Bryan Collins's Blog, page 5
March 18, 2025
15 Essential Tools That Transformed My Content Creation Process
15 Essential Tools That Transformed My Content Creation Process
Discover the powerful content creation tools that can elevate your online presence and streamline your workflow.
Creating content online has never been more accessible than it is today. With the right set of tools, anyone can produce professional-quality content without needing extensive technical expertise or expensive equipment.
As someone who lives and breathes content creation, I’ve experimented with countless tools ove...
The Best Content Creation Toolkit
Discover the best content creation toolkit that transformed my content creation process and can help you create better content online.
Creating content online has never been easier thanks to the array of powerful tools available today. As someone who’s spent years refining my content creation process, I’ve discovered that having the right tools can dramatically improve your output quality and efficiency.
The Essential Content Creation Toolkit
Tools like SEMRush or AHREFS have become...
ChatGPT Prompts: The Secret to Writing Effectively
Learn how to craft effective ChatGPT prompts with this simple four-part framework that delivers better results in less time.
You don’t need to write multi-thousand-word prompts to get a usable output from ChatGPT. Most creators overcomplicate writing AI prompts. They write paragraphs of instructions and still get mediocre outputs.
A good ChatGPT prompt has four essential parts, and you can cover them in just a few sentences. This framework has consistently helped me generate content that’s...
March 13, 2025
The $100K Executive Assistant I Hired for $20 a Month
Discover how artificial intelligence can transform your productivity and business operations at a fraction of traditional costs.
In my corporate days, all the big executives employed executive assistants. Last time I checked, these executive assistants earned upwards of $100K per year. Nice work if you can get it. However, I had a sneaking suspicion these exec assistants did the real work, while their bosses hopped in and out of Microsoft Teams calls in between boozy long lunches and golf gam...
How AI Killed My Word Count Obsession: Becoming a Chief Idea Officer
Transform your content creation process by shifting from word count obsession to idea generation in the age of AI writing tools.
For years, I coached writers and creators on the principle of little writing. The formula was simple and effective:
Write a little every day. You only need 15 minutes to write 300 words. 300 words a day equals 2100+ words a week. Some days you’ll write more, some days less. But write like this, and you’ll create over 8000+ words a month. That’s 50,000+ words in s...
How to Capture Compelling Client Testimonials (My Simple System)
Learn how to collect, organize, and leverage powerful client testimonials and social proof that transforms prospects into paying customers.
A few hours ago, I hosted a private workshop on The Art of Prompt Writing. As I often do after delivering any offer, I emailed participants asking for feedback and testimonials.
If you create products or services, collecting social proof isn’t optional—it’s essential. But many creators struggle with a systematic approach to gathering and organizing the...
March 12, 2025
Substack Daily Notes: The Growth Hack That Only Takes 5 Minutes a Day
Discover how Substack daily notes can dramatically increase your subscriber count with minimal time investment.
If you’re looking to grow your audience without spending hours creating content or thousands on ads, I’ve stumbled upon a simple Substack strategy that’s yielding impressive results.
The Power of Substack Daily Notes
Daily notes function like seeds you plant on the Substack platform.This month, I committed to writing 2-3 daily notes and 1-2 weekly newsletters on Substa...
How I Got 25,000 Email Subscribers (And Why I Deleted Thousands)
Discover the unconventional journey of building and refining an email subscribers list that actually converts, while maintaining daily writing habits that drive business results.
It’s my anniversary! I started my daily newsletter a year ago, and it’s transformed how I approach content creation and audience building.
Writing these emails is far more enjoyable than churning out SEO-optimized blog posts week after week. My process is simple yet effective: after dropping the kids at school, I ...
Why Patient Email Marketing Pays Off: The 9-Year Email Nurture
Discover how nurturing an email list for the long term can transform cold subscribers into loyal customers, even after years of waiting.
Nine years is a long time to nurture a lead.
Most email marketing experts talk about campaigns that last a week or a month, but certainly not 3,285 days. Yet that’s exactly what happened with one of my subscribers who recently purchased from me after being on my list since 2016.
This story contains a powerful lesson about email marketing patience that ...
How I’m Using ChatGPT Projects for My Business
Learn how to streamline your AI workflow and enhance productivity with ChatGPT Projects. Organize your work efficiently with this powerful feature.
A common frustration with ChatGPT? The more you use it, the more chats you end up with. After nearly two years of using it, I’ve accumulated hundreds of chats.
Wading through them to find the correct information and outputs is decidedly un-AI-like. I was drowning in ChatGPT conversations until a few weeks ago.
Good thing ChatGPT rolled out a...
