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How to Prompt and Scale Your Business · Closing Sales in Nigeria - Sales For The Nigerian Business Person: The Sales and Marketing Blueprint

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  Today on the podcast, we're going to look at how to properly
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  prompt using AI tools. In other words, if you are a
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  Nigerian business person like I am, or a business person in any
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  part of the globe, you know, on the African continent, you know,
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  wherever, and you're facing serious, legitimate business
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  problems. And you're looking for a tool
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  that you can brainstorm, that you can start asking questions,
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  you can start trying to figure out what the problem is.
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  You can use AI tools. By the way, I'm not saying that
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  when you have a problem every single time you go to AI because
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  you know, there are people like myself who are business
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  consultants. And, you know, we're trained to
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  show you the way when there's a problem.
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  But it's not all of you who have the financial resources to be
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  able to pay for a consultant. And sometimes you're quite early
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  on in the journey and you haven't explored many possible
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  avenues to solve the problem yet.
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  And so even if you had the money, reaching out to a
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  business consultant might be premature because you haven't
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  explored a couple of options. So for people in that situation
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  who just need to be able to troubleshoot, get one or two
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  ideas, try out one or two things to try and solve your business
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  problems, AI is a handy tool that you can use for that.
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  Now, the problem is this. There are lots of people who are
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  trying to use AI tools. And by by the way, I would say
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  AI, artificial intelligence, that's what the whole world
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  calls it, artificial intelligence, but I prefer to
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  call it augmented intelligence because these are very useful
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  tools that we can use to augment our performance, you know, to
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  make ourselves better. So whether you say artificial
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  intelligence tools or augmented intelligence tools, you know,
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  it's all the same. So where was I?
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  OK, so that's what AI means. Now the problem is lots of
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  people are going around using AI tools with different degrees of
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  success or failure and they are attributing the success or the
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  failure to the tool itself. So you still I still see this
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  nonsense every day on LinkedIn where people say use Clod
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  because clod is better than Google Gemini or use perplexity
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  because perplexity is better than clawed or use this because
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  this is better than that. Use that because that is better
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  than this. Please listen up everyone.
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  There is no tool that is better than the other.
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  You cannot say categorically that Gemini is better than
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  clawed, or clawed is better than perplexity, or that perplexity
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  is better than what's it called, ChatGPT.
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  You can say categorically that one tool is better than the
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  other, because these tools work, and they work very well.
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  Yes, there are some conditions under which some tools work more
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  optimally than others. But for most people, the main
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  reason why you're not seeing any benefit from Claude, from CHA
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  GPT, from Google Gemini, from Perplexity, from whatever it is
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  that you use, the main reason why you're not getting results
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  is you don't know how to prompt well.
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  That is the problem. So for a lot of you, stop
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  looking for the perfect tool and stop blaming the tools.
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  The problem is you. You don't know how to use these
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  tools effectively. You are not prompting.
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  Well, now those of you who are listening to the podcast for the
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  first time will wonder how prompting, prompting which one
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  be prompting again, what does prompt mean?
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  Very simple. A prompt is how you give
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  instructions to a computer so that it helps you solve a
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  problem. That's it.
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  So when you hear somebody on TikTok, on LinkedIn, on
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  Instagram saying, you know, best tool, best prompting strategy,
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  learn how to prompt this, this, this, that's all they're saying.
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  They're just saying learn how to ask these tools questions in the
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  right way. If you ask these things
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  questions in the right way, you will start getting good
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  responses because these things are not intelligent.
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  They are not human beings. They can't reason, they can't
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  think. So you have to be very, very,
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  very particular about how you ask it a question.
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  You can show up to me, ask me a question.
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  Maybe you fumble with the question.
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  But because I'm intelligent, you know, I go reason, I'm like, OK,
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  maybe this guy is coming from here.
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  This guy is coming from here and I can help you get get what you
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  need. But AI tools, artificial
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  intelligence tools, augmented intelligent tools, they're not
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  intelligent. They don't understand nuance,
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  they don't understand context, they don't understand intent,
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  they don't understand meaning, they don't understand semantics.
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  They don't There's a whole bunch of stuff that they don't.
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  In fact, they can't even they don't even have the capability
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  to understand before we start saying they understand this or
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  they understand that. So the problem is not with the
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  tool. The problem is with you.
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  Learn how to prompt. Now the reason why I'm here and
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  I just the vex anyhow today is because I was scrolling on
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  LinkedIn and then 2 ladies were involved in this whole debate
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  and they say no Claude is better than Gemini and then they'll
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  have the debate back and forth. So I slid into the conversation
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  and I just asked them that look, have you guys thought that
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  perhaps the problem is you don't know how to prompt properly with
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  Gemini yet? Because there are loads of us
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  who use only Google Gemini every single day and get wonderful
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  results that we're happy with. Now, luckily, the 2 ladies that
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  were arguing back and forth who are very, very much awesome
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  buddies and they thanked me for the advice, one of them said
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  they're actually going to start researching how to use Gemini
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  correctly. So this is one of the many
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  reasons why I say yes, artificial intelligence tools,
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  they're here. Use them, use them often, use
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  them every day. Use them for every conceivable
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  thing you know possible. Feel it out, play with it, but
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  learn how to prompt 1st and stop looking for the perfect tool.
