Hey folks. I'm quite the newbie in this community but I thought I'd share something that I see with my clients all the time. (I work in the SMB Service Niche) If you are frequently spending an inordinate amount of time worrying about "is it good enough to to ship>?" this may help you get over it ;-) I hope it's ok to post a link in here... bit's not like you haven't heard of Hormozi or Vaynerchuck before. #onlyquittersfail. https://youtu.be/U-CWGwQ0VrY

I wanted to shoutout the Top Members (MVPs) of the AI Marketing Insiders for the month of April! And special thanks to @Catherine Eadie of course for all of her help as my Community Admin 🤝 I appreciate all of you, and these individuals are leading the way and pushing this community forward: 30 Day Leaderboard 🏆 1. @Rafal Glaz 2. @Nesil Ozer 3. @Rod Macbeth 4. @Henry Haevernick 5. @Joe Joe 6. @Matthias Lindner 7. @Denis Laflamme 8. @Chris Stack 9. @Mike Bryan 10. @Tim Naylor Other Members on the 7 Day Leaderboard 🏆 - @Eddie Corletto - @Carol M - @Ryan Snaadt All Time Leaderboard 🏆 1. @Rafal Glaz 2. @Matthias Lindner 3. @Rod Macbeth 4. @Carol M 5. @Carlota López-Peredo 6. @Shelly Frank 7. @Nesil Ozer 8. @Randy Smith 9. @Joe Joe 10. @Lyra Lopez I look forward to seeing the Community Leaderboard for May 🫡

I finally got around to testing Claude Design this Sunday afternoon and wow I'm actually impressed! Still need to do some exploring but in one shot I told it to improve my digital product landing page (https://skills.ryandoser.com/) and optimize for more conversions and I was very impressed with the output and how user friendly this is. Has anyone else starting using Claude Design yet for real world applications?

So I spent most of yesterday going round in circles trying to sort out a technical problem. Around 5 hours in total. But working through it with Claude finally got me there, and I think it's a good example of where AI genuinely reduces cognitive load rather than just adding noise. The backstory: my clients push back on using Zoom. Some are blocked from it at work. So I finally made the move to Microsoft Teams. Three problems followed immediately. First, working out which Microsoft 365 licence actually matched my needs. Second, getting Teams to authenticate with two third-party platforms I use for scheduling. Third, and this is the one that nearly broke me: the error messages were completely useless. Just "something went wrong." No direction, no explanation, no next step. Claude walked me through the troubleshooting and eventually steered me toward entra.microsoft.com, a Microsoft admin portal I had never heard of and never logged into. Turns out some consent settings in there were blocking the integrations entirely. A few setting changes later, it worked. The point isn't that AI is magic. It took 5 hours and a lot of discussion and screenshots. The point is that having something to think out loud with, that could interpret vague error messages and suggest where to look next, made an otherwise impossible task manageable. And worth noting: professional IT support for this kind of issue is expensive and largely geared toward larger organisations on contracts. Small businesses and sole traders are mostly left to figure it out alone. AI doesn't replace expert technical knowledge, but it does level the playing field a little for those of us without an IT department.

This is what we ended up with after a non leading conversation. Even got Turn ons and Offs! lol