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Embracing AI: Overcoming Fears and Maximizing ROI for Small Business Success

February 10, 2025 by angishields

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In this episode of Sandy Springs Business Radio, host Ramzi Daklouche talks with Dale Myska, president of Train in Your Lane, about the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on small businesses. Dale emphasizes the necessity for business owners to embrace AI technology, offering practical advice on starting with AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude. The discussion covers the distinction between AI platforms and tools, the importance of structured prompts, fostering a culture of AI use, and addressing common fears such as job displacement. Dale also highlights the potential return on investment (ROI) from AI adoption and shares real-world examples of successful AI integration.

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Dale-MyskaDale Myska, President of Train in Your Lane, combines over two decades of franchise operations and sales leadership experience with a passion for making AI accessible to businesses.

Drawing from executive roles at PostNet, AlphaGraphics, and UPS, Dale has mastered the art of transforming complex systems into practical, actionable solutions. Known for creating engaging, results-driven learning experiences, Dale is revolutionizing how businesses adopt AI technology through training that’s both impactful and enjoyable.

With a track record of building high-performing teams and driving organizational growth, Dale is dedicated to helping companies thrive in the AI era through education that eliminates technological barriers and delivers immediate business value.

Connect with Dale on LinkedIn.

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Intro: Broadcasting live from the Business RadioX studios in Sandy Springs, Georgia. It’s time for Sandy Springs Business Radio. Now, here’s your host.

Lee Kantor: This episode is brought to you by V.R. Business Sales Atlanta, guiding business owners and buyers through successful transitions with trust and expertise. Visit vrbizworld.com or call (678) 470-8675 to learn more. Here’s your host, Ramzi Daklouche.

Ramzi Daklouche: Thank you. And with us today in the studio is Dale Myska. Dale, how are you?

Dale Myska: I’m doing well, Ramsey. Thank you. How are you today?

Ramzi Daklouche: Fantastic. Welcome to Business RadioX. Really excited about this episode. There’s a lot to talk about and I’m looking forward to getting started with you. So before we start, tell me a little bit about what you’ve been doing now and what you have done before. Kind of give me a little bit of, you know, information about what you do there.

Dale Myska: Of course. Uh, I am the president of a company called Train in Your Lane, where we specialize in, you know, individual and corporate trainings. Uh, we do a lot with AI right now. We also have some what we call be a better human training. So empathetic leadership, allyship, things of that nature just to help companies just show up better for their employees. Uh, I’ve been with them for about six months now, based here in the Denver metro area. And before that, as has Ramsey and I met in a in past lives, I was with, uh, a franchisor as an executive vice president of operations and sales for Postnet and Alphagraphics. So I spent six years with them and Decided it was. It was time for a change in my world. And since ChatGPT came out with two and a half years ago, I. I’ve been geeking out on it. So it was a great fit to join this company and really start to to dig in more on on everything AI.

Ramzi Daklouche: That’s awesome. I love how you said geeking out on it, because I think I feel the same way about it. And this is I’ve been waiting, like I said before, I’m really been waiting for this and to record this episode because I geek out on AI a lot. I cannot stop talking about it. So I have a lot of questions for you, specifically when it comes to small businesses and how we can help small businesses really understand the power of AI in any business. I don’t care if they’re a baker or a shoe maker, right? I mean, just there’s so much you could do with it. Very good. So the overview of the topic today is how AI is shaping small businesses and why it’s important to embrace it. So let me kind of start with a few questions. How many small business owners feel overwhelmed with AI. Right. So they know they should be using it, or they probably heard of it, or some of them may not have heard of it, but they don’t know where to start. What is your advice for taking those first steps without getting lost in the tech?

Dale Myska: Great question. I think the best place to start is to just start. Honestly, get get into one of the tools. Get into ChatGPT. Get into cloud. Spend the $20 a month because it’s just better. You’ll get your money back. And and I think where people get frustrated at first is they think of it as a Google search, and they put in the same thing they put in in a Google search and don’t necessarily get the results that they’re looking for or hoping for. So, you know, we teach in our entry level class, our beginner class, you know, the structure of prompting and really helping people understand that it’s not a Google search and that you have to work with it. You know, it’s like working with an employee, quite frankly. You have to be clear on the instructions and give them context and tell them what they’re trying to do. And and you know, one of our things we always tell is you need to tell it to do better when it doesn’t do what you want it to do. So, um, yeah, it’s it’s it’s definitely, um, I think small business owners really across the board, people have heard a lot about the scariness, you know, the security issues or security concerns. I wouldn’t say issues. Concerns. Um, I think another piece is, you know, they’ve seen Terminator at some point and machines are going to take over the world. And, I mean, there’s bad actors everywhere in everything. You know, I like to think there’s more good people than bad people in the world. And, you know, there are going to be people that try to use it against, you know, for bad. But I think we’ll good will prevail, if so to speak.

