So in this episode, he shows his exact...
We'll be right back.
So if you stick around to this end of this episode, you will understand how to create content like Dan Co.
And people generally charge thousands of dollars for this.
It's free.
All I ask is for a like and a comment on this episode.
I can't wait to see what you build.
Have a creative day.
What's up, Dan?
Great to have you.
By the end of this episode, what are people going to take out of it?
Glad to be here, dude.
Thank you for having me on.
I have a few things to share, but the outcome as a whole will be a big picture overview of my content ecosystem.
So before we just started, you were mentioning like you're curious about how my output is so high, when I personally don't think it's that high.
It doesn't take too much.
So I think it just comes down to having a really smart system and then being able to augment that with AI in a unique way which we're going to learn.
But the other thing that we have to learn in order to do that well is is just how to use LLMs in a way to get them to do exactly what you want.
So I'm not a coder.
I don't use too many of the fancy tools, mostly just Cloud, Chat, GPT.
So how are we going to use the base tools that most people have access to and understand to create something incredible?
I love it.
I only have one ask from you.
I just ask that you don't hold back any sauce.
You give the prompts.
You show how it's really done.
Because what would be success for me is if thousands of people consume this episode and understand how to use LLMs to be like you.
Because when I see Dan Coe, I see millions of followers.
I see you everywhere.
I see content here.
I see content there.
And I'm like, how does this guy do it?
Dan, can you commit to it?
Absolutely.
Yep.
The thing about that is all of my content is the same across all different platforms.
So the base of it all comes down to two things.
It comes down to my newsletter, which I write every week, sometimes twice a week, but once a week is like baseline.
And then two is two to three social media posts a day.
And those are usually written.
And so I write Twitter first because it's like the 280 character limit.
And then, since that's like the limiting factor out of all the platforms that can pretty easily transfer over to any other platform.
So that gets posted to threads by Instagram.
I turn that into an image. and post that onto LinkedIn, onto Instagram.
Sometimes I use them as a real script.
So I pull up my camera, look at my phone, read my best tweet, recite it to the camera.
Maybe add a bit on there.
And then I have reels, TikToks, shorts, et cetera.
I'm not much of a trend follower.
Sometimes I am, but most of the time I believe that the algorithms are based off of human psychology.
And if you understand human psychology and can use AI to help you understand that more, your content will see a notable increase in engagement and other things of that nature.
So first, I'll just give an overview in this Canvas style so you understand my weekly process.
So every week I plan out my newsletter and the idea for the newsletter.
It's based on A few different things.
It could be a top-performing tweet of mine that I have before, because I know that that tweet has already done well.
So I'm just going to take it, expand it into a newsletter.
That turns into a YouTube video podcast.
Good to go.
Or it can be based on a...
Video that is already doing well on YouTube.
So a good way to generate ideas that help you grow is to go to YouTube.
Look at the accounts in your niche or the people that kind of like tribe you want to join online and Go to their account.
Go to videos, filter by most popular and then just write down 10 of the videos that you think you could recreate.
Now, the secret there is you're not watching the videos.
You're not trying to steal anything from the video itself.
You're trying to take the topic, the angle, and write your own perspective on it.
Because if other people are watching those videos, since they have a lot of views, then They're going to just by the nature of YouTube and people binge watching things they're going to be recommended, your video.
They're going to watch that.
And if they hear you say the same things as the other person, then you're not going to stand out or be unique.
So that's what this process is.
So that's usually the two ways that I come up with newsletter ideas.
And I keep a document where I tend to.
I just have a list of ideas that I can pull from.
I pick the one that I think is going to do the best that week.
Now what I do, for that is, I of course have a place where I write the newsletter, just in a note or document.
But I tend to find a few things that I've either talked about before relating to that.
So previous newsletters, previous tweets, whatever they may be.
And then Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI, just said that it is the era of the idea guy, and he is not wrong.
I think that right now is an incredible time to be building a startup.
