Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Category: Productivity

  • How I Used AI to Auto-Post 62 Blog Articles in One Day (And How You Can Too)

    I added 62 blog posts to my blog yesterday.

    All of them were human-written, by me.

    How?

    Simple: I already wrote them here, on LinkedIn. My workflow for content is to write offline before I ever post online. I never, ever write a post in an online channel for two reasons:

    1. Online services break and lose things. Nothing sucks more than writing something brilliant and having a network error make it vanish.
    2. I sometimes write stupid things. Those stupid things should not see the light of day. Writing offline decreases the likelihood that something stupid I’ve written accidentally gets published.

    Okay, but how did I write 62 blog posts? I took the posts I’ve already written for LinkedIn on my computer, exported them, and used the WordPress API to post them, backdated, on my blog.

    Why? Because my content shouldn’t live just here. It should live somewhere where it can be found by everyone and everything – search engines, AI tools, etc.

    How? I had generative AI (Google Gemini) write software that took a pile of text files and posted them to my blog, along with the appropriate categories. A small local LLM (Mistral Small 3.2) helped decide the titles.

    Now, every time I want to add my LinkedIn content to my blog, I just drop the files in the folder and let the software do the work.

    It’s an AI agent. A very simple, rudimentary one, doing mostly administrative stuff with just a splash of AI to do things like determine post titles. But the key is that I can now focus on creating interesting LinkedIn posts and let the machinery handle the admin.

    Here’s the rub: I did most of the “coding” while driving, by talking to Gemini through its voice interface. The hardest part of building anything is requirements gathering, thinking through what I do and don’t want. Once I got home, I took the fully baked requirements and fed them to Gemini Code Assist (a coding agent) to actually write the code, and within 15 minutes, I had working software.

    What marketing processes do you wish would just go to the machines? Have you used AI to build the machinery for it?

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  • How to Get Better AI-Generated Content: A Proven Framework for Smarter Prompts

    “tell ‘em what you’re going to say, say it, and then tell ‘em what you said.”

    This old saw from public speaking (which is better than aimless rambling but still not great) CAN be made to work with generative AI – and when you do it, AI works better.

    But instead of tell ’em what you’re going to say, say it, tell ’em what you said, change the order to tell me what you’re going to say, tell me what you said, then say it.

    Why? Again, we go back to the fundamental architecture of generative AI. It’s a prediction engine, and every word in your prompt and its response becomes part of the next prompt. The more relevant words, the better every next word gets.

    The more it talks, the better the final result will be. So adapt the old public speaking saw.

    “You’re an expert B2B email marketer with experience in systems like Mautic, Hubspot, Marketo, and Pardot. Today we’re going to write an article about B2B email marketing and marketing automation. Before we begin, pretend you’re about to give a training on this topic. What’s the agenda? What are you going to talk about? Second, think about what the audience’s reaction would be after your talk. What questions would they have? What key takeaways would they write down? Tell me all this out loud, step by step, piece by piece.”

    Wait for it to play being a trainer on the topic. You’ll get probably a thousand words out of it. This is following the Trust Insights RAPPEL Framework; the public speaker part is a twist on the Prime step. You could extend it even further.

    “Next, pretend there’s a heckler in the back. They have completely contrary perspectives on the topic than you do. What are they shouting? What points are they making that are contrary but still possibly valid? How do you respond to each point?”

    You’ll get another set of commentary.

    That process alone will generate probably close to 2,000 words of relevant content, ideas, and points. With THAT in the working memory of your generative AI tool, you can now move onto the actual prompt – after you fact check the responses.

    Or you could keep going.

    “Next, the CEO of the company, who’s a bit of a Luddite, comes in, listens to the exchange with the heckler, and asks you a series of abrasive, obtuse questions. What questions does he ask, and what are your responses?”

    Now you’re probably close to 4,000 words of useful, relevant knowledge. When you have generative AI write the article next (or better, write the outline first, then the article), you’re not just giving it a short prompt for writing the article. You’re giving it 4,000 words of background context.

