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This short article is also an illustration of how a human brain, teamed up with artificial intelligence, can deliver a business idea... at speed. Which could be relevant to mobile hairdressers – or to anyone who wants to promote a business, event or community project.
“It started with a prompt”. That’s AI’s equivalent to the opening line of the legendary Hot Chocolate song. A prompt is the few words you type in (or speak) to start a new chat in an AI App.
While checking out the creative power of our new AI-powered poster creation tool Poster Pro, I was testing diverse prompts to see how it would work for all sorts of topics and businesses. Randomly I typed in “Suggest a theme for a mobile hairdresser”.
Instantly Poster Pro came up with a great list of ideas to choose from:
I thought that ‘convenience for the older client’ might be a good angle for mobile hairdressers. And bingo, after a couple of further interactions, up pops a lovely creative poster idea. Here’s what Poster Pro came up with.
The chat then explained how to finalise the design by downloading and adding my own heading, selling points and custom details. Some knowledge of image editing software is needed for this step, but if you lack that you can call on someone with graphic design skills to assist. Here is my end result.
My business brain kicked in. This could be a generic poster used by mobile hairdressers all around the country with just the name and mobile number of individual hairdressers to be added. The design could be printed off as posters to display on local notice boards or used as a flyer. I used AI to generate a logo to brand the Salon-At-Home theme which I thought sounded good. As well as featuring on the poster, iron-on roundels featuring the logo could be produced for participating hairdressers to apply to aprons or other kit.
So within an hour, with the help of AI, a business idea was dreamt up and I’m offering it here ready to take up. A trade body or hair product manufacturer could develop the idea and perhaps initiate a member approval or stockist scheme. OK, I’ll modestly take a teeny bit of the credit (a bottle of Champagne is always welcome), but the real star is Artificial Intelligence which powers Poster Pro.
We have made our Poster Pro tool free to use for the benefit of Sign-Holders customers, although you may need to sign up with OpenAI for a Pro subscription at $20 per month to use it. That’s out of our control, but it will include a host of other ‘custom GPT’ tools in addition to our Poster Pro. So what does GPT stand for? We’ll it’s a Generative Pre-trained Transformer. Which basically means it’s a very smart AI tool which has been trained with zillions of pieces of data by some clever people!
Try Poster Pro now. Prepare to be impressed!
