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The future of AI in retail — Jonathan Goodman

Publisher: First Class Business  •  Duration: 48:44  •  Published: October 24, 2023

Jonathan Goodman joins Vision Pros Live to discuss how AI transforms retail — from AI-assisted product ideation and artwork to print-on-demand, sustainability, custom instructions in ChatGPT, Bing web browsing for research, and practical advice for entrepreneurs.

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C oh we're all right we're good uh my bad guys we have some technical
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difficulties on my end Jonathan good to see you how how are you doing man I'm
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doing great I'm super excited about this uh I enjoyed our little prein and uh now
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I'm excited to get into the meet and heart of the conversation
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definitely yeah the future of AI in retail I love that we have a little bit
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of an overlap I'm not we're not interrupting each other it might sound like we're fighting uh while we're on
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the show but we'll hopefully have this uh delay fixed in no time um so dude uh
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what what tell me about the future of AI and Retail real quick oh I look I mean I
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think that AI is going to uh affect every single aspect of human existence I
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think that this is as big as you know the wheel uh this is going to Revol
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revolutionize everything that we do from medicine to therapy to uh accounting to
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uh legal issues all of this uh writing you know content creation all of it but
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what I'm particularly focused on is finding the uses of AI in retail and
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that's what trigonal is currently really focused on it's a really exciting
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time all right welcome in live with Jackson Callum I'm your
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show host we will be doing interviews for Visionary entrepreneurs and guest leaders who are building fantastic
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Visions out
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there hey what's up and welcome into Vision Pros live I'm your host Jackson Callum
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founder and CEO of First Class business and I'm excited to have Jonathan Goodman on the show today we're gonna be talking
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about the future of AI and and Retail with Jonathan uh there's really cool
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things that are going on you you probably are familiar with things like chat GPT if you've heard of it um but there's also really cool ways to
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generate images and what's fun about this is we're going to be talking about throw pillows we're going to be talking
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about merchandise things that you can put your own custom art on but you can also get custom artwork assistance with
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AI so that's one of the angles we're going to be talking about just a little bit since the holidays are coming up this is kind of perfect time to have
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Jonathan on board as an artist and contributor to hopefully helping us with our interior decor and Beyond so uh
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services that I'm just so lucky to have great drinking water every day I don't
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have to think about where I get this yet there's people over the world who don't have access to clean drinking water and
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I just I it just kind of hurts my heart and I want to remember this on a daily basis kind of honor and think well who
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who can we help today and the Water Project does a great job of showcas casing different Villages that need help
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and you can choose which one you want to help and then you also get to see the outcome um as they as they receive that
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help so if you know of another charity that you'd like to support or where there's a lot of people suffering in the world right now if you got a link to
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something that's a cause don't hesitate to drop it in the comments I'm happy to to consider contributing to it myself
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I'm also happy to consider talking about it here on the show so we got Jonathan coming on board again as mentioned he is
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an artist he's a specialist when it comes to AI as well and I'm actually going to skip the
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formal introduction a little bit and bring Jonathan right on board since we are a little bit behind on the schedule and Jonathan thank you so much for being
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here today we appreciate having you on Vision Pros live absolutely Jackson it's a pleasure thank you for having me
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absolutely dude so there's there's certain uh aspects of your profession and your background that I really really want to highlight and make sure I don't
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miss but I'm GNA put the mic in your hands this time what are some of those accolades you know without you know I
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know I'm making you brag a little bit but um go ahead and tell us about what you do John Jan yeah so you know I
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started in the do so I am always I'm a futurist and I am always on The Cutting
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Edge of technology and that has led the path down to the AI experience and uh it
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has been really really fascinating over just the past couple of months the way
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that AI has integrated itself into work
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and life it's really quite amazing
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I that's all good no I appreciate you diving into uh the the subject at hand
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and the you I can tell you have a longstanding vision as a futurist about
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 um you know like where the direction of all this is headed uh we do have a video clip to show um regarding some of the
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throw pillows um and and designs that that you and your team have worked on uh
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before I show that clip though do you want to give some context yeah so uh trigonal was
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originally a modern art gallery and unfortunately during coid we shut down
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and being the future technologist that I am uh I kind of got back on the
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bandwagon and I you know got into crypto at the time and got into nfts and that