And if you listen to this podcast, chances are you think so, too.
Now I think that you can look at trends to basically figure out what are the startup ideas you should be building.
So that's exactly why I built ideabrowser.com.
Every single day, you're going to get a free startup idea in your inbox, and it's all backed by high quality data trends.
How we do it, people always ask.
We use AI agents to go and search, what are people looking for?
And what are they screaming for in terms of products that you should be building?
And then we hand it on a silver platter for you to go check out.
We do have a few paid plans that take it to the next level.
Give you more ideas, give you more AI agents and more almost like a chat GBT for ideas with it.
But you can start for free, ideabrowser.com.
And if you're listening to this, I highly recommend it.
I like to weave in other concepts from specific books or videos.
So this is where AI really comes into play, because I'm talking about survival and how to reinvent yourself in this newsletter.
And when I say survival, I'm talking about psychological survival, something that I find really unique and interesting.
And I've previously watched three videos on that.
They're each by a channel called actualize.org.
And they're like three hours long.
So it's a lot of learning when I'm on walks and other things of that nature that allows me to write in-depth newsletters.
But I'm usually not taking notes during this time.
And this is where LLMs can come into play because...
They can usually pull from YouTube videos or PDFs allowing you to talk to them and pull up the relevant points that you want to talk about in a newsletter.
So the research process there is thinking about the newsletter and the topic I want to write, talking with ai a bit and just getting specific key points and summaries and other unique perspectives and maybe throwing in a few things about the topic that i'm talking about, just so i have a chat that i can refer to that turns six hours of videos into a thousand words right, so then i can write about it myself.
So this is on reinventing yourself.
That's kind of my thoughts on that.
So you can think of this newsletter as like combining these two.
So when I take the summary, paste it into another chat or link it to another chat, then I can say okay, what are the similarities here?
Is there anything that I'm missing?
I'm kind of just in this process of ideation with the LLM until I feel like I have enough firepower to start piecing together an outline and then to start writing it.
Now, I don't have the LLM right for me, like the actual newsletter, but with what we're going to talk about, You could technically do that.
And if we have time, I'll actually show you how to do that specifically.
But that's the research process.
Nothing special here.
Just getting information from the.
Getting the ideas so that I can put them into the newsletter.
Otherwise, you just get stuck staring at a blank screen.
So I have a question on this.
So your thesis is basically you use X, Twitter, as a litmus test on ideas.
Yes.
And then once you have an idea that gets validated...
Then you're like, okay, this might have legs to extend this to other mediums.
Then you look to YouTube as an encyclopedia of knowledge.
You find popular videos or videos that just are high quality that might be –
It might be hours long.
And then you use... It looks like you use Gemini in the first example to summarize it.
You can use, you know, really anything you want, right?
Yeah, I tend to go with Gemini 2.5, especially when there's... Oh, this one's only nine minutes.
But for like the three to six hour videos, I'll use Gemini just because the large context window.
Right.
So you get smart about the videos.
And then from that you, you extend it right and you're you're not using the lms to, at this point, write it.
But um, i guess my question is because someone, someone listening, this is gonna be like okay, but you never talked about the hardest part, which is your great ideas on twitter.
You know what i mean.
So how do you think about that?
So it's kind of circular, right.
The ideas for Twitter can come from two different places.
It can come from the newsletter itself.
So I'll show over here in a second.
But they can come from the newsletter itself.
And that's a good way to generate ideas.
But the mistake that people make there is they'll have a really good newsletter.
And they'll think, okay, I'm supposed to pull ideas from this.
And they'll read a certain sentence or paragraph and just try to copy paste that directly.
And posted on Twitter, with maybe a few changes, when in reality, what you're looking for is just the idea that you can turn into a high performing tweet.
So it's kind of the same thing there, where The first step is learning how to write high-performing tweets.
And there's courses on this.
There's YouTube videos on this.
The best thing I can recommend is actually what I'm going to show you.