Ramzi Daklouche: Dell, you said something that I got to go back to structure your prompt is that trademark because I think you should trademark it. I think it’s very, very important. I mean, every time I talk to somebody about AI and I try to talk about as much as possible to understand, you know, what level people are getting help with AI and all this stuff. One of the things is, is I try to help them with this whole idea of structure. Your prompt, right? Because if you don’t structure it, you crash and crash out. I call it, right. So you don’t really get what you want out of it. I mean, what are there specific? I mean, I’m new. I’m a new business owner. What specifically AI tools should I start with? You know what? How do you kind of build that knowledge first? Knowledge. Right. So you’re not fearing AI because, you know, like you said, it’s not Terminator, right? I mean, it’s very smart, but it’s really information available, just structured differently.

Dale Myska: Yeah. I think, you know, the obvious ones are the ChatGPT of the world. You know, I, I think the models are changing so much. We had all the. The news last week of of deep sea are1 getting released and how it’s you know, it took China a lot less money to to build the model. Meta has models. Everyone else has models there. There’s no shortage of tools out there right now. The ones that are the easiest to. Easiest to access and probably the you know, the most common are that from from Claude, from anthropic or ChatGPT from OpenAI. Um, you know, and then the tool, I mean, the tool set is that’s probably where it can truly get overwhelming for anyone is, you know, everyone’s building AI tools. And I think over the next 12 to 18 months, a lot of that’s going to flush itself out because, you know, the cream is going to rise to the top. And some of these other ones that just weren’t as good are going to probably fall out, unfortunately.

Ramzi Daklouche: It’s amazing. So I gotta keep on this. I have a lot of questions, so but I’m going to stay on this for me. You know, you talk about the, the the AI platforms, right. And then the tools. And I don’t think people understand the difference between AI platforms and tools. Can you expand on this a little bit? Because it’s very important, because what I’m going to do is kind of like having, you know, friends share info, kids share information. What I use, what I use. I really am going to go through the session for a second. But can you expand a little bit about the platform and the tools?

Dale Myska: So yeah, there’s the the LMS, the large language models, and those are ChatGPT. Claude Meta has one called, you know, there’s it’s called llama. Um, Google’s is called Gemini, you know, and there’s numerous out there. Those are, as you would say, the platforms that are they’re the ones spending the money on the data centers, learning from the internet and consuming publicly available information. Supposed to just be publicly available information. But, you know, that’s that’s debatable for people on much smarter than than I. Um, you know, there’s a lot of lawsuits out there, but. And then there’s, there’s also image generation ones where like Midjourney or, um, what’s the other one I’m thinking of? I just lost it. Lexica that we that we talk a lot about in our trainings. There’s all these tools and, and that, you know, these platforms and then there’s tools that leverage those models, um, out there as well. Another one I forgot is perplexity, which, um, is live on the internet, was the first one to be live on the internet. Now, uh, OpenAI or ChatGPT is as well. But where I was going, what I think is, is an important point to make is it’s the buzz, right? Everyone’s talking about AI in some form or fashion, and companies are rushing to implement AI tools.

Dale Myska: But we kind of go through what this eat um as an acronym, which is education, adoption and transformation. A lot of people are skipping to adoption and not getting transformation because they’re not educating their their workforce or their employees, regardless of the size of the company or educating themselves. Quite frankly, they just think I got to implement AI and not learning how to properly do it. And you know, if you have a company with, you know, employees building a culture around that because you can you can have people using it and they’re not talking about it, which is pretty common right now. Or you can bring everyone up to a certain level and teach them how to use the tools. Um, which is is really the best way to do it, because those companies building that culture, they’re going to they’re going to surpass the ones that are, you know, keeping it at arm’s length.

