Your 4-Hour Work Week with AI

Unlock Your 4 Hour Work Week with AI (Artificial Intelligence)

One of the biggest draws to the career of online marketing has always been freedom to be your own boss and set your own hours. Unfortunately, entrepreneurs often work even more than they did at their traditional 9-5 jobs. Instead, you want to create your 4-hour work week to live the life you want and deserve.

Because you are forced to handle every aspect of your business on your own, it’s more demanding if you ever hope to succeed financially. The empty promises of push button profits have disappointed many, but finally – the hype is coming to fruition.

With the invention of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, men and women worldwide are finding it easier to trim down the number of hours they put into building their business and enjoy more financial success and freedom to enjoy life than ever before.

Too many people are using AI haphazardly, but if you would set up a systematic approach to utilizing it for your task list at the start of each day, you’d find yourself with more free time and more money to do what you really love.

Whether you’re selling information products as a vendor or working as an affiliate marketer, this is a strategy that takes much of the burden off of you, while still allowing you to maintain complete creative and strategic control over your business.

Daily AI-Powered Workflow Planning

Regardless of what kind of business you are operating online, you typically have an understanding of what your routine tasks are. You also have an idea of what eats up more of your time versus what you can complete quickly and easily on your own.

You want to have a system in place where you can sit down with AI every morning and initiate a workflow for the two of you to handle together where you are utilizing ChatGPT to assist you with your tasks each day.

You want to make a preliminary list of tasks that are done daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly. That way, you can have a timeline of what to work with AI on. Without a schedule, you will be floundering and randomly leveraging AI without any system in place.

Another way you can set up a workflow system to use AI is to categorize the tasks according to the type of task it will be handling. For example, you might have a category called analysis where you work with AI during this time frame to analyze data from your autoresponder system, your social media accounts, and your website.

You also might have a category called content creation where you actively work with AI to develop your blog posts, emails, and social media posts. Another category might be strategic business project development, where you are brainstorming future or current projects with AI such as the development and launch of an info product and working out all of the fine details based on its ability to come through enormous databases and apply that information in your decision making process.

There are different ways you can work with AI to complete your to do list each day. You can sit down and get everything done with AI that is possible and then move on to your own solo tasks.

Or, you can work with AI in intervals throughout your day, such as having it create their content and then stopping so that you can publish and share it before returning back for the next task.

It also helps if you can set aside a prompt file for each of your categories so that you can quickly and easily copy and paste those prompts each day whenever you are having AI work on a repetitive task.

For example, if you our publishing a blog post daily, or sending out a daily email, you can have prompts that get AI to create a high performing title or subject line for you. These prompt templates can be tweaked over time as you find different ways to clarify what you want to your AI tool.

You also want to have examples set aside for your tasks so that each time you work with AI, you can immediately train it with a sample to work from – such as an example of a product review or email that you want it to copy in terms of tone and style.

For each task that you routinely do where you want to eliminate part of your workload, you’ll want to have a system in place to work with AI. We’re going to go over some of the more common ones, so you can fly through your morning and be free from work for the remainder of your day.

If you already know exactly what needs to be done that day, you can sit down with AI and prompt it with the following command: “Today, I’m going to have you help me create one blog post, an email autoresponder, social media content for my Facebook group. I’m also going to have you reply to a customer service email, brainstorm some upcoming project decisions with me and then analyze the results of a split test I conducted. Based on this list, give me a list of the tasks you will handle and what I will be responsible for and tell me the order in which we should complete this list.”

AI is going to inform you that you will be responsible for defining your target audience and basic topic for the content on your blog and other websites and social media platforms, and you will maintain creative control over the drafts. You will also be responsible for submitting the data that it needs to interpret to help you with analysis and decision making.

It will handle the generation of content, from brainstorming ideas through to the final draft. It will take care of all of the research and information gathering as well as optimizing it for search engines or readability.

For the order in which you should be working, it suggests the customer service issues first, followed by the creative brainstorming process. Then, you will work with it to create your blog and email content, then social media content.

