Here's how real side hustlers and entrepreneurs are using AI to work smarter, save time, and make more money.

What's up? What's up? Nick Lola Loper here. Welcome to The Side Hustle Show. It's the business podcast you can actually apply.

And today, I'm excited to share some crowdsourced AI use cases. Last month, I asked Side Hustle Nation email subscribers, hey, how are you using

AI in your business? And I got some awesome responses. I'll sprinkle in my own examples as we go.

And the first category here is content creation. It's Jane Havens here from Center for Pediatric

Sleep Management and the Becoming a Sleep Consultant podcast. So I'm using

AI mainly to speed up content creation. I use it to brainstorm social media posts and email

newsletters. It's giving me just a rough draft so I'm not starting entirely from scratch.

I'm also using it to build podcast outlines by feeding it just a few bullet points

and asking for a suggested flow or interview questions. So a fun recent win, somebody actually

found my sleep consultant certification course because they asked chat GPT, which course they should

take, and it pointed them to me, which was so exciting. I'm still

figuring out how to leverage this, but it's such a cool reminder of how AI is changing the way

people find information. Overall, I would say that AI is helping me to save time and stay consistent,

and perhaps most importantly, focus on building real connections,

which is what I truly love to do the most. Thank you so much for including me. I'm so excited

to hear how everyone else is using this tool. That's a super fun win to have built up a reputation

strong enough that the robots are going to recommend you. Now, we're

starting to see some more referral traffic from chat GPT as well. It's actually our top source

of referral traffic lately, but still only between one and two percent of all side-usillation page

use nowhere near enough to account for the traffic loss that I attribute to shifting search

patterns and AI answer snippets in the search

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