Ramzi Daklouche: Yeah, I see a lot of articles on LinkedIn and other places where they say, well, you know, AI is never going to replace this or they’re never going to replace this. And I think they missed it. All these articles have missed it, right. Dale? I believe I is just your best employee, sitting beside your assistant, sitting beside you as you’re working to be more productive. That’s how I use it. It’s making me more productive where I can blog and, you know, do all the social media within literally five times myself. Five minutes. Right. And without this structured what you call the structured prompts, I couldn’t do it. But I learned how to do structured prompts by myself because I thought one question is not enough. You got to keep asking questions, keep asking questions and make sure you’re not confusing. Also, because you really can’t confuse I. So okay, I’m going to geek out on you a little bit. What are your top three best use tools on? Um, the.

Dale Myska: Top three tools. Um, I, I love Claude, I do, I mean, I know ChatGPT, you know, we we we joke in our trainings around it’s the become like the Kleenex of facial tissues, like tissues like everyone just says ChatGPT, even if they’re using other, other large language models. I love Claude. I love the output that it gives. I just I’ve been able to build some things in there. It’s gotten to know me very well. Um, so I would say that that’s probably my number one, but they bounce back and forth. I mean, you know, since the 1st of December, these models have just stair stepped one another and with new releases and there’s rumored to be a new Claude model being released any day now. Um, but I would say is is definitely, you know, number two. And then man, the third one, I guess it just sort of depends on what you’re trying to do. Like, we’re I’ve been messing around with one called Hey Gen a lot, which is not a platform. It’s a tool to do like, um, AI avatar type, um, digital. Um, you know, where you can you I can I’ve put my voice into it. I’ve recorded myself into it. Now I can give it a script and it’s going to sound. It’s going to be me, but not me, if that makes sense.

Ramzi Daklouche: So what is the name of that?

Dale Myska: It’s called hagan h e y g e n h e y. So that’s fun. I mean, I’ll be honest with you, I haven’t figured out a great way to put that into, like, a good use to drive US business, but it’s fun to mess around in. Um, so that’s a lot. There’s another one that does the same thing called did. Um, and those are fun to play with.

Ramzi Daklouche: Awesome. For me, I got to tell you, mine as a platform. I don’t know, Claud. I’m gonna get to meet Claud, but I like ChatGPT. I mean, I’m a huge user. And like you said, one thing that people don’t know is once you really get involved in it and use it on a regular basis, it knows you, right? I can ask a question. Hey, uh, remember this. Do this, and it will bring it all together. So it’s really, really cool, right? And the second one I like, I got like 4 or 4 of them all from my business texter. I don’t know if you’ve heard of it. Teksty. It really does. Incredible with blogging and adding videos, adding pictures, all the stuff. So I love that tool. And it’s a tool, not a platform, right? So the only platform I use is ChatGPT. The rest of my tool, the other one, which is incredible. So short story is I wanted to buy, you know, in my business I got to get a list of businesses right to go to. Right. And everything I found is kicks back 80%. Like, if it’s infozoom, whatever kicks back 80%. So I thought somebody is doing. I work with it. So I found this company called invent I and I and I literally can tell it. Hey listen, I’m looking for companies in whatever industry owner has to be over the age of 55, ready to retire, and the revenue has to be between five and whatever.

Ramzi Daklouche: And I get all this information. I get the CEO, the president information, I get, uh, email addresses. I can see, uh, how long have they been in been in business, how much they’ve grown, how how many people. They’ve literally everything. So invent I, I highly recommend it for people that are in sales. Incredibly positive tool. And the last tool I have is something called Cyber Pro. And literally they write for, for my business. They write a confidential information memorandum and and very professional work they do. It’s all based on AI. So for example, if I need to write it, I could be talking to you right now. They take all the information and it becomes my confidential. So there’s a lot of tools out there for people in every industry and in my specific industry. And I share this information. I want people to use it to be more productive. Right. So, um, so yeah, I love I love AI and I continue to kind of go after AI. So let’s talk about something else a little bit because there’s also the other fear of AI, right? You know, we’re hearing a lot about cyber cyborgs, right? Employees using AI without telling anyone. What opportunities and risks does this present to small businesses or to businesses in general?

