Category: Marketing automation

  • Master Your Prompts: The Key to Building Powerful AI Agents

    If it doesn’t work as a prompt, it won’t work as an agent. I toyed with OpenAI’s new Agent Builder, which is like a watered-down N8N or Zapier. It’s obviously locked to the OpenAI ecosystem, so you can only use their models or infrastructure. First, to be clear, this launched on DevDay. A lot of…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: AI Ethics for Marketers?

    Summary In today's episode, I explore the ethical responsibilities marketers and SEO professionals face when integrating AI into their workflows. Here's what this means for you. You can use AI tools effectively without compromising your brand's reputation or professional integrity. You'll also learn these concepts: the evolution of white hat and black hat SEO in…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Automating Content For LinkedIn?

    Summary In today's episode, I examine how to use generative AI for LinkedIn automation without sacrificing quality or reputation. Here's what this means for you. You can build smart automation that provides value instead of triggering algorithmic penalties. You'll also learn these concepts: the distinction between deterministic and probabilistic tasks, the dangers of generating content…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Best AI Agents For Marketing?

    Summary In today's episode, I explain why the best marketing agents are the ones you build personally rather than those you purchase from others. Here's what this means for you. You gain a lasting strategic advantage by creating custom tools that reflect your unique business processes and data. You'll also learn these concepts: the three-level…

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  • How to Use Deep Research AI to Create Custom Step-by-Step Guides in Minutes

    Deep research isn’t just research. It’s one of THE most powerful tools you have access to, because it’s really just an agent. Here’s a simple example. This morning, I was troubleshooting the marketing automation software we use at Trust Insights. I was getting system errors (it runs on a self-hosted server) and I had a…

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  • Boost Your MarTech ROI for Free: 4 Easy AI-Powered Steps to Unlock Hidden Features

    How would you like to double your ROI on your MarTech stack without spending any additional money? I’ve got an easy, straightforward method for you, using just about any AI tool you have access to that has Deep Research capabilities. (Perplexity, OpenAI ChatGPT, Gemini, Anthropic Claude, etc.) Step 1: Either with video or screenshots, open…

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  • Unlock the Power of AI Without Coding: Google Opalโ€™s No-Code Revolution

    Google Opal is NUTS. It’s the AI agent software you’ve been waiting for. Not a stitch of code anywhere. Most of the common functions you’d want – deep research, searching the web, basic tool handling. It has most of the basic outputs you’d want – docs, sheets, and slides. And most of all, it has…

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  • How to Leverage AI as Your Silent Sales Assistant (Before It Works Against You)

    Whether you want them to or not, whether it’s even right or not, people are asking large language models questions about your business. And you have no visibility into this. “Hey ChatGPT, compare pricing Salesforce, HubSpot, and Zoho CRM for a company of 50 employees and annual revenue of about $50 million per year. Assume…

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  • Mastering Vibe Coding: How to Get Better AI-Generated Code Every Time

    How do you vibe code? First coined by OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy, vibe coding (aka prompting AI to write code for you) has become all the rage. Yet people who try it get… not great results a fair amount of the time. Why? Why does it look so easy for someone like Karpathy and then…

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  • How Generative AI and Automation Work Together to Supercharge Your Workflow

    AI and automation are not the same thing. Especially when we’re talking generative AI. By definition, generative AI is about generating, about creating something. Automation is about taking a task and finding a way for a machine to do that task for you. Now, are there tasks that generative AI automates? To a degree, yes.…

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