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nfts then led to Ai and so you know my I have a background in art graphic design
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and photography from a a great School here in the United States and uh this
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the AI capabilities just really excited me and I said okay what what can I do
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with this right I'm gonna print this out and put this in a gallery like nobody's gon to be interested in that why don't I
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kind of make art that people want to have in their houses or you know as we
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progress in in our conversations I'll explain that yeah we have throw pillows now but the big plan is t-shirts and
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skirt skirts and jackets and all these different things to have ai artwork in and so I have an assistant and the two
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of us worked all summer creating 500 different images in different categories
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space and romance and Christmas and Halloween and all this stuff and the
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first product that we're putting it on is throw pillows and you know we're we're talking to entrepreneurs so I can
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be very honest with you right sustainability is incredibly important
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with it should be important for everybody but it seems to be really critically important when we're talking
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to the younger generation they understand that when you're walking into a store that sells jeans and t-shirts
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that for every t-shirt that's on that rack there are 10 that are heading to a garbage dump somewhere and they hate
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that and so sustainability I partnered with a company that does print on demand
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it's great as an entrepreneur because look I started you know I've been an entrepreneur my entire life I've been
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doing different projects and things like that and I ran a a a you know a clubbing
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night club you know event thing and we would have to buy build you know pay
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somebody to do t-shirts and that would cost thousands of dollars the design the
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printing the the holding of the screens you know for the printing of the screens
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The Ordering of the t-shirts all of that cost so much money and now print on
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demand really allows me as an entrepreneur to an AI to create the image put the image on a pillow if the P
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if the image isn't of interest to anybody ever I have it doesn't cost me
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anything I haven't lost any money and so I've kind of you know all of my
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experience the AI the technology the art the the design the getting the print
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done and all of that all my past experiences rolled into trigonal now and
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it's it's so exhilarating and exciting to work on hey absolutely um and and you know
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you brought something up that's interesting about the the current generation and sustainability being
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important you know that that seed was planted I'm going to age myself a little bit here but I remember watching the
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Reading Rainbow in kindergarten or first grade and on that show they shared the
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story about a restaurant owner um was a it was a fictional book but the restaurant owner uh
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loved helping the poor people and you know the people who had come to like he had this he had this system to where
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whatever was left over at the end of the night they would give to people and then he kind of went corporate with his restaurant and they had restrictions and
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rules around who he could give stuff to and couldn't and uh he you know he was now away from his family too much and
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and yada yada and then he ended up going back to the type of restaurant that um
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you know he had originally and his family was happy and um we've we've lived with generations of learning a
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little bit more broadly about different perspectives um right and and different ways of seeing the world that um I guess
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we didn't have access to in in decades past before that um so you know what's
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neat about it though you mentioned a good point while there's there's all those shirts that go to the garbage um
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that I think a lot of us don't think about how much waste you know is that in terms of your ability to be profitable
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too right there's a there's a balance to be had on both sides of that equation now I do want to show these pillows real quick
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so if you're looking for throw pillows for Christmas you might check out trigonal let's look at some of these designs real fast and we'll come right
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back great all
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um sometimes cynthy and I fight over the controls a little bit so we got a double dose of the holidays if you weren't in
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the spirit before and now we brainwashed you to be um so uh those designs um do
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you mind walking me through the process how do you go about creating designs like that or you know what what's the difference between these and other throw
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pillows we see out there yeah so you know we started off with chat GPT so we
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asked chat GPT what are the you know give us the the most interesting uh
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things that people buy what are people interested in right and it would say you know uh Christmas and Halloween are the
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top two big holidays that people buy stuff for and we started there and then
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we would say to chat GPT okay well what what's really uh what are the summer the
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common themes of Christmas and it came back and it said Santa and Rudolph and you know um uh Christmas Village uh and
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all these different things and then we went back to it and said okay with Santa what are some common themes with Santa
