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AI and You: Is ChatGPT Here To Stay, Or A Passing Fad? Recently, I had a brief LinkedIn exchange with few prolific LinkedIn creators @Darrell Lerner and @Konstantine Buhler that got me thinking: Is AI here to stay, or is it just another passing fad? Before I offer my own opinion, it's important to note that some data and LN opinions from Darrell will be properly attributed. Darrell recapped that GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters, while GPT-4 has 170 trillion parameters. He also expressed his belief that AI is not a fun toy that will die out in a few months. It's here to stay and moving at the speed of light. So, is AI here to stay? My two cents say yes, and here's why. Firstly, unlike fads that come and go, AI started decades ago and has been growing in spurts ever since.  While many people think AI started with ChatGPT, the building blocks of AI actually began decades ago. It's only in the last decade that computing power and affordability have made it possible for AI...

Super Apps : What Are They, And How You Can Benefit? The flareAI Helpful Series for Mid-market & Small Ecommerce businesses Two market forces are driving the growth of Super Apps, which are rapidly gaining adoption in the eCommerce world. #1  Shopify merchants, and consumers too, are becoming fatigued by too many apps. Many merchants add free apps, only to discover they can slow down page speed, damage SEO, cause redundancies, and lead to increased staffing costs. #2  AI adoption is rising exponentially, with professionals realizing the potential for AI-based apps to boost productivity dramatically and grow their businesses. But what exactly is a Super App? According to a blogger at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, Super App builds upon its core functionality to combine seemingly unrelated services that users need or want into one place.  WeChat, China's omnibus app launched by Tencent in 2011, is a prime example of a Super App, allowing users to text, access city servi...

flareAI for Shopify : Whatsup with WhatsApp? The flareAI Fast Answers Series for Mid-market & Small Ecommerce businesses #Meta has done it, yet again.  Taken an altruistic privacy-first company WhatsApp from a few million in revenue to a widely guessed figure of $5billion+ WhatsApp is the most used instant messaging app in the world Whatsup with WhatsApp? 10 million to 2.24 billion users, in 10 years. 100 billion messages every day. India has the most WhatsApp users: 500 million.  80 million WhatsApp users in the United States. As Shopify Merchants, what we care about is how can our store leverage WhatsApp.  Say Hello to “WhatsApp Business”. But with SMS, Email, and FB Messenger do you really need another platform? Yes, if you want to sell in India, Brazil, and Indonesia. Here WhatsApp is #1. WhatsApp Business: One advantage over Texting is that WhatsApp Business is tied directly to a single phone number and provides a branded business profile rather than a string of...

Slow Cooking, an Ecommerce Recipe The flareAI Series for Small & Mid-market Ecommerce businesses Mark Zuckerberg says, "Move fast and break things" True for a venture-funded startup. But… As an eCommerce business owner growing profitably is key, your goal  shouldn't be to Grow Fast but to Grow Better. Eommerce business is cyclical.  Instead of scrambling all the time to add revenue, what if you took this off-time to slow down and work ON your business? Yummm A slow-cooked chili and barbecue brings out the tenderness & flavor.  Worth the wait, don't you say? Use the "slow times" to take your eCommerce business to the next level.  Top 4 business "slow cooking" recipes you can work on... 1. Audit Your Fulfillment & Shipping:  Fulfillment & Shipping is often one of the biggest expenses for an eCommerce business. When was the last time you did a careful analysis and re-negotiated with your UPS/FedEx/Warehouse Account Manager? 2. Audit ...

The #1 WRONG Way to Add Subscription Products to Your Ecommerce Store The flareAI Series for Small & Mid-market Ecommerce businesses Imagine, I am a store owner (Which we truly were) Say, I start by saying... "I want to add predictable repeatable sales to my store. So I will add a subscriptions feature in my store" That mindset, my friend is what will get me to Subscription hell. Mass returns and unsubscribes. That is why we have 10,001 entrepreneurs trying to create a coffee subscription eCommerce business. Yes, coffee is high-margin, we drink it every day.  But the me-too world of same-ness makes the apparent benefits vanish, especially in the Subscriptions business. Let's see what mindset we need to add Subscriptions the RIGHT WAY. First, it's not about US the store owners.  It's about OUR CUSTOMERS. Visit or Zoom-meet with 5 of your existing customers or ideal clients. Ask them about their most pressing pain point(s) with purchases they need to make repe...

Happy SWSX Festival Y’all, Austin, Texas, Mar 10-19, 2023 : Invitation to Shopify Merchants in Town this week Inviting Shopify store owners & teams, if you are in Austin, TX this week hangout with the flareAI app crew. Chill with some drinks and start a conversation.  Excited to be hanging out at the two invite-only venues today and next few days: Inc Founders House Funded House  Shopify merchants in Austin, please DM me so I can send you the invite link to the Inc Founders House. Look forward to meeting you.  If SWSX is new to you, it is weirdly eclectic combination of festival & business celebrating the convergence of tech, film, music, education, and culture.  Welcome to the flareAI family! Get free sales from Google, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok & 20+ Free Sales Channels, on Autopilot: https://flareAI.co If you found the content helpful consider supporting the Shopify Community with a Like + Comment http://bit.ly/3Ff0Hjn

Join the Elite Ranks of Shopify Success: Merchants Who Added $5 Million+ in Sales Without Paid Ads in 2022! Learn the simple method for adding thousands of dollars in sales, no paid ads, no added staff. Over $10 billion in Ecommerce is transacted every single day on Google.  Sadly, only for the very large stores: Amazon, Target, Walmart. An overwhelming majority of us eCommerce stores, are not even fully found on Google. That means many of your products are not found by customers searching on Google. Come find out how, with two clicks, you can fight back with tools that starts getting your Shopify store products found on Google and get sales from Google.  Join us March 9th at 3:30pm Central. LIVE Webinar. We’ll show how three Shopify merchants did it and are each getting thousands of dollars in sales from Google. Register Now: http://bit.ly/3ZCaIiE http://bit.ly/3ZCaIiE

The Autopilot Ecommerce Weapon That Can Net You $100,000 This Year We are helping eCommerce companies fight back against monied competition that makes searching a pay-to-play proposition.  A overwhelming majority of us eCommerce stores, have only 5% of the products indexed. That means 95% of your products will never be found by customers searching on Google. Come find out how to fight back with tools that starts getting your Shopify store products found on Google so you’re getting sales from search again. And can prove it.  Join us March 9th at 3:30pm Central. LIVE Webinar. We’ll show how three different eCommerce brands did it and are now autopiloting their sales from search. Register Now: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkfu-orT8qEtaEeyjBW_rdxhVf8KeAzPoI http://bit.ly/3ZCaIiE

The Top 50 Websites That Rule the World: Is Your Favorite Site Among Them? Here are 3 interesting observations by @Yasir Chowdhery >> Google is 75x Bing : Microsoft has a lot to gain in the war of search. >> Social Network is a lot more fragmented than Search :  We use multiple social media networks but we usually use only one search engine. >> Twitter and Instagram both got 6 Billion visits :  Twitter can easily be 5x its purchased price. Elon has a lot of monetization opportunities. A few astute summaries from Nick Routley >> There are 2 billion websites, but only a handful receive the lion’s share of online traffic. >> The United States is still home base for many of the world’s biggest websites, taking up 30 spots on this ranking. Russia, China, Japan, and South Korea round out the top five. >> TikTok has seen a surge in popularity in recent years and is now one of the most popular social media platforms in the world. Is Your Favorite Si...