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ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a language model designed to chat in a conversational manner; ChatGPT is on everybody’s lips lately. How to use ChatGPT for blogging is usually the first question people think of. This article will give you some ideas, and I will also point out a few other tools that may help you.

ChatGPT is a chatbot. It is the primary tool for brainstorming today, and before I forget, it is free – for now.

Here are a few facts about ChatGPT: It was launched in November 2022 by OpenAI, trained on top of GPT-3.5, and its knowledge is limited to events up to 2021.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, was behind the development of ChatGPT. And no, Elon Musk does not own ChatGPT; he was only involved at some stage with OpenAI. Joseph Weizenbaum did not create ChatGPT either – he was a professor at MIT and is considered one of the fathers of artificial intelligence.

The Latest News: ChatGPT in Real Time with WebChatGPT! This open-source extension adds current and relevant web results to ChatGPT’s answers for more accurate and up-to-date conversations.

webchatgpt chrome extension

Now let’s get back to how you can use ChatGPT for blogging.

15 Ways You Can Use ChatGPT for Blogging

Chat GPT has been trained to participate in conversations using the Reinforcement Learning through Human Feedback (RLHF) technique. It is your task to instruct ChatGPT creatively, try and retry till you get results that you are happy with, and then use Grammarly, the Hemingway editor, and an SEO tool like Semrush whenever you need to.

ChatGPT can help with ideas for titles, generate content ideas, help with keyword research, and generate FAQs. It can also write articles and even write Schema for your FAQ section.

Other tools available from OpenAI can generate images for your blog and plugins for your website, but we will just be discussing ChatGPT in this article.

Content Strategy

Content strategy encapsulates your business goals, objectives, target audience, and includes your content plan. A well-defined and implemented content strategy can help to improve brand authority, generate leads, and increase sales.

1. Content Planning

Content planning is an important part of positioning yourself as an expert in your niche. By consistently providing valuable content, you can establish yourself as a credible and reliable source of information in your industry, ultimately leading to increased brand loyalty and authority status.

To build out your content, I suggest the following steps in terms of addressing content gaps:

  • Make a list of keywords already covered by your articles.
  • Sort the keywords into clusters.
  • If you find weak clusters with insufficient articles, ask ChatGPT to suggest more keywords for that cluster.
  • Go through the process of writing the articles with ChatGPT.

Note: Remember to check the keywords with an SEO tool and fact-check all the generated text.

2. Keyword Research

ChatGPT can help you develop long-tail keywords to use in your blog posts and improve your organic search engine traffic.

keywords research by using ChatGPT a language model.

You must check the keywords with an SEO tool like Semrush or Ahrefs. The training data for ChatGPT does not include keywords metrics.

Find out more about keywords, backlinks, and ranking in this Ahrefs review. And here, you can read about Semrush’s Keyword Magic tool.

3. Keyword Clustering

As we saw, you can get ChatGPT to generate keywords. Then, since it remembers your conversation, you can ask it to cluster the keywords.

how to use chatgpt for blogging - keywords clustering.

4. Finding Search Intent

This AI assistant can help you if the search intent behind some keywords needs to be clarified.

how to use chatgpt for blogging - search intent example.

Writing Content

Given the right input, you can get ChatGPT to write a whole article for you. I suggest you follow your usual process of writing a blog post and ask ChatGPT for suggestions and help at any stage, for instance:

  • Blog title
  • Outline
  • Introduction
  • Sub-headings
  • Content
  • Conclusion 

Note: Don’t forget about on-page SEO (refer to the “ChatGPT and SEO for Content Writing” section of this article).

Your instructions must be detailed enough for ChatGPT to understand you better. You will find that ChatGPT is always eager to help!

Let’s go over a few examples.

5. Blog Post Title

You will need a catchy title for your blog that includes the keyword. I instructed ChatGPT to use the keyword “ChatGPT for Blogging” and got the results below.

ChatGPT generating blog post titles.

As you see, not all titles include the exact keyword, but ChatGPT does a pretty good job!

6. Blog Post Outline

Now you can ask the AI tool to generate ideas for an outline.

generate ideas for a blog post outline.