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that would be great for a pillow and it came back with well you could go with the old style of St Nicholas holding the
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candles or you could go with the more modern uh you know laughing jolly you
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know St Nick um and so that's really where we did and then we took those we poured those into mid journey and we
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were reviewed hundreds you know for just finding the right one and so out of the
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images that we we stuck with you have to realize that there are probably you know 2,000 other images that we declined on
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so it was it was a great process I like that so I'll ask a uh I'll ask an
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interesting question um some people might see right through the the trick of
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the riddle of this but your first question that you asked C AI was um what
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are what are people buying remind me that question again it really caught my brain what what are the categories that
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people are interested in decorating okay great and so my question for you is who
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does that serve the most that question the business or the
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consumer oh I mean it certainly helps us initially right but we are targeting the
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consumer overall so at the end of the day the consumer right absolutely 100%
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yes I that's that's my that's my riddle on it you know is and yes it is you know and good for you for acknowledging the
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fact that you win in this equation but that's the point we want both win if the business doesn't win the consumer
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doesn't win because the consumer no longer has the business but when you when you're asking such a great question
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to an expert like Chad GPT now you're extracting exactly you know what the
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consumer wants with a with an AI that understands scale that understands
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what's happening in the world and understand you know we also went through uh here at triagonal we went through
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training on chat PT so we're not using uh the you know basic level of chat GPT
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we have uh a lot of people don't even realize this but there's something called C some instructions so you can go
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if you have a chat GPT Pro you can go right by your name down at the bottom on the left will be you know three little
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dots and you can open that up and you can see custom instructions and what that allows you to do is put in
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personalities characters right so we say okay for this project we're going to put
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in a visual artist and we tell chat GPT exactly who we are as that visual artist
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what we're interested in we're interested in throw pillows we're interested in creating products for a consumer and then with that we then ask
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the question right so instead of the overall you know General chat gp4 Pro
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you're asking a question to and somebody asked me this how how do I look at this
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analogously and think of it as the Library of Congress chat GPT is the Library of Congress but with custom
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instructions I'm able to walk down one specific aisle of that whole Library of
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Congress and so I'm asking chbt very very specific questions within a confine
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of information that it holds because you're talking about trillions of data points that chat GPT is working on right
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and if you can narrow that down and get more specific data then it's not like you're just having a general
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conversation with an AI you're having a specific conversation with a very
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specific AI dude you you brought up a super interesting point I love the analogy um you know of the the Library
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of Congress and then you've also got kind of like um uh Iron Man's assistant
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right they're with you but they're not and and they're not pushy right it's not like somebody's selling you on something
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you then can turn to and say okay we found the aisle but here's what I'm looking for specifically right and you
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then don't have to go through thousands of books in that aisle it pulls out the the 10 and if you mess that up just ask
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a new question to get the next it's I mean it is a brilliant concept it's something that needs to be used more so
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um with that said Jonathan I'm going to ask you what we typically lead with which is based on where our
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conversations headed about the future of AI and Retail who should be listening right now do you think why should they listen to you specifically and what do
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you think they're going to get out of the rest of today's show so I think you know who should listen are entrepreneurs
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right or people that are thinking about being an entrepreneur I think why they
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should listen to me particularly is because you know the last couple of
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years even though I have 20 years of corporate experience and the last 10
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years have been very entrepreneurial there have been incredible successes but there have also
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been tremendous failures right and trigonal was unfortunately started off
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as a failure and then I pivoted to a much more successful you know Avenue of
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Revenue so I think that I understand the struggle of the entrepreneur particularly the solo entrepreneur they
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they are you know working day and night to get their project seen her and make
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money from it and there are many many pitfalls there are you know there there
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are pitfalls that you can't even account for right for instance how could I have accounted for coid how could I have
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accounted for my doors shutting of my gallery right right and I think that all
