Donna: Hello, welcome to the Design and Prosper podcast. Today we are revealing the remaining ChatGPT prompts that will be game changing for your graphic design our list was so huge we had to make it into a two part series.

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Kris: Hey, everybody.

Donna: Hello there!

Kris: So we’re back to talk more chat GPT prompts. So if you haven’t listened to episode 104 already, that was part one. And we took a deep dive into a whole bunch of chat GPT prompts in that. But really importantly we went into how to set it up so that. ChatGPT is really going to understand you and speak on your behalf and be like a real asset in your business. So be sure to go back and listen to 104 if you haven’t already listened to it.

Donna: Yeah. And set those fundamentals up because they are where the power is. So make sure you do that. And we can’t wait to dive into the next bunch of chat GPT prompts that we know are going to change the game for how you work with AI inside your We know it as designers, right? This is design specific. Kris has taken a deep dive into. Creating some beautiful prompts for our industry that are specific to our process, specific to us designers. So, I said it last time, I’ll say it again. Thank you, thank you. It’s so exciting. I’ve been loving doing this, Kris, because I’m seeing some of these prompts for the first time, and I am just fascinated at how it could go more and more and more and more. You could dive deeper and deeper and deeper. And we hope this is our desire. When we chatted about this idea for a podcast, our desire was that you would not be afraid of chatGPT and be on board with it. You would be using it as a really powerful to enhance your creative because you are driving this, you are the one inputting the information and the power of AI, it leans very much onto the power of you. You need to be across it the nuances that we’re sharing with you in this episode in 104.

Really, it’s incredible what will be unearthed just by asking the right question in the right way. And what we said then was context. It’s all about context. So you’ll notice there’s lots of context as we go through.

Kris: Yes. So the first part of part one, we went through setting up your custom instructions. Very, very, very important. Otherwise, all these other prompts aren’t really gonna have much impact for you.

They’re not gonna have the same level of impact. So you’re definitely going to want to get your pen and paper ready and you’re going to want to take notes. We will have them all on our full show notes, but you’ll get ideas as we’re talking and you’ll think, Oh, I want to try this. I want to try that.

Donna: Yeah, because we’re going to go a little bit rogue. We’re not going to go exactly what’s in front of us here. We always do. And so yeah, definitely take notes and yeah, have fun with this. And we can’t wait to share them with you. So let’s dive in.

Kris: Yes, so we’re going to do the first section is writing content. Then we’ll get into marketing and lead generation. Then we’ll have some ideas for time management and efficiency.

And then we’ll have some prompts for business strategy. So with writing content, so as we alluded to, you’ve got to get your custom instructions set up. And depending on how much you’ve got in your custom instructions, so. What happens is when you have that set up, ChatGPT knows what you’re talking about for every single future chat. It remembers those custom instructions. They are sticky. ChatGPT remembers it. And so depending on how much you’ve got in your custom instructions will depend on how you want to do these prompts. So, for example, this one, you might not need as much instruction as we’ve got here, but I’m going to just read it out. So it’s ’write like me’. So you can say, write like me, please chat GPT. This is my writing style. Insert a good example. So insert your best example is what that means. Like the one that you really resonate with that really feels like you, that you go, yes, I really nailed that bit of writing. It doesn’t have to be long. Using my style of writing, write an email for, and then insert your target audience, who are struggling with, insert the problem, and then put the call to action of, and then insert the call to action. Maximum a thousand words, or maximum five hundred words, or maximum 750 words….whatever.

Donna: Whatever it is.

Kris: Yeah, some of these instructions could be in the custom instructions already, so you might not to give all the information about your target audience. But what happens sometimes is you want to do a piece of content specifically just somebody a little bit different within your target audience or some kind of offshoot or you really specifically want to target people in this niche, not just your broad target. So it might be helpful just to put in a bit about what you’re trying to achieve anyway with the with the prompt. It can’t hurt.

Donna: And it’s like compound interest, right? So whatever’s in the custom instructions and then you’re giving more information, it’s just compounding, compounding. The more information, the more information. And GPT’s taking it all on board.

