🚨 "58% of Customers Use AI Search—Is Your Brand There?"

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During this four-week series, you’ll learn how AI tools can streamline workflows, boost efficiency, and supercharge strategies to save time and money while delivering big results. Don’t miss out!

Here’s what’s brewing this week

Redefining Search in the Age of AI

The landscape of online search is changing rapidly with the advent of advanced AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini. Here’s a concise breakdown of the key themes shaping this transformation and what it means for businesses:

From Keywords to Conversations
AI-powered search is shifting how users find information. Instead of traditional keyword searches and long lists of results, these tools deliver precise, conversational, and personalized answers. Users can refine or expand their queries naturally, making search faster and more intuitive than ever before.
New Optimization Frontiers (AEO, GEO, and LLMO)
To stay visible in AI-driven search results, businesses must adapt with emerging optimization strategies:

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO): Ensure content directly answers specific queries using concise, structured formats and FAQs.
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): Create high-quality, authoritative content that AI models recognize as reliable, increasing the chances of being cited in responses.
Large Language Model Optimization (LLMO): Align content with the natural, conversational language AI tools are trained on for better relevance and visibility.

AI Search and Traditional Search Can Coexist
Despite AI search gaining popularity, platforms like Google aren’t going anywhere. Their trust, global reach, and features like local search keep them essential. Google itself is integrating AI to remain competitive, creating a hybrid approach. Businesses need strategies that cater to both traditional and AI-driven search to maintain broad visibility.
What Businesses Should Do Today
To thrive in this changing landscape:

Audit your content to identify gaps in addressing user questions directly and conversationally.
Use structured data formats, such as schema markup, for easier indexing by AI and traditional systems.
Prioritize authoritative, trustworthy content to become a go-to source for both search types.
Explore AI tools specific to your industry to stay ahead of competitors and align with the latest trends.

By balancing traditional SEO with these AI-focused strategies, businesses can stay relevant in both worlds and capitalize on the opportunities AI search offers. If you want help with AIO or SEO, tell PlusROI that AI Smart sent you and they’ll take good care of you!

Scam Detection in Your Pocket

Big news for Android users! Google Messages is rolling out AI-powered scam detection to protect you from sneaky text scams mid-conversation.

What’s cool about it?

It uses AI to spot suspicious activity in real time while keeping your conversations safe and private.
Other updates include live location sharing in the Find My app and advanced features for Pixel users, like multicamera streaming.

This is a small but meaningful win for consumer AI—check out the details to see how it makes your phone smarter and safer.

AI Meets Housekeeping With Faireez

Say hello to Faireez, a startup bringing 5-star hotel-style housekeeping to rental buildings via AI. Their AI tech analyzes homes to create custom cleaning plans and ensures consistent quality using before-and-after photos.

This is yet another example of how AI is stepping into traditional industries and completely shaking things up. Could custom robotic companions for housekeeping be the next big thing? I would LOVE this!

Learn more about how Faireez is making chores disappear.

‘AI Your Agency’ Lab Notes

Defining and Optimizing Workflows
- Use the 4D Process (Define, Design, Develop, Deploy) to structure and enhance workflows.
- Create SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) with RACI (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed) assignments to outline clear roles and decision points.
- Use this customGPT/Agent that I built to help.
AI Tools for Marketing Efficiency
- Tools like Jasper (for marketing content) and ChatGPT can streamline tasks, but Jasper excels in creating well-structured marketing materials due to its specialized marketing focus.
- Use automation tools like Zapier to connect platforms and integrate workflows across systems (e.g., CRM, email, project management).
- Combine tools like Read AI for transcription and Gamma for presentation design to streamline client deliverables.
Content and Proposal Creation
- Automate proposal creation by capturing data using AI note-takers like Read AI, summarizing it with ChatGPT, and refining with human oversight.
- Personalize proposals by integrating client details sourced from LinkedIn or company websites.
Lead Management Automation
- Use chatbots to capture lead details across social channels, emails, or live presentations, and automatically categorize them into the CRM pipelines for follow-ups.
- Automate email responses and meeting bookings to keep communication prompt and professional.
AI for Enhanced Marketing Strategies
- By combining tools like Jasper and Zoom recordings, teams can condense complex marketing strategies into days rather than weeks.
- Provide clients with comprehensive deliverables, like marketing calendars, creative campaign ideas, taglines, and story-brand-based pitches.
Ongoing Monitoring and Testing
- Continually test and refine automations to adapt to tool updates or process changes. Periodic reviews ensure consistent results and anticipate tool variations.
Collaborative Tools Matter
- Tools like Jasper offer collaborative features, helping teams work seamlessly on marketing material creation.
Tracking and Organizing Tasks
- Tools like Hoop AI can simplify task management by fetching action items from emails, Slack, and meetings. This reduces manual follow-ups and keeps teams aligned.

Here’s the replay of “AI Your Agency”.

Maximizing OS CRM with Automations and Integrations

Powerful Automation Tools:
- Use OS automation to build workflows that organize lead pipelines, update stages, and notify your team via Slack or SMS.
- Automate tasks like adding notes, setting follow-ups, and engaging with social media DMs (e.g., Instagram).
Define Processes First:
- Success starts with mapping out your processes clearly before configuring automations. This ensures the software knows exactly what to do.
Flexible Integration Options:
- Integrate directly with tools like Google Sheets or leverage webhooks for advanced connections using third-party platforms (e.g., Zapier, Make).
- Connect project management tools like ClickUp to plan, organize, and synchronize your automation tasks.
AI Capabilities:
- OS supports AI-driven conversation tools alongside integrations with platforms like ChatGPT, enhancing functionality and user interaction.

Curious to see these automations in action?

This Week’s Tools Spotlight

Take your productivity to the next level with these AI-powered tools!

Jasper.ai – Simplify your marketing with tools for better blog posts, ad copy, email sequences, and branding—all in one place.
HeyGen – Create studio-quality videos with AI avatars and voices in minutes. Perfect for social media, ads, or internal content.
Pictory.ai – Easily turn text, URLs, or even long-form content into engaging videos. Save hours while producing professional results!

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