Chosen episode title: AI Is a Toddler With Crayons: How to Rein It In and Put It to Work

You don't expect a digital marketer to say this out loud: "Let's call cold email what it is. It's spam. It's B2B spam." But Dan Kurtz has spent twenty years learning exactly where the line sits between marketing that works and marketing that gets you deleted — and these days he's building AI systems that let one person do the work of ten, without crossing it.

Dan started out getting mom-and-pop shops found online, scaled his skills across a 300-location national fitness franchise, and did stints inside Nielsen and Microsoft Bing before founding Miss Pepper AI, where he builds marketing automation and AI-driven sales systems for businesses.

We Also Talked About
Why your Google Business Profile only ranks if your website mirrors it, with pages for every service and area you claim.
How a modest press release can land a local business in Google's AI answer boxes.
What "black hat" actually means, and the irony Dan spotted at a major SEO conference.
The permission gates that keep automated outreach on the right side of spam — and the law.
Using AI as an "assembly line worker" instead of a creative that veers off the path.
Why Dan starts every automation project with the most overworked employee in the building, stopwatch in hand.
How to bring managers on board by showing them productivity, not problems.
Who gets replaced and who gets promoted when AI arrives — the line-worker-to-plant-manager shift.
Dan's advice for employees: use AI to optimise your own work first, and become the use case.

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Resources Mentioned
Miss Pepper AI — https://misspepper.ai/
Dan Kurtz on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtzdan/
Linchpin by Seth Godin (affiliate link) 
Pipedream (secure integration platform) — https://pipedream.com/

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Chosen episode title: AI Is a Toddler With Crayons: How to Rein It In and Put It to Work
You don't expect a digital marketer to say this out loud: "Let's call cold email what it is. It's spam. It's B2B spam." But Dan Kurtz has spent twenty years learning exactly where the line sits between marketing that works and marketing that gets you deleted &mdash; and these days he's building AI systems that let one person do the work of ten, without crossing it.
Dan started out getting mom-and-pop shops found online, scaled his skills across a 300-location national fitness franchise, and did stints inside Nielsen and Microsoft Bing before founding Miss Pepper AI, where he builds marketing automation and AI-driven sales systems for businesses.
We Also Talked About
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">Why your Google Business Profile only ranks if your website mirrors it, with pages for every service and area you claim.</li>
<li aria-level="1">How a modest press release can land a local business in Google's AI answer boxes.</li>
<li aria-level="1">What "black hat" actually means, and the irony Dan spotted at a major SEO conference.</li>
<li aria-level="1">The permission gates that keep automated outreach on the right side of spam &mdash; and the law.</li>
<li aria-level="1">Using AI as an "assembly line worker" instead of a creative that veers off the path.</li>
<li aria-level="1">Why Dan starts every automation project with the most overworked employee in the building, stopwatch in hand.</li>
<li aria-level="1">How to bring managers on board by showing them productivity, not problems.</li>
<li aria-level="1">Who gets replaced and who gets promoted when AI arrives &mdash; the line-worker-to-plant-manager shift.</li>
<li aria-level="1">Dan's advice for employees: use AI to optimise your own work first, and become the use case.</li>
</ul>
Want this kind of practical, expert help every week &mdash; before your competitors do? Get tips and strategies for growing your business delivered straight to your inbox: https://onlinebusinessliftoff.com/newsletter
Resources Mentioned
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">Miss Pepper AI &mdash; <a href="https://misspepper.ai/">https://misspepper.ai/</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Dan Kurtz on LinkedIn &mdash; <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtzdan/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtzdan/</a></li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://geni.us/Linchpin-Godin">Linchpin</a> by Seth Godin (affiliate link)&nbsp;</li>
<li aria-level="1">Pipedream (secure integration platform) &mdash; <a href="https://pipedream.com/">https://pipedream.com/</a></li>
</ul>
My newsletter is for people who want to build a real income from home &mdash; practical, doable ideas each week for creating a better life for you and your family, without the overwhelm: https://onlinebusinessliftoff.com/newsletter

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