You wrap up your day working with AI by engaging in project brainstorming and the data analysis. The reason AI suggests this system is that it helps with the flow of work when you begin with brainstorming content immediately after answering customer needs because it now sets the tone for what ChatGPT will be discussing in all of the content it creates for you. Your 4-hour work week is moving forward!

Customer service is handled promptly because of the importance in addressing the needs of your customer. It puts project planning second to last because you’ll be able to hit the ground running with your project tasks immediately after working with AI so it’s fresh in your mind – and split test analysis last due to its lack of immediate attention.

Rapid Niche Blogging with AI Each Day

Every day that you want to publish a blog post, sit down and fly through the process with ease and extreme speed. It’s a quick 5-step process and you can work with AI to brainstorm, research, create and optimize your blog content so that all you have to do is oversee the final result and upload it for your readers.

Step 1: Tell ChatGPT your niche and target audience. You should have a template written of this information that you can feed it on a regular basis. For example, you might say: “I’m going to be working with you to create content today in the make money online niche where my target audience is senior online entrepreneurs who are trying to supplement their income. Tap into everything you know about this niche and audience before we move forward.”

Step 2: Get AI to quickly generate blog post ideas for the day and choose one you like. Your prompt might be something like this: “Give me a list of 5 blog post ideas for this niche and audience and explain why they’re good potential for my blog, where the goal is to attract a dedicated audience and monetize my content with course recommendations.”

Step 3: Tell AI to quickly research the topic, help with optimization and outline the post. Your prompt might be: “Research and identify keywords for the following topic that will help it rank well in search engines and generate a good deal of interest. Develop an outline for a pillar post that covers the topic comprehensively.”

Step 4: Go through the blog content creation process section-by-section and be sure to inform AI of the tone you want it to use. Your prompt might be: “Write the introduction for this blog post by discussing the problem readers have and then stating that there are solutions, but don’t explicitly detail what they’re going to learn. Use a friendly, professional tone of voice.”

Step 5: Feed the finished version back into AI and ask it to analyze the piece for SEO. Your prompt would be: “Here is the final blog post draft. Make sure it is optimized for the following keyword phrase and give me any final changes to make to ensure high ranking in the SERPs before I publish it.”

Throughout this process, your only tasks are now prompting (which you can develop copy and paste templates for), quickly reviewing the output and making decisions on whether or not to use it as is.

There’s no more burdensome and timely brainstorming, creative strain, cumbersome content creation and tweaking you have to do – that’s all handled by AI. You’re overseeing it all so that it adequately represents your brand and your time commitment has now been reduced significantly.

This entire process can take as little as 8 minutes from start to completion, or a bit more depending on how much you want to spend going over it with a fine tooth comb. Everyone has different speeds with this they read, so there’s no one set number – but it’s much less than you’d spend on your own doing all of this without AI.

Whip Up a High-Converting Daily Email with the Help of AI

The next step you’re going to do in your day is often send out an email autoresponder. Whether you are addressing a single subscriber list or segmenting your messages for different audiences, AI can do this quickly and easily for you.

Step 1: Tell AI what the purpose of your email is and any other defining criteria. Your prompt might be something like this: “I want to send an email to promote a new course that teaches seniors how to start their own online business on a budget. I’m going to be giving you preliminary information before having you write the email. The course is in eBook format. Think about the slants and pressing points that will need to be made in order for the email to convert for this audience.”

Step 2: Give AI the main details for your email. Your prompt might be something like this: “The eBook is on launch discount pricing for 72 hours where they get 50% off and also get 2 bonus reports (one that shows them how to set up a WordPress blog and the other that shares 50 high-performing niches for seniors. The eBook course is called [name].”

Step 3: Have AI create your email draft. You can prompt it like this: “Create the draft for an engaging promotional email for [course title] that approaches the benefits of the course based on the target audience’s main pressing pain points. Include details of the promotion and a strong call to action.”

Step 4: Review the email and ask AI for any tweaks that you want, such as an alternate CTA, different length or tone, or the addition of any personalization. Once it’s complete, if you need the same email tweaked for a slightly different segment, prompt AI like this: “I want to send this same basic message, but for a different audience where the buyers are not newbies, but can benefit from the savings. Tweak the message to work for those readers.”

