The AI Social Playbook

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  • Claude Podcast Producer: Turn One Transcript Into a Week of Content

    Most podcast repurposing depends on whoever has time that week, so it comes out inconsistent or not at all. Rich Brooks of Flyte New Media shows the Claude project that drafts his blog post, social copy and SEO fields from one transcript, and how he keeps it sounding like him.

    KEY TAKEAWAYS
    Rich spends five to 10 minutes editing a Claude draft instead of two to three hours writing the post himself.
    His project instructions set exact rules per platform, including no hashtags on Facebook and "link in bio" on every Instagram post.
    He uploaded finished outputs he was proud of as knowledge docs so the project could see what good looks like.
    When the drafts overused "actually," Rich capped it at once per post, and the project now reports what it removed.
    Republishing the edited post as a Friday LinkedIn newsletter takes about 10 minutes and has drawn more than 1,300 subscribers.

    CHAPTERS
    00:00 Two to three hours per blog post, cut to 10 minutes of editing
    01:19 Why repurposing broke down whenever client work came first
    04:02 Recording in Descript and exporting the transcript
    07:49 "Do your voodoo" and uploading the transcript as markdown
    08:08 Descript returns 10 clips, Rich keeps the best three
    10:50 Capping "actually" at one use per post
    12:29 Republishing the blog post as a LinkedIn newsletter
    16:04 Uploading finished examples as knowledge docs
    18:29 Why a raw transcript may rank worse than a structured post
    21:05 What changed on social: LinkedIn and YouTube, not Facebook
    22:50 Where to find Rich

    https://www.agorapulse.com/blog/ai-social-playbook/e8/

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    24 min
  • Interview Your B2B Buyer in Claude Before You Build the Campaign

    The customer interviews that would tell you what your buyer thinks take weeks to book, and a survey only answers the questions you already thought to ask. Luan Wise builds a B2B buyer in Claude from research she already had, interviews her live, and switches Claude into the marketing lead's seat to work out what the answers mean for the campaign.

    KEY TAKEAWAYS

    Luan starts every persona from customer research she already has, because a blank page leads Claude down the wrong path.

    Her seed prompt tells Claude to stay in character, skip generic marketing advice, and say so when something is uncertain.

    Switching Claude from Sarah to the provider's marketing lead in the same chat turns the interview into an instant debrief.

    Sarah rated her protection a four out of ten, and admitted she'd never asked her IT provider a direct question about it.

    Her biggest barrier was the relationship: she didn't want her provider to feel accused, so she wants prep material and plain language before any sales call.

    Luan asks Claude for a percentage confidence on its answers, and keeps asking why when the number comes back low.

    CHAPTERS

    00:00 The buyer who assumed her IT provider had it covered

    00:54 Why Luan swapped surveys and focus groups for AI role-play

    02:12 Plan your scenarios before you type a prompt

    03:16 The seed prompt: build Sarah from research you already have

    05:19 The follow-up question a survey could never ask

    07:17 Sarah rates her protection a four out of ten

    08:30 Switch seats and let Claude debrief as the marketing lead

    11:34 Would Sarah actually ask her IT provider?

    12:19 "I've been asking the wrong question all along"

    13:25 What Sarah's answers mean for your content and your jargon

    15:23 Turn the avatar into a one-pager, a landing page or an email test

    16:47 How to stop the persona agreeing with you

    19:05 The biggest mistake: starting from a blank page

    20:02 Geoff Woods and the AI board of directors

    22:02 Where to find Luan

    Luan shares her screen for most of this session, so the video is worth a look on YouTube.

    Full episode breakdown and the blueprint: https://www.agorapulse.com/blog/ai-social-playbook/e7/

    CONNECT WITH LUAN WISE

    Website: https://www.luanwise.co.uk/

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luanwise/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/luanwise/

    THE AI SOCIAL PLAYBOOK

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAISocialPlaybook

    Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ai-social-playbook/id6808658318

    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4tmvz9PRDHA9qX2SCoFF8h

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    23 min
  • Build Custom AI Social Personas in Claude

    Generic prompts produce generic social posts, and the good ones you do write get stranded in a chat window you cannot find again. Loren Bartley fixed both with the same move: over 150 named skills inside one Claude project, handing work to each other until a week of posts lands in Agorapulse as drafts.

    KEY TAKEAWAYS

    A skill carries your standards as well as your instructions, so the work runs to the same bar every time instead of drifting with whatever you typed that day.

    A chat with no memory of your past positions will contradict you across a month of posts, and you will miss it because you did not write them.

    Loren rewrites her old talks with a skill called Trini before they enter her knowledge folder, so her ums and tangents never become source material.

    Constance plans the quarter, Edison plans the week, Connie assigns the batch, and each one saves its output for the next cycle to read.

    Naming 150 skills after their jobs turns the list into a retrieval system, which is how Audrey Ads Auditor gets found.

    Agatha checks the approved rows before staging them and caught Loren attaching a still image to a post briefed as video.

