Like it or not, AI for small business isn’t something you can ignore. AI tools have changed everything, and one of the best things? You can now compete head-to-head with much bigger businesses & larger competitors, than ever before.
The explosion of fantastic AI tools tuned specifically for small businesses to use (like my collection of free AI writing tools and everything I’ve built inside of RightBlogger), means you can now move at a pace that just wouldn’t have been possible for you alone (or you and a small team) just a few years ago. It’s kinda bananas, actually.
🔑 AI is helping small business owners save time, get more done, and attract more customers. In a wide variety of ways ranging from customer support to sales, marketing, virtual assistant tasks, in content creation, and beyond, AI tools are empowering entrepreneurs to work smarter, not harder.
More specifically, AI tools can now help you with tasks like:
- Offering 24/7 customer service through an AI chatbot on your website (e.g. using an AI phone agent like Lindy or Goodcall)
- Producing content at scale for your blog and social media channels (e.g. using a powerful AI Article Writer to save time)
- Converting existing content into other formats in seconds (e.g. turning your YouTube videos into SEO-optimized blog posts)
- Creating impressive, unique visuals instantly—and without the expense of hiring a designer
- Improving your workflows for time-consuming tasks (e.g. by handling data entry for you)
- Asking complex questions directly to AI (e.g. ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude or other AI chat tools)
- … and I’m not kidding, so much more it’s insane
If you’re not already using AI, or you’re not using it to the fullest extent, it may be because you don’t yet see how it can impact your business. If that sounds like you, fear not! I’m here to help shine a light on how to use AI as a small business owner.
👋 If you want my personalized feedback & suggestions on how to integrate AI into your small business, drop me a comment below at the end of this post and I’ll reply ☺️
So before we get into our list of top AI tools for small businesses, let’s take a look at why small business owners need AI.
AI for Small Business: 7 AI Tools to Outperform Big Competitors
- Why Small Business Owners Need AI: 5 Benefits
- AI Article Writing Software
- AI Keyword Research Tools
- AI Competitor Research Tools
- AI Video to Blog Converters
- AI Email Campaign Tools
- AI Copywriting Tools
- AI Image and Graphic Design Tools
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Why Small Business Owners Need AI: 5 Benefits of Artificial Intelligence
AI tools have huge benefits for businesses of all sizes … but they can be particularly impactful for small businesses on a tight budget. Here’s why:
1. AI Lets You Save Time, Every Day
As a small business owner, one of your biggest constraints is probably time. There just aren’t enough hours in the day to fit it all in.
This is where AI can really excel. Whatever type of AI you’re using, it’s sure to be saving you time. You could write content 3 times faster, respond to customer questions automatically, come up with ideas in seconds, and much more.
2. AI Empowers You to Operate With Few Or No Staff
If you started your business on a tight budget, you might be nowhere near the point where you can hire staff. AI means you can operate with few or no staff beyond yourself.
With AI to create marketing content, come up with ideas, and even answer customer queries, you don’t need to raise funds to hire employees. You can accomplish a huge amount as a solopreneur or a tight-knit startup team.
3. AI Automates Boring Tasks—and Avoids Human Error
Let’s face it, some essential business tasks are downright boring. Most of us don’t enjoy proofreading content, for instance … but a glaring typo isn’t going to make a good impression on customers. AI grammar and spelling checkers can automatically weed out errors for you.
AI can streamline all kinds of repetitive tasks, like formatting and entering customer data into a CRM (avoiding “fat finger” errors), personalizing emails to customers (no embarrassing mistakes where you address someone by the wrong name), and much more.
4. AI Can Improve Customer Experience, Fast
When you’re pulled in all directions as a small business owner, it’s tough to give every customer the attention they deserve. Perhaps support queries are going unanswered for days, or you’re not making the time to follow up with customers to let them know about other products/services they’d benefit from.
AI can personalize customer experience and customer interactions at scale, letting you treat every single customer as a “VIP” with prompt replies, effective follow-up, and recommendations tailored just to them.