Kris: Yeah. And also when you’re creating work for your clients as well, like you actually might be wanting to write an email on behalf of a client. So a lot of designers are dabbling in copywriting and we kind of get it forced upon us sometimes.

It’s like, okay you’re designing a website for example, and then the client’s giving you some terrible copy and you’re thinking, okay, we didn’t have any copywriting budget here. Now what do I do? And this is not really the standard that I would like to have on this website. So you might have that conversation with your client. We need to just finesse this copy. It’s going to be an additional cost. Always have that conversation.

Donna: Yes.

Kris: But you might just use ChatGPT for this. So it’s like pretend you’re a copywriter. This is an example of the writing style. And so it’s a good idea when you’re putting in examples, if you’re writing an email, put an example of an If you are writing a social media post, put in an example of a social media post, like the best. example that you have for that client or for yourself, whoever it is. So, always match the medium. That is one general kind of writing prompt that you can, you know, cherry pick and insert what you need to get the job done there.

Donna: But there is so much context in that one prompt. It’s really incredible what’s going to come from that. Yeah. Okay, another one. Using my style of writing, could you please write an email targeting the healthcare industry, or the fashion industry, or the hospitality industry, insert industry here, on how graphic design gets results. Include a call to action of, and then insert the call to action. So this is a lovely prompt. To get to the nitty gritty of really being able to tell the story of why you are really important to this particular client.

Kris: And you could even go further with that prompt, like, maybe you’ll get an initial response and then you’ll go, hmm, can you, can you break up this paragraph into bullet points? Can you think of a metaphor or an analogy for this point so that you can interweave story into the email? You could even have that as an instruction at the beginning. I want to include a story, an interesting story to illustrate this point.

Donna: I love that. I’d be always using that. I want to include a story to illustrate this point. Because for me, massive believer in divergent research. Massive believer of storytelling. And that’s interesting, right? And people can relate to stories. So I’ll be popping that little one in left, right and centre, I think.

Kris: Yeah. I alluded to before that you might be very well writing for your clients. So on behalf of your clients, so if you’re doing that, you can explore the voice of other brands and other personalities, for example, and this can be really fun. So it’s like using a tone of voice similar to insert famous person, like it could be using a tone of voice similar to Oprah Winfrey. Could you please write a social media post targeting the healthcare industry to educate this audience on the importance of whatever topic. So in that example I just shared you’re trying to write for your clients, right? And maybe you feel like, gosh, I’ve been thrown under the bus here, I didn’t think I’d be doing all this writing, but graphic designers, we do a lot of writing, and so you’re, you’ve ended up You’re having to do this social media post, or you’re having to do whatever it is that you’re having to write.

And maybe your client is targeting the healthcare industry. So that’s just an example. It could be any industry, like Don said. It could be like, insert whatever industry here. So, using a tone of voice similar to Who’s another famous person?

Donna: Could be John Wayne.

Kris: John Wayne. Hahaha. Where did that come from?

Donna: Haha. I don’t know. Let’s be more current.

Kris: That’s so funny. It could even be like Billy Eilish.

Donna: Let’s go with Billie.

Kris: Okay, it could be absolutely, anybody. Could you please write a social media post that would be very brief because Billie Eilish doesn’t have a lot of like, she doesn’t use a lot

Donna: John Waynes would be briefer. That would be so funny.

Kris: You would have to try and imagine the accent. It could be Michelle Obama. Who knows? I’m just trying to think of some other personalities. Nothing’s coming to my head at the moment, but you get the idea.

Donna: Do you know what you could do, Kris? You could say, ask your ChatGPT, I need some personalities that are a fit or a match for this target audience. Then choose some of those and now, in their voice, write XYZ.

Kris: Write a social media post using a similar personality.