You would need to optimize the outline for SEO (according to the section “ChatGPT and SEO for Content Writing” below).

And if you need some help, read our article on how to write a blog post outline.

7. Introduction

You can ask ChatGPT to compose an introduction based on your blog title and include the keyword in the first or second sentence.

generate ideas for a blog post introduction.

8. Content

Now that you have an outline, you can get ChatGPT to expand on each section. Remember to tell him what keywords need to be included and how long you want each piece to be.

blog post - first section content.

In the same way, you can get ChatGPT to write the rest of the blog post.

9. Conclusion

Having written the body of the post, you can ask ChatGPT to write a conclusion.

10. Image Ideas

Ask for ideas, for example: “Can you provide three image ideas for each heading of the above blog?” (To illustrate this, we’ll just ask for ideas for one section.)

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And if you want to try another new tool, use DALL-E 2 to generate your images.

DALL·E 2 is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.

In my opinion, DALL-E 2 is an incredible tool for generating images for a blog post. Its cutting-edge AI advanced technology can create unique and captivating images that will help your blog stand out.

Just imagine: you give DALL-E 2 a text description of the image you want, such as “a photo of a young man hiking in the mountains” or “a painting of a group of friends having a picnic under shady trees,” and it will generate an image that matches that description perfectly. This means you can rely on something other than stock images, which are often overused. And you can have images that are truly unique and fit the style of your blog.

Also, DALL-E 2 allows you to be really creative and make images that might not have been possible with traditional methods. The powerful software can help you create beautiful images to convey the message of your blog post.

In short, DALL-E 2 is a game-changer for creating images for a blog; it can help you create truly unique and captivating photos and convey your message more powerfully.

DALL·E 2 painting of a group of friends having a picnic under shady trees

11. Using Copywriting Frameworks

Copywriting frameworks are a set of techniques and strategies used by copywriters to structure and present information to effectively communicate the intended message to the target audience.

These frameworks provide a step-by-step process for organizing and presenting information, from capturing attention, arousing interest, creating desire, and prompting action. Examples of copywriting frameworks include AIDA, PAS, USP, Soap Opera Sequence, Monomyth, and more.

The framework selection depends on the message and the audience you are trying to reach. It helps make the message more relatable and keeps the audience engaged, making it more effective and persuasive.

Note: The three paragraphs above are AI-generated content. Originality.AI classified it as 100% original, but it had some grammar errors. I corrected the errors with Grammarly, and it is now classified as 94% original. No doubt ChatGPT is powerful, as you can see!

As for writing copywriting frameworks, here is an example.

how to use chatgpt for blogging. Before-After-Bridge Copywriting.

12. Writing the Meta Description

Now you can ask for interesting ideas for meta descriptions for the above blog to attract more traffic from search engines.

generated text for meta descriptions to atract more traffic from search engines.

If the meta descriptions are too long, you can ask it to read them and rewrite these to be at most 160 characters long.

how to use chatgpt for blogging - write and rewrite meta descriptions

Or initially ask ChatGPT to stay under 160 characters.

13. Creating a WordPress Schema

Say, for example, you have the following question in a FAQ section.

FAQ is part of content planning.

You can ask the AI assistant to write the FAQ Schema for the same question.

how to use chatgpt for blogging- FAQ schema.

The example written by ChatGPT passes the Rich Results Test.

Promoting Your Blog

Promoting your blog is essential to building an audience and driving traffic to your website. Share your blog posts on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and engage with your followers.

Remember to also promote your blog through guest blogging on other websites in your niche. This can help you get a new audience and establish yourself as an authority in your field.

SEO tactics such as keyword research and meta tags can help your blog rank higher in search engines, making it more visible to potential readers.

14. Promoting on Social Media

With Chat GPT, you can create all the promotional material for social media, from Twitter to FaceBook.

Tweet to promote a blog from a profitable niche in search engines.
FaceBook promotion.

Or for a promotion email, you can ask the tool to: Create a promotional email for my blog “Becoming a Pro Blogger with ChatGPT: Best Practices to Follow.”