    “Let’s now outline the article based on everything we’ve talked about so far. Before you do that, what are the keys to writing a compelling article? What makes an article entertaining, engaging, and educational?”

    More of the speaker’s cliche. Tell me what you’re going to say.

    Then we end with the actual prompt.

    “With all this in mind, go ahead and write the article. Take into account all the conversations, from the training to the heckler to the CEO. Aim for about 750 words. Use the word ‘bananas’ at least once.”

    The article comes out – and it’s dramatically better than a naive prompt.

    Make AI tell you what it’s going to say, tell you what it said (and roleplay various perspectives), and then tell you the actual thing. You’ll get dramatically better results.

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  • You Are the Media, You Are the Brand: How to Thrive in the Age of AI and Personal Influence

    What does surviving and thriving look like in the age of AI?

    Here’s a simple, uncomfortable (for brands) answer: you.

    You are what will help brands survive and thrive. You, the individual. Call it what you will, influencers, creators, thought leaders, brand ambassadors – at the end of the day it’s a person and a personality: you.

    The media landscape already looks like this. As journalists get laid off, as traditional media either pivots to automation or falls off a cliff, as channels splinter into infinite spaces, you are the brand.

    You are the media.

    Pre-social media had us in just a few public spaces. CBS. ABC. CBC. BBC. The New York Times. The Sydney Morning Herald.

    Social media 1.0 had us all in big public spaces. Twitter, back when it was great. Facebook. LinkedIn.

    Social media 2.0 looks like hives of walled gardens. Discord. Slack. Substack / Ghost / Beehiiv / whatever. Group chats. OnlyFans.

    The difference is the death of the commons. Traditional media either abdicated the commons or starved from it. Mainstream social media has become so performative and toxic that younger generations simply don’t bother.

    What social media 2.0 outlets all have in common is that they’re in shards. Joining Discord means nothing. Joining a specific Discord community is what has meaning. Joining Substack is less important than joining someone’s Substack. Yours. Mine.

    Heather Cox Richardson has four times as many active subscribers as the Wall Street Journal’s print circulation.

    Even my Almost Timely Newsletter has more active subscribers than the print edition of the New York Times.

    AI will only accelerate this. More brands use AI for efficiency, for cost cutting, and use it badly, creating oceans of slop. As the slop Zergs across the public media landscape, the power of YOUR distinct voice matters more, in your shards of media.

    The pandemic accelerated this trend greatly, but it was already underway by 2020. Today, it’s the dominant form of media. More individuals have more audience than most Fortune 500 brands do.

    You are the media.

    You are the brand.

    The only question is, are you building with that mindset?

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  • Will AI Replace Coders? The Shocking Truth About the Future of Programming Jobs

    OpenAI: “Codex helps you code faster!”
    Google: “Gemini is the best coding model and Jules helps you code!”
    Anthropic: “Claude is the smartest coding model!”

    Do you see the trend? And this isn’t just these companies, everyone touts their models’ ability to code. DeepSeek. Alibaba. Mistral. Cohere.

    When people talk about jobs AI will take, it should be apparent which jobs have a bullseye painted on them.

    Why?

    First, coders are expensive. If you’re looking to cut costs, they’re some of the most expensive talent in a company. Even premium AI pricing is still cheaper than an entry level coder by several orders of magnitude. OpenAI Pro at 200/month is far cheaper than an expert coder at200/hour.

    Second, and probably more important, coding has a strong feedback loop. When you use generative AI to build a marketing strategy or write a blog post for your blog, the feedback cycle is forever in computer time. You won’t know if that blog post does well for hours, maybe days. You won’t know if that marketing strategy works for potentially years.

    A piece of code? It runs or it doesn’t, right then and there. Put three spaces instead of four in front of a line of Python and you have instantaneous feedback. The speed of a feedback loop is directly proportional to how anyone, human and machine, learns.

    It’s like debate versus fighting. You can pontificate about a political quip. When someone punches you in the face in the ring, feedback about your errors is immediate and unambiguous.