You need to kind of immerse yourself in good writing and ideas.
I think the best thing you can do to write better social content in general is to just keep a swipe file of really good ideas that you'd like to emulate under your own brand.
I think of brand as the ideas that you associate yourself with, and so you're not necessarily copying other people's ideas or taking other people's ideas.
You're synthesizing a bunch of different ideas that, or technically what, compose your mind and your worldview.
And you're bringing them together in a very articulate way under your own brand.
And then as people consume those over time, you gain that authority in their head.
So that's one way to come up with ideas is just keep a swipe file.
You have to become like a ruthless note taker and just consistently save ideas until it's until you've read so many of them and written so many of them that it's become second nature to you on how to just structure an idea.
Like you can give me a word and then, if you give me a minute to think about it, I could probably come up with a really good post about that thing.
And do you use any tools for that?
I use, if we go to Twitter.
So I've used both TweetHunterX and SuperX.
It feels like a lot of people, or no company, has really mastered this yet, just the Twitter sidebar in general where, when you go to a certain person's profile, this is the super X extension and it just shows their top performing tweets.
So if you write down five to 10 accounts that you really like and you kind of want to, I think you refine your writing style by reading the writing you aspire to have.
And so if you have the accounts that talk like you want to talk and you consistently visit their highest performing tweets with Super X or Tweet Hunter X and save all of these down and try to exchange either the structure or the idea and practice posting what I mean by that is right.
Here there's a clear structure.
Go on more walks, walk for no reason, walk to solve a problem, et cetera, et cetera.
You can take this structure or bring another idea into it.
So rather than walks, it could be code, code more, code every day, something of that nature.
And then the more you or that's. exchanging the, taking the structure and exchanging the idea from it.
But you can also take an idea, like go on more walks and exchange the structure of it.
So then you look at another structure where this is just a single sentence.
Uh, I don't know, platitude of sorts.
This one at least.
And you can just take the idea of walks, try to write it as a single sentence.
Now you have two tweets from one idea.
And the more you do that and practice it, then really any idea has the potential to do very well, because you can just pop it into a preexisting structure or you can take a structure and plug in one of the ideas that you're trying to include in your brand.
So one thing there that I'll talk on, and then we'll get into actually doing all of that.
After I write the newsletter, I have three prompts that I like to run it through.
So this first one is just a YouTube title generator.
And I'll show you how this one's structured.
And if you do this Greg, I can put all of these in a Google Doc so people can copy paste them and read through them and dissect how they're structured.
But for this prompt specifically, I wrote a prompt.
I took my best like 15 titles on YouTube and I
Whatever I plug into it the newsletter I plug into it.
It pulls out the key points from that newsletter and tries to spin them into 20 to 30 YouTube titles that are similar and follow the same psychological patterns and principles as my best performing titles.
And so it spits these out here, and then I tend to read through these cross out ones that I don't think would work.
Highlight ones that I think would potentially come up with a better one from my own mind.
Test that out on YouTube.
If it doesn't work after two weeks, I'll try changing the title.
Usually that'll get it to a decent place in terms of views.
And the reason I create YouTube titles for this is because My newsletter is practically an outline for my YouTube videos, right?
I have it pulled up.
As I'm looking at the screen I mean at the camera I'll look down.
Read a sentence, recite it to the camera.
Sometimes I'll riff.
Sometimes I'll read straight from it.
If I'm looking down and reading at the newsletter, my editor just adds B-roll or text screens over my face so people can't see me looking down.
But that's the general structure of it.
And people quite like it.
The objection there usually is well, if you're posting the same thing on two platforms, won't people notice that or won't they get bored?
And most of the time, I've seen the opposite.
There are people that read it and then when they watch or listen to it, they get something entirely new, because it's a different medium.
Other people prefer to watch or listen rather than read.
And I just feel like my philosophy behind it is I'd rather produce one amazing thing a week and just put all of my attention into that and put it out across all platforms, rather than try to create something new for each platform and each of those things not be as good.
