How AI Is Changing Small Business Marketing | Funnels, Automation, Growth and Entrepreneurship
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About This Episode
Elvira Sakara is a global marketing manager with over 16 years of international experience and the founder of a marketing agency focused on AI-driven business growth, strategy, systems, and automation.
In this episode, we talk about how AI is changing the way small businesses operate, market, sell, and scale. Elvira explains why AI is not just ChatGPT, how tools like AI voice assistants, CRM systems, funnels, and automation can help business owners save time, improve client communication, and build stronger systems.
We also go deeper than just business. From leaving a successful corporate career to starting her own agency, building a network as an immigrant in Canada, balancing motherhood, marriage, and ambition, this conversation shows the real side of entrepreneurship that people don’t often talk about.
What we talk about:
• How AI can help small businesses grow
• Why AI is more than just ChatGPT
• AI voice assistants, CRM systems, chatbots, and funnels
• Why structure matters more than tools
• Marketing as an investment, not an expense
• Leaving corporate to build your own business
• The importance of networking and relationships
• Balancing career, motherhood, and family life
• Honest realities of ambition and success
• Elvira’s workshops and upcoming marketing course for small businesses
Connect with Elvira:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elvirasakara/ [https://www.instagram.com/elvirasakara/]
LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/elvira-sakara-87584045 [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/elvira-sakara-87584045]
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