How to Write An Ebook at Lightning Speed with ChatGPT

If you've dreamed of making passive income by selling an ebook, but haven't had the time, or known exactly what to write about, this episode is for you!

In my newest podcast episode, I show you how to use ChatGPT to come up with an ebook idea people will buy and write the whole thing at lightning speed.

And the best part? I've done it myself, and in this episode, I share my experience and my step-by-step process with you. So, get ready to see how with AI, there's no excuse not to this now and start serving your audience and growing your income!

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Intro 0:04 Welcome to the Blogger Genius Podcast brought to you by MiloTree. Here's your host, Jillian Leslie.

Jillian Leslie 0:11 Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the Blogger Genius Podcast. I'm so happy you are here. I am Jillian Leslie, your host, I started my online entrepreneurial journey in 2009, when my husband and I built our first website, catchmyparty.com.

Jillian Leslie 0:29 And we've grown it into the largest party ideas site on the web, if you need party ideas, free printables, inspiration head over there.

Jillian Leslie 0:38 Then in 2016, David and I built our MiloTree pop-up app that so many of you use to grow your social media followers on TikTok and Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest, and your email list. And again, super optimized, super easy to use. That's really RMO.

Jillian Leslie 1:00 And last year, we rolled out MiloTreeCart, which is the easiest way for you bloggers and creators to sell digital products to your audiences. Again, we built it for non-techies.

How to Write an Ebook using ChatGPT

Jillian Leslie 1:13 And I'm excited to do this solo episode today about an exercise my Head of Marketing, Clarita, and I decided to challenge ourselves with. We said, hey, there is this explosion happening called ChatGPT. If you have not played around with it, I highly recommend you pause this episode right now and sign up for an account. It ias amazing.

Jillian Leslie 1:38 We challenged ourselves to write an ebook using ChatGPT on how to write an ebook using ChatGPT. I know crazy meta, but it was the perfect exercise to get us creating with ChatGPT as our partner because I sit here telling all of you, "Hey, start selling products to your audience start with an ebook. And yet that is difficult.

Jillian Leslie 2:10 How do you come up with the idea? How do you write it, this is going to take hours and hours. But I want to let you know that we were able to go start to finish with a 20-page ebook in about three hours. And at the beginning, we knew nothing. So, I want to give you some insights into what it was like for us.

Using ChatGPT Effectively Is About Understanding Prompts

Jillian Leslie 2:32 When you think about ChatGPT, think about it this way. It is like an incredibly well skilled intern. And it doesn't think, it does. So, therefore it is all about the prompting to get ChatGPT to "do the tasks you ask it." And I didn't understand this at the beginning.

Jillian Leslie 2:59 I would say like, "Hey, write me an ebook on how to write an ebook using ChatGPT." And I got a bunch of garbage. Therefore, I said, I need to step back and learn how to prompt it to be more useful.

Jillian Leslie 3:16 What I have learned is, in the beginning, when you are sitting down to do a project, like writing your first ebook, you need to let it know who you are, what your objective is, and what format you want this to happen and where you want ChatGPT to structure its content around.

Jillian Leslie 3:42 We knew what our topic was. And a lot of times that can be more difficult. But here's what I recommend you do as you're starting to think about creating your first ebook. First, tell ChatGPT who you are and what you're an expert in.

Jillian Leslie 4:00 And after each prompt, you're feeding it information at the beginning before you are asking it to spit back stuff that you can use. After each time I prompt it I always write, "Do you understand?" And then it will come back at me and say, "Yes, here's what you're saying."

Jillian Leslie 4:21 Most of the time it's right, but sometimes it's not right and I clarify what it is hearing me said. I might say, "Hey, I'm a food blogger. Here is my niche. This is who my audience is. My goal is to write an ebook. And right now, I need topics for this ebook that will sell." Then I say, "Do you understand?" And it will spit back information.

Jillian Leslie 4:52 So, we prompted it with, "Hey, we're going to write an ebook using ChatGPT on how to help others write their ebooks using ChatGPT. Do you understand?" Again, I knew my topic. But let's say you know, I sit here on my podcast going, you got to solve problems for your audience, and you want to make it not just a nice to have, but a must have.

How to Use ChatGPT to Come Up with Your Ebook Topic

Jillian Leslie 5:19 And I talk about these six purchasing buckets, if you can sell a product that makes somebody money, save somebody money, save somebody time, move somebody toward happiness, move somebody away from pain, or raises someone's social status, people will typically buy. This is how you move from nice to have to must have.

Jillian Leslie 5:43 So, what I would do, if I were trying to come up with an idea for a product, I would prompt ChatGPT. And say, "I'm looking for ideas based on my niche of an ebook I could write, and I want it to fall into one of these six categories," listing those categories, saying, do you understand? And it will say yes, I do.

Jillian Leslie 6:09 And it might even start to give you ideas, then I might say, give me 20 digital product ebook ideas, I could write, using this information that I've already given it and see what I get. And the goal is to continue to refine what it is spitting back at you to go wait a second, maybe they're all for people who want to make money or something.

Jillian Leslie 6:38 And that's not exactly what you're thinking about you don't like these ideas, your job is to continually give feedback back to ChatGPT. And say things like, no, I don't want ideas about this. I want ideas about X and maybe even give it an example. And then say, do you understand?

Now Get ChatGPT to Outline Your Ebook

Jillian Leslie 7:00 So, think of it as the best brainstorming partner ever. Then you look at these ideas, and you go, Ooh, I really like this one idea. Great. Now you're going to say, take this idea, and give me an outline for an ebook. And watch what it spits out.

Jillian Leslie 7:24 And again, you might have to go back multiple times and say, I want to gear it toward men or gear it toward women, write me another outline. And lo and behold, it will and after each one go, "Do you understand?"

Jillian Leslie 7:39 This is what we did. We talked about who the audience is, who the target audience is, and said, "Write us an outline of topics for how to write an ebook, using ChatGPT." And boom, we got a really good outline.

Tell ChatGPT What Tone to Use and How to Write It

Jillian Leslie 8:01 And then the next thing is, you want to prompt it. And this is something that I've just really started to do as I am digging into ChatGPT is tell it what tone, tell it what audience so you could say things like in a friendly and professional tone, write this ebook and you might do multiple categories like this.

Jillian Leslie 8:25 This for an eighth grader, which is typically where I try to target people, here are some adjectives that you could put into ChatGPT and say write it in an "authoritative tone," or an "urgent and persuasive tone," or a "casual and conversational tone." Or you might say, "Make it humorous."

Jillian Leslie 8:48 And after each time you are prompting it, write, "Do you understand?" Then you could ask it to do this task and see what you get and fine tune it from there. That has been incredibly helpful for me, as I'm working with ChatGPT. It's like you need to set up the parameters and the goal.

Jillian Leslie 9:10 Now one thing for your ebook, in any ebook that you are writing, and you probably want to prompt ChatGPT with this as well. Your ebook, remember needs to solve a problem for your people. And again, one of these problems that fits into one of these six buckets.

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