Podcast · Business
by Michael Stelzner, Social Media Examiner—AI marketing · English · Business
This is the podcast for marketers, creators, and business owners who want to know how to use AI. Join Social Media Examiner’s founder Michael Stelzner as he helps you discover practical and actionable ways to put AI to work. Show notes at Socialmediaexaminer.com/aipod
6 Oct 2026 · 43 min
Want to create professional-looking slides, websites, and animations without hiring a designer or learning complex software? Wondering how to keep every piece of visual content on-brand across platforms? To discover how to use Claude Design to build a design system, create on-brand visuals, and automate content workflows that used to take hours, I interview Jeff Sieh.
E125 · 29 Sep 2026 · 43 min
Are you spending too much every month on software subscriptions that don’t actually fit the way your business works? Wondering how to build custom AI-powered apps and tools, even without any coding or technical experience? To discover how to brainstorm, build, and launch custom AI apps that replace expensive software, even with zero technical background, I interview Erika Stanley.
E124 · 22 Sep 2026 · 47 min
Want to create professional-looking video content without filming yourself or hiring a production crew? Wondering how to use AI-generated video hooks to stop the scroll and boost engagement on social media? To discover how to use Google's Gemini Omni to create an AI avatar, produce scroll-stopping video hooks, edit existing footage, and assemble longer videos from 10-second clips, I interview Eve Whitaker.
E123 · 15 Sep 2026 · 47 min
Wondering how to create AI-generated video that looks cinematic instead of cheap? Want a repeatable workflow for turning a simple concept into polished AI video content using tools like Seedance? To discover a step-by-step process for producing professional-quality AI video, from developing a concept and building key visuals to generating clips with Seedance and assembling them into a finished piece, I interview Ross Symons.
E122 · 8 Sep 2026 · 45 min
Want to know how to create content that AI tools cite and recommend? Wondering how to optimize your website so AI systems treat your business as a trusted source? To discover how to create content that gets recommended by AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, including how to structure your website, repurpose your newsletter, and optimize for AI citations that drive traffic and trust, I interview Liron Segev.
E121 · 1 Sep 2026 · 41 min
Want to improve AI output quality so your content, reports, and deliverables don't read like everyone else's? Wondering how to use AI personas and feedback loops to consistently produce better work? To discover how to build AI personas and feedback loops that improve the quality of your deliverables before anyone else sees them, I interview Austin Marchese.
E120 · 25 Aug 2026 · 46 min
Want to move beyond basic AI prompting and build AI employees that actually run parts of your business? Wondering how to train AI to match your standards and schedule it to work autonomously? To discover how to build, train, and schedule AI employees that take manual work off your plate and free you and your team to focus on strategy and creativity, I interview Callan Faulkner.
E119 · 18 Aug 2026 · 47 min
Want to build an AI-powered system in Claude that drafts threads, newsletters, video scripts, and carousels from a single source? To discover how to build an AI creative director using Claude that transforms voice journaling into multiple forms of content that match your voice and style, I interview Nicky Saunders
E118 · 11 Aug 2026 · 48 min
Do your AI-generated images look like everyone else's? Wondering how to create AI visuals that match your brand and stand out? To discover a seven-pillar prompt framework for creating original AI images in ChatGPT, how to use reference images effectively, and why multi-model tools like Magnific give marketers more creative control over AI image generation, I interview Lauren deVane.
E117 · 4 Aug 2026 · 52 min
Wondering how to start building real automations for your business? Curious what it actually takes to get an AI agent working across your entire tech stack? To discover tips to use Claude Cowork to plan, build, and deploy AI automations, I interview Isar Meitis.
E116 · 28 Jul 2026 · 42 min
Worried about AI pricing model costs rising out of your budget? Curious whether there's a way to run capable AI models without paying premium subscription fees every month? To discover how open-weight AI models work, what hardware and software are needed to run them locally, and how to choose the right model to cut your AI costs while maintaining privacy and capability, I interview Chris Penn.
E115 · 21 Jul 2026 · 45 min
Wondering how to package your years of hard-won expertise into something clients can use on their own? Curious whether AI could turn your frameworks and processes into a product that generates recurring revenue? To discover how to identify the right opportunities to productize your expertise with AI, structure AI-powered tools using the IPO framework, and choose the best delivery method to build and sell AI tools to your clients, I interview Kelly Sinclair.
E114 · 14 Jul 2026 · 43 min
Want to use AI to scale your natural voice and professional expertise? Wondering what you need to make AI sound and reason like you instead of a generic robot? To discover a step-by-step framework to turn your everyday meeting transcripts into a personalized AI profile that replicates how you think, write, and operate, I interview Max Bernstein.
E113 · 7 Jul 2026 · 46 min
Are you tired of manually copying and pasting data between AI tools? Looking for an agentic AI tool that will pass off multi-step processes to other tools without constant input from you? To discover how to get started using Manus to build agentic workflows that delegate complex tasks to other tools with minimal human intervention, I interview Kate vanderVoort.