    This is why coding is a powerful and straightforward goal for AI modelmakers to perform to. It’s a huge cost saver, AND it has fast, firm feedback loops. There’s much less ambiguity. And we value the outputs because we are a digital society. We all carry around supercomputers in our pockets. We talk of RSI from using computers, of screen time, of addiction to our devices.

    We see this most in hiring demand. Coding hiring demand around the world is down; in the US and the UK, hiring demand is at peak pandemic-levels – meaning when the world shut down and businesses’ knee jerk reaction was to fire everyone.

    Read that again. Coding hiring demand is at the same level of demand as when the world shut down.

    If you’re a parent and your kid is thinking about a career in software development, perhaps persuade them to look at other careers.

    If you’re a business owner with developers on staff, you probably already know that your existing staff will not only serve you just fine, but can probably find even greater productivity as every generation of AI model gets better and better.

    The AI companies are gunning for coding first and foremost, and the latest generation of models are enough to outright replace junior coders, and reduce the number of senior coders you employ.

    We used to say “AI won’t take your job, but someone using AI will.” No. AI will take your job. Especially if you’re a software developer.

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  • Why Rushing AI Implementation Leads to Failure (And How to Build It Right)

    Can you build a three layer cake by starting with the third layer?

    Can you deploy code before writing it?

    Can you publish an ugly first draft and get great results?

    One of the biggest flaws I see in AI implementation today is rushing ahead. Lack of patience. Taking shortcuts. Cutting corners.

    If your idea doesn’t work in the stock ChatGPT or Gemini interface, it’s not going to work any better inside an agent. And far, far too many people are skipping past this stage.

    AI deployments – be they workflows, agents, automations, whatever – occur in the same three stages as product market fit:

    • Done by you : you do almost 100% of the work
    • Done with you : you share the work with AI
    • Done for you : AI does almost 100% of the work

    You can’t skip straight to done for you unless you want crap results. Yet if you open up many of the AI agent workflows people share in systems like n8n, Make, Zapier, etc. and you read the prompts at the heart of those agents?

    They suck.

    “Summarize the data.”

    “Write the blog post.”

    AI models are the engine in these systems, and an engine is only as useful as the rest of the car around it and the fuel you put in it. Take the time to forge great prompts in the furnace and on the anvil. Test, test, and test again.

    No building ever stands for long on a flimsy foundation. AI doesn’t change that – in fact, with agentic AI, it fails faster and compounds mistakes exponentially.

    I get that it sucks not to have something instantly flashy that can win you an innovation award, but as Ann Handley said recently, patience is not a liability. It’s an advantage.

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  • Mastering AI in AEC: How Rapid Advancements Are Transforming the Industry

    Another class graduated.

    One of my great joys is teaching the SMPS AEC.AI workshop twice a year to AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction) professionals. This two-day intensive is AI bootcamp for AEC pros to get up to speed quickly on the latest in AI. By the end of the event, folks walk away with training and a toolkit of some of my best material, techniques, and methods that immediately power up their AI skills.

    What’s always stunning to me is how much changes from workshop to workshop. I was updating my slides this past week in preparation for the workshop and literally 50% of my previous deck was cut, and a new 50% went in – things like reasoning models and how to prompt them, Deep Research prompts, n8n automation workflows, agentic AI, and so much more.

    Even DeepSeek’s flagship models weren’t out at the previous workshop.

    The pace of AI is changing so rapidly that I’m sure the workshop is already out of date. In fact, I know it is, but not in a hugely tangible way yet. But that’s okay. That’s the nature of AI.

    The best part of these events isn’t the teaching, at least for me. It’s the conversations, listening, learning what real problems people are trying to solve and how AI might – or might not – be a way to solve them. Nothing accelerates my own progress with AI than listening to the intricate details of real problems.

    Wonderful to catch up with friends as well, old and new, like

    Congratulations to the graduates of the Spring 2025 AEC.AI class, and see you in Toronto in a few weeks for SMPS Ontario, and then this fall for the Denver SMPS AEC.AI!