The first two tasks took under 60 seconds when this was tested and the output was fantastic – with the email hitting on things that this audience wants – affordability and senior discount, easy to follow, flexible learning, and support.

All you have to do is read through to ensure accuracy, copy and paste it into your autoresponder system – and your nurturing and communication with your subscribers is complete so you can move on to new tasks within your 4-hour work week.

Have AI Plan and Create Your Multi-Platform Social Posts Every Morning

Once you know which social media platforms you’ll be using in your business, it’s easy to work with AI on a regular basis to create content that can get discovered and deliver better engagement for you.

You can sit down every morning with charging PPT and, with the goal of freeing up the rest of your day, work with it in a structured approach so that it can help brainstorm topics, write or advise you on content creation, optimize it for discoverability, and even tell you what time to publish on the platforms of your choice.

Step 1: Ask ChatGPT to come up with your topics. You can prompt it like this: “Based on current trends in my niche, and the needs of my target audience, give me 5 topics for social media content that will generate interest on Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram.”

Step 2: Have AI create a cross-platform approach to those topics for each of the platforms mentioned. For example, you might prompt like this: “I like the idea of [chosen topic]. Create a Facebook post with an engaging question to encourage comments. Give me advice on what image to include in the post. For the TikTok video, create a script and storyboard for a 60-second video that hooks viewers. And advise me of what to publish on Instagram about this topic along with hashtags and a CTA. Tell me what time to post the content to each platform for maximum engagement.”

As you can see, only a portion of this task is handled by AI. While there are AI tools that can create images and videos, they’re not free – so unless you have access to those and are able to use them quickly, you’ll want to use something like Canva to put its advice to work when it’s time for you to do your part of the task.

Not only does AI immediately come back with all of the social content details, but it goes further in advising you on eye-popping colors, transitions for the short form video, emojis to use and more.

Your job with the rest? Copy, paste and queue it up to go live whenever it serves you best. The timing will be laid out for you – including a window of opportunity each day and the best day(s) of the week to get results.

Even with short form videos, with AI giving you the exact script to copy and paste, it’s a faster process than trying to come up with something on your own. If you have MidJourney or can use DALL-E, it will be that much faster. It’s all a part of your 4-hour work week.

Dig in to Daily Project Planning with AI Before You Work Solo

You may want to create a specific chat that you return to each day when working with AI to complete project. That way, it remembers the scope of the project, the audience and goals and can guide you each day in what needs to be done.

AI will need to know the deadline and milestones you have for the completion of each phase of your project. You might start with a broad prompt like: “I want to launch a course 6 weeks from now teaching seniors how to start an online business and I want to recruit affiliates about 2 weeks before launch so they have time to create a bonus. I need you to map out the entire process for me of all the tasks needed to complete this project.”

AI then delivers a weekly plan of attack, and for that, you can then work specifically with AI each day to complete it in time for the launch. For example, you might spend one day having AI help define the structure of the course in order to help buyers meet a specific goal.

Then, you can have it develop detailed lesson plans, videos to accompany the eBook, and other educational material. Another day’s task might be the development of the sales copy, or the joint venture (JV) page.

One thing that can help quicken this process is to ask AI how to prompt it. You can say: “I want you to create an entire sales page for my new info products that includes headlines, storyline, a bulletpoint benefits list, and a call to action. What prompts do I use to have you create the sales letter from start to finish?”

Then put these in a file for future use whenever you have a new project coming up. That way, the initial work is done and you can copy and paste prompts like this and get faster results: “Can you write a subheadline and a short introductory paragraph that introduces the course and its unique value proposition?”

If you’re an affiliate, you can start a new project with AI each week like this: “I want to create a 1-week affiliate promotion campaign in the [topic] niche. It should include researching the trends and needs of the niche audience, the creation of reviews and bonus material to offer for higher conversions. Give me a one-week plan with tasks you can help with to maximize revenue and productivity.”

The plan will cover each of the tasks with details on how AI can assist you. For example, under content development, ChatGPT says: “I can help write the review content and suggest ideas for bonus materials that would appeal to your audience.”