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of that is you know is the is the entrepreneurial spirit that you have to
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kind of persevere through could you become depressed from it yes you could definitely become depressed from it
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could you lose a lot of money yes you could lose a lot of money but the learning that you get from being an
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entrepreneur is one day in the life of an entrepreneur is like an entire year
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in corporate you are everything you wear every hat and it does doesn't matter
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whether you're a solo entrepreneur or whether you have a team of 10 you're still managing every single aspect of
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your business and that requires a tremendous amount of heart it TRS a
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tremendous amount of focus and a little bit of luck and that's you know that's
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that one thing that a lot of people don't realize you know being an entrepreneur you know your you know
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especially depending upon what your family Dynamics are not every everybody should be an entrepreneur not everybody
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has the financial economic capability of of going out there and venturing out
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into areas that they may not have full expertise on you know one of the things
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that I wanted to kind of count cat you know into this conversation is the incredible opportunities through the SBA
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and other government organizations to get funding right a lot of solo
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entrepreneurs and individual entrepreneurs that are building their business they don't understand that
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there are there's money out there there's money in loans there's money in
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Grants there's money in investment and you have to the the greatest thing that
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you can have is a business plan right and if you have a solid business plan and then you send that around to people
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you are able to have a conversation and even if you're not a great presenter your business plan can speak for you
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H well said um very important topics uh you know Jamie Jamie karna Lima comes to
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mind uh if you haven't ever heard her story you might want to look it up see if you can find it but she talks about
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the hundreds of NOS that she received from people over years and the amount of banks that turned her down for loans
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before she found one that would work I mean her diligence and persistence with
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building her brand that eventually became a billion dollar brand um I think even multi-billion like that's not the
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story that's not where it started it took years of hard work to get to that
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point and I I mention that because the more common stories are a little
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less um I don't know they're a little B Less close to home um but they are just as important even though they did have a
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little bit of a leg up like Bill Gates for instance most people don't realize that yes I mean he he wouldn't have
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succeeded without his parents and he gets gives 100% credit to that and he did have a little bit of backing but his
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first apartment was not apartment he lived in his office they
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showered at the YMCA um you know and they they they worked 247 ate pizza they ordered pizza
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every day and that's like what they did they were just so dedicated and diligent I'm not saying that's the way to live I'm not saying that's the only way to do
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it but I think it's very helpful to realize the amount of character that has to be built when you're going to run a a
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business of that magnitude you have to really be willing to make yourself your best self in many different dynamics
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that maybe not be required in in other types of occupations um so it does it
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takes a strange person to want to do this yeah no you can understand that it's very difficult for an entrepreneur
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to be both a great developer even in the AI realm and then also be a great
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marketer and a great salesman right very hard you know I've done these businesses
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left right in center and you know there's one brain that is thinking my
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finances and uh what do I need to get done in the day and then there's the other one oh I've got to go to a
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cocktail reception and try to introduce myself and try to be really nice to everybody because maybe somebody will
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throw some cash at me to be able to work with me on a project right so all of
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those elements have to be so round welld developed it's very it's it's a
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challenge Michael berer um Gerber rather sorry
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Michael berer Michael Gerber in the emth talks about that too um you know to again power down on what you're talking
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about this is so important and he kind of gave us the permission to be schizophrenic um to to some degree where
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he talked about everybody has a skinny guy and a fat guy in them um you know and that person's constantly pulling on
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your brain you know do you eat the cookie or do you go exercise um you know you got those two people and your
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shoulders and the entrepreneurs have the futurist the Visionary the entrepreneur
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the manager that lives in the past and the technician that wants to do everything in the here and now and you have to learn to channel those if you're
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going to uh you know like build something important and then you have to create procedures so that other people
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can do those things and you're not divided um so constantly but let's talk about your vision real quick for those
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that you serve Jonathan um what would you say it is and that can and I know there's multiple facets so feel free to