And there's probably marginal difference between the two paths, but I've really gotten into this flow of the weekly flow of newsletter YouTube video, social posts across all platforms.
And it's worked out pretty well.
People don't get angry and it's seems like it's working.
But the next thing I do is I'll take the newsletter or the YouTube video and I'll plug them into a deep posts generator prompt and just a content ideas generator.
And these are both kind of the same thing.
For the deep posts generator, I wrote a prompt that...
It breaks down the newsletter or whatever you feed it.
It could be a PDF, a YouTube video, anything.
I came up with this prompt still kind of fuzzy how I did it, because it was like a huge conversation.
But I broke down, I asked it to break down a bunch of these social posts that I really liked.
The way they were structured, the way they were written and the key things that made them do really well.
And after that conversation it said okay well, a lot of these are have paradoxes and counterintuitive truths, a lot of them have a transformation arc, a lot of them have core problems, a lot of them have examples or they handle objections, or they have action steps or aspirational statements.
And so i was like okay, take each one of these and um, Break down the newsletter.
Whatever you're fed into like five compelling post ideas, like the most impactful ideas that could be turned into posts.
And then I want you to ideate three core paradoxes.
A bunch of key quotes transformation arc, core problems, key examples.
So with this, I'm not asking it to write tweets for me.
Because the LLM isn't going to be too good at doing that unless you guide it to in a very specific way.
But instead, here is I have it.
Give me the pieces of ideas, like the deconstruction of high performing content and ideas, and just give me a bunch of those.
And so I can read through here.
And when one thing sparks an idea for me, boom, I can go and start writing a tweet on that.
Or I can combine a bunch of these together, since technically each of these, like all of these paradoxes quotes, problems are all.
They're all about one idea.
So I just have a bunch of building blocks for good content in here.
The next prompt that I use is just a general content idea generation.
I have it give me 60 ideas.
And these are usually based around the tweets that have done really well for me or the social posts in general.
I found that people really like when I give harsh life advice.
And I like that too.
Counterintuitive truths, which is very similar to the paradoxes.
Core problems or pain points, again, very similar.
Key insights, wisdom, big ideas.
So I can just read through here, and I'm not trying to copy-paste these as a tweet.
I'm just trying to generate a starting point for an idea so that I can have those ideas faster, right?
Because I feel like good ideas are the fuel for content.
But usually good ideas come from sifting through hours of YouTube videos on a walk or reading a good book or finding a really good sub stack article and having that generate ideas, or just sitting and thinking with your thoughts until something emerges.
And those are great ways to come up with ideas, but this is just a way to kind of force that to an extent and still maintain the quality without having the LLM actually write it for you.
Now.
So we just went over, like in general, how I go or how I create my newsletters and content each week.
That's just the writing ideation process.
How I actually structure that on a day-to-day basis is quite simple where I wake up, do a little morning routine shower walk, whatever it may be.
And then I sit down at my computer and the next two hours is just dedicated to writing.
So in that writing I have to finish one section of my newsletter and I have to finish three posts, three social posts.
And then within that time, you usually have time, within that two hours still, to paste those social posts to all platforms, or at least schedule them.
And so that's kind of my routine every day.
It's just two hours of writing.
And that's the base of all of my social media, all of my newsletter.
One day out of the week, I record my YouTube video and pass that off to the editor.
And then boom, my content is done.
And the rest is history.
You got millions, millions of followers, millions of likes.
I almost had a predictable way to increase the follower growth.
So it's like the key part here is one you need to experiment until you kind of strike gold and know what brings in followers.
Let's say that's 30% of the time.
That's like one post a day out of the three.
The other two posts are for continuing the experimentation on until you find the next one.
That is like you striking gold.
Then you make that a part of your process.
Now you have two posts a day that are just consistently most like.
