3 game changing ways to use AI in your business

Lara Sheldrake

As artificial intelligence continues to play an increasingly prominent role in our lives, it's crucial to ensure that the way you use it aligns with your ethical principles. In this post, we'll explore five essential steps (in each area of AI efficiency, automations and ethical usage of AI), to guide you in responsibly leveraging AI while upholding your ethical standards.

1. Leveraging AI for efficiency involves using artificial intelligence to streamline tasks, saving time and resources. Here's how:
  • Content creation: You can use Chat GPT as part of your content creation process to help generate ideas for blogs, email subject lines, courses, workshops or Instagram posts.
  • Identify possible revenue streams and sales forecasting: You can upload data to AI and request it analyses it to forecast sales, predict trends, and optimise inventory levels, aiding in informed decision-making.
  • Gain clarity on your target audience: Use AI to help you understand your target audiences pain points and behaviours and how your service or product could provide solutions to these.
  • Copywriting: Natural language processing (NLP) tools like ChatGPT can act as a tool in your copywriting process. From our experience, AI alone cannot replicate a human voice (you can always tell when copy has been written by AI) but it can be a very valuable tool in your process that helps efficiency and saving you loads of time second guessing certain phrases, names for your services or how to write a sales page.
  • Optimised resource allocation: AI optimises resource allocation by analysing data, helping in effective budgeting, time management, organisation and staffing decisions etc.

2. AI can also be used to automate your workflow, when you know how, this can be a game changer in your business; it can increase efficiency, reduce errors, and improve overall productivity.
  • Customer service: AI chatbots (we use Hubspot) can handle customer inquiries, provide support, and even complete transactions, freeing up you the founder for more complex tasks.
  • Predictive analytics: Use AI algorithms to analyse large datasets to predict trends, anticipate customer behaviour, and optimise decision-making processes, such as inventory management and sales forecasting.
  • Task automation: AI can automate repetitive tasks like scheduling meetings, sending reminders, and updating databases, allowing you to focus on higher-value activities.
  • Content generation: AI-driven tools can generate content like articles, reports, and social media posts based on provided prompts or data, saving time and effort in content creation. It can also create workflows and email sequences to nurture your audience.
  • Personalisation: AI algorithms can analyse customer data to personalise marketing messages, product recommendations, and user experiences, enhancing customer engagement and satisfaction.

3. As a values driven business owner, this is probably the most important section of this article. Using AI ethically will mean you can use it responsibly, mitigating potential risks and ensuring AI technologies benefit society as a whole.
  • Data privacy: Ensure transparency and consent when collecting and using data, AI trawls the internet and so data that may be personal could be shared. Implement robust security measures to protect sensitive information from unauthorised access.
  • Algorithmic bias: The internet is biassed and therefore the information AI produces will also be biassed. You’ll want to mitigate this by asking for resources from diverse sources.
  • Accountability: Ask for accurate references, take responsibility for the information you choose to share via AI and be transparent about when and how you use AI in your day to day.
  • Human oversight: Maintain human oversight of AI systems to intervene when necessary and ensure ethical standards are always upheld. People should always have the final say in the decision-making processes, especially in critical or sensitive contexts.
  • Continuous learning and improvement: Stay updated on evolving ethical standards and best practices in AI usage. Foster a culture of ethical responsibility within your organisation and be open to adapting AI systems to align with ethical principles.

💡BONUS TIP

ChatGPT shortcut - Looking to create tailored content to attract your ideal audience?

Try putting in to ChatGPT “I am a [insert area of expertise] who helps [insert information about your ideal customer avatar (ICA)] [insert what you help your ICA do]. I want to create a [cheatsheet/checklist/guide/quiz] lead magnet. Please give me 10 options to help me brainstorm”

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  • Data privacy: Ensure transparency and consent when collecting and using data, AI trawls the internet and so data that may be personal could be shared. Implement robust security measures to protect sensitive information from unauthorised access.
  • Algorithmic bias: The internet is biassed and therefore the information AI produces will also be biassed. You’ll want to mitigate this by asking for resources from diverse sources.
  • Accountability: Ask for accurate references, take responsibility for the information you choose to share via AI and be transparent about when and how you use AI in your day to day.
  • Human oversight: Maintain human oversight of AI systems to intervene when necessary and ensure ethical standards are always upheld. People should always have the final say in the decision-making processes, especially in critical or sensitive contexts.

Continuous learning and improvement: Stay updated on evolving ethical standards and best practices in AI usage. Foster a culture of ethical responsibility within your organisation and be open to adapting AI systems to align with ethical principles.

About the Author

Lara Sheldrake

Lara is a speaker, business consultant and the founder of Found & Flourish, an online network for women and non-binary people in business. Lara consults on the topics of community, business and entrepreneurship. She is on a mission to make business accessible and less lonely. Through the power of community and collaboration, Found & Flourish empowers women to upskill, connect and truly flourish.

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