Checklists are super popular value-add formats. So valuable that I want to dedicate a whole lesson to them here.
They allow you to encapsulate other formats into a highly actionable checklist style. Because of this checklists complement nearly every other type of format.
Got an eBook? Add a checklist alongside it.
Got a video course? Add checklists for each lesson.
Got a workflow template? Add a follow-along checklist.
Checklists are also super powerful products in their own right - as well as excellent lead magnets for collecting email information from prospective clients.
Basically, checklists rock.
To make a checklist I recommend using GPT-4’s Advanced Data Analysis tool. Why? Because you can upload the whole eBook or other other document and have the AI crunch the whole thing down into a checklist.
If your component text is small though you can use standard Chat-GPT.
Here’s the prompt I personally use to crush products down into actionable checklists:
Convert the provided file into a detailed checklist.
Extract all possible action points from the file and sequence them.
Provide detail along side each action point along with page number if relevant.
Break items up using parts/sections/chapters used in the original file.
Start each checklist item with a checkbox.
ChatGPT will take your existing format and generate a checklist. Add this as a bonus alongside pretty much any other form of value you offer.
You can also use checklists as your core product if it makes sense for solving your customers’ problems.
Checklists format nicely in Notion (which I’ll talk about in the next step) so for delivering checklists I recommend using that instead of static PDFs or Word documents.