Donna: I’m so excited by that example where we couldn’t think of anything. ChatgPT would be the perfect brainstorming buddy for that. Instantly we’d have someone, we’d have personalities we could call on immediately instead of going way back into the archives of John Wayne. You wouldn’t have to rely on what’s in your reserves. You would be relying on really interesting information coming from chat GPT. Love it. Great

Kris: Yeah, it could be like Jimmy Fallon or something like that. is. It could be a sports person. It could be an entertainer. It could be a politician. Brene Brown. So using a tone of voice appropriate for this audience based on a famous person just to mix things up a little bit.

Could you please write a social media post targeting the whatever industry, so it could be healthcare industry to educate doctors maybe, or maybe massage therapists, who knows, on the importance of Whatever the topic is. So there you go.

You can write for your clients or you can start to have a framework for writing something for your clients as well, just to help you fast track, make this process a little bit easier, especially if you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed.

Donna: Yeah, that’s what it’s all about. Beautiful people, it’s about ease.

Kris: Yeah. And you could even talk about like brand voices you love. So the next prompt I love. So it could be Ben and Jerry’s brand voice. I love who gives a crap brand voice. That would be interesting. Could you please use a similar brand voice to write a maximum of 200 words on why businesses in the whatever industry insert here should work with a graphic designer. So this is back to you again. Examples can be used for clients that can be used for you. You just put in the topic.

Donna: Yeah.

Kris: Here’s another one. I love Insert company names, brand voice. Could you please write 100 words in that style about why businesses need to consider much more than their logo when it comes to branding?

Donna: Just reframing the question. That’s a little twist on the question and you’ll be surprised what comes from that.

Kris: Yeah, so think about topics that are interesting to you as a design business owner. You can actually put survey results in here, like if you do a survey of all your past and present clients or even put it out there publicly, you can get ChatGPT to analyze the survey and say, I want to create content that answers the problems that they’re speaking about with these survey results.

Donna: Exactly, you could say, identify the common problem in this bunch of surveys, if you like. And then write content that speaks directly to that. I mean, this is powerful stuff.

Kris: It is powerful. Powerful for content creation. So, another one. Create an Instagram carousel post…this one’s lengthy, so get ready, alright? But you get the idea. You can keep on adding detail, detail, context. You can strip it back or you can go, you know, really detailed. Alright, so create an Instagram carousel post that my ideal follower finds valuable. And wants to save. My ideal follower is, insert, who wants to, insert their goals. Now you may not need that if you’ve got that thoroughly mapped out in your custom instructions. I want the post to have a strong attention grabbing hook to keep my audience swiping all the way through. I want this strong hook as the title on the first page. Then each following page will have a header and a paragraph underneath. The last page should end with a call to action to insert the call to action that you want them to do.

Donna: I love it. I want to go and have a play with that one right now. That’s just wonderful. The context in there, the depth in there, the clarity in that one prompt is really powerful.

So see how we’re really drilling down, we’re really drilling down to that, that context. That’s what it’s all about. yeah, go and have a play with that one straight away.

Kris: Create a catchy Instagram reels headline with the keywords, and then you can insert the keywords.

Donna: I’ve used that one. that can come up with some funny, funny, never to be used, but funny, light entertainment. But you don’t know, you don’t know that something could, could come up from that.

Kris: You’ll get some gems in there. Yeah. And you probably did that before you had custom instructions

Donna: Definitely did it prior to custom instructions.

Kris: Yeah. Can you identify any sections we could pull from the text below that I could use for engaging social media posts ideas, please. So you could insert a blog post that you’ve done. We know that there are designers out there who have done past blogging and they’ve got all this content they’re not repurposing. And it’s like, just pop the text and see what comes up. Like you could pull out and you could even say, can you please come up with 10 engaging social media posts from this one blog,

Donna: Yeah, absolutely. We’ve definitely used it like that. And again, Kris and I have become more and more savvy with it, more and more savvy with our custom instructions and things like that. But it’s incredible how it compounds the information compound.

So even if you’ve had a play with things, once you get your custom instruction right, keep playing, keep adding, keep adding. It’s really fascinating how the knowledge just expands and expands.

