By Matt Wolfe

Let‘s be honest: if you’re running a business focused on AI tools and you‘re not using AI to grow that business, you’re missing the point entirely.

I’ve been testing AI growth strategies for months now to boost my following across YouTube, X, and my newsletter. These tools aren‘t just speeding up the grunt work. They’re helping me create content that stands out in a sea of generic content.

Here are the exact AI-powered workflows, tools, and tips that powered my success. Let’s dive in.

YouTube Growth Strategies with AI

When it comes to growing on YouTube, you need hooks that people feel compelled to click on and content that follows through. While that balance seems tricky, AI can help you get it right. Here’s how AI helped me grow my YouTube channel to over 785,000 subscribers.

Thumbnails

You can make the most informative, entertaining video of all time. But, if your thumbnail is boring, potential viewers will keep scrolling. Luckily, AI can help you create click-worthy images — no graphic design background required.

In the past, I used Stable Diffusion with the Dream Booth add-on to make AI art and add my face to thumbnails. Now, I use Leonardo. This tool has a built-in feature that lets me add my likeness to their system. Now, I can generate thumbnails with my face directly without any extra steps.

Here’s another method:

• You can ask Midjourney to generate an image of a person. For example, I may ask for a man sitting in a chair beside a robot.
• You can then import the output to Stable Diffusion.
• Then, mask the AI person’s face and ask Stable Diffusion to replace it with your face.

The result is a high-quality image that accurately shows what you look like.

Pro tip: Ask your image generator to make your thumbnails bright and colorful. Your final image should pop on viewers’ feeds.

Titles

The perfect title strikes a delicate balance. You want something that both entices people to click and accurately portrays your video’s content. In the past, I’d get stuck trying to write something succinct, punchy, and honest.

AI makes the process easy and helps me get the perfect title faster. Here’s my workflow.

• Once my video is edited, I pull it into a tool like Descript to get the transcription.
• I take the transcription, plug it into ChatGPT’s 4o model, and say, “Help me come up with ten titles that’ll grab a lot of attention based on this transcript.”
• That gets me pretty close to done. From there, I tweak my favorite headline and decide on my final title.

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Source:: HubSpot Blog

      

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