What if you could boost your affiliate income… without posting more, emailing more, or working harder? What if the secret wasn’t hustle… but knowing exactly what to say and how to say it…before your audience even asks? Today, I’m giving you 10 clever ways smart affiliates are using AI to warm up followers, boost conversions, and make sales feel natural.
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Previous Episodes of The Affiliate Guy
Smart Affiliate Moves: Advanced AI Tactics You Can Use Too (Part 2)
How Top Affiliates Are Using AI to Get Ahead (Part 1)
The Latest AI Tactics I’m Using to Run Affiliate Programs (Part 6)
AI and Affiliate Programs: What I’m Doing Differently Now (Part 5)
Even More Ways I Use AI to Run Affiliate Programs (Part 4)
How Smart Affiliates Are Using AI (And How You Can Too) – Part 3
What if you could increase your affiliate income without posting more, emailing more, or working harder? What if the secret to success wasn’t just hustle, but knowing exactly what to say and how to say it before your audience even asks? Today, I’m giving you 10 clever ways that smart affiliates are using AI to warm up followers, boost conversions, and make sales feel natural.
Let’s get started. Hey there and welcome back to the Affiliate guy. I’m Matt McWilliams. For those of you who don’t know me, I know we have, we have been blown away. This series has brought in so many new listeners. We actually, it was kind of crazy, the stats on the podcast, just the people who’ve listened to episode number one in the past, like five weeks. Is 30x what it normally is? Like, usually we get something like, you know, 50 to 100 in a month that listen to episode one.
Now, given episode one was like seven and a half years ago. So what that means is there’s a lot of new listeners and not just these episodes, but they’re going back and listening to old episodes. So it’s amazing. So first of all, welcome to all the new listeners. Thank you. For everyone who’s been sharing these episodes and referring people, we’re on to episode three, part three of this series on how smart affiliates are using AI and how you can too. Now, if you missed episodes one or two, go back and listen. If you missed the entire series that I did on affiliate management using AI, make sure you go back and listen to that episode one of this series.
We talked about using AI to overcome objections and create quizzes, improve your CTAs about seven or eight other things. And episode two is all about turning customer questions into content building those affiliate offers, even using AI to help write full review posts, which we’ll talk about here in a second. Again. Um, and remember, if you’re an affiliate manager, make sure like, yes, go back and listen to the whole series. I think it was six or seven episodes on using affiliate management or using AI for affiliate management. But listen to this series too. You want to know what affiliates should be doing and you can share that with your affiliates.
It’s going to make you more money. But I want to start today with a story that’s honestly a little chilling because it highlights some of the flip side to AI. So, so depending upon when you’re listening to this, just like in the past week here, someone used AI to impersonate the United States Secretary of State. And it worked. They didn’t do what we think. It wasn’t like some government thing where they hacked into a secure database like the movies. They snuck into a government building and there’s this whole mission. They use tools that literally you can use if you have access to a PayPal account or a credit card, or even the free trials of a lot of these things.
You can do this. They used, and I’m not encouraging that, just to be clear, again, I’m just pointing out like, okay, there is a flip side here, right? They used AI voice cloning to match Marco Rubio’s exact voice. They used language models to mimic his texting and email style.
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They used like encrypted messaging apps like Signal, you know, kind of built trust with the people that they were emailing or messaging. And they used a fake but very Official sounding email, marco. rubio state. gov, that like for all I know, that is his email. Yeah, I know. I don’t know Marco Rubio. I don’t know his state, you know, his State Department email address. And then they use those tools and they were able to reach out to five very high level people. They had three foreign ministers, a US Governor and a member of Congress. These were not like interns.
These were people in power and they believed they were communicating with the actual Secretary of State. So the State Department actually had to send out an emergency cable to all diplomats warning them about what was happening. The FBI is investigating. You know, I mean, it was already, there was already some, some stuff about, you know, somebody using AI. This was back in May, I think, to impersonate the White House Chief of Staff, Susie, Susie Wiles I think is her name. And so now I’m starting, you know, I’m doing this podcast series about affiliate marketing with AI. So why am I talking about this? Like, why am I sharing a story about international espionage essentially on a podcast about affiliate marketing?
