With any new technology, there is an arbitrage opportunity. Is this this the same for AI prompts?
The more I learn about AI, and the more I use it, the more it becomes clear that communication skills (mostly written but verbal too), will be the most important skill we can all develop.
Update: 9th August 2024 all my prompt files are here: Prompt Files for Cursor AI
Don’t believe me? Somebody actually built a marketplace for selling prompts. Not just made one, it appears to be very active! https://promptbase.com/
You can sell your prompts for a few dollars, but some of them have been bought hundreds of times, pretty neat little earner if you have enough of them!
I wanted to see the level of demand so looked at the traffic (according to UberSuggest anyway) I’d suggest it’s a bit higher, but trending at 40k per month is insane for something relatively new and niche.
This might be something I have to come back to try later. It sems a bit clunky as model, it does seem amazing that you make money selling a few instructions – but isn’t that what code is (albeit typically at more complex level). But it does seem amazing that you can spend/make money on such a thing.
So there is clearly a lot of focus and interest in this space. It’s a great opportunity to profit on your creativity. They rank number 1 for basically everything prompt marketplace related.
But being user-generated, they also rank for thousands of long-tail keywords. Each of these keywords is an SEO opportunity for someone else and with high intent. Since most of these are paid, offering a similar prompt from free (or as an lead generation for email marketers) could be a great little business.
Clear communication is going to be a highly in-demand skill in the future, and we all need to be prepared for that. Those who know how to ask the best questions, give the best prompts, and provide the best context are going to storm ahead.
The above set off a light-bulb in my brain. To understand it you need first to understand what I have been playing around with this week: www.CreatePages.com
Create Pages was created by Ian Nuttall (@IanNuttall) and Alberto (@a7fort) with the aim to create a non-code tool to generate programmatic SEO websites. IE you give it a CSV file and you can you generate 1000 pages with a few button clicks.
If you need a further example of this operating at scale I did a “low-quality” test run last weekend, where I made a whole site (1000+ pages) in about 45 minutes while my partner was out. Here I scraped every JRE guest since record began and put into a CSV file with Claude. After which I added
Here are the results from the video above, I had some initial success (at least with impression/CTR volume). I will try and update this blog as more results come in. (date below, 15th August 2024). But not a single penny of revenue so far, and it’s fallen to 7 clicks a day, rather than 35 on the first day.
My initial thinking is to watch the pages that do well, despite my trashy content, and then go in and optimize the best 10-20 posts. As in make them something that is worth reading, add some pictures, videos and affiliate links. I do actually enjoy writing long-form and proper content. But a tool like this allows me to ship an iterate, which suits my ADHD brain a lot more.
If your trash content ranks like this, perhaps it’s worth actually writing a proper article? Any page that can generate 10-20 clicks per month is worth it. As you can dominate such a small sub niche for a very long-time and it doesn’t take too long to turn them into “very helpful” as pieces of content.
I will update this particular journey in another post once I have more to talk about.
Prompt Arbitrage
I recently acquired this domain name, as I think this is something that could be a cool product. I’m still piecing together precisely what it means but something like this:
- thousands of niche prompts needed (only partially solved by blogs and marketplace)
- programmatic SEO
Can I use a super-prompt in createpages.com to generate 10,000 pages focusing on generating prompts for each keyword? See what ranks and then iterate?
I don’t know but it’s something I want to try. I can see a world where this is a useful lead magnet that I can use/sell in the future. I will have a think on my drive home and come back to this blog once I’m done.
Take a teacher for example, they are too busy to come up with a lesson plan but they do a basic “generate a lesson plan based on x”. But what we do is source and write a list of prompts and actions that will get that teacher to the answer they want. We just need a super-prompt that will power and structure our programmatic SEO, and ask it write a prompt based around a very specific field.
Alternatively, one could adapt a prompt they found one one of these marketplaces but redeploy for long-tail keywords and simply generate 100s of them in seconds (lesson plan for x). Google would not love the content, so best way would be to charge a small fee for the pdf (or maybe a pay what you want via Gumroad?).
This post has become a ramble so I will clarify my thoughts, dear reader, in my sleep and hope to come back fresh.
Need to sleep on it but will update this blog on my various missions.
Interested in my other projects you can find a summary here.
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