E112 · 30 Jun 2026 · 43 min
Wondering why your AI-generated images look polished in demos but look flat when you try them yourself? Want to know how marketers are turning today's AI image and video tools into reliable content systems? To discover how to build AI image and video workflows that produce consistent, professional-quality results for marketing content, I interview Jerrod Lew.
E111 · 23 Jun 2026 · 39 min
Do you sell digital marketing services and assets? Wondering how AI can help you close a client in the first meeting? To discover an AI workflow to research a prospect, match their brand, and build a working prototype before the first meeting—proving your value upfront, I interview Etan Polinger.
E110 · 16 Jun 2026 · 47 min
Want to build AI agents into your workflow? Have you experimented with building one-size-fits-all AI agents and been disappointed with the results? To discover how to build a custom system of AI agents that work with your business and processes, I interview Keith Moehring.
12 Jun 2026 · 42 min
What happens when a media company goes all-in on AI for 2.5 years? In this special episode, Michael Stelzner and Ali Kelly, Director of Memberships at Social Media Examiner, pull back the curtain on how their team actually uses AI every day — the wins, the mistakes, and the lessons they've learned along the way. You'll discover how they use AI to curate daily news for marketers, how AI helped reposition an entire product's messaging based on customer data, and how a 60-minute live training gets turned into a full resource kit using AI-powered workflows. Whether you're just getting started or…
E109 · 9 Jun 2026 · 52 min
Wondering how to set Codex up and connect it to your tech stack? Curious about using Skills with Codex? To discover how to use Codex by OpenAI to automate business workflows, no coding background required, I interview Karl Yeh.
E108 · 2 Jun 2026 · 46 min
Struggling to combat ad fatigue without burning out your design team? Wonder how your small brands can generate the ad volume Meta's algorithm now requires? To discover a three-step system for using AI to produce high-quality image and video ad creative at scale, I interview Fraser Cottrell.
E107 · 26 May 2026 · 47 min
Want to use AI to scale video content research and production? Wondering how to create an AI system that will produce videos that attract your ideal audience? To discover how to use Claude Code to identify the videos already working in your niche, reverse-engineer what makes them successful, and generate scripts in your own voice, I interview Sandy Lee.
E106 · 19 May 2026 · 47 min
Is your entire AI workflow built around one platform? What's your plan if it goes down, slows down, or gets too expensive? To discover how to build AI workflows that aren't tied to any single platform, I interview Nicole Leffer.
E105 · 12 May 2026 · 46 min
Have you invested in AI training only to watch people quietly go back to their old habits within weeks? I interview John Munsell discover a structured framework you can model for transitioning your team from basic AI users to strategic AI users.
E104 · 5 May 2026 · 45 min
Want to build your own custom AI tools and automations, but don’t have coding or developer experience? Curious how Claude Code can help? To discover how to set up Claude Code from scratch and build your first automation today, I interview Tyler Reed.
E103 · 28 Apr 2026 · 43 min
Are you looking for a way to get actual work done with AI — not just chat with it? Are you tired of micromanaging every step of an AI conversation only to hit context limits before you finish? To discover what Claude Cowork is, why it represents a fundamentally different way of working with AI, and how to start using it to manage your files, automate tasks, connect your tools, and build reusable workflows, I interview Dan Nestle.
E102 · 21 Apr 2026 · 46 min
Are you ready to start building AI agents for yourself but worried the process is too technical? What if the power to build a custom AI workforce was already in your hands, no coding required? To discover what OpenClaw is, what it can do for marketers and business owners, and how to set up your first bot with OpenClaw, step by step, I interview Mike Russell.
E101 · 14 Apr 2026 · 47 min
Are you spending days trying to keep up with everything happening in your industry? Wondering how to make faster, better-informed decisions without drowning in research? To discover how to use AI deep research to compress days of analysis into hours, which tools work best and why, and a proven framework for crafting prompts that deliver expert-level insights, I interview Natalie MacNeil.
E100 · 7 Apr 2026 · 45 min
Are you avoiding video because you think the production is too time consuming or expensive? Want to use AI video tools to create and edit quality marketing videos? To discover a step-by-step breakdown of the video editing workflow, the specific AI tools that handle each stage, and how to put it all together to cut your editing time by as much as 90%, I interview Greg Preece.
E99 · 31 Mar 2026 · 45 min
Tired of not seeing real results from AI experiments in your day-to-day work? Wondering how to use AI to fundamentally change the way you work? To discover the five-step ADOPT framework that turns scattered AI experimentation into a structured, sustainable approach to using AI to change how you work, I interview Tim Cakir.
E98 · 24 Mar 2026 · 42 min
Are you still manually copying data into your AI tools every time you need an analysis? Do you keep uploading the same files to Claude or ChatGPT only to find they're already outdated by the time you need them again? To discover how to connect live data to your AI tools for real-time intelligence, I interview Ryan Staley.
This is the podcast for marketers, creators, and business owners who want to know how to use AI. Join Social Media Examiner’s founder Michael Stelzner as he helps you discover practical and actionable ways to put AI to work. Show notes at Socialmediaexaminer.com/aipod
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