They're not all going to bring in a ton of followers, but you're getting closer and closer to just consistently increasing followers over time by doing this.
And if you keep that balance of your core ideas that are consistently going to bring in followers with a healthy dose of experimentation until you find more.
And then you just cycle out the core ideas.
That's really the entire growth process on any social platform, in my opinion.
So there's one thing that's missing from this, which is visual assets like media.
So on X, I've noticed that If I tweet just words versus I tweet words with an image, the words with image call it performs 40 better.
How do you think about that?
You do this process to come up with ideas, to write the content, but what do you do about the image?
I don't do anything.
No.
But that's just me.
Because ever since I started out, I kind of put the constraint on myself of like, I want to do this with just writing.
I didn't start YouTube until I think two years after I was on Twitter.
And... just by creating that constraint, it made me be more creative.
And I think it made me refine my writing a lot more.
I've occasionally incorporated visuals in my Instagram posts and newsletters for like drawing out specific concepts or having certain infographics, or I even did animations on Instagram at one point.
And those things definitely helped.
But Uh, the animations eventually died down because a lot more people started doing them.
And then same with the visuals.
Like I noticed they were a good pattern interrupt when I would post those after not posting them for a while and they would get a lot more engagement.
But then if I tried to make that a consistent thing, they would just balance out as most of the posts did.
And so then I'm like I should just stick with writing.
Uh, Because the ideas in my head, the thing that I feel built my audience the most.
There's no way to know this, but I think it came from my focus on idea density and novel perspectives.
So in my YouTube videos especially, I try to bake in at least one thing that I think will like blow people's minds as an exaggeration.
It's like the thing that I found so interesting that I feel like not too many people know about.
If I can find a way to incorporate that into a newsletter that has a pretty – broad and validated angle.
So people go into the video because it's already validated.
They like that topic.
They'll just watch it to watch it.
And then I have a good hook, a good lead.
And then I lead them into, like that mind blowing insight that makes them think a bit deeper and learn something new and have something new to explore, that gives them this unique connection with me that not too many other people do.
Does that make sense?
It does.
I think if you have really good optimized ideas, you don't need visuals.
It's just so hard to come up with good ideas.
I mean, you're sharing the sauce around how to come up with good ideas.
But it...
By the way, it's not just good ideas.
It's good ideas that are optimized for feeds.
Because you need people to reshare it to get seen or like it or comment on it.
You need them to stop scrolling.
So for a lot of people the images or the videos are a bit of a crutch.
You can take a not-so-good idea, crutch it to a really nice visual, and likely you'll get more seen.
I do think that if you added images and or videos to your ex posts, you would see not that you need, you know, another five million impressions a month, but i think the way i would.
I mean, i think it's fun to explore, like sora 2 just came out.
Um, you know what are some short films, cinematic films that you can, you know you could be creating.
That's one.
The other thing is, you know nano banana gemini, flash 25.
You know I'll show you something real quick.
Go to MyX.
I had a post that I posted that got no... Keep scrolling.
It's a lot down.
I had a post that basically didn't go anywhere and then I reposted it with an image.
There it is.
Stop.
Stop.
It went up, went up.
There it is.
The cringe mountain one.
So I posted this.
Everything I ever got in life was because I climbed cringe mountain.
You sweat, you shake, you look stupid.
And then one day it breaks open and suddenly you're the only one with the view.
It went nowhere without the, you know, yeah, basically nowhere without the image.
But once the image combined with, you know, maybe it wasn't a great idea.
Maybe it was a pretty good idea with, I think a really great image. it got 148,000 impressions.
And, by the way, I hear you listening to this and you're like yeah, but you have 500000 followers or whatever.
The followers don't really matter anymore, realistically.
It's actually easier to get impressions if you have less followers.
You know what I mean?
I can post something that is just like a throwaway tweet and it will go nowhere.
It'll get like 100 likes compared to a typical two to three thousand.
And yeah, it's just the.
