About us
Welcome to AI + Marketing, a practical virtual and in-person Meetup community open to anyone, anywhere.
Most of our meetings are held online, so you do not need to live in Los Angeles, California, or any specific city to participate. Whether you are joining from New York, California, Massachusetts, Chicago, Seattle, Canada, Europe, or anywhere else in the world, you are welcome here.
This group is designed for entrepreneurs, small business owners, marketers, freelancers, creators, consultants, students, and curious professionals who want to understand how AI can be used in real marketing situations without feeling overwhelmed or needing a technical background.
Our focus is simple: make AI useful, practical, and actionable.
At our events, we explore how to use AI for:
• Content creation
• Social media
• Email marketing
• Customer research
• Brand voice
• Messaging
• Marketing strategy
• Lead generation
• Workflow automation
• Smarter business decisions
Virtual Sessions
Most of our events are held virtually, making it easy for people from different cities, states, and time zones to participate.
You do not need to be local to join. Whether you are attending from a small town, a major city, or somewhere outside the United States, you are welcome here.
Virtual sessions allow members to learn practical AI + marketing strategies, ask questions, share ideas, and connect with other professionals in a flexible and accessible way.
From time to time, we may also host optional in-person meetups, workshops, or networking events for members who are local to the Los Angeles and Pasadena area, but the core of this community is online and designed for a nationwide audience.
Types of Events
AI + Marketing Mini Sessions
Practical online workshops focused on one clear topic, strategy, or workflow. These sessions are designed to give members actionable ideas and real examples they can immediately apply to their business, brand, or marketing efforts.
AI + Marketing Office Hours
Casual weekly virtual sessions where members can ask questions, bring marketing challenges, discuss AI tools, share ideas, and get practical guidance in a supportive environment.
AI + Marketing Strategies
This group is ideal for anyone who wants to move beyond random AI experimentation and start using AI with more clarity, strategy, and confidence.
Whether you are brand new to AI or already using tools like ChatGPT, this community will help you learn how to apply AI in ways that feel practical, human, and connected to real marketing goals.
**PasadenaAILady.com**
I also created [PasadenaAILady.com](https://pasadenaailady.com/), where I share practical guides, examples, tools, and ideas for using AI across marketing, analytics, business strategy, and everyday workflows. It is designed especially for people who want to use AI more strategically but may not have a large marketing team, technical staff, or enterprise-level budget.
Join Us
If you want to learn practical AI strategies, stay current as the technology evolves, meet like-minded people from across the country, and become more confident using AI in your work or business, we would love to have you join us.
A little about me: I've spent 15+ years doing marketing analytics work for brands like Disney, Land Rover, Lexus, Microsoft, and Warner Bros. I started this group because I wanted to bring that same thinking, real data, real strategy, to marketers and small business owners who don't have a large team or budget behind them.
Upcoming events
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AI for Business & Marketing: Build workflows that move your business forward
·OnlineOnlineThis AI for Business & Marketing meetup is focused on using AI with more structure. We’ll walk through how to take one business goal and turn it into a simple workflow you can use for content, campaigns, follow-up, and decision-making.
You’ll learn how to use AI to clarify your audience, sharpen your message, create useful marketing assets, plan follow-up, and decide what to measure. The goal is to help you stop using AI randomly and start using it as part of a repeatable process that supports real business growth.
# What You’ll Learn
By the end of this meetup, you’ll know how to:
- Decide which marketing tasks AI can support and which still need human judgment.
- Measure whether your workflow is helping move the business forward.
# Who Should Attend
This event is for marketers, small business owners, entrepreneurs, consultants, creators, real estate professionals, and service-based business owners who want to use AI more strategically.
No technical experience is required.# What to Bring
Bring one business goal, offer, event, service, or content idea you want to work on.
# What You’ll Walk Away With
You’ll leave with a simple AI marketing workflow you can reuse for your business or client work, plus an AI Marketing Workflow Map to help you apply the process after the event.
Everyone who RSVPs “Yes” will receive recap notes, prompts, examples, and additional AI + Marketing resources, even if they cannot attend live.
Need help before the event?
I write about practical AI + Marketing strategies, workflows, and tools here:
https://raquelhunter.substack.com/40 attendees
AI product photography studio: Create better business images with AI
·OnlineOnlineCurious about AI product photography but not sure where to start?