Because it proves something that we all need to keep front and center, alright? AI is powerful and it’s only getting more powerful. As I’m recording this, Grok 4 just came out and I will tell you, it is absolutely, it is just as mind blowing compared to what is currently out there as the original chatgpt was to nothing that existed before. The pace at which this is improving is unbelievable. We’re talking six months since the last version of a really updated AI came out. And it’s, I don’t know, 20 times better. I mean, the same tools that can be used to fool world leaders can be used to impersonate a business owner, authorize fake wire transfers, fake a voice memo from your spouse asking for emergency money.
The spread misinformation you know about, like, you can replicate a brand’s tone and writing style. You can create fake reviews, even entire businesses that look and sound real but aren’t. Like, this is a world you cannot automatically trust what you read, hear, even see. This is not science fiction. Like, I read books about this 10, 15 years ago. It was science fiction. It’s today. Now, the flip side of that coin and the part that I want to focus on in this episode, in this whole series, the. These same tools, the ones that are being used for fraud and manipulation and impersonation, they can be used for incredible good. They can save you hours of time, which you can use in other ways. You know, I mean, the other day I was doing a deep research thing for.
I mentioned that a friend of mine and I started a children’s book company, and I’ll talk more about that later, but we started a children’s book company and there was some deep, deep research that needed to be done. The kind that even with AI, I was fine with it taking 10 to 15 minutes. Now, I could have sat there and racked my brain and I could have done the research and I could have spent probably two to three days, 15 to 30 hours of my time. Instead, in 15 minutes, it was done. And what I did while that was running, because I didn’t really have anything I could do for 10 or 15 minutes. I went and asked my son, Giovanni. I was like, hey, you want to go throw the Frisbee? And we went outside and we played together for about. Well, we ended up doing it for like 20 minutes. It had long finished running by the time I got back in. My point there is like, that’s.
That’s a good thing. That’s a great use of AI. It can help you communicate more clearly, authentically. I use it a lot when I have emails where I know that my tone is a little bit on the. What’s the word I’m looking for? It’s a little harsh. Emails, direct messages, whatever, where my. My tone might be a little harsh. And I use AI to soften that and so it can be used to connect people to products that truly help them. Like, that’s what this series all is about. I’m not here to hype up AI as a magic fix for all your marketing problems. I’m not here to scare you into thinking it’s going to take your job.
I am here to help you use it responsibly, creatively and effectively in your business. So today we’re talking about 10 more ways. Maybe we’ll see how many we get to that. Affiliate marketers like you can use AI to save time to get better results and ultimately in your own voice and with your values being at the forefront. These 10 tactics, they’re all about standing out. They’re all about building trust. That’s a big thing, getting your audience to want to click on your affiliate links without sounding, you know, like, I just don’t think that salesy and pushy language works anymore.
It worked for a time. It doesn’t work anymore. Now, before we get into that, I do want I got a bunch of questions after the last episode about two things. First, I talked about turning multiple products into a bundle strategy post. Like the the Ultimate Toolkit, right? And you know, I shared the prompt for that. Like, write a blog post outlining the ultimate toolkit for, you know, your goal, your audience. Include three affiliate products, each with a benefit and why it belongs in the bundle. And so they’re instead of buying just a product, they’re buying a system. And I got a few questions about that, the first one. And I think it’s important to address these because I want, I want you guys to be clear on everything. Like, I don’t want you to be wondering, you know what, how to do things. The first question is, won’t promoting multiple products confuse my audience?
No, because you’re framing it as a system, you’re framing it as a toolkit. So think about, these aren’t just random products, right? Think about like everything you need to achieve X, whatever X is in one place. So the photographer’s toolkit, promoting a camera and a lighting kit and a makeup kit. Those are three separate things. And even if you said here’s the ultimate toolkit and here’s camera A and camera B, Camera A is $3,000, camera B is your budget one for $1,000. That’s fine. You’re not confusing the audience, you’re giving them choice. But you’re also getting like, here’s everything you need.
