
The AI Upgrade 2: Add These 5 Skills and Watch What Happens
From Easy Email Marketing with Yael Keon by Yael Keon
March 8, 2026 · 17 min · Season 1 · Episode 150
About this episode
Yael Keon discusses five essential AI skills to enhance productivity and streamline business processes using Claude.
If you've been using Claude like a chat box, you're leaving the best part untouched. Skills are what transform AI from a helpful tool into something that genuinely works for you, running in the background, knowing your voice, following your process, without you having to explain it every single time. This is part two of my AI upgrade series (go back and listen to Episode 149 first if you haven't, as it sets the whole scene). Today we're going deep on the five types of skills you'll want to build in your Claude account and exactly where to start. You'll learn: The five layers of skills every business owner should have (from brand voice to client-specific systems) Why skills are different from just attaching a document to a project (and why that distinction matters) How to create your first skill in as little as 2 minutes, even if you've never done anything like this before Think of a skill like writing your team a procedures manual. You document how you want things done, your voice, your frameworks, your process, and from that point on, Claude just knows . No reminding, no reattaching documents, no micromanaging. It follows the playbook every time, whether you're in a chat or a…
People in this episode
Host: Yael Keon
Topics covered
- AI skills
- email marketing
- business processes
- automation
- brand voice
Keywords
- AI upgrade
- skills
- business owner
- procedures manual
- automation
Mentioned in this episode
Products: Claude
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