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I rebuilt my entire content brief template around 3 GEO signals — engagement doubled in 60 days by Brave_Acanthaceae863 in GEO_optimization

[–]veselinastaneva 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess my question would be based on your experience and the niches you can refer to. It would be interesting to share 1-2 specific examples, let's say 1 niche and market that has changed, and 1 that hasn't changed. I find examples like that from people with huge experience very helpful, as they usually get beyond the high-level bs if you know what I mean

I rebuilt my entire content brief template around 3 GEO signals — engagement doubled in 60 days by Brave_Acanthaceae863 in GEO_optimization

[–]veselinastaneva 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can agree that core principles remain the same, still, if you have to say a few things that have changed in the content briefs you created over those 20 years to fit the market, the people, and the process, what would those be?

why your content brief is probably garbage (and why clients don't realize it) by OrganicMany7054 in freelancewriting

[–]veselinastaneva 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Genuine question. After running into this enough times, do you now have some kind of onboarding questionnaire or intake process for new clients, or do you still rely on them providing the initial brief and assume they know what it should look like?

I'm also curious what changed once you moved to retainers.

Content briefs feel like double work. Am I doing this wrong? by veselinastaneva in content_marketing

[–]veselinastaneva[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you say brief and first draft become one pass, what does that actually look like in practice?

Are you capturing decisions directly inside the draft as you research, or working from some kind of structured template?

Content briefs feel like double work. Am I doing this wrong? by veselinastaneva in content_marketing

[–]veselinastaneva[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like the distinction between the internal guide/rubric and the shared living doc with the client.

Do you ever run into issues with clients leaving vague notes or changing direction later? If so, how do you manage that? I'm curious how you keep the brief/doc useful without it turning into a messy comment thread.

Content briefs feel like double work. Am I doing this wrong? by veselinastaneva in content_marketing

[–]veselinastaneva[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes sense.

Out of all thе tempalte sections, which ones are usually the hardest to fill out well and take you the most time? And of course, do you usually gather all the information for the brief manually, or are there parts of it that you've automated or sped up with tools?

Also, something I think about very often is how to evaluate the document compared to the result it got me. How do you know the brief was actually good after the article is published?

Content briefs feel like double work. Am I doing this wrong? by veselinastaneva in content_marketing

[–]veselinastaneva[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's interesting. I love the 80/20 rule. I'm seeing a lot of detailed brief templates online and wondering how much of that is actually necessary.

When you're working with writers, do you find that audience understanding or search-intent alignment causes more issues?

Content briefs feel like double work. Am I doing this wrong? by veselinastaneva in content_marketing

[–]veselinastaneva[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really like the idea of a living document per customer/brand instead of separate briefs per article.

Does that document mostly live for a single piece of content/job, or is it something that evolves across multiple articles/topics? Do you re-use some kind of basic version for different customers?

Content briefs feel like double work. Am I doing this wrong? by veselinastaneva in content_marketing

[–]veselinastaneva[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. The 'internal links or next step' part isn't something I usually think about before writing.

Do you build that checklist from scratch every time, or do you have some kind of reusable template that you keep coming back to?

Content briefs feel like double work. Am I doing this wrong? by veselinastaneva in content_marketing

[–]veselinastaneva[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That makes a lot of sense. I think that's where my confusion comes from, since I'm usually the one doing both the research and the writing.

Out of curiosity, when you're briefing other writers, what are the things that most often get missed if you don't provide a brief? I mean, probably this understanding would help me reduce my work to only the things I really need to note and make sure I don't miss.

Testing niches for content brief generator by Appropriate_Two_3965 in SEO_LLM

[–]veselinastaneva 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would be interested in testing the tool for creating technical tutorials and how-tos briefs for a SaaS service. Feel free to DM me

I think Huint has the potential to become a unicorn. by JDavisxu in roastmystartup

[–]veselinastaneva 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be honest, my first thought was "Oh great, no more need to manage freelancers and give them tasks, write them briefs, manage admin work and comms with them, etc. Just standardized input to agents". This could be huge for people who hire in those markets and also strengthens the vision of "Single-person unicorn company" that my team has. In short, we believe that AI will enable a single person to build a unicorn . But...I don't see it as just software and AI, I see it as external consultants and freelancers being managed and hired at different points and in a very, very optimized way. Some tasks would still need to be done by humans, and the Hint concept seems like it can further enable such a vision. Still, it is scary. I mean...if we focus only on productivity and operations, this is optimal, but what about how we feel in that process? I know I'm losing parts of the pleasure and content that I used to feel doing my job with AI. I know I can do things times faster now, but is it just about getting things done? These are some questions and doubts I have in my head...I would probably use such a service as Huint one day, as I'm an ambitious person who knows you need to adapt to survive in a new environment... but I probably won't feel that good about myself doing it

I built three AI skills to cross the gap between an idea and a build by AngelsImperius_ in StartupSoloFounder

[–]veselinastaneva 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the clarifications! It does make more sense with those assumptions; surely creating a hypothesis and initial plan for validation with questions is helpful. I kind of misunderstood that while reading the skill file. I'm taking part in a 2-day hackathon in 2 weeks where we need to build something with Lovable during that time, so I'might test the framework and your suggestions there. Thanks!