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  You will be wasting your time looking for the perfect tool.
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  In my own opinion. I think whichever 1 you have
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  started with, continue. If you are those people who got
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  on the ChatGPT bandwagon early, continue.
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  You're already there, you've been using it, you've got some
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  familiarity with it, the tool is already adapting to your search
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  preferences, to your tastes, you know, things like that.
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  Continue. You will get very good results
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  for those of us who like Google products and we waited for
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  Google Gemini and that's what you've been using.
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  Continue. Don't jump ship, don't say cloud
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  is better, ChatGPT is better, this is better, that is better.
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  Learn how to prompt using whatever tool that you currently
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  have and you'll be OK. Also, forgive me 7 minutes, I'll
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  even introduce myself. My name is Tavishima Yeddy.
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  I'm the host of the podcast. I am a former lawyer turned
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  business consultant and now the host of the most prolific
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  business podcast on the African continent.
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  And I didn't make that stuff up. I found it online.
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  I was like, OK, cool. If folks are already saying that
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  about me online, then I claim it.
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  I'm the most prolific business podcaster on the African
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  continent. Soon the world then.
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  If you like the content, if you like the topics, if you like the
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  things that we talk about over here, then subscribe on Spotify,
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  YouTube, Apple or any player of your choice.
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  If you'd love to connect with me, you can call, send me a text
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  message or a WhatsApp message on 08064662140.
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  Then let's see what else. OK, Yeah, so that's it.
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  Introductions out of the way. Well, here's one more thing.
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  I'm making today's recording at home because I'm currently in
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  the villa with my family for the Christmas holidays, so I'm
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  staying with Grandma. It's a busy house, all the
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  cousins are around, the aunties are here, so it's a full house.
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  So I expect to hear some noise in the background.
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  So as we're recording, you know, you might just hear BDBDBD bam
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  and then the door busts open and then a bunch of children just
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  pour into the room. So yeah, if that happens, no
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  Vex, regardless of the interruptions that may happen or
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  might not happen, I will still do my best to give you guys lots
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  of value while you are spending time with me here today.
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  So these are all the things that we're going to talk about today.
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  Prompting. How do you prompt?
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  Let's look at some rules for how to prompt so that you can get
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  the best out of AI. And please, if you're a listener
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  to the podcast, don't let me jam you in real life and hear you
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  arguing with somebody that Claude is better than ChatGPT.
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  ChatGPT is better than perplexity.
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  Perplexity is better than AI. This one is the best tool.
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  Now look, don't let me catch you.
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  I will disown you. If I catch you, I'll disown you.
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  And some of you are just wasting too much time on this thing.
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  Reminds me of one of my clients who was in the solar space.
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  I was training their team and there was this guy there who
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  used to swear by ChatGPT and he wants everybody to convert to
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  ChatGPT. Let you tell the guy that, look,
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  it's not about the tool, it's about how well you use it.
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  The rest of us are using other tools and getting good results.
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  Now what happened to the guy? After one month, he got
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  frustrated and left. It's not about the tool.
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  He thought he had the perfect tool, but he didn't know how to
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  use it properly. So the rest of us who are using
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  inferior tools in court were getting superior results to the
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  guy and we're still here in the game, we're still doing it, but
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  he he's gone. He couldn't hack it.
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  He left even though he has a superior tool technically.
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  By the way, I don't have the technical expertise to say
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  whether charity PT indeed is better than Gemini.
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  But look, this is a fool's errand, so please stop it.
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  Give up. Please give up on this one.
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  The reason why I'm passionate about this thing is because even
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  though my professional background is in law, eventually
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  I became a wedding photographer and it was the same old rubbish
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  back then as it is now. People getting into arguments,
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  which is the best camera? Canon is better than Canon.
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  Canon is better than Samsung. Samsung is better than the con.
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  The con is better than than Leica.
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  Leica is better than this. Sony is better than that.
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  People arguing up and down. And even then I used to tell my
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  brethren, you know, in photography and video, people
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  are here arguing about camera. Is it about the camera?
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  Is it about the artist? You can take a correct solid or
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  bongi artist, photographer and give him a crappy, useless
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  camera and the guy would do much, much better than you who
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  has no skill. But you have the perfect camera
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  in the world. Let's stop being obsessed about
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  our tools. It's an intermarriage.
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  There's you, the person, and then there's the tool.
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  So yeah, well, you want to look for the perfect tool and go
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  ahead, knock yourself out. By the end of the day, you,
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  you're the one. That is the distinguishing
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  element. Or like graphic designers,
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  they'll be arguing Wacom tablet is the best.
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  Wacom tablet is better than this tablet, better than that tablet.
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  Absolute nonsense error nonsense.
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  It's not about the tablet, it's about the artist.
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  So Wacom is for beginner and so you can have somebody who would
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  take Wacom tablet, entry level Wacom tablet.
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  But because because the guy is a certified boss when it comes to,
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  you know, Photoshop and design and animation and everything,
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  the guy will use nothing and he would design shaking around you.
