S8 Ep689: 16. HARNESSING AI TOOLS FOR BUSINESS PRODUCTIVITY GUEST: Gene Marks Gene Marks highlights how small businesses can use AI tools like Legal Zoom for automated services and Microsoft 365 Copilot for productivity. He emphasizes the importance of employee
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🗓️ 4 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Bettser with Gene Marks, a small business columnist with recommendations |
| 0:19.8 | on artificial intelligence. |
| 0:22.1 | Gene and I are discovering, and I discover things to Gene's offices, AI in all aspects of business and conduct and correspondence. |
| 0:33.0 | Gene's going to introduce us to a free product from Legal Zoomoom, which I believe is a way of doing law |
| 0:41.0 | yourself and maybe a tax season, but now AI-powered Grant Finder. What is that? Well, LegalZoom is a |
| 0:48.8 | pretty well-known platform in the small business space for providing online legal services. |
| 0:55.6 | You know, you subscribe to them and you can, you know, I don't think they position themselves |
| 0:59.5 | as replacing an attorney, but more like doing more of the work on behalf of the attorney and |
| 1:04.4 | then just having an attorney, you know, you know, taking the ball over the end zone at the very |
| 1:08.5 | end. |
| 1:09.0 | So for years, they've, they've provided all |
| 1:11.8 | sorts of content and advice and documents, contracts, things like that that businesses could use |
| 1:17.0 | employment agreements and NDAs and non-competes and that kind of stuff. So now they're going all |
| 1:23.1 | in with AI and they're providing a platform now so that businesses can small businesses |
| 1:28.8 | that subscribe can get expert legal advice through their AI engine and have a create documents |
| 1:35.6 | and tailor documents for them. And again, getting it to the, but you never rely on anything |
| 1:40.0 | AI. You always, you know, you have your experts take a look at it at the end, but it should |
| 1:43.3 | save a lot of legal fees. John, it's a real interesting thing. You always, you know, you have your experts take a look at it at the end, but it should save a lot of legal fees. John, it's a real interesting thing. Will you and I be talking about legal Zoom in a few |
| 1:51.8 | years? I mean, I mean, how, you know, as chat GPT and your friends at Anthropic and, you know, |
| 1:59.4 | Gemini and Grockett better and better and better. |
| 2:03.3 | Do we have need for the legal zooms of the world? |
| 2:07.4 | Do we have need for attorneys in a few years, John? |
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