The New World Of AI... Helping You Build Your Business!

AI is changing our world. That's likely because it is absolutely mind-blowing what you can do with AI. 

The problem, if anything, is all of the choices! AI has taken over the internet with tools to do so many of the tasks we do daily.

The image above for this post and the "featured image" you'll see on the post listing page we created using AI. I typed in "16:9 image about AI" and I was provided with over 20 options. You can see the one I selected. 

I then added our logo, updated the text, done! 

I use to create these images in PhotoShop. The bulk of my time was spent looking for a background image for the image I was creating. Letting AI give me a bunch of options saved me a whole lot of time.

Isn't this one of the big attractions to AI... how much time it can save us?

This is just one of hundreds of uses for AI.

We've been reviewing, researching and analyzing AI as a whole from the focus of: 

• How it will help you start a business,
• Build a business and
• Help you in your business.

I'm just going to tell you, WOW!!!!

There are so many ways AI can help a business it's easy to become overwhelmed and spend all day for weeks on end reviewing and researching the many options available. Once you start realizing all of the possibilities your mind starts running wild with everything you can do and all of the ways AI will save you time, allow you to do a better job and help you build your business faster and easier.

This is not to suggest it's easy to build a home business. 

With AI your biggest benefit is it's going to save you a lot of time doing specific tasks needed to build your business.

AI can also help you to strategize and it can help you do research to make key decisions.

This should excite the hell out of you!

Let me give you a few more examples to how you could use AI:

• Use AI voiceovers for your video... no reason for you to narrate your own videos anymore. (There are a lot of people who don't want to be recorded, this is one piece to solve this.)
• To create images of all kinds for just about any use by simply using text to explain what you're looking for.
• For copywriting like creating a headline, sales verbiage, sales letters, video scripts, emails and much more.
• To create videos. There are many variations of videos. What I've seen here has me very excited! However, as a copywriter, often I'm needing the change the words on the different screens of the video.

There's a lot AI can do, but there's also things AI can't do, and things I wouldn't trust AI to do when the future of my business is on the line.

We're Building An AI Depository

We're building a depository of AI tools. We're categorizing everything, and then we're establishing effective filters for each category. We're currently up to 99 AI programs in our spreadsheet and we haven't even scratched the surface

The first AI service we really dug into was TTS or Talk To Speech...

Why We Started With TTS.

The reason we took this one on first is because it's something we need for BMHB. Creating videos is a tremendous amount of work. First there's building the script, then there's creating the video portion (images, videos, PowerPoint, etc.), there's narrating the video and then there's recording the video. Then there's the massive amount of editing.

Do you know where the biggest part of the editing is?

Fixing the narration piece... cutting out the uhms, the vocal mistakes and all of the other mistakes everyone makes when narrating a video even if they're following a script. We will generally spend 4 times the time the length of the video doing the editing. So a 30 minute video will easily take 120 minutes to edit it.

By starting with TTS it has cut our editing of the video down to about 2 times the video length dropping our editing time from 120 minutes down to 60 minutes. This is huge!

Another couple of decisions we had to make when doing the video was:

• What will we use to create the video... Camcorder, Smart Phone, a desktop recording program like Camtasia or a video editing program (largely this decision will be made based upon the type of video you're creating)?
• Do we use our existing video editor (Camtasia or Power Director) or should we test a video editing AI program?

The point is, we have so many options!

We Had A Specific Objective With Our Choices...

For us personally, right now our focus is on three things:

1. Save time,
2. Make our lives way easier, and
3. Do what we need to do in the absolute least amount of cost!

We're looking at all of our choices based upon having little to no money to build a home business. We're doing this because we believe this will be the circumstances of most people who choose to build a home business.

So when it's all said and done we'll have built a depository of the AI tools available (at least the one's we reviewed and considered decent programs) and of the AI tools we can use to help us and the people we work with build our businesses.

We'll show at least 2 products for each group... the best option for those with little or no money and the ideal product if money wasn't an issue.

By showing both of these options we'll help people with little to no money have access to effective tools to help them with their business, and we'll give them a roadmap to the programs they'll want to purchase once they have the money. 

However, you'll find a lot of the less expensive options are pretty good programs and you may choose to continue using it so you don't have to take time to go through a new learning curve of taking the time to learn a new program. Many times we chose to continue using what we already knew to avoid taking on a new learning curve when we're already swamped with no extra time.

The other thing to consider is many times the more expensive programs bring to the table a lot more more features and end up being a much more complex program, albeit they are far more powerful and can do more things. But being more complex also means a much longer learning curve and we don't always have the time for this.

What will generally force us to move to the more expensive program is when we need a specific feature not available in the less expensive program to complete a task. It's at this point we may pull the trigger and move to the more expensive program.

This is a typical process and how we made decisions.

The Depository

As mentioned at the very beginning, there are many AI programs available. Here's a few of the categories we're researching and reviewing:

• TTS (Text To Speech). This is our immediate need so we've dug into this pretty deeply at this point. We're currently narrowed it down to 3 programs.
• Text To Video: Creating videos by what you describe
• Advertising & Marketing
• Avatars to include being able to add TTS to an avatar to create a video.
• AI programs to help businesses... numerous categories here.
• ChatGPT which is the engine to numerous other AI tools
• AgentGPT which sounds really intriguing in how it can be your assistant
• GPT ChatBots where we can load it with our materials and information via documents and PDF files to answer questions.
• Content creating: This includes things like blogs, articles, product descriptions, sales letters, videos sales letters and many other things.
• Graphics which is another huge group to include creating images from text, all kinds of image fixing or editing tools, logo makers and many other features.
• AI programs to help you with other programs like handling social media comments and creating a reply to those comments.
• Create your own music for background sounds.
• Video is another huge group to include creating videos numerous different ways, turning long videos into YouTube shorts you can post to increase your YouTube content, video intros, animated logos, animation, avatars and numerous other things.

We're putting all of this information into a spreadsheet. We'll have a master worksheet with all AI programs, and then we'll create new worksheets for specific categories so we can add category specific columns to filter the list from.

This spreadsheet will be made available to our clients.

Special Cheat-Sheet

We're then going to create a list of "key" AI resources new business owners will find extremely valuable to help them research and strategize key decisions and tasks they need to do. We'll create a special document explaining each of these AI programs, what they can do and why they were added to the list.

We'll then guide our clients on how to use these tools in the most economic way possible to keep their costs to an absolute minimum when it matters the most... when they're getting started and have little money. 

All of this information will be available to our clients. We're going to make our clients lives a whole lot easier!

Be Careful, You Can Get Lost Wasting A Lot Of Time Researching AI

AI can be addictive, even consuming. It's truly mind-blowing all of the things you can do with AI. This is why I share this warning with you. It's easy to spend hours day on end researching AI and all of the programs AI driven.

The problem is, many times you don't know you need an AI program until you see what it can do. Then, once you see what's possible, you think to yourself all of the ways you can use it. It's through this that new doors/opportunities can be opened.

I knew I needed TTS (Talk To Speech) to save me a ton of time and to give me a tool so I could make videos easier and faster.

But through the research on TTS I also ran across other handy programs I'll be using. 

When you're in the beginning phase of building a business (I really hope you're following the true steps to building a business like we provided in our course, "Core Steps To Building A Business") your time is valuable. You only have a limited number of hours in the day and it's really easy to go down bunny trails which'll steal your time.

Stay focused! And protect your time!