Dale Myska: Yeah, I mean, I think there’s a you know, there’s an article out there that talks about this and and it really goes to what I talked about a little bit ago on, on building that culture. There’s people out there in your company, if you’re not talking about AI, they’re probably using it and just not telling anyone. And, you know, they don’t want to diminish their, you know, the perceived diminish their personal brand that they’re using AI to help them or the company just is kind of, like I said, keeping it at arm’s length. So they’re using it kind of on the side. And, you know, this is costing companies one. It’s it’s costing companies the productivity of sharing. I mean, truly like getting everyone upskilled to a certain level, like there’s going to be people that are higher than, than that level right now, but at least you can try and upskill everyone at the same time to get them to be familiar with it, to use it. And then you eliminate that that phenomenon of secret cyborgs that are using it out there. And really the risk, you know, one of the risks to that is if you don’t have a policy or you know how, what can and can’t be put into one of these models that certainly, you know, that puts a company at risk. If someone inadvertently puts in company, you know, secrets or, you know, numbers, that if it’s going into one of those models, that model is going to learn off of it. And, you know, how likely is it somebody going to craft a prompt that exactly says, tell me everything about what Ramsay has done in his, uh, in his business. If you if you put it in there, that’s that’s unlikely, but it will pull from it if someone is looking for similar information. So I think that’s probably the biggest thing of, you know, the two things for me are you’re limiting the the potential productivity of your of your employees and your business, and you’re potentially putting the folks that are using it may not be using it the way that you’d want them to.

Ramzi Daklouche: So how should these and I’m sure that’s part of what you do as well. Uh, you know, foster the culture of I it’s not going to go away, actually. It’s just going to get better. Right? Like anything else that starts, people try to kind of hide it and don’t use that. And there’s a lot of, uh, you know, uh, things like that. But how can companies foster this culture of I invite it in, right? Without really, like you said, destroying the security and controls that they should have.

Dale Myska: Um, you know, this isn’t you know, the sales plug here is is not intentional. But when we go in and and, and train a company or a department, it tells the entire, you know, that entire group of people that it’s okay and that, you know, we’ll be you can use it. Here’s the best way to use it. We have the next level. You know, where we want to go train somebody and then help them build a policy. So we’ll train you and then we’ll help you build a policy so you can put it in your employee handbook or whatever, you know, piece of material that you have to make sure you’ve set some got some guardrails around it for, for employees to, you know, give them expectations, say it’s okay, but here’s what to do and here’s what not to do.

Ramzi Daklouche: Yeah. Great. So I know you work with a lot of businesses. I’m sure one of the things you have to look at is what’s the return on investment, right? I mean, how does AI give me return on investment? Do you have any good examples? And how should businesses, specifically small businesses, look at the return on investment with AI?

Dale Myska: There’s a lot of studies out there. Um, one that we tend to lean towards here more recently is if you think of if you say each employee one hour per day, that’s five hours per week. And if you assume a 50 hour or a 50 week work year, that’s 250 hours per year per employee. That’s conservative. You know, if if your average fully loaded employee is is $50 an hour, it’s not hard to do the math. And, you know, even if you take a a lower adoption rate and apply it, it’s still it’s real money. I mean, if you pay to have a good a good company, come in and train your employees, you will see the return. Now, one thing we always start our trainings with is, you know that one of that fear pieces of fear is AI is going to replace me. And we we like to say AI isn’t going to replace you in your company, but somebody using I might. If you’re not, if you’re not indeed yourself. And I think that’s where if you again just level up everyone at the same time, you’re telling them it’s okay. And then, you know, everyone starts sharing and hey, I tried this or this is a great way to to get that information. And, you know, we see it a lot in marketing departments. They’re usually the early adopters with it right now for exactly what you said, Ramsey, as far as content creation and, you know, it’s just so much faster to do it. And, you know, if you take the product that you get and just copy and paste it, it’s not great. You know, it’s probably 80% there. It’s good to take it and personalize it and make it your own. And and you know, so it’s not just copy and paste from I, you know, you can train these models to do pretty darn good. But initially you’ve got you know, you’ve got to do the work to get them there.

Ramzi Daklouche: That is exactly right. Yeah. Do you have any good examples of companies that you really have seen transformed since you’ve been in this industry? Warm their business and what was the outcome?