The audience is definitely a force amplifier, but only if you're good at that thing.
Like if if most people who haven't practiced writing content for a long amount of time were given a million followers, i do not think that that would help them in the slightest.
Yeah cool, But yeah, let's actually show a cool way to do this with Claude, or in creating a prompt to help you write tweets, or to help you, I guess, learn how to write those high performing posts.
So one thing I love to do is there's a two step process here.
Anything that I like and want to incorporate into my work.
I will ask Claude or ChatGPT to break it down.
Teach me how to do it.
I will take that as if it were an SOP or just a set of instructions.
Then I will take a prompt that helps me create prompts, send that, paste the instructions into it and say I want to turn this into a prompt that interviews me for the exact thing you need in order to execute on this as best as possible.
So, as an example here is, I said break down the structure of this post so that I can recreate it from scratch.
Break down why it works, the psychological patterns involved, what context is needed from me, and anything else.
I would need to understand how to recreate it.
Then I just pasted, I believe this is one of my tweets that did pretty good.
Uh, how to know you are doing something meaningful.
You feel like you don't make any progress for weeks, months, or years.
Then the growth hits you all at once.
When you create your own path, results aren't predictable, and that keeps many people from sticking with it.
So you find a good post.
Well, first you write this, tell it to break it down and You find a good post that you want to understand why it did so well or how it was written.
But this can also be applied to something like a landing page.
Or if you're trying to write a book and you read someone else's book and you're like damn, that paragraph was good.
I want to understand how I can take my own idea and replicate the structure of this so my writing flows the same amount.
Yeah.
You can do that for writing YouTube scripts if you're able to break down the transcript.
There's just so many different things that you can do.
I actually saw when Clulee first launched, they had a landing page that I really liked.
And I copy pasted the landing page.
Wrote exactly this told it to break down every single part of the landing page copy.
And it called it paradigm shift marketing and just taught me exactly how to replicate it.
So when I could take that and turn it into a prompt and then plug my own ideas for my own product into it, then it could rewrite that same style of copy but with my product, my features, my problem that I'm solving unique mechanism, et cetera.
So with here we're breaking down a tweet and it breaks down the core structure hook statement, pain and struggle, the payoff, the insight and warning why it works.
And just by doing this alone, you can learn so much about writing content.
Like this alone is a masterclass in writing one piece of content.
And then you can continue conversing with it.
And that helps you write better content.
Then it gives you a formula, additional elements to make this work.
And then what I did here is I did the same thing.
Do the same thing with this.
And I took one of Zach Pogrob's tweet or Instagram posts.
And it was just the best way to get your spark back is burning everything down.
You have to reset your life.
Very similar to the things I like to read and write.
And so I like this.
I want it to break it down.
I told it to.
It has broke down the structure provocative thesis, purge list, the promise, the elite few, the permission.
Teaches me why it works.
Writing techniques, context needed.
What makes it work?
And then I did the same thing for one last tweet.
So do the same thing with this again.
People in third world countries spend their days talking, playing, dancing, and making love.
People in first world countries aspire to spend their days talking playing, dancing and making love.
I think about this often.
This was just one I found.
And I'm like, that's a good idea.
I'll throw it in here too.
So the process of this is pretty much break down three tweets that you really like.
And then...
Combine all of these into a singular guide.
So now the anatomy of viral philosophical posts.
A complete guide breaks down the three archetypes which were the tweets, and then core psychological patterns.
Technical structure, power techniques.
This is insane.
It's really cool.
And like well, imagine doing this for more than just tweets, like YouTube scripts and other things like the.
This is where it starts to all tie together.
Once you use this process.
If you thought you use this process a few times, you realize that you can use it for almost anything.
And then, if you rewind this podcast to looking at the canvas that I was showing you, you can now see that each chat in there was one of these prompts that I created.
So if I want to turn my newsletter into tweets and I use this there, then that's so much better than me pasting my newsletter into an LLM and being like hey, what are 10 of the best ideas from this?
