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Free AI marketing tools and guides for New Zealand small businesses.

Pick the problem you need to solve: assess your setup, set safer AI rules, improve visibility, or make your writing sound human. Every resource is free and built for small business.

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How built is your AI marketing machine?

Ten honest questions across the five parts of a machine that actually runs. You get a score out of 40, a breakdown by part, and the one thing worth fixing first.

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WRITING

Anti-AI Writing Style Rules

The complete banned word list and expression patterns that make AI content sound generic. Load this into every session.

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AI TOOLS

From ChatGPT to Claude

If you decide this is right for your business, then here is how to make the switch, exactly how to do it without losing your setup.

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STRATEGY

SMB Marketing Strategy Guide

A practical marketing strategy framework built specifically for NZ small businesses using AI.

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FRAMEWORK

The BUILD Framework

The five parts of an AI marketing machine that runs. What each one does, what it looks like when you are doing it by hand, and what it looks like when it is running.

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GOVERNANCE

The AI governance checklist

Eight plain checks to put in place before you rely on AI in your business. Know your tools, protect client data, keep a human in the loop, name an owner. A one-page starting point you can shape into your own.

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Is your business using AI safely?

A few plain questions about how your business uses AI. At the end you get draft guidelines, written for a business of similar size, ready to download and shape into your own.

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Free guide · 13 pages

How do I get my business found by AI search?

What it takes to show up when your customers ask AI. Foundation, structure and authority, read for New Zealand small business, with every figure sourced and dated.

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Infographics & reports worth your time.

My analysis, and the research behind it.

NZ Small Business AI Research

Sources: Various

Every number worth quoting about AI and New Zealand small business, tied to a named source, a date and a live link. Updated quarterly.

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LinkedIn #1 AI Citation Source

Source: Profound

New research from Profound analysed 1.4 million AI citations between November 2025 and February 2026. LinkedIn jumped from number 11 to the number one cited domain for professional queries across ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, and Google AI. 

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2026 Instagram Engagement

Source: Hubspot

Key findings from HubSpot’s 2026 Instagram Engagement Report. Covers Reels adoption, posting frequency benchmarks, and what the data means for NZ small businesses showing up on Instagram. Summarised by Charisma Digital. 

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If story is messy, AI scales the mess

Source: Dentsu Creative

Dentsu Creative published a brand playbook for an AI future in June 2026. Five principles for staying visible when machines do the recommending, read for New Zealand small business. Includes the finding that 39% of the sources LLMs reference had been recently published or updated.

CAROUSEL : 9 SLIDES

Backlinks won't get you cited

Source: AEO masterclass, June 2026

Around 10,000 URLs across ten companies and eight AI engines, measuring what actually correlates with being cited. Backlinks scored +0.06 on AI Overview, 0.00 on ChatGPT and Perplexity, and minus 0.04 on Google AI Mode. What does move the needle is inside.

CAROUSEL : 9 SLIDES

Three systems. One missing piece.

Analysis : Charisma Digital

LinkedIn’s report-AI-slop button, Anthropic’s coming watermark, and Instagram’s AI label. Three systems for flagging AI, and not one of them says who decides or what you do when it is wrong. Includes why honest photographers are screenshotting their own work to avoid a false label, while anyone producing slop strips the metadata in one click.

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Social is search.

Source: Dentsu Creative, Brandwatch

Eight AI engines, eight different sets of sources. Working only on your own site wins you ChatGPT and loses you Gemini. Why machine readability and human referenceability are one job rather than two.

CAROUSEL : 9 SLIDES

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