How I'm Growing my Business with AI Agents and GPTs | Ep. 61

AI business growth is changing everything for solo entrepreneurs like us! In this video, I share exactly how I use AI and automation to save time, stay human, and build a thriving video brand. I’ll walk you through GEO (generative engine optimization), custom GPTs, and the tools I use daily—like MindPal and Buffer. If you want to grow your business with AI without losing your personal touch, let’s dive in! 

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Transcript

Okay. I am so excited for. This topic because we all know that AI is disrupting business and marketing in really big, massive ways right now.

And as a solo business owner, you and I both know that we only have so many hours in a day to dedicate to just running the business, let alone learning and implementing these new changes. Plus, when you consider that, you know, if every other business, especially like every other business in your niche or industry, is just kind of like flipping the AI switch and saying, heck yeah, let's just run on AI now.

Um, they are gonna be more efficient and more effective. They're gonna be able to reach more people, so. How do you keep up? How do you grow your business and stay authentic and real and human in whatever future the AI brings us without turning everything that you create into AI slop, you know, that nobody wants or needs.

So today I wanna share with you how I'm integrating AI and automation into my business, you know, into the day to day of my business so that I can keep my lean team, my lean business, stay human, and you know, essentially keep connecting with other humans in my business because that's the way that I see AI functioning.

For me is allowing me, giving me the bandwidth in the space to actually connect with and communicate with other humans in my business, through my programs, and through my membership and Video Brand Academy. So let's dive into it here inside Video Brand Infusion. If you're new here, my name is Meredith and I'm here to help you infuse the best video marketing strategies into your business so that you can build a thriving video brand.

 I am at that point where I'm using AI every day, um, and really legitimately. All day because I have automations that function for me. And I've been obsessed with AI since chat.

GPT came out. So I've been using it on my own. I've been using it in my business and um, honestly I'm fascinated by it. But it has taken me probably like the last six months or so to really kind of wrap my head around the capabilities of, and like what's possible if you think outside the box. Um, and, and I think it's really important, like for the longevity of our businesses to not just to like think outside the box, but like look outside the box because, um, there's a lot of stuff I think headed our way that it's gonna be a lot harder to stay in business if we don't embrace.

It. 

GEO - Generative Engine Optimization

So there are five main kind of areas or focuses when I think of AI right now as it pertains to business and marketing. I mean, a lot of what I'm talking about is gonna be like marketing. Um, number one is discoverability.

You've probably heard the term SEO search engine optimization. And more and more we are hearing about GEO generative engine optimization. And I'm fascinated by this because I've always been an SEO person. That's really how I started my channel was I applied what I knew about SEO for websites and blogs.

I applied that to YouTube and it worked. Um, and it still works. But what's fascinating to me is AI has sort of introduced the idea that SEO is going away because people are just gonna go to ChatGPT to get their answers and ChatGPT has scraped the content of the internet to a level that it's able to provide those answers without.

Sources or link backs, and it's a big problem in the blogging world. It's a huge problem. There are people that have like genuinely lost their entire, um, livelihood. Really? They, they, they were bloggers, full-time bloggers, and they're just not able to get the same level of revenue because they're not getting the traffic.

Because, you know, Google's AI summary feature is just giving people answers that they're searching for and no one's going to their site.

And what I have seen here on YouTube is that that's not really a problem. That's not really a problem, at least in my niche, on, on my channel. In fact, the other day I was looking at my analytics. I went to look, and you can do this too on your channel. Go to advanced analytics and pull up your external traffic sources.

You're probably gonna see google.com as your number one traffic source of the videos that I have published this year. ChatGPT is the number two external traffic source. That means actual traffic is being sent to my videos from ChatGPT and. It's a far, far, far cry from google.com at number one, and we are only talking about external traffic sources.

So that's like after the YouTube algorithm and after YouTube search. Then it's external for me and for most people ChatGPT is like way down at the bottom. But a few months ago it didn't even exist there, it wasn't even on the map.

