Tip #4: Get AI to Deliver Variety for You to Choose From

With online marketing, there are often many different ways to do something. Take email subject lines, for example. You can ask a question, make a shocking statement, pique their interest with a teaser statement, and so on.

If you’re not sure which you’d prefer, prompt AI to give you a variety of styles. AI is there to be a creative mouthpiece for you. It’s not like it will take it hours to complete – it’ll be done in mere seconds.

You can do this for many things, like call to action statements, headlines, bulletpoint benefits lists, storytelling, and so on. You can even do it when asking AI for strategy advice, like monetization or being competitive.

Always ask for more than you need because if you just ask for a headline, it’ll give you exactly one. Then you have to keep prompting it. Instead, ask for a list of 20 headline options, all with a different type of slant and style.

Tip #5: Know How to Get AI Back on Track

AI sometimes needs redirection. If you practice steering it back to what you want, it will make the process much easier. AI prides itself on iteration, meaning it can work to refine the output to your liking.

But you want this process to be quick and painless. AI might start formatting something differently or using a different tone out of nowhere. You can redirect it by simply asking it to rewrite it and then add that it should “do it like you were doing before” or with specific instructions such as, “use more reader friendly language, please.”

Maybe it starts giving you short one-sentence bulletpoints instead of paragraphs. Just remind it to “write in paragraph form and expand on each point.” You don’t need to fully retrain AI – just gently nudge it back on track.

Tip #6: Track the Success of Your AI Prompts

Just sitting there nodding in approval of whatever output AI delivers is not hard evidence of its success. Whether you’re asking AI for content, ideas, strategy or analysis – you want to keep track of the prompts and requests you gave it and see how they pan out.

Were they effective in getting people on your list? Delivering traffic to your domain? Having people open their emails? What about converting into cold, hard cash? You can’t keep using the same prompts if you aren’t sure whether or not they work.

You won’t always have to track this, but especially in the beginning, it will pay off for you to go the extra mile and see what works best. Track the AI tool you used, the exact prompts (including and redirection), the date of the output and implementation – and a date when you need to come back and check the results.

Tip #7: Pay Attention to Updated Prompt Capabilities

AI is still in its infancy, even though it’s taken the world by storm (especially the online marketing industry). There are always new developments. For example, Google’s Gemini introduced an easy way to edit within the AI output instead of having to re-prompt AI.

You can simply highlight a section, and choose to remove it, expand it longer, shorten it, etc. ChatGPT now has a way to edit its DALLE images without having to re-prompt it to do something different.

OpenAI just recently announced that all free users can use custom GPTs in the marketplace. This might be something beneficial to you if you’re not using a paid tier. So pay attention to the news about AI because it might impact how you prompt the tool in the future.

 AI is just a tool to assist you. It’s not expected to take over your business and churn out money for you on a continual basis. We all hope for that, but it’s you who sits behind the wheel guiding it, and prompting is the foundation for your success.

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Tip #2: Spend Some Time Finding the Best Tool for Your Needs

Part of your prompting success will be in working with a tool that you feel is easy for you to use. Not all tools give the same kinds of results when you prompt them. So it’s best to sign up for a few that you feel might work best for you and take them for a test run.

For example, you might sign up with both ChatGPT and Google Gemini and give the same prompt, with differing results. You might find that Gemini is better for current research and creative output - and Chat GPT writes in the better business tone for you.

Tip #3: Train Your AI Overall and on the Fly

There are going to be some instructions you have for AI that are non negotiable – things you always want it to do. Then there will be times when you need to give specific instructions for a single prompt or project.

You can enter custom instructions on ChatGPT for things you always want it to remember. This might be something like a specific style or tone you always want used, such as empathic and motivational or professional, conversational, and so on.

You can also train AI right before you have it begin working for you. For example, if you’re an affiliate marketer, you might train AI by uploading some customer reviews of a product and telling it to consider addressing that feedback whenever it crafts the product review for you.

This background information is something AI will usually remember. Sometimes, it might veer off course and you can remind it of your previous instructions. Another common things to tell it is to MECE everything – meaning it delivers results that are Mutually Exclusive and Collectively Exhaustive – no overlap of ideas and content....

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools have been a blessing for many solo online entrepreneurs. It’s an unpaid assistant available at all times of the day help you with strategy, brainstorming, content development, analysis and more.

But unless you do the work involved to master the prompting process, your efforts will likely not result in the best output possible. While AI does have the ability to understand your needs whenever you give it a command, there are ways to enhance its ability to perform.

Below, you’ll find 7 prompt tips that can take your use of AI to the next level, helping you cross more tasks off of your to do list each day. In the end, this is a technology that can bolster your approach in leading a niche and profiting from it - and by learning a few tricks of the trade, you’ll ensure your AI is working smarter and harder for you at all times.

Tip #1: Be Able to Clearly State Your Specific Needs

Some marketers are in such a rush when working that they forget to slow down and think of the best way to convey their needs to someone else (even a robot). The AI can’t read your mind, so regardless of how you’re using it – for content creation, analysis, strategy, etc., you have to be able to convey your needs so there’s no misunderstanding.

This is especially important if you’re using a paid tier of AI and only have so much output available to you. You don’t want to waste it by having to redirect AI because you weren’t specific enough.

When you are able to clearly state your specific needs, it optimizes your efficiency in using AI and makes you more productive. Being too broad and general with your commands can be confusing to the AI bot and it might choose something completely outside the realm of what you actually need when it creates its output.

For example, if you just say, “Write an article about email marketing,” AI has no idea what specific aspects you need covered, who your audience is, or anything else. It needs to know the word length you’re looking for, who you’re targeting with the content, what tone or style you want to use, and any parameters about what you do (and don’t) want included....