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  You will be there looking for the perfect tablet for the
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  perfect stylus for the perfect computer Is it must only be
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  MacBook only. Forgive me, forgive me, forgive
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  me. I'm just carrying my frustration
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  and just loading it on all of you today.
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  But see this thing is not today. Trust me, it's not today that
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  people have been looking for the better tool and blaming their
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  success on the tool or blaming their lack of success on the
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  tool. Anyway, it's been 10 minutes so
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  let's just get straight into it now.
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  These are my simple rules for prompting when you want to get
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  the best out of AI. So number one, say who you are.
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  By the way, when you say who you are, don't put any personal
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  details. When you are using AI tools,
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  don't put any details that you will not be comfortable being
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  found on the Internet. So I have no problem putting my
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  name in artificial intelligence tools because I want to be found
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  online. I'm looking for money here, so I
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  need you guys to see me, to find me, and to give me your money.
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  So I have absolutely no problem putting my name into AI tools.
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  However, I will not put my wife's name, my children's name,
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  my home address, what else? I'll put none of that into AI
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  tools because I don't want that to be found.
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  But I want my name to be found. I want my phone number to be
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  found. So I give my name liberally,
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  freely. I drop my name anyhow, my phone
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  number, I drop it any which way anyhow, I'll drop my phone
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  number because I want my name to be found.
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  I want my phone number to be found.
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  So when you're saying who you are or what you do in AI tools,
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  just be vague. Don't be specific.
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  It's enough to say I'm a Nigerian businessman based in
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  Abuja, Nigeria who lives in the central business district.
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  That's it. You don't need to say that your
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  name is OK, true, cool here, natural.
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  So say who you are. Then give a background or
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  context to the problem that you're facing.
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  After that, ask the question. Then when you're dealing with AI
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  tools, remember the LM, the LLMS, large language models.
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  They're designed to be conversational, so just pretend
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  as if you're having a conversation to get the best out
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  of it. So I repeat, these are my own
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  simple rules #1 say who you are #2 give the background or the
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  context to the problem #3 ask your question #4 be
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  conversational. And then reiterate.
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  Do the process all over again. Now, let's do a case study.
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  Let's say you are sales officer and you work with a car finance
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  company in Nigeria. Well yes, the reason why I'm
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  using that is because I currently have two people who
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  work with auto check who want to be a part of the sales training
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  that I am delivering on the 12th of January 2026 to the 23rd of
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  January 2026. The course is designed to help
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  you sell much more effectively using the phone so that you can
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  target people using the phone, start the conversation using the
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  phone, haggle, negotiate price, make proposals, do all of that
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  over the phone. If they say I'm not interested,
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  call me back. They give you any other kind of
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  objections, how to handle that over the phone, how to build
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  relationships over the phone, how to get people to come back
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  and buy from you again over the phone, how to ask for referrals
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  over the phone. That is the whole point of the
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  course that we're going to do on the 12th of December, sorry, I
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  say December, on the 12th of January to the 23rd of January
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  2026. I'm currently talking to two
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  people who work with Auto Check. They are a car finance company
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  and one of them is a superstar salesperson.
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  He wants to improve his sales. Another person who's new, he's
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  just been in the business for two months, he also wants to
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  improve his sales. And God willing, we are going to
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  see how we can help them achieve their goals for 2026.
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  So that's the reason why I'm using this as a case study.
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  So let's say you work in auto check or any other company.
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  And the problem is you're not able to close deals because by
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  the time you open your company's CRM tool, any deed that is
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  there, another person has snatched it.
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  So that's your problem. And you're wondering what can I
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  do to solve this problem? What can I do to get results?
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  Now this is what you do. You can go to your tool.
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  Remember, there is no best one. If you're already using Claude,
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  use Claude. If you're already using Gemini,
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  use Gemini. If you're using ChatGPT, use it.
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  There is no best tool. So going to Claude in my own
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  case, Google Gemini, going to whatever tool it is and then say
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  who you are. Sorry, one moment.
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  OK, sorry about that. I'm back.
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  Like I mentioned, it's a full house, so I had to leave the
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  room where I was because someone came in.
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  And, well, anyway, you know, that's how we families live in
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  this part of the world. You know, you go home for
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  Christmas and Shah, wherever you find space, you lay your head.
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  But that's the the beauty of the holiday season and hanging out
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  with, with family. You just show up and you slum
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  it. So it's it's fun, if not for the
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  fact that Macod is hot as hell at this time of the year,
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  actually is quite fun. OK, yeah.
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  So I was talking about my simple rules now for prompting and I
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  gave a case study about someone who's a sales officer, business
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  development officer, business development Rep, you know,
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  whatever it is you call yourself.
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  You work with a car finance company in Nigeria.
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  The problem is you can't close deals fast enough because every
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  single time a deal or a contact shows up in the CRM, somebody
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  might be interested. By the time you call the person
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  and say oh, OK, oh, don't worry, I can let you already called me.
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  You call the next person and say, oh, OK, here Natural has
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  already called me. You call the next person.