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go the route of those who are looking to use Ai and Retail or those who are
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looking to buy products um in fact you know what let's start with the AI and Retail and the next question I ask you
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will guide you towards uh those who are are potentially going to buy uh throw pillows and Beyond from trigonal and and
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yourself so yeah for those of you serve in the AI retail space what does that Vision look like it's funny because you
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know when you ask that question I immediately kind of go to my other job which is a fractional CMO right because
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what is the vision for those you serve uh that can be you know helping other entrepreneurs to really get focused and
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and find their way through you know whether it's the loans or the investment or anything you know we're just pivoting
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right but yes we can go to the AI side which is you know first of all this is
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about me this is about what I want to do I wake up every morning and I'm
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fascinated by AI art right I want to see what can be done and what's been amazing
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over the past several months and I say the past several months even though AI has been with us for a while but the
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radical changes of how art is made right just within this past month we've had
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Dolly 3 which is a Microsoft product integrated into chat GPT which has never
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been done before so now I can literally talk to chat gbt and say I want to
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create a throw pillow in image for Christmas give me some ideas and not
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only does it give me the ideas it then says would you like to move forward and use doll3 right so incredibly
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revolutionary I personally don't use dolly3 on an everyday basis I'm still using mid Journey because I enjoy kind
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of the push and pull and and writing the prompts that are required to get mid
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journey to work well but still getting back to your original question of you know how who do I serve you know how do
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I serve them well it's understanding what the consumer wants at the end of
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the day right that's got to be my core and you know maybe it wasn't throw
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pillows we'll see like how the year winds up I think that throw pillars are
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fun and unique and you you know want to decorate your entire Christmas but we
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also know that t-shirts do much much better than throw pillows people love
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t-shirts with words on them they like basic kind of designs that just Express
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who they are and so we are kind of looking at that and pivoting but of course in those last couple of months
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the technology within AI to be able to produce you know uh flat generated
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prints the um uh I'm I'm losing the word
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uh you know the the illustration to be able to print on you know a flat surface
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has radically changed right so what you look at now for the throw pillows is everything has a background and
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everything you know as opposed to you know uh what would look like a sticker
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on a t-shirt it has screen printing yeah it's screen printing right exactly that that's good I just learned that word
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this weekend so perfect timing yes awesome man and okay good so the uh
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Dolly um we might we might might come back to that because one of the things that came to mind Jonathan I this is you
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know you're serving all of us in this regard if I tell somebody like if I say if I find somebody who says hey I love
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sports Jackson where can I watch sports right and they don't know I and I say hey have you been Have You Ever Seen
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ESPN before and they're like no I've never heard of it um mean like I just gave them a massive massive uh
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opportunity to go tune in and learn about all sorts of different sports things that they didn't have access to
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previously Dolly's one of those um you know like if if you're unaware of it then like you have no idea what what's
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accessible there what are some of the other um AI art resources hubs
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communities that you gravitate towards and you're like man I'm I'm glad I have this archive to expand my vision with
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yeah so I'll tell you uh AI Advantage is a phenomenal group of people uh I've
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taken the prompt engineering course with them that's what kind of kicked all this off uh there's a Discord for AI
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Advantage there on LinkedIn um eigor uh p pagoni uh is the head of that uh I am
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one of the mods in the Discord when I have a minute to be a mod which you know is you know just kind of guys hanging
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out and making sure the people are being okay in the Discord chats um that's a
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lot of fun and you know being in that environment and being in that community we also have a Sunday uh contest every
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Sunday at uh I think it's 1 or 2 pm every Sunday I'm a judging that so we do
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uh for an hour and a half all of the people that want to kind of test out their AI skills we have uh we have about
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four contests for them it's a 10minute contest you have two minutes to upload
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your artwork and then it gets judged so it happens four times during that event
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at uh in on Sundays all of that kind of stuff uh really yeah there you go
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there's the AI Advantage um and they have um if you go over to the AI course
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 uh they've got a great course they've got a shop uh where they have the uh book of the characters the 600 different
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characters of custom instructions and that has really been and you know what's so amazing about this is that I bet less
