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Design a newsletter template

This is real work, not a feature someone invented — it comes from real job ads and real questions people asked. Below are four ready AI prompts: get it done, make it easy for the next person to say yes to, work out the right move when you are stuck, and stop it coming back.

4prompts

The same task, four prompts

today's deadline · the next reviewer · the stuck moment · the pattern
AExecute — do the immediate taskCreate a newsletter template for our monthly product updates that fits our brand. Use the hero…+
Create a newsletter template for our monthly product updates that fits our brand. Use the hero image from the April launch, put the product highlights section first, include a clear pricing link and a 'Talk to Sales' button, and add a footer with unsubscribe, privacy policy and our support email. Save it as 'Product Updates - Template' and make it mobile-friendly. Share with Priya in design for a quick visual check before use.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
BImprove — make it easier to acceptBefore I roll this newsletter out to subscribers, make it easy for readers to find the business…+
Before I roll this newsletter out to subscribers, make it easy for readers to find the business case. Move the pricing and core value proposition into a single block beneath the hero, bold the savings or benefit line, add anchor links so readers can skip to Features, Case Study, Pricing, and make the 'Talk to Sales' button persistent on mobile. Flag anything that might trigger our legal team's concerns.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
CDecide — diagnose the stuck momentI swapped in the new header Anna exported and the newsletter preview looks cramped on phones;…+
The designer changed our header and it looks cramped on mobile.
I swapped in the new header Anna exported and the newsletter preview looks cramped on phones; the Talk to Sales button is pushed below the fold on most previews. I need to decide whether to revert to the old header or rework the layout for mobile, because the send goes to 120,000 subscribers next Monday and I can't get design to prioritize it. What is the likely trade-off and the best immediate fix to preserve clicks?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
DBecome — change the patternEvery few months we rebuild the newsletter and still ship with mobile layout problems, costing…+
Every newsletter rebuild gets delayed by mobile issues.
Every few months we rebuild the newsletter and still ship with mobile layout problems, costing opens and clicks. We then spend 48 hours firefighting fixes. What three process changes will stop this cycle — from briefing design to final QA — that a two-person marketing team can own so templates ship mobile-ready and avoid last-minute rewrites?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?

Questions people actually ask

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Every task here was seen in the real world. Someone doing the job named it, a real job ad asked for it, or a lot of people asked about it online.

If nothing real showed a task, it is not on the page. That is the whole rule.

They are the same job approached four ways, because what you need depends on where you are.

Get it done today. Make it easy for the next person to say yes to. Work out the right move when you are stuck. Learn the pattern so the job stops coming back.

For most of these jobs it can carry the heavy thinking - draft it, sort it, check it, rehearse it with you.

It cannot sit in your chair, take the blame when a number is wrong, or notice what nobody wrote down. Let it do the first 80%. Keep the last 20% that is truly yours.

No. Copy any prompt and paste it into the AI you already use. No account, no score, no wall in the way.

Any of them. The prompts describe the work rather than naming a product, so they are not tied to one assistant.

That is also why they keep working when you switch.

Change it freely. Every prompt is a starting line, not a rule.

Put in your real numbers, your real names and your real deadline. The more you make it yours, the better the answer comes back.

The tasks come from real job ads, published job data and the questions people ask in public forums.

The steps come from Mailchimp's own documentation, with practitioner sources for the traps the manual does not mention.

Push once. Ask it to sharpen the weakest part and to say what it assumed.

Most wrong answers come from a missing detail rather than a bad prompt - tell it the thing it could not know.