5. AI Lets You Create Impressive Marketing Campaigns
Ever looked at a competitor’s slick designs and on-point copy and wished you had the ability to do the same? With a helping hand from AI, you do!
AI tools can craft powerful copy, following best-practice guidelines. You can also use AI to create high-quality custom visuals, from photo-realistic images to anime-style illustrations. Instead of trawling through free stock photo sites, you can get something that’s just right for your marketing campaign.
Important: If you last tried AI a year ago or more, then it’s time to give it another go! AI models have evolved fast and can now tackle much more complex tasks with accuracy.
Ready to give AI a try? Here are 7 of the best AI tools for small business owners and entrepreneurs to use across a range of business operations.
7 Powerful AI Tools for Small Business Owners
1. AI Article Writing Software
Whatever kind of business you run, you probably have a website or blog. To bring in traffic, you need fresh content on a regular basis.
It can take hours to write a great article that’s worthy of ranking high in Google and other search engines. But with powerful AI article writing software, you can get a rough first draft in just seconds—freeing you up to spend time improving and refining it, instead of staring at a blank screen wondering what to write.
Get Started With AI Article Writing Software
Use my Free AI Article Writer to write articles for your blog or website.
Tip: Try out different tones & writing styles to get an article that fits your brand … and write in multiple languages if you have a non-English speaking or multilingual audience. You can even automatically include images.
If you like it, you can get the full version with a RightBlogger Unlimited account, with pricing from $24.99/month (paid annually). You can create much longer articles, use real-time knowledge, include links, and optimize for SEO, and more … all with just a few clicks.
2. AI Keyword Research Tools
If you want to get potential customers to your website, you need them to be able to find you through search engines. That means writing about the things your ideal customers are searching for.
But there’s a catch. Your ideal customers are likely someone else’s ideal customers, too! If you target broad, common search phrases like “make money” (22,000 monthly searches) or “lose weight (27,000 monthly searches), those are going to be really competitive.
Get Started With AI Keyword Research
Use my Free AI Keyword Research Tool to find keywords that hit the “sweet spot” of volume and competition.
Tip: Look for keywords with a “low” competition rating and a monthly volume of 1,000–10,000. These should be achievable, while having enough searches to make a real difference to your traffic.
Want to go further? Try advanced tools like RightBlogger’s SEO Keyword Cluster Tool to create groups of related keywords to write about (this shows Google what you’re an expert in … and can help you quickly fill out your content calendar).
3. AI Competitor Research Tools
If you want to do better than your big competitors, you need to know what they’re up to! That’s where competitor research comes in.
As a small business owner, you probably don’t have the time (or the expertise) to dig deep into understanding your competitors’ business plans, market positioning, content strategy, and so on.
With the help of AI tools, you can automatically find out all kinds of information about your competitors—and boost your decision-making about how to move forward in your own business.
Get Started With AI Competitor Research
RightBlogger (my suite of advanced AI-powered tools) has some competitor research tools that you can use completely free to spot business trends.
The key ones are:
- Backlink Checker: find out exactly where your competitors are getting links from (so you can target the same places and try to get a link to your site, too).
- Content Gap Analysis Tool: compare your own article with a top-ranking competitor’s piece to find out where your article is falling short … and how you can improve it.
4. AI Video to Blog Converters
Should you have a blog or a video channel? When time is tight as a small business owner, it can be tough to decide.
The great thing about AI is that you don’t need to choose between the two! You can go with a “video-first” content creation process, where you create YouTube videos first, then convert these into well-structured blog posts using an AI video to blog converter.
Get Started With AI Video to Blog Conversion
Try out the YouTube Video to Blog Post Generator inside RightBlogger (you can use it with a free account). Convert any YouTube video into a blog post in seconds, incorporating your chosen keyword.
Tip: You can use RightBlogger’s video to blog post generator with any video (including non-YouTube videos) so long as you have a transcript. This means it’s suitable for all kinds of use cases, like creating content based on paid course videos, or creating a blog post to be released at the same time as a not-yet-published video.
