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Forbes
19-06-2025
- Business
- Forbes
5 ChatGPT Prompts To Turn Your Expertise Into Passive Income
5 ChatGPT prompts to turn your expertise into passive income Every day you don't find ways of monetizing your expertise with passive revenue streams, someone with half your knowledge makes twice your income. They package mediocre insights into products that thousands of people buy, while you struggle with perfectionism and don't publish anything. They're not smarter than you. They just took action. What if your knowledge worked for you 24/7, earning while you sleep? You know your stuff. You already have everything needed to build income streams that multiply without you, and ChatGPT can help. Copy, paste and edit the square brackets in ChatGPT, and keep the same chat window open so the context carries through. You already solved problems others pay thousands to fix. Someone desperately needs that solution you take for granted, and they need it now. Your imposter syndrome is costing you money and it needs to stop. Create a course, ebook, or template from what you already know. Attack one specific problem really well. When I sold my agency, buyers didn't care about my credentials. They paid for the systems I'd documented. "Based on what you know about my expertise and the problems I solve, help me identify my most valuable knowledge to package. Ask me 3 questions about challenges I've overcome that others still face. Then create an outline for a digital product that solves one specific problem really well. Include the transformation it provides, 5 key modules, and how to price it based on the value delivered. Ask for more detail if required." Manual work is a trap disguised as dedication, and you can never get that time back. Build systems that sell and deliver without you. Set up email sequences, payment processing, and customer support. make your income truly passive when you let technology handle repetition. Create once, profit forever. The work happens upfront, the rewards compound daily. "Create a complete automation blueprint for my passive income product. Map out the entire customer experience from discovery to delivery. Include specific tools for payment processing, email sequences, file delivery, and basic customer support. Give me 5 key automations to implement first that will save the most time. Before starting, ask for more detail, including information about my ideal customer and dream business model." Everything you offer for free needs to be connected to what you actually sell. Give value first, then ask them to buy. Make your free stuff so good they can't imagine missing your paid content. Strategic generosity builds empires when you put a strategy behind it. Make every touchpoint move someone closer to becoming a customer. "Based on what you know about my target audience and main offering, design 5 strategic pieces of free content that lead naturally to my paid product. Each should solve a small part of the bigger problem my product addresses. Include specific topics, formats (blog post, video, template, etc.), and how each piece pre-sells my main offer without being pushy. Ask for more detail if required." Time for money has a ceiling, and products have a shelf life, but communities have infinite potential. Build a membership or mastermind around your product where customers teach each other. Every hour you put in is multiplied because hundreds of people can experience your value at once. Your best members support each other, and you're at the centre of all that gold. Set the culture, establish the framework, and invite people in. Get ideas for your community theme with AI. "Based on what you know about my expertise and ideal customers, design a scalable community model that generates recurring revenue. Include the community concept, structure, member benefits, pricing tiers, and how members will help each other succeed. Suggest 3 ways to make the community valuable even when I'm not actively participating. Ask for more detail if required." Most people overlook licensing, but it could be right for you. Teach others to do what you do and take a percentage, so your processes become profit for someone else. They white label your knowledge-based product, they build their own community, they pay you a fee. Other people doing the delivery means your income has no limits. Licensees handle clients, and you collect royalties. See if it's possible within your existing expertise and field. "Based on what you know about my unique methods and target market, create a licensing strategy that lets others profit from my expertise. Outline how to package my process for others to deliver, suggested revenue split models, and 3 types of professionals who would want to license my method. Include quality control measures to protect my reputation. Ask for more detail if required." Your knowledge deserves better and you know you could do more with it. Turn expertise into products people buy on repeat. Build automations that work harder than you ever could. Create content that attracts buyers while you sleep. Expand into communities where success multiplies itself. License methods that scale beyond your personal capacity. Stop planning. Start packaging. Your future self will wonder why you waited so long. Access all my best ChatGPT content prompts.
Yahoo
08-06-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Stroud trainer shares five ways to prevent emotional crisis before it starts
Column by Penny Newton-Hurley Mental Health A&Es: A step forward, but what about prevention? New mental health A&Es are set to open across England. It's an encouraging step, but it raises a crucial question: what are we doing to stop the crisis before it starts? We need mental health first aid, but we also need prevention. As a specialist in CommPassionate Communication, I believe many early warning signs of distress could be picked up if we knew how to listen. Here are five ways to build emotional safety at home, school, or work: 1. Make feelings normal. Saying "I'm sad today" or "I felt really anxious this morning" makes it okay for others to do the same. 2. Don't wait for a meltdown. Check in often. "How's your energy today?" is a good start. We don't ask because we're fine. We ask because we care. 3. Make space for needs. Needs like rest, belonging, autonomy, or fun aren't luxuries, they're psychological essentials. 4. Listen to the message behind the mood. Behaviour is communication. A withdrawn teen may be feeling hopeless. An irritable colleague might be overwhelmed. 5. Respond with presence, not panic. You don't need to "fix" someone's feelings. You just need to be with them. That's where healing begins. Empathy doesn't replace services, but it can reduce the need for them. About Penny Newton-Hurley. Oakridge-based communications expert Penny Newton-Hurley has launched a new series of online courses to help people navigate difficult conversations with clarity and care. Find out more at Penny trained under psychologist Dr Marshall Rosenberg in Nonviolent Communication. She has delivered training for central government, the NHS, and the Ministry of Defence. She lives in Stroud with her family.