Just click here and buy all of them. Another one was, should I promote them all at once or drip them out? You can do both. You can do one full toolkit and then you can break it down into like little bite sized promos over a few days. So you can do like a series of emails, you can do a series of reels, series of stories, and then build toward the whole system. Another question I got was, do all the products need to be from the same affiliate program or company? Absolutely not.
The key is that the bundle makes sense so they can come from different companies. You might like the camera from company A, but the lighting kit from company B. And that’s kind of the whole point. You’re, you’re actually recommending different things from different companies and you’re making it where they don’t have to shop, they don’t have to go put together the toolkit themselves. It’s all right there on your page. The person they trust is right there.
What if, you know, what if there’s only one affiliate product that fits? Or what if my recommended lighting kit is they don’t have an affiliate program, then recommend non affiliate tools. It’s just like your resources page. We’ve talked about this before. You want to recommend the right products and position yourself as a resource and a leader, not, not someone just trying to sell something. So don’t recommend the third best lighting kit just because they have an affiliate program that pays 20%. The same is true if you’ve got, if they both have an affiliate program, but one pays lower. No you still promote the best thing so that when they buy that camera and that lighting kit, even if you only earned a commission on the camera, they still trust you because that lighting kit was amazing.
And they will remember that and they will continue to trust your recommendations. So the next thing and the next thing and the next thing, whether it’s your own thing or somebody else’s thing, they will trust your recommendation. And then the last question, I got a bunch of. Do I need a fancy landing page for this? Absolutely not. Just a simple blog post, Simple Instagram carousel, even simple email. Just make it easy to skim, you know, list the tools, explain the benefit link clearly. That’s it. And the second thing I got a bunch of questions on was about a Review Post Pro. By the way, I am super glad that I actually decided with this series not to batch record like I normally do.
I have recorded these pretty much last minute. We released the podcast on Tuesday. I’ve been recording these on Thursday or Friday of the week before, which makes me and my team a little nervous because one week, I think it was on a Thursday, I had a cousin who’s like a brother to my sister have a stroke. And so our day and, you know, our next couple of days got thrown into a loop and I ended up recording it over the weekend and then my team was editing it on Monday and it was just a little nerve wracking. You know, we don’t like to do that. But the advantage is I can do things like this. I can respond to questions almost in real time. So I announced Review Post Pro on the podcast for the first time last week.
This is the, the AI tool that we created, trained on, you know, real high ranking posts that have actually made money. We actually got, we took over 300 high ranking posts. And when I say high ranking, I actually mean number one ranked post. So we searched for about a thousand different products and we picked the 300 posts that, like 320I think that were the top ranking for that search term. And we really liked the post. Like we could tell it converted really well and it was formatted. So I’ve used Review Post Pro. Over the past six months. I’ve written 20 posts, 17 of which have generated at least $400 in revenue so far. We have multiple of those which are generating, you know, 50 to $300 a month consistently. We have a few that have generated over $1,000. Just, you know, it’s going to be like once a year or once every six months. It’s going to, you know, we’re going to have a little, nice little bump in revenue. I mean for the price. Like this is unbelievable, right? It saved me hundreds of hours. That’s so far allowed me. I’ve got the number one ranking.
Number one ranked post for over a hundred competitive and profitable search terms like this has been absolutely awesome. And so I got a few questions about it. I’ll put a link to it in the show notes. It is by far the best thing out there to help you write review posts that rank high and actually convert the first one just like, okay, so how does it work? I didn’t really talk about that. Very simple. It walks you through. You answer a few simple questions and ultimately you’re going to end up with a written review post. Fully optimized, long form review. You can review it and give feedback as you go. So it gets iterative and it gets better. Another question to kind of tie in that like, what if you suck at writing? Awesome, awesome. Even better.
You’re going to get more value out of it than somebody who’s written 20 books. The person who’s written 20 books, what it’s going to do is it’s going to save them 60% of their time. The person who sucks at writing, it’s going to save them 90% of their time and make it 100,000% better. You know, what about matching your personal writing style? Absolutely.