So it's like just barely measurable, but it's measurable. It's there. And in my mind that's a really big deal that tells me that ChatGPT isn't just scraping content and um, delivering it to users with no link back and no source attribution at all. It tells me that actually people are finding me. By starting their search or their information gathering on ChatGPT

Google has recently said that what they are looking for, what they, the Google algorithm, the search algorithm is looking for in terms of like the new version of SEO is not so much, you know, on page SEO, where like the title is very optimized in the um. The, the description or the intro is optimized, and then you have these optimized like headings.

And it's not so much about this, like one and done SEO on page optimization. It's more about the overall body of work, of the person who's creating that content. And what's interesting is that's not new, um, that's actually not new when it comes to SEO. It's certainly not new when it comes to GEO either because Google for years now has talked about, um, kind of, uh, what, what they look for with SEO is experience, expertise, authority, and trustworthiness.

EEAT Google has been saying for years that if you're, if you're a content creator, if you're a blogger, particularly. Th that's what they want your content to, to, to sort of answer to is like, are you an expert? Do you have experience? Are you trustworthy? And are you an authority on this? It's not just like, were you able to optimize the title better than everybody else?

And I think that's a good thing. Like that's a, it's a good thing that these platforms want to. Platform content and content creators that it has decided is trustworthy and authoritative. And so what Google said recently is that it's not just looking for on page SEO, it's a looking at an overall sort of body of work from somebody.

Not just what's on the page, but what topics are tied to that person's name or brand name on YouTube, on Instagram, on LinkedIn, on a blog, on a website, on all the platforms. Is there cohesivity in these topics attached to your name or your brand name?

That's what Google has said that it. Is using to kind of figure out or decide if you do have experience, if you do have expertise, if you are trustworthy and if you are an authority on these topics. And it makes sense to me that the AI tools are going to use that same kind of a sort of rubric, if you will, to determine what content or what information to put in front of people who are using the platforms, using chat GBT to learn something or solve a problem.

So what does this have to do with AI and my business? First of all? I've never been so relieved to have a YouTube channel, to have a YouTube channel tied to my name with my topics. That in and of itself on YouTube are a body of work tied to my name, aim. And if you've been dragging your heels at creating a YouTube channel, I like, I don't know.

I don't know what else to tell you

YouTube is of course, the most powerful way to build your audience online. But not only that, putting long form content out there on your topics. That you are an expert on, that you are an authority on, that you have experience in like, it's so simple the way I see it, it's not just about growing your audience on YouTube, it's putting your content in your name on YouTube. It's about building a, a body of work, about building a library of binge worthy videos that is tied to your name.

And more than just building your audience and generating leads and generating revenue, which don't get me wrong, I love talking about this is how you maintain your discover discoverability or increase your discoverability overall on platforms outside of YouTube. It's all part of generative engine optimization, GEO.

as somebody's using ChatGPT to search up something that you are an expert in ChatGPT is able to say, oh, so and so says X, Y, Z, 1, 2, 3, blah, blah, blah. Here's the source, here's the link to their YouTube channel. And now they're in er, spider web. They're in your world.

You are in their algorithm.

So if you already have a YouTube channel, congratulations. Good job. Like so smart of you. Some of the ways that I am leveraging AI outside of YouTube to, you know, continue kind of building out my body of work and my discoverability for generative engine optimization, GEO, you know, to keep GEO in mind, but also just to connect with other human beings on the platforms.

You know, I've always been a YouTube, um, person. I never really embraced Instagram. I'm just kind of there just to like be present. I've been loving threads lately and so I take my videos, in particular, my video podcast, which are long form. It's not like a how to tutorial. I'm not showing you my screen, I'm just talking to the camera.

I have been taking those and using AI to repurpose my thoughts from those videos into threads. Sometimes the prompt I'm using is like perfect, and it writes threads that sound exactly like something I would write. Other times, not so much and I have to edit them, but what I do is I take the ones that work, or I edit the ones and I throw those into Buffer.

