Editorial
The Gist
AI is the new normal. AI is becoming the key differentiator for market leaders who integrate these capabilities into their core operations.
Start small but think big. Effective AI integration into your marketing content program begins with manageable, repeating steps, which increases your confidence and allows you to tackle more complex opportunities.
AI isn’t the marketer. Successful AI implementation hinges on human oversight. AI should enhance your thought leadership, not replace it.
AI is everywhere, and it’s a hot topic in every business, news article and journal. You don’t have to look very far or long to find credible content or advice about AI. It can be very overwhelming. How do you discern what’s real and what’s not? How can you identify a path forward to begin using AI to your advantage? For the marketer just getting started to integrate AI into their enablement program, the options are endless.
Fear not. Successful AI integration into your marketing enablement content program is within reach. It’s easier than you think if you follow the right approach. The key is not how much you know, but how much you know that you’re actually applying to your current and existing program. I’ve seen success in my organization’s enablement program, and I’d like to share with you my step-by-step guide.
Table of Contents
- Understanding AI and Its Limitations
- Start Small With AI Integration and Scale Up
- Commit to Continuous Learning
- Putting AI Integration to Work for Your Business
- Core Questions Around AI Integration
Understanding AI and Its Limitations
Almost Human
AI tools such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini are very popular, but they can be intimidating if you don’t personalize your interaction with them. For example, I approach these tools as if engaging in a conversation with a knowledgeable professional. Essentially, I’m humanizing the interaction, sharing information and perspective, asking questions, offering feedback and requesting insight and opinion.
Stay in the Game
AI is not there to replace your thinking. It should enhance it. Don’t fall into the trap of using AI to do the work for you. The end result or output must be your words, your thoughts and your ideas. The best outcomes begin with your ideas and, through a refining process of continual edits and adjustments using AI, evolve to meet or even surpass your original intentions.
You’re in Control
Don’t be afraid to ask AI to cite its source, reasoning or rationale for offering the response or answer that it provides. If you don’t like AI’s response, ask a different question or a different version of the question you asked. If you like your idea or direction better than the one AI offers, then by all means go with yours. When it’s your work, then it is always your decision.
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Start Small With AI Integration and Scale Up
I divide my step-by-step guide into three significant areas, which range from low effort and complexity to higher effort and complexity. You can always move up or down through the guide, and any learning from one area certainly applies to other areas. I recommend beginning with Step 1.
Step 1: Use Existing Data, Content
The most effective way to approach AI integration in your enablement content program is to use it with the content and collateral you use today. This step builds your confidence using data and content you already have. Use AI to modify or enhance your content, or you can branch further out to expand AI’s reach and effectiveness. I began email scripts and product collateral because those were the content pieces that our team utilized the most. But I didn’t stop there and progressed to the next section.
Progress to: Refine Your Customer Persona Approach
Building on your initial AI integration efforts, I recommend that you focus on customer personas, competitive plays and campaign execution. Use AI to refine your approach, define the structure and determine how to measure success. This section is a great focus area since it's more evolved than Step 1, and it prepares you to tackle the “leading edge” step.
Leading Edge: Test the Marketing Waters
AI is a wonderful marketing tool to assist you in further developing and refining your go-to-market approach, whether it focuses on territories or markets, product or service lines, or new product and service launches. This step may pertain to more theoretical strategies before execution. AI adoption is powerful because it allows you to assess and build scenario-based projections and hypothetical outcomes before committing significant capital or resources to implementation.
I have been successful using AI in all three areas, ranging from very focused scripting to larger, longer-form strategy type plays. This guide allows you to flex up or down depending on where your content focus is today, what content you have in your library and what business needs you need to solve first. Another advantage of this guide is that it applies AI to every significant area of your content strategy, which strengthens your confidence and allows you to adjust your deployment according to your business needs.
Commit to Continuous Learning
The key to learning any new skill is applying it to your work. AI and its boundless opportunities won’t help you unless you take the next step to actively determine how and where you apply your new learning. Developing the discipline of follow-through in your learning will pay significant dividends.
A continual journey has no end. It’s certainly no different with AI. Stay informed by reading articles and accessing resources on how professionals are using AI to enhance their marketing content programs. Customer preferences and markets continually evolve, so it’s inevitable that leading marketers will also evolve their use of AI to remain not only viable but innovative.
Lifelong problem solvers are lifelong learners. The AI journey is no different from many other noble endeavors. The leading professionals who are solving tomorrow’s problems today are the ones who are continually looking for opportunities to deploy AI in their work and business outcomes. Don’t be afraid to evolve your approach and seek new ways and business applications to generate success. The step-by-step guide I use can be modified in countless ways and will deliver results as you discover new use cases for AI.
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Putting AI Integration to Work for Your Business
AI will continue to be a very important and strategic tool that leading businesses use to improve their marketing content programs. Take advantage of this disruptive technology and the step-by-step AI integration guide to develop new, more effective ways of communicating with your customers and prospects to advance your business.
The AI journey and the drive to develop new marketing content never ends. Tailor your learning and delivery approach and focus on uniting both journeys. This will allow you to communicate with your customers in innovative ways, which leads to greater insights and stronger brand loyalty.
Core Questions Around AI Integration
Editor's note: Here are two important questions to ask about integrating Ai into your business.
How can businesses effectively integrate AI into marketing?
Businesses can begin by starting small and focusing on immediate, practical applications. For instance, they can use AI tools to optimize existing content, such as email scripts or marketing collateral. This low-complexity approach builds confidence and provides measurable results. As familiarity grows, businesses can scale up to more strategic initiatives like refining customer personas, campaign planning and competitive analysis.
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It empowers marketers to make smarter decisions, drive creativity and enhance customer connections. By automating repetitive tasks, refining strategies and analyzing vast data sets, AI helps marketers focus on impactful actions. It allows better personalization and faster campaign optimization, which ultimately improves business outcomes and customer loyalty.
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