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Web Guy Nick AI-powered web design and marketing for local service businesses. 15+ years WordPress. Rialto, CA, serving nationwide. webguynick.com

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Advanced Perplexity tip: Spaces put your files next to the web.A Perplexity Space lets you pin your own documents alongs...
10/16/2026

Advanced Perplexity tip: Spaces put your files next to the web.

A Perplexity Space lets you pin your own documents alongside live search. Every answer cites which part came from your files and which came from the internet, so you always know what you are looking at.

Set one up for your industry with your price sheet, service list, and a few competitor pages, then ask:

"Based on my files and current market data, where am I priced too low?"

More AI tips for owners at webguynick.com/ai-tools

Just finished: the new Vinyl Fence Pros Inc. website! 🎉Swipe for a look at the desktop and mobile design, plus a few of ...
10/15/2026

Just finished: the new Vinyl Fence Pros Inc. website! 🎉

Swipe for a look at the desktop and mobile design, plus a few of the fence styles they install. 👉

Need vinyl fencing, gates, patio covers or railing in the Inland Empire? Give Vinyl Fence Pros a look:
🌐 vinylfenceprosinc.com
📞 951-733-5939

Need a new website for your business? Start at webguynick.com.

Advanced Gemini tip: build a Gem for the job you repeat.Gems are saved assistants. You set the instructions once and it ...
10/15/2026

Advanced Gemini tip: build a Gem for the job you repeat.

Gems are saved assistants. You set the instructions once and it behaves the same way every time. Perfect for the one weekly task you dread.

Create a Gem called GBP Post Writer with:

"You write Google Business Profile posts for [business] in [city]. Every time I paste a topic, write one post under 100 words, plain and friendly, with a clear call to action and no hashtags."

Paste a topic, get a post, every Monday. More AI tips for owners at webguynick.com/ai-tools

Hire the AI as your devil's advocate.It will agree with you by default. That is the dangerous part. Ask it if your plan ...
10/15/2026

Hire the AI as your devil's advocate.

It will agree with you by default. That is the dangerous part. Ask it if your plan is good and it will tell you your plan is good. Make it fight.

Copy this:
"Here is my plan. Argue against it as a skeptical investor who has seen a hundred businesses like mine fail. Find the 5 weakest points, rank them, and tell me which single one could sink the whole thing."

Then fix the one that could sink it before you spend a dollar. More AI tips for owners at webguynick.com/ai-tools

Advanced Grok tip: Think mode for anything with numbers.Quick mode is for quick questions. When you are pricing a job, f...
10/14/2026

Advanced Grok tip: Think mode for anything with numbers.

Quick mode is for quick questions. When you are pricing a job, forecasting a quarter, or deciding whether to hire, switch on Think mode and let it show its work.

Try:

"Think through whether I should hire a second technician. I bill [X] an hour, I turn away about [Y] jobs a week, and a tech costs me [Z] a month all in. Show every assumption."

Quick mode gets you a guess. Think mode gets you the math. More AI tips for owners at webguynick.com/ai-tools

AI at Work Tip  #53: Ask what it is missing.Before it writes anything, flip the question around:"What would you need fro...
10/14/2026

AI at Work Tip #53: Ask what it is missing.

Before it writes anything, flip the question around:

"What would you need from me to do this really well?"

It will tell you. Your pricing, your customer type, the thing you refuse to do, the tone you use. Give it those four answers and the output stops sounding like it was written for anybody and starts sounding like it was written for you.

More AI tips for owners at webguynick.com/ai-tools

Advanced Claude tip: hand Cowork the folder.This is the line between a chatbot and a coworker. Claude Cowork opens your ...
10/13/2026

Advanced Claude tip: hand Cowork the folder.

This is the line between a chatbot and a coworker. Claude Cowork opens your actual files, works across spreadsheets and documents, and hands you back finished work instead of a paragraph about how you could do it.

Point it at a folder of invoices and say:

"Build me a spreadsheet of who owes what, sorted by days overdue, with a reminder email draft for each one in my voice."

Go get coffee. Come back to the spreadsheet. More AI tips for owners at webguynick.com/ai-tools

Meeting notes into marching orders.Nothing falls through the cracks when the cracks are listed. Every meeting ends with ...
10/13/2026

Meeting notes into marching orders.

Nothing falls through the cracks when the cracks are listed. Every meeting ends with decisions nobody wrote down and tasks nobody owns. This fixes that in one paste.

Copy this:
"From these notes, extract three tables: every decision made, every action item with an owner and a due date, and every open question still unanswered. Flag anything assigned to nobody."

Paste your rough notes or the transcript underneath. Send the tables to everyone who was in the room. More AI tips for owners at webguynick.com/ai-tools

Advanced ChatGPT tip: Deep Research is a 20 minute analyst.It goes out, reads dozens of sources, and comes back with a c...
10/12/2026

Advanced ChatGPT tip: Deep Research is a 20 minute analyst.

It goes out, reads dozens of sources, and comes back with a cited report. Slow by AI standards, which is exactly why it is good.

Try:

"Research every [your trade] within 15 miles of [city]. Compare pricing, Google review scores, and what they promise on their websites. Cite every source and tell me the gap nobody is filling."

Twenty minutes later you know your market better than your competitors do. More AI tips for owners at webguynick.com/ai-tools

One blog post. Ten social posts.Write once, publish all month. Every article you have ever written is a month of social ...
10/12/2026

One blog post. Ten social posts.

Write once, publish all month. Every article you have ever written is a month of social content sitting there doing nothing.

Copy this:
"Turn this article into 10 social posts: 3 that open with a hook, 3 that teach one tip each, 2 built around a stat, 1 that tells the story, 1 that asks the audience a question. Each under 50 words, no hashtags, plain language."

Paste the article under it. Schedule the results. That is your content calendar. More AI tips for owners at webguynick.com/ai-tools

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