And so after I publish a video podcast, like once it's done, it's edited, take the transcript, I drop that into a prompt. Now I am a big enough nerd that I'm using ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. So sometimes I'll drop it into all three of those. I have like a custom, uh, GPT or a project for each.

Of those platforms specifically for writing my threads. So I'll drop my transcript into there and see what they come up with. Copy, paste, add them to Buffer, and then I go into Buffer and hit shuffle queue is like one of the most satisfying things to know that, um, I'm present on the platform of threads with my own thoughts, and I actually do post quite a bit on my own, like with my own thumbs, uh, without ai.

but I also have been doing a similar thing, but with a different prompt in taking my transcript and turning it into a LinkedIn post. Now, LinkedIn is like my least favorite platform. I open it up and I'm like, Ugh, what is this? However, I've made some really good connections over there. And so using Buffer, I do the same thing.

I let, Claude usually does the best job at this. I let Claude write a post for me based on something that had extracted from my transcript. I edit it a little bit. Here and there, and then I put it into buffer and I shuffle my buffer queue. So I am active on LinkedIn and I'm active on threads I'm putting those in air quotes, but like, the reality is I am active there because I get notifications, I get comments, I get likes, and you know, I get people who are like adding to the discussion. And it's fun for me because the, the, the content that I'm posting there is coming from me. I'm just using AI to help augment it so that it is, is like purposefully crafted for that platform.

If I had to go to LinkedIn. Two times a week and write a post from scratch. I wouldn't do it. That's why my LinkedIn account was like basically dormant for five years until I went in and kind of like rehabbed it a little bit. I just wasn't there because it, it wasn't interesting enough for me to go there to create content for that.

you know, depending on how you feel about it, you might say, well, isn't that just creating AI slop Meredith? Like, come on. But it's coming from my long form content, it's coming from my viewpoint that, you know, I'll be honest with you, is, is. As much as I have my content creation workflow down, especially for these video podcast episodes, it's not like I do this in my sleep, right?

I come up with my topics, I come up with the thoughts that I have that I want to say and figure out how to communicate them to you. And I hit record and I edit the video, and I publish the video. The creation of the content itself is not ai, it's it's me. It's coming from my brain. The AI helping me repurpose it and uh, essentially like augment it for the different platforms is simply there to assist me so that I can be active on those platforms and not just be active on those platforms.

But. Show up with those thoughts, with the content, with the expertise and the experience that I have to share

as a solo business owner. This is huge because you can't be everywhere, right? Like you can't do everything. And I know that some people are. I will admit some people are legitimately everywhere. That's not me.

one thing I wanna mention too is something I've always done since day one, um, of me starting this channel is every video I've ever created gets turned into a blog post. That has always happened, and over time it's gotten easier and easier with ai. Like even before ChatGPT, we were using AI to kind of create a draft, create an outline, kind of like take the video ish language out and turn it into something that's readable.

And we still have a human doing that. I have a virtual assistant who does that, um, for me, but she's working from a blog post draft that's created with ai. But again, it's not just AI slop, it's from my own thoughts and I'm using a prompt that I created to generate. A, a blog post, you know, with an output that I would want it to be.

We're not just hitting a button and saying, turn that into a blog post, and we're on our merry way.

Day to Day Business Automations and AI

The second area of focus for AI for me in the business is automating and kind of like u using AI to help assist with like internal stuff. So you heard me mention that I'll take a transcript, I'll drop it into Claude, it'll turn into a LinkedIn post that's there to assist me with getting my content out there with reaching more human beings.

Now internally I've had animations kind of happening behind the scenes in the business in lots of different ways.

Like with, you know, Zapier is connected to my Kajabi and my Thrive Cart. So when somebody joins Video Brand Academy, they automatically get added to it and get the right emails and all of that stuff. Like, that's kind of like basic automations that have been happening behind the scenes for a little while.

Long while like, I don't know, five, six years maybe for me.