Dale Myska: We certainly have worked with with several clients that, you know and that always want more. You know, that’s that’s the the really fun thing is we’ll sit in a training and typically our trainings are done over Google Meet or Zoom. And we ask people to keep their cameras on and you’ll see like we’ll cover something. You can see the reactions of people or you know, they’re playing with with prompts that we give them, and they’re seeing the output because they’ve never, never used it before. So the use, you know, the the company, the clients that we’ve seen that have truly not just sent one person to one of our classes, but trained their entire department or their entire company. They continue to want more. They want to keep leveling up because things are changing so fast. And the feedback that we receive from, you know, the decision makers that are hiring us is, you know, it’s it’s changed how we do business. Everyone’s talking about it, everyone’s using it. And the fun thing is, is when people realize that it’s not just. You don’t just have to use it for business, you can use it at home, too. I mean, I used it to help fix my microwave a couple weeks ago or, you know, do meal planning with and put in like, I have two young children that have very different palates and help me plan out five days of meals with recipes and a grocery list, and it’ll do that. So that’s the fun thing of, you know, yes, there’s there’s such great business aspects to it, no question, but it’s really cool when you start seeing people apply it to their daily lives and, you know, is the ROI there. I said, you know, early on, pay the $20 for the for the pro versions or the, the plus versions of the models because you’re going to get you’re going to get it back relatively.

Ramzi Daklouche: Yeah I think you’re right, I think but I think one thing that stands, it takes time to learn it and not learning it. I mean, learning it is easy. Just ask a question, Let’s start with asking a question. But I think the the, you know, on purpose prompts and asking the next question are very important. So you got to really learn how to ask a question. And then once you see the outcome, what’s that next question. So you got to be a little bit curious about what this model could do for you to kind of continue to ask questions to get to the, you know, the root of what you’re looking for. And then I’m like you, I literally use it for everything. I mean, I don’t know anything, but, you know, a short story. I want to get back into golf. And I say, you know, I haven’t played in 20 years. So I said, hey, uh ChatGPT. What are some really forgiving, you know, uh, golf clubs, uh, for, for new players. And they gave me a list. Okay. But here’s kind of like where my speed is based on what I did last, you know, last time. And it gave me exactly what I should be looking for. So after that, I bought and went to the pro. I said, what do you think? He said, oh my God, I could not have picked anything better for you. Honestly, I had a pro told me because I’m because I’m taking some lessons that. Oh, no, I couldn’t have picked anything better for you. They’re perfect for you. So you can really. And again, this is probably silly that I did it. It’s lazy. I didn’t want to go to the store and get fitted for perfect. So I did it just online and order them online. But you know, you could do it more fun way than I did it. But you can really get to the bottom of a lot of things with these tools. That’s awesome.

Dale Myska: Absolutely, absolutely.

Ramzi Daklouche: They’ll tell them a little about your company because I know you guys serve a business of all sizes, but how can I really do focus on, um, on a small business? I really have compassion and passion for small business. And because I see them a lot and I in a different episode, we talked about it where they work in the business, on the business. Right? I mean, they always working in the business. They are the best technician for any business, right? They’re the best engineers for their business, but they’re really not working on their business. And I find that with AI, you can really, um, some of the things that you should be doing can be handed to AI to help you, right, with your assistance. Um, and, uh, the best podcast I heard last week. And I forgot the name of the podcaster. He said. Ai is really your best executive for small business. The best executive. And I thought that was genius, because for me, like, I, I don’t know, a day that I don’t spend. Hours, uh, creating or doing something with AI, right? I, you know.

Dale Myska: I pride myself on how many times a day I can run out of tokens. Um.

Ramzi Daklouche: I’ve done that. I’ve done that with everything. I even used, by the way, I use AI for, uh, you know, for zoom, because. And then I send it out to my clients, like, here’s what we talked about. Like, they think I’m really that attentive. I’m not I don’t have that attention span, but other AI actually doesn’t. You know, he doesn’t have the attention span. So he helps me a lot. Right.

Dale Myska: Absolutely.

Ramzi Daklouche: Yeah. So tell me, You know. Like how? Tell me a little bit about the company. And tell me, how do small businesses engage in something like this? And maybe you guys have classes and maybe you haven’t thought of, like, for multiple people to kind of come in online and learn a little bit about I. I’d love to hear more about that.

