Marketing & Email AI hacks

Small startup founder has ChatGPT pick the top applicants from 150 and draft first messages to them

With 150 applicants from Upwork and LinkedIn, a small-team founder gave his ChatGPT agent careful access to Upwork and his Tally forms and asked it to pick the top three from each source and prepare first messages.

Spotted on Jon Cowley (@whatifi_io)

Product maker has Claude map every specialty store for outreach

A bird-feeding product seller used Claude to build a list of Wild Birds Unlimited stores, their owners and which camera feeders each one stocks.

Spotted on u/Choclit99

Web agency builds its own outreach CRM on Airtable with a Claude Code front end

An Australian agency that builds websites for mortgage brokers built its own CRM with Airtable as the database and a front end made with Claude Code, so it can score prospects, send each one a personalized sample site and track clicks for follow-up.

Spotted on u/TT-Bear29

Newsletter writer lets Claude handle the busywork, not the writing

A weekly newsletter writer dictates his articles, has Claude structure them and do the proofing, links, feature image and email draft, then edits by hand.

Spotted on Blog Marketing Academy - David Risley

Lead-gen worker has ChatGPT build an ideal client profile, then checks each found business against it before reaching out

Instead of messaging people at random, a lead-generation worker had ChatGPT turn a client's offer into an ideal client profile, searched for matching businesses, then asked ChatGPT whether each one fit and what to open with.

Spotted on @CynthiaOzumba

Cold emailer swaps Excel tracking for a dashboard built with Claude Code, n8n and Supabase

Someone running cold email campaigns whose reporting, lead management and CSV tracking in Excel had grown bigger than the outreach itself built their own cold email dashboard with Claude Code, n8n and Supabase.

Spotted on @imrnjh

Agency copywriter runs each brief through Gemini and Claude, then retypes the parts they like

An e-commerce agency copywriter who writes 8 or more pieces a day gives the same brief to Gemini and Claude, uses the overlap to spot stock AI phrasing, and retypes the useful parts instead of editing AI text directly.

Spotted on u/BabyRoro007

Turn 50 customer reviews into 14 ad angles with Claude

A marketer had Claude sort 50 four- and five-star reviews into themes and ad hooks in customers' own words, ready to reuse as social posts.

Took about 25 minutes · their account

Spotted on @Mo_ali

Ecommerce freelancer pulls Omnisend campaign data through Claude

A freelancer who runs email for Shopify clients connects Claude to Omnisend to pull campaign data, adjust automations and check segment performance without switching apps.

Spotted on u/Relative-Arachnid129

PPC marketer keeps AI on grunt work, not ad strategy

A pay-per-click marketer uses ChatGPT and Claude to draft ad variations and summarize calls, and checks anything platform-specific themselves.

Spotted on u/Consistent_Scene_178

Small email marketing team asks Claude for Klaviyo campaign reports instead of exporting them

A small digital agency connected Klaviyo to Claude through the built-in connector, so a weekly email report is a plain-English question and a one-paragraph summary instead of logging in and exporting.

20 to 30 minutes down to about 30 seconds · their claim

Spotted on Boko Digital Solutions

Marketing consultant turns each YouTube video into a local SEO article with Claude

A small-town marketing consultant has Claude turn each new YouTube video into a blog article aimed at the same keyword, with internal and external links, and uses Gemini to check search intent before adding content clusters.

Spotted on Wayne St Ledger

Professional uses ChatGPT to write opening emails to their LinkedIn network: 5 sent, 4 calls, 1 new client

Instead of agonizing over how to reopen old connections, a professional had ChatGPT draft opening emails to people in their LinkedIn network; of the first 5 sent, 4 led to calls and 1 turned into business.

Spotted on @Subhash_ati9

Marketing consultant builds a six-email nurture drip with Claude Cowork's email-sequence skill

A B2B marketing consultant uses the Marketing plugin in Claude Cowork to plan and write an educational email drip that takes people from a free playbook download to a booked call, complete with send timing, branching, exit rules and A/B ideas.

Spotted on Tony Chan

Email agency owner builds on-brand campaign emails in Claude Design

An email marketing agency owner sets up a Claude Design design system for each brand from its website, guidelines and Figma file, then attaches an email-rules text file and a short brief so Claude asks questions and builds email variants.

Spotted on Max Sturtevant

Football jersey shop starts writing Google Business Profile updates with Gemini after a visibility dip

When a Lagos jersey shop saw its Google Business Profile visibility slide after the holiday rush, the owner kept posting regular updates but switched to writing them with Gemini instead of ChatGPT, and visibility slowly picked back up.

Spotted on @MakeleleJerseys