But I also have a, uh, um, a growing collection of custom AI tools that I created with MindPal, which I'll get to in a moment, um, that we use internally. Like for example, every month inside a video brand academy, I do a, what's working now call like a, what's working now on YouTube meetup where I share something I'm seeing like a trend that I see emerging or just something that I've been trying something new that's working.

And then we talk about how you can apply it to your channel. And we go into, um, questions and, and whatnot, like, how can you actually implement this on your channel? And I created an AI tool. I did this in MindPal. This could be done as a custom GPT or a Claude project or a Gemini gem. Um, that basically just takes my idea. All I have to do is riff on my idea.

I will riff on that out loud. Usually drop it into the tool and it will. Make a coherent post about the topic that I, you know, we can schedule the meetup. This is the topic, these are the things we're gonna cover. And then like the reminder posts and the email and all of that stuff.

So the copy for that gets written by ai, but it came outta my head. I just didn't have to like, sit down and organize my thoughts. Although usually I do sit down and organize my thoughts, um, before the call happens. But two or three weeks ahead of when the call happens is when we have to start, like, putting it in the calendar and scheduling it inside a video Brand Academy.

So this little tool can help me just take that seemingly random, abstract idea and make sense out of it.

And then I have another tool for after our meetups where Karen, my community manager, can take the transcript of the meetup, throw it into this custom MindPal, um, GPT, basically. And it will summarize everything we talked about on the call. Like that's not even really that magical, like any transcription software will do that.

But because I created it in MindPal, and it's programmed by me, it's going give me the output in the way that I want it so that it's not AI slop and it's programmed by me. It's an internal tool that we're using. Internally and it, it not only makes things more efficient, but it takes something off of my plate.

So it's like the output is still written in my words because I trained it, but Karen is the one that's like looking at the draft and editing it and then posting it.

And I just recently learned about this tool called Relay that is kind of an internal automations type of software, but I don't even know how to explain it. But it looks really cool. And I think what I'm seeing that it can do is so in line with being a solo business owner or even just a small business owner with a small team.

 I think it's gonna be huge. And other apps like that are going to be, um, huge where things are actually automated, not just like, oh, here's a custom GPT that I can paste something into and then copy and paste the results out to go do something with these internal automation tools are fascinating to me for a solo or small business owner.

Um, I, I wish I had more to say about that, but like, I'm kind of just diving into it.

Custom GPT Embedded in your Course or Program

So the third area that I have been focusing on, and I've been focusing on this quite a bit this year, is how can AI tools custom gpt be integrated into digital products, courses and programs? And this is, I think, one of the biggest areas of opportunity if your course creator or a coach or a membership site owner, it's an opportunity because I think it won't be long before your clients and customers will expect tools.

Whether they're, you know, made with AI or whether they utilize ai. It kind of depends a little bit, I think, on the niche and the topic and everything. But when I think about my own membership Video Brand Academy, like I just, uh, recorded a, um, I, I think I called it the Ultimate Thumbnail Masterclass, and it's like everything I know about thumbnails, and it's actually like once I started recording it, it became more of like a mini course with multiple lessons.

And there's probably, I don't know, an hour and a half, two hours of video of instructional video. And I mean. You could watch it, you know, you could watch 90 minutes of it and learn a lot. Um, but you have to create thumbnails and kind of do your experiments and look at your data to kind of, to really learn it.

Or I could create an AI tool where you put in your title and the topic and the things you're gonna be covering, and it just makes a thumbnail for you. Like again, I, I, it's hard to believe that that wouldn't just be AI slop. I've seen a lot of AI generated thumbnails, um, lately that are really good. Like they're fine.

They're not slop, they're actually really good. At the very least though, we can use AI to make. A sketch of a thumbnail, an idea for a thumbnail for somebody who's not a designer, for somebody who doesn't have 10 years of experience on YouTube, making thumbnails, testing thumbnails. We can at least come up with some ideas and AI can actually sketch them out as images that you go and create in your own Canva project or your own Adobe Express project.

 How much more effective is that for my clients and customers than watching 90 minute training on how to make thumbnails and then still at the end of the day, not really know how to make a decent thumbnail? Because you still have to actually make the thumbnail and test your thumbnails and look at the data and like learn what works for you in your channel.

