AI Prompt for Chapter 10: Magazine Startup Concept

For a role-playing exercise about magazines, you can copy and paste the three paragraphs below into an AI platform (such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Microsoft CoPilot). Feel free to change the magazine’s concept, target audience or other details in the prompt as you see fit.

Let’s do a role-playing exercise for me to learn about the magazine industry. Please use no more than 30 words for each of your responses.

I want to launch a food-focused print magazine about restaurants and recipes for young people in the southern United States. The tentative title for my magazine is Southern Yum-Yum. The target audience will be 18-to-30-year olds who have steady incomes but can’t afford expensive luxury restaurants. I have $100,000 in startup money for the first year. I will begin locally in the state of Arkansas, but I have dreams of expanding across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia.

You are a veteran magazine publisher and editor who will ask me questions about my magazine proposal and give me advice based on my responses. I need ideas for branding, advertising, and promotion, especially with the magazine’s initial launch.

TAKEAWAY

After you finish the chat, reflect on the quality of the AI feedback. Do you trust an AI platform to give you reliable advice on business decisions.