The Future of Personal Branding: Integrating AI

When ChatGPT launched last fall, it had about 150,000 users on its first day. Today, it has more than 180 million users. Furthermore, 97% of mobile phone users use an AI-powered assistant every day. Given these statistics, it’s evident that AI is becoming increasingly integrated into our daily lives.

As a result, the global AI market size is expected to reach $407 billion by 2027, reflecting a remarkable compound annual growth rate of 36.2% from 2022. With such widespread adoption among the general population, it’s no surprise that AI has found its way into personal branding. In this context, let’s explore how you can leverage AI to enhance your personal branding efforts, both in the present and the foreseeable future.

Understanding AI in Branding: Basic Benefits

AI offers two significant benefits for establishing your personal executive brand. Firstly, it has the capability to analyze massive amounts of data, allowing you to draw meaningful conclusions from it. Secondly, it can generate content of ever-increasing quality, leaving users amazed by its capabilities.

Reflecting on this, here are five broad strategies for applying AI to amplify your online presence.

• Analyze & Optimize: AI tools can gather data from both your online presence and your desired audience. Subsequently, they can assist you in making informed decisions regarding your content strategy.
• Generate: With a solid content strategy in place, AI can significantly aid in the production of various types of content. Looking for a creative spin for your next social media post? How about an informative video or your upcoming newsletter? Regardless of the content you require, AI can generate it. AI is often capable of producing content faster, with superior quality, and at a lower cost compared to human counterparts.

• Monitor: Once you release your content into the world, AI tools can monitor audience reactions and suggest improvements.
• Personalize: Audiences consistently hunger for tailored experiences, and AI has the capability to provide just that.
• Predict: AI tools use their powerful processing ability not just for analysis, but also to predict upcoming industry trends and find unique opportunities for your personal brand’s growth.

Enhancing Content Quality through AI

In the short term, AI is expected to have a significant impact on content generation, with more than half of marketers (almost 60%) expressing a preference for AI-generated content over human-created content. This sentiment is not limited to marketers alone, as over 70% of consumers also express trust in content written by AI. Moreover, approximately 50% of companies leveraging generative AI for content creation report cost savings.

The influence of generative AI is widespread, with 96% of executives acknowledging its significance in board discussions. Interestingly, 45% of executives have increased their AI investments due to the popularity of platforms like ChatGPT. While 48% of IT leaders state that their organizations are utilizing generative AI beyond ChatGPT, only 12% are doing so extensively.

Finally, 53% of IT leaders reveal that their organizations utilize generative AI, extending beyond ChatGPT, primarily for marketing and advertising purposes.

AI Tools

If you’re interested in using AI tools to master your content generation, you have a lot of options.

• Text: For writing, consider exploring tools such as ChatGPT, Jasper, Google Bard, Anyword, Sudowrite, and Copy.ai. It’s important to thoroughly review the output from these AI systems to guarantee both accuracy and clarity in the writing.
• Images: To generate images, Dall-E2, Midjourney, Visme, Jasper Art, Deep AI are great choices.
• Photos: For a professional business headshot without a photoshoot, you can use Artguru, Fotor, Tryiton, or HeadshotPro.
• Videos: To create generative AI videos with just a script, use DeepBrain AI, Synthesia, Make-A-Video, or Hour One.

With these tools, generating content is becoming faster, better, and more affordable than ever before.

Networking and Relationship Building

Networking is a fact of life in the business world, but not all connections are valuable. AI analytics tools (similar to NetworkAI) can help you target high-value connections, supercharging your networking campaigns.

Once you’ve made contact with someone new, AI can help you manage the relationship by reminding you to follow up with them. These tools can even watch what your new associate posts on social media, allowing you to respond appropriately.

AI can help you personalize how you connect with people, too. LinkedIn has started integrating this kind of AI technology into its user interface. The company has given premium users the opportunity to use its AI writing assistant to draft messages to potential new connections. When one of the biggest professional networks in the world is using AI to connect its users, you know that the technology has officially gone mainstream.

Personalizing Your Executive Brand with AI

One of the main reasons that some executives and entrepreneurs haven’t used AI yet is that they’re worried it’ll create boring, cookie-cutter content. But that’s simply not true.

Tools like ChatGPT (with its multiple plugins), Jasper, and Copy AI allow a user to define variables like tones, formats, modes, roles, and writing styles in their prompts, which gives users incredible power over the content these tools generate. Want to sound informative? Scientific? Just select these parameters during prompt generation to create endlessly unique content.

AI in Reputation Management

Okay, so I’ve talked about how you can use AI to help boost your personal brand. But what happens if you find your brand in a time of crisis (like I mentioned in my last newsletter)?

AI can help you solve that problem, too. Tools like Auris by Gen Y Labs help you stay on top of your online reputation.

They can help you remove or bury negative search engine results, protect you against future reputation damage, and promote positive continent. It’s not just snake oil, either — more than a million users have already used the tool successfully.

Future Outlook

The AI boom in personal branding is far from over. According to global research by Google, 90% of consumers are more likely to engage with brands that offer them personalized experiences.

In the future, we can look forward to AI analyzing data to deliver hyper-personalized experiences to your target audiences.

While there are concerns that AI could bring about catastrophic consequences, this view often tends toward exaggeration. In reality, it is more likely that AI will be a beneficial tool, assisting us in simplifying numerous tasks, enhancing precision and efficiency, and reducing costs.

As the significance of executive branding continues to grow in the upcoming years, this is the very moment to refine your online presence. Ready to dominate on LinkedIn and elevate your executive profile like never before? Visit innakuts.com, DM or reach out to me at ik@innakuts.com.