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Episode 5

BIO

Yasmin Anne is an entrepreneur, wife, and mother.

Living life in the country and enjoying a slower pace, Yasmin is raising not only her children but her multiple businesses’ as well (alongside 7 beautiful chickens) 

Having created financial independence for herself, Yasmin’s passion lies in helping other women (especially mothers) do the same. 

SUMMARY OF SHOW: 

I know the idea of AI automation can be scary, but I promise a remote robot is not going to take over your computer. On this episode, we’re going to talk about how AI technology can help you run your photography business better.

So what is AI? AI is just new technology guys! Just like back in the day when your phone or computer that you’re probably currently listening on right now was just new technology. As we know, advances in technology usually mean that we can save time on everyday tasks and technology is a good thing. In this episode, I’ll walk you through all the ways I’ve used AI not only to help me run my business but improve it as well. All while saving me time and saving my sanity (just a little bit)

AI Automation

Did you know that AI can automate your business for you? 

As with all things AI, automation needs a bit of setting up, but once it gets the ball rolling, it becomes so much easier and things in your business become so much easier to run. 

And like any new software, there will be a little bit of learning involved, but essentially you can use AI like a personal assistant eventually once you’ve set it up. I like to use make.com for task-based AI assistant work, so let’s dive into how I use it. 

ONE

• You can do something like organising your email attachments. So if you are somebody who gets a lot of emails that have attachments in them from specific companies or from random places, or you get important attachments from different companies, you can set up a scenario where AI will put any of these important attachments in a Google Drive folder for you. So you don’t have to search through your inbox. 

TWO

• So something else that you can do is you can organise your ideas into a Google sheet to look back through later. You can actually set up your AI assistant on make.com to not only organise your ideas so that eventually it ends up in a Google spreadsheet, but also build upon your ideas and break them down in the background running 24 seven. AI will take your idea based upon all the things you’ve set up, all your preferences, your tone of voice, everything and build upon it. Eventually what goes into the Google spreadsheet or Google docs is a refined idea or several refined ideas.

THREE

• Another amazing way you can use AI to automate your business is to automate your social media. AI will actually take what you’ve posted and change it. Then it gets posted on the other social media platforms in their preferred format. It will do that in a format that’s based on those platforms preferences. You’re not being penalised by things not being cropped correctly, being the right size, having rubbish captions, or not having the right hashtags.

AI can help you blog 

This is something I love to do often, particularly for my wedding photography business. But as you know, it’s super hard to come up with a fun and inventive way to talk about your shoot or your wedding every single time you do one. Plus you also have to hit all of those keywords you need to be seen by the Google gods. Enter ChatGPT. 

You Can use this to help you generate ideas for blog posts, or indeed write the blog post for you. It’s important to remember that you will have to do a degree of tweaking, AI won’t get it perfect and you don’t want to cover your website in AI-generated copy (a big no-no) However, you can use it as a starting point and add your own tone of voice. Eventually, you can even train AI to copy your tone of voice! 

How AI can assist you with your marketing 

Chat GPT is perfect to help you write any copy you need for Instagram posts, lead magnets, and landing pages. Remember you can even get it to match the tone of the copy that’s already on your website and social media. You can do it for your lead magnet, or you do it for a landing page. You can even put: “Write a copy for Instagram post” “Write a copy for a lead magnet”  “Write a copy for a landing page”

With ChatGPT, the more information and direction you give it, the better the outcome will be. And you can do this across the board, but again, it’s AI technology. It will learn. Remember to read over it though and make your own adjustments, this should always just be a starting point, please don’t just take the first thing it writes and whack it on your Instagram captions. You need to add a bit of you in too. The more you use it and the more you reference yourself, the more it will learn and sound like you. 

FINAL THOUGHTS: 

AI automation and AI is an amazing tool, but it shouldn’t completely replace you. Use it to your advantage, but remember, your magic needs to be shared with the world, and that will never come from a robot. 

SPONSOR LINK: 

Policy Bee

RESOURCES LINKS: 

• Zapier – https://zapier.com/
• make.com – https://www.make.com/en
• Chat GPT – https://chatgpt.com/auth/login

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