The AI Tricks Every Balloon Pro Should Steal

For months I've been thinking that my ChatGPT is dumb. It ignores me, it lies to me, it promises a spreadsheet and then vanishes. Then I sat down with my friend Lenor and realized the problem was never the robot... it was the person typing. Here's what she shared about how to use AI in your balloon business..

Lenor runs Lights Camera Selfies in Hollywood, Florida, and she has leaned all the way in; she's becoming a certified AI counselor. Not because she loves tech, but because she's a one woman show who wanted her creative time back. 

Start with one thing

If AI feels like too much, Lenor's advice is simple: pick one task and start there. For her it began with wanting something to answer the phone. She tried a handful of tools, decided they sounded too robotic and deleted them. That's the whole point... you are still the boss. If it doesn't sound like you, it goes.

Let it do the math you hate

This is the part that broke my brain. Every time Lenor gets a receipt from a balloon order, her ChatGPT reads it the next morning and drops the numbers into an Excel sheet. She knows what an 11 inch balloon actually costs her, down to the penny. She built out her helium pricing the same way, because like a lot of us she was girl-mathing her way through helium jobs and quietly losing money. I could not tell you what my balloons cost me right now. She could tell you in her sleep.

Make yourself easier to find

Here's a sneaky smart one. When Lenor replies to a Google review, she doesn't just say thanks; she repeats what she made, like the balloon column with swirls and Mylar. Those keywords help people find her later, because folks are searching inside AI now the way they used to Google. She also tracks where new clients hear about her, and ChatGPT has climbed to one of her top sources.

Keep the human touch

Lenor has lines she won't cross. She doesn't use AI to fake balloon photos for proposals, because the balloons come out a little off. She's also not into the pushy upsell bots. Get what you need, then get out before it drags you down a rabbit hole.

The takeaway

AI is only as good as your prompts, and the goal isn't to sound like a machine; it's to hand off the stuff you dread so you can get back to the balloons. Start with one thing this week. Maybe it's your receipts. Maybe it's your to-do list. Just start.

Want all of Lenor's tips? Listen to the full episode here.