AI Prompts for Social Media Strategy

Help me decide where to focus my social media efforts.

Business type: [what you do]
Target customer: [demographics, interests, where they hang out online]
Goal: [brand awareness / lead gen / community / sales / thought leadership]
Team size for social: [who's creating and posting]
Weekly hours available: [time budget]
Current presence: [list platforms and follower counts]

Provide:
1. Platform ranking: which 2-3 platforms deserve my focus and why
2. Platforms to ignore or deprioritize (with reasoning)
3. Content format that performs best on each recommended platform
4. Posting frequency per platform that's sustainable for my team size
5. A 90-day growth target for each platform (realistic, not aspirational)
6. One platform most competitors are ignoring that's worth testing

My engagement rate on [platform] is [current rate] and I want to improve it.

Follower count: [number]
Content types I post: [photos, videos, carousels, text posts, etc.]
Posting frequency: [how often]
Best performing post ever: [describe it and why you think it worked]
Worst performing post: [describe what flopped]

Build an engagement playbook:
1. 5 post formats proven to drive comments (with templates)
2. 5 post formats proven to drive shares/reposts (with templates)
3. 5 post formats proven to drive saves/bookmarks (with templates)
4. A comment response strategy (when to reply, how fast, what tone)
5. Community engagement routine: 20 minutes/day that compounds growth
6. 3 engagement traps to avoid (things that look like engagement but don't build audience)

Define content pillars for [brand/business] on social media.

What we sell: [products/services]
Brand values: [3-5 core values]
Target audience pain points: [what keeps them up at night]
Competitor accounts I admire: [2-3 accounts doing it well]
Content I'm tired of creating: [what feels stale]

Design 4-5 content pillars:
1. Pillar name and one-sentence description
2. Why this pillar resonates with my target audience
3. 5 specific post ideas for each pillar
4. The content ratio: what percentage of posts should come from each pillar
5. How each pillar maps to a business goal (awareness, trust, conversion)
6. A pillar rotation schedule for the week so content feels varied

Analyze this viral social media post and help me create something similar:

[Paste the viral post text/description]

Platform: [where it went viral]
Approximate engagement: [likes, shares, comments if known]
My niche: [my industry/topic area]
My audience: [who follows me]

Break down:
1. Why this post went viral: the psychological trigger behind the engagement
2. The structural formula: hook, body, CTA pattern it follows
3. 3 ways to adapt this formula to my niche (with full post drafts)
4. What NOT to copy (the parts that only work for that specific creator)
5. Timing and context factors that contributed to virality
6. A 'virality checklist' of elements to include before posting

Help me build an engaged community around [brand/topic/cause].

Platform: [Facebook Group/Discord/Slack/Reddit/LinkedIn Group]
Current community size: [members]
Target member: [who you want to attract]
Community purpose: [support/networking/learning/exclusive access]
Time I can dedicate: [hours per week]

Build a community growth plan:
1. Community rules and guidelines (that actually get followed)
2. 5 recurring content formats (weekly threads, AMAs, challenges, etc.)
3. Member onboarding sequence: first 7 days experience
4. Engagement triggers: how to get lurkers to participate
5. Moderation framework: what to allow, what to remove, and escalation process
6. Growth strategy: how to add 100 quality members per month without paid ads

I want to work with influencers to promote [product/service/brand].

Budget: [total budget for influencer marketing]
Goal: [awareness/sales/content creation/credibility]
Target audience: [who you want to reach]
Product/service price point: [cost]
Previous influencer experience: [what you've tried before]

Create an influencer strategy:
1. Ideal influencer profile: follower range, engagement rate, content style, niche
2. 5 search strategies to find the right influencers (beyond just searching hashtags)
3. Outreach template that gets responses (not the generic 'collab?' DM)
4. Compensation framework: when to pay cash vs. product vs. affiliate
5. Campaign brief template to send selected influencers
6. ROI measurement framework: how to track if the partnership actually worked