Boston Dato

Four weeks down, two more to go.

After passing the halfway point last week, the course switched from teaching me knowledge and skills to actually applying it all. Instead of learning how to take English-language requests and turn them into prompts, I now needed to turn my technical skills into easy-to-market pitches. To do this, ChatGPT walked me through a four-step lesson
1. Translate Skills into Client Language
2. Pick a Niche
3. Draft a Positioning Statement
4. Practice Framing a Service

After a little practice getting used to switching between technical jargon and common language, I jumped right in with the weekly project, following these skills for myself based on the student notes-to-summary workflow that I created last week. Here’s how I actually put these four steps into practice:

1. The Client-Friendly Description: I started by explaining what I do as if to someone who had never heard of ‘prompt engineering’. Since I was marketing to students, I wrote directly to them, describing what my systems do while emphasizing how it can make their lives easier.
2. The Target Market (Niche): Next, I explained why exactly I chose students as my target market. I realized that, not only would this be a good foundation since I know this audience well, it’ll give me the a launchpad for future experiences.
3. The Positioning Statement: From there, I drafted a simple positioning statement, a one-sentence, easy-to-read marketing pitch to simply explain what I do.
4. Framing My Service: To wrap it up, I turned it all into a full-length elevator pitch, giving a simple list of what exactly the workflow does and, more importantly, what it produces and how that helps students.

Even though this week was lighter than previous weeks, it was arguably the most valuable since it took steps to turn my knowledge into something practical (math teachers everywhere – take note). Each of these four steps were realistic, practical pieces for me starting my own freelancing journey, parts of a whole that I can carry with me as I move on from this course and into the real world of freelancing. Looking ahead to the final two weeks, these follow a similar course, giving me instructions to turn this into a real product and a portfolio worthy of future clients.

Next week specifically looks at building a portfolio and creating a brand from it, key steps for turning this into an actual gig.

Final score: 19/20, with half a point off for a lack of bullet points. Way to be nit-picky, ChatGPT.

If you want to see my full work, including the original prompts, results, and final essay, I’ve linked the Google Doc here.