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  The person says, oh, cool. I've already spoken to one of
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  your colleagues calling. That's the problem you're facing
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  Now. Like I said at the top of the
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  episode, you don't always have to look out and go and pay for a
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  consultant because, you know, sometimes you don't have money.
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  And then sometimes even if you have the money, sometimes you're
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  not trying hard enough. Like one particular guy that I'm
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  talking to has only been in the business for two months.
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  And if you've been in the business for two months, you
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  know, quite frankly, you haven't tried enough yet to say you have
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  a problem or you don't have a problem.
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  But it's good that the guy is reaching out looking for
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  solutions and is looking for training.
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  And I'm definitely going to take him on.
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  So help him solve his problem. But let's just say you haven't
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  done enough or you don't have enough money.
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  You can use AI tools to try and figure your way out of this
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  thing. So in this case, what you do is
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  number one, say who you are. So you're prompt.
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  I remember we're talking about LLMS, large language models,
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  which means that you interact with these things primarily
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  using text. So you type into a keyboard,
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  into a dialogue box on the screen and then it gives you an
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  answer in the form of text on the screen.
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  So say who you are in this case, remember, don't use your name.
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  All you have to just say is I am a Nigerian business development
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  Rep who lives in the city of Akora.
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  I currently work with XYZ company where my role is to
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  process leads for people who want to acquire, who want to buy
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  cars and who are looking for flexible payment options.
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  So you see that's the first part.
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  Say who you are. You can see the level of detail
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  that has to go into this thing because some of you just pick up
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  a, an AI tool, you pick up Gemini or cloud or whatever, and
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  then you just type in give me the secrets to sell.
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  Well, if you give a generic general, you know, vague prompt
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  like that, of course it's going to give you, you know, Gen.
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  general vague answers. That question is too broad.
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  So we have to be specific when we prompt.
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  I'm a Nigerian sales professional.
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  I live and work in Ondo Agora. I work with the car finance
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  company. My responsibility is to process
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  leads. And match people up with vendors
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  who have cars for sale and they're willing to explore
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  flexible payment options. You know something like that.
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  Brief summary. Don't say your name, don't say
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  where you live, but say who you are then now give the background
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  or the context of the problem. Every single day I load into, I
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  log into my company CRM first thing in the morning to start
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  processing leads, only to find out that the leads and the
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  contacts who are the company CRM have already been attended to by
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  my colleagues. Because of this, I'm not getting
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  processing enough leads to be able to hit my monthly quota.
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  So it has the background then #3 ask a question.
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  What can I do to solve this problem?
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  What could be the cause possible causes of this problem?
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  How can I hit my monthly quota given these circumstances?
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  Now, in this case, because you've given it a fairly
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  detailed prompt, you've said who you are, you've given a
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  background to the problem, you've asked the question.
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  Can you not see how if it gives you a response, it will give you
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  a response that will make sense for you in your own particular
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  context in Nigeria. See, that's the reason why that
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  whole part of I live and work in North Korea is necessary because
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  the advice you give you if you live in Texas or if you live in
• 21:28
  France might be different. There's some tactics, some
• 21:32
  situations, some strategies that might apply in Niger that won't
• 21:36
  apply in Texas, or that won't apply in France, or that won't
• 21:39
  apply in the, I don't know, Alaska or Australia.
• 21:45
  So can you see that this is the level of detail, the level of
• 21:48
  granularity that you have to go through when you're using an AI
• 21:51
  tool? And can you people stop going
• 21:53
  around saying that Claude is better than Gemini, Gemini is
• 21:57
  better than Church GPT, Church GPT is better than, you know,
• 22:00
  whatever, whatever, whatever, especially since people keep
• 22:03
  making these tools every single day.
• 22:05
  I'm currently making this partners episode in December of
• 22:08
  2025. And I can assure you, I can
• 22:10
  assure you, I can assure you, I'm willing to bet my left.
• 22:14
  Let me not use profanity in on this podcast, but you understand
• 22:17
  what I'm saying. I'm willing to bet my left that
• 22:21
  at least this month they will release another five AI tools.
• 22:24
  This month alone in January they will release another 5-10.
• 22:28
  In February of 2026 they will release another 5-10.
• 22:31
  By the time 2026 is over they will release like 100 new AI
• 22:35
  competition tools. As I'm willing to bet my left
• 22:42
  they will be running around saying which one is the best
• 22:43
  tool. My friend.
• 22:45
  Learn how to prompt and get the best of whatever tool you're
• 22:47
  using. The tool is not the problem, you
• 22:51
  are the artist does not blame the brush was your bad.
• 22:56
  People say you're right. People say the bad farmer likes
• 22:58
  to blame the cutlass. Stop blaming your cutlass.
• 23:00
  The cutlass is not the problem. Problem is that you're a bad
• 23:03
  farmer. Go and learn how to farm well
• 23:06
  and whichever cutlass you use, whether it's sharp, whether it's
• 23:09
  blunt, whether it's brand new, whether it's old, whether it's
• 23:12
  rusted, whether it is well oiled, whether it is whatever.
• 23:17
  So long as you're a correct badass farmer, any who, any
• 23:21
  cutlass that you use, you will make it work.
• 23:24
  Go and learn how to prompt. Now.
