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now if you open up the YouTube search
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panel and you type in AI sales
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automation you're going to be met with a
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ton of NA workflows that look incredibly
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complex are those workflows cool i mean
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yeah 100% now do they add tangible value
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to your business often time not entirely
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now for the past 5 years I've been
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working and consulting with a bunch of
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agencies helping them leverage these
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systems tangibly into their internal
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processes now in today's video I'm just
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going to pull back the curtains and
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share with you exactly some of the tools
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that I've been building and how they are
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driving results and allowing these
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businesses to actually improve their
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lead flow so let's get into it now
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before I dive into the automation I
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pretty much want to do some background
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in terms of why we're doing this i know
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it's very very easy to get lost in the
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technicalities but I think it's so
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important as business owners to actually
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know why we're doing what we're doing
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which will only help how we actually
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build the alteration down the line in
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the future and for you as I mentioned
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this will be given i will give you this
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template us doing this kind of research
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now will kind of help you understand
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what you should go and change in the
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template that I give you so why does
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everybody want these automations in the
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first place well traditional B2B sales
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or sales in general it's very very
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manual right often time you spend a
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bunch of time trying to do lead research
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and find out who's a good lead to reach
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out to now thanks to AI where it's
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really really easy for us now to do
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research at scale it's a lot lot easier
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but this introduces another problem
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everybody's becoming lazy incredibly
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lazy and they just expect AI to read
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their mind you know people just say um
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look at this profile and tell me if
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they're a good lead but what even is a
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good lead right like you wouldn't just
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tell a virtual assistant to go and get a
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good lead for you you would break it
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down into real like instruction just
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what is a good lead to you right but
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people don't do that with AI they just
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give AI thinking AI is this all knowing
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all powerful thing but you need to tell
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it exactly what you're looking for in
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order for it to give you what it is that
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you want right and again if you automate
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crap you're going to get crap ultimately
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so and it's quite frankly why I tell
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people to peel back first and do things
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manually and when you do things manually
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you can map out every single step that
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it takes for you to do what you're
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trying to do so maybe you know that like
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first you always like check the site
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right and then oh and then maybe if I
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copy this over here and I duplicate it
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then you know second you always check
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their LinkedIn right and then maybe you
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know third you always like I could say
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check like the decision makers and the
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past companies they worked at for
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example whatever it is that you So when
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you're able to map out like manually
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what it takes for you to get whether
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someone's a good fit or a bad fit then
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you can pass that into the AI which I
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which is why I think it's so important
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to do these things manually to even know
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what it is we're trying to automate in
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the first place right now all of this
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stuff has just led to the past year the
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past 2 years everyone is just sending a
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bunch of noise and noise has just been
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thrown from one inbox to another inbox
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like "Hey XY Z something very very
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generic but there's clearly AI written
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and it's not going to get you anywhere."
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Which is why a lot of these automations
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we're seeing they're not really adding
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value because they're not specific
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they're not um they haven't really taken
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proven manual steps and automated it
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they're just automations but hey in
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order to automate something you need to
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know how it works manually which is why
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I think it's really really important
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that you take the time to actually know
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what it is that you want to automate
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first now a powerful combination when
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you're able to effectively use in lead
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genen like signals for example as well
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as being able to prompt the AI with a
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lot of information you have a really
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really powerful combination to build an
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AI um sales co-pilot now with all that
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being said let me kind of get into what
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it is that we're building here this this
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social signaling campaign leverages two
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tool very very simple it leverages air
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tableable and it leverages n right now
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air Table if you don't know what Air
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Table is Air Table is pretty much a
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Google Sheets on Stairways it's a Google
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Sheets is almost a database where you
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can create a bunch of tables and you can
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like create automations around the
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tables and the records a record is just
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a row in a table in a sheet and you can
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just do so much very very easily and
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effectively it's a really really good no
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code platform so N sorry Air Table is
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going to act as our like storing
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mechanism right and we're going to use n
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to trigger some automations and then
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whenever we want to make changes or
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updates or store information we're going
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to call air table to store that
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information i hope that makes sense so
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let me go back into n and kind of
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explain what's going on here again as
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you can see this is it yes there's a few
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steps but compared to these crazy flows
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you see on YouTube it's nothing to that
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cuz often time those flows they're not
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necessary it's too many automated you're
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letting AI do way too much when
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realistically maybe you want an AI
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workflow with predefined steps when an
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AI agent just does whatever the hell it
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wants so what is even happening here um
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in this social tracking system what
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we're doing is we are
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tracking for leaders on LinkedIn that
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talk about something similar to what we
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sell in which we can we can use their
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engagement that they're getting to
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pretty much take their leads and sell to
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them because we know that person is
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somewhat interested in what we sell so
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let me give you an example um let's say
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I don't know Andrew Huberman is like a
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health enthusiast right now if you're a
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health coach it might be valuable for
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you to look at all of his engages to see
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if any of them fit your criteria maybe
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anyone engaging on Andrew Huberman's
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post that is a founder or a
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director so a they're showing interest
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in health content but b they kind of fit
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your seniority level that's a good
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person to get in front of because now
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you know that your message isn't falling
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on deaf ears because that person is
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somewhat interested in the thing that
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you sell cuz you're a health coach right
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so a similar approach here so what I've
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done is in air table I've got a table of
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thought leaders these thought leaders
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are just three people you might be
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familiar with them this is very very
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simple of people that talk about like
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leveraging AI and sales so somewhat
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similar to what it is that I do now on N
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creating a schedule and every day for
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example we're getting those four leaders
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and we're finding any new post that they
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have made right um emphasis on new post
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we don't want to scrape any previous
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post because we would have already
