In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, the role of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to expand for business owners and their teams. Integrating AI tools into your business and marketing operations is quickly becoming a necessity for companies that don’t want to risk being overshadowed by their competitors. AI tools offer multifaceted solutions that can streamline processes across your entire organization and propel your business forward.
Below, we will delve into the transformative potential of AI-powered tools across different departments within your organization, uncovering use cases that may not have been previously considered. From content development and copywriting to sales communications and creative design, AI presents opportunities to optimize efficiency and elevate customer experiences.
Content & Campaign Development
One of the key areas where AI can revolutionize your marketing efforts is content and campaign development. One of the hardest parts about developing a new campaign or piece of content is coming up with a great idea. If you’ve ever suffered from “blank page syndrome”, tools like Chat GPT are here to put your mind at ease. While many use the tool to help with writing copy, it can be just as effective for coming up with ideas. If you’re stumped during a brainstorming session, ask Chat GPT to generate some campaign ideas and see if this gets your creative juices flowing.
AI-powered copywriting tools are also changing the game for content generation and optimization. Whether you need to rewrite content in a specific voice, or simply edit content for grammar and spelling, AI can assist you in crafting copy that is both compelling and polished. By harnessing the capabilities of AI, you can speed up the content creation process and deliver useful content to your customers at an increased frequency.
If you’ve been following Hubspot for the past several years, you’ll know that AI has been a large part of their long-term plan since rolling out Chatspot, their OpenAI-powered tool last year. More recently, they have introduced Content Hub, an AI-powered evolution of CMS Hub that is expected to shake up how Hubspot users develop content and campaigns alike. Whether you’re a small team or a larger company, Hubspot designed Content Hub an all-in-one platform for creating and managing content across your marketing mix. Here are a few of its most useful AI features:
- Email Subject Lines: Easily generate suggestions for email subject lines and preview text based on the content of your marketing emails.
- Brand Voice: Brand Kit now allows you to build a brand voice profile inside your Hubspot account using previous writing examples and words that describe your brand.
- AI Blog Writer: Use AI to generate blog titles based on your topic ideas. Hubspot will generate an outline, the actual text of the blog, and automatically save it as a draft on your blog. You can even use AI to generate a header image and optimize the blog for specific keywords.
- Audio Narration: Along with the ability to host podcasts, Hubspot now can use AI to generate an audio narration of your blog or create a podcast file from a text transcript.
- Multi-Language Content: Any Hubspot web page, landing page or blog can be automatically translated into multiple languages using AI.
- Context Remix: Automatically generate additional assets based on a single piece of content. Use a blog to generate an email, social post, ad copy, landing pages, etc.
Copywriting & Copy Editing
Chat GPT and other AI-powered copywriting tools are streamlining processes for copywriters, copy editors, and marketers alike and empowering them to increase their efficiency and output. Whether you need to rewrite content in a specific voice, or simply edit for grammar and spelling, AI can assist you in crafting compelling copy that resonates with your target audience.
By harnessing the capabilities of AI, you can speed up the content creation process and deliver more impactful messages to your customers. Here are a few useful prompts for copywriters to try during their next project:
- Check this for spelling & grammar.
- Rewrite this [Content] to speak to [Persona].
- Rewrite this in a more active/passive voice.
- Optimize this [Content] for SEO using this keyword.
- Write a social media post promoting this blog.
Communications & Prospecting
While anonymous web visitors have historically been a blind spot for marketers and sales teams, AI chatbots and other prospecting tools offer valuable solutions for identifying and engaging these potential leads. The branching logic of conventional chatbots offers little flexibility in assisting visitors looking for assistance on your website. Tools like Warmly that offer advanced AI functionality can proactively message your visitors based on what pages they are looking at and dynamically respond to their questions based on prompts you program. Integration with tools like Slack makes it easy to hand off the chat to an actual sales rep in real time.
What makes these AI-powered tools like Warmly even more powerful is their ability to integrate with databases like ZoomInfo to identify who a prospect is and whether they fit within your ideal customer profile. This allows sales teams to enter conversations with prospects without spending additional time trying to qualify them. These contacts can even be automatically added to your CRM and enrolled into sales sequences. With the proper implementation plan in place, an AI chatbot can almost act as a virtual SDR to assist your sales team.
Creative & Design
AI-powered creative tools are transforming the way businesses approach design and visual content creation. From generating images and designs to automating tasks like image editing and recoloring, AI can help you produce stunning visuals that captivate your audience.
While many AI tools exist for designers, Open AI’s DALL-E has become one of the most widely used tools for its ability to create images based on simple text prompts. Adobe has also fully embraced AI within its latest version of Creative Suite with software such as Adobe Firefly that works to create an alternative to Open AI’s image generation software. Photoshop and Illustrator have also been augmented with features such as generative fill, expand, and recolor, allowing designers to streamline tasks that previously were tedious and time-consuming.
Video Production
Video marketing is a powerful tool for engaging audiences and driving conversions, and AI can streamline your video production processes to make your team more efficient. Adobe Premiere now offers many AI-powered features like speech-to-text editing, which automatically removes filler words from your videos to create a smoother viewing experience. Additionally, the Remix tool can intelligently cut music tracks to fit your video clips, saving you time and effort during the editing process.
Other platforms like Descript can fix eye contact within your footage, a task that previously required much more advanced editing. If Open AI’s upcoming Sora software is a precursor of things to come, the future is bright for AI tools in the world of video production and editing.
In conclusion, integrating AI into your business and marketing processes is essential for staying competitive in today’s digital landscape. By leveraging AI-powered tools and technologies, you can streamline operations, enhance creativity, and deliver more personalized experiences to your customers. At Alaniz Marketing, we’re committed to helping you harness the power of AI to achieve your business goals and drive sustainable growth. Contact us today to learn more about how you can transform your business and marketing strategies.
