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Customer Panel? Too Slow. Here’s the Synthetic Version - with Janet Barker-Evans // REPOST
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- A Beginner's Guide to AI
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- Jun 6, 2026
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Summary
🚀 In this episode, Dietmar Fischer talks with Janet Barker-Evans about what happens when AI stops being a novelty and becomes part of a serious creative workflow. Janet breaks down how she uses custom GPTs for marketing as brainstorming partners and how synthetic personas can help teams validate campaigns faster, sometimes in a single day instead of waiting weeks for traditional research cycles. Our topics today include hands-on AI training, multi-model workflows (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot), and why AI fear often comes down to power and control. 📧💌📧 Tune in to get my thoughts and all episodes, don't forget to subscribe to our Newsletter: beginnersguide.nl 📧💌📧 About the Host: Dietmar is a podcaster and AI marketer from Berlin. If you want to know how to get your AI or your digital marketing going, just contact him at argoberlin.com 🎯 What you will learn: How synthetic personas in market research and synthetic customers can accelerate concept testing How custom GPTs for marketing can unlock better creative options How to choose between tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Copilot for real business work 🕒 Chapters 00:00 Welcome and Janet’s AI origin story 01:47 Custom GPTs as brainstorming partners for marketers 05:05 Hands-on AI workshops: building confidence across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot 15:23 Synthetic personas and rapid creative validation with “persona panels” 20:00 Multi-model workflows: choosing the right tool and making outputs usable 35:03 The wow moments and the fear factor: prototyping visuals, power, control, and what’s next 💬 Quotes from the Episode “It’s like having a partner who’s not afraid to pitch a crazy idea.” “When we…