I haven't made an AI tool that can do that, but if I didn't have anything else to work on in my business, you better believe that's what I would be working on. Like right now.

again, it's not just AI slop, it's not just, um, you know, you can go to ChatGPT and say, make a thumbnail for this video ChatGPT is not a YouTube strategist. It's not a thumbnail, um, designer. Uh, it might make something halfway decent, but like when you're using YouTube to build your business, you are probably not looking for halfway decent.

You're probably looking for, this is me establishing my authority, my expertise, and my experience so that I establish my trustworthy brand, my go-to video brand online. Right? You're not looking for. Halfway decent thumbnails.

So again, I think it depends on the niche. I think it depends on the topic. You know, if, um, I have a whole course on video editing made easy, I'm not gonna create, there already are tools and software that can supposedly edit your video with ai, I'm not gonna create a tool that can edit for you.

There's probably not. I mean, there's a couple of ideas that I have for, for custom GPTs and embeddable AI tools that would go along with video editing made easy. But if you're gonna learn how to edit videos, like you have to just learn how to edit the videos, there's not much AI is gonna do for you. But earlier this year I ran my 90 days to one K YouTube subscriber's bootcamp in the membership. And like right at the same time I was starting to use MindPal. And MindPal is like, um, what MindPal? Pal With MindPal? You can create multi-agent workflows. You can create custom chat bots as many as you want.

You can embed them inside of your paid programs like you just like. Embed it into a Kajabi lesson. That's what I did. And, um, so I started using MindPal to kind of program my own agents, my own GPTs, basically, um, using whatever model I want. Claude, um, ChatGPT Gemini Grok. If I wanted to, um, perplexity, if I wanted to all of the different models, I can create my own agents and embed them.

And so when I was running the 90 Days to one K YouTube subscriber, uh, bootcamp, I thought, oh wait, like I'm telling these people where to find their keywords. What if I just built a keyword tool? So I used MindPal to build a keyword tool. You don't have to pay for Vid IQ or two Buddy if you don't want to, if you're inside a video brand academy.

I created a keyword tool for you that, um, is, it's. Connected to Google's keyword data, um, using an MCP.

then of course I'm, I'm teaching people how to write effective, um, titles, but what if I created a tool where you just tell me what your topic is and the tool gives you 50 different title options and different, um, flavors of titles, if you will. Some of them are a little more tabloid headline ish.

Some are a little bit longer, more descriptive. Some of them are a little bit polarizing. You get to kind of choose your flavor and find what works for you. Yes, you should learn how to write an effective YouTube title, but you can also. Just use my tools inside of Video Brand Academy and let it either write the title for you or give you a bunch of really good ideas as a starting point, um, as you write your title on your own.

So once I realized how easy it was to use MindPal to create chat bots and workflows that are trained by me and trained on the material that I teach inside a video brand academy, I was like, okay, we gotta create a bunch more of these. I have like a dozen ish inside Video Brand Academy. They're actually inside of their own Kajabi product.

So Video Brand Academy has like, we have the community, we have the portal, which is like all of the content, the core content for. The program itself. And then there's another Kajabi product of just my AI tools. There's a chat bot in there that's trained on everything inside a video brand academy. So you can post in the group looking for help, or you could come to a meetup and ask me, or any day, anytime.

You can open up that chat bot, pick Meredith's brain and see what the chat bot says. It's trained on everything that I've taught inside of the program, so it might get you an answer or at least some ideas, or send you in the right direction a lot faster than just waiting for me to respond or waiting for the next meetup.

 If you wanna see a really good example of this, if you go and download the Video Brand Academy app, which is a free download in the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store log in, you can go to the Analyze My Channel. I created this with MindPal. If you just click this, it'll load up.

You put in two screenshots of your YouTube channel. It works on your phone. It'll analyze your channel for you. That is a multi-agent workflow that I created with MindPal that I trained. From my brain and then created With MindPal embedded it in my app.

