Episode 267: 7 ChatGPT Prompts for Social Selling

Bob Woods  0:00

Welcome sales rose to making sales social live, coming to you from the social sales link virtual studios. I’m Bob Woods. And joining me today is the co-host of Making Sales Social Live. She’s a fellow LinkedIn social selling and AI strategist, consultant, trainer coach, put in any other adjective in there you want to because she does it all – and we do it all – Brynne Tillman. How are you doing, Brynne?

Brynne Tillman  0:23

I’m good, Bob, how are you all the things that I could say about all those adjectives? Great to see you. 

Intro 00:35

Welcome to Making Sales Social Live, as we share LinkedIn and Social Selling Training Strategies and Tips that will have an immediate impact on your business. Join Brynne Tillman and me, Bob Woods, every week, Making Sales Social Live! This is the recorded version of our weekly Making Sales Social Live Show.

Bob Woods  1:04

Good to see you, too. So we’re going to be diving into the oh my god, that work when it comes to AI and Chat GPT. Today, we’re going to be bringing you seven of our favorite prompts to use on LinkedIn for social selling. So we’re also giving away these prompts as a PDF. So you don’t have to worry about writing them down as we say them. The link is that it’s a bitly link. So it’s at bit.ly/getmyaitools. Again, that’s “My AI tools.”

So, if you’re on LinkedIn Live, I’ve already put that link in the comments. If you’re listening to this pre-recorded on our podcast later, we will also have that link in the show notes. So just, I’m gonna say it one more time. You’ll hear it a couple more times, bit.ly/getmyaitools. So let’s just go ahead and dive right into these because we’ve got seven of them. The first one is really helpful. 

Because if you’re like me, sometimes you’ll look at a post. And it’s like, I know what I want to say, but I’m not really sure exactly how I want to say it when it comes to commenting on a post. This prompt will most definitely help you with that brand. Absolutely. And I am really excited about this option. I just want to say real quick: it’s not a PDF that you’re gonna get if you go to bit.ly/getmyaitools, you will go to … it’s a smart link inside of LinkedIn. And in that, there is a link where you can download these prompts. Right into.

Bob Woods  2:54  

That’s right.

Brynne Tillman  2:55

Right. Yeah. So, right into get magical.com, which is a Chrome extension that we absolutely love. So, with that said, I’m very excited to talk about it. So we’re talking about the first prompt, which is around.

Bob Woods  3:12

Commenting on a post.

Brynne Tillman  3:13

Right? So if you have a post that you’ve come across, and you are looking to comment on that post, but again, like Bob said, You’re not 100% Sure, what do I say? How do I say it? This prompt, which is I am networking on LinkedIn, and I want to leave a relevant QA, comment on, and then what we’ve done because it’s magical we have to paste your text here. So, I’ll go through this one more time. But make it short, simple, and engaging, not too serious, but professional, and make sure to refer back to a key point in the post. 

So, how do you use this? It’s the easiest way to say how to use this, really, is you put it to the prompt. In our case, we have a shortcode if you’re using our prompt, but you put that into Chat GPT, and then you paste, copy, and paste the text from the post. So look at the text that the person has that they’ve put in there, copy that text, and add that to your Chat GPT, your Chat GPT prompt, and then it’s going to give you a thoughtful comment. 

Now, we do not recommend that you copy and paste exactly that way. Look at it. Read it in your voice. Do you agree with it? Is that something that you would actually say? And then go back and make sure that you’ve reviewed. Do the post that you are commenting on and make sure it aligns with exactly what they’re talking about. Would you add to that?

Bob Woods  5:08  

Yes. So the only other thing that I would add, and this is not only for commenting on a post, this is for not only everything that we’re going to say today, this is for anything that you do within Chat GPT. So Brynne said, read it and make sure it’s in your voice. The best way to make sure it’s in your voice is not only just read it, but read it and say it out loud, you know, at the same time, like read your script or whatever. 

If it sounds like you, then that’s great. If it doesn’t sound like you definitely don’t copy and paste it in. Because it’s not going to sound like you to the reader, it’s going to sound like Chat GPT. So you need to make sure that it’s in your voice. If you read it out loud, and it’s not your voice, rewrite it so that it is in your voice, at least Chat GPT has given you the base to write from. So you don’t have that, you know, blank page slash guess blank screen syndrome anymore, we have nothing there. 

You’re just fitting it to your voice at that point, which is so much easier than looking at that blank page or looking at that post going. I think I know what I want to say, but I’m not really sure or I want to comment or I know Anna, and I know I do I want to say here that you know, Chat GPT gives you the nugget that you need, you still really need to put it into your own voice. So read what chat you read out loud what chat up gives you and then you know, put it into your voice and then stick it in there.