The very beginning, you do this one time, upload samples of your writing. It could be Word docs, PDFs, you know, give it, I mean, give it as much as you can. The more the better. But even like 5 or 10 posts is good. I personally actually only up. I only uploaded six posts and that was it. I uploaded six posts and it got my style and you know, like, yeah, if I had uploaded 50, would it be 1% better? Probably. I just decided I didn’t feel like doing that. You know, I would just correct a few little things and go from there. Speaking of that, can you edit the content? Absolutely. So 100% editable. It’s not generic AI content. That was one of the ones I got.
It is trained specifically on those 300 and some odd posts. And then it takes. So it takes the principles from the training and then combines it with your voice. Can I use Review Post Pro for multiple products? You can use it unlimited. You could write. I mean, I’ve written probably 20 to 25 by now. There’s a few that I’ve released just in the past couple of days. So none of those, I mean they rank, but none of Those are generated any sales yet so unlimited post as many products again it’ll like just it so easy to use and the content is absolutely amazing. So there’s a link for that in the show notes. Go check it out.
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All right, so that’s a lot about international espionage and some recaps from last week and answering some questions. Let’s jump into today’s ways that you can use AI for affiliate marketing. Number one, warming up your audience, creating those teasers like creating curiosity. So you want to use this when you, when you’re going to talk about a product but you don’t want to give away too much about it too soon.
You want to tease the product, tease the idea, talk about the topic. And these work especially well on like Instagram stories or reels. You might say something like, you know, this little thing saved me three hours a week and it’s not what you think or I almost didn’t try this and now I, you know, I wouldn’t miss out.
Right? And the key is like you want some intrigue, you want information, you want to teach them a little bit, you want to make them want to know more. So a sample prompt here that I’ve been using and as I mentioned so many times before, I have a separate chat for these so that I can teach it, I can have it be very specific to what it’s doing. Write three curiosity driven teaser liners for a real or story about product.
Each one should create intrigue and encourage people to watch or read more. That’s it. And again, it gets your audience in the mindset of thinking about this topic. So if you’re going to promote a planner, it gets them thinking about planning. If you’re going to promote, I’m just, you know, making this up as I go. I’m looking around here and as I mentioned before, my studio is right next to our gym. So, so if you’re going to promote, you know, what is the thing called?
I don’t even know what it’s called. Leg extension machine. If you’re going to promote a leg extension thing, like get them thinking about their quads, get them thinking about their legs, you know, like these are the types of things you want to do in advance of promoting something. Because if you just come out out of left field and go buy this leg extension machine, it’s like, well, why? Well no, you start talking about knee problems and, and you start talking about the ACL and MCL tears and stuff like that. And do you have trouble if it’s older audience, do you have trouble getting up the stairs, this machine will help.
All right, the next one. I’ve been using this a lot over the last year and it’s so fun. Affiliate disclaimers Affiliate disclaimers are boring, but you have to be compliant. You don’t want to sound like a legal robot, right? So I just like, I want to make them funny. I want to make them, you know, compliant. Of course I want to comply with the FTC laws, but I want to make them funny. I want to make them conversational, I guess, casual and so very simple.
Prompt write three natural sounding affiliate disclaimers I can use on social media or email. Keep them short, conversational and in my tone, you know. And so I have a one for a disclaimer and I was like, here, here’s the product name. Boom boom boom boom boom. And so, you know, it makes like a couple of ones that I’ve, you know, use btw. So by the way, I may earn a commission if you grab this. No extra cost to you.
Yes, this is an affiliate link. I talked about affiliate marketing. What did you expect? But yes, I also love product name, you know, affiliate link ahead. I only share what I actually use. Check it out. You know, short, sweet, honest, like that’s the goal with these. It’s just, it’s just really cool. Brainstorming ideas for this Number three for today. Creating a resources page. Now, I’ve talked about Resources page a thousand times. One of the best ways to grow your affiliate income. All right, I’m going to include a link in the show notes to getting a. It’s a free report I put together on how to create a resources page. We’re not there yet with AI where it can just completely create the resources page not in a, not in an effective way. It’s. We’re close.
