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☕ What’s brewing in Espresso AI this month?

Published 6 days ago • 1 min read

Hello & happy Tuesday!

This month's issue of Espresso AI lands in subcribers' inboxes on Thursday, and it's a practical one.
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There's been a bit of a shake-up at the top of the AI world, so Martha explains what it means for you. Then she gets stuck into putting AI to work on your social content and your Q4 plans.

Here's what paid subscribers are getting:

  1. Information about why people might be drifting back from Claude to ChatGPT now that Codex is in the desktop app, what Codex actually is, and how to bring your Claude setup across in a few clicks.
  2. The prompt Martha uses every few months to get her AI to audit itself, so you're not just moving old clutter to a new home.
  3. How to get AI to turn a post you've already written into a finished, on-brand Canva carousel, ready for Instagram and LinkedIn.
  4. How to find your best-performing posts and give them a second life. It includes step-by-step instructions for downloading your stats yourself if you'd rather not give AI access to your analytics.
  5. A Q4 planning prompt that works like a thinking partner. It helps you pick three priorities for October to December, build a realistic plan and decide what to take off your list.
  6. A real AI win: how Martha got her AI to go out and find freelance work for her, and how to set it up to run every week.

Plus, the longer prompts come as downloadable PDFs, so you can copy them straight into ChatGPT or Claude.

Everything I've mentioned is only available to Espresso AI subscribers.

If you want to stay up to date with all the ways you can use AI in your VA business, but you're busy AF and just want a monthly email packed with carefully curated info, then consider signing up.

It's just £4.99 a month. You can cancel at any time AND put it on your business expenses… HURRAH!

​Find out more and subscribe.​

Best wishes,
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Holly x

The VA Handbook

Holly Copsey

Leading the next chapter of The VA Handbook - supporting VAs to build professional, sustainable businesses. Bringing my experience of running a multi-award-winning VA agency and building a team to help VAs not just get started, but grow with structure, confidence and long-term success.

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