I've been hemming and hawing for weeks now about giving my assistant the most tedious of tasks: downloading 263 video transcripts from my course platform so I could analyze all the questions, pain points, feedback, and wins from my Scale Society members and compare them to the content inside the program.

Saturday morning rolled around and I still hadn’t handed it off yet—I was stuck weighing whether it was worth tying up her talents with hover-click-download tedium.

She wouldn’t have minded—would’ve just tossed a show on the TV and worked away until it was done. But I knew there had to be a better way.

Plus, I kinda wanted the info now.

I didn’t want to hop in and do it myself or wait a few days for my assistant to slog through it; so in a moment of desperation (and brilliance), I asked, “Hey, ChatGPT—how do I automate this?”

Forty-five minutes and a few perfectly tuned prompts later, we had a solution I would never have thought of in a million years.

Ten minutes after that, ALL 263 transcripts were chilling in my Google Drive.

From there it was quick work to:

• zip all the transcripts together into two files (content & training, and hot seat, Q&A, & 1:1 calls);
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• pull out every common question, stuck-point, and celebrated win;
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• compare member challenges to the content and draft a compelling benefit stack and USP—perfect for rewriting my sales page and copy;
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• Outline a quiz to guide members to the exact Scale Society resources they need to focus on first, for a quick win.

All of this— from initial question in ChatGPT to fully outlined quiz —took…🥁

65 minutes!

That’s hours (maybe days) of work, done.

Asking AI to help develop a solution to the issue and automating the repetitive work was like having a systems specialist AND a tireless intern at my fingertips.

Next time you’re faced with a mountain of tedious work, remember— a few strategic prompts can shrink days into minutes, freeing you up to focus more on the work you love to do.

xo,
Sandra

Ps— Want another neat way to trade exhaustion in for excellence? Check out my friend Jessica Abel’s Autonomous Creative Conference. It tackles the reason behind that stuckness you often feel.

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