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  • How AI Just Got 10x More Powerful: Google’s MCP Breakthrough & n8n’s Game-Changing Update

    AI nerd alert!

    Two super nerdy but super powerful pieces of news dropped in the last couple of days.

    1. Google announced support for MCP, the Model Context Protocol. Think of it as APIs for AI, giving AI tools a common language to talk to external services. This is a big deal – now, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google all have announced support for this standard, making integrations across AI tools easier.
    2. n8n rolled out MCP Client and MCP Server support in the newest beta version 1.88.0. This is a HUGE deal for folks doing automations with n8n because it allows you to turn any existing automation into an AI tool.

    Let’s walk through an example. Suppose you have a research task set up in n8n like finding some job opportunities on LinkedIn.

    With these announcements, you could control that workflow with the generative AI tool of your choice.

    Or suppose you built a workflow that orchestrates creating Google Ads. You could, in Claude Desktop and in any other AI tool that supports MCP, allow your generative AI tool to initiate that.

    Or suppose you have a TON of information trapped in traditional databases or AirTable or any of the hundreds of martech tools we’re all swimming in. n8n probably already connects to most of them. Now, with relatively little plumbing and little to no coding, you can connect your Hubspot or Salesforce or WordPress blog to your generative AI tools.

    And because n8n can run locally on your computer, you can do so privately and securely – and for free.

    This is a very technical thing to set up, but once you have it in place, its power and flexibility is unmatched. It connects generative AI tools seamlessly to the rest of your ecosystem, a critical missing step that we’ve all been struggling with for some time.

    AI #GenerativeAI #GenAI #ChatGPT #ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels #MachineLearning #IntelligenceRevolution

    Super nerd moment: Google announces MCP support, and n8n adds MCP client and MCP server support: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cspenn_ai-generativeai-genai-activity-7316425991818539010-ZTyX

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  • How to Clearly Define Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, and Expert Levels in AI (And Why It Matters)

    Beginner.
    Intermediate.
    Advanced.
    Expert.

    Ever been to a conference or checked out conference session descriptions and seen these tags on sessions?

    How do you know whether it’s right for you or not?

    I’ve been to beginner sessions that went way over the heads of the people in the room.

    I’ve been to advanced and expert sessions that were 101 at best.

    As a speaker, I bear the curse of knowledge – and so do you. It’s been so long since we were beginners in our relative areas of expertise that we forget what a beginner is. The antidote to this problem is specificity.

    Here’s an example, which I just wrote for a workshop I’m teaching in a couple months.

    “This workshop is suitable for professionals at all levels, but truly advanced AI professionals may not benefit from it. If you know what n8n, GRPO, and model quantization are, this workshop is too basic for you and you will not benefit. If you have no idea what these words me, this workshop is for you.”

    This makes it clear what I consider the line for advanced to be. If you’re using GRPO and tuning models with Unsloth, this particular workshop has nothing to offer you. It’s too basic. You know everything in it and then some.

    If we – speakers, conference organizers, teachers – are more clear, more specific, and more direct about what we consider beginner, intermediate, or advanced is, we’ll meet audience expectations better.

    For generative AI, I would consider beginner to be “So… I just go to ChatGPT.com, right?”

    For intermediate, I would consider that to be someone who knows at least one prompting framework and is actively using the software day to day on real world use cases.

    For advanced, I would consider that to be someone who is using local models and understands why quantization is important (hint: quantization is all about how many resources a locally-run model uses), or someone who is using generative AI within pre-built application workflows like n8n.

    For expert, I would consider that to be someone who is building code with APIs and connecting APIs to LLMs, rolling out production-ready apps that fully integrate AI, or someone who is doing the highest-level theoretical and mathematical work in AI, like what you see in the accompanying image.

