I hope you're doing well and had an enjoyable weekend!
We actually had some rain here in Phoenix which was so refreshing. (Believe it or not, you do long for a grey sky or two when you have sunny skies nearly every single day of every year.)
Yesterday I came across an article about OpenAI's new voice feature in ChatGPT
that was released to some paying users a few weeks ago.
It's called Advanced Voice Mode and you can talk to it like you would Siri or Amazon Echo (neither of which I've ever used).
This new feature was interesting enough but they referenced a quote that got me thinking:
“Eventually, you’ll just ask the computer for
what you need and it’ll do all of these tasks for you,” Altman said during OpenAI’s Dev Day in November 2023. “These capabilities are often talked about in the AI field as ‘agents.’ The upside of this is going to be tremendous.”
My mind started wandering.
I imagined starting my day with:
"Computer, today I want
you to file my quarterly taxes, check my spending against my budget, pay my monthly utility bills, schedule my annual physical, and delete all the spam in my email inbox."
How cool would that be?!
That's a bit further in the future, I suppose, but it got me thinking about what I could be doing today that would help me use AI as agents for my affiliate marketing work.
Already I can have AI write my daily to-do list, help me
plan my website content, have it create a publishing schedule, and have it help write my content.
How long before I'm having weekly performance meetings with ChatGPT, telling it how well it did the past week, and asking what more it can do in the next week?
Of course, all of this also begs the question:
Will we
one day rely on these digital assistants to make our buying decisions for us? And, if so, what does that mean for affiliate marketers?
Will we say things like "Buy a vacuum cleaner with the best ratings, these attachments, that works on carpet and stairs, and costs between $X and $Y?"
We've already seen that consumers don't entirely trust manufacturers and retailers. Independent, 3rd party material is often used to make buying
decisions.
Therefore, I think AI will still need to fold that into its recommendations. It will have to get that information from somewhere and I think the sources of that information will still get paid somehow.
I do think affiliate marketers should prepare by diversifying their content types and their reach.
Continue with websites and make it your goal to build followers with trust and quality.
But also:
- Make sure to build up your social media profiles so you have other sources of traffic and followers.
- Use video as well as written content because video is extremely popular.
- Build an email list if you have the chance to do so in order to expand the
ways in which you can reach your followers.
The idea of having an AI-powered personal assistant that can handle all kinds of online tasks is both exciting and a bit mind-blowing.
It would free up so much time and mental energy.
How would you use a digital assistant in your life?
Be thinking ahead and think of things you can be doing differently today to prepare your business for the future,
too.
Get creative, have fun with it, and have a great week!
