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Weekly AI Tips to Spark Your Marketing Mojo

šŸŽÆ Jon Leland's Mission: I empower social media and digital marketing professionals to master AI tools quickly, transforming overwhelm and content burnout into streamlined productivity and enhanced, human-first creativity.

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AI Creativity ChroniclesWeekly AI Tips to Spark Your Marketing Mojo Hey there, Reader, ā€œAI won’t take your job—but the marketer who masters it will.ā€(That’s the opening concept of the new 5-minute video I just posted on my new course page.) Click this image to watch your video invitation now. Why this matters right now Most marketers are still dabbling with AI. Only a fraction have crossed the gap to getting things done—faster and better than ever. Prompted to Create was built to help you...

AI Creativity ChroniclesWeekly AI Tips to Spark Your Marketing Mojo 🧠 AI Just Got Smarter Than Me… and That’s a Good Thing We hear a lot about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and the coming Singularity. Fascinating? Sure. But mostly, that’s not what matters. Here’s what does matter: AI is already smarter than most of us.And I’m not mad about it—I’m grateful. Just yesterday, I worked on a proposal follow-up to a consulting session that, in the past, would’ve taken me at least three...

AI Creativity ChroniclesWeekly AI Tips to Spark Your Marketing Mojo šŸŒ€ Prompt More. Discover More. There’s this old MTV slogan I’ve always loved:ā€œToo much is never enough.ā€ When it comes to prompting AI, that’s exactly how I feel. Most people underuse AI tools.They don’t prompt enough.They don’t play enough.They assume one-and-done is good enough. But it’s not. Here’s what I’ve learned from prompting more freely: šŸŒ€ Dream journaling ignites a wellspring of deep insights āœļø Copywriting feels...

AI Creativity ChroniclesWeekly AI Tips to Spark Your Marketing Mojo From AI Chaos to Creative Control How One Marketer Reclaimed Her Voice—And You Can Too Image conjured with Ideogram based on a creative conversation with ChatGPT. We’ve all had our ā€œhead in the sandā€ moments with AI. This is true even for smart, experienced marketers. That’s why this testimonial about my course, "Prompted to Create," from marketing strategist & writer Lee Doyle is important: ā€œAs someone from an old-school...

AI Creativity ChroniclesMaking Marketing Fun Again, One Week at a Time šŸŽ¬āš” AI Just Flipped the Script on Video Production—Are You Watching? šŸ‘€ Every now and then, creative video people make me grin like a kid who just found a new kind of candy. Last week, this happened twice! šŸ’°šŸš« No Budget Commercial This spec commercial for Liquid Death was created entirely with Google’s Veo 3 video AI. No budget. No brand involvement. Just a few bold creatives with great taste and a twisted sense of humor....

AI Creativity ChroniclesMaking Marketing Fun Again, One Week at a Time šŸ“ššŸ¤– From Video Lessons to Living Study Guide: My New AI Course Hack You know that feeling when something just clicks?I had one of those lightbulb moments this week… and I’m kinda thrilled with what I discovered. 🄳 NotebookLM helped me leverage my course videos into an interactive knowledge base that will be accessible to everyone who takes the course. ✨ I’ve started bringing all the video modules from my upcoming course,...

From humor to hyperrealism, this new AI video shows just how fast—and fun—the future is arriving.

AI Creativity ChroniclesMaking Marketing Fun Again, One Week at a Time Video. Production. Transformed. Only the truth is funny, so the reality of how AI is transforming video & film production is best underscored by funny video storytelling. The hilarious parody of video/film production below shows & tells a ton about the revolution that's happening in the world of AI video (and it's a lot less scary than last week's clip šŸ˜†.) It bears repeating that this isn’t stock footage or some kind of...

Why Google Veo isn’t just a tool—it’s a storytelling breakthrough.

AI Creativity ChroniclesMaking Marketing Fun Again, One Week at a Time Prompted. Performed. Unbelievable. What if I told you an AI just helped write, direct, and perform an entire short film that includes a global multi-racial cast and the mind-bending nuance of sci-fi TV like Black Mirror or Twilight Zone? (Not to mention the thought-provoking human creativity of YouTuber ā€œPutchuonā€.) That’s what you’ll find in this video made entirely with Google’s next-level AI video & audio generator, Veo...

AI Creativity ChroniclesMaking Marketing Fun Again, One Week at a Time Image conjured with Ideogram.ai. Text rendered in Canva. Hey there, You probably didn’t expect finger painting to show up in a conversation about AI. But tapping into that same spirit of childlike curiosity—hands in the color, no rules, just play—is exactly what helped me experience one of the most breathtaking AI creative breakthroughs I’ve seen: Google’s new Veo video AI. To help my friend Vince Casalaina and his...

AI Creativity ChroniclesMaking Marketing Fun Again, One Week at a Time Creative Curiosity, Meet Professional Validation Last week, I shared how an AI-generated avatar named Abigail helped me refine messaging, explore personas, and rethink video content. This week?That experiment is now being featured on the National Institute for Social Media (NISM) blog — a hub for certified social media strategists. šŸŽÆ Same creative journey, but with a deeper, more professional lens: How AI tools like...