Forbes
21-05-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Why Freelancers Need a Digital Product Revenue Stream
Every freelancer knows the challenges of growing and scaling their business. But many of us freelance alongside other jobs, or may have hit full client capacity. So how can we scale our business without continuing to exchange time for money? One way is to create a revenue stream that requires an initial time investment to set it up, but then continues to sell on autopilot. This revenue stream involves selling a digital product. Deloitte found that U.S. adults spend $120 to $130 monthly on digital goods and services. Freelancers have the golden opportunity to capitalize on this demand by creating their own digital goods such as templates, online courses, recorded webinars, eBooks, PDF guides, or even AI agents. Whether you freelance full-time or as a side-hustle, selling a digital product is a smart way to add revenue without significantly increasing your time commitments. Here's why: You're already an expert in what you do. How could you package up your knowledge or skills in a way that benefits more people, beyond your client roster? Let's say you're a graphic designer. You could create a set of social media templates that other businesses could plug-and-play, and sell these as a low-ticket offer to those not ready to invest in your design services. Think: what types of questions do you regularly receive from clients or your online audience? What topics or pain points do they ask to 'pick your brain' over? You could package up your unique knowledge on this topic into a PDF guide or eBook. Even though it takes some time to set up a digital product revenue stream including creating the actual product, setting up the system to sell it on (such as a Stan Store, Beacons, or Linktree page), and some ongoing marketing to promote it, it can be relatively 'hands-off' yet highly scalable. Here are two ways to scale your digital product revenue stream: Taking the time to create a digital product that offers more in-depth, comprehensive knowledge than your free public content (e.g. social media posts) helps to position you as a thought leader or expert in your field. If your digital product helps your audience solve a problem, this increases trust in your brand, which is imperative to business growth. According to Deloitte, 88% of customers who highly trust a brand would buy again, and 62% buy almost exclusively from that brand. High trust has the potential to turn into referrals, positive reviews, references, or citations in other content, and could even lead to speaking gigs or podcast appearances. All of which help build your brand. Creating and selling your own digital products is a smart business strategy for freelancers, especially in today's unpredictable economic landscape. It's a great way to grow your revenue without exhausting your time each week, so that you can focus on your hands-on client work.
Fast Company
19-05-2025
- Fast Company
Four free Coursera courses to jump-start your AI journey
Artificial intelligence: it's not just for tech experts anymore. Instead, a heaping helping of free online resources has emerged. These classes are specifically designed to welcome beginners into the world of AI, even if they possess little or no prior technical background. I selected these Coursera courses for their beginner-friendly approach, high ratings, and comprehensive coverage of foundational concepts and key AI domains. AI For Everyone If you're taking your very first steps into AI, ' AI For Everyone ' on Coursera is a great starting point. The course requires no prior experience in AI or programming, making it truly accessible to everyone, and it's got a reasonable completion time of around six hours. The curriculum is structured into four modules: What is AI?, Building AI Projects, Building AI in Your Company, and AI and Society. Google AI Essentials Another good starting point for your AI journey is the ' Google AI Essentials ' course. It offers a unique perspective on Google's AI philosophy and features hands-on activities and real-world scenarios. Similar to 'AI For Everyone' mentioned above, 'Google AI Essentials' is designed to be accessible to individuals of all skill levels. The six-hour course is structured into five modules: Introduction to AI, Maximize Productivity With AI Tools, Discover the Art of Prompting, Use AI Responsibly, and Stay Ahead of the AI Curve. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence For a slightly more structured and in-depth introduction to the foundational concepts of AI, the ' Introduction to Artificial Intelligence ' course offered by IBM on Coursera is an excellent option. This 12-hour course aims to equip beginners with a solid understanding of core AI concepts, and incorporates videos, readings, assignments, and even hands-on labs. The curriculum is divided into four modules that cover a range of essential topics: Introduction and Applications of AI; AI Concepts, Terminology, and Application Domains; Business and Career Transformation Through AI; and Issues, Concerns, and Ethical Considerations. Introduction to Generative AI Don't have 6–12 hours to get up to speed with the aforementioned courses? Skip right to the good stuff with the ' Introduction to Generative AI ' course, which offers an overview of . . . well, what most people are referring to when they mention AI nowadays (whether they realize it or not). The course defines generative AI, explains its underlying mechanisms, describes the different types of generative AI models, and discusses how the technology is used in the real world. It's worth noting that this course is part of a larger 'Introduction to Generative AI Learning Path Specialization,' so if you find the topic particularly engaging, you'll be able to keep the good times rolling with additional courses.
