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AI Implementation Workshop
for Marketing
AI-Optimize Your Marketing Machine
More Conversions - More Cients - Fewer Hours
Professional Services Marketing is Hitting Two Live-or-Die Inflection Points
Marketers face two inflection points for the survival this year,
- Marketing teams successfully implementing AI are accelerating ahead of AI experimenters.
- Click Through Rates (CTR) for SEO Search have dropped by 34% - 58% . Winning marketers are optimizing content for AI Search.Â
This workshop guides professionals and marketing teams in implementing AI for marketing in professional services.
Why This Workshop is Critical to Your Professional Marketing Success!
Marketing teams in this workshop build functioning AI-optimized marketing systems during each week's Sprint.
The marketing systems you build and implement in the workshop improve client targeting, AI search optimization, conversion rates, marketing productivity, and ROI.
Each marketing project includes workflows, prompts, and implementation playbooks – all designed specifically for professional service marketing.
These business systems are so Critical To Success that most participants recover their investment within 30 to 60 days. And the revenue and client growth continue compounding year over year.
AI Implementation Workshop for Marketing Dates
Live Workshop Dates: February 26 – April 16
Live Session Time: Thursdays, 10:00 AM –11:30 PM PT
Quick Answers
Increase marketing conversions and productivity, deliver hyper-personalized media, automate campaign calendars and fill your prospect pipeline with qualified leads - in 8 weeks.
This is not a passive AI tools course.
You will build fully functional AI-enabled marketing systems with step-by-step guidance, playbooks, and prompt libraries.
You will learn how to:
- Identify and defend your high-value niches
- Use our Deep Data System to create high-validity, in-depth data sources that you can splinter into multiple AI optimized content: website pages, white papers, LinkedIn articles and carousels, and more.
- Improve AI search ranking with AI optimized content that includes GEO/AEO Blocks and JSON-LD Schema.
- Create an AI optimized Magnetic Marketing Machine that runs 24Ă—7Ă—365
- Cut marketing production and delivery time by 30 – 60%
- Increase conversions with hyper-personalized email nurture sequences aligned with AIDA or PSA stages.
- Generate AI augmented editorial calendars to synchronized campaign calendar that include channels, media, and events.
…I don't ever recommend training, but this is a rare exception.
Of the dozens of trainings I have been involved with over the last twenty years, this is hands down the best business training I have attended at any price point, highly recommended.
Steve Birks, BizDash Systems Ltd.
Providing managers with custom-made business dashboards,
and Visual Management Operating Systems
The AI Inflection is Separating
the Winners from Losers
Marketing for professional services is entering a structural divide.
By the end of 2026, firms will fall into two camps,
- The winners - those that successfully implement AI into marketing workflows
- The laggards -
- Those stuck experimenting
- Those who have not optimized content for AI searchÂ
Most professionals and marketers know AI is Critical to Success but,
- They don’t know the prompt engineering that improves style, tone, and validityÂ
- They run pilot projects without clear strategic objectives or metrics
- They fall behind and never catch up to firms that successfully implementÂ
Firms implementing AI strategically in their marketing are already,
- Getting more views in AI optimized search
- Increasing margins
- Shortening delivery cycles
- Winning deals faster
- Scaling their marketing without increasing headcount
The Solution
AI Implementation Workshops for Marketing ™ focuses on outcomes, not features.
These are hands-on implementation workshops where you build AI-optimized systems that directly improve your marketing.
