Turn Your Social Media "Comments" into Testimonials That Sell For You
How 1 social media comment can transform into a self-selling testimonial for your business...using this simple workflow.
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Last Wednesday, you learned how to use a GPT prompt to automatically keep track of your expenses…
This week, you’ll learn how to use a GPT prompt to move screenshots from your phone and have them post to your website in seconds.
This step-by-step guide below will teach you exactly how to build this workflow…
Even if you’re a complete newbie to AI tools.
You can build this one on your lunch break.
Workflow of the Week:
If you’re dyslexic like me, and you enjoy watching tutorials instead…
Click to watch me build this automation on YouTube here:
Pre-requisites:
Gmail (or similar email service) with label/tagging functionality
I use Airtable as my standalone database for everything…but you’ll need some type of database that can store images.
You could also have this automation feed your wordpress site, landing page, or content calendar hosted inside of Notion.
How to Build this Automation:
Building automations & workflows is like building with Legos.
This workflow is a great foundation for some really cool content, marketing, or sales automations.
Here’s how to build it in just 4 steps:
Create a “Testimonial Dump” folder in Google Drive.
Create the folder where you will be uploading your social media screenshots into.
Prepare Your Final Destination:
In my example, I’m storing these delightful social media comments inside an airtable database → for use in public dashboards like this one.
Create 3 columns:
Name: name of the person who gave you the testimonial
Status: if the testimonial is publicly visible on your website or not
Image: an "attachment” column for storing the actual screenshot file (jpg or jpeg)
Build the Automation Workflow in Make
Trigger = Google Drive → “Watch For Files in Folder”:
Trigger the automation to watch for any incoming files that are newly created.
Have it set to watch your “testimonial dump” folder you just created in google drive.
Module 2 = Google Drive → “Download a File”:
Map the “File ID” to the file from the trigger.
Module 3 = OpenAI GPT → “Analyze Images”:
Here’s the prompt:
Analyze this screenshot of a testimonial on social media. You have only 1 task: extract the full name of the person giving the testimonial. You will ONLY give us just the person's name as your output. Do not include any other text or punctuation in your outputs. We only need the name. You must complete this task with 100% accuracy or it's a failure.
Map the image to module 2.
Final Module = Airtable → “Create a Record”:
Map the output of the GPT prompt to the “Name” column
Set the status to be either published or not, depending on if you want all new testimonials to be approved first before showing up on your website.
Map the “web content link” output from module 2 to the “Image” column inside of airtable.
NOTE: you must have the google drive folder publicly shared as “anyone that has the link” or else the image will not get downloaded.
Test and Run the Automation
Benefits of this Workflow:
This is a great starter automation to build, as it takes a task you or your team would otherwise be doing constantly…and automates it from start to finish.
You start using the comments section of your social media posts or newsletter articles as “Social Proof”
You increase the engagement and visibility of your brand.
The sales page or website could have fresh testimonials that look like a carousel of positivity → further showing your authority online.
You store these screenshots and re-use them in your marketing or social media content.
This should help boost your conversion rates, turn more prospects into customers, and store valuable, brand-boosting compliments from your audience…that otherwise get forgotten about over time.
All you have to do is take a screenshot from your phone, and drop the image into your google drive folder.
The rest is taken care of for you automatically.
That’s it for this week’s Workflow, Autopreneur.
See you Friday,
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