The 7 AI Tools That Will Separate Winners From Losers In 2025

0:00 hey it's Alex welcome back to the channel over the last year I've tried out thousands of the best AI tools for my businesses and in this video I wanted to share seven of the best AI tools for creators solopreneurs and digital marketers that my team uses every single day this first one is called chican and it's a simple yet powerful content creation tool that comes with an AI writer quiz and course creation tools and AI roleplay generator with shaen you can quickly start an online knowledge business selling educational content like question Banks and courses and even AI language learning role play you can sell your content through Shen's own store or use a custom domain and point it directly to your own website either way payment is handled through stripe with a sales and marketing dashboard included and the ability to apply upsells and discounts to your knowledge products the best bit you can actually

0:45 create your content including role plays in a single click by just uploading a document adding a link or pasting in your own prompt and there's even an AI assistant with a prompt library to help you we use chican internally all the time for fast content creation using their AI writer and for hosting any courses as well as for fun quiz generation to engage new employees the Creator tier is completely free to try out without Ai and then prices start at $49 a month our next tool on the list is canvas's AI tool Suite we use canva all the time for creating everything from images for blogs to social media posts to business documents and more their Suite of AI tools is really powerful on their pay tier and we use it for things like removing backgrounds from images or some of the more detailed AI tools like the Eraser tool where you can erase elements of a particular image by

1:31 selecting it and then getting rid of it completely the other cool features here allow you to actually select objects within an image and then manipulate them or change them using a prompt so for example if you've got a photograph with a cat in you can actually select that cat and then either remove it move it to somewhere else in the image or turn it into a dog if you're more of a dog person than a cat person with the apps and add-ons to canva there are lots of other ways to use AI for example you can upload a CSV file and then have the AI tool populate a whole host of images or content for you in the click of a button you can pull in things like AI generated avatars to create a slide deck that is a little bit more engaging and even use the image prompt generation tool to create any image you like from a single text prompt the use cases are absolutely endless and although the AI tools come on the paid plans it's well worth diving

2:18 in and trying them out our next tool is one you're probably familiar with and it's chat GPT but I want to focus on chat gbt with canvas because this is so powerful for digital marketeers and solopreneurs with the canvas option you can actually generate everything from Full code to writing documents and editing them in their own inline editor for example if we use GPT 40 with canvas to write a blog on something like the latest marketing Trends this year then it will open up the canvas window and will start writing with all of the sources pulled in from Google we can then use the tools on the right hand side of the screen to optimize this making the text longer or shorter simpler or more complex there are some other cool things we can do here as well for example if you're into SEO we can can use a tool called Surfer which we're going to look at later on this list and

3:03 their Chrome extension to actually optimize for SEO using some of surfer tools but from within chat GPT it's super super powerful and canvas in particular is really great at editing things like images and code and pretty much anything you can think of our next AI tool on the list is Opus clip we use Opus clip all the time for taking long form content and breaking it down into short form content we also use it for uploading our shorts that we record and then getting it to generate the captions and optimize for things like b-roll and zoom in and zoom out saving our editing team loads of hours every single month it's a really fantastic tool and it's now almost a full-blown video editor allowing you to use the playhead at the bottom underneath the clip to edit things in real time and then export your clip the really nice thing about Opus clip is that it gives you a virality

3:49 score and rates your shorts for how viral they might go if you're someone who does things like podcasts or you're starting an editing business where you're editing for other people it will save you tons and tons of time even if if it's not the final version of the video you want it will get you started and allow you to export and then manipulate it in something like Premier Pro or cap cut and really get that short and video optimized the next tool on the list that my team uses all the time is LM list and their AI Suite of Outreach tools if you're not familiar with lemlist it's an omni Channel email and Linkedin and phone call Outreach sales tool that allows you to create sequences of emails to follow up with customers and try and close deals the real power here however is in that AI enrich M tools you can actually search through a list of potential customers from their database and then add these into a

4:35 campaign once you've got your leads into a campaign you can use the AI tools to clean up all of this data making sure their names are correct making sure their email addresses and Linkedin accounts are correct and you can even personalize things to them using AI if you can't be bothered creating your own email sequence or you're not sure how lemlist has got a great Suite of templates or you can allow that AI to generate a fullblown sequence for you you then switch on your email campaign and watch all of the leads come in as you connect with people at scale without the need for manual emailing my team uses this next tool for transcribing every single YouTube video we do and for pulling in information from things like meetings or any video recording and it's called descript you've probably seen it before because it's one of the earliest AI video editing tools out there when you upload any type of video or audio it

5:21 will transcribe it and then create that transcript which is editable so if you edit some of the text it will actually cut out pieces of the video it will also do really cool oneclick functionality like translating the entire transcript or getting rid of things like ums and rs or any pauses to make the video as tight as possible it's really powerful and it will also allow you to do things like use the overdub feature where you can actually record your own voice and then change up the script in real time which is an absolute GameChanger if you need to add in some extra bits to your audio script tool number seven on our list is Surfer SEO I actually mentioned this one earlier and it's one of the most powerful AI search engine optimization content creators out there we use Surfer for researching and creating blog posts and one of the most powerful things about Surfer is we can connect it up to our Google search console and then it

6:08 will pull in topics that we might want to talk about it will also rank our keywords and it will analyze any articles I've published on my blog if they're below a certain index it then suggests that we update these the editor is really really powerful if I pull in an existing blog article or if I write a new one it will actually give me a score based on some of the highest scoring articles ranked in Google it will then with one button allow to optimize this and boost that score up one of the best features here is also the ability to add in links to other pages on your website to keep clicks fresh and keep your page ranking highly we use this all the time for optimizing things for my blog pages and it's an absolute GameChanger the AI tools are incredibly powerful and the paid packages start at around about $40 a month now although we've reached our final seven I wanted to add in a bonus eighth tool here which is called fathom

6:55 and it's an AI meeting transcription and coaching tool that I personally use every sing single day if I've got a meeting on Google on Microsoft teams or in Zoom I'll switch on my fathom assistant and it will record the entire meeting it then can produce a transcript a summary that I can send to people it connects up to our HubSpot customer relationship manager and plugs into that recording everything that's talked about but the best feature is the AI chat function that allows us to search through that transcript with conversational tone and find the key bits that matter it's an absolute Game Changer and it comes with a free plan and then paid plans are pretty low starting at just $20 a month so that was are seven key AI tools that you need to succeed this year I use them all the time and they've been an absolute Game Changer now I've got a video that I'll pop up over here that looks at other tools you might be interested in

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