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Speaker: Welcome to the Solarpreneur Podcast, where we teach you to take your solar business to the next level. My name is Taylor Armstrong. went from $50 in my bank account and struggling for groceries to closing 150 deals in the year and cracking the code on why sales reps fail.
Speaker: I teach you avoid the mistakes I made and bring in the top solar dogs of the industry to let you in on the secrets of generating more leads, falling up like a pro, and closing more deals.
Speaker: What is a solopreneur you might ask? solopreneur is a new breed of solopro that is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve mastery and you are about to become one. Hey, Solopreneurs, today we're going to be talking about some ways you can use AI to help accelerate your solar business. We all know AI is the future. If you're not using it, you're probably regressing. You're probably not maximizing the opportunity that it is in your solar business. So let's talk about it. Let's see some ways can maximize AI. My name is Taylor Armstrong. We're here to help you close more deals, generate more leads and referrals, and have a much better time in the solar industry.
Speaker: Hope you're doing awesome. Hope you are maximizing your time in the summer months. At the time of this recording, we got about one month left before daylight savings time. I'm jealous of those people in ah Arizona and I think, what is it, Alaska?
Speaker: few of those other states that don't have daylight saving time because, man, once it starts getting dark at five o'clock here, You know, makes me appreciate the daylight hours. Okay. Makes a little trickier knocking in the dark and trying to talk to people when it's pitch black outside. Okay. But ah today wanted to do a little episode and talk about AI, but just a disclaimer, i am no expert with this. um We're figuring it out. So mainly today, just wanted to give you some use cases, some ways I've been using it in solar and my everyday life that hopefully can help a few of you. If you're already an advanced AI user, then you might, you know, you might see some much better ideas and ways of using it. Would love to hear in the comments how you are using it in your solar business.
Speaker: But ah if you are more of a beginner and just checking out, I think you will um get some cool use cases from a few of the things we're going to talk about today. And even if you i have been using it, maybe this will give you a few ideas.
Speaker: All right. And so started thinking about this. We just recently came out with ah Meta's new AI app, MetaMuse. So if you haven't checked it out,
Speaker: Go check it out. Pretty interesting use cases with it. But this is where it got me thinking. and If you checked out Metamuse, it's not really marketed as just like a typical chat GPT type AI. It's marketed as a AI agent. You know, if you watch sports or anything, you've seen in the commercials.
Speaker: of people asking Metamuse to go, you know, order their food, to go book their hotel, to go ask for a flight reimbursement, all these different things. And it just got me thinking, what are the use cases we could use it for in solar? Right. And there's a lot of AI agents. Metamuse, I would say is just one that kind of came out that simplified it for a lot of people. A lot of the general population I don't think they're using it yet as an AI agent. A lot of people are just using the chat GPT, just kind of using AI is kind of like a Google replacement. um How can we use it to maximize the opportunity in solar and then just and make ourselves more efficient? Any of you that have listened for the podcast for any amount of time know that I love fascinated with
Speaker: and ways to be more efficient, to ways ways to buy back your time, just maximize what you're doing. And so tools like this, think it gives you a great opportunity to really maximize your time.
Speaker: And especially you if you have not hired help before, well, you might be able to hire your own help with a app like Metamuse, with the AI like Metamuse. And guess what? It's also free for right now.
Speaker: Okay, and so let's talk about four ways that you can use some of these AI agents in AI. um A few of them are more solar specific. The last one we're going to talk about is the main use case that I've used AI for in solar.
Speaker: So we'll talk about that one last, but I'm just going to go through four ways I've used it. And again, this is not going to be like a comprehensive example. All of the different ways you can use AI will be a really long episode. i don't think I'm quite qualified yet to talk about every single use use case of AI, but I'm more just talking about what I've been using AI for in my business and in in my personal life. And again, hopefully helps a few you.
Speaker: So the first one is just syncing it with other applications you have. if you haven't done this already, if you have the paid version of ChatGPT, or if you go get the new MetaMuse one we're talking about, it will ask you, hey, do you want to ah sync up the service with like Google Calendar?
Speaker: Gives you the option to sync it with your bank. Gives the option to sync it with your health. And I know some people are creeped out by this. Maybe it's giving it too much information. But for me, I'm like, hey, well, this thing's taken over, so I'm just going to take advantage of everything that it can be used for. And well, hopefully, hopefully these AI robots don't kill us. But yeah, I'm going to take advantage of it. So the first use case is you can sync it with something like Google Calendar and it can literally give you your agenda. it can help you manage events, can help you manage your email.
Speaker: um I just recently synced my ChatGPT and the Metamuse one with my email. catches me up on all the emails. um You can also sync it with their social media.
Speaker: ah Social media, sometimes I struggle to keep up with comments and DMs and stuff like that. The meta one, and this is what I like the Metamuse one for. it's Obviously, it's created by Meta, so it's going to be way better for syncing with things like you know Instagram, Facebook, and ah integrating with that.
Speaker: And you can even shop on fake Facebook Marketplace for you and negotiate things for you. So consider syncing it with some of these apps. And it's amazing what it can do for you. It's like your personal assistant. It'll remind you of emails you need check. um You can just...