What makes this different:
- You build business systems, not isolated tech skills
- You implement one or two functioning marketing systems every week—not “someday”
- The curriculum is grounded in decades of real consulting practice
What You Will Build in Your Weekly
Marketing Sprints
By the end of the 8th week of Sprint workshops you will have built and implemented,
- Deep insights into your Ideal Client Profile, their needs, pains, problems, and profit drivers and tie those triggers to hyper-personalized content
- Our Deep Research System that "splinters" one high-validity, in-depth source into white papers, blogs, articles, posts, and carousels. Â
- The AI content generator (GEO/AEO) that generates AI Blocks and JSON-Schema for higher ranking in AI search enginces
- AI generated email nurture sequences with hyper-personalization that aligns with AIDA or PSA stages – and it's written in your company’s tone and voice
- An AI automated site auditor and (GEO/AEO) optimizer that updates existing content with AI Blocks and JSON-Schema Â
- AÂ Magnetic Marketing Machine that generates campaigns, emails, posts, and events
- Hyper-personalized email sequences targeting high-value prospects
- An AI editorial calendar generator that schedules emails, webinars, posts, and more
Who These Sprints are For
Independent Professionals
Solo professionals, consultants, advisors, and specialists who want higher fees, better clients, and fewer hours but don't have the time for full-on marketing.
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 Small Professional-Service Firms (2-25)
Boutique professional firms that need hyper-personalized email sequences for high-value clients and an editorial calendar with high-value content that doesn't pull partners or staff away from billable work.
Mid- to Large ProfessionalÂ
Established professional firms who need to align AI optimization with their strategic objectives and stay ahead of their competitors. The result is AI-enabled workflows, improved margins, and scalable expertise.
This program is for marketers and marketing teams who want real business leverage, including,
- Ranking higher in AI-Search Engines
- Marketing agencies who can 2X and 3X their production levels
- Boutique firms who can now market against larger firms
- Independents and small firms with little time for marketing
- Higher conversions, greater productivity, hyper-personalized targeting, and high-authority content
Make Your Firm a Leading Winner!
Join Founder's CohortFully recommended for anyone starting out on their coaching or consulting practices, or even if you are already underway but would like to have a structured approach to growing your business.
In all, an excellent course, with excellent resources and a knowledgeable and very personable teacher.
Juan Antonio MartĂnez,  XLNS Coaching
Small Business Coach, Spain
Who This is Not For
This sprint workshop is not a fit if you are looking for shortcuts or theory, including:
- “Get rich quick” seekers or passive income hunters
- Anyone wanting AI to replace professional judgment
- People unwilling to apply what they learn
- Casual AI curiosity without business intent
What You Do in Your Sprint Workshops
8 Weeks of Hands-On Workshop and Implementation Includes:
- Hybrid workshops like those used by MIT, Harvard, Stanford
- Short videos teach purpose and concepts
- Hands-on work building AI Business Builder projects
- Live online follow-up meetings
- Live weekly meetings where we “dig in” to the week’s implementation
- AI implementation best practices (testing and roll out)
- AI prompt development and advanced techniques
- AI app integrations and future Agent expansions
- Implementation troubleshooting
- One-on-one consulting with the workshop leaders
- One-hour of private one-on-one consulting is included - on AI, implementation, or digital marketing (Valued at $300/hr)
- Consulting is available after the week you build your Magnetic Marketing Machine
- Consulting can be for yourself or your firm
- AI Implementation Packs
- AI Marketing Prompt Library
- Editable workflow diagrams
- Recommended Metrics
- Templates
- Lifetime access to course materials
What Makes these Workshops Different
Most AI courses:
- Teach tools and techniques, not business improvement
- Use generic models not business systems for professionals
- Focus on features, not business improvement
- Ignore how professionals actually work
AI Implementation Sprint Workshops™ are different:
- Built specifically for marketing professional services: consultants, agencies, financial advisors, accountants, legal firms, engineers, and more
- Focuses on increasing AI search engine optimization, conversion and productivity, and improving ROI
- Reinforces learning with videos, playbooks, AI Marketing Prompt Library, workflow diagrams, metrics, templates …
- Developed by a consultant with 30+ years experience and 7 years advising F1000 companies on hyper-personalization
This is not about becoming an “AI expert”, although you will develop advanced prompt engineering skills.
This is about becoming a more effective, more profitable marketer or marketing team.
Workshop Modules
Workshop modules contain a complete Business Builder project, such as our Deep Research System, Splintering into Multiple Outputs, and Generating AI Search Optimized content.Â
There may be more than one Business Builder project in a week. Live weekly meetings are 60 - 90 minutes. Each Business Builder project is approximately one hour of work but you can spend more time customizing. And, at the end of each week you receive the completed robust prompts for that week's Business Builder projects.
