Using AI To Generate Stories Or Email Ideas

Take the pain out of being creative and putting out content.

This article is part of the Renegade Newsletters and Renegade Email series.

I use AI daily, multiple times a day, and in this article I want to share with you a couple of great ways you can use AI to help you in your day-to-day marketing.

If you are writing daily emails or articles for newsletters then you will have probably hit a couple or brick walls by now…

Either you are stuck for ideas about what to write about, or you just can’t get the words out and turn an idea into a lesson with an AHA moment.

… I am going to show you how to get past those with AI.

I use either DeepSeek or Perplexity for my AI tools. Perplexity is amazing because it gives you access to ALL of the main AI models for a single monthly fee (with some free usage), DeepSeek is free and also works incredibly well.

So let’s start with the second problem first.

I was listening to a Podcast last month which interviewed the new CEO of TGI Friday’s, it had recently gone into bankruptcy and I had posted this note on my whiteboard…

I still haven’t gotten around to writing a piece on it, so I thought I would use it as an exercise…

I fired up Perplexity and chose the GPT-4.1 model, turned on research mode and entered the following…