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Create a smart list

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 smart list named 'Q4 Webinar Registrants' that includes all leads who registered for…+
Create a smart list named 'Q4 Webinar Registrants' that includes all leads who registered for any webinar in October, November, or December 2023, for our follow-up campaign.
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 build the nurture campaign for our new product, create a smart list that identifies…+
Before I build the nurture campaign for our new product, create a smart list that identifies leads who have downloaded the 'Product X Whitepaper' AND visited the pricing page in the last 30 days, but have not yet received a sales call. I need to make sure we're targeting the most engaged prospects.
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 just created a smart list for our 'Enterprise Solutions' campaign, intending to target leads…+
I'm trying to segment leads for a targeted campaign, but the list I built is showing far fewer people than I expected, and I can't figure out why.
I just created a smart list for our 'Enterprise Solutions' campaign, intending to target leads from companies with over 500 employees in specific industries who've engaged with our last three emails. The count is much lower than I anticipated, and I'm worried I'm missing key prospects. Is there a filter I'm overlooking, or a common mistake that would drastically reduce the list size without me realizing?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
DBecome — change the patternI'm constantly creating one-off smart lists for every new campaign or email send, and it feels…+
I spend too much time manually updating lists for campaigns, especially for ongoing engagement.
I'm constantly creating one-off smart lists for every new campaign or email send, and it feels like I'm reinventing the wheel. This takes up valuable time that I could use for strategy. What habit can I change to build more reusable and dynamic smart lists that automatically update, so I'm not always starting from scratch?
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 Adobe Marketo Engage'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.