Speaker: have it draft messages for you and approve it. It'll send out messages from DMs, lot of different use cases there. Okay. And then number two is syncing it with your bank account. And again, i know some people may may think this is way too personal. It's going to take money from your account. um Up until now, it hasn't taken a single penny from my my account, except for, I guess, if you count the $20 subscription to ChatGPT. But what's really cool is I synced it. It gives you a summary. You can have these apps, Chachi Ruti, have you a like a weekend summary of all your finances.
Speaker: And it's really cool. It'll go and analyze ways you can be more efficient with your money. It actually saved me, I think it was like $120 a month. Lately, it's identified all these bank fees I'm getting. i'm with Chase and sometimes there's different fees depending on how much you keep in one account.
Speaker: And so it identified fees I could cut out and it actually went to the bank and negotiated for me. MetaMuse is cool. You can actually see it typing on the screen. So I saw it directly go to ah Chase and send him a message on my behalf asking him to waive some fees.
Speaker: And boom, just like that, waived fees And then I identified a bunch of subscriptions. I know there's other things that can do stuff like that, but it's cool. It syncs with everything. Just looks for ways you can be more efficient in your finances.
Speaker: It's something we all need to do when we're making solar money. so that's number two. Then number three is it can help you plan your goals, right? The more information you give it, the better. And it can really break down goals in the step-by-step pieces, help you figure out what's the best way to accomplish the goal, can send you reminders for them. Just keep you on track for things. Hey, I've started using it in like weekly planning sessions, feeding information.
Speaker: helping me be more efficient with the week. well probably We're going to do more episodes. Hopefully like things like this because I think even a month from now, I'm probably going to have way more use cases. But another thing I do like about the new MetaMuse AI is yeah there's actually an ideas tab and it'll give you a bunch of personalized ideas on how to use it. Because sometimes, at least for me, I get so overwhelmed how my actually going to use these tools.
Speaker: So many different use cases. I don't know if I'm, is it taking more time to tell it to do one thing than me just doing it myself. So it's cool that it'll give you all these use cases. And you know, ChatGPT can do and the same thing. You can ask it, hey, what could i what could i use you for? But I think, again, MetaMuse has simplified it quite a bit for especially people that are maybe not as tech savvy. maybe more beginner when it comes to using ai and tools like this. I think and the Muse app did a great job at ah simplifying it and having like an ideas tab, a feed where you can just tell it's, you can pick and say, oh, that's a good idea. Let's have it do that.
Speaker: Okay, and then the last thing we're going to talk about is something you've heard me say before, but this is the number one thing that I'm currently using ai for in sales. There's all whole different way you could use it if you're using a CRM, bunch of things with that. We're not going to get into that today. But the last one that I found extremely helpful is using for to analyze your interactions with your customers.
Speaker: Hey, and you've heard me talk about the Cero app. This is still my favorite app to record your sales conversations, and they're making it better every day. So if you haven't checked out Cero, go check them out.
Speaker: I just love how simple they make it to record your sales conversations, get real time feedback. You can literally ask it in the middle of a cell. Hey, struggling with this this objection. How can I resolve it It'll give you real time feedback. I noticed they added a role play feature in there. You can role play with it.
Speaker: But even if you don't want invest or use something like zero, you can do this in any AI now is you can record your own conversations. You can copy and paste the transcripts. If you're on an iPhone and record it, you can just get the transcript directly from the recorded conversation. And you can dump it into your preferred AI, right? And if it has memory, it's cool because it can see you make improvements over time.
Speaker: And then it can give you custom feedback based on what it sees you doing over time. So just fascinated by all the things it can do. um If you follow me, you know that I close a lot of deals in Spanish. So something I'm starting to do too is having it help me improve my Spanish.
Speaker: I've got all these recorded sales calls in Spanish, all these presentations in Spanish. I know my Spanish isn't perfect, but it can go incorrect, you know, maybe grammatical errors, things that I could explain better that were confusing.
Speaker: And so it's really helping me improve language. So, so many different use cases. So hopefully these were a few things that got you thinking and um would love to hear your ideas. How is AI helping you in your solar cells? Yeah, it's changing so much and so many different ways we can use AI today. So hopefully this helps somebody out there. Would love to hear how you're using AI in your cells. Tune in. We got some exciting episodes coming with future guests. Please shoot me your suggestions for topics and guests. Crush it this week. We'll see you on the next podcast. So some of you already know that I run my own door-to-door sales team here in San Diego. And as we are gearing up for the summer, I realized if we do the same thing we always did, we're going to get the same results.
Speaker: But if I want to increase my deal flow, I need to do something different to get an advantage. Then we discovered an app called Solar Scout. But it's not a door knocking app. It's a data platform that shows us who is likely to go solar in our market.
Speaker: It shows us who has previously applied for solar but later canceled the deal, who has moved in recently, and even how much electricity the homes are using in a given neighborhood. It's been working for a lot of teams across the country and now I'm on board too. I'm going to be one of the first to use SolarScout in San Diego so I decided to partner up. But I told them, hey, I'm going to talk about SolarScout on my show, you need to give my listeners a great deal. And they did.
Speaker: So go to solarscout.app forward slash Taylor and book a demo with them and you'll get 10% off your first month when you sign up. That's solarscout.app forward slash Taylor.
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