AI for SMBs Weekly

Practical advice on how to use generative AI in small and medium sized businesses.

You're staring at an empty content calendar, knowing you should be publishing regularly to stay relevant with your audience. But between running operations, managing clients, and handling financials, finding time to create thoughtful content can feel impossible. When you do make the time, you spe...

by Justin Massa — Apr 17, 2025 brand brandvoice chatgpt claude content gemini generativeai

Mitigating the Impacts of Tarriffs

Welcome to AI for SMBs Weekly #5! This issue tackles an urgent topic affecting every business: how to understand and mitigate the impacts of the sweeping new Trump tariffs. Please forward this week's issue if you know of a business that would benefit from it; they'll likely appreciate our prior ...

by Justin Massa — Apr 10, 2025 cashflow chatgpt claude gemini generativeai scenarioplanning tariffs

Supercharged Project Management

You know the feeling – you're sitting in yet another project status meeting, silently calculating how many hours are being wasted as team members report on tasks in excruciating detail. That saying this meeting could have been an email can now also go this meeting could have been me talking to AI...

by Justin Massa — Apr 03, 2025 chatgpt claude gemini generativeai kanban projectmanagement

Capturing Transcripts

Active listening and taking high quality notes have long lived in an inherent tension. Fully capturing what your client, customer, or coworker said is critical, but so is looking them in the eye and making sure they know they were heard and understood. Fortunately, you no longer have to choose. ...

by Justin Massa — Mar 27, 2025 chatgpt claude gemini googlemeet meet teams transcripts webex zoom

Smarter Inventory + Resource Management

You're in the middle of a sales call and things are going well... until your customer tells you they need delivery in three weeks and you realize there's not enough staff or inventory to promise you'll be on time. 😠 Inventory issues, whether products and capacity, are a silent killer of small bus...

by Justin Massa — Mar 20, 2025 anthropic chatgpt claude gemini generativeai inventory resourcemanagement

Easy + Rigorous Forecasting

It's Thursday afternoon and you're reviewing your finances when that sinking feeling hits – there's not enough cash to cover next month’s payroll and your biggest customer just emailed asking for a payment extension 😬. Cash flow surprises are the business equivalent of surprise house guests – str...

by Justin Massa — Mar 13, 2025 cashflow chatgpt claude forecasting fp&a gemini generativeai smbs

Faster + Better Proposals

This scenario will be familiar to any business with a complicated, multi-step sales process. You've got a customer who's just asked you for a proposal - equal parts exciting and nerve-wracking. You must now synthesize all of the information you've gathered across meetings, calls, research, and ma...

by Justin Massa — Mar 06, 2025 businessdevelopment chatgpt gemini generativeai proposals