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Running a marketing agency used to mean juggling a small army of freelancers, risking missed deadlines, and spending more time managing people than creating content and building strategies.
That’s how Barbara Jovanovic of Startup Cookie used to operate.
She’s now built a streamlined operation that generates six figures annually with a tech stack that costs less than one grand a year. There’s no team behind her — just Jovanovic, her AI tools, and a process that turns one hour-long conversation into weeks of high-quality content.
Here’s exactly how she did it — and how you can replicate her success, whether you’re an aspiring solopreneur or just want ideas on streamlining your workflows with AI.
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“We never start with just prompting AI by itself to do anything, even the simplest social media post. We always have something to start with,” says Jovanovic.
In her view, the biggest mistake people make when they use AI for content creation is asking it to write about a topic from scratch.
Jovanovic’s secret weapon? She starts with human interactions.
That might mean feeding the AI transcripts from webinar transcripts or podcast recordings. Her co-founder, Sam Claassen, does hour-long interviews with founders, and those transcripts also get fed to the AI.
In a world where authenticity is paramount in your marketing strategies, giving AI something human to work with can set you up for success.
I hate talking to AI because I tend to ramble — but Jovanovic says that could actually work to my advantage.
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