How are other businesses using AI?

[14Steve14]

We started to use AI to do keyword research and then to help us with our websites SEO. That seems to work, and is an ongoing project. This entailed altering category and product descriptions, titles and text and all the meta tag stuff and including more keywords that I would not think of.

We used it to help create different emails. Improving the text alone seems to have made a huge difference to customer responses. We then went through most of the standard text on the website and updated it all. I don't think there is one language file that didn't have something changed in it.

We then started using it to help produce help guide layouts and text, which we could then alter and match to our styles, and customers love them. We also then created PDF files from these help guides and sell them for a low price and again customers love having something they can read when doing jobs.

Just for a bit of fun we created a 24 day advent calendar giveaway in the run up to Christmas, all AI generated. Customers loved it.

There were areas of the website that needed little tweeks to get what we wanted. Extra columns added in some pages, whole code changes with different reports produced. Silly things like adding in monthly, 3 monthly, 6 monthly and yearly columns in the details sale report. We added in customer and product information into one admin page which can be downloaded into Royal Mail Click and Drop. Adding in a way to show any additional customer addresses saved, an idea Gary changed and released. Lots of things like that.

What do other shop users use AI for?

[tessthepup]

@14Steve14

I have found AI invaluable in writing code and sounding out ideas for making the code better.

I have written two product importers (a third to follow) to that sync my store perfectly with the suppliers databases including descriptions, images and quantities. The quantity updates run seemlessly in the background by a cron job.

I have also created pages to update product prices and also to search & replace keywords and also html tags in product descriptions

[Dan Cole]

@14Steve14 I'm using it pretty much as you are Steve. Mostly for product descriptions, text suggestions and every once and awhile for coding help when I can't figure out why I'm having a particular issue. I've been surprised how quickly it can identify an issue (mostly with syntax) and suggest a fix for something I've struggled with for way too long.

I'm really just trying to learn more about it and how it can help me along the way. I'd love to have a bit of a dialogue on how to actually use it more.

Thanks for starting this thread.

Dan

[14Steve14]

I'm really just trying to learn more about it and how it can help me along the way. I'd love to have a bit of a dialogue on how to actually use it more.
Dan

@Dan Cole

I was hoping to see how others are using it to help them in their business and may be get a few ideas.

I find it really good for helping with minor code changes. This weekend I updated my test site from 1.0.9.0. to 1.0.9.1 and there were a few blank pages and errors mainly from some addons, including one paid for one. Got them sorted quickly and I even managed to keep a note of the changes so I can quickly change the live site when I need. I think it will happen more as I gradually update the store through the versions until it really breaks something.