    In cooking terms:

    Beginner: “what’s a microwave?”
    Intermediate: cooks successfully with the microwave and knows what not to put in it
    Advanced: cooks things in a microwave that you generally can’t, can repair basic issues
    Expert: can take apart a microwave and reasemble it successfully

    Help people by explaining what YOU mean when you say beginner, intermediate, advanced, or expert.

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  • Small Business Websites Are a Nightmare: 42 Pages of Settings You Must Master

    42 pages.

    That’s how many pages of settings you need to go through to set up a simple small business website according to best practices – WITHOUT a CRM or marketing automation system.

    I was setting up a website for a friend of mine tonight, and these are the number of settings you have to configure for a modern day website JUST to get it up and running with best practices:

    • Google Analytics – 4 pages of settings
    • Google Tag Manager – 5 pages of settings
    • Google Search Console – 1 page of settings
    • Cloudflare – 13 pages of settings
    • WordPress – 12 pages of settings
      • Not counting an additional 10 pages of settings for my favorite plugins like Rank Math for SEO, Google Site Kit, and others
    • WP Engine – 7 pages of settings

    I genuinely wonder how the hell a small business gets up and running these days. Even with a provider like Wix (disclosure: a sponsor of my podcast, Marketing Over Coffee), that really doesn’t cut down much. Wix Studio handles the WP Engine/Wordpress/CMS parts, but not the rest.

    And the knowledge you need to configure all these systems spans everything from DNS to security protocols to caching to data storage in Google Cloud to technical SEO.

    This is something of a hidden tax for the average entrepreneur, a hidden disadvantage compared to well funded companies that have IT teams and agencies to do this for them.

    The good news is that generative AI tools with search grounding can help with a lot of it. But you have to know how to ask for it, what to ask for. “Optimize my site” or “help me set up a website” is far too generic and won’t cover all the bases.

    One of these days I need to write all the steps out just to show how absolutely insane it is, and how high the bar really is for a well set up site. You either need a lot of experience, access to a lot of knowledge (via AI) or a good amount of money to hire someone to set it all up.

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  • The Future of Marketing: How AI Is Reshaping Content and What You Need to Do Now

    What is the future of…?

    The top question I was asked at this year’s Orbit Media Content Jam, in sessions, in hallways, at meals, was some variation of “What’s the future of [thing]?”. Agencies. Marketing. Content. Truth. Fill in the blank with any topic, and that was the question, especially as it relates to generative AI.

    The short answer is: I don’t know. No one does. We have never in our lifetimes seen a technology accelerate as quickly as generative AI. It’s bewildering to remember that it was only 2 short years ago that OpenAI released its GPT-4 model that shook the world. Two years. That’s it.

    “I don’t know” is not a terribly satisfying answer. But we do know some things.

    We do know basic human nature, which fellow presenters like Brian Massey and Nancy Harhut talked about extensively.
    We do know the primary motivating forces of people.
    We do know how societies like ours operate and what they optimize for.
    We do know how companies and customers behave – everyone wants bigger, better, faster, cheaper.

    And we know generally how people use automation and mechanization. It takes a single person about 10 hours to harvest a bushel of corn by hand. That same person can harvest 23,000 bushels of corn in 10 hours with a John Deere X9 1100 combine harvester.

    That’s what knowledge work will look like eventually. Commodity content will be almost entirely machine-produced because it’s a commodity by definition. The goal of any commodity is efficiency at scale with a minimum acceptable level of quality.

    Which means if your company, if your marketing strategy is based on commodity content, you MUST pivot to using technologies like AI. There’s no way for you to be cost competitive.

    Andy Crestodina shared a great Jay Baer quote: “the problem isn’t that AI is doing marketers’ jobs. The problem is that marketers are doing the quality and level of work that AI can do better.”

    Marketers in particular need to figure out two things:

    1. What does better quality than AI look like?
    2. Will companies, brands, and clients be willing to pay a premium for it above and beyond commodity prices?

    These are the questions you need to answer right now and revisit frequently. AI isn’t slowing down, and its capabilities continue to expand by leaps and bounds every day.

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