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scraped them and it needs to be up to
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date there's no point checking their
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post from 6 months ago because anyone
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that liked their post 6 months ago may
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not still now be in the market so it's
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really really important that we have
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this automation that is actively doing
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something every single day to pull fresh
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insights because if if a CMO of a recre
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of a I don't know of a creative agency
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has interacted with two of these
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people's post in the past two days that
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is some real intent that they're
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somewhat interested in how can we
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leverage AI cells into us into our thing
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right and of course you want to track
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that and then get in front of them in an
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effective way which which we'll get into
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in a moment if you have time in this
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video so what you can see here is in air
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table I have a table for thought leaders
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and I have a table for post scrapes so
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what that means is I'm keeping a track
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of all the post that we do scrape so
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when I come back to nan we have a few
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steps here where we're filtering out any
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existing post right so this is getting
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the existing post and then aggregating
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it to turn it into um an array so if
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you're familiar with n n works of items
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and arrays we want it as an array
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because then we can basically use a code
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node to basically filter out any of the
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people as I'm doing
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here then we're fetching the engages of
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all of those posts that we just
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pulled then we're for every engager
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we're getting their profile and then
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we're then passing it into an open AI
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module here notice we're not using an AI
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agent cuz we don't need to here and an
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AI agent is great if you're using tools
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like a fire scrape their website or do
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something else if you're just speaking
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with a large language model often time
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you do not need an agent and in fact I'm
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going to open this up and I'm going to
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show you what I'm doing here so this is
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a pretty detailed prompt because um this
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is how you get really good results but
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pretty much what I'm doing is I'm
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telling the agent very very detailed
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that look you're a source assistant i'm
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going to give you a bunch of
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information pardon me about a company
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about a profile and a company what I
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want you to do okay here's some
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information that I may give you i want
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you to have a conversation with yourself
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to try and figure out if that is the
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right person to sell to so I'm telling
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it what I sell i'm an AI consultant i
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sell AI agents and automation services
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to service- based businesses i tend to
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sell to people over a headcount of 10
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and I like to sell to first world
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countries so I want you to basically
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have a dialogue with yourself you know
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like think about who is a potential
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customer and then I'm doing something
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really really cool here and in fact I'm
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going to make a separate video for this
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cuz it is quite complex but I'm pretty
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much telling the AI to output in XML
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tags where I want you to output the a so
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like why did you come to that reasoning
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and then a classification of like your
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actual output the reason for this
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thinking stage is what we're doing here
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is we're practically turning GPT40 mini
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into like 03 right or 01 we're turning
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like a GPT model into like one of those
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thinking models because we're actively
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telling the AI to think through your
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process and then at the end of that
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output your response and this um really
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really increases the output of what
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you're able to get so I'm doing that and
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then it's telling me if the person's a
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fit if they are a fit then not add them
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into a table so again um it's not
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incredibly complex but it is highly
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highly effective because then what
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you're left with is you're going to be
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left with a
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um a table of prospects but have shown
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in intent in posts that relate to you
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they fit your criteria and also you can
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track how many times they're engaging
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and every single time this runs we're
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able to aggregate what what's happening
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here so it's really really simple but
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really effective what I would then do is
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at the end you can add in a step to add
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them to like an automation platform like
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hey reach or smart lead but one thing
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that's really important to note here and
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this is where most people go
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well where am I
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going so where most people go wrong is
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that they'll use
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AI to send a pretty
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generic
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AI each and you've just kind of undone
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all that hard work you've used AI to do
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really really good account and lead
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research and now you want to use AI to
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send a message like you
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know like big fan of your content for
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example and now this just screams AI or
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especially when you add that little um
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that little
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dash this dash just screams AI but
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anyway like there's no real need to go
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crazy with AI to produce the message
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because all the AI was the heavy lifting
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when it came to fight came to doing the
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research and now if you know that this
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person has shown intent on um your post
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on in your niche there's no real need to
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get crazy or fancy here you can send a
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very very simple message like "Hey I've
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seen you're interested in leveraging AI
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agents into your ops um me too i'm a big
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fan of the person you know XY Z." I
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thought it'd be great to exchange a note
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right just a very very easy networky
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kind of message instead of you trying to
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get way too like I don't know
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unnecessary with the AI outputting the
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message i personally always advocate for
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just using AI for the research and then
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when it comes to the message your list
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that you have built is the message
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because you've built a list of people
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that they fit your criteria whatever it
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may be their service businesses in first
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world countries and they're showing
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interest in your kind of niche so
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already that's a personalized message in
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itself there's no need to let AI ruin
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all the hard work you've done i really
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hope that makes sense and I'll share
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some more videos in the future where I
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kind of show exactly how that would look
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so yeah so here's the workflow and in
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fact I will run it it will take some
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time to be fair maybe I'll come back
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when it's done but um again getting
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we're getting we're getting the four
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leaders we're fetching their posts we
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are then fetching the
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engagement we're then fetching the
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profile and the company for each engager
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on that post we are then using all of
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that information to find out if the
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person is a good fit for what we're
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selling we are then sort of you know
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aggregating it and then we are updating
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the the person back into our air table
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and it's going to take some time so
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maybe I'll just pause it for now cuz the
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video is is coming on quite long but
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again guys I will share the JSON in the
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description or just ask me and I'll send
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it to you and I'll also share the air
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table base as well um so yeah this is
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how you can leverage social signals and
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using AI effectively to pretty much
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create a campaign that is always on
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which allows you to get in front of the
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right people at and as you can see
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they're coming in now at the right time
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so yeah all the best guys and um take
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care speak soon a bat