Can you write a tweet?
Write 10 tweets for me.
And then it writes like... the worst tweets you've ever read and still includes hashtags.
So this is like how you give the specific instructions so that it can write like you or write how you want it to.
And then you can paste those directly if you'd like, or you can use those as ideas to like, as a first draft, a starting point.
Now the...
Last important thing here is I said from that guide what is everything you would need from me in order to start writing tweets?
Everything I need to know from you core identity audience psychology, philosophical stance, voice parameters, specific insights transformation narrative, emotional territory, so on and so forth.
A lot of stuff.
So we're making this very comprehensive here.
Because the context is king.
The more context you give to the AI, the more it can get close to putting out what you actually want it to put out, or putting out things that will blow your mind and that you feel confident in replicating week by week in your content.
So now we have two things here.
We have a description of the context we need and we have instructions for how to actually write posts.
So what I did next is I took these two things, I personally pasted them into just a separate note and then start a new chat.
And what I did here is I have this special, this thing is a lifesaver.
I use it all the time.
It's just a prompt that helps you create better prompts.
So I can share this in some way with you guys after, but.
It's so good.
You just have to try it.
It makes very comprehensive prompts.
Maybe you can pause, read through this if you'd like.
But I send that and then I try to use the most powerful.
I know 45 just came out, but I use 41 extended thinking on this because I just like to be as advanced as I can when I'm creating a specific prompt.
And what I did or said, what is the topic or role of the prompt you want to create?
I said, I want to create a prompt that helps me ideate social posts based on the guide from writing posts below.
Structure this prompt in two phases.
The first is context gathering.
So interview me for the ideas that I want to write about.
And phase two is post writing.
So write three variations of each type of post using the ideas I gave you.
Here's the additional context.
So inside of here...
On this one, I didn't paste the context that it needed from me, but I could have, right?
In phase one, I could have said use the guide on what context you need from me in order to create interview questions that you can ask me.
And then phase two use the tweet writing guide to take everything I gave you and turn them, and turn them into tweets.
And so what it did after that.
Sometimes this prompt will ask clarifying questions, if it has them, to make the prompt better.
But then it starts to spit out the prompt and it has phase one context gathering interview.
Oh, I guess I did paste it in there.
Right.
So it's somewhere in the thing.
But yeah, When you send this prompt for writing tweets, it asks you what your domain and expertise is audience, pain point, unique observation transformation vision, personal connection.
What tone?
Specific examples.
Yeah, three variations of the patient observer posts, which was one of the examples.
Three variations of the dramatic profit posts.
Three variations of the quiet devastator posts.
Post structure requirements, constraints, output format.
And then I just had it rewrite it as Markdown without the code block, so that I could paste that into my notes, because not a coder, don't use cursor, any of that.
But I just keep things in notes.
But Greg, do you have questions on this?
What's going through my mind is like it feels like I've been doing content like a Neanderthal, you know.
That's what it feels like.
Because I just... brute force my way into it.
I have an idea and I start typing and then I just throw it out there.
It works for me and sometimes do what works type thing.
That being said, what's going through my mind is we have a lot of accounts because I run a holding company and I find that I love my team, but some of my team haven't been creating content.
I started a blog 20 years ago.
I've been writing for so many years that it's my instincts almost now.
This is really helpful for managing multiple accounts with multiple people.
And you really don't have an excuse not to be posting something every single day if you have this.
Yeah.
I mean.
Another way to think of it, too is if you're a ghostwriter, a social media manager, you're managing clients.
You can send them a prompt that gets all of their.
You send it to them rather than an onboarding questionnaire that pulls all of their details from them, gets examples of their best content, etc etc.
And then you just create prompts for tweet writing for them.
You create another prompt for YouTube script writing or landing page generation, all based around their voice, their profile, etc.
And one last example that I'll share here is you can do a very similar thing for almost anything where imagine, I know how to create offers.