I’d say we’re 60% of the way there, but I want to share something that is one of the best ways to use this. And I just did this with my resources page previously. It like the links of each description were between five and nine lines long. And so when you lined them up side by side, it just kind of looked weird. And I used AI to standardize the blurbs for each tool so they look clean and uniform and it just makes it look neat and scannable and ultimately like people are not a little bit confused. The buy buttons aren’t shifting up and down, you know, and it just, it just looks cleaner. So if you go to mattmcwamiams.com toolbox you can see my example there. And I used AI to rewrite the description so my descriptions were between.
I think the shortest one was 34 words and the longest was like 78 words. You know, it’s over twice as long. And so I figured out that to make it exactly eight lines that it needed to be between 48 and 52 words. And I also counted the characters and I was like, it needs to be between this word length. And I forget the character length, but it was like, you know, whatever, 417 and 432 characters was the character length. And I said, please rewrite this, you know, using these parameters. And I was done. I mean, I copied and pasted like I read the first five or six. I didn’t even change anything because it was just basically taking what I’d already written and, you know, saying the same thing.
It required no editing. It was done. It’s one of the best ways to use AI is just like take this and make it this length. You know, I use, I mentioned before that like when I create images, I want, I use ChatGPT to create the brief, but I use Canva to actually make the image 95% of the time. There’s actually one type of image that I’ve been using ChatGPT for because I think it’s better. And that is hand sketched images. Like, if you want it to look hand drawn, ChatGPT right now is much better at that.
Like, pencil sketching is just the word I was looking for there. And so I’ve been using, but I’ve been doing that where I write the brief in ChatGPT and then go over to Canva. Well, a lot of times when I write, when I was writing the briefs, not only was I maybe forgetting a detail, but I would write it too long. And so my CHAT in chatgpt just called Image Briefs. It knows that it needs to between between like this length and this link in terms of number of characters so I don’t have to type all my stuff and then put it over in Canva and it’s like, oh my gosh, that’s too long. It knows, like it just generates the brief in the right length.
So again, same thing with a resources page number four. Turning customer testimonials into before and after stories. This is great for anything where you want to show real results. When you want to show results, it like and paint a picture kind of sell without selling. That’s how we use this. So instead of quoting someone, you know, you just say before product, Jane was blank, whatever, you know, she was overwhelmed, she was overweight, over extended, something, anything. Involving over is probably good. After she got her evenings back, she fit into her jeans again, whatever it is. So you just say the prompt I use is turn this testimonial into a short before and after story for whatever platform, for Instagram, for Facebook, for email, focus on the transformation and include a CTA to check out the product. And then I paste the testimonial and that’s it.
Number five is one you’re going to see from me pretty soon because I’m going to be doing it for the first time. It’s an idea I got from a really good friend of mine who is an expert at challenges. And he calls these mini challenges or try this challenges, that’s what he typically calls them. But they’re like little mini challenges.
When you want to, like especially if you want to encourage somebody to do a trial, this works really well, he said for trials. And so he built like, he builds these little mini challenges which kind of create mini habits and they get people using the product, which, you know, as we know from car sales, right, if you drive the car home, you’re going to buy it. If you try the product, you’re going to buy it. And so the prompt that we use is, hey, write a three day challenge. Could be five day, could be a, you know, whatever. But write a three day challenge to my audience that my audience can try using name of product. Each day should include a quick, a quick task and a CTA to check out the product. And so like day one, download product and set up your first template.
Day two, use it to schedule a task. Task number three, you know, day three, celebrate. You just saved an hour this week and if you want more time back, here’s the link to upgrade or something like that. He says he swears by these. He typically does three to seven days. He said if he goes seven days, it’s usually five actions and he’ll kind of break a couple of them into two. But it’s like, what can they do in five to 10 minutes today? If I was promoting kit, it would be the email service. It would be number one, you know, create your account. Number two, set up your first form. Number three, add it to your site. Number four, you know, set up the. Or maybe I’m like number three, be like, you know, create the thank you page, you know, something like that. Just like something they can do in maybe 15 minutes. But it’s these like little mini habits, mini actions. Micro.