5. AI Email Campaign Tools
For most businesses, email is the best channel for making sales—with an ROI of around 36:1. That means you’ll make $36 for every $1 you spend on email marketing.
You can’t see those benefits, though, if you barely have time to email your list, or if you have a “set it and forget it” approach to email marketing.
AI solutions can help with every aspect of your email campaign, whether that’s writing a must-click subject line, crafting a powerful CTA (call to action), or even creating the whole email.
Get Started With AI Email Campaign Tools
If you always struggle to come up with subject lines, try RightBlogger’s Catchy Email Subject Line Generator. You’ll get 10 subject lines to choose from in just seconds, all designed to engage readers who are scrolling quickly through their inbox.
Go further with the Newsletter Ideas Tool to brainstorm ideas and the Newsletter Generator to create all the content you need for your list. The Call-to-Action Generator lets you add powerful CTAs, too.
6. AI Copywriting Tools
As well as emails, you’re likely to write all kinds of copy for your small business. Generative AI tools can be a huge help here, whether you’re writing social media posts, product descriptions, Google ads, or even full landing pages.
The best AI apps will be trained on tried-and-true templates (like AIDA–attention, interest, desire, action) to create high-converting copy for you.
Tip: You can also use AI technology to analyze the success of your marketing campaigns. Don’t worry if you’re bewildered by how to sort through vast amounts of data: AI’s data analysis algorithms can quickly give you the insights you need to tweak and improve your marketing efforts for your next campaign.
Get Started With AI Copywriting Tools
My free AI Hook Generator will give you an instant “hook” for any social media post, blog post, or landing page topic.
To go further with copywriting, check out some of these RightBlogger tools:
- Ad Copy: instantly write ad copy for your chosen platform (in your brand voice, too)
- Feature/Benefit/Outcome: create powerful copy for your product/service landing pages
- AIDA: craft copy that fits the popular AIDA formula
- Product Description: write an engaging product description to boost conversions
7. AI Image and Graphic Design Tools
You might have already tried out AI tools like ChatGPT for creating text … but what about using AI to generate images?
Advancements in machine learning and AI algorithms mean that image-creation tools are better than ever, though you still need to check your images before publishing just in case anything doesn’t look quite right.
AI can create all kinds of images, in different sizes (aspect ratios), and in different styles: cartoon, watercolor, photo-realistic, anime, line drawing, and pretty much anything else you can imagine. You could use these images on social media, in blog posts, or even as part of paid products (like merchandise or books).
Get Started With AI Image and Graphic Design Tools
Not given image creation a try before? Use my free AI Image Generator to try out this new technology.
If you want to go further, the full RightBlogger AI Image Generator has a handy dropdown to choose different styles, plus the option to adjust the aspect ratio of your image.
You could also use my free Image Caption Generator to caption your images.
Get Started With AI Tools for Your Small Business Today
You don’t need to be the next Microsoft to benefit from AI adoption … and you don’t need to know all the techy terms like “NLP” (natural language processing).
Using just one or two AI tools, effectively, could make a massive difference to your business. For instance:
- If you run an e-commerce store, you could use AI to improve any thin, boring, or boilerplate product descriptions, helping improve your SEO and your conversions.
- If you have a lot of business data that you don’t fully understand, you could use AI to dig through it (and even engage in some forecasting for future business).
- If you want to up your content game, you could use AI tools to come up with ideas, outline content, and even write full blog posts, LinkedIn posts, and more.
To get started with AI, try out my 35+ free AI tools here on RyRob—no login needed and no strings attached.
Use My 40+ Powerful Free Blogging Tools Today
When I first started blogging, I couldn’t afford fancy tools. That sucked. And that’s why I’ve built a stable of powerful free blogging tools ranging from keyword research to an AI article writer, blog idea generator and more. Forever free for all to use—no strings attached.
