{"id":"mkt-x-podcast-episode-titles","track":"marketing","audience":"freelancers","category":"brainstorming","technique":"constraints","title":"Brainstorm podcast episode titles with the guest's name right","free":false,"task":"You host a podcast for freelance designers and need a title for next week's episode. Brainstorm exactly 5 numbered titles, each under 9 words, each including the guest's name spelled the way she corrected it. Skip clickbait words (secret, shocking, hack, you won't believe), and reply with only the plain-text list.","materialLabel":"Episode notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"THE CREATIVE INVOICE - episode 48 notes\n\nGuest: Marisol Quintanilla-Brandt (spelled \"Marisol Quintanilla Brant\" in our booking form - she emailed to correct it: hyphen, and Brandt with a d-t)\nWho she is: brand designer, 14 years freelance, based in Tucson. Works with restaurants and small breweries.\n\nWhat we talked about:\n- How she raised her day rate from $600 to $1,100 over 3 years\n- Why she stopped doing free pitch work\n- Her rule: every project starts with a paid half-day workshop ($900)\n- Losing her biggest client in 2022 and what she changed after\n\nBest quote: \"Free pitches taught clients my ideas were free.\"\n\nListener survey: our most-downloaded titles name the guest and the main topic. Our least-downloaded used words like \"secret\" and \"hack\".\n\nProducer note (Ty): please no \"you won't believe\" titles, our audience hates that. Also no all-caps.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":5},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not flagging the name fix","why":"The booking form spelling appears first, so the AI may copy Brant.","fix":"Add: \"Spell it Marisol Quintanilla-Brandt in every title.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"No length limit","why":"Long names make the AI write 15-word titles with subtitles.","fix":"Add: \"Each title under 7 words, counting her last name.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Letting clickbait in","why":"Podcast titles in the AI's training are full of secrets and hacks.","fix":"Add: \"No secret, shocking, hack or you won't believe.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Getting grouped ideas","why":"The AI groups titles by style with bold headers and notes.","fix":"Add: \"Exactly 5 numbered titles, plain text.\"","checks":["numberedItems","plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says how many","patterns":["\\b(5|five)\\b.{0,20}titles","exactly \\d+"]},{"label":"Uses the corrected name","patterns":["quintanilla-brandt","brandt","spell"]},{"label":"Sets a length","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","short"]},{"label":"Rules out clickbait","patterns":["clickbait","secret","hack"]},{"label":"Asks for only the list","patterns":["only the (numbered )?list","no (intro|notes|explanation)","nothing else","plain text"]}],"hint":"Names get misspelled and titles get clickbaity unless you say otherwise. Give the AI the right spelling, a length, and the words to avoid.","rubricLabels":["Every title includes the guest's name spelled Marisol Quintanilla-Brandt (with the hyphen and 'Brandt'), or Quintanilla-Brandt alone, and never 'Brant' without the d","Every title is under 9 words, and each is about a topic from the notes (day rate, free pitches, paid workshop, losing a big client)","No title uses secret, shocking, hack, hacks or you won't believe, no words are in ALL CAPS, and the reply is only the numbered list"]}