15. Writing a Newsletter

And you can get ChatGPT to write a short newsletter.

News letter.

ChatGPT and SEO for Content Writing

Let’s assume you have a list of competitors with relatively low DA/DR on the first page of Google that you hope to beat.

By now, you know that ChatGPT can suggest most of the information needed to write a blog, but it does not take the SERP into consideration. We can’t count on the outline suggested by ChatGPT.

We need to know the best structure for our article based on what our competitors have, for example:

  • Number of H2s and H3s (H4, H5, H6 are not as strong signals) 
  • Density of exact keywords, LSI, NLP words
  • Keywords used in headings
  • The structure of sections

Surfer SEO, on the other hand, gives us most of this information, but as much as it tries to break it down for us, it misses important points.

PageOptimizer Pro covers the points missed by Surfer, but it can sometimes be confusing.

It is beyond the scope of this article to get deep into statistical calculations, but here is a list of Youtube videos that will help you.

At this stage, you should have the right outline and additional necessary information.

Now you can start utilizing the power of ChatGPT: ask for headings and specify exactly what keywords should be included. Ask for an introduction and paragraphs and specify exactly what should be included.

If you follow these steps (which is not an easy or fast exercise), you should have the perfect article.

Additional Resources

Latest News: Try the new ChatGTP SEO Extention – AIPRM for SEO. With this extension, you can do things like create a keyword strategy and even generate SEO-optimized content to outrank your competition. This video explains some of its features: How To Rank First Page Google With ChatGPT SEO Extension (New Strategy 2023).

Here are a few additional programs and chrome extensions that may help you:

  • Thruuu – paid or free. It is used for scraping the top 10 up to the top 100 articles on the SERP. Thruuu will give you the number of words, H1, H2s, H3s, number of images, and more for each article that it can scrape.
  • SEOquake – Semrush chrome extension
  • SEO Pro Extension

Bonus Tips on How to Use ChatGPT for Blogging

Keep in mind that while ChatGPT is a powerful tool, using it does not mean you can neglect the human touch. You should always review the content generated by the model and add your personal touch.

Domain Names

Catchy domain names are essential for any website – they help you stand out from the crowd and attract attention.

ChatGPT can help you generate a list of ideas for your next domain name. For example, you can ask for ten domain names for a site dedicated to “How to Use ChatGPT for Blogging.”

domain name.

Of course, you must check availability.

Generate Ideas

As we’ve seen, ChatGPT can be used to generate content ideas. But you can also use it to generate ideas for:

  • High-quality product reviews that will help you monetize your blog.
  • Persuasive sales copy that will encourage your readers to make a purchase.
  • Infographics that will make your content more engaging and shareable.
  • Video content that will increase engagement and drive traffic to your blog.

Sentiment Analysis

Sentiment analysis is important to bloggers because it allows them to understand how their audience reacts to their content.

By analyzing the sentiment of comments and social media posts, you can gain insights into what your readers like and dislike and then use this information to create more engaging and relevant content.

Additionally, sentiment analysis can help you identify potential issues or concerns your readers might have so you can address these promptly.

Overall, sentiment analysis can help you improve engagement with your audience and better understand readers’ needs and preferences.

sentiment analysis of a comment to a blog post.

Convert YouTube Videos to Blog Posts

A few applications, like Jarvis, can help you with this task. But you can also do it manually using ChatGPT. Let me show you how.

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  • Go to your video on YouTube and click CC to enable captions.
  • Click on the three dots and then on “show transcript.”
show transcript.
  • Click on the three vertical dots to disable Time Stamps.
disable Time Stamp.
  • Select all the transcript text, and copy and paste it into the editor of your choice.
  • Divide the content into logical paragraphs.
  • Ask ChatGPT to rewrite each paragraph (you can ask for a few versions) and suggest a few headlines.
  • Do some formatting, and your blog is ready.

Note: During my research for this article, I discovered an extension, “YouTube Summary with ChatGPT,” that will summarize a video.

