Billy Gene is a trailblazing marketing genius, entrepreneur, and educator renowned for his dynamic approach to online advertising and business growth. Having helped thousands of entrepreneurs and major brands like Kia, Massage Envy, and Procter & Gamble, Billy Gene is celebrated for turning high-level marketing strategies into accessible, actionable advice. With a passion for leveraging AI and automation, he focuses on empowering everyday business owners to scale, automate, and dominate their industries— all while encouraging them to show up authentically and unapologetically. Takeaways: AI-Driven Opportunity: Automation and artificial intelligence are revolutionizing marketing, making powerful results accessible even for those without tech expertise. Helping small businesses implement AI solutions is a major, untapped opportunity. Be Authentically You: The biggest mistake people make in ads is losing their personality and becoming robotic on camera. Authenticity and showing your true self are what drive connection and sales. Ask More, Scale More: If you want to scale your business, you need to amplify how often you ask people to buy—especially through simple, scalable video ads instead of relying on old-school hustle. Sound Bites: "Most business owners are either too busy or too lazy or just simply unwilling to learn something new... but with AI, you do not have to be techy anymore." "If you can use artificial intelligence to make that content with them, to follow up for them... what's that worth to you? Thousands of dollars a month? Of course it is." "The simplest strategy is: ask more people to buy by using video, because video can scale infinitely in anywhere around the world. That is the answer." Quote by Mick Hunt: "Side hustle is great, but strategy is important. The hustle culture at some point has to evolve to, 'I can do what the heck I want to do.'" Connect & Discover Billy: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/billy-gene-is-marketing/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/billygeneismarketing Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/billygeneismarketing/ Website: https://billygeneismarketing.com/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@billygeneismarketing Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/BillyGeneIsMarketing FOLLOW MICK ON:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mickunplugged/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mickunplugged/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mickunplugged LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mickhunt/Website: https://www.mickhuntofficial.com Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mick-unplugged/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What is the purpose of authenticity in marketing?
People have the most dynamic personalities online, but when the camera's on, they think they have to be a certain way for people to accept them. It looks like this, like I'm, you know, I'd be myself in this interview, but then they'll turn on the camera shooting and they'd be like, real estate agents do the best. Hi, my name is Bill Jean. And here in Southern California.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another exciting episode of Mic Unplugged. And today, buckle up because we're about to get real. We are talking to a marketing genius who turns clicks into cash, a disruptor who rewrites the rules of advertising, and a powerhouse entrepreneur who teaches businesses how to dominate online. If you don't know his name, you're one of the few.
You've definitely seen his ads. He's innovative. He's unapologetic. He is the trailblazing friend of mine, Mr. Billy Jean. What's up?
First and foremost, thank you very much for having me, for real.
Man, thank you for taking time out of your extraordinary busy schedule to break bread with me.
I'm not going to lie. I ain't that busy lately. I feel like, you know, I haven't done a podcast in a while, honestly, for the last probably six months to a year. I've just said no to everything. And just really automating using AI. And so to be real with you, I spend four hours a day playing tennis every day. Another four with my daughter. And then, you know, it's just process and managing.
But I'm going to come here and make some shit up. You know what I mean? Because people always want to stay busy. Like, look, I got into business to not be busy all the time. You know, it's been 15, 17 years, however long it's been. Like, I don't want to still be busy in the same capacity. Don't let that be twisted with... not being productive, not creating impact, not growing things, but busy.
Today, I'm busy. Today's a busy day, but most of the time, nah, nah. I didn't really like that.
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Chapter 2: How can AI revolutionize small business marketing?
Now people are using my partners, my brothers over at high level and they build a funnel in two seconds. We know that no business today exists without content. Like literally, that's why we're creating this, right?
Like, you know, if you and I go to a random city tomorrow and we're deciding what to eat and we Google something, we're not choosing the restaurant with no pictures, with no videos, with no reviews. Like you cannot win in business. So here we are more than ever. Businesses need content. The manual labor to get content is a pain in the ass that most are unwilling to deal with.
So if you can use artificial intelligence, To make that content with them, to follow up for them because, you know, how many businesses lose money because they just ain't calling people back. They're not emailing people back. They're not responding. These are very simple things, but they're in high demand.
So my job as an AI marketer is to go to a small business owner and say, hey, you're way too busy to follow up. You haven't posted on your page in quite some time and you know you need to create the content. Would you like to pay me to do it for you? Simple. And there's like, okay, cool. Now what's nice about that transaction is people are paying for the result, not for my clock in clock out.
That is where you make the money and the time because I'm not just trying to go check in. If I can deliver you content, if I can follow up with everybody who reaches out to you and I do that for you, what's that worth to you? Thousands of dollars a month? Of course it is. Of course it is. Easy, right? But it doesn't mean it's going to take me all day.
