Mitchell Cohen

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🌱 How to build your leverage (trends & AI cheat sheet)

Search trends, ai cheat sheet, and building your leverage.

Here’s your 3 insights in 3 minutes.


πŸ”€ AI Acronyms


Notice all the new AI acronyms lately?


Here’s your cheat sheet πŸ‘‡


π—¦π—˜π—’: Search Engine Optimization
π—šπ—˜π—’: Generative Engine Optimization
π—”π—˜π—’: Answer Engine Optimization
π—Ÿπ—Ÿπ— π—’: Large Language Model Optimization
π—Ÿπ— π—™π—”π—’: Laughing My F*ing A Off
π—”π—œπ—’: Artificial Intelligence Optimization


Despite all the new labels, they’re all optimizing for the SAME thing…


High-quality content that genuinely helps people.


Well, except for the extra one I added. (The most important one).


Don’t forget to laugh and have fun along the way. :)


πŸ“ˆ Search Trends


Search trends are exploding for these terms.


Google Trends (Source Backlinko)


Especially β€œai optimization.”


Google Trends (source: Backlinko)


Check out this article for more on these charts and trends.


Fun fact: 700K sessions at AppSumo the last 3 months came from organic + ai sources. Mostly from google, YT, and bing… but AI referrals are growing with 12k sessions from chatgpt alone.


GA4


⚑Internet Leverage


For most of history, there were only two types of leverage:
Capital (money made more money) and Labor (people multiplied time).


Then the internet unlocked two more:
Code (software + AI) and Content (media + distribution).


So now there are four:


  1. Capital β†’ money multiplies money

  2. Labor β†’ people multiply time

  3. Code β†’ software/automation scales effort

  4. Content β†’ media/SOPs scale knowledge


Want to find your highest-leverage one?

Run small experiments and look for outliers.


Last year, I ran a content experiment that exploded our channels (and changed my job).


I recorded this youtube video, and within a month, it had 250,000 views. πŸš€


Typical videos got 2,000 views. That’s a 125x outlier.


Today it’s at nearly 500K views and brought in 7K new subscribers.


YouTube Analytics


So I made 40 more like it… and now the videos have generated over 4M views across platforms and thousands of new customers.


Don’t chase effort. Instead find leverage.


Run experiments. Double down on the outliers.


Salud,
Mitchell


Ps. S.H.R.I.M.P

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