Brynne Tillman  6:35  

I love that. Number two, I think Bob is very important in that we are curating content all over the place, right? We are out there finding whether it’s a Forbes article, or maybe we’ve Googled something, and we found a blog post. Now, what’s interesting about this, in number two that I’m going to read in a minute, is you don’t have to copy and paste the text, you have to do that when you’re commenting on a LinkedIn post because LinkedIn blocks Chat GPT and AI for actually reading the text. 

However, most every other sites, it’s not blocked. So all you need to do is grab the link to an article or a blog post. And then so our second prompt, is I’ve identified an article that I want to share on LinkedIn, please write a short but compelling text for the post that is engaging and encourages my network to engage in comments. 

You paste the link and then I have added don’t include emojis because what I found with this particular prompt when we were testing this out, is it always included emojis now, if you like emojis, when you download this right when you go to that Bitly link or you’re scanning or QR code, if you’re here live and you go and you you install these prompts and magical.com you could take out or edit any of these things and save them. So these prompts are really to get you started. And if you want emojis you can take out don’t include emojis. 

Bob Woods  8:20  

Yeah, and then and then so the other thing is Brynne’s write in that most everything that’s on the web Chat GPT can access. The only time that that isn’t the case is if it’s paywalled for some reason, or whatever, at that point, rather than pasting in the link, that’s there, you’ll just paste the text and from the article itself, because if it’s like WSJ or Bloomberg or I mean, you know, one of those types of sites, where you need to at least have a login of that actually pay for the content. Those are going to be the times when you’re going to need to paste the text in there, but this will work. Or I should say the link will work for most everything that’s out there. 

Brynne Tillman  8:59  

Well, the other thing and that is don’t share it anyway. Because if someone goes to click through the payroll, that’s a paywall on a payroll, a paywall. So to that point, if you’re sharing it is almost futile anyway, because other people can’t click through. So that’s a good point.

Bob Woods  9:18  

Yep. So number three, I’m not sure exactly what you’re calling this. I’m calling it as kind of developing general content for you to get engagement with the people who you’re trying to start sales conversations with. That’s a really, really long phrase. I know. But I think it’s Yeah, yeah.

Brynne Tillman  9:38  

Yeah, I haven’t named it yet. But ultimately, this next one is I want to write original content, but I just don’t have any ideas. So number three is I’m a sales this is for me, you change it to yours, right? But I’m a sales professional who’s looking to engage and then we have titles so you would fill in the blank. Who are you looking to engage? For us, we’re looking for entrepreneurs, coaches, sales, professional sales leaders, marketing leaders, right? There’s lots. 

So you put in the titles or the persona you’re looking to engage with. In industry, that’s our next one. So it’s I’m a sales professional looking to engage with, let’s say, I’m gonna go with sales leaders in the professional services industry, then we have their primary challenge is and you fill in the blank for the challenge, this is what your prospect is challenged with. And I have five ideas, I would like five or 10, putting your number ideas on content that I can write about, make videos, checklists, or ebooks, and you put that in, and all of a sudden, it’s gonna really, it’s gonna give you lists.

I tried it with five ideas, and I did it with 50 ideas, and oh, my gosh, it just keeps coming. And from that, and it’ll tell you, because of the way that this is written, you have, you know, here’s, here’s an idea for a checklist, here’s an idea for any book, here’s an idea for a video. But again, you have the ability to go in and tweak any of these prompts. So maybe you want quotes, I know, I just want quotes, you know, ideas for quotes, whatever it is you want to do, you can manipulate that prompt to work for you.

Bob Woods  11:23  

100% 100%. And again, the place to get these are, it’s bit.ly/getmyaitools.  And as Brynne said before, this will, this will put these into a product that we love here called magical, which is apt get magical.com. And, you know, you show shortcodes to put this stuff in and like Brent said, you could also manipulate these, once you bring these into your own get magical, and it’s all golden from there, we’d love it. Absolutely love it. 

So number four is what I’m calling transcript summary to post. So, yes, so this is involving taking a transcript from I mean, you know, it could be from from anywhere from, from a meeting that you may have had with someone that got transcribed into Zoom to a podcast transcript, if you have access to that basically anything that’s in that kind of transcript form. And you’ve probably seen what I’m talking about when it comes to that, because there’s always like 10 codes and people’s names and stuff like that in there. 

