyer persona of the person you want to reach and influence with the case study written down. And that should have all the things you expect of a good buyer persona, right?

Your demographics and psychographics and firmographics, blah blah blah, needs, pain points, goals, motivations, etc. You need to have all of that documented because if you don't, you're gonna create a case study that nobody cares about. After that, you've got your ideal customer profile, you've got your thing. You basically interview have the AI interview you about the case study. My general suggestion is if you want this to go well, take some time to turn on the voice memos app of your choice and talk through the case study and do your best to put it in the context of a customer who would actually be but be buying for you.

So let's say you sell industrial ball bearings, right? Super exciting, right? I love ball bearings for um. And you have a case study how your extra hard ball bearings wear 20% less than a competitor's. And so companies uh you know that's uh yes, they cost 20% more, but you'll spend less money on replacements.

Your job as a marketing person would be to sit down and think about how does this benefit the customer? Because you're saying, yeah, this ball bangs last 20% longer. What are the second order effects of that? Think that through. What are the second order effects of a ball bearing that lasts long?

Less maintenance, lower long-term costs, and critically, depending on the kind of machine it's in, um, increased MTVS, mean time between failure, or as people jokingly call it more time between fuck-ups. Um TBF is something that every manufacturer and machine person knows, they know the average MTDF of any part, and they know that in an ethically run company, you've got to do your maintenance, a to extend that window, but B, to know when a part's likely to fail. This is especially important to think of turbines, right? Like a jet engine turbine. You do not want that failing when a plane is 30,000 feet above the ground, right?

You want that to never reach a failure point, so you want to know your MPD up. So you can see how thinking through what's important to the customer and what does it mean to them is vitally important because that will help you write the case study. If you dictate the case study in terms of here's how this helped this customer, save money, save time, make money, or cover their ass. It's just the real motivation of most buyers. Um you will write a better case study.

Think about all the stuff that you would also probably want to have, like a brand style guidelines, your brand writing voice, etc., uh your length requirements, walk through the requirements gathering for what a good case study is, and then have AI read through all those materials and propose three to five case study variants, and it will do them. And then you, the human, use your judgment to say, oh yeah, two and four were careful, one and three were good, and I like a little bit of five, so now machine merge one and three together, bring in this element of five to create the final version. You will have really, really good case studies that clearly articulate the value, identify this, the second order effects, and appeal to the buyer. Because you need to you always want to have the ideal customer profile on deck, constantly reading over your shoulder, constantly saying, This isn't relevant to me, this is not important to me, this is not what I care about. This is not, I don't, I don't want this, or I do want that.

If you're not sure how to get rolling with this, take the transcript of this YouTube episode and put it into the AI of your choice. And the AI of your choice will walk you through everything I just talked about step by step, so that you can create great case studies. Because it will be aligned to the voice of the customer by the ideal customer profile, it'll be aligned to what you actually sell. And most important, it will do its job of persuading somebody to at least call you and talk to you about what it is you have to offer. So give that some thought.

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