We’ve now got the basics of the newsletter up and running thanks to beehiiv. Beehiiv makes it super simple thankfully - much easier than when I setup my first newsletter many years ago!
In this part we’re getting into the meat of our newsletter: the content.
I’m going to cover both content curation and content creation.
We talked about both of these in the last Section so if you have no idea what I’m talking about go back and refresh yourself.
We’re going to be quite high level in this issue, giving you the basic prompts for content that you need to get started.
Next we’ll look at refinements. Right now just push ahead with making something.
That said…
We’re starting with curation because:
i) it’s simpler and
ii) even if you are writing original content it’s good to keep your finger on the pulse with your topic
This first prompt does both. We’re going to find out the exact people and publications we need to be following so that we can either curate from them or simply for original content creation.
Here’s our first prompt:
Act as an online research assistant
I am writing a newsletter about [topic]
Help me research other sources of information in this space
Give me 10 blogs, 10 news sites, 10 newsletters, 10 reddit subreddits, 10 twitter influencers, 10 instagram influencers, 10 tiktok influencers,
Present the information in a table.
For topic = “ building side hustles”
And reduced to 2 per category for brevity.
Note: ChatGPT won’t be able to give you the most up to date influencers and blogs because of its training limit.
Therefore supplement this with Google searches - ie “blogs similar to Smart Passive Income” to find more.
Alternatively use a more up to date model like Claude2 if you have access.
In either case you want to pull together a list of 20+ sources that you’ll be curating from.
To keep on track of all these sources I recommend an app called Feedly. It can pull together blogs, newsletters, Reddit communities all in one place so you can monitor without having to go to separate parts of the internet.