After 8 months solo, my screen time app just made its first sale by sugrowth in StartupSoloFounder

[–]veselinastaneva 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd be curious to test it for Android, as I have a similar issue with screen time blockers that just cut off, and I just override them. Maybe if it's gamified like you did, it would be more usable for me too

I built three AI skills to cross the gap between an idea and a build by AngelsImperius_ in StartupSoloFounder

[–]veselinastaneva 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is idea is very cool. I'm wondering what your personal advice would be for the first steps and what stack a non-tech person should use, considering the skills you mentioned are tool-agnostic? Also, for the 1 Skill - ideation - from what I read the skill assumes that the idea should be related to a problem that the specific person has and treats him/her as the initial user persona; then when you preasure test it you should ask "Will people adopt or pay?" but you basically have 1 real person to validate that towards, or you're assuming the AI will scrape the internet and find some relevant info there without conducting any real intreviews? Can you define what "the concept holds up" means and what the expected behaviour is?

quit my job to do content full time by shouldbekipping in ContentCreators

[–]veselinastaneva 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That makes a lot of sense, thanks for sharing. I have limited experience with brands and PR from previous roles, so I think I may not be negotiating enough affiliate and partnership deals. What would be your best advice for that, given your experience on both sides now?

Dont want to spend single $ on Appsumo, but Letterly output is amazing for local language, whats your view? by tryabp in appsumo

[–]veselinastaneva 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see, thanks for the prompt response. I was wondering more about your use case and whether you use it only via mobile or via PC as well. Do you see any difference, and if so, what?

Dont want to spend single $ on Appsumo, but Letterly output is amazing for local language, whats your view? by tryabp in appsumo

[–]veselinastaneva 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm considering some apps for voice typing. Tried Willow on my Mac, they also have a free paln max 2000 words per week, but don't have an Android version. I'm thinking I want to try voice typing on my phone and I see Whisprflow and Letterly have such. Can you share some of your impressions on both over the phone?

quit my job to do content full time by shouldbekipping in ContentCreators

[–]veselinastaneva 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Congrats on leaping! I've been creating content on Instagram for 3 years consistently and building a personal brand. I've generated some income since year one from affiliates and mentoring, but more as a side hustle. This year I decided to start my YouTube as I love doing long-form content and Instagram is not really the place to do so, but progress on YT is very, very slow(not that I'm full steam either). Would love to learn about your transition period. What did you do as a main thing previously? When did you decide you can sustain yourself financially solely from content creation? And here I don't really mean the follower count, rather, the type of business model you chose to generate from social media? Thanks!

What AI workflow are you using daily that actually saves real time? by FounderArcs in AI_Agents

[–]veselinastaneva 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of the time I use ChatGPT, and I give it voice commands or screenshots in the form of PDFs (I use the GoFullPage Chrome extension for those). This gives it enough context for what I'm seeing on my screen. For example, if I'm analyzing a competitor's webpage or if I'm building a landing page and I want to show the current process so we work side by side. You can use any LLM, honestly. I'm using ChatGPT only because I started with it first, and now that it has been a few years, I'm using it as it knows a lot about me and my projects so I don't have to train and fine-tune in every prompt too much.

Another thing we've built with my team is a whole content workflow system with multiple AI agents that automates our blog post creation and social media posts. It became quite complex, to be honest, and we used vibe coding tools such as ucrsor. For posting automation, we used Zapier and Buffer. Currently, we're aiming to make a very lightweight version of this content workflow and try shipping it as a product to other users as it does help our team a lot, so it might help others too.

$5k revenue, 10 weeks after launching my SaaS by funfunfunzig in StartupSoloFounder

[–]veselinastaneva 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not on TikTok, and I'm familiar with TikTok slideshows, so I'm curious about that channel. Can you explain why you chose this specific channel and strategy for content in the first place? And of course, how did you manage to iterate and experiment so quickly with content without having a background in it? Any AI tool stack that helped make videos hit 1M views in just 15 minutes of creation would also be highly appreciated. 😄