Module 1:Â Generative AI and AI Optimized Content Is Changing Marketing
Outcome: Gain a clear, confidence-building understanding of how AI creates leverage - and why great AI optimized content with your style, not “AI slop”, is overtaking SEO optimized content. Waiting to adopt AI can be a fatal mistake.
Module 1 grounds you in how AI is changing marketing and the impact on conversion rates, revenue, productivity, and client value.
You will:
- Understand core AI concepts relevant to marketing for professional services
- See the sharp decline in SEO search and rapid rise in AI optimized search
- Understand although AI search volume is smaller, the conversion rates are very high
- See the workflows where professional firms use AI
- Identify opportunities - and real risks - specific to professional services
Why this matters:
Clarity and best practices in implementation positions you to stay ahead of your competitors' marketing and create a thriving business with a full pipeline. Having a lack of clarity on the future can produce poor decisions that give your competitors a chance to overtake and surpass you.
Module 2: Implementing AI in Marketing and Your Professional FirmÂ
Outcome:Â Fully implementing and optimizing with AI in your firm takes multiple phases. This module shows you what is needed to fully implement AI throughout your firm - through all phases, piloting, strategic alignment, workflow improvement, and scaling. Your decisions and solid implementation in each phase build the foundation for success in following phases.
You will:
- Learn the phases and checkpoints in implementing AI
- Learn which workflows marketers most frequently optimize with AI
- Learn what you need to do in each implementation phase
- Know why true success depends on aligning AI with strategic objectives
Why this matters:
One of the greatest causes of failure in AI implementation is unstructured, random experimentation. Surveys constantly show that successful firms use three overarching phases – pilot, alignment, scale.
Module 3:Â Prompt Engineering for MarketersÂ
Outcome:Â Produce reliable, accurate, production-ready marketing systems you can trust. Learn how to customize AI to learn your style and tone, your business identity, your Ideal Client Profile and your services. You will also learn prompt techniques to create reliable, valid, AI optimized marketing workflows.
This is a quick overview. In each module you will learn and practice prompt engineering.
You will:
- Use structured prompts for consistent, high-quality marketing systems
- Teach AI how to write and analyze for your voice and tone, your firm’s brand, and your professional business model
- Set security for your documents and trusted sources
- Control format, structure, and quality using templates
- Teach AI to cross-examine its work and interview you for greater depth
Why this matters:
High validity, higher quality output reduces rework, speeds delivery, and protects credibility
Module 4:Â Identify Your Niche and Ideal Client Profile Profiles
Outcome:Â Position your firm with defensible market positioning, produce higher fees and close sales faster.
Discovering and targeting your prospect’s pains, problems, profit motives, and purpose always beats broadcasting a generic message. This module uses the Deep Research System to identify and validate your niches’ SWOT and your ICP’s hyper-personalized signals and triggers. Later, you will create an AI Magnetic Marketing Machine that uses your ICP's triggers and needs for hyper-personalization that produces higher conversions and higher fees.
You will:
- Use our Deep Research System to identify and validate your target industries, niches, competitors, and clients
- Build Ideal Client Profiles (ICPs) that include client needs, objections, buying signals and triggers
- Build target prospect profiles that include infographic profiles, SWOT, and Porter's 5 Forces analysis
- Know the pains, problems, profit motives, and purposes that drive your prospect’s decisions. Use these 4Ps to create marketing messages that target their strongest drivers and triggers.
Why this matters:
Build higher conversion rates, premium fees and shorter sales cycles with highly personalized Ideal Client Profiles and messages. (The founder of Critical to Success consulted and taught hyper-personalized digital marketing for 7 years with one of the leading Content Management System firms.)
Module 5: Create a Deep Research Content Generator
Outcome:Â Leading-edge insights and leading edge reports give a big lift to your trust and authority. Use the Deep Research System to generate and splinter content into multiple media with your style and tone.