So all you have to do is come up with (or ask it for) a prompt for that step. Tell AI: “For each of these tasks, and the things you say you can help with, give me a prompt to give you to complete it.”

That way, all you have to do is plug in the prompts it gives you like this: “Can you suggest ideas for exclusive bonus content that would complement [specific affiliate product]?”

The project planning AI gives you as an affiliate not only includes research, planning and content development – but also marketing material creation (like graphics), campaign set-up tasks, launch and promotion steps, monitoring results for adjustments and an end up campaign assessment to ensure better results next time.

Allow AI to Handle and Filter Your Customer Service Issues

Customer service is something that some marketers fail at because they let their feelings get in the way and cause more problems for their brand when responding to people who have contacted them with heightened emotions. You will enhance your 4-hour work week in this way.

If you have someone who is angry about something, such as they didn’t get their download link and they assume (erroneously) that you have now stolen their money – you need to respond with a level head, and AI can handle this issue with care and thoughtfulness so that your brand is not damaged with a knee jerk reaction.

When you start each day working with AI, immediately review any unresolved customer issues or inquiries that happened in the last 24 hours. You probably already know what needs to be handled first, but if not, you can prompt AI to analyze them and put them in order of importance.

Then, you can quickly prompt ChatGPT to draft a detailed response to any inquiries that help explain or troubleshoot issues. A prompt might be something like this: “Write an email responding to someone who wasn’t sure if they could put their name on the private label rights (PLR) content. Explain that this is not only allowed, but encouraged and offer them a discount coupon to try the PLR.”

If you are addressing an angry customer, you can simply prompt AI to respond with an empathetic tone and a practical solution that resolves the issue. Your prompt might be something like this: “I have a customer who is angry that they didn’t get their download link for a course. Write an email that includes the link, apologies and empathy for their frustration and invite them to get back in touch if they have any additional problems.”

Before you simply copy and paste any AI response to a prospective or current customer, you want to make sure that it feels personalized and matches your tone and style and doesn’t sound too robotic.

You can also prompt ChatGPT to create a follow up to check in with the people in case you don’t hear back. This ensures that you care about their satisfaction and go above and beyond.

Wrap Up Your 4-Hour Work Week with Some AI-Powered Data Analysis

A step that can be moved to the end of your day might be the analysis and advanced planning for tweaks to upcoming strategies. For example, you might have results from an email marketing campaign that you have queued up for new subscribers and it’s performing poorly.

You can prompt AI with the following: “Below is a copy of an email in my autoresponder system that goes out to new subscribers. It has a low open rate and poor conversions. Analyze possible reasons for its low performance and give me a split test version to improve on those metrics.”

You can also feed it any data from your site – such as topics that are doing best with visitors – and ask AI for an analysis and plans that can steer you in the right direct for content moving forward.

Your prompt might be something like this: “Below is a list of my top 10 performing blog posts in terms of traffic and conversions. Based on this information and what you know about the [topic] niche and target audience, create a content plan for my blog for next week to capitalize on this information.”

If you have data from social media accounts, you might prompt AI to give you plans for that type of strategy. For example, “Below is the data from my TikTok account for last week’s content. Give me more content ideas, timing strategies and other advice to expand my reach with my niche topic and gain traction with engagement.”

You don’t have to sit there and struggle to map out a plan. All you have to do is include a simple prompt like the ones above with the data you paste from other sources and allow AI to be the data analyst working on your behalf.

Having your data analyzed in this way (as well as on platforms where you’re selling products or promoting as an affiliate) can help with all of the other tasks listed above, too.

You can ask AI to come up with blog posts, social content, product ideas and more based on what it sees in your data that might not be as obvious to you. The use of AI doesn’t mean you’re taking a backseat to this technology, but merely using it to improve your productivity and free up more of your time each day to enjoy the results of the business you’ve built to support you financially with your 4-hour work week.

I’m author, publisher, and entrepreneur Connie Ragen Green and would love to connect with you. If you are new to the world of online entrepreneurship please check out my comprehensive training on how to set up Funnels That Click and learn how to gain an unfair advantage when it comes to building a lucrative online business.