All right. Some more. How about create five converting Pinterest content ideas based on topics and themes in this blog post, and then pop your blog post in there.

Kris: Summarize this blog post into a post suitable for LinkedIn.

Donna: Or summarize this blog post into an email. I want to email my beautiful clients with this information. So, and then you could add more to it if you wanted to add what, what’s the objective of the email. You could add all of that context in there as well.

Kris: You could say, please include a list in the email. Please include a thought provoking anecdote. Yeah. Include the call to action here. So you can combine a lot of these things that we’re talking about as well. Another one. Create 5 compelling analogies about my business that can be used in marketing communication.

Donna: That prompt there will only work if ChatGBT understands your voice and who you are. So, definitely there’s a part one and a part two and you do have to get to listen to part one first. And then that will be a really powerful prompt.

Kris: Another one. Write me a thought provoking viral tweet that will make people stop and think when reading.

Donna: Hmm, yeah. Based on this blog post, finish the sentence. If you want to, and then insert the action, you need to, and then, dot, dot, dot, allow ChatGPT to fill in the blanks. I love that one, Kris.

Kris: Can you provide five ideas for a series of blog posts about the importance of branding for? Insert your desired audience.

Donna: great. And then the final one is for you. ChatGPT simplified design jargon for me. How do I explain our creative process to clients without overwhelming them? Now that could be Any facet of your business.

We’re talking about design jargon there, but you could pop any facet of your business in there and say, How do I explain that aspect? Simplify it for me. How do I provide that to my clients without overwhelming them? That’s a beautiful prompt that could be adapted and really focus on any areas where that, where your clients get tripped up and they don’t really quite understand what it is you do or they don’t really quite understand the transformation that you’re offering. That’s a great prompt.

Kris: Oh, I would have used this for my clients as well, that last one. Because we had a lot of clients that did kind of head scratching sort of stuff. Like really, Unusual engineering businesses, construction manufacturing like we had a client that produced these massive cryogenic storage vessels. And you would not believe the content that we got in Word documents to populate into beautiful brochures et cetera. We did it. But. It was hard. It was hard for our copywriter. It was hard for us. Now imagine now. I could say, can you please simplify cryogenic storage vessel’s information for me into language that I can understand, that’s not overwhelming, it’s just a game changer.

Donna: Oh, it’s a game changer Especially if you say give me a little funny story to tell that will be appealing to this audience. Like, oh my gosh. I like thought provoking. I think that’s really great.

Kris: The word funny might be appropriate for some kind of clients, but like, for example, I mentioned who gives the crap brand voice before, like, funny is really good for them. Cheeky, funny, but not all clients, right? So it’s like so much fun how you can just change things up with an adjective.

Donna: Yeah. And even if it’s not quite appropriate, like if a particular adjective is not quite appropriate for a client, it might be appropriate for just for your divergent research. So you might pop it in there not with the intention that you’re going to go and go down that path, but with the intention that you want to spark your brain into a different direction as well. So just be mindful of that. Be playful with it in areas where it’s appropriate,

Kris: Yeah. Alright, next section is marketing and lead generation. So, first idea here. And we’re always encouraging designers to think about having one of these on their website is a quiz. Yes, a really, really good lead magnet. Yeah.

Donna: So many people love a quiz. We’re always fascinated about ourselves, aren’t we? Chat

Kris: ChatGPT, please brainstorm quiz ideas that I could use for lead generation that address the problem of, insert topic, for, insert audience. And Once again, if you’ve got your custom instructions set up, you could be quite minimal with this and say my audience because they already know. ChatGPT already knows your audience. It could be a branding audit, for example, and you could actually set the parameters like, well, let’s see what chat GPT comes up with and then you can go further and say, look, I would like this. I really like that one. Number one is looking promising, but I want it to have different outcomes. So if they answer if they get 10 percent result on the quiz, this is the direction they’ll go. And if they get 50 percent on the quiz, this is the direction they go in. Help me unpack that, and what would that look like? And what would the nurture sequence be like? And what would the journey be like? There’s so many things.