What’s the word? Micro commitments. That’s what I was looking for. Gosh, micro Commitments where it’s like something really easy they can do. Number six. And by the way, I’m going to let you know how that goes because I’m going to be doing it here pretty soon. So I’ll hopefully remember to let you know how my experiment goes with that.
Number six. Matching any type of like affiliate product to an audience segment. So if you think about one product has multiple audiences, multiple use cases, and you want to tailor your content and speak directly to each of those audiences. So you might have one product that has three different angles. So the prompt I’ve been using and I’ve got a whole, I’ve got a chat specifically for this is match name of product, match the features to three audience Personas. So could be busy parents, solopreneurs, coaches, consultants, fitness professionals, gym owners, whatever. Explain which feature is most helpful for each and why. That’s the prompt.
So match the product features to the three audience Personas. Five audience Personas. Usually not more than five. You know, it could be two. And explain why the feature is most helpful for each and why. And so now you’re communicating to busy parents dating differently than solopreneurs. Now what if there’s some overlap? That’s okay. What if they’re busy parents because they’re solopreneurs who are coaches? Well, that’s fine, but you want to speak to the most like the most obvious of the segments.
Number seven. Turn an affiliate product into a lead magnet. What I mean by this is if you want to offer something valuable before you pitch the affiliate product, instead of just saying I recommend this product, say download this thing. And then that affiliate product could be in the form of a follow up email to the lead magnet download. It could be a follow up in terms of a funnel instead of your own products. It works great. So just use AI to brainstorm. We’ve talked about this so much. Use AI as a thought partner, as a brainstorming tool, as like almost like a business consultant.
And so you might create a checklist that leads into the affiliate product or a quiz we talked about before, a starter kit, any type of thing. You know, again, if I was promoting kit, I would be like, I would create a thing, which we already have, but I would say, and by the way, you can use it for that too. Like, hey, which of these lead magnets that I have? Here’s a list of my 42 lead magnets. Which of these would lead best into this product? I would use the one where it’s. I would use a lead magnet on lead magnets. Creating lead magnets, you know, like how to, like here’s some lead magnet ideas. And then that naturally leads into great. Well, if you create a lead magnet, you need someplace to put it. You need to capture emails. I recommend Kit.
Here’s how to sign up. And so I would just say something like in the prompt, brainstorm three lead magnet ideas that tie naturally into product and would attract. Each idea should include a short description and a cta. So in this case, brainstorm three lead magnet ideas that tie naturally into kit and would attract creators who are looking to grow their email list. Each idea should include a short description and cta. So then you say something like, hey, want to know if Kit? Want to know if blank is right for you? Download this five step guide to find out.
It could be like that. It could be you’re not sure if kit is right for me. Download this guide. So what you’ve done is you’ve taken people who are interested in buying the product and you’ve turned them into a subscriber who then is more likely to buy the product. So not only will you make more affiliate sales, but you’re actually going to grow your email list at the same time so you can tie that into a review post as well. And it’s a really cool way to do it.
Number eight, just doing like short video reviews, scripting those out. So when you want to create video content without rambling, use AI. Like I use AI all the time to take my shell of an idea, my five minute ums and ahs. And you know, I don’t edit this podcast. I’m rambling now. Actually, I don’t edit the podcast, so I leave in the ums. But as much as possible, I do try to stay on point. Now what I use AI for is just bullet points. You know, that’s how I use it. But I have used it for anything where I do want it to be more on point. I use AI just to kind of keep it what’s the word I’m looking for? Because I should have used AI for this part. I use AI to make it on point to create a script. So, you know, like, you hit the highlights, you wrap up strong and you can’t like, you know, you get to the point within five seconds, you wrap up strong and in the middle is really good content and it’s timed right.
