MBA2684 Q&A Wednesday: My Business is Dying Because of AI. What Do I Do?
Episode
13 min
Read time
2 min
Topics
Startups, Fundraising & VC, Sales & Revenue
AI-Generated Summary
Key Takeaways
- ✓Outcome-based positioning: Stop selling task-based services like writing emails. Instead, sell guaranteed results such as email sequences that generate $10,000 in sales using conversion psychology and data-backed persuasion techniques.
- ✓AI mastery advantage: Use AI tools better than clients by demonstrating expertise in prompting and message strategy. Position yourself as someone who uses AI for speed while applying fifteen years of experience to ensure actual conversions.
- ✓Productized service models: Replace hourly freelance work with scalable products like $99 copy review hotlines or two-week launch copy accelerators that bundle all assets and guarantee transformation rather than just deliverables.
What It Covers
Copywriter Patricia faces 50% revenue drop from AI competition. Omar Zenholm provides three-part strategy to reposition services, master AI tools, and productize offerings for survival.
Key Questions Answered
- •Outcome-based positioning: Stop selling task-based services like writing emails. Instead, sell guaranteed results such as email sequences that generate $10,000 in sales using conversion psychology and data-backed persuasion techniques.
- •AI mastery advantage: Use AI tools better than clients by demonstrating expertise in prompting and message strategy. Position yourself as someone who uses AI for speed while applying fifteen years of experience to ensure actual conversions.
- •Productized service models: Replace hourly freelance work with scalable products like $99 copy review hotlines or two-week launch copy accelerators that bundle all assets and guarantee transformation rather than just deliverables.
Notable Moment
Clients pay for perceived good enough AI-generated copy because they lack education on what professional quality actually delivers, creating an opportunity to demonstrate superior value through guarantees and expertise.
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