Donna: You could break it down and you could say, I’d like to have X amount of parts within a nurture sequence. It’s endless.

Kris: Help me brainstorm helpful free lead magnets that my ideal clients can sign up for in exchange for their email address. The aim would be to then nurture them by email, and for them to eventually convert to paying clients.

Donna: Yep. Another one would be, tell me a compelling and interesting analogy or metaphor that illustrates the, and then insert importance of consistency with branding or the X, Y, Z.

Kris: why yeah, why branding helps businesses grow, or, for example, you might be using this for your clients it might be why people need to have regular trims at the hairdressing salon.

Donna: I love that, exactly right. So insert here. So yeah, that’s a, that’s a really good one. Oh, I like this one, Kris. This is a good one. Right. And I’m saying, like I said before, I’m seeing some of these for the first time when a podcast studio, and I’m just like, honestly, goosebumps.

It’s so exciting seeing the potential that we have. To have this brainstorming buddy in our back pockets. Okay, so this one is, Write 20, and then insert an adjective, Adhooks, for the advertising content about my That’s huge. That’s so exciting. You could keep adding information into that, into that particular prompt, but that in itself would be interesting just to see where that goes. And then add more context from the 20. So, sort of go into like, oh, I like number 5 and I like number 17. And then add context to those.

Kris: How exciting. Exactly.

Donna: So these are definitely they’re for you. They are written as a designer for your business, but again, flip them all on their head, They can all be for clients as well. Absolutely. Just play with it.

Kris: And it could be just adding a little bit of extra context to it. Could be pretend you are a brilliant advertising guru, you know, and write 20 fun ad hooks for, and then it could be for this client.

And then you’ve got the client summary there. So it’s like, you can use it for yourself. You can use it for your clients. It’s totally flexible. Have, you just need to play with it.

Donna: Yeah, absolutely. Another one would be write a comprehensive list of all the pain points that could be solved by my business. Love that. Some of us don’t really realize the, the power of graphic design and we are graphic designers.

We know that because we’ve been working with a lot of you one to one and in The Academy. And the realization that you actually transform businesses with the work you and you don’t even know how sometimes. So to actually understand, really understand what it is you do, by getting some prompts from ChatGPT would be fabulous.

Kris: Yeah. So getting ChatGPT to help you out again just with understanding what works and what doesn’t.

This next prompt is, what is the key to creating social media graphics that stop the scroll? What dimensions and elements catch the eye? Let’s have a little chat about this.

Donna: Oh, I love that you’ve brought that up, Kris. We mentioned it in the first episode and we wanna mention it again. ChatGPT is called ChatGPT for a reason. It requires a conversation. These prompts are not one and done. And it’s like, you need to actually keep going. You need to ask for more, you need to distill down, you need to add more context, you need to give more information until you arrive at something that intuitively feels right and objectively feels right for your brand voice or for voice.

Kris: Another one. How can I effectively communicate the value of my design services and make my ideal client say, yes, my ideal clients are insert here. Now you might already have, once again, have that in your custom instructions, but you can always reiterate it again. It’s okay. It’s like the more information, the better, just pile it on. If you need to, it’s all good.

Donna: Yeah. Beautiful. Next section, time management and efficiency. This is a good one.

Kris: Yes, yes. So just to really streamline, you’ve got like a big video that you want to watch and you don’t have time to watch it and you’re searching and it’s like 45 minutes or it’s half an hour and you’re just thinking, oh, I really am interested in this, but I don’t want to have to sit through the whole thing, even on double speed.

I know that Donna and I watch things on double speed all the time.

Donna: All the

Kris: Yeah. No wonder our brains are

Donna: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Kris: And we can’t sleep at night because you’re listening to everything and watching everything double spade. Tell us out there are you doing the same thing, are you listening to us on high speed?

Donna: I bet they are. I would be. I’m like, come on, come on, come on.

I love that it can help us out with this. Kris and I are always about ease. We’re always about efficiency. So wherever possible, yes please, collapse time for me.

