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Like a variety of you, we at StartupNation spent the previous couple of weeks racing to shut out 2022, laying plans for 2023 and setting some resolutions for the New 12 months.

As we printed and shared some glorious articles on these subjects—like this one about advertising and marketing tendencies to lean into in 2023—we thought it might be enjoyable to check out ChatGPT to assist us put collectively a snap New 12 months’s resolutions checklist.

ChatGPT, for these catching up on the most recent know-how information, is a synthetic intelligence instrument that reveals a outstanding skill to attract on a world of present texts to reply all types of questions. The solutions sound surprisingly like these you’ll get from an individual.

Launched by the San Francisco firm OpenAI, ChatGPT may also carry out extra primary AI duties like summarizing texts, producing clear responses within the format you request.

For enjoyable, we grabbed 4 StartupNation articles about getting ready your small business for the New 12 months, mixed the texts from them and requested ChatGPT to supply a “abstract in checklist format.”

Here’s what we received:

1. Keep on prime of trade coverage tendencies

2. Set objectives for enterprise, well being, and progress

3. Dream large and set long-term objectives

4. Select a bank card that may assist develop the enterprise

5. Give attention to happiness for oneself and staff

6. Prioritize your individual sustainability and set objectives for private and enterprise progress

7. Set a funds and monetary objectives

8. Give attention to buyer satisfaction

9. Hunt down new alternatives

10. Replicate on the previous yr and assess what labored and what didn’t

11. Don’t be afraid to pivot or make adjustments as wanted

12. Hunt down mentors or be part of a group of like-minded people for assist and steerage.

Slightly repetitive. Possibly too particular in spots. However fairly good, proper?

Appropriately, one of many issues on StartupNation’s checklist for 2023 is publishing extra details about synthetic intelligence. We are going to deal with how startups and small companies can use AI, like this text by Nahla Davis.

“When leveraged accurately, AI could make your startup far more environment friendly, notably within the age of distant work,” Davis writes. “However you don’t wish to depend on AI an excessive amount of, nor do you wish to develop or leverage it improperly.”

To shut out our little experiment, we turned to ChatGPI for a listing of New 12 months’s duties primarily based not on present StartupNation articles however on the entire world of texts that ChatGPI can draw upon.

Right here is the response to the question, “checklist the issues a small enterprise ought to do earlier than beginning a brand new yr.”

1. Assessment the previous yr: Take time to replicate on the previous yr and assess the enterprise’s efficiency. This might embody reviewing monetary statements, analyzing gross sales and advertising and marketing efforts, and taking a look at buyer suggestions.
2. Set objectives: Use the insights gained from the overview of the previous yr to set objectives for the upcoming yr. These may embody monetary targets, advertising and marketing and gross sales objectives, or operational targets.
3. Create a funds: Based mostly on the objectives set for the brand new yr, create a funds that outlines anticipated earnings and bills. This can assist the enterprise to plan and handle its monetary sources successfully.
4. Plan advertising and marketing efforts: Develop a advertising and marketing plan for the brand new yr that outlines the methods and techniques that the enterprise will use to succeed in its audience and drive gross sales.
5. Assessment and replace enterprise plans: Assessment the enterprise’s present marketing strategy and make any obligatory updates to replicate the objectives and priorities for the brand new yr.
6. Assessment and replace insurance policies and procedures: Assessment the enterprise’s insurance policies and procedures to make sure they’re up-to-date and aligned with the enterprise’s objectives and targets.
7. Assessment and replace contracts: Assessment any contracts that the enterprise has with suppliers, companions, or clients and make any obligatory updates.
8. Put together for the brand new yr: Make any obligatory preparations for the brand new yr, corresponding to ordering stock, updating software program or programs, or hiring new workers.

And on that lengthy however spectacular be aware … Blissful New 12 months!