Sales Cold Calling AIs Probably Aren’t a Long-Term Thing

At least every other week, I get asked about AI sales cold calling software and which one is best.  I haven’t tried them, and I respond honestly in that, but then I add that I don’t think they’ll work. Imagine you’re running a sales organization, and you want to sell more, but you don’t want…More

The 50% of AI

Recently, I published the audiobook for AI as your Teammate, which I recorded using AI. I started by paying around $40 to clone my voice. The audio I sent the company was terrible. Just absolutely terrible. It sounded like I was recording my voice from across a room.  They cleaned up the audio and really…More

“All Feedback is a Gift”

In conversation, someone said to me, “All feedback is a gift.” I couldn’t disagree more. Feedback, at its most basic nature, is someone else giving you their opinion on a thing with the intention of helping you. However, framed in the manner of an opinion, no matter the intention, I find the framing of the…More

Confidently Wrong

ChatGPT seems to be an interface moment for language-generation AI.  Everyone is talking about it. Sure, there are a few companies worth over $1B combined that do AI for marketing copy, but ChatGPT seems to be captivating even the most non-technical people. I experimented with ChatGPT to write sports articles. I gave it the following…More

B2C Becomes B2B

Print media’s hay day was when you they made money on both sides of the equation. Readers subscribed to the paper, and advertisers paid to advertise in it. Then, Google came along.  Print media was the original industry to monetize B2C and B2B. The free + ads model is pervasive in today’s world.  Facebook and…More