SpeakerNet News 7/3/2026

7/3/2026

Editors: Rebecca Morgan & Ken Braly

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Miscellaneous Tips

AI author scam — Jeff Davidson

Watch out for scammers who use AI to determine what your book is all about. Then they employ the four or five generated paragraphs to convince you that they’ve analyzed your book and know how to get you higher Amazon or Google rankings. Be wary of similar scams for speaker coaching and website rankings.

Shift happening across C-suites — Robin Speculand

There is a significant shift happening across C-suites and boardrooms. The demand has shifted from integrating AI tissue and its value. This has accelerated the pace of top-performing companies in measuring economic value. This is from transformation: the measurable improvement in an organization’s ability to create, protect, and scale (CSP) value faster, smarter, and more efficiently than before.

It involves shifting the leader’s mindset from focusing on the bottom line in AI to recognizing and prioritizing the conversion of strategy, people, technology, and customer insights into superior revenue, lower costs, faster decisions, reduced risk, and sustained competitive advantage.

For example, a bank invests in AI to approve loans faster. Bottom-line value: It reduces manual processing costs. Economic Value: It also makes customers happier, improves speed, provides the bank with better data, and helps it compete against digital banks. The cost savings are immediate. The strategic value is the stronger position the bank builds for the future. The challenges helping the right mindset for leaders to be patient-not an easy task!

In an AI-driven world, the biggest value often comes from:

Customers
Employees
Efficiency
Risk
Revenue
Speed

If it doesn’t move one of those, kill it, as it’s only creating activity, not value.

Remember as “CEERRS,” and that after more than a decade of digital & AI transformation, most transformations still fail. Demonstrating the economic value of AI is a powerful driver of an organization’s success in today’s highly competitive markets.

Travel Tips

Using AI to help you beat the heat — Rebecca Morgan

If you’re like me, you sometimes go in a day early or stay a day after an out-of-town engagement to get to see the local sites. If you are caught in a heat wave during your off time and have planned to walk around sites, I found AI useful for locating indoor sites with air conditioning. It came up with ideas I might not have on my own, and gave me a welcome respite from the heat.

Requests for Info / Advice

Request software recommendation — David McLauren

I’m looking for a platform to handle bi-monthly newsletters, CRM management, automated emails, and digital product marketing all in one place. Does GHL still make sense, or are other speakers gravitating toward something different these days? Do you have any recommendations for getting a GHL sub-account or for someone who can help with backend business needs?

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