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than 1% of your audience probably is in is doing Ai and is involved with chat
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gbt and mid journey and you know uh Dolly th I agree with that but let me
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tell you it's coming it's coming for everybody and the more that you know how to work with it and the and getting in
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now and understanding what the root un what the root comprehension of the AI
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functionality is as opposed to then coming in saying oh okay I need my
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accounting done I'm going to hire an AI bot and not really understanding how that AI bot works this is really the
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time to get in and it applies to everything you know I'm so I write
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articles now for LinkedIn right and those go into my uh my my page on
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LinkedIn and I work with so I should say that on top of the custom instructions
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and I know I'm getting technical I have something called professor synaps Professor synaps kind of manages the
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entire conversation but step by step if I say to them I want to write an article
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about you know this year's Comic Con it will ask me questions it will pull
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information out of me that is vital to the article and then help me write the
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article right you said before you have ADHD I'm dyslexic so for me to write an
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article to sit down and actually write 500 Words it would take an entire day
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but within two hours I can have this conversation with somebody I don't know if you've watched uh our flag means
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death have you seen that show I'm sure some of your audience has right but there's a character Steed and this
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professor cobs writes and talks like Steed very Upper Crust kind of British
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you know humorist and so I'm having this conversation and he's asking me these questions and from that conversation
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he's able to build that article and it's remarkable that yes it's not me writing
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word for word but it got every single point across and it not only that it took out some of the negativity it makes
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it very positive because at the end who wants to read a LinkedIn article where I'm crying about something that failed
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right but if I wrote an article about something that failed and how I pivoted that and then explain you know the
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psychology behind that and that's all that's all chat gbt that's all AI
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amazing you know stuff it's big we were I was looking at headlines uh just two
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days ago for somebody we hosted named Jeff Schwarz he's in the Geo fencing space um I've never used Geo fencing um
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and I've oh uh the ability to Target a specific building for instance um you
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know so you might Target a mall for your ads um you know or on the Riverwalk you
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might if you run the Riverwalk in San Antonio there's a lot of Geo fencing purposes that could make sense for helping people see your ad at a nearby
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venue um so um it's a it's a really neat technology but I don't know how to speak to it from a marketing standpoint and
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from a attraction standpoint so I use chat GPT to help me with that um and I said okay I need 10 headlines for a
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podcast about Geo fencing um right and then we said okay let's give me 10 headlines for a podcast about
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geofencing that uh is designed for business owners who make $5 million plus
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annually RIS redesign it and I said now um add more Intrigue to the the
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headlines um and I I said make it make it more um irresistible and uh you know
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captivating and chbt responded oh uh you'd like me to make this more intriguing great like wow um that's fun
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yeah the article that I was writing for me was very verbose you know the Dark Night of the storm in the wind you know
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and I was like you know calm down on the verbosity and it came back and we rewrote it the right way but it was I
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took all those it took me maybe maybe seven minutes total to get 40 headline
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options I copied the whole thing and sent it to Jeff and I said hey if your
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team could choose 10 or pass 10 back you know by the way thank you Chad GPT um you know and then let him know
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transparently that that's how we came up with those and and so it's going to save me all that time while getting their
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creative Wills spinning and now they can inject what they need to to make those headlines really catchy to help people
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understand the value of the episode at hand and did you use the did you use Bing when you were using chat GPT for
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that I don't think so teach me because now chat now Bing is integrated with chat GPT so I have an article coming up
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about you know Amazon kind of squeezing the small the small Entre R preneur
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right because they get you into the FBA and then they you know jack up the prices and all this different stuff and
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chat gbt wasn't really understanding it and I said you know what go out and do
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your own research and it went out using Bing and it did this whole entire thing it took about 20 minutes for it to
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gather information and it said oh wow I found all of this information about you
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know the reduction of small entrepreneurs in Amazon because and it was amazing it was like having a
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conversation with you where you know you were then sitting there and typing out and finding all this information and it
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informed you correctly and now you could write the article appropriately oh my goodness okay can you do me a favor
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Jonathan yeah that went halfway over I caught the concept enough can you do us