Rewrite Old Content

Here are several ways to improve old content with the ChatGPT AI tool:

  • Rewrite paragraphs or certain phrases and add new ideas.
  • Change the tone.  
  • Update the information: Ensure all the post’s information/data is still accurate and relevant.
  • Add new information: If there’s further information or research on the topic, include it in the post to make it more valuable to readers.
  • Update meta descriptions if needed to improve the post’s visibility.
  • Use social media to promote the post again: Share the post on your social media channels to reach a new audience or even your old followers.
  • Use the post for email marketing: Use the post as an opportunity to provide value to your email subscribers and promote your blog.
  • Use the post as pillar content and expand it by creating more content around it, such as new blog posts, videos, podcasts, etc.

In summary, update old content by adding new information.

AI Detection Software

originality landing page

AI-generated text detection uses artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to identify or classify text generated by a machine or computer. You can use such a utility to detect fake news, identify plagiarism, or filter out automated spam messages.

The technology is based on ML, which allows it to improve its performance over time as it is exposed to more examples of AI-generated text. AI-generated text detection aims to accurately identify machine-generated text and distinguish it from human-generated text.

Applications for the detection of AI text are:

Those tools still need to be proven.

Every way to spot AI-generated text becomes outdated very quickly. It’s an arms race – and right now, we’re losing.

During my tests, I found that tools generated to detect GPT-2 were very reliable in detecting code generated by ChatGPT. But let’s remember ChatGPT is not Open AI in which one can change parameters like Temperature and Frequency.

Originality.AI is still in beta and was sometimes confused, giving false positives. I had only to add one or two characters to a paragraph of about 100 words, and AI content was reassessed as original content.

Google’s Position on AI

As a blogger, you should be interested in Google’s opinion. Google is sending mixed messages, and for now, “Google does NOT seem to reduce organic traffic to a piece if you use more or less AI to help you write it.” according to Gael Breton from Authority Hacker.

Soon we will really be able to judge Google’s position on AI-generated content. Matt Diggity, the creator of The Affiliate Lab course, said in his video “How ChatGPT has Changed SEO Forever” that he built a whole site using AI. He will disclose the results in one of his future videos.

Note: If your content is detected as AI, try a rewrite in the style of Dale Carnegie, Mr. T, or some other celebrity.

In Closing: How to use ChatGPT for Blogging

As we have seen, there are endless ways bloggers and content creators can use this AI tool for inspiration. From generating ideas and outlines to writing entire blog posts, ChatGPT is a powerful tool that can help you save time and increase productivity.

The 15 tactics we’ve discussed here (and the bonus tips) can help you make the most of ChatGPT’s capabilities and grow your blog in the process. Whether you want to improve your SEO, increase your traffic, or write better blog posts. ChatGPT is a versatile tool that can help you achieve your blogging goals.

Just ask this AI chatbot, and he will help you!

My advice? Embrace, experiment, and step confidently forward into the future!



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Real Sports Bar and Grill in Toronto on Nov. 24, 2016.Glenn Lowson/The Globe and Mail

When Sports Illustrated was outed last week for its alleged use of generative AI to create online articles – and, even worse, for topping them with fake bylines and AI author headshots – readers of the legendary glossy were appalled and disappointed at how the mighty had fallen.

But there was one element of the story that largely got lost amid the outrage, and it hints at an even darker prospect of what lies ahead for sports media and fans.

The SI pieces in question were product reviews: Inoffensive rankings of say, seven brands of volleyballs, which included links to Amazon that a reader could click on if they suddenly felt the urge to take up the sport. So, not only was the editorial copy generated by fake people, it was actually fake editorial copy. It was real advertising.

The practice of peppering editorial content with commercial links – known in the business as affiliate marketing – is a mainstay of Internet advertising, from movie reviews that direct readers to online ticketing sites, to podcasters and TikTok influencers giving out discount codes for listeners or viewers to buy merch from specific retailers.

But affiliate marketing has exploded in recent years in one notorious segment of the industry – sports betting, and its gush of ad dollars that are falling on a desperate media sector like rain on a parched prairie.