Brynne Tillman  12:38  

Yeah, I love that. And, you know, honestly, I’ll hop onto a Zoom and talk for three to five minutes. And I have pulled that transcript if I’m looking for an idea. But to your point, this one is really designed when there’s multiple people talking, because this prompt says clean up this transcript, take out speaker names and timestamps, then write and you fill in the number of characters, so maybe two dozen character post, written in the first person for sales leaders, based on the following insights only, and you paste that full transcript, add a call to action offering an insights call around this topic using this link.

And I always put my calendar link, then include three engaging title options. So as you’re doing this, as you are creating this, we are taking a transcript, it could be a client call, right? And then writing insights, right? So it could be if you had a 2000-character post, you that could be a post that’s written specifically to LinkedIn, but you could create a whole blog or an article around this. There’s so much that you can do and now whatever conversation you have, you are turning that and converting that into content. So that’s pretty, pretty powerful.

Bob Woods  14:10  

Very powerful. I definitely think so. And it’s just, it’s amazing how Chat GPT can like boil all this stuff down into something that’s really usable and really good. But again, don’t just copy and paste, read it, read it out loud, make sure it sounds like you and then use it.

Brynne Tillman  14:27  

Yeah, and by the way, this can build on your ideas. So if you go in and you’ve got these 10 ideas, now you can take that idea and just talk about it on Zoom, grab that transcript, and now you’ve got tons of content that you can pull from. 

Bob Woods  14:46  

Yep. Next one number five. This one has to do with LinkedIn polls. We still love LinkedIn polls here. Thank God the initial kind of He kind of rushed to do polls by everyone is now gone. And now we’re at least I’m only saying like truly good polls out there anymore. We’re what they should have been all along. But Chat GPT never says that too fast Chat GPT can help you create polls, and it does it very effectively, too.

 Brynne Tillman  15:20  

Yeah, I love that. So this is our fifth one. And it’s simply create a LinkedIn poll question that’s positioned to ask. And then what we’ve done is we’ve put parentheses randomly include one of the following statements, a top priority in their number one concern, or most important, so what we’re saying is it doesn’t randomly include a phrase that starts with someone’s top priority, what is most important to them? And the reason we say this is LinkedIn polls, you can only vote on one, you can’t vote on more. 

So if you say “What’s important to you?” There may be more than one answer. So we want to make sure that we’re starting with what is the most important or the number one concern. So we’ve taught Chat GPT to think that way, too. And then you fill in your job title, so sales leaders on and then paste the transcript so we can reuse the transcript one more time. Or if it’s in the same chat, you can even say use the transcript above up to you write in 120 characters, including spaces.

Because that’s what we’ve got in a poll, then offer three potential answers each 30 characters or less and include answer number four that states, other sharing comments, we always want. The fourth one to be other sharing comments in this prompt is written to do that. The reason we want to do that is we can really frustrate our network, if we have four answers, and they don’t, if they don’t believe in all four of those, or they have an opinion outside of those. 

They feel frustrated. And you know, it’s funny, I do too. Like if I can’t really answer the poll, I end up skipping it if it’s not clear, so that other so we have that. So whenever you use this prompt, it will always give you a number for other sharing comments, then we end it with then conclude LinkedIn text for the post that will attract and engage connection. So not only will it give you the poll question and the four poll answers, it will now also give you the text that you can use to publish them.

Bob Woods  17:32  

100% 100%. And actually, as we go through these last four, you can use these as all part of the same chat. So the transcript summary to post and then pull creation, which we’ve referred back to, you can do that as well. Or if you want to create a poll on something completely different, but you have like an article in mind or something like that. 

So it when you’ll see in magical, where it says paste transcript here, you could paste an article in there or two are linked to the article. Yeah, exactly. So you know, these, these can be used in succession within the same chat, or you can break any and all these out and use them individually as well, which I mean, you know, Chat GPT, the only limit would Chat GPT truly, although it has weird ones, but the only truly limit, the only true limit you have is your own imagination.

Brynne Tillman  18:29  

I love that.

Bob Woods  18:30  

So that we’re going to go, yeah, thank you, thank you is, you know, when you’re feeling a little sick, your mind just kind of goes in all different directions that it might not normally go. And so number six, use that same transcript or use an article or whatever. But I think for these last two, we’re going to keep it in the framework of continuing the chat from number four on down. So number six is going to be used that transcript to generate quotes directly from the transcript, which I think is brilliant. 

Brynne Tillman  19:05  

Yeah, just if you wanted to get quotes, where let’s say you’re gonna go into Canva and create, you know, quotes slide, or you just want one phrase, you know, right 10 quotes from transcript, whether you’re pasting it, or you’re referring to the transcript in the same chat, that are under 250 characters, including spaces, which will be used in an image, right? So that means we need to make sure that those words will fit in an image which is why go through 250 characters.

