How To Generate Content Templates With ChatGPT

June 09, 2023

Welcome to The Pen Pivot!

At 9am (EST) every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, we show content creators how to use AI to produce better content, faster.

In today’s email:  

  • AI Tool Of The Day 🛠️ - An impressive AI voice generator

  • AI Content Tip Of The Day🖋️ - Save time with AI-generated content templates

  • AI News For Content Creators đź“°- WSJ writes a feature piece on how generative AI is saving freelancers and small business owners time

  • Viral Bits From The Web 🍬 - Lord Of The Rings - Directed by…Martin Scorsese?

AI Tool Of The Day 🛠️

Lovo - Text-to-speech generators are getting increasingly exciting.

Lovo has a set range of realistic voices with an impressive emotional range to choose from.

Shove some text in and let it rip.

As I keep mentioning, these tools are going to be so valuable for repurposing written content going forward.

(Not sponsored)

AI Content Tip Of The Day đź–‹ď¸Ź

ChatGPT Prompt: Quick And Easy Content Templates

The secret to creating huge volumes of content?

Templates.

Templates lead to less thinking, less friction, and more content.

I'll use a "tweet template" as a short and sweet example

You can use this prompt to create a template out of any type of content.

But as you'd expect, it does tend to work better for short-form content.

Blog posts, LinkedIn posts, Facebook ad copy, etc.

Here’s what you do:

Take a piece of your best-performing content.

You want ChatGPT to extract the core, replicable characteristics/features of the content.

Then, you want ChatGPT to use those characteristics to form the basis of a template with blanks you can fill in for future content.

I’ll use a tweet from Justin Welsh as an example.

I asked ChatGPT to generate a template using the tweet, taking into account the underlying copywriting frameworks that are probably being used.

Here’s the prompt template I used.

The Prompt Template 🤖:

"ChatGPT, please create a custom content template based on an existing piece of my content. 

The template should be reusable for different contexts but maintain the core characteristics of the original content. 

Please analyze the underlying core message when generating your template and any common copywriting techniques that might be used.

Please use the following information to guide your response:

Type of original content: [eg. Tweet, Instagram caption, LinkedIn post]

Full text of the original content:

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[copy and paste text]

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Target audience for the original content: [insert]

Desired format of the template (optional): [eg. paragraph, bulleted list]

Results 💻️ :

Here’s the “tweet template” generated for the Justin Welsh tweet.

As you can see, the template is in-depth and easy to use.

"Templatizing" content that clearly works well is a good way to create consistently good content.

Try it out.

Create a template out of a piece of your content.

Think less, create more.

AI Story Of The Day đź“° 

The Wall Street Journal writes a feature article on workers, especially freelancers and small-business owners, using generative AI tools to save time and expand their work.

AI tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT helped Stephen Brucher, a sales and marketing worker, save three to four hours per pitch and increase his company's revenue by 50%.

Larry Lundstrom, a freelance designer, has doubled his income by using AI tools like Tome and Dall-E to generate slide decks for presentations and create images from text prompts.

Read the full story here.

Viral Bits From The Web 🍬 

Midjourney images of Lord Of The Rings - if it were created by Martin Scorsese.

Check out the series here.

And that’s all for today!

See you on Monday 🙂 

Misya, The Pen Pivot