Because when you know how to use all these tools, these things can be done an hour, set up for the whole month. And that's it. And the thing is, AI makes it so you don't have to be techie. So I want everybody to think about that. Most people hear me and they're like, yeah, but I'm not a techie person. Most of my students aren't.
Most are busy parents that don't even know how to touch a damn computer. But that's the revolution with AI, is you do not have to be techie anymore. That's the kicker. That's the catch. It's, it's, it's set up in design for my mother who don't aren't techie. And so that's how I would do it is I would go help small businesses automate their processes and create content using AI.
And so, uh, yeah, in that, in that, uh, mini course that we have our 10 day challenge, that's exactly what we do. I give people scripts. I give them a presentation. I give them the child, the software. And I'm like, yo, this is it. This is how it all works. This is what you do. You know, but just like when I got into Facebook ads, you know, years ago, people were like, that sounds crazy.
Same shit now. Okay. And those that are willing, they win. And those that are not, they spectate and spectate greatness of other people.
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Chapter 3: What strategies can entrepreneurs use to scale their business?
Yeah. Yeah. So, Billy, man, you've worked with big brands, Kia, Massage Envy, Dave & Busters, Procter & Gamble. I could go on and on and on and give out all your credentials, but we'd be here for five days and we don't have time for that. Right. But those big companies have a lot of similarities to the small companies as well, too. Right.
So when you're going in and you're working with a Kia or a Procter & Gamble, What are some of the similarities that they have that the local restaurant down the street or the local insurance agent down the street is also struggling with?
I like this question because I think the answer is important. And it's this is they like to laugh, too. And I say that because for some reason, when people come into corporate sales. They even give it a different title. They call it B2B. I'm in B2B sales. I said, what does that mean? I'm in business to business sales. Are you not selling to humans? Oh, you're in business to business.
Are you not selling to humans or something? Oh, okay. I was confused. It's there's just selling to humans. That, that is, that is the whole process. And so what I, and by the way, I deal with this too.
Like when I was, this is last year when I was doing this consulting calls for a Procter and Gamble and it's, you know, you see their office and all these different countries, Singapore, dah, dah, dah. And I'm, I'm getting nervous. I mind you, I do this every day forever, but I'm getting nervous and I'm getting in my head and I'm thinking like,
you know, like, well, corporate, like, well, can I say this? Or will they laugh at this? Or will this land in this? And so I just like took a deep breath and I gave my same style presentation that I would teach to anybody and they loved it. And they hired me back immediately right after to come again. And it was just a reminder of like, people are people, people are people.
So to your answer, your question is like literally everything, every, everything is, is, is the same. Um, you know, there's probably some, um, I don't know, some minor nuances. But overall, it's the same thing. You're just talking to people, you know? You're just talking to people.
Yeah. So for the viewer listener right now, let's say that they're 10 million in revenue and under, right? So they're not big business, but they're also not mom and pop. What are some strategies that you'd give them as it relates to marketing and AI to really start to scale their business?
Yeah, just one. One of my old coaches and good friends today, my brother Frank Kern, shout out to him. Years ago, he asked me a very, very simple question. And it stuck with me. And I've used it in all my consulting since then. And he just said, hey, how many people did you ask to buy today? I said, what? He's like, well, you want to make more money, right?
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Chapter 4: How does the hustle culture affect modern entrepreneurship?
So through marriage, got you, right? So, but I remember when these first dropped, And, you know, iMac had the big bulky computers, et cetera. And there was PC. And Apple was, if anybody remembers, Apple was so inconvenient because you always needed extra hardware and extra software to make it compatible with anything. Like it didn't work with anything. I'm like, this is so annoying.
And then they were expensive too. So I was like, it's not compatible. It's more expensive. Why the fuck would anybody buy this thing? And so, you know, all of a sudden you start seeing Apple, everything, Apple, everything, Apple, everything. And obviously there's the iPad and iPod and all this is, but there was something else that happened.
And if you could add it in the clips to show the commercials, because people will remember, but there was this little commercial that came out and it had two guys standing on a white backdrop. And one was dressed in a old crusty suit, looked like a very corporatey uncool type of cat. And then the other guy was just like a T-shirt and a hoodie.
And he goes, they start off the ad, he looks at the camera and he goes, I'm a Mac. And he goes, I'm a PC. And then the whole 30 second bit was just a compare and contrast. Like, I think one of them was like, you know, I'm a PC and you know, sometimes I have viruses and Apple's like, no, we don't have viruses. We don't actually get like, that was it. That was, that was literally it.
And they made about a hundred of these ads, maybe even more. And they put them out, put them out. And then all of a sudden, it became cool to have an iPhone, to have a Mac, to have those things. And once they started gaining momentum, boy, did they not stop. And obviously they had great products and things of that nature, but for that switch to happen, I do not believe that can happen without
a message like that. And then also they carry on this war. Like this wasn't a small thing. Even right now, if I text you or you text me, you guys know what happens. Since I'm an Android, if I'm in your guys' group text, they give me a blue bubble or a green bubble, whatever I am. So it's like, who's this person in my chat? Like they villainize the whole thing so brilliantly. And that was it.