So what I did was I actually went and had my assistant take, I don’t know, like 15 or 20 video scripts and he would take like a five minute segment and then it would count the number of words. And it was pretty consistent. I don’t remember the exact number, but it was like the range was something. I’m making this number because I don’t remember exactly. Somewhere between like 742 and 808 words. Like the lowest number that I spoke in five minutes was whatever, 742. The highest was 808. So it was like, okay, 778 was the middle point. Divide that by five and here’s how many words I’m going to speak in a minute. And I told AI, when I speak for 60 seconds, it’s between again, I don’t know the exact numbers, but it’s between 142 and 148 words. So I would like to create scripts. So that’s the initial prompting. Then I just say, write a 60 second YouTube short script.
Reviewing blank product, keep it honest, casual. End with a call to action. Now if I want a four minute video, I tell it I want a four minute video. And it knows, okay, multiply four by 148 to 156 and it needs to be in this range and it just keeps me on point. That’s one of the best ways you can use AI. Just like the resources page, getting it into that word count. Number nine, Fun polls, engagement posts. When you want to warm up your audience before pitching, this is a great, great way to do it. So you know things like, do you plan your week or wing it? What would you do with two extra hours this week? What’s your biggest time waster right now?
And then people are like, well, here’s my. Okay, this tool might help. Want to peek? So the prompt I use, like, give me three poll ideas for Instagram stories to warm up my audience for blank product. Each should be playful but relevant. You, you know, give me three engagement questions for X to warm up my audience for name a product. It should be playful but relevant. I typically would do like, you know, three to five, and then use one, and then I tell it. Here’s the one I liked. Now here’s. Can you generate five more? That’s, by the way, it’s again, it’s iterative, and if I like two, I’ll tell it. Here are the two I like.
Right now, we’re brainstorming a big thing for one of the books that I talked about, the children’s books. And I mean, we’ve, like, it’s been very iterative. We probably are on idea number 100 right now because we’ve been all over the place and the reality is 90. No, not 90. They have been horrible. But I asked it for 10, and there’s two. And I’m like, okay, here’s these two. And then we’ve ended up in this iterative process. Like, it’s something that we could not do with our brains. It’s just we could spend all day, and Instead, in about 40 minutes, we were able to get down to a final two that we’re kind of playing around with right now.
And finally, the tenth way, number ten, the final one for today, build a what I Wish I knew post. This is something that I stole from a friend of mine who shared this with me that he said it’s worked really well for him. You want to teach and relate at the same time. So what I wish I knew is the prompt that he gave me is this. Write a short story style. I’m reading this word forward from him. Write a short story style Instagram caption about something I wish I’d known earlier.
Ending with how product helps solve that problem. What this does is it humanizes you, makes you more relatable, and These are like, these are really good for engagement. So he does, he’s a videographer, all right? And so the one example he, like, I used to spend hours editing videos manually. Then I found name of product. Now I’m done in 10 minutes. And he just talks about the video. Like he scripts out like a 30 second video. If he does it, it shows him struggling and not really enjoying that part of his job because he doesn’t like video editing. He likes the concept stuff. But now he’s done in 10 minutes, so he just does it himself. And so you could do that in a post, you could do that in Alta, you could do that in reels, whatever.
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You could do that in an email, you could do that in anything. So the what I wish I knew could be an email, could be a post, you name it is a really effective way to use AI because now you can have instead of just like one angle. Oh, I used to spend hours, now I’m done in 10 minutes. There could be dozens of angles that you could promote the same product using the what I wish I knew because I used to, I used to always be sore after my workouts. I used to not be able to push myself. I used to fill in the blank, right? And so you could probably get, you know, five or six things, maybe even as many as, you know, 10 or 12. So there you have it. To be. To do it faster, to do it smarter. I mean, like, like I said before, AI is not here to replace your voice, all right?
It’s here to make it clearer. It’s here to hopefully to amplify it and to make it reach more people. So start with one of these tactics. Just pick one, test it out, make it your own, then try the next. The compound effect is real. That’s why so many of these things have built on the previous things. You know, you use it to streamline your resources page, but it also helps you to write a better what I wish I knew post. And so what happens is you’ll find yourself creating better and better content over time without, like, spending as much time without a lot less stress. So that’s what we’re talking about in this series and that’s what we’re going to talk about next week. If you love this episode, if you haven’t yet, please leave a rating and review wherever you listen to podcasts that helps more people find the show.
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