• 23:29
  I decided to check online to find some more recommendations
• 23:32
  about how to prompt in case maybe my own way of prompting,
• 23:36
  you know, maybe it's not too clear because sometimes you
• 23:39
  know, when is you and you're doing it.
• 23:42
  It's not clear, but you know, because now you, you won't see
• 23:45
  the shortcomings of your system. And this is what I've found.
• 23:48
  So some people say online that to get the most out of your,
• 23:53
  when you're interacting with an AI tool, don't think of it as a
• 23:57
  simple search. So that's a problem.
• 23:59
  You are thinking of it as simple search, which is understandable
• 24:02
  because in the early days for those of us who are exposed to
• 24:05
  Internet in Niger, you know, after all bass and joy era, we
• 24:08
  got used to doing simple search. Remember those days?
• 24:13
  Now if you need to buy pizza in Lagos, you just type in pizza
• 24:17
  Lagos and then Google will give you a bunch of options.
• 24:20
  So that is how we are using AI tools now.
• 24:22
  That's the way that we're searching.
• 24:23
  You go into AI tool and then type in pizza Lagos and you
• 24:27
  expect that we give you good results.
• 24:28
  But if you go into an AI tool, remember my own simple way, say
• 24:32
  who you are, give the background or the problem, ask a question,
• 24:35
  be conversational. If you go into Google Germany
• 24:38
  and say I am a father of two, my I'm a father of two.
• 24:44
  I have two teenage boys. By the way, I don't have two
• 24:45
  teenage boys. I'm a father of two, OK.
• 24:48
  One is a teenager, the other one is not.
• 24:50
  So I'm a father of two. I have two teenage boys.
• 24:55
  We're visiting family in Lagos and I'm thinking of a good pizza
• 25:01
  Hangouts with extracurricular activities that my kids and I
• 25:06
  can take part in. What would you recommend in
• 25:10
  Lagos that would suit, you know that will fit the bill?
• 25:16
  So let's say that's your that's your prompt.
• 25:18
  Can you see now that the response you get will be
• 25:20
  targeted would be relevant would be suitable for you?
• 25:25
  So there's a pizza place somewhere that is close to an
• 25:28
  ice cream Hut and maybe the ice cream Hut is also close to a
• 25:31
  gaming center. Can you see that you would
• 25:33
  recommend those kinds of places instead of you just go in and
• 25:37
  Gemini and then you just type in Pizza Lagos and then you're
• 25:40
  angry that the places you showed you are not correct.
• 25:42
  How will you show your correct place?
• 25:45
  It's not intelligent. It can't think.
• 25:49
  If you were to ask me, if you were to come up to me as a human
• 25:52
  being and you say, oh, tavish Miami, Makudi, where's the best
• 25:55
  place to eat pounded yam? That's a very general thing.
• 25:58
  But because I'm a human being and I know you, maybe I know
• 26:01
  your wife, I can reason one or two things.
• 26:04
  Let's say your wife really, really likes catfish.
• 26:06
  In my mind, it is all those catfish catfish places.
• 26:10
  Now that I'll begin to isolate before I reason and give you.
• 26:14
  But char GPT Gemini, all these tools, they can't do that.
• 26:17
  They are not intelligent. They can't think, they don't
• 26:20
  understand, they don't get meaning.
• 26:22
  They don't. As much as all you people
• 26:25
  running around talking about singularity want it, it ain't
• 26:28
  gonna happen anyway. Well, I was like, OK, yes.
• 26:34
  So think of it as a conversation collaboration rather than simple
• 26:43
  search. And then what you're trying to
• 26:45
  do is you're trying to give the AI tools clues so that they can
• 26:49
  figure out what it is that you want.
• 26:51
  So first of all, give the AI tool a persona.
• 26:56
  So tell the AI tool who it is or who you are.
• 27:00
  So in this case you tell the AI tool instead of OK, the way I,
• 27:04
  I, I do it is I say talk about you say I am a business
• 27:10
  development Rep who works in a car financing company in Ondo
• 27:13
  State, Aquarian engineer. So in this case you will say I
• 27:18
  now using this framework, you now tell the EI tool, you tell
• 27:22
  the EI tool, you say good morning, Gemini and Gemini will
• 27:25
  say good morning. How can I help?
• 27:26
  And you say, Gemini, today I have a problem, you're going to
• 27:30
  help me solve that problem. And then Germany will say, OK,
• 27:33
  go ahead. And then you now say, Gemini,
• 27:36
  assume that you are a sales officer who works with a car
• 27:42
  finance company in Ondo a Korea and Nigeria.
• 27:48
  So you see, that's the first step.
• 27:50
  Give the air to a persona. Then when you're giving
• 27:54
  instructions, use action verb. That is something I saw online.
• 27:59
  So for me, you know, when I prompt, I use lots of who, how,
• 28:02
  what, why, when. But you know, these people here
• 28:04
  are saying use action plan, sorry, action verbs.
