Just off the phone with another business owner, an existing MSP client. We are starting a paid engagement on Tuesday.
He has some crews on the road installing a product. Those crews are going to start taking before, during, and after photos of the jobs, to help illustrate the transformation that this product makes.
He has asked me to come up with a way to help the guys on site manage the upload of the photos and related job information - hard working guys with not an awful lot of time or much IT inclination.
I then suggested....
- Helping his guys with his initial request โโ AND โโ
- Improving the quality of the information uploaded to make it more useful
- Automating the process of those job photos being compiled in the correct order and a social media post about the job being drafted and presented for approval of both the photographs and the content of the social media post to the business owner (style based in his previous posting history)
- And auotomating the posting to multiple social media accounts of the photos and the approved post content.
- He doesn't know it, but I'll throw in automatic blog post creation as a bonus.
I already have a fair idea of how I'm going to do it.
The key point here is I didn't sell this to him. He called me for advice about a simple technical matter and I simply suggested that the rest COULD be done, and suggested a framework only (no specific tools or much detail)
He then sold himself and spontaneously decided that, despite his own AI use, he needed us to do it for him because it souned a bit complicated.