Affiliate sites that funnel new customers to online gambling operators are raking in the cash because of a quirk in that segment of the business – and they’re doing it on the backs of those new bettors.

In the spring of 2021, the Canadian sports media startup Playmaker Capital went public on the TSX Venture Exchange and quickly began scooping up digital properties with large followings that the company believed could be converted to bettors. When I interviewed Playmaker’s CEO, Jordan Gnat, shortly after shares began trading, he said he wanted to be in “the fan monetization business.”

There were tens of millions to monetize. The company began by buying soccer-focused sites in Latin America such as Bolavip, which targeted fans in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Central America and the United States, then expanded into the English-language North American market with the newsletter publisher and aggregator Yardbarker. Here in Canada it bought The Nation Network, which operates the hockey fantasy site, Daily Faceoff, and the Quebec-based La Poche Bleue.

But last month, Playmaker went from the hunter to the hunted when Better Collective, an affiliate-marketing giant based in Denmark that Gnat had cited to me as an inspiration for his company, gobbled it up for about $260-million.

The flurry of activity is partly because affiliate marketers who funnel customers to sportsbooks are an entirely different beast. They’re not just making one-time commissions, as they would if they were helping to sell concert tickets or tennis racquets or fly traps. Instead, they get a percentage of the sportsbook’s net revenue made from any new bettor.

“Net revenue” is another term for “total lifetime losses by a new bettor.”

Forget the pennies that digital ads are infamous for bringing in. If a site converts a reader or listener or viewer into a regular gambler – that is, a regular loser – the payday can be hundreds of dollars or more.

Here’s where it might occur to you that the incentives for a site to give you good betting advice might clash with that same site’s incentive to get you to sign up with a sports book and then lose a lot of money.

You would not be wrong.

In the social-media industry, there’s a saying that if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product. In the world of affiliate marketing, you are the product – the one that’s being sold to the sportsbooks. But boy, are you paying for it.

An academic paper published in January, 2020, in International Gambling Studies titled Affiliate Marketing of Sports Betting – A Cause for Concern? points out that many sites aren’t transparent about their duelling allegiances. It also notes that “people assign greater levels of trust to expert advice during decision-making tasks involving financial risk. This may be a particular concern for those who are just beginning to gamble upon sport, as they may be more inclined to rely on expert advice on bet choice due to their lack of experience.” Newbies may be especially susceptible, given that affiliates position themselves as being on the side of the bettor, when in fact they’re being paid by the sportsbook.

Which brings us full circle back to where we started. Generative AI is notoriously bad at a lot of things, including getting facts straight. But it’s very good at sounding confident, even as it bluffs its way through life.

And it’s about to use its charms to lull you into thinking you can beat the house.

Last May, Lloyd Danzig, the managing partner at the New York-based venture-capital company Sharp Alpha Advisors, noted in a piece for Sports Business Journal that publishers doing affiliate marketing for sportsbooks, “will soon leverage generative AI to instantly create thousands of SEO-optimized articles that discuss the current day’s calendar of games, betting trends, stories to follow, and sportsbook promotions. Pregame previews, postgame summaries, and highlight reels can be created on command without the use of specialized software or manual oversight. Articles, sportsbook reviews, and odds comparison pieces can be generated for any audience, with a fraction of the effort required from human writers.”

Think we’re already swamped with sports betting content? You haven’t seen anything yet.

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What Are the Duties of a Content Strategist?

You’ve decided you want a career as a content strategist, and we’re here to help you reach your goal. A content strategist is a key player in determining the success of a brand’s content strategy, and it can be an exciting career path.

We discuss below the duties of a content strategist along with tips for becoming the most successful one you can be.

What Does a Content Strategist Do?

A content strategist brainstorms, plans, and executes the content strategy for a brand. This can be done either in a solo environment or with a content strategy team.

The material that’s crafted by content strategists for various social media platforms and other digital marketing efforts is designed with the objectives of the business in mind.

Understanding what content strategists do means we first need to understand content marketing.

Content marketing is a useful type of marketing that involves creating content designed to build interest in a brand’s products or services without explicitly promoting them.

