AI Marketing: Definition & The 5 Types With Examples
AI marketing is the use of artificial intelligence to automate and augment marketing work across research, content, personalization, conversations, analytics, and execution.
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AI With Personality, State of AI Marketing Jobs, & Does ChatGPT 4.5 Suck?
AI tools become more useful for marketers when they are customized around the work, the voice, and the feedback style the marketer needs.
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Why My Marketing Career Needed AI—and Yours Does Too
Every marketer’s path into AI is a unique story—mine included. I’ve been sharing bits and pieces of this journey on my podcast, but I realized I haven’t been telling you the whole story. And honestly, some of the most valuable insights often come from…
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ChatGPT 4.5, Claude 3.7, & The Deep Research Prompt You Don’t Want to Miss #BotBros
The useful lesson from ChatGPT, Claude, and deep research tools is that marketers need a repeatable way to evaluate AI tools by workflow.
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Can You Automate SEO with AI? I Tested It for a Year
As marketers, we’re always chasing the next big thing, and we’ve all heard the promise: AI can completely automate your SEO game. But here’s the question that trumps all others—does it really work? I decided to find out by running an experiment that…
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Grok 3, Deep Research, ChatGPT 4.5, & The Early Days of AI Marketing #BotBros
This BotBros episode captures the early-days pattern of AI marketing: new models, deep research tools, and the need for repeatable workflows.
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5 Stages of AI Agents & How Marketers Can Prepare Now
AI technology is advancing by leaps and bounds, and marketers are uniquely positioned to either embrace this transformational wave—or get left in the dust. With so much buzz around AI-powered agents and automation, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed or wonder…
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The AI Paradox: How to Make the Most of What AI Can & Can’t Do
Have you ever been frustrated by the sheer absurdity of AI’s capabilities? One minute it’s doing advanced calculus like it’s nothing, and the next, it can’t even count simple survey responses correctly. Yeah, I’ve been there. It’s maddening. Welcome to the…
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How to Assess Your AI Marketing Skills (Take the Quiz!)
Assess your AI marketing skills across copilots, content creation, personalization, conversational marketing, and analysis, then choose the workflow to improve next.
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Customize ChatGPTs Instructions & Memory Now to 10x Your Work Later
Have you ever felt like you’re wrestling with ChatGPT, repeating the same prompts over and over just to get a decent output? I’ve been there—stuck in endless prompt loops, copy-pasting, and tweaking the same instructions repeatedly. It gets old fast. If…
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OpenAI’s Operator, o3 Mini, & the Need for Marketers to Lead
In this AI marketing podcast, Dan Sanchez and Travis Sanchez dive into the latest developments in AI, unpacking OpenAI’s new tool “Operator” and its potential impact on marketing. They explore both the excitement and the limitations of having AI control a…
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I’m Cowriting a Book with AI – This is My Process
In this AI marketing podcast, Dan Sanchez dives into the fascinating process of cowriting a book with AI, sharing his journey of crafting a comprehensive book on the 5 types of AI marketing. Dan addresses the challenges and skepticism surrounding…
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