Kris: Yes. So here’s the prompt. Please summarize the key points of the following YouTube video. And you can specify the maximum number of words like 500 words, 250 words, thousand words. Please summarize the key points of this podcast episode.

Donna: Yeah,

Kris: I need help.

Donna: Anything you need. And I like distilling things down to bullet point. So I’ll often ask for that. Summarize and give me five key bullet points. Summarize and give me ten key bullet points. And that to me is like, boom, I’m a skim reader. I love that. And so I go, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. So that’s a really, really beautiful one to ask.

Kris: Yeah, and if you like the idea of that summary, there is a little extension for Google Chrome. It’s pretty basic. But it doesn’t have a follow on feature, so you can’t ask follow up questions with it, but it could be really good as a you know, you’re in a rush and you just want a quick summary of a video to see if it’s worth your while even watching. So it’s just called ChatGPT Summary for Chrome.

Once you install it, you’ve got your video up in YouTube, you click on the little extension and then it’ll just Do a bullet point kind of summary for you if you’re feeling like it’s not quite what I’m after You can just go into the settings within that little window that pops up and just change it. So I think the default is summarize the main points of this article in a list format. Maybe you don’t like lists.

Donna: Haha

Kris: Everybody likes lists, but you could give it more instructions if you want.

Donna: You could add context, more context. And, yeah, like we said, it isn’t perfect. We’ve had a little play with it and we’re like, Oh, this is great. Great for the quick skim and little overview. But if you’re wanting to get nitty gritty from something like a two hour YouTube presentation, then maybe it’s better just to go straight to ChatGPT for it, and you’ll get a little bit more depth.

But again, it’s not perfect, that’s for sure, because it’s analysing speech and things like that. I think it will get better, but for now, just have a play, like all of this, have a play with it and see what comes.

Kris: And the same with blog posts. ChatGPT please summarise this article into 500 words or a bullet point list. Or even, ChatGPT, is this worth my while to read? You know who I am.

Donna: Haha.

Kris: .. as a graphic designer, in business, wanting to succeed. Is this worth my time to read this or to watch this?

Donna: try that, I love that, I’ll be asking everything, that will be my number one prompt saved.

Kris: And then this one’s a really cool one for your business, for your standard operating procedures. When you have instructional videos, because we’re always telling you, you’ve got to get your instructional videos happening. All those things that are only in your brain. Are you recording your systems and your procedures?

So when you’ve got the videos, you’ve got your little video and maybe you’re using Loom, which by the way, has some cool AI functionality built in now, but I think they’re making you pay for it now, but that’s, that’s fine.

Like a lot of you would be paying for Loom anyway, but what you can do is just provide a link to the video, wherever you’re hosting it and say, GPT, please summarize the key points of this instructional video, or please outline step by step the instructions that are outlined in this video. And then you have got a written version because we know that we all take in information in different ways.

We all learn in different ways. So if you’ve got the video version for people who like video and you’ve got a quick bullet point version for the people who prefer to learn that way, depending on who’s on your team, you’ve got your bases covered.

Donna: Perfect. Love it. Love that second prompt that’s great.

Kris: You can ask ChatGPT to help you with identifying pain points for for your ideal clients. What pain points are they facing? So, for example, what pain points do business coaches face when it comes to working with a graphic designer?

Donna: What are the main pain points that the health industry face when it comes to working with a graphic designer? So insert business type here. That’s a really great question because we want to drill down into that and understand so that we can actually speak to that pain point and help to eliminate it.

Kris: Yeah. If you’ve got your custom instructions, it’s like, what are the main pain points that my ideal clients face when it comes to working with me? What are the roadblocks that are going to get in their way? What questions are they going to have?

Donna: I like that one. Yeah.

Kris: This next one we mentioned a little bit earlier, but we have used this to great effect. It has been mind blowing, the conversation that we’ve had with this. if you’ve conducted a survey, and we do encourage you to conduct regular surveys. Yes.

Donna: hmm.