Content strategists are content marketing experts.

For example, a content marketing strategy for a social media coach could involve a series of blog posts about why it’s so important to post on social media.

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Now you can understand how a content marketing strategist engages in content marketing in the day-to-day execution of their job.

Content Strategist Job Description

Here is a sample content strategist job description:

The content strategist will develop a content strategy that meets key business objectives. They will reach the brand’s target audience through various marketing channels using their supreme content delivery skills.

The content strategist will use the organization’s content management system to oversee marketing campaigns across a variety of specific social media channels. In addition to content planning and content creation, content strategists will report on how their work met content strategy deliverables.

A typical content strategist salary ranges from $40,000-$80,000 based on location, experience, and the type of company you’re working for.

Here are a few examples of roles for the job title “content strategist” that illustrate a varying salary range based on location throughout the United States:

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As you gain more experience and rise in seniority, you could become a senior content strategist or even advance into marketing leadership. It’s up to you where you want to take your career.

The Roles and Responsibilities of a Content Strategist

To add to the content strategist job description, we list the roles and responsibilities of a content strategist below.

The content strategist role varies on a day-to-day basis, but the overall tasks that need to be completed remain consistent. Content strategists will:

  • Facilitate content planning sessions across a variety of editorial calendars and marketing channels.
  • Perform a content audit of all existing content, evaluate its effectiveness, and update as necessary.
  • Conduct extensive keyword research to guide the direction of the brand’s content creation.
  • Pitch existing and prospective clients on their content creation ideas.
  • Build target audience profiles to create content for.
  • Understand the many ways future content can generate leads and be monetized.
  • Stay informed on social media trends and changes in consumer behavior.
  • Create content across various digital platforms and social media accounts.
  • Oversee a marketing team and delegate tasks for ongoing and upcoming projects.
  • Collaborate with other team members, like copywriters, UX/UI designers, editors, and more when creating online content.
  • Analyze its successful content strategy and report back on its performance. A working knowledge of SEO reporting tools is crucial.

Who Does a Content Strategist Report To?

The content strategist will typically report to a manager in the marketing department. This could include a marketing manager, the vice president of marketing, or the marketing director.

However, keep in mind that every company is structured differently.

For example, a large corporation will be structured differently than a small start-up.

The content strategist role at a start-up might report directly to the CEO. Furthermore, a content strategist at a large corporation might report to the marketing manager.

Depending on how large the marketing team is, the content strategist might report to a more specialized person, like the digital content manager.

Understanding the marketing team structure of the company you want to apply for will help you understand where you fit in the organization.

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Types of Companies Content Strategists Work For

Because every type of company can benefit from having a content strategy team, there are a variety of companies a content strategist could work for.

A few types of companies a content strategist could work for include:

Large Corporations:

Major recognizable brands need content strategists to maintain their position in the market as thought leaders.

Marketing Agencies:

Marketing agencies provide a wide range of services, and content marketing is just one of those services. A content marketer will help marketing agencies create engaging content as part of overall content strategies for clients.

Small Start-ups:

Content strategists are an important part of the business for small start-ups because they help attract new and existing customers.

Having content monetization skills can be especially important for start-ups as they run lean in the early days.

Content Agencies:

Content agencies are similar to marketing agencies. However, they provide a more niche service that’s specific to content marketing.

These types of agencies will need to hire teams of content strategists to serve their clients’ content marketing needs.

Freelance:

There is another option that’s entirely different from the employers we’ve discussed on this list. That alternative is freelancing.

A career as a freelancer means that you will be self-employed and responsible for obtaining your own clients, delivering the project, and billing the client.

While there is potentially more money to be made as a freelancer, it does also come with more risk.

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What Skills Do You Need to Become a Content Strategist?

Becoming a successful content strategist requires a variety of soft skills and technical expertise. We break down the necessary skills in each category below.

Soft Skills

Here are a list of the soft skills you’ll need in your career as a content strategist:

Storytelling:

You will need to tell compelling stories to a variety of audiences as a content strategist. Whether it’s pitching ideas to clients or educating your audience, you will need to learn to relay information in an engaging way.

