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Podcast Notes: Do This, NOT That: Marketing Tips with Jay Schwedelson
Episode Overview Episode Title: SPECIAL SERIES ==> ChatGPT Atlas Browser Tips! AI Must Knows! <== | BATHROOM Break #79 Hosts: Jay Schwedelson & Daniel Murray Description: The hosts discuss the impact of new AI browsers on marketing strategies, focusing on tools like Atlas and Comet. They provide practical advice on optimizing websites for both AI and human users, alongside a light-hearted discussion on Halloween candy preferences.
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Key Themes and Insights
- The Rise of AI Browsers
- New AI Browsers: Introduction to Atlas (from ChatGPT) and Comet (from Perplexity).
- Impact on Marketing:
- Shift in how search is conducted.
- Need for content and website structures that cater to AI-driven searches.
- Website Optimization for AI
- Scannability and Speed:
- Importance of having a fast-loading, easily navigable website.
- Avoid using PDFs for important content since AI tools struggle to process them.
- User Experience:
- Websites must now be designed not only for human users but also for AI agents.
- Simplifying forms and interactions to facilitate AI assistance.
- Content Strategy in the Age of AI
- Gated Content:
- Discussion on the diminishing relevance of traditional gated content.
- Suggestion that downloadable content should be integrated into campaigns rather than being universally gated.
- Reverse Engineering Searches:
- Marketers should create content based on how users phrase prompts rather than traditional search queries.
- Competitive Analysis with AI
- Using AI Browsers for Market Insights:
- Quick methods to analyze competitors’ strategies.
- Ability to collect data on various aspects of competitors’ websites in real time.
- Reducing Clicks for Easier Navigation
- Streamlining User Journeys:
- Calls for minimizing clicks required for users to reach content or answers.
- Emphasis on designing websites that allow quick access to information.
- Fun Interlude: Halloween Candy Debate
- Light-hearted Discussion: The hosts engage in a humorous debate about Halloween candy preferences, touching on the ethics of candy-giving and the antics of trick-or-treaters.
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Actionable Takeaways
- Download and Explore: Marketers should download new AI browsers like Atlas and Comet to assess their website's performance.
- Content Optimization: Prioritize making website content scannable and avoid complex PDF downloads.
- AI-Friendly Forms: Design forms that AI agents can easily fill out to maximize lead generation.
- Engagement with AI: Use AI tools to gather insights about competitors and enhance the website’s content strategy.
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Additional Resources
- Jay Schwedelson's Channels:
- [YouTube Channel](https://www.youtube.com/@schwedelson)
- [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@schwedelson)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/jayschwedelson/)
- Daniel Murray's Networks:
- [Marketing Millennials Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-marketing-millennials/id1527434899)
- Newsletter at [gotomillions.co](https://gotomillions.co)
Conclusion This episode provides a blend of practical marketing tips and light-hearted banter, making it both informative and entertaining for marketers looking to adapt to the evolving landscape of digital marketing. The discussion emphasizes the importance of AI in shaping future strategies and encourages actionable steps to enhance website effectiveness and user engagement.
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Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:07Welcome to a new special series called the bathroom break that extra 10 minutes you either have to listen to marketing tips or use the bathroom or both but i don't recommend both but that's your choice this collab is going to be super fun we have daniel murray from the marketing millennials and me jay schwettleson from the do this not that podcast and subjectline.com each episode in the series we are going to go over quick tips about different marketing topics and if you want to be in the bathroom fine just don't tell us about it thanks for checking it out we are back with another episode of bathroom break i am here with the guru the best-selling author i can keep going with all the little asterisks of what he does jay swettelson and i'm daniel murray and i wanted to start this off because one of the most important holidays is coming up and that's halloween and i want to know what you're doing for halloween and And I know you do so many crazy things for Halloween.
1:06You know, I'm turning into a grouch because I used to be like, I used to love it all and I buy the best candy and all. But I've really lost my faith in humanity because in the last year or two, what happened is my neighbor is one of these neighborhoods where there's a lot of trick-or-treating. But then what will happen is there'll be a kid that comes by and they'll go take some candy. and then like 10 minutes later, the kid will like move their mask or some crap and they'll pretend like they're a different kid. And I'm like, yo, I just saw you. You just took candy. I'm like, no, that wasn't me.
1:37I'm like, no, it was you. And it's like these kids that are just like trying to double dip and me calling them out. I'm like, I don't want to call anybody out. So I think I need to give out like not good candy. Like maybe I'll give out like toothbrushes and then they won't want to double dip. What do you think about that? I think you should give out some skincare products and some stuff like that. I think those kids are pretty smart. I think that's a smart move for those kids. I saw this video of these two adults going out. This is crazy. Two adults going out with acting like they have a fake baby.