• 28:08
  So tell it draft a project plan, summarize this PDF, debug the
• 28:14
  script. You can see action verb, action
• 28:16
  verb, action verb. OK, that's something that's
• 28:18
  missing from my own framework. But you can see that there's no
• 28:21
  ultimate way to to prompt. So, you know, come up with your
• 28:26
  own way, but then still keep looking out on the Internet, see
• 28:28
  how other people prompt so you can learn how to prompt properly
• 28:32
  so that you can get the best results for whatever tools that
• 28:36
  you are using. Then the write up also says give
• 28:40
  some context. The context is the why and The
• 28:42
  Who. OK, I've already spoken about
• 28:46
  that, so no need any. So give a contact this or the
• 28:48
  why and The Who. And then it also says be
• 28:52
  conversational. So just be be typing as if it's
• 28:59
  a human being. Let me just put it that way.
• 29:01
  Even though it's not a human being, don't worry, just pretend
• 29:03
  keep typing as if it's a human being.
• 29:05
  Then there are some more tips here about how you should be
• 29:08
  multimodal. That's because a lot of these
• 29:10
  tools can do lots of things. They can remove text from
• 29:13
  pictures. You can use text to create a
• 29:16
  picture. You can use text to create a
• 29:18
  video. You can use text to create.
• 29:20
  I mean, so just, you know, enjoy use for different things then.
• 29:28
  OK, one tip I found here. OK, no need to be polite.
• 29:33
  You can use direct language. OK.
• 29:36
  Yeah. Because I've noticed some people
• 29:38
  are, you know, The thing is human beings.
• 29:40
  So they're very, very polite, you know, like Gemini.
• 29:42
  I beg. No Vex.
• 29:43
  Can you help me? So, you know, no need for that.
• 29:45
  Not to say Gemini. No, Vex.
• 29:48
  Then let's see what else? OK, so those are just some some
• 29:53
  while I say now, yardsticks, some guidelines around
• 29:57
  prompting. Whichever way that you're going
• 30:02
  to prompt, whether somebody taught you or whether you've
• 30:04
  listened to the way that I do it or you found something else,
• 30:07
  make sure that you get the best out of your AI tool.
• 30:09
  You need to say who you are or tell the AI tool who it should
• 30:14
  pretend to be. So make sure you say what you
• 30:17
  do. Make sure you say the problem
• 30:20
  you are facing. Please make sure you include
• 30:24
  those elements. But here's one way, another way
• 30:27
  of doing it. And I think this one, I heard
• 30:29
  Gary Vee tell someone. So Gary Vee in his usual manner
• 30:33
  was telling somebody that, look, OK, you don't know what to
• 30:35
  prompt. Abby, while I do this, go to
• 30:37
  charge GBT, say who you are, say what you do, say the problem
• 30:40
  you're facing. Now ask ChatGPT to come up with
• 30:44
  a prompt that should help you solve the problem.
• 30:46
  Whatever ChatGPT says, take it, edit it, apply that as the
• 30:50
  prompt and that is how you prompt.
• 30:52
  So let's go back to an example. This is what Gary, Gary
• 30:55
  Vaynerchuk said. You don't know how to prompt,
• 30:58
  but you're using char GPT or using Gemini or using Claude.
• 31:01
  So let's say Claude. Now, since lots of you are
• 31:03
  saying Claude is the best, all you Claude people, I feel like
• 31:06
  knocking on your head today. Claude is the flavour of the
• 31:11
  month. Six months from now, everybody
• 31:14
  would have jumped onto another band work on.
• 31:16
  I will be leading others astray, shouting, this is the best, this
• 31:19
  is the best. Anyway, let's go, let's roll
• 31:21
  with them. So you go to Claude and you say
• 31:24
  Claude, I'm a business development Rep.
• 31:27
  I live and work in Ondo State, Nigeria.
• 31:29
  I work with the car financing company and my responsibility is
• 31:32
  to process leads so that I can match buyers of cars to sellers
• 31:37
  and also help them achieve flexible payment rates.
• 31:42
  The problem I'm facing is every time I sign up on the company
• 31:45
  CRM in the morning, the leads that are already there have
• 31:48
  already been tackled by some of my colleagues.
• 31:51
  I'm aware that there's a problem.
• 31:53
  I'm not sure what the problem is, and I'm not sure what it is
• 31:55
  that I should do about this problem.
• 31:58
  So, dear Claude, can you please create a prompt for me so that I
• 32:03
  can use this prompt in an AI tool to try and figure out what
• 32:07
  the problem is and how I can come up with a solution?
• 32:12
  That is your prompt according to Gary Vee, and it makes perfect
• 32:16
  sense. I've done it before.
• 32:18
  You hit send. It will now give you a very
• 32:20
  detailed prompt. You now take that prompt and
• 32:22
  edit it accordingly. Send that prompt back into the
• 32:26
  AI tool and it will help you. I have done it before.
• 32:33
  OK, No, I didn't do it was my friend who did it.
• 32:36
  I saw my friend's profile picture and I say oh boy, die
• 32:39
  your DP sharp die. Now your DP is fine.
• 32:43
  That's display picture. I say, who is the photographer
• 32:46
  that took this picture? And then my friend, my former
• 32:49
  flatmate, IB IB say guy, may I know like you like AII say what
• 32:54
  guys say, Yeah, he's here. I say, how did you take this
• 32:56
  picture? He said very simple.