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a huge favor and after the show create a loom video of what you just talked about
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to Showcase how that works sure I hate to put video is but I will ask loom
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video has like your video in the corner um it's you can do this on Zoom too but Loom uploads it automatically online so
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that you can it's like those training videos where you're in the bottom corner and you're walking people through your screen of how to do X Y or Z makes it
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really easy for people to we'll talk about after um but yeah man that would be so cool to see that in action because
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then it would make it far easier to follow monkey see monkey do style absolutely yeah yeah yeah yeah you know
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that's half the thing with with AI is I don't think a lot of people understand how to even interact with it how you and
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then we end up condescending when we're talking about how we do all this and in fact I'm GNA show real real quick since
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you got me on the subject and you're already leading the way down the path um I've got a I've got chat GPT open I
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finally added it as a tab as a pinned
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Tab and committed to it I don't oh let's see here that's my official report come
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on now um that's why I got be careful going live where did my chat gpt1 go share screen let's go to chat GPT maybe
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it won't let me that would be that would be a possibility um let's see here chat GPT
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let's try again oh yeah it let me there we go you guys see my chat GPT here yes
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now why don't you start a new chat you see that okay yep start a new chat let's do it let's hit it and so first of all
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do you see where your name is and you see see the three dots yep there you go click those three
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dots man I got I got the non I got the non-paid for version hav't committ custom instructions open up custom
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instructions there you go just a little information okay and so there are two
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parts to the custom instructions so and it well and this is what eigor has
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produced in the 600 you know characters so you would go in and you would say I'm
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an entrepreneur and I'm writing an article about SEO and you would then
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find the SEO content writer and would provide you all that information but right here you could do it yourself you
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know what um where are you Bas all those questions and you would fill that out and then the bottom half also you you
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can follow eagle and kind of get a better understanding but now I got I gotta ask I got some begging burning
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questions inside me right so um I don't think I'm that unique in this regard but I am I am more difficult and more
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pronounced than most people and that's I hate being boxed in right I I I like to
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study it I'm like don't no I'm not just an entrepreneur I'm this and this too so um there's like this inner like sight of
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me that argues and says don't put anything in this box but I want the argument Jonathan like like you know
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let's let's debate this out so I'm saying okay wait a second I want to make sure I don't actually B I don't want to
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P so here's I listen to Pandora I hate Spotify I don't want Spotify I don't want a curated list that I'm going to
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run into the same song I want to be surprised with new music that's just how I do things right but so so talk to me
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about that um have you ever seen 2001 in Space Odyssey yeah long time ago you know you
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know the scene uh where the astronaut has to disassemble how I don't remember it but go teach me
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but but there are these cubes and he has to each one has to release and he has to take each one out that's what a custom
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instruction is right okay think about it that way you can put in right now a
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custom instruction for a visual artist and do your work and then take that out
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and you can put gone and well it's it's gone but you've done your work right but
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I mean once you taking it out it's not gonna reinl is what I'm looking for right correct ah and then you put in
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let's anog accountant right and so now you can ask it specific accounting
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questions and this is all within the same chat so then all right I'll play nice in okay I'll touch it then because
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I was worried because then what happens in Pandora is if you freaking like a song on there then it just starts
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serving you songs that sound just like it I'm like no I don't touch the like thing I don't touch anything I don't want my system broken right um but okay
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here okay so I can put in here I do it now now I I would learn how to do the
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Customs instructions correctly but I wanted to show you at least where was right oh gota so when you learn it you
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talking about going into eor program to learn it yeah yeah yeah yeah or you could just buy the Customs instructions
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itself but are we gonna go into Bing are we gonna do chat GB yeah all right I'm
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I'm getting like shiny ball syndrome all over the place all right chat GPT we're going
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back we're doing the Bing thing all right so I'm in settings we at no no no you can you can get out of settings I
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just wanted to show you that okay so now go to chat gp4 you may not have Pro so
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let's okay you do not have okay so you don't have plus okay you gotta have that
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to get the beinging set up yes the Bing the C the the the plugins uh there's a
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lot of stuff that comes with that $20 a month it is the best absolutely um you use it and I