Creativity:

Ultimately, you’re creating content for your target audience to consume. This means that it needs to be engaging, exciting, and creative. Having creativity will help you put together the best content.

Communication:

As a content strategist, you are communicating every day. Whether it’s to your boss, other teams within the company, or your target audience, having top-notch communication skills will be very important.

Organization:

An aspiring content strategist needs to be very organized. They will be managing multiple campaigns simultaneously, so they need expert organizational skills to keep everything running smoothly.

Technical Skills

Beyond the very important soft skills you’ll need, there are a variety of technical skills that you’ll also need in your career as a content strategist.

Here are a few of them:

Writing:

Strong technical writing skills are one of the most important hard skills you’ll need. Being able to write high-quality long-form content will be a key component of your job.

Search Engine Optimization:

SEO is another one of the most important technical skills you will need to have in your career. You’ll need to understand how to perform keyword research with SEO research software, along with how to seamlessly incorporate these keywords into the text as part of the content creation process.

Social Media Platforms:

Having an understanding of the posting style of each of the different social media platforms will be helpful to your success as a content strategist.

Your long-form content will be shared with your audience in the form of social media campaigns. If you’re able to lend your knowledge when creating these campaigns, you will be able to provide more value for your team.

Monetization:

Part of the content strategist’s job is understanding how the content you’re creating can be monetized and earn your employer money.

Whether it’s incorporating banner ads or partnering with affiliates, you will need to be an expert in monetization methods for the content strategies you implement.

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Tips for Becoming a Content Strategist

You know the skills you need to develop and what the job description entails. Now it’s time to discuss tips for optimizing your career in content marketing. Read our top 5 tips for becoming a content strategist below.

Prioritize Your Education

You will need to have the knowledge if you want to earn a job as a content strategist. This means that prioritizing your education should be at the top of your list.

While this doesn’t necessarily mean you have to have a bachelor’s degree, some employers might require you to have one. For example, if you want to work at a large corporation or a major brand where you work your way up to a leadership position, they might require a bachelor’s degree for those types of roles.

Examples of bachelor’s degrees that you could obtain include marketing, journalism, public relations, or communications.

Gain Professional Experience

After you’ve obtained the education, you want to add professional experience to your resume.

Professional experience can occur in many forms, including internships and paid positions. Learn from the other content strategists you’re working with as you contribute to content marketing campaigns.

Whether you’re working directly as a content strategist or something adjacent to this position, give it your best effort to learn as much as you can while also impressing your employer.

References from internships and entry-level jobs will be helpful to you in the future!

Start Networking

In addition to developing your skills, you’ll also want to start networking.

Networking with other professionals in the industry will be helpful for you when searching for jobs. Sometimes, jobs aren’t even posted on online job boards, and instead, companies ask for referrals from their existing employees.

Similarly, when employers are looking at a large stack of resumes, seeing a name they recognize makes the hiring process easier for them.

Also, remember that you’re networking with people of all experience levels, not just people who are more advanced than you in your career. The person that you’re taking a course with could one day be promoted to the marketing manager you’re applying to work for.

All this to say, conduct yourself professionally and courteously when networking.

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Show Your Expertise Through Personal Projects

Even if you haven’t obtained that internship or first job yet, you can showcase your expertise through your personal projects.

Starting your own blog site, YouTube channel or newsletter will help you develop skills and gain hands-on experience.

Working on your own projects requires you to develop a content strategy, create content, and grow your audience.

How long does it take to make money from a blog? You will be able to answer this question for future employers based on firsthand knowledge.

You can then tell future employers about your expertise and the success of your marketing campaigns.

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Always Continue Learning

Even though education was already a priority for you on your path toward being a content strategist, learning will always be important for furthering your career.

Whether it’s taking online courses, reading books, or listening to podcasts, find the learning method that feels right for you.

Courses are a great way to further your education as a content marketer. Here are two great courses to get you started:

The Affiliate Lab

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The Affiliate Lab is an expert source on creating content optimized for SEO. This course contains more than 100 hours of training on how to conduct keyword research, select your niche, rank in search results, and more.