Dale Myska: So we do it in a couple of different ways. I mean, you and I met, you know, in our past lives in the franchise space. So a lot of our clients are franchise brands, um, both on the franchisee side and the franchisor side. Um, but we kind of approach business in two different ways. So we have our individual classes that we run quarterly. You know, I 1.0 I for franchise development, marketing, so on and so forth. I 2.0, um, a list of classes that we just offer for anyone that wants to sign up. So that’s really a great opportunity for a small business owner to, to level up, go and just join one of these. I they’re all live. They’re not recorded. So we’re facilitating them live answering questions. People are engaging from different companies and backgrounds and and sharing ideas and things like that. Those are um, those are there. Then we have our enterprise training. So a lot of times someone will take the initiative themselves and join one of our class. Our individual classes, and then go tell their their company, we need to do this for everybody. And then they’ll hire us to, to come in and do either live or virtually.

Dale Myska: Um, come in and and teach them on AI. So, um, we’ve got a really good client right now that they’re we’re training their entire company on AI 1.0. We’re training their marketing department on marketing, and then we’re training their franchise development department on franchise development with AI tools. So, um, there’s a lot of ways to engage with us. I would say for, you know, a small business owner that doesn’t, you know, only has a handful of employees sign up for one of our of our individual classes. It truly is. The feedback we get is unbelievable. Um, and people just taking it and saying it’s not as scary as I thought it was. I mean, I think that’s the the biggest takeaway is it’s so our trainings are very approachable. First of all, you know, we say it’s just humans learning from humans and then, you know, but then they realize that AI is pretty approachable too. It just it sounds scary from, you know, Terminator or Minority Report or any of those movies out there that came out in the 80s and 90s.

Ramzi Daklouche: Yeah. An AI is industry agnostic when you ask questions. It doesn’t care what industry you’re in. It’s going to give you some information so you don’t really have to go to somebody in your industry or whatever and learn AI. You can really learn it just once you once you get the hang of it. It’s like anything else. You just have to kind of continue to practice. But hopefully these two vows, you know, you’re not ashamed for using these two vows because I hear that a lot. Like, oh no, we don’t use AI. We do it the old way. We spend an hour or two a day working on something that actually takes me maybe an hour to do. You know, in my office. So. And I see that a lot in my industry. It’s a very antiquated industry. So when I started this company, I thought, I’m going to use AI for everything, and I’m not going to allow anyone to shame me for using AI. I seem to be vocal about it and teach people how to use it, so hopefully that continues. So okay, what is the future?

Dale Myska: It’s a great way to scale a business. I mean, truly, if you do, if you start using it, you’ll use it as you’ve seen with your business, you’ll scale faster and without as much, you know, capital investment or human capital investment, you’ll be able to to do a lot more with less.

Ramzi Daklouche: Yeah. You know what I mean. Three things every business needs, right? You need assist somebody to help you take away from you all the stuff that you don’t want to do, right. You need an assistant. Then you need somebody to do marketing for you. And then you need somebody to do sales. That’s when you know you have time when somebody do a selfie. And then the fourth is to kind of work outside the company so you can actually build more on the company. Right. These four things well, already eliminated two things, right. I mean, my my assistant is I, um, now my marketing is also through I, I build it through all through. I sales still have to do myself, which is right now. Great. But eventually once I build my team, I can get out of that and actually just focus on how to build more so and without without hiring two people, just myself and AI tools that I use. And you’re right, I paid the $20 a year, the $20 there, that’s fine. But total it cost me a lot less than hiring 2 or 3 people working. And then if they don’t work out, I got to let them go or whatever it is, including all the stuff. So for small business, I find it to be invaluable what we could do with it. What’s the trend for AI so we can close this up? What’s the trend for the AI in the next two three years? Where do you see it going down?

Dale Myska: I mean, I think the, the only way I can try to wrap my brain around AI is, is another revolution. You know, the industrial revolution, the internet, you know, things like that. This is the next kind of big revolution. Um, and I’m not trying. I don’t think that’s even over overselling it, quite frankly. I think where it’s going in the, in the next few years is it’s going fast. I mean, just the way these models are growing and changing. And, you know, if you’re an Nvidia stockholder, you can see, um, how much their stock has changed because they’re the ones making the best GPUs in the world that run in these data centers. It’s it’s it’s going to get to a point, just like the internet is for us today. You can’t do business without it. I mean, truly, you can’t have a true business presence without some sort of presence on the internet. I don’t think you can. You can’t compete 1 to 1 with a company that’s using AI effectively to a company that isn’t using it at all, that one that’s using it effectively is going to pass them by. So I really think it just the next couple of years are just going to be adoption. You know, more and more people are going to realize that it’s it’s unavoidable and then start to, you know, get in there, get trained, get educated and, and get on, you know, get going in it quite frankly, because it’s it’s coming and I don’t think it’s stopping anytime soon. And the only place in the world that’s trying to slow it right down right now is the is Europe. Everyone else is isn’t doing it right now. And I don’t think they will because there’s so many benefits. And if you can do the right thing on the front end to, you know, make it harder for the bad actors, then there’s there’s no reason to not use it.

