In one of our most popular episodes, Dan and Gord discuss how entrepreneurs can leverage ChatGPT to save money, grow their business, and streamline the most boring tasks while keeping teamwork alive and thriving.

In This Episode:

• ChatGPT is the next level of written communication that started with the teletype.
• AI has not yet reached the level of being able to tell a good story.
• Great teamwork is completing any project through greater productivity and achieving greater profitability.
• If you’re wondering how an AI tool can be useful to your business, first ask how it can help make your team more productive, and second, ask how it can help increase profits.
• Garbage in, garbage out: AI results are only as good as the instructions.
• Dan points out that ChatGPT’s response is strictly positive because the company OpenAI is most profitable when we see its benefits and consume its service.
• Gord and Dan wonder what exactly we’re being sold. Is this just a toy to generate meaningless social media content or a tool that can allow anyone to be a creator of useful material?
• No matter what new technology comes up, Dan’s approach is always to keep a very smart human between him and that technology.
• AI might generate the first 80% of the content, but a very smart human can take it to the next 80%.

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There's a misconception that podcasting is a quick way to make money. But if you're only in it for the cash, you'll likely be disappointed. Start a podcast for the right reason: to create value for your audience. When you focus on creating great content for your listeners, the money may show up in other ways. Dan Sullivan and Gord Vickman explain how Strategic Coach® has seen consistent growth for decades by doing just that.

In This Episode:

• Most entrepreneurs develop the courage to become entrepreneurs because they’re good salespeople.
• Marketing is what allows you to have the opportunity to be in front of someone.
• If you see a problem, set out to solve it, whether you get paid for it or not.
• You should do it because it’s valuable, regardless of the money you make.
• Don’t listen to the people who are trying to throw you into “The Gap” by saying, “Oh, you must do this because everyone else is doing it!”
• Don’t force people to learn something new in order to get value from you.
• A podcast is like a message in a bottle. Most will sink, but others wash up on a beach where somebody will read it and say, “I’ve been looking for that!”
• Existing clients listen to our podcasts faithfully. They come to the workshops and talk about the subjects that the podcasts cover.
• The goal of the Strategic Podcast Network is to attract people and marinate them in the content in the hopes that they become successful, talented, ambitious entrepreneurs.
• It’s not tough to make money if your focus is on making other people successful.

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Joe Stolte is the CEO and co-founder of Daily.ai, an innovative artificial intelligence newsletter that designs, writes, and tests itself to cater to user preferences. He shares with Dan and Gord the ways AI is “eating software”—posing an existential threat to huge software businesses like Google, yet creating exciting new opportunities for entrepreneurs.

In This Episode:

• Never before has a new technology been adopted as quickly and widely as AI.
• People are using AI passively without realizing it, but many are also quickly finding active, strategic, intentional uses for it.
• Investment in technology is often about placing bets rather than backing quality innovations.
• Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are in a symbiotic relationship.
• Large software companies like Salesforce, HubSpot, and Google are having to shift their thinking around user experience.
• Thousands of talented tech workers have been laid off, which could lead to many simple, smart, easy-to-use innovations.
• Short-sighted, user-hostile thinking is an organizational culture cancer.
• News media being funded by subscriptions leads to giving subscribers only what they want to see, creating echo chambers and divisiveness.
• Strategies for growing an email newsletter: You can pay with your money or with your time—and either is fine. (Ads aren’t “dirty.”)
• “AI is like a really, really good intern: You wouldn't ship intern work to the marketplace.” —Joe Stolte

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Learn more about Joe Stolte and Daily.ai

Dan Sullivan’s AI newsletter is The Spark

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