You will:
- Create high-authority, high-validity reports (data sources) that are in-depth and on the leading edge, then use them as sources for multiple media and campaigns
- Splinter your Deep Research source with an AI workflow into pages, articles, posts, carousels, eBooks, and even webinars
- Map splintered content into AIDA or PAS sequences to lead prospects
Why this matters:
Marketing depends upon high trust and authority to attract and convert new clients. Use the Deep Research System to create high-validity output you can trust to keep you on the leading edge of insight for your niche.
Combining your Deep Research Data with your AI-tailored style and tone content engine gives you high validity, high quality content in minutes.
Module 6: Build Your AI Optimized Magnetic Marketing MachineÂ
Outcome:Â Smart marketers are preparing for AI optimized search. (GEO/AEO are rapidly taking over from SEO search.) Generate AI optimized content and develop a new website structure so it ranks high in AI search.
You will:
- Improve your rank in AI search with AI optimized Pillar and Support pages
- Discover the most "Probable Questions" and create AI optimized Pillar and Support pages that answer those questions
- Draft AI optimized content that includes AI search optimized page structures (H1–H3), content blocks (Hero, Answer, TL;DR, etc.), FAQ content, and JSON-LD schema ready to paste into your site
- Generate a JSON-LD schema map that identifies and locates your page contents for fast and easy AI search identification
Why this matters:
AI Search is rapidly replacing older SEO-based search. To rank with AI search, your web site structure, Pillar and Support page structures, and JSON-Schema must all be optimized for AI.
Increase Productivity - Improve ROI!
Join the Founder's CohortModule 7: Audit and Update Websites for AI OptimizationÂ
Outcome: Audit your website content for best practices and quickly and easily convert your old SEO search optimized web pages into AI optimized Pillar and Support pages that rank higher in AI search engines. (Your SEO optimization is retained.)
You will:
- Audit your website with an AI Auditor that generates the website audit report identifying where you can improve reader attraction/conversion, usability, and AI search.
- Quickly optimize old web pages for AI optimization (GEO/AEO) with AI optimized structures (H1–H3), GEO content blocks (Answer, TL;DR, etc.), FAQs, and JSON-LD Schema.
- Generate the JSON-LD schema that maps your site pages for fast and easy AI identification and browsing
Why this matters:
Save weeks of manual work rebuilding your website for AI search optimization. Audit your website for best practices and get on the leading edge of AI search ranking.
Module 8: Build a Hyper-Personalized Email Sequence System
Outcome: Use hyper-personalized email sequences that target your prospect's 4Ps (pain, problems, profits, purpose) to attract and convert high-value prospects.
You will:
- Build hyper-personalized messages and email nurture sequences and tag them for use with AIDA and PAS delivery phases
- Learn how to use recommended third-party AI apps to discover and implement psychographic, firmographic, and work contact information
Why this matters:
You can use hyper-personalized messaging in email nurture sequences for high-value prospects and lead them to funnels or to one-on-one Zoom meetings where you can quickly build high trust and authority.
Module 9: Generating an Integrated Editorial Calendar
Outcome: Generate an AI optimized editorial calendar with coordinated scheduling between multiple channels, media, and events.
You will:
- Use the AI editorial calendar system to generate an editable marketing and content calendar (CSV, MS Excel)
- Coordinate publication dates for articles, posts, carousels, and events
Why this matters:
Juggling the content and dates for overlapping channels, media, and events as well as personalized email sequences can be overwhelming and prone to accidents. Build an AI-optimized editorial calendar that schedules and updates in a minute.
Bonus:
One-on-One Consulting Session
Use your Private One Hour Consulting Session for Implementation and Private Questions
- Don't Face the Business World AloneÂ
Don't face critical digital marketing decisions alone. Work one-on-one with a consultant and coach who knows professional services. - One-on-One Consulting
In addition to live weekly group coaching you receive an hour of one-on-one coaching/consulting with Ron Person. Ron has 30+ years consulting and digital marketing experience with regional and international corporations.