Ramzi Daklouche: I agree with you, and I really do believe that the tools we’re going to see out of AI are going to continue to grow, right? We have platforms. We have very strong platforms. I mean, you know, I think now use ChatGPT more than I use Google actually. And I actually one day I looked at it and say, wow, I’m, I’m looking for things on ChatGPT and not Google. Uh, so yeah, but I think the tools next like, you know, uh, all the way from financial tools all the way to graphic tools, anything you want, I think that is going to continue to grow. And a lot of platforms are building on that. Sometimes the tools, the prices are a little bit higher and they will drop as more entrants will come into that market.

Dale Myska: Absolutely.

Ramzi Daklouche: Great. Well, listen, Dale, this has been fantastic. I can talk about AI all day long, I appreciate it. I appreciate your time and anything, uh, at the you know, what do you think? Uh, anything you want to kind of close with, please. It’s your time.

Dale Myska: I’d love to just give a plug to our website and, you know, give people the tools to to reach out to us, if that’s okay. Um, yeah.

Ramzi Daklouche: Yeah. Do that. Absolutely.

Dale Myska: Yeah. The website is train in your lane.com. Com so it’s spelled just like that all the way out. You can reach me directly on my email address is Dale Dale E at training your.com? I’m happy to answer the questions. All of our classes are are put up there on the site for people to to register for. And if you want to look for an enterprise training, um, for your, for your company, uh, contact me directly. I’ll be happy to, to walk you through that process and how how it all works. So I look, Ramsey, I’m so excited that you invited me to be on this. It’s fun to talk. As you said, it’s it’s fun to talk about AI. And, you know, I think the more people that just start to mess around in the tools, you know, outside of sharing, like confidential information or company secrets, you can’t break it. So just go play. You know, just go use it, get familiar with it, ask it the questions that you want to know. Um, you know, a lot of people say, well, how do I know how to prompt? Well, you can ask. You can ask ChatGPT to help me write a good prompt for this. And it’s remarkable the the results that you’ll get.

Ramzi Daklouche: So and once you once you ask it, read that little paragraph at the bottom every time you ask a question because it knows what your next question should be, just say yes to it. Right. So I can I can geek out. I can talk about it all day long because I’m excited about AI and I think that should be adopted. Shouldn’t be. These two small vowels shouldn’t be, you know, a shame. You know, vowels. They should be really adopted by a lot of companies. And keep it moving forward so we can get more productive as humans. Great. Well, thank you again, Dale. I appreciate your time.

Dale Myska: Thank you Ramsey. Always good to chat with you.

Ramzi Daklouche: All right buddy, thank you.

 

About Your Host

Ramzi Daklouche is Principal at VR Business Sales. His mission is to facilitate seamless transitions for business owners looking to sell or scale. The organization’s four-decade legacy in managing transactions, from modest enterprises to extensive mergers, resonates with his expertise in mergers and acquisitions. Our collaborative approach consistently unlocks the true value of businesses, ensuring sellers’ peace of mind throughout the process.

His journey began when he left corporate world to venture into the challenging realm of entrepreneurship. After running their own business for several years and earning accolades for their dedication to service and quality, he decided to establish VR Business Sales Mergers and Acquisitions Atlanta. Their mission is to provide unmatched value through transparency, security, diversity, service, and experience.

At VR Business Sales Mergers and Acquisitions Atlanta, they empower business owners and buyers with clear, honest guidance and exceptional service throughout every step of the transaction process. While their office is based in Atlanta, they offer their services nationally and globally, embracing diversity and engaging with a broad spectrum of communities and businesses.

With decades of industry expertise, they aim to build lasting relationships based on trust and excellence, enabling their clients to achieve their business goals with confidence and peace of mind. Whether they are transitioning from owning their business or moving toward ownership, they’re here to support every step of the way, navigating the vibrant landscape of Atlanta’s business community and National & Global markets for remarkable success.

Connect with Ramzi on LinkedIn.

 

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