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Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

#854 5 Simple Ways Agencies Are Using AI

Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen

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4.9527 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Dan and Jeff Pecaro (meetwingman.com) share five practical ways agency founders are using AI right now—sharpening positioning, analyzing sales calls, rebuilding websites, testing offers, and creating content faster.
They also explore where things are headed next, including AI-run side projects, faceless YouTube channels, and why your business may already be sitting on more valuable data than you realize.
Tropical MBA is a podcast for entrepreneurs building location-independent businesses. Subscribe for weekly episodes on business, money, and the entrepreneurial lifestyle.

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CHAPTERS

(00:00:00) Why Most Agencies Still Aren’t Using AI Well
(00:05:10) Using AI to Improve Positioning
(00:07:04) Building a Persistent AI Context for Your Business
(00:07:57) Turning Sales Calls Into a Sales Intelligence Machine
(00:11:13) Using AI to Summarize Meetings and Daily Huddles
(00:15:46) The Rise of AI-Run Businesses
(00:17:40) Rebuilding Websites and Landing Pages With AI
(00:19:36) Using AI to Test New Offers and New Markets
(00:23:06) Why Video Creates Trust Faster Than Ads
(00:24:35) Faceless YouTube Channels and Content Opportunities
(00:26:06) AI Playbook for Founders
(00:26:25) Final Thoughts on Where AI Is Headed

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Dan Andrews is the co-founder of Dynamite Circle, author of Before the Exit, host of the Tropical MBA podcast, and an entrepreneur who has successfully launched and scaled multiple 7-figure businesses.
Email Dan@tropicalmba.com

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0:00.0

If listeners who are in a freelancing business or a consulting business just took this and run with it, they'd be surprised how far they got.

0:09.0

If you're not recording all of the calls and in particular the sales calls within your consulting business or agency, you're making a big mistake.

0:17.0

We've reached the point where we can iterate at a speed that's faster than ever and at a cost that's lower than ever.

0:25.0

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0:34.7

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0:40.3

Happy Thursday morning, everybody. Welcome back to the tropical MBA podcast. Today we're going to

0:44.3

talk about some interesting, profitable, noteworthy uses of AI in the agency context to do so.

0:50.9

We've invited Jeff Piccaro. Check out Jeff Piccaro on Instagram or at meetwingman.com.

0:58.2

Jeff, you are in the thick of using AI yourself and using AI for your clients. Everyone is just

1:09.1

trying to figure out, hey, what's something I can sink my teeth into here?

1:12.2

What's something I can do that's going to make or save money or create a better financial

1:17.2

outcome from my business in the long run? So maybe you can just give a sense for where you're at

1:21.9

the moment with your AI usage and we'll talk through five interesting use cases that you've

1:27.1

seen in the past few weeks and

1:28.5

months.

1:29.6

One, definitely a step behind the DC AI chat and trying to stay one step ahead of my clients.

1:35.0

But for context, I'm a sales process consultant who runs a sales agency.

1:39.1

And the majority of my clients are consultants and agencies.

1:43.1

So as long as I can keep learning from what's going on in the community,

1:46.8

piloting things to make my own business better,

1:48.9

I can turn around and help my clients with that.

1:51.6

You're deeply involved in all of our programming at DC, Mexico in a few weeks.

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