Guarantee
Business Growth Guarantee
Complete the Business Builder projects and if you don’t generate at least your workshop investment in additional new revenue, I will work with you until you do.
Increase Productivity - Improve ROI!
Join the Founder's CohortWhy This Delivers ROI — Not Just EducationÂ
These implementation Sprint workshops build functioning business systems designed for professional services.
They are not training exercises.
Think of this as you would a business investment.
Conservative ROI Snapshot
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Avg. billing rate: $200/hour
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Time saved: 5 hours per week
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Annual productivity value: $48,000
Revenue Lift Example
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One additional $15,000 client per quarter
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Annual revenue impact: $60,000
Most marketers recover the cost of this program within 30–60 days of starting implementation.
From there, the bottom-line contributions continue to compound month over month.
Future-Proof Your Marketing and Business
Increase Revenue. Increase Productivity. Build Scalable Systems.
This is an implementation workshop, not an online course.
Your investment goes into learning and building real, working AI professional marketing systems that increase your productivity, target with hyper-personalization, and automate marketing workflows.
Research in the science of learning shows that when you learn and then put it to use your understanding and retention increase by 2X.
And best of all, most professionals and firms recover their investment within 30–60 days.
AI Implementation Workshop Dates
Live Workshop Dates: February 26 – April 16
Live Session Time: Thursdays, 10:00 AM –11:30 PM PT
đź’ĄJoin the Founder's Cohortđź’Ą
Limited to 20 Students
This is a Founder’s cohort before the public release.
Founder’s Cohort participants receive:
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Pre-release access to the full workshop and materials
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Implementation guidance
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Preferential pricing in exchange for participation and feedback
Cohorts are intentionally limited in size to maintain hands-on implementation quality and direct access.
Single Pay
Marketing Workshop Founder's Cohort - One Time
$967 - Single Payment
Join the Founder's CohortThree Month Pay
Marketing Workshop Founder's Cohort - Three Time
$376 - 3 Payments
Join the Founder's CohortYou Can't Lose Guarantee!
The "Business Builder Guarantee" - After completing your Business Builder projects, I guarantee your marketing productivity, ICP profiles, and your site AI search optimization will significantly improve.Â
From what you learn and build with the Business Builder projects, the AI prompts library, recommended metrics, playbooks, and community feedback, you will improve your marketing productivity and pay for this course.Â
If you are not satisfied, I will work with you until you are.
In-House Workshops for Firms
Imagine your firm's growth after a team of your marketers take the AI Implementation Workshop!
And we can tailor the AI workshop to fit your needs.
This is not a passive online course -
This is a Business Building workshop!
Critical to Success has decades of experience consulting and teaching Fortune 1000 companies with tailored programs.
Our clients have included Arthur Andersen, Pacific Gas & Electric, AT&T, Medtronic, and more. Ron Person has written 27 books on corporate performance improvement, digital marketing, and technology published by J Wiley and Macmillan and has taught instructional design at University California, Berkeley.Â
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Ron's one-on-one approach was and still is an immense help for me...
The course met my expectations with step-by-step guides on how to achieve all my business goals. Ron was also extremely helpful and went above and beyond in supporting my business.
Enjoy every intense moment because it is intensive and utilizes Ron's wealth of experience, knowledge, and time. Ron's one-on-one approach was and still is an immense help for me in becoming an established independent management consultant.
Tolu Ajakaiye, Evance Consulting, United Kingdom
Working with Cx0s, HR, and Operations
to simplify back-office complexity for greater performance
Who Am I?
Hi, I'm Ron Person (the one on the left),
I've been a highly successful consultant for 30+ years and have developing business systems with AI for three years.
My corporate strategy and digital marketing consulting clients have included corporate giants like Microsoft, Arthur Andersen, AT&T, Medtronics, other Fortune 1000 and Global 1000 corporations.Â
 My experience has come through multiple channels - consulting and training in mid-sized and global corporations, teaching in the Executive Extension of the University of California, Berkeley, and writing 27 books with four international bestsellers and three million copies sold. And an MS Physics and MBA in marketing and finance.