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ChatGPT prompt for social media content strategy

This prompt produces a channel-specific content strategy based on an audience, business goal, capacity, and available proof. Use it when posting feels disconnected from a clear audience action or when you need a workable plan for a small team.

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Create a practical social media content strategy for the business or creator below. Build for the audience’s real information needs and the team’s capacity, not for posting volume alone. Do not assume a platform is useful simply because it is popular.

Inputs
- Business, offer, and evidence of value: [BUSINESS AND OFFER]
- Primary audience, their context, and objections: [AUDIENCE]
- Business goal and the action social content should support: [GOAL AND CONVERSION ACTION]
- Current channels, performance evidence, and owned assets: [CURRENT CHANNELS AND ASSETS]
- Team capacity, voice, constraints, and time horizon: [CAPACITY AND CONSTRAINTS]

Start with a short diagnosis: audience job, buying stage, content gap, and the one measurable role social should play. Recommend no more than three platforms, assigning each a distinct role based on the supplied audience and assets. If evidence is insufficient, label the platform choice as a hypothesis.

Then provide:
1. Three to five content pillars, each with audience need, proof source, recurring formats, and a “do not post” boundary.
2. A four-week editorial calendar with 3–5 posts per week total, naming platform, format, working topic, hook angle, source material, desired action, and production owner.
3. A repurposing workflow that turns one substantive source into channel-native posts without merely copying it.
4. A measurement plan with one primary metric, two leading indicators, a baseline to collect, review cadence, and decisions triggered by weak or strong results.
5. A community and reply guideline that identifies when to answer publicly, move to direct messages, or route a question to a human.

Use only claims, testimonials, results, and customer stories supplied in my inputs. Do not promise reach, follower growth, or revenue. Before answering, check that every proposed post maps to a pillar and a stated audience need, and that the posting cadence fits my capacity. Ask up to 3 clarifying questions only if a required input is missing.

Fill in

PlaceholderWhat to enterExample
[BUSINESS AND OFFER]Describe what you sell, who buys it, and any evidence or proof you can responsibly use.A bookkeeping firm serving independent creative agencies; monthly bookkeeping, cash-flow reporting, and quarterly tax coordination; can use anonymized workflow examples but no client names.
[AUDIENCE]Describe the primary audience, their work or life context, needs, and objections.US agency owners with 5–25 employees who understand creative work but avoid financial admin and worry about uneven cash flow.
[GOAL AND CONVERSION ACTION]State the business goal and the specific action content should encourage.Generate qualified discovery calls from agency owners; action is booking a 20-minute fit call.
[CURRENT CHANNELS AND ASSETS]List existing accounts, performance observations, source material, and content assets.LinkedIn company page, founder LinkedIn profile, and Instagram; a monthly cash-flow newsletter, three webinar recordings, and common client questions; LinkedIn founder posts get the most replies.
[CAPACITY AND CONSTRAINTS]State available people, hours, brand voice, approval rules, and strategy time horizon.Founder has 90 minutes weekly; marketer has four hours weekly; calm and candid voice; client data requires review; plan for 90 days.

How to use

  1. Use evidence from your current channels and sales conversations, including weak results, instead of asking AI to infer performance.
  2. Choose fewer platforms than the prompt recommends if no one can reliably produce native content for them.
  3. Turn the calendar into assignments with source links and approvals before committing to a publishing cadence.
  4. Follow up with: “Expand week one into final post drafts, each using only the listed source material and preserving our voice rules.”

Variations

Launch campaign

Use this for a defined product, feature, or event launch.

Variation
Plan a [TIMEFRAME] social launch campaign for [OFFER] aimed at [AUDIENCE]. The conversion action is [ACTION], and available proof, assets, and launch facts are [MATERIALS]. Create a phased plan for pre-launch, launch, and follow-through across [PLATFORMS]. For each post, specify purpose, format, key message, source evidence, CTA, and owner. Include an FAQ and comment-response guardrails. Do not invent testimonials, scarcity, outcomes, partnerships, or launch dates. Check that every claim is supported and that content does not reveal confidential information.

Founder-led LinkedIn

Use this when a founder is the primary voice and has limited time.

Variation
Create a 30-day founder-led LinkedIn strategy for [FOUNDER] at [COMPANY]. The target reader is [AUDIENCE], the business goal is [GOAL], and the founder can contribute [CAPACITY]. Use these real experiences and evidence: [SOURCE MATERIAL]. Define 3 content themes and create 12 post briefs with hook, point of view, supporting detail, conversation prompt, and repurposing source. Avoid ghostwritten-sounding declarations, generic lessons, fabricated metrics, and engagement bait. Check that each brief could only credibly come from this founder’s supplied experience.

Content audit

Use this before building a new strategy for existing accounts.

Variation
Audit this social content and performance summary: [CONTENT AND DATA]. The business is [BUSINESS], audience is [AUDIENCE], and desired action is [ACTION]. Create a concise audit covering audience fit, message consistency, formats, proof quality, conversion path, and operational constraints. Separate observed facts from hypotheses. Identify five keep/change/stop decisions, then propose a four-week test plan with post concepts, success measures, and learning questions. Do not infer platform analytics or audience sentiment beyond the supplied material. Check that each recommendation responds to a stated observation.

Tips

  • Assign each platform a job, such as discovery, trust-building, or customer education; duplicating every post everywhere makes measurement and production weaker.
  • Build pillars from questions customers already ask before they buy, not only from product features or company announcements.
  • Keep a source library of sales calls, support questions, demos, and subject-matter notes so every post has evidence behind it.
  • Measure the action closest to the business goal alongside reach; saves, replies, profile visits, and qualified calls reveal different stages of intent.

FAQ

How many social platforms should a small business use?

Usually one or two well-supported channels are more useful than maintaining many inactive accounts. Add another only when you have a clear audience reason and repeatable source material.

How often should we post?

Choose a cadence that leaves time to make useful posts and respond to people. Consistency matters less than sustaining a credible format and learning from results.

Can AI create a full social media strategy from scratch?

It can organize a plan, but its recommendations improve sharply when you provide audience research, existing performance, capacity, and real proof.

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