I've like been in the marketing space for so long, but a lot of people just starting.
They have this superpower where they can start learning by doing faster right.
It's not that you're avoiding reading a book like $100 million offers by Alex Hormozy.
You're able to get the information you need to act and have AI act for you as a first draft.
So you get the first iteration out of the way as well.
So you can fail faster on creating your offers so that you can refine faster.
And, in my eyes, doing things this way isn't like outsourcing your.
It's actually getting you closer to being high agency and uh, learning through doing.
The best way to learn is by building projects, failing, iterating, etc.
So the example here and how to turn this into a prompt to create an offer and start selling and failing on whatever product.
It is a SaaS startup, a physical product, a digital product, whatever.
I can just ask, give me a detailed guide on how to create offers like Alex Hormozy.
The reason we do this rather than hey, here's my product, help me create an offer from it, is because I want to narrow the context from the beginning, right.
I don't want AI, I don't want the LLM to pull just general context that it thinks is best for creating an offer or writing copy.
I want it to pull from the expert that I know has skin in the game here.
So It gives me a detailed guide with the value equation building a Grand Slam offer, pricing 10x, value test, naming your offer, et cetera, et cetera.
And I think when I was doing this, I cut myself off.
But what you can do here is then I can say okay, take this and Act as if you are guiding me through creating an offer.
What are the exact steps?
Make it extremely detailed.
And then I can do the same thing I did here or sorry.
Then I can ask next OK, what's all of the context you need for me in order to take my product and turn it into a very good offer?
Then it will spit all that out.
Now you have two things.
You have the set of instructions and you have the context that you need.
So the next thing you do is you paste the prompt that helps you create great prompts.
It's going to say, what do you want to create?
I say I want to create a two-phase prompt.
Here's the information that you need to interview me for.
Then phase two, here's exactly how to turn this into an offer.
So I want you to create my offer blueprint for me.
And then it'll output a prompt.
You copy paste this.
You send it.
You answer the questions.
It spits out an offer blueprint.
That is probably 10 times better than something you would have done on your own just then, right.
And it would probably be on par with what you would be able to do after two to three months of actually learning about it, and I believe that is it.
Well, you delivered, dude.
I you know.
That's why I wanted to have you you actually over delivered, to be honest, and because you know, I think my mind is just racing with how much more I can do with content and And what are other audiences I could be spinning up using this method.
If you can, yes, let's include that Google Doc or that doc with some of this in the show notes.
And I appreciate that generosity.
Dan Coe, I hope you come back on the pod.
I'll include links to where you can follow Dan on YouTube, on X, his newsletter.
What else, Dan?
That's it.
If you're curious, you'll find stuff that branches off of that.
Amazing.
Thanks, Dan.
I really appreciate it.
Dude, it takes a lot for me to get my mind buzzing, but you did it.
Good.
Yeah, I appreciate it, man.
And I'm glad that it did provide value.
That's one thing I'm always hopeful for.
Because you never really know.
I've used this so much that it's second nature to me.
So I'm very glad.
I mean, I've used LLMs with content.
Like, how can you make this more clear?
Right. that kind of stuff.
But I I this.
The way you approach content creation is a very methodical way of approaching content creation.
It's like very surgical.
And, um, by the way, I think this is the best way to learn how to create content.
You, you might actually like, everyone should set this up.
Maybe over time you you, you're like you know what I'm just gonna now.
I understand what works and what doesn't work.
I'm just gonna shoot from the hip like Greg.
Um, and that might be what you, what might, you know, end up being great for you.
Or you might be like, Hey, uh, I'm going to double down on this and I'm going to make 20 accounts.
That's what this is going to look like.
I'm really interested in that because I just think that we're in this window where there's a huge arbitrage opportunity to earn attention.
Any way to help that, I'm looking for ways to optimize.
Dan Coe, Startup Ideas Podcast.
Thanks for coming on.
Thank you, man.