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gotta use it I know I'm getting I'm getting real close I I if I we weren't live right now I'd be like all right let's just pump this out and get it
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done to present I could show you yeah you can show so let's see we got a few minutes for sure let's see so
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let's if I say share screen and then I go here let me hold on let me set this
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up to the right page [Music]
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 um let's see crafting product descriptions um yes perfect okay where
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did you go here you are okay we go here share screen we go there
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and I'm going to show you exactly where
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 um there we are yeah let's see oh so
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this is right so um oh I like that pillow let's go back to thought leaders
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okay so this is my thought leader conversation you can see at the top here I'm web browsing uh right here you see
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that um what's that mean uh so that means that it's connected to Bing right
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okay got it um and so now I'm going to try to find so for those who are newer
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the difference is uh from what I understand chat GPT without the web browsing is limited to an archived
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database kind of from the past versus when you're doing 20 it stopped in 2001
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correct right so you're missing all the data from 2001 to 2020 3 versus when
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it's plugged into Bing you're then getting all current information I would imagine is that
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correct yes Absolut up immediately up to date absolutely wow that's a huge
43:39
difference um so here I am talking to uh chat gbt and then it didn't really
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understand uh what the dynamic of Amazon and I were um and then you know it says
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you know shall I proceed in getting this all together together and finding the data and then it lays out the article
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right so this is this is an article about uh one of my other companies we
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worked with Amazon we were doing one one quick question Jonathan so what did you
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tell it what did you prompt it to get that to go gather that information what was your prompt for that um I said do
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your own research like just like that you said was do your like you just put do your
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own research and it did I I so you know I'm explaining to it I I'm explaining to it that uh you know
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here's the scenario right so I had a company that was selling parts and
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accessories for a specific product line and um the manufacturer did a direct
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deal with Amazon and I was explaining to chat gbt that this happens a lot and it
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wasn't really understanding it and so I said okay you're clearly not
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understanding that this happens a lot this didn't just happen to me this happens a lot go out there and find
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articles about other entrepreneurers who have struggled with the manufacturer
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direct to Amazon relationship and that's what it did it went out it found those articles it compiled everything it said
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Okay I I see that you know between 2016 and 2020 there has been a 30% dip in you
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know small entrepreneurial businesses working with Amazon really really incredible up to-date stuff really
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amazing wow yeah yeah but you gotta pay that $20 plus for
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CH I gota start using it more I very very rarely turn to it you know it's kind of like when you're getting used to
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I guess I don't know using any new technology like you you only start like dipping your toe in the water sometimes
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I need to just Dive Right In yeah you got me on it now it t it takes a couple of months and then what you find is you
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actually can't live without it you know super human powers with it yeah yeah I wrote an email this morning that I had
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to kind of like how am I going to write this and I was going to go to chat GPT but I said ah it's just a two sentence
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email I don't really need to you know but I needed to talk to somebody and tell them this is where the email that
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I'm sending what do you think instead of using chat GPD so it's a little bit of a crutch but I think it's a good crutch
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it's a great crutch it's an important one you know we we have a little bit of an ego it's not a little bit of a crutch
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we as human beings have a little bit of an ego we put the ego aside um we likely get better results so that was awesome
46:27
man that was uh it was very practical and useful for anybody who's listening um we are almost out of time I'll give
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you one more opportunity though um one let's let us know what's the best way to connect with you and and and in what
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context um do you recommend we connect with you two feel free to drop one more powerful lesson you've you've been
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you've been on a roll so yeah so I think uh follow me on LinkedIn I think that's
46:49
great um and connect with me uh I would say follow me and then ask me to follow
46:55
you uh a lot of people ask me to connect with them and they're not already following me which I think is
47:01
interesting so understand understand how LinkedIn works and you need to follow me and then I I'll consider following you
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if it's you know as long as you're not you know pitching me something to buy that I don't need I'll probably connect
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belief I think belief is incredibly important you have to believe in yourself you have to believe in your
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project you have to believe that you can do your project and then make sure that
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other people believe in you and the project oh I love it Jonathan that was awesome Vision Pros go get it we're
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going to go get it we love you guys everybody have a great day Jonathan thanks so much for joining us the show man this was awesome absolutely Jackson
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