Kris: So whichever way you have gathered your survey data, it might be in a spreadsheet, for example. So this is what I’ve been experimenting with. So don’t put any sensitive information in there. Like if you’ve got phone numbers and addresses and stuff, don’t put like anything like that in there. I’m sure that’s obvious, but you know, I don’t want to share that with ChatGPT, it’s none of their business. And just put the words that they’ve used to answer the question, you know, the questions that they’ve answered, insert all those words. And then you can ask ChatGPT what are the most common themes that people are worried about?

Donna: What are the key pain points? What is the common thread with pain points? That kind of thing.

Kris: Are there any words or phrases people are using on repeat?

Donna: Yeah. What is consistent?

Kris: So the reason why we’re asking that is because that way we can mirror back to our audience. We can meet them where they’re at. We can empathise and we can come up with real solutions based on the words and phrases that they’re using. So it’s really helpful to identify the patterns that are coming up.

Donna: Yeah, and these prompts could have gone under time management and efficiency as well, because we can do all of this ourselves. We’ve got the survey, we’ve got it in Google, it’s all there, we could go through and we could join the dots. But to have GPT identify those common threads and consistencies, it’s really a game changer with time efficiency as well as giving us that intel for us then to meet our clients where they’re at. It’s phenomenal. Like, again, goose bump worthy.

Kris: Yeah, so we’ve done market research for clients, so on behalf of clients before in the past and we often have a lot of data to sift through and it’s quite overwhelming and so it’s really handy to be able to, to put it through something like this to be able to identify any patterns that are emerging rather than having to really sift and sort and you can miss things, so, yeah, I was thinking about this for a recent survey that we did and I thought, I wonder if ChatGPT could help with this and so I got ready to copy and paste it all in and then I thought oh, I wonder if ChatGPT can actually read my Google Sheet. That’d be easier because then it’s just all there, all the questions are there, I don’t have to worry about formatting and, and so I asked the question, ChatGPT, if I had a Google Sheet, could I share that with you and could we unpack the survey results together?

And then it said, yes, yes, Kris and Donna, I can do that, because it always refers to us as Kris and Donna. And then one time I tried to share something and it said, I can’t do that. And I said, hang on, I’ve done this before. Are you sure? Are you sure you cannot do that? Because I know I’ve done it before. And then I thought, oh, maybe it’s just changed overnight or changed in the last week. But I asked the question and it said, My apologies, I can do that. It was like my bad. I really can. I was just lying before. It didn’t say it was lying, of course, but maybe there was a glitch or something, but it was so funny.

Donna: ChatGPT has a coffee break, right? Just saying. Could have been chocolate, but it was out on a break. Didn’t want to do it for, for the same reasons we don’t want to do some of the work that we have to do sometimes.

Kris: Yeah, so just experiment with sharing different types of data, different types of things. Like I’m pretty sure a couple of months ago, it wasn’t able to summarize a YouTube link and it wasn’t able to do certain things like it, it would say, Oh no, I can’t do that because it was, it’s too recent or there was that problem where it was all pre 2021 sort of data and it was getting confused, but more recently I’m noticing that it’s accepting a lot more stuff like, and I think eventually you could. You know, upload Images and you you’re going to be able to do all sorts of things and say, can you like analyze this and yeah, and you could, there’s probably workarounds for that already where you could maybe have them on a blog post that’s maybe not published to the world, but you know, published somewhere online, like as a private link and pop that in, like maybe it could analyze what it sees in that way.

Donna: You could ask ChatGPT what the workaround is.

Kris: You could! Yeah, I really want to share an image with you, ChatGPT. Come on. Let’s figure this out. How can we do it?

Donna: So another one following on from the survey responses could be, can you come up with ideas for five helpful emails based on the survey with the aim of getting them to, and then insert your call to action, whether it be to book a discovery call or reply to the email or…

Kris: Purchase a template

Donna: Purchase a template, exactly, that kind of thing. So, it’s really a beautiful way To actually address their pain points. So we’ve identified the pain points, now we want to be helpful. We our clients to know how we can help

Kris: that’s’right. Create a comprehensive list of untapped opportunities that my business could eventually grow into and solve. Oh, love this one.