You could certainly change that number to something else. But that tends to be a really good size quote, and it will pull out quotes. So if you have let’s say a 20 minute conversation with someone, and especially if it’s a prospect or a client where you’re answering questions, you could get 7,8,9,10 quotes in 20 minutes. It’s amazing. how brilliant you are when you start recording yourself. 

And then there are some really interesting ways that we can use those quotes. And actually, stay tuned, we have a workshop that’s coming up in March, which may be right around the corner if you’re listening to this and replay. But ultimately, we’re going to show you wonderful ways to create the 10,15 quotes, upload them into Canva, and have them auto populate into a branded slide. Or that also you could just download. I mean, it’s it takes three minutes, five tops if you’re new, and you can create that content at scale.

Bob Woods  20:48  

Yeah, so I just wanted to bring up a really quick, really quick comment from Michelle, where do you come up with these prompts, which is very good question. And I’ve already answered these in chat, but I just wanted to bring them up ourselves. We created them ourselves, although specifically branded all the ones today. 

But one of the things that we do is prompt development here and social sales link. Brynne, Myself, Stan, we do prompting for all different types of things. All day, all night, we would do it 24/7 If our bodies allowed us to. So that’s I mean, that’s a joke. But seriously, that’s not only do we love Chat GPT, but just the value that we think Chat GPT has for the future to have sales.

Brynne Tillman  21:36  

So today, Stan, Bob, and I met on the workshop that I just talked about. And we’re like, we need a landing page. Okay, we jumped into Chat GPT and said, We are sales trainers who will be teaching AI for LinkedIn engagement. Here are the takeaways that you’re that we’re going to offer, create a landing page. And then what would have taken us, Oh, I don’t know, two hours to write. We were done in 10 minutes, we did go through maybe 15. We did go through line by line. And we’re like, we wouldn’t say this, we would say this way. Maybe. Right. And we brought.

Bob Woods  22:18  

That’s the important part. That’s the important part. But without Chat GPT to get us going. Just like Brent said it would have taken us couple hours. Instead it took us 15 minutes. And that’s with all three of us really poring through and pulling apart the copy that it generated. But because we had the copy to start with it went a lot quicker. 

Brynne Tillman  22:37  

Yeah, I love it. Yeah. Alright, so let’s use number seven. Which by the way is so easy, especially if you have now just spent all your time in creating these other this other chat you’ve given Chechi lots of fodder to do what it still is not great at but we’re working on it, which is number seven. Do you want to talk about that one? 

Bob Woods  23:03  

Yeah, so I mean, I’m and to say that we’re not great at it definitely falls on my shoulders too. Because goodness knows, I’ve tried in both dally D-A-L-L dash E which is Chat GPT own image generator, as well as Canva has its own AI generator. And I’m not really good at this yet. That’s probably one of the things that I’m going to be delving into, because I know that there are specific prompts that you can do to better the output from places like that better. 

But we do have a prompt that gets you started with. So the prompt is, please create an image for a LinkedIn post that aligns with and then you can refer back to the transcripts up above, if you’re within that same chat, like we had suggested before. Or if there’s a LinkedIn post that you just did.

And you want something from that you can copy and you can paste in the post that you had, or you know, let’s say going up a little bit farther in our list you did the one on posts, the prompt that we provided on post but now you want an image for that. You could then within the same chat, ask it to come up with an image based on what you’ve already generated there as well.

Brynne Tillman  24:16  

Yeah, I love it. Well, those are seven for today.

Bob Woods  24:20  

Yep, that’s it so we hope you all enjoyed it. As Brynne said, we do have our workshop coming up in March. Keep tuned godless radios stick around or whatever for details.

Brynne Tillman  24:36  

I got it, Tuned. 

Bob Woods  24:39

Tuned.

Brynne Tillman  24:40  

Doing little radio like tuning the radio. It’s the first time I ever put two and two together there. 

Bob Woods  24:46  

Nobody knows about radio anymore. So thanks again for joining us on making sales social live. Thank you, Lisa and Michelle, for your final comments. We appreciate it and thank you for again for joining us on making sales social live. If you’re with us live on LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook, or X slash Twitter right now, we do this every week so keep an eye out for our live sessions. If you’re listening to us on our podcast go ahead and hit that subscribe follow button and do whatever else you need to do to get alerted when our new episodes drop and you can also use those to go back and see our previous episode. 

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Brynne Tillman  25:41  

Social. Bye guys.

Bob Woods  25:42

Great day everybody bye.

Outro  24:19

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