• 32:59
  IB was just chilling on the Internet and he he likes him.
• 33:03
  There's some people that he likes.
• 33:06
  He respects some people, you know, like Jay-Z, who again,
• 33:09
  like he that's some bigger process that he he respects.
• 33:13
  OK, Like he also likes Illuminum.
• 33:14
  He also likes her father Cooker. He also likes those kind of
• 33:17
  people. So let's say in this case now
• 33:18
  it's Bishop Hooker. Yeah.
• 33:20
  Bishop Hooker. For those of you who don't know,
• 33:23
  Bishop Hooker is a former secretary secretary general, I
• 33:28
  mean secretary general of the Catholic Secretariat.
• 33:31
  He's currently the Bishop I be Archbishop of Sokoto Diocese.
• 33:37
  And he's in the news a lot because he used to be on the
• 33:40
  Truth and Reconciliation Committee.
• 33:43
  That's when Obasanjo was in power.
• 33:45
  His, his first term and, and you know, he has worked on national
• 33:48
  committees here and there and he's a national commentator on
• 33:51
  all sorts of issues, you know, political issues, social issues,
• 33:54
  cultural issues, religious issues.
• 33:56
  And for the Kooka runs the, for the Kooka Center, which is
• 34:01
  devoted to good governance, I think good governance and
• 34:04
  interreligious dialogue or something like that.
• 34:06
  So that's for the Kooka. Now, now somebody that IB
• 34:09
  respects, that's my former flatmate.
• 34:12
  So some of you are wondering IB, where, where is that?
• 34:15
  Like is that Japanese? No, it's not Japanese.
• 34:18
  He actually is from Cookie State.
• 34:20
  See, that's the problem with Nigeria.
• 34:21
  They say three major languages, Saibo and Yoruba, and a lot of
• 34:24
  you go to school and you wouldn't realize that other
• 34:26
  people exist. So the first time you run into
• 34:28
  contact with someone like me, say, what's your name?
• 34:30
  Tavishima? He say, where are you from?
• 34:32
  I'm from Nigeria, damn it. I'm from Benoit State.
• 34:35
  And then you run into IB and then you say, are you what?
• 34:37
  Where are you from? And he's Nigeria and he's from
• 34:39
  Cookie. He's one of those things, if it
• 34:41
  reminds me when I met my wife back then, we're still dating.
• 34:45
  I just like, where are you from? I said I'm teeth.
• 34:47
  She said what? I thought you guys were extinct.
• 34:50
  I said I laugh. That as a boss, laugh.
• 34:54
  Seriously. I said, you said what?
• 34:56
  He said I thought you guys were extinct.
• 35:00
  She said, you know, we used to read about you guys, the teeth
• 35:02
  people used to read about teeth, people in history books and not
• 35:05
  culture and everything. So I thought all of you guys
• 35:07
  were extinct. I laugh.
• 35:09
  I said, no, we're not extinct. What still exists?
• 35:12
  We're still in Benue state, parts of Nassau state, parts of
• 35:15
  Taraba States, you know, so two people were still here.
• 35:18
  If you're listening to this podcast, two people were not
• 35:20
  extinct. We're here.
• 35:22
  And then my former classmate Ibe, he's a basa.
• 35:25
  I can't remember if he's basa angi or basa something because
• 35:28
  you know, you go that side, all those child basa, this basa,
• 35:31
  this basa. So I'd like to abuse him too.
• 35:33
  So it's just normal, you know, when you're friends, you abuse
• 35:36
  each other just like I like to abuse Yoruba people because my
• 35:38
  sister-in-law is Yoruba. So that's what gives me the
• 35:41
  right. If you think I abuse you about
• 35:42
  people too much, it's because I'm one of you.
• 35:45
  You're my family, you're my in laws, you're about people.
• 35:48
  So I can abuse you anyhow. So where was I now?
• 35:54
  How did I ever enter this level now anyway, where was I?
• 36:03
  Father Cooker. OK, yes, Father Cooker IB.
• 36:05
  So that's it. But side note, if people exist,
• 36:10
  we're not extinct. Masa people exist.
• 36:13
  They're not extinct. Gwari people exist.
• 36:16
  They're not extinct. Knock people exist.
• 36:19
  And OK, and I don't mean knock in Ireland.
• 36:22
  So knock in Katuna. They still exist.
• 36:26
  You know, they're still here. Be wrong people.
• 36:28
  They still exist. We're not extinct.
• 36:30
  So there are plenty of other tribes.
• 36:31
  We're still here. We are not extinct.
• 36:34
  Yes, you read about us in history books, but we're here.
• 36:36
  Live direct, No, you can't see us well, all over the place.
• 36:41
  So IB, now IB, IB, how did I enter this place?
• 36:47
  AI tools now, So IB respects Bishop Hooker.
• 36:51
  So let's say now that Bishop Hooker has a very correct DP,
• 36:54
  very correct display picture. You see it somewhere and you
• 36:58
  like it. So IB said this is what he did.