If you’re looking to improve the SEO rankings of your content, this course is for you. Niche Pursuits readers receive an exclusive discount of $200 off The Affiliate Lab course here.

Project 24

If you want to learn how to drive real results, Project 24 is the course for you. This will help teach you how to create the best possible content for a blog site or YouTube channel.

Its 27 online courses will teach you how to create and monetize content that’s been optimized for SEO.

The end goal of this course is to teach you how to generate passive income from your content marketing efforts. Check out our Income School Review to learn more about Project 24 and its founders.

No matter which course you choose based on your goals, what’s important is that you’re expanding your knowledge base to create results-driven content.

Your Career as a Content Strategist

Whether you work for a fast-paced marketing agency or an exciting brand, your career in digital content creation is sure to be an exciting one. We wish you the best of luck in your career as a content strategist!



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HustleGPT: An Intriguing Blend of Humor and Concern in AI Capitalism

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HustleGPT is a hilarious and scary AI experiment in capitalism

This article serves as a condensed overview of the original piece titled “HustleGPT is a hilarious and scary AI experiment in capitalism.”

Introduction:

OpenAI’s release of GPT-4, an advanced generative AI model, sparked an innovative experiment that blends humor and concern in the realm of AI capitalism. Brand designer and writer Jackson Greathouse Fall initiated a project, transforming GPT-4 into “HustleGPT” with a mission to automate hustle culture. This intriguing venture has captivated the internet, with its potential to redefine get-rich-quick schemes and shed light on the role of AI in the pursuit of wealth.

The Birth of HustleGPT:

With a mere $100 and a straightforward prompt, the experiment unfolded. The objective was clear: turn the initial amount into as much money as possible in the shortest time, all while adhering to legal boundaries. The human counterpart, Jackson Greathouse Fall, acted as a liaison between the AI and the physical world, providing updates on the cash total without engaging in manual labor.

The Business Plan Unveiled:

HustleGPT’s proposed business plan involved setting up an affiliate marketing site for eco-friendly products. A cheap domain, greengadgetguru.com, was swiftly acquired, and with the assistance of GPT-4, a logo and a detailed site layout were generated. The project took a tangible form as Hall invested $29 in hosting, bringing the Green Gadget Guru website to life.

Strategic Moves and Investments:

With $62.84 remaining, Hall sought guidance from HustleGPT on the next steps. The AI suggested allocating funds for Facebook and Instagram ads to enhance visibility. The project gained momentum as Twitter hype attracted an undisclosed investor, injecting $100 into Green Gadget Guru on the first day.

Scaling Up the Operation:

As the experiment progressed, GPT-4 displayed its capabilities beyond initial expectations. It recommended hiring freelance content creators and developing a Software as a Service (SaaS) product. The project expanded rapidly, with GPT-4 advising on capitalizing on Twitter followers, launching a GitHub repository for others to replicate the challenge, and attracting more investments.

The Viral Success:

HustleGPT’s viral success is a testament to the fascination surrounding AI capabilities. However, beyond the entertainment factor, the project is demonstrating the potential to build a legitimate business. With $7,812.84 in investment, a growing team, and content in the pipeline, the experiment has garnered attention. The question remains: can Hall and HustleGPT transcend the common startup pitfall of hype without profits?

AI’s Role in Capitalist Ambitions:

HustleGPT’s journey reflects the ongoing debate about AI’s role in capitalist endeavors. While the experiment leverages GPT-4’s virality to achieve financial goals quickly, it raises concerns about the ethical implications of automating hustle culture. The project showcases how AI can navigate the business landscape, from generating content and attracting investors to scaling up operations.

Conclusion:

In the evolving landscape of AI and capitalism, HustleGPT stands as a unique and thought-provoking experiment. It encapsulates the potential and challenges of integrating advanced AI models into entrepreneurial endeavors. Whether it succeeds or encounters the common pitfalls of startups, the project serves as a fascinating case study, offering insights into the intersection of AI, hustle culture, and the pursuit of wealth in the digital age.

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