    CHAPTERS

    00:00 Why another post stopped feeling like a chore

    00:52 The two bottlenecks that had nothing to do with writing

    02:17 Why a fresh chat every time produces contradictions

    03:41 What a skill holds that a saved prompt does not

    06:22 Inside the Content Accelerator project and its knowledge files

    08:12 Trini rewrites her old talks before they enter the knowledge base

    09:29 Constance builds the quarterly content reference guide

    11:38 Edison turns the strategy into a weekly cycle brief

    15:09 Naming 150 skills so she can find the right one

    16:22 Connie assigns the batch to Caprice, Vivian and Hugo

    17:51 Hubert's Notion hub replaces posts buried in chats

    21:13 Agatha stages the approved rows into Agorapulse

    23:17 Agatha catches the still image on a video post

    26:22 What Loren does with the time she got back

    28:04 Where to get Edison

    Loren shares her screen for most of this session, so the video is worth a look on YouTube.

    Full episode breakdown and the blueprint: https://www.agorapulse.com/blog/ai-social-playbook/e6/

    Loren is giving away Edison, the skill that builds her weekly cycle brief: https://aimegasuccess.com/academy

    CONNECT WITH LOREN BARTLEY

    Website: https://impactiv8.com.au/

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorenbartley/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/impactiv8/

    THE AI SOCIAL PLAYBOOK

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAISocialPlaybook

    Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ai-social-playbook/id6808658318

    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4tmvz9PRDHA9qX2SCoFF8h

    Connect with Mike Allton: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeallton/


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    33 min
  • How to Convert Skeptics to Buyers Using AI

    Most social content gets built from random topics or from pillars that name subjects rather than objections, which earns engagement and no sales. Molly Mahoney maps the seven beliefs a buyer has to accept first, then turns one belief into a week of posts.

    The seven belief categories are why me, why this, why you, why now, why not, why stay, and why worse.

    Why stay is the category subscription products and memberships depend on, because the customer decides again every month.

    Molly typed 9/11 into the why-now prompt on purpose and got a holiday-overwhelm line she called tacky and disrespectful. A human still decides which dates carry weight.

    Her earlier version wrote a month of content at once and none of it got used, so this one caps the output at five posts from one belief.

    A finished batch exports as a CSV and merges with the Agorapulse bulk upload template, so a week queues without retyping.

    One client, a Toastmasters speaker who had only sold to friends and family, sold a $6,000 AI assessment and setup to a stranger after publishing against these beliefs.

    CHAPTERS

    00:00 The snarky meme that made Mike wince

    00:38 Why content pillars don't move buyers

    03:52 Brand first, beliefs second, one week of content per belief

    07:29 One click, four beliefs per category

    09:37 The 9/11 belief AI didn't know to refuse

    10:11 Why stay, the category memberships and SaaS live on

    12:06 Inside the story bank: quotes, metaphors, memes

    14:58 Why the tool refuses to write a month at once

    15:39 The five-post batch, conversation starter to POV meme

    19:18 CSV export straight into Agorapulse bulk upload

    22:55 The $6,000 sale to a total stranger

    https://www.agorapulse.com/blog/ai-social-playbook/e5/

    CONNECT WITH MOLLY MAHONEY

    Website: https://mollymahoney.com/

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mollygolive

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mollymahoneyofficial

    Connect with Mike Allton: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeallton/


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    26 min
  • How to Mine 85 Subreddits for AI Content

    Most social teams brainstorm content ideas from memory or a generic AI prompt, then wonder why nothing sounds different from a competitor's post. Christopher Penn, Chief Data Scientist at TrustInsights.ai, pulls real audience questions straight out of Reddit and turns them into a ranked list of 100 video topics.

    In this episode:

    • A model on par with Claude Sonnet 5 can run for about 1/40th the cost through a smart-and-cheap provider pick.

    • Reddit's questions, not its answers, make the safest source material, with a human still filtering trolls and skipping competitor mentions.

    • One Gemini Notebook prompt turns a raw Reddit export into 100 ranked questions.

    • Recording on an iPhone in a kitchen can beat a polished studio setup on platforms downranking synthetic-looking video.

    • Turning on YouTube's third-party training permission gets a creator's expertise cited by AI agents.

    • Timestamps:

      0:00 - The line that opens every failed AI pipeline

      2:39 - Why Chris skipped Claude Code for OpenCode

      5:05 - Mapping models by smart-and-cheap, not by brand

      9:45 - Why a product requirements document comes before any code

      13:31 - The one file that survives an AI's memory getting compressed

      17:50 - Turning a Reddit export into a grounded notebook

      20:51 - The exact prompt that produces 100 ranked questions

      22:05 - Why a human still filters trolls and skips competitors

      25:00 - Recording in a kitchen on purpose

      29:07 - The YouTube setting that trains AI on your expertise

      31:52 - The one trap that breaks every rushed AI pipeline

      Guest: Christopher Penn, Chief Data Scientist, TrustInsights.ai

      trustinsights.ai · christopherspenn.com · LinkedIn

      Full show notes and transcript:

      https://www.agorapulse.com/blog/podcasts/ai-social-playbook/e4


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      27 min
    • Claude Design Content Calendar: Ditch the Spreadsheet for Good

      Claudia Sandino spent up to a month building one content calendar in Google Sheets, then sent her boss four separate folder links so he could approve a single post. In this session she rebuilds that calendar as an interactive hub in Claude Design, edits it by talking to it, and says plainly where the tool still falls short.

