Doug [00:00:04]:
Hey. There’s 06:46 now on your Friday, March 28. It is the final Friday of the month of March. Let’s see. We’ve got 52 degrees partly cloudy in Cedar Rapids. Sixty One mostly cloudy in Davenport. Iowa City checks in mostly cloudy 48. Mostly cloudy 46 in, Dubuque Fifty degrees and clear in Waterloo here on the morning show.
Doug [00:00:26]:
Welcome into the Denny’s Automotive and Muffler Center newsmaker line, Joshua McNary, he’s the principal at McNary Marketing and Design, joins me on the morning show. And, he wants to know, have you started your spring business projects yet? Good morning, Joshua. How are you?
Joshua McNary [00:00:45]:
I’m good. Thanks for having me back, Doug.
Doug [00:00:48]:
Offering some suggestions to individuals who are taking a look at their spring cleaning, so to speak, tech efforts and and starting, you’re doing some new technology transformations for some of your clients. Talk to us about what you encouraging a business technology self check-in.
Joshua McNary [00:01:06]:
Yes. Well, it’s spring and we’re almost at the end of this quarter. Can you believe it? I mean, just in a few days from now, we’re gonna be 25% through the year. So my goal is sending this newsletter out to my readers was to say, hey. You know, let’s just stop for a minute here. Slow down. Get out of the weeds per se as they’re beginning to grow. And Yeah.
Joshua McNary [00:01:25]:
Say, hey. What can we be doing in our businesses to advance our businesses before it’s too late? You know? Twenty twenty five feels it feels like it just started Mhmm. But we’re already 25% of the way through. And with my my work around business technology, a lot of those projects often get left behind because you’re getting busy.
Doug [00:01:44]:
Yeah. And it seems unfortunate because you’re like, well, I’m gonna get around, dude, or I’ll get there. I’ll get there. And a lot of times, we just don’t have the time because it come up to well, bandwidth is one of the things. But what other things have you found are blocking people from taking advantage of implementing technology?
Joshua McNary [00:02:01]:
Well, these types of projects, anything that is, of importance usually is not as urgent. You know, usually, the urgent things are what stop you from doing these big important resolutions you have to begin the year. So by stopping and just saying, hey, let’s see where we’re at, we can think about what’s blocking us and we can figure out what really is truly the bigger priority. Is it some kind of effort that can help us sell more, do more, be more efficient in our business, which technology often helps us do? Or, you know, is it okay, right today, we gotta deal with this emergency client problem. Of course, we gotta deal that. Right. But stopping and thinking about it, being smart about how we’re using our time. And now that we’re 25% of the way through, we still have time to do some of those projects.
Joshua McNary [00:02:51]:
So let’s let’s think about those.
Doug [00:02:53]:
Yeah. Joshua McNary from McNary Marketing Design joining me here on the morning show, and I have a, somebody that I work with on a regular basis. They own a business along with their wife, and he is like the king of AI. And he has, been talking about how he has utilized AI in order to minimize the amount of time that he has to do things like, putting together marketing materials, writing blogs, and things like that. And allowing it if you use it correctly, it can do some of the thinking for you.
Joshua McNary [00:03:27]:
Absolutely. Well, I mean, that’s another thing you could do at this time is, like, what am I seeing around me that I could potentially use to make my work better or make my business better? And artificial intelligence, of course, remains the buzzword over the last number of years around technology. So in that space, yeah, absolutely, you should be looking at any technology tools you’re using in your day to day work. What little magical AI button do they have there? Try it. If you haven’t tried it before, you haven’t tried it for a while, try it again and see what you can make happen with the with that AI functions. Or maybe it’s time to go back to those tools you’ve tried before, like, chat GPT. Mhmm. Maybe you tried it a year ago and you haven’t been using it a lot.
Joshua McNary [00:04:09]:
I tell clients, go try it again. Because if you do, a lot of times, the the the huge leaps and bounds that they’re making in those tools, you’ll be surprised what you’ll see when you go back and try a second time.
Doug [00:04:20]:
Yeah. And just, I mean, even week to week, the changes that they’re making in some of these things. I used Grok for something. And, I gotta tell you, when I pulled back and looked, I was like, you know what? I knew all these things, but it it gave me all of those things in a matter of seconds rather than take me half hour would have taken me for me to type that all out. Absolutely. Joshua McNeery.
Joshua McNary [00:04:41]:
AI daily.
Doug [00:04:42]:
Yep. Exactly. How do people find you on the Internet?
Joshua McNary [00:04:45]:
You can find me at mcnarymarketing.com. If you wanna subscribe to the newsletter, mcnarymarketing.com/subscribe.
Doug [00:04:52]:
Go ahead and do that. Hey, Joshua. Have a wonderful weekend. I’m glad to talk to you again. Take care.
Joshua McNary [00:04:57]:
Thanks, Doug.
Doug [00:04:57]:
Alright. 06:51 in the morning show. Sean Hannity is up next.