Donna: Ooh, that’s nice. I like the use of ’untapped opportunities’ in there.

Kris: It might be something that you hadn’t considered, like a market that you hadn’t thought of or, and once again, ChatGPT should know who you are from the custom instructions and it’s like, Ooh, maybe you could do this, maybe you could do that. And you’re like, okay. Okay. Now you’re talking.

Donna: Yeah, now you’re talking. Love it. And then finally, the last one for this little section. Or is this the last one

Kris: is the last one overall. We think it’s number 60, but we think we might have more. We haven’t actually counted them up properly.

Donna: No, I think we’ve been going rogue inside and we’ve been ad libbing and adding them anyway, so it’s definitely more than 60. Yeah. Yeah. II’ll let you close it out, lovely, you’ve done all the work.

Kris: All right. I’m on the hunt for innovative client acquisition strategies (that could be lead generation strategies). What methods or campaigns have proven successful for graphic design businesses like mine?

Donna: I love it. What a beautiful one to end on. So you can see, based on all of the ones that we’ve shared, that there’s so much depth. There’s lots of context, there’s getting real clarity around the input that you’re putting in, really understanding who you are or who your client is in order to get the most appropriate That’s what it’s all about.

Kris: Yeah, gosh, it’s so much fun. Like there’s so many possibilities. Like we haven’t even scratched the surface. Of course we haven’t. You can just keep on asking questions. Keep getting chat GPT to refine the answer. Keep modifying and updating and evolving your custom instructions. Go on a different tangent. It’s all about experimentation.

Donna: Kris has had so much fun with, compiling this series and you know, what comes from it is growth, regardless of what your objective When you start playing with a new tool in your toolkit as a business and you see how it can really elevate your business, and how you can expand your skill set, how you can collapse time, how you can elevate your responses, it’s a no brainer to us that then you make time for it. So you need to make time for it. It can’t be this little thing that you do every now and again. Because it’s like that whole, it’s like the whole sticky note situation inside ChatGPT. It compounds and it compounds and it compounds. So the more you use it, the more you use that muscle, the stronger you’ll get at it and the better it will be and the more refined your prompts will become.

And you know, remember it’s a tool to and it’s yours and it’s free at the moment. So jump on board, have fun with it.

Kris: Yeah, oh gosh, we haven’t even gotten into the visual generators, like what Photoshop is doing now, what, what, Canva is doing now. It’s just a whole new world. And this is just the written part of it and the, strategy and the copywriting all that part of it. And in episode 104 we, we really went into concept development and that is just, oh, it’s all so much goodness.

Donna: Yeah, so much goodness. So circling back to the very, very beginning. We want you to make sure you listen to episode 104, which is part one of this series. And make sure you set up those foundations properly.

So go into your custom instructions and answer those two questions and in episode 104 we outline those two questions and what could be inside 1500 characters in each and we absolutely implore you to use every single character. The more context the better. So get in there, get that set up and then start playing. Start growing.

Kris: Yeah. All right, everybody. Have fun with it. Let us know if you have any prompts that you’re using that you love. We’d love to hear your prompts. Yeah. And how you’re using it in your business.

Donna: We’d love to know. Yeah, please share.

Kris: Whenever We talk about it in the Academy community, when we have our weekly Q and A coaching sessions, like all the eyes light up. It’s really cool.

Donna:Yeah, it’s so cool. Yeah, we’re all interested.

Kris: There’s always a hearty discussion that happens.

Donna: Yeah, definitely. So let us know. And if you have any questions whatsoever, you know that we are 100 percent open to answering those for you on our podcast. So head to our website, designandprosper.co/podcast. And you can leave us an audio question or just type in your question right there and we will hope to answer it in a future episode.

Kris: future episode. Yeah! Okay everybody, have a beautiful rest of your week. and we’ll chat soon.

Donna: Bye.

Kris: Bye!