• 37:00
  He took the AI tool, he took the picture, he put it into his
• 37:03
  favorite AI tool. Let's say it's Gemini and then
• 37:05
  IB. Now said Gemini describe this
• 37:08
  picture. Now of course Gemini would
• 37:10
  describe the picture saying this is a picture of a prominent
• 37:13
  Nigerian cleric named so, so so and so.
• 37:16
  This image is most likely taken with aspect ratio.
• 37:19
  Something, something, something with camera apture, something,
• 37:22
  something, something with this level of contrast, this level of
• 37:26
  saturation, this level of this, this level of that.
• 37:31
  The tool Gemini would describe this picture in detail.
• 37:36
  So that's what AB did. You will now take that
• 37:40
  description and now personalize it.
• 37:44
  You will remove all dimension of Father cooker.
• 37:47
  You will leave all those technical elements, correct the
• 37:50
  elements about saturation, about aperture, about focus, about
• 37:54
  depth of field, about orientation, about everything.
• 37:59
  You leave all those details there.
• 38:01
  You will now carry your own picture and put your own picture
• 38:04
  in the AI tool in this case, which is Gemini.
• 38:08
  I tell Gemini edit this my DP in line with this instructions
• 38:14
  below. You know, carry the
• 38:15
  instructions, copy and then paste.
• 38:19
  When you do that, the result will shock you.
• 38:22
  It will take your ordinary looking DP and by the time you
• 38:27
  finish like even you, you start falling in love with yourself
• 38:29
  like now maybe this you trip. So once I be told me the secret
• 38:36
  I started doing nothing with myself and all more.
• 38:38
  You should see the pictures I've come up with In fact the picture
• 38:43
  for the training that is coming up on the 12th of January to the
• 38:45
  23rd. You see that fine picture there
• 38:49
  that's me AI. The reason I use AI is because
• 38:53
  my partner says I suppose wear suit and I say me wear suit.
• 38:56
  I have no worn suit in the last see the last time I wore suit
• 38:59
  was me and my wife were getting married 15 years ago.
• 39:01
  That's the last time I wore suit.
• 39:03
  I say me suit. Where will I find suit?
• 39:05
  Would the suit even fit me? So that's I will just the paper
• 39:08
  bar and then bra is a picture of me wearing suit.
• 39:12
  Now. AI Well, yes, I'm not handsome.
• 39:17
  If you look at the picture, you know I'm not handsome.
• 39:19
  I'm a fine boy. Where was I?
• 39:22
  So that is the final recommendation for how to use a
• 39:25
  prompt. If you're confused, you don't
• 39:27
  know what to do Gary Vaynerchuck has given you the formula.
• 39:29
  He says tell the AI tool who you are.
• 39:32
  Say what you do, say what problem you're facing.
• 39:35
  Tell it. I don't know how to prompt.
• 39:36
  Now as the AI tool, can you come up with a prompt that will help
• 39:39
  me decode no figure out these problems that I'm facing now?
• 39:43
  Throw it in there. It will give you a detailed
• 39:45
  prompt. Take that prompt, personalize
• 39:48
  it, throw it back into the machine and you say that you're
• 39:50
  making progress. Now, bottom line, the reason why
• 39:53
  I'm making today's podcast episode is please, for those of
• 39:56
  you who are fans of the podcast, you follow the podcast.
• 39:58
  If I meet you in person, I don't want to hear you arguing with
• 40:01
  somebody over which is better. There's none that is better.
• 40:04
  All of them, for the purposes of what we do, trying to solve
• 40:07
  business problems, they are all equal.
• 40:10
  Clawed, ChatGPT, perplexity, whatever, they are all equal.
• 40:15
  Stop waiting for the perfect tool.
• 40:17
  I've already been involved in an industry where people wasted too
• 40:20
  much time. You should see the level of
• 40:23
  arguments that photographers have over Sony versus.
• 40:28
  Canon, which one is better? Canon versus Nikon, which one is
• 40:32
  better? Nikon versus Blacker, which one
• 40:35
  is better? They argue and argue and argue.
• 40:38
  Meanwhile it's not about the camera, it's about the
• 40:42
  photographer. If you are a correct
• 40:45
  photographer, it doesn't matter which camera anybody gives you.
• 40:48
  You would do work and your work will slay well.
• 40:53
  So it's the same way AI. Stop getting involved in all
• 40:55
  these arguments. Learn how to prompt.
• 40:58
  You will get very good results from whatever AI tool you're
• 41:00
  using. So that's it.
• 41:02
  Remember, subscribe to us to the podcast on Spotify, Apple
• 41:06
  iTunes, or any podcast play of your choice.
• 41:10
  And if you want to be part of the training that is coming up
• 41:12
  on the 12th of January to the 23rd of January, it's only going
• 41:15
  to be 10 days, don't worry, Monday to Friday.
• 41:17
  So Saturdays and Sundays off, then hit me up, call, send me a
• 41:21
  text message or WhatsApp message on 08064662140.
• 41:28
  Or if you just want to say hello, then reach out.
• 41:31
  You can also find me on LinkedIn.
• 41:32
  That's the only social media that I have.
• 41:35
  So that's it, that's all. Thank you very much for
• 41:37
  listening. I'll catch you guys some other
• 41:39
  time.