It's available for free.

I'll put a link to that down in the description below this video if you wanna check it out. And um, last week I was interviewed and featured on MindPal's YouTube channel where I like, we basically went on a deep dive into some of the tools and things that I have built with MindPal that I have inside of Video Brand Academy.

So you can check that out. I'll put a link to that down below as well,

because if you're thinking Okay. That sounds great. I don't, but I don't wanna use another tool. Like I don't wanna Learn MindPal. Um, you could use custom GPTs. Lots of people are doing that.

Like I have joined a couple of different programs in the last like six months where there's the content of the program and then Oh yeah. And here's the GPT. You can just put in what you need to put in and it will like do the work for you basically. And that's all well and good, but just to like, give you a real life example of why you might want to create custom GPT tools and things that you actually embed on your own site, behind your own paywall.

I joined a membership a couple of months ago. I went through the material. He had two custom GPT to go along with the material. I used them, I saved them to the sidebar of my ChatGPT. And um, I'm not in the membership anymore, but I still have access to the GPTs because it's just a custom GPT.

Like that's all it is.

So it's a great tool, it's very useful, um, for your clients and students, you know, to provide that kind of tool for them. But if you have a membership or you know, a program that has like a start date and an end date, um, you know, with custom GPTs, you're just kind of giving, giving those tools away 

Custom GPTs and AI for Lead Generation

I will say that I love the idea of using a custom GPT as a lead magnet, but I think people are doing it wrong. I think people are thinking about custom GPTs as a lead magnet. Wrong. Wrong is a strong word. I just think this is what I mean by thinking outside the box and like looking outside the box.

Was it Wayne Gretzky that said skate where the puck is going? This is, this is what I'm thinking. Let me run this by you. This is what I'm thinking about lead magnets and custom gpt and using or creating an actual custom GPD in. ChatGPT specifically in ChatGPT and using this as a lead magnet.

Most people, I have seen all people, all every single ChatGPT custom, GPT lead magnet that I have seen works like this. You put in your email address and I will give you a link to my custom GPT, and once you have my custom GPT, it's yours for life. Like take it and run. I'll never see you again. Right? You just gave me your email address to get a link.

Now you have the link and now you're gone. Now, there's nothing wrong with that. I think that's a great, um, kind of first step of utilizing AI and custom GPTs in your business as a way of generating leads. The way that I have been thinking about it and. You can help me run this experiment because I'll put a link to this down in the description.

What if you create a custom GPT that does something specific that your ideal customer, your ideal client, would find insanely useful, like extremely valuable, so useful that they pin it to their ChatGPT sidebar and actually use it consistently? Okay. What I see a lot of people doing is creating a custom GPT.

That's like a one and done. You gimme your email address, I'll give you the GPT, you do this one little exercise and then you never have to use the tool again. And that's. I'm sure that serves a, a purpose I'm that does serve a purpose, right? It definitely does. But what if you created something that's so useful that they keep returning to it, that they keep returning to your GPT to actually use?

And what if you trained that custom GPT to direct the user to the appropriate opt-in for them for whatever it is? This is very abstract 'cause it's like whatever it is, it's doing X, Y, Z, 1, 2, 3. Um, for example, I created a custom GPT, which I will link to below called YouTubify Your Business. And you can access it, you can use it.

You don't have to gimme your email address, you can save it to your sidebar. And when you're stumped on what to do on your channel next or how to. Integrate a, um, a YouTube funnel on your channel so you can generate consistent sales.

 If you wanna basically pick my brain about what your next move is to grow your business with YouTube, to YouTubify your business, you can go to my custom GPT. It's not trained on everything inside a video brand academy. It's trained on a lot of material that I use to teach my clients and students.

It's not trained on everything,

but I created it with the idea of like, how could this be so useful? That you want to keep using it and it will prompt you to download a cheat sheet or watch a free training. There are ways of generating leads. There are ways of you becoming a lead if you choose from using the custom GPT, but it's not behind an opt-in.

