𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆: Badge scans give you a name, email, and generic details. That tells you nothing: what they said, what they need, or how they feel. But things are changing. Let me introduce you to Plaud.ai. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜𝘀 𝗜𝘁?: Plaud.ai is a wearable AI recording device that clips right to your lanyard, shirt, phone, etc. It records your conversations, syncs to your phone, and delivers a full transcript, speaker-labeled notes, and AI-generated action items automatically. 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗜𝘁 𝗕𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲?: No more scribbled notes. No more "I think he mentioned Q3." No more follow-up emails that sound like you forgot who you talked to. After the show, drop every conversation summary into ChatGPT or Claude and ask it to flag the hottest leads, identify the top pain points, and suggest one piece of content to send the whole list. What comes back is a sales intelligence report, a content strategy, and a follow-up plan. All in one shot. Your booth is the best focus group you'll never pay for. Plaud captures everything that focus group is telling you. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀?: 💲Hardware starts at $159 (one-time). 💲Service plan runs about $8.33/month billed annually. Worth every penny before your next show. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗧𝗼 𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝗜𝘁: 1. Clip it to your lanyard, shirt, phone, etc 2. Tap once to record when someone walks up 3. Tap again when the conversation ends 4. Review transcripts and summaries in the app 5. Feed summaries into your AI tool for follow-up and analysis That's it. 10 minutes to learn. 30 seconds per conversation to operate. I called this out in my chapter in *AI in the Field* (co-written with Alicia Lyttle) and I'm calling it out again here. It's my #1 recommendation right now. What do you think about this technology on the show floor? How useful, or useless, do you see this being?

It was soooo easy. (And close to free.) Last week, I saved HOURS. I didn't work faster. I just stopped doing the stuff Claude Extension could do while I was busy being human. 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲... My email blast looked perfect in Outlook. Then I checked it in Yahoo. The spacing was a mess. Fixing that kind of thing means digging into CSS files and HTML code. That's not a quick fix. Claude's Chrome Extension found the issue and corrected it while I kept working on other things. That's the point. I stayed human while AI fixed my tech problem. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀: It lives inside your Chrome browser as a side panel. You tell it what to do and it gets to work. It clicks buttons, fills forms, pulls data from dashboards, and moves between tabs on its own. You don't have to stop what you're doing. It runs in the background while you stay focused on the work only you can do. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀: It's free to download. You'll need a paid Claude plan to use it. I'm on the $20 a month Pro plan. Higher tier plans unlock more powerful features, but the Pro plan gets the job done. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝘂𝗽 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: 1 - Open Google Chrome 2 - Go to the Chrome Web Store and search "Claude AI for Chrome" 3 - Click Add to Chrome 4 - Sign in with your Claude account 5 - Click the puzzle piece icon in your toolbar and pin Claude 6 - Click the Claude icon to open your side panel 7 - Type what you want done and let it work You are welcome in advance. =) 𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗲: - 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁. I might have a tool for that. - how Claude Extension can help with your next project, task, problem.

You don't need to be with this FREE tool. How many times have you typed something vague into an AI chat, gotten a garbage answer, and then spent the next 20 minutes trying to fix it? Yeah. Me too. But, it wasn’t AI's fault. It was our first prompt. This free Chrome extension helps you nail it right out of the gate: 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘁 𝗦𝗹𝗼𝘁𝗵. 5.0 stars on the Chrome Web Store. 30,000+ prompts already improved. And the free tier requires no credit card. How it works after downloaded: 1 - Type your rough idea in the chat prompt box. 2 - Click the purple diamond above it. 3 - Presto-magic: It turns your hot mess of a thought into a clean, structured prompt before you hit send. Marketing professionals are using it for things like: 💥Writing better briefs for ad copy and email campaigns 💥Getting cleaner outputs from AI tools the first time 💥Turning vague ideas into structured content requests 💥Building a private prompt library with reusable templates 💥Accessing a community library with // shortcuts It works inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, and more. No extra tabs. It lives right where you already type. Pricing: - Free: 10 prompt enhancements per week, forever - Pro: $4.99/month or $3.99/month billed annually - Lifetime Pro: $89 one-time payment To get it, go to: https://promptsloth.com/ 👇Have you ever wasted 20 minutes in an AI chat because your first prompt was off? Drop a comment below so I don't think I'm the only one who has done that. 😊

You’re driving through somewhere you’ve never been, and your phone starts telling you exactly what happened right in that exact spot. Not a generic Wikipedia summary. A real story. Like your grandpa is sitting in the back seat pointing out the window. ❤️ That’s Guide Along. And I freaking love it. My mom and I used it driving through South Dakota last year. A stranger we met at dinner recommended it early in our trip and it honestly made the entire trip. Any time you pass a site worth talking about, the app starts talking. It just knows where you are and tells you the story. It also gives you turn-by-turn directions if you’re going to take the whole tour. They have tours for: • U.S. West and East • Hawaii and Alaska • Canada and Puerto Rico • Iceland, Mexico, Scotland, and Australia Pricing ranges from about $20 to $85 depending on your destination. You buy by location so you only pay for where you are going. To get it, search “GuideAlong” in your app store. If you are heading to a trade show city this year or taking a road trip along the way, this makes the drive a whole lot more interesting. FYI, I timed this Tech-Tool-Friday Tip on purpose. Summer is coming and families are about to hit the road. Consider this your head start. Where are you traveling this summer? Drop it in the comments.