This beginner-friendly session is designed for entrepreneurs, marketers, freelancers, consultants, creators, small business owners, Etsy sellers, Shopify sellers, and professionals who want to create better product and marketing images without needing a full photoshoot.We’ll focus on practical, real-world examples using Rewarx Photography Studio.
This AI tool helps turn simple product photos into more polished images for websites, social media, online stores, ads, email marketing, and business content.
Topics may include:
- how small businesses are using AI for product photography
- turning basic product snapshots into professional-looking images
- creating clean product photos for ecommerce listings
- using AI backgrounds and lifestyle scenes
- creating social media images from one product photo
- how to make your product images look more consistent
- how to write better prompts for AI product photos
- common mistakes to avoid when using AI image tools
- where AI helps and where your creative direction still matters most
This will be a relaxed, collaborative session with live examples, discussion, and opportunities to ask questions.
No technical, design, or photography background required.
Whether you are completely new to AI image tools or have experimented a little but still feel overwhelmed, this session will help you better understand:
- what AI product photography is good at
- where AI can save time and money
- how to use AI images for marketing and ecommerce
- how to give better creative direction to an AI tool
- how to start creating practical business visuals right away
Everyone who RSVPs “Yes” will receive:
- recap notes
- beginner-friendly prompts
- practical AI product photography examples
- resources for creating better marketing images with AI
I also write about practical AI + Marketing strategies, workflows, and tools here:
https://raquelhunter.substack.com/23 attendees
Create short videos with an AI twin
·OnlineOnlineCreating video content can be exhausting, especially if you do not enjoy being on camera or do not have time to constantly film yourself.
In this workshop, I’ll show you how to start with one approved image of yourself, or an AI version of yourself and use it to create several short videos in different settings.Your AI twin could be walking outside in one video, working from a home office in another, and sitting at a café in the next. You can change the clothing, location, pose, and activity without having to get dressed, set up a camera, or record each scene yourself.
We’ll go through the process together, including how to:
- Create new scenes while keeping your AI twin recognizable
- Change the outfit and location
- Create the beginning and ending images for a scene
- Turn those images into a short video
- Repeat the process to create more content from the same reference image
This workshop is especially helpful for entrepreneurs, consultants, marketers, and creators who know video is important but do not want to spend all their time filming.
No coding or advanced AI experience is needed. I’ll walk through the workflow step by step and show you what works, what can go wrong, and how to improve the results.
By the end of the session, you’ll understand how one good reference image can become the starting point for several different videos you can use for social media, your website, or your business.
Everyone who RSVPs “Yes” will receive the workshop recap and the prompts used during the session.
Need more AI + Marketing help?
I also share practical AI + Marketing tools, prompts, and workflows through my Substack:
https://raquelhunter.substack.com/15 attendees
Make your brand memorable with AI
·OnlineOnlineYour brand is the feeling people remember.
Posting online but still feel like your business sounds unclear, inconsistent, or easy to forget?
Your brand is not only your logo, colors, website, or social media posts. Your brand is the feeling people remember after they interact with you.
It shows up in your emails, captions, comments, DMs, website copy, offers, follow-ups, and even the way you explain what you do.
This beginner-friendly online session is designed for entrepreneurs, marketers, freelancers, consultants, creators, small business owners, and professionals who want to use AI to make their brand feel clearer, more consistent, and more memorable.
We’ll focus on practical, real-world examples you can use right away.
Topics may include:
- how to define the feeling you want your brand to create
- how to use AI to clarify your brand voice and message
- how to make your website, emails, social posts, bios, and DMs feel connected
- how to explain what you do in a way people remember
- how to create reusable brand language for your marketing
- how to identify words your brand should use and avoid
- how to make your offer feel easier to understand and trust
- common mistakes to avoid when using AI for branding
This will be a relaxed, collaborative online session with live examples, discussion, and time for questions.
No branding, technical, or coding background required.
This session will help you better understand:
- what makes a brand memorable
- how AI can help you clarify your message faster
- where human creativity and judgment still matter most
- how to create a more consistent brand experience across every touchpoint
- how to start improving your marketing immediately
Everyone who RSVPs “Yes” will receive:
- recap notes
- beginner-friendly prompts
- practical AI branding examples and resources
Need help with AI + Marketing now?
I also write about practical AI + Marketing strategies, workflows, and tools here:
https://raquelhunter.substack.com/***
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