2:12And then get like, say, look, dressed up and getting free candy that way. Like adult people doing that. I do hate that though. Adults will be like, they'll have a baby in a stroller, and they'll pretend they're talking to the baby. Hey, you like nerds? I'm going to get you nerds. Meanwhile, it's like a nine-month-old baby. Yeah, that baby's not eating nerds. No. Those parents are nerds. All right, there's a weird transition. Let's see what we're going to talk about today are the new hot thing, which are AI browsers that are out there. So everyone's been using Chrome forever. If you use Microsoft Edge, I don't know who you are.
2:49But now there's basically two new browsers that come out from the different platforms. Perplexity, which is the free tool, perplexity.ai, they have their browser called Comet, which is free and you could download that today on Mac, on Windows, on whatever. And then ChatGPT has rolled out their Atlas browser, which currently is only available for Mac users, but in the coming weeks it's going to be available for Windows users. And there's some things as it relates to marketing that if you use either of these browsers, they function basically the same way. That is really cool that you could be doing.
3:23So Daniel, what's your hot take before we get into some tactics here on these browsers? What are you thinking? One thing I am thinking about is how to reverse engineer search because the way we used to search is so much different now. So how as marketers can we start creating content and things to reverse engineer how people are talking in prompts versus talking in best food here or stuff like that. So I think the one thing that I've been thinking a lot is how to create answer-ready content, how to create content that will come up in summaries. And the best way is to look at where things are being sourced from, reverse engineering the source from stuff.
4:12So that's what I've been trying to think about with these new browsers is how do I reverse engineer the user or my audience of what they would be searching for in this and make sure my brand fits into those search queries? So a couple of things for marketers to think about. Number one, if you're not a Mac user, you only use Windows, you should definitely download the Comet browser. It's free. You go to perplexia.ai. It basically functions the same way as Atlas does for ChatGPT. And the reason as a marketer, you need to download it. And then you want to go to your own website. You want to ask questions as if you are a prospect on your own website.
4:48You need to see that experience. But in general, some of the biggest things you need to consider as a marketer, okay, is number one is you need your site to be extremely scannable and fast. So for example, if you have a lot of content buried in PDFs, the AI tools do not like PDFs. You could still have gated PDFs, but you want that content repeated in HTML on your sites big time. And then the other big thing is being able to do a competitive analysis. You can now use those browsers and say, okay, these are my seven competitors. Can you open up tabs of these seven competitors? And it will open up the different tabs of your seven competitors instantly.
5:30And then you can say, okay, now on those different sites, can you tell me all the different places where they're collecting email address information? how else are they putting their pricing page information together? What's their go-to-market strategy? What industries are they saying they're serving? You could have it pop up in all these tabs, and it's pretty awesome. I think another thing to think about is, I don't know if you're thinking about this, but with these browsers, a lot of them are agent forward, and agents are doing the research for you, filling out forms, book booking trips, blah, blah, blah.
6:06and you should make your forms and things easy for agents to fill out because there a lot of people are going to use agents to do tasks for them i could see eventually them saying find me five softwares that are in this niche fill out a form for these and if it's if your form is hard to fill out because the agent can't fill it out you're losing potential demo requests um potential of people falling out just because you didn't make it, your website scannable, easy to use, and easy for the agent to use. So now you have to think about also making your website easy for agents to use, not only humans to use, which is a whole different way of thinking about building websites these days.
6:57Yeah. And the two tricks I'll tell everybody that they should really think about doing, the first one is like, oh, I don't even have the browser downloaded. I don't have the time to do that, blah, blah, blah. Just go to ChatGPT and say, regarding the new Atlas browser from ChatGPT, what do I need to do on my site? And you give your URL to make my site easier to have the right answer show up when people are using the browser. And it will tell you exactly what you need to do on your site. The other big thing with these browsers, the biggest thing they have is it's storing history. Meaning that, let's say you read four newsletters in your email.
7:33you go to two industry websites all in like, you know, an hour span, you're on a Sunday reading through all this stuff, you then can say back to it. And this may freak people out. It may not. You could just say back to it. Okay. Based on everything I just did in this last session, this last hour where I've been reading stuff, what are the 10 most important statistics, the 10 most important news stories, whatever it is that you want to do, can you capture that for me? And can you give that to me right here? It really will take however you're browsing and then give you that information back. You could even do this on social media.
8:04You could go on LinkedIn and let's say 12 people liked one of your posts on LinkedIn. If you go ahead and on your screen, you click to see the different people that liked your post and you can have those people's names visible on screen. You could actually say to the AI browser, can you give me the LinkedIn profile links for those people that liked my post and you can instantly engage with them. So really start to think about what you can do to tap into this kind of new era of browsers. You said this a little bit before, but I want to pose the question to you. Are we in an age where, I know this debate's been going on a long time, but the gating content conversation, how less and less and less important is gating content?
