I'm John Bachelors with my colleague and good friend Gene Marks who travels America talking

to Association's Alliances Institute about small business, how their particular business is doing.

Now we're going to speak in general to information that I did not

have before Gene brings it to my attention. Two out of three small business

employees say AI can increase or retain head count.

Translate that, Gene.

Thank you.

Well, John, you actually brought up a really interesting point

just, you know, in our prior segment,

you had said that you're using AI a lot, you're using yes every day several times and which by the way you know for those

of you listening they've never heard of Claude Claude is a big competitor to chat gp-tte and to Google

Gemini it's they are really up and coming and a lot of people to Google Gemini. Gemini.

They are really up and coming, and a lot of people

telling me there is as good if not better.

So, John, you're not alone.

There was a survey that just came out from Cox Communications.

It was called their

2024 small business survey and they said that they of the the small

businesses they surveyed they found that two-thirds of small businesses

invested in AI in 2023 John and in 2024 more than 50%

53% said they were going to invest even more in AI this coming year.

So you're a small business owner yourself.

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