So that's why I said it's the best marketing company ever. Like, I mean, that was maybe the hardest business challenge to ever overcome considering at the time PC had such a hold on the game. Their market share was on like, it was crazy. So for them to break in, of course, it took great marketing. Of course it did.
So yeah, I want to know, this is my rant of the day. Who was the person at Apple that decided to like, think it was cool to have backward keyboards and mouse? I didn't use a Mac for that reason. I couldn't use a keyboard and mouse. It's like, dude, come on, man.
For 500 years, we've been typing and maneuvering this way, and now you want to untrain my 30-plus-year-old brain to do something different? So I was anti-Apple for everything until I got married, and my wife was like, but we can FaceTime other family members. Oh, God.
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Chapter 5: What are the similarities between big brands and small businesses?
My why is broken up into phases because, and I think this is an important one too. My original why was all about not being embarrassed for living at my parents' house. So I've been in born and raised in San Diego and we partied a lot. We got the club, pop a bottle, even when I didn't have any money, right? Like it was the home, it didn't matter. We were just out. We were out all the time.
And I remember the feeling, even telling the story, I just remember the gut feeling and being out and hoping and trying to control the conversation. So nobody asked me one simple question. And that question is this, where do you live? Because I was so embarrassed. I was a grown ass man living at my parents' house. And let me tell you, my why was to not be living at my parents' house.
So when girls asked me where I live, I could be like my place. That was my why. And like, look, and it was powerful. Like it moved the hell out of me. I share that because I think what happens is is people study people who are already there and don't realize how much that person has changed. So sometimes they take things out of context, right?
Like, so for example, most people outside looking in, they see someone really successful. And they hear a why and be like, well, I want to change the world and I want to make a difference. Look, in the beginning, fuck all that. I didn't care. Like, I had to build my own foundation. I wasn't worried about that. It doesn't mean I was a bad person. I was just very selfish.
I was like, look, I don't want to be embarrassed. I don't want to live in my parents' house. Then it was like, it was immature. I was in my low 20s, right? Then it was like, at the club, I want to buy a bottle. I want to get the table. I want to pull up in the Yari. You know what I mean?
I remember me and my boy Brandon were watching these videos of Soldier Boy and Bow Wow go to McDonald's and order McDonald's in their Lambos. And I thought it was the coolest thing ever. That was legit my why is Bow Wow and Soldier Boy buying McDonald's. That was it, right? And so that was my why that got me out of that. And then, you know, once I had my own place,
Um, it was like, uh, I just want to travel and like do cool shit with my friends. So as I started doing employees, I was just like, you know, it was just like, I'll go to Arizona. So I needed more money for that. And then I was living in Portland, San Diego. It was just, it always changed. So now, now this chapter in my life, my now why is a one word duty.
I am wildly aware of how fortunate and lucky I am. Now don't people don't get this twisted. I am not by any means downplaying my skills, my worth ethic, or what I'm capable of. But make no mistake about it. I am grossly aware of how lucky I am. My parents, right? Like I could have easily had a different parent and my parents could have been addicted to drugs.
Like, you know, that's how close it was in our family, right? I could have easily... Luckily, my dad had a lot of success in automotive sales. And so he was able to take us out of bad areas of San Diego, Southeast San Diego, and put us in a nice area. That had nothing to do with me. I'm lucky.
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Chapter 6: How can businesses effectively utilize AI tools?
Like it's just like, it's very limited. And so I called up my, my boys. I said, Hey, meet me at this bar. Bootlegger doesn't exist anymore. And we ordered food. We just ordered whatever we want. And I said, Hey guys, I went to the server. I said, can we actually get two of those? And then I said, can you just put it in a foil and to go back? I said, everybody just bring one home.
And I was, that was kind of it. But my point is, is like, I think once you go through the things, right, you know, it's the, it's the hierarchy there, you get success and then you fulfillment. And so I think it's just, nothing feels as good. And, and also too, I, What I'm really proud of is that I've created a business where I don't have to separate the two.
I think sometimes people think they have their business and then they're like, now go start a nonprofit. To me, when I pour into my current business, it's that it gets, it checks all those boxes. Like we're changing lives. We're helping people. It's fun. It does me be creative and you know, so yeah, that was a good question. Good question.
Man, that is dope. Again, I know you're busy, not busy, but I just appreciated you taking some time with us here today, man. You are someone who I looked up to forever. I consider you my mentor from afar with me getting into the ad game and all the things that I'm doing. So I just wanted to say with you face-to-face, BG, man, appreciate you and love you, brother. I really do. I really, really do.
And for all the viewers and listeners, remember, your because is your superpower. Go Unleash It.
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