8:52I know that people have been using for Legion forever, but if AI is using your website, what you put online to help people searching, you're actually hurting yourself by hiding all this information so AI can't find it. So I just want to get your thoughts on what people should do. Yeah, I think we're entering into a weird place. I think, number one, there's two different ways to think about gated content. There's their resources page, and then there's another way to do it. I think the resources page is going to be a little bit of a relic from the past where there's downloadable content on the resources page.
9:26I think the resources page on all of our sites is going to have to be scannable content where everything is there. I think blogs are going to make a comeback because of that even more so. But I do think gated, downloadable content is going to be really, really good, but it's going to live within campaigns, meaning you'll send out an email. If you want this, click here to get it, and it's going to be very transactional. Like basically the only way to get that gated content is from that email, or maybe it's on a paid social post that you do. I don't believe that there's just going to be this gated environment that's living on all of our sites moving forward because it's just not AI friendly.
10:01And, you know, so I think it's going to be a new world for us all to figure out how to drive demand. Yeah. And I think another thing I was at is we talked about this. I talked about thinking about how to reduce the number of clicks on your website that someone has, because if you want AI to be able to scrape your content, like this is important right now. So how can you get to answers, get to places by limiting the amount of clicks that AI has to do or a human has to do? I think that would be something I would think about is like thinking how to make my website less clickable and more scannable.
10:40I love how like scraping was the most taboo thing ever in the internet world. And now it's like, make everything scrapeable. You know, it was like streaming music a long time ago. And now streaming music is just a normal thing. But I guess it was illegal back then. But it's still. I'll tell you what else should be illegal is giving out small pieces of candy on Halloween. Let me ask you a question. If somebody comes to your house, are you giving out full size candy bars? Or are you a loser and you're getting like these little pieces of Snickers that nobody wants? What are you giving out? i'm giving up full size but it's first come first serve basis so what does that mean if you run out i'm not i'm not you you're telling me you're you're you're like i want to i think the smart move to do is be known for that one candy bar and be like the that best so instead of buying different i think reese's peanut butter cups like that's what i want all in my you can't give out anything peanut butter dude people have allergies well then now you look making me look bad but i know right i'll tell you though you do give good advice about one thing and i've learned this the hard way i should have asked you first you really do want to give out one candy potentially even one flavor because i used to have this big bucket that had the best like a whole big variety but then kids would dig through it and look for the thing that they wanted and it was anarchy when you only got one it moves it's way better so it's very don't do the peanut because people and ari's my wife's mom's gonna be mad at me because she has a peanut allergy and everywhere we go we have to like tell people and i respect allergies uh but i am the person who was looking for the reese's peanut butter cup in your so there are people who want that and uh i could i think I think from now on, I think this is a good place.
12:37I'm going to have the nut allergy and non-nut allergy. And the state, this is nut allergy candy and nut allergy. This is a teaching lesson for Daniel right now. I just had a kid, so I am learning the actual giving of candy. Jay's been doing this for a while. I'm a professional. I'm a professional. I'm very impressed how seriously you're taking this conversation because I am not. nor should anybody else listening but you all are amazing for listening subscribe to the marketing millennials if you want more critical content like this or do this not that if you want useless content and go to marketing land what's the url for your event daniel attend marketingland.com attend marketingland.com it's coming up it's free it's virtual daniel will be there i'll be there be there be square see you at the next one daniel come on man i gotta get back to work get out of there.
13:30All right. While he's still in there, this is Jay. Check out my podcast, Do This, Not That for marketers. Each week we share really quick tips on stuff that can improve your marketing and hope you give it a try. Oh, here's Daniel. He's finally out. Back from my bathroom break. This is Daniel. Go follow the Mark and Millet podcast, but also tune into this series. It's once a week, the bathroom break. We talk about marketing tips that we just spew out and it could be anything from email subject line to any marketing tips in the world. We'll talk about it. Just give us a shout on LinkedIn and tell us what you want to hear.
14:05Peace out. Later.
From the publisher
Marketers are about to face a new kind of search—and Jay Schwedelson and Daniel Murray are breaking down what it means. Between trick-or-treating mishaps and Halloween candy hot takes, they unpack how AI browsers like Atlas and Comet are rewriting the rules for SEO, content gating, and how your website needs to function for both humans and AI agents.
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Best Moments:
(02:55) Why new AI browsers like Atlas and Comet could change how marketers think about search
(04:45) How to make your website scannable, fast, and AI-friendly
(06:15) Why you should optimize your forms for AI agents, not just humans
(09:15) The future of gated content and why “resources” pages might disappear
(10:15) How to design sites with fewer clicks and more instant answers
(11:00) The great Halloween candy debate: full-size bars or bust
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