I don't want you to have to give me your email address just to use it. I just want you to use it like, I just want you to, I just want it to actually be useful for you. And what's cool about this is I can add to the GPT, I can retrain it, I can give it more material, more information. And every time you go to start a new chat with YouTube fire your Business Custom GPT, um, it'll be updated on that information and, and that's pretty cool.

 But maybe I'm alone in this. I don't know. I'll put a link to my YouTubufy Your Business. Um, custom GPT, it's completely free. I don't even think you need to have a paid ChatGPT account to use it.

Um, but it, you know, it's there. Use it. Let me know what you think. I mean, it sure beats like any ebook that nobody's gonna download or read.

Right.

No Code Apps and Software Tools

The fifth, uh, focus that I've been keeping my eye on and I'm absolutely fascinated by is, um. The availability of no code apps, like, um, something built with like lovable or Base 64, um, even MindPal agents, but that's, you're not really like creating an app necessarily. Um, I, but I think maybe you could connect them to an app.

I'm not totally sure. I'm fascinated by this because

this is another area where you can create something really useful for your clients and customers or for your audience that you created. Like, uh, one of the, I guess, um. Tent poles of my thoughts for this video is the fact everything I'm talking about is you created it, you trained it, it's trained on you.

It's trained on your content, your intellectual property, like it's trained on your messaging. It's trained even on your offers and what you have to offer and sell in your business.

And these tools like Lovable for example, where you just, you just tell it. You just tell it what you want it to build and it builds it. I mean, I don't think it's quite that simple, but it is basically that simple. There are people who are building entire businesses on software and apps.

That they didn't code. They used tools like lovable. And I'm fascinated by this. I don't have anything that I'm in particular working on at this moment, but one of the reasons that I'm not using something like Lovable is because I have my VBA branded app, right? So it's a mobile app. I'm not gonna go out and create something that I already have, right?

So that's why I put my channel analyzer that I made with MindPal. I embedded that into an app that already exists 

and it's taking like, basically all of my willpower to not open up lovable and like start building something because it's, it's fascinating to me. I love the idea as a solo business owner, as an online business owner who, um, if you're anything like me, what you are doing is helping people achieve some specific result, some desired result, some kind of a transformation in your business. And the way that we've been doing that, you know, since like the beginning of the internet, is through information and tools like Lovable and MindPal, and Custom GPTs and internal automations and things like that are really helping us to find ways to kind of breed a new way of helping people.

That's part information, part automation, part software. And I'm here for it. Obviously, I can't predict the future, but I think as solo business owners, as content creators, I think if we think outside the box and look outside the box at making sure that we stay and, and become even more discoverable through GEO generative engine optimization, build that body of work tied to your name, um, use internal tools and internal automations.

Incorporate AI and AI tools and GPTs into your digital products, courses, programs, memberships, and use those tools as, uh, methods of lead generation and creating lead magnets. And look at no cool code tools like lovable, uh, for example, and, uh, MindPal as ways of, again, bridging the information, the education and, and the software to actually help the people that you're here to help better, faster, and more fun.

I am amazed at what we can do at, at what just one nerdy person obsessed with AI can do, and I've actually been dying to create this episode where I, I just get to sit here and tell you about all of the fun AI things that I've been playing with and, um, and working on and creating.

And if you wanna hear more about this, if you wanna learn more about creating, um, agents and tools and things with MindPal, let me know in the comments or shoot me an email because I think this is maybe one of the most underutilized available tools out here for online business owners. And I know I gave you some homework in this, um, episode. So I want you to download the VBA app and use the channel analyzer.

You can see in real time how something that is created with MindPal and embedded into an app can be. Actually useful for, um, for people. So that might give you some ideas of something you could create on your own with MindPal. And also use the, YouTubify Your Business GPT, save it to your ChatGPT sidebar, and let me know how it goes for you.

Um, see if you can break it.

 I think you're really gonna love it and I have some other ideas and things to, um, program into it. So save it to your sidebar and use it.