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Test a small ad budget without wasting it
You've a little to spend on ads and dread throwing it away. Get a simple test plan with what to run, when to stop and how to tell if it worked.
The prompt · ChatGPT
Help me test a small advertising budget without wasting it. What I'm selling: [service or product] Who it's for and where: [e.g. homeowners within 10 miles of Exeter] The most I'll spend on this test: [amount] What a new customer is roughly worth to me: [e.g. first job value, or value over a year] How people buy: [e.g. ring, book online, visit] Where I'm thinking of advertising: [e.g. Facebook and Instagram, Google, local magazine, not sure] Ask me up to 4 short questions first. Wait for my answers. Then: 1. Recommend one place to test first and why, given my customers and budget. 2. Plan the test: how long, how much per day or week, and two versions to compare (different headline or picture). 3. Write both versions of the ad. 4. Set clear stop rules: when to switch off, and what result would be worth carrying on. 5. Give me a simple tracking table to fill in weekly: spent, enquiries, customers, cost per customer. Show your sums, use my figures only, and remind me to check each platform's own ad rules. This is planning help, not a promise of results. UK English. Stay in this ChatGPT chat. Do not turn on apps or connectors, and do not use memory from another chat.
A short example
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The prompt · Gemini
Help me test a small advertising budget without wasting it. What I'm selling: [service or product] Who it's for and where: [e.g. homeowners within 10 miles of Exeter] The most I'll spend on this test: [amount] What a new customer is roughly worth to me: [e.g. first job value, or value over a year] How people buy: [e.g. ring, book online, visit] Where I'm thinking of advertising: [e.g. Facebook and Instagram, Google, local magazine, not sure] Ask me up to 4 short questions first. Wait for my answers. Then: 1. Recommend one place to test first and why, given my customers and budget. 2. Plan the test: how long, how much per day or week, and two versions to compare (different headline or picture). 3. Write both versions of the ad. 4. Set clear stop rules: when to switch off, and what result would be worth carrying on. 5. Give me a simple tracking table to fill in weekly: spent, enquiries, customers, cost per customer. Show your sums, use my figures only, and remind me to check each platform's own ad rules. This is planning help, not a promise of results. UK English. Keep the tracking table as a table so I can use Export to Sheets. Stay in this Gemini chat. Leave extensions off, including Gmail and Drive.
A short example
Fill the blanks, then paste. service or product: a short note you already have. e.g. homeowners within 10 miles of Exeter: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.
You say what you sell, who to, and the most you're willing to spend on a test.
The assistant asks what a new customer is worth to you and how people buy.
You get a small test plan with two versions to compare, stop rules, and a tracking table.
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Use Gemini to test a small ad budget without wasting it
You've a little to spend on ads and dread throwing it away. Get a simple test plan with what to run, when to stop and how to tell if it worked.
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