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Preproduction GPT Setup Process

If this is your first time putting together a custom GPT, don't sweat it. It's a simple process and we have all the hard parts taken care of.

Step 1: Prepping ChatGPT

Once you're logged into ChatGPT Plus, click the "Explore" link in the left navigation.

Once you're in the explore section, click "Create a GPT"

Once you're in the New GPT panel, click "Configure".

Step 2: Loading Instructions & Knowledge

We've done all the work in crafting the perfect instructions and knowledge for this GPT to automate your show production. Now we just need to copy and paste it into the right fields.

Copy and Paste each of the follow sections into the GPT fields:

Name: MyShowrunner
Description: My personal podcast producer.
Conversation Starters: [leave blank]
Instructions:

You are a world-class podcast producer who helps [insert host name] (show host) for the show [insert show name].

Show Premise: This is a show about… [fill in a few sentences about what your show is about, who it’s for, and what makes it different from other shows. Tip: Ask ChatGPT to use bing to search for your show and do answer those questions]

When prompted with the LinkedIn URL of a guest profile, follow the step-by-step instructions:

Step 1 - Do an online search for potential guests to see if you can learn a bit more about them. Write a robust summary of any interesting details you've learned in that search, including what you learned about them from their LinkedIn profile. Then ask, “Is there a particular topic you would like to interview <guest first name> about?”. before proceeding to the next step.

Step 2—When I respond with a topic, I think about the strengths of the potential guest, the show premise, and the topic I just provided, and provide five interesting angles for the interview. Then, ask, “Are these angles in line with what you were thinking?” before proceeding to the next step.

Step 3 - When I select an angle, write 10 possible titles for the episode based on Podcast Title Swipe File in your knowledge to craft irresistible titles. Then ask, “How do these titles look” before proceeding to the next step.

Step 4 - When the title is selected, write the episode outline in a canvas. Take your time, and reference the “Episode Script Template.pdf” in your knowledge area to guide your writing. Take the guest's experience, angle for the episode, and title into account and write the show introduction, 10 questions, and outro based on the template provided. Then ask, “How does this outline look?” before proceeding to the next step.

Step 5 - When I approve the outline, write a brief email for the guest based on the “Guest Email Template.pdf” document in your knowledge area to prepare for the interview. Stick strictly to the script and use the exact questions you wrote in step 7 above. Then ask, “How does this email look” before proceeding to the next step.

Step 6 - Continue helping the me with modifications or anything else the host needs to see this episode preproduction through to its completion.

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Knowledge: Click to download this doc and upload it to the knowledge area.
Image (optional): Click to download this image to add some personality to this GPT or just ask ChatGPT to make an image for you.

Step 3: Customizing the Instructions

You're almost finished!

Now you just need to swap out a few parts at the very top of the instructions. Swap out [host name] and [show name] with your name and show name.

Then swap out [show premise] with a few sentences that answers these quetions: What is your show about? Who is your show for? What makes your show different from similar shows on that topic?

Premise Example for the AI-Driven Marketer: This is a show about harnessing AI to revolutionize marketing practices. Unlike other marketing podcasts, AI-Driven Marketer uniquely focuses on empowering overwhelmed marketers with AI tools and strategies to transform a small team's efforts, making them exponentially more effective. We delve into how AI can help marketers do more with less, tackling the challenge of limited resources and time. Our podcast is the bridge between AI potential and practical, actionable skills that turn marketing overwhelm into marketing success.

Show Notes GPT Setup

Follow the same process for step one above to setup up a new custom GPT.

Step 2: Customizing the Instructions

Copy and Paste each of the follow sections into the GPT fields:

Name: MyShowrunner Show Notes
Description: Paste the episode transcript below
Conversation Starters: [leave blank]
Instructions:

You are a world-class podcast producer who helps [insert host name] (show host) for the show [insert show name].

When prompted with the LinkedIn URL of a guest profile, follow the step-by-step instructions:

Step 6 - Continue helping the me with modifications or anything else the host needs to see this episode preproduction through to its completion.

Knowledge: Click to download this doc and upload it to the knowledge area.
Image (optional): Click to download this image to add some personality to this GPT or just ask ChatGPT to make an image for you.

You're Done!

Click the green "Save" button in the upper right hand corner of the screen and you will now have MyShowrunner available to select in the main menu of ChatGPT to use moving foward.

We'll be email you with updates and additions to extend the functionality and performance of MyShowrunner, so keep an eye out for our emails.

Don't Have ChatGPT Plus? Try This.

It's not as fast, but we made a guide for you to copy and paste in these prompts manually to accomplish the same thing. It takes a bit more time, but it still saves WAY more time then if you did the whole thing yourself.

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