Aggressively Human: Online Business in the Age of AI, Algorithms & Automations

The Changing Role of Content: AI, Algorithms, Automations, or none of the above?


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“Do you want to show up in those AI search results? Because AI is searching the internet now. AI is a search engine and it's looking at all those same things that Google is. So if you're not doing the [content] work, then you're being left out of that search.” - Meg

What role does content play in our businesses? And how does that shift over time?

We may not have consciously chosen this as a duo, but Meg and Jessica are moving in two different directions in their business.

Jessica, being just 5 years in, is moving from less content (and a few longer-term, higher-touch clients) to even more content and leveraged offers, and Meg, farther along on her business timeline, is moving in the opposite direction.

But in both of our businesses, content (and the act of creating content) is still very important in our businesses, but in different ways. From content as teaching assets, to being found in AI, to helping us define our signature linguistic styles, we explore how we create content, why we create content, and how we use it throughout the entire customer journey. Hear why Meg produces detailed content for her community, why Jessica’s McKinsey training has made her slide presentations wildly too dense, and what we’re working on doing with our content during an AI-slop onslaught.

* How our businesses have shifted since we started the podcast

* The stages of building a foundational body of work

* How the role content shifts when your business moves from broadcast and higher-volume to inbound and lower-volume

* How can you be found in AI searches (and why the principles of SEO and good content matters even more now)

* Proactive versus reactive content development, and the power of content that’s not meant for wide distribution

* Why creating intellectual property is different than feeding an algorithm

* What going more broad with your content does to your nervous system

* How we think about lead magnets, content libraries, and reusing what still works

* The questions we’re asking before we create anything new

“But I think also creating content is a way to develop your signature phrases, the things that you're known for, the words that you use on the regular, what your client's parrot back to you and every time I've asked AI it comes up with snappy phrases, but it doesn't come up with my phrases.

But I think the only way I can come up with my phrases and my shapes and my symbols and things like that is by creating the content myself.” - Jessica

Resources Mentioned:

Diann Wingert: https://www.diannwingertcoaching.com/adhd-ish-podcast

Ryan Trahan’s 50 states in 50 days video: https://youtu.be/KTYbvU-aSf4?si=fCaJ3rZogru3hifU

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