      What you'll take away

      • Load your design system first: logo, fonts, colors, nothing more.

      • Her calendar prompt, with dropdowns per platform and ownership tabs.

      • Moving a week of posts to next month takes one sentence.

      • No multi-person editing yet, so she hands off to Canva through MCP.

      • Raw and unbranded, it invents data, so she reads every cell and checks the dates.

      • She built a reels production tracker with the time she got back.

      • Chapters

        00:00 Why spreadsheets stall social approvals

        02:36 Load the design system before you prompt

        03:11 Why the perfect prompt matters less than experience

        03:52 The calendar prompt she typed

        06:46 Brief in Claude, or go straight to Design?

        09:00 The second pass on a clunky first draft

        09:53 A month of building against one conversation

        11:00 Why 80% of a post happens off-platform

        11:50 Sharing it with a boss

        12:41 Moving a full week with one sentence

        13:36 The approval chain that cost four clicks

        14:56 The limitations and her review pass

        16:25 An Agorapulse data dump as a visual report

        17:31 The reels production tracker

        19:23 Where to find Claudia

        Guest

        Claudia Sandino is the Founder of Chief of Influence and a Social Media Director who has spent 15 years scaling brands from startups to the Fortune 500. She works at the intersection of AI automation and brand frameworks, helping teams move faster on content without losing the strategy behind it.

        LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/socialmediaclaudia

        Website: chiefofinfluence.com

        Instagram: @clauds.ai

        Full breakdown, the prompts, and the free Episode 3 Blueprint

        https://www.agorapulse.com/blog/ai-social-playbook/e3

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        22 min
      • Moving Past the Novelty: The Step-by-Step Brand Animation Playbook

        Most AI video demos stop a scroll and then go nowhere. Jeff Sieh built a 40-second animated show open in one Saturday, and on this episode he walks through every tool in the chain that got him there.

        What you'll learn

        • Why Jeff writes the song in Suno first and cuts the storyboard to the finished audio

        • How he pulls the SRT file out of Descript so Claude can time the shots to the music

        • Why he attaches character reference sheets to every prompt and starts a fresh chat each time

        • What a start frame and an end frame do, and why you cannot render from an end frame alone

        • What it costs: roughly $100 in Magnific credits for both animations in a single pass

        • How arguing with Claude produced a custom After Effects rig instead of a working answer

        • Chapters

          00:00 Why this is not AI slop

          00:37 What we are building today

          02:23 Novelty AI video against a sponsor spot that pays for itself

          04:19 Fifteen-minute guest theme songs in Suno

          06:17 The pre-production gap that breaks brand consistency

          07:11 The Makers Table claymation open

          09:59 Why the song gets written before the shot list

          11:45 Reusing one song for every guest with Suno's Cover feature

          13:43 Character reference sheets, palettes and the fox sweater

          14:57 Inside Claude's twelve-shot storyboard document

          17:21 The Magnific render dashboard

          18:07 What the rendering credits actually cost

          20:08 Start frames and end frames explained

          22:15 Letting Magnific pick the model

          23:07 What this project would have required before AI

          25:11 Twelve books into social content and Spanish audiobooks

          26:19 Arguing Claude into building an After Effects rig

          28:46 The frame mismatch that wastes your credits

          29:38 Where to find Jeff

          About the guest

          Jeff Sieh is Head Beard at Social Media News Live and an international speaker and visual marketing consultant. He hosts the Social Media News Live show and podcast, and co-hosts The Makers Table with Katie Fawkes, the show whose animated open he deconstructs here.

          Website: socialmedianewslive.com

          LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jeffsieh

          He is @jeffsieh on every network.

          Watch the screen shares and grab the playbook

          Jeff walks through his Suno library, his ChatGPT character sheets, Claude's storyboard document and the Magnific dashboard on camera. The full episode page has the video, the complete transcript and The Automated Brand Animation Playbook as a download.

          https://www.agorapulse.com/blog/ai-social-playbook/e2

          The AI Social Playbook is hosted by Mike Allton and brought to you by Agorapulse and archie.app.

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          24 min
        • AI Social Listening: Find the Buyer Objections in Your Comments

          Your listening tool counts mentions and stops there, so a month of comments arrives as a pile nobody has time to read. Brooke Sellas, CEO of B Squared Media, shares her screen and runs 1,902 of them through Claude to find the complaints that are actually costing the brand money.

          What you will take away

          • A negative sentiment score cannot tell a pricing objection from a shipping delay or a rude support reply.

          • Claude trimmed 1,902 incoming messages to 1,829 real conversations by stripping spam unprompted.

          • The biggest theme, odor at 249 mentions, split 49% positive against 40% negative, so it is a coin flip.

          • Ranking by one-sidedness lifted dust to second on 66 negative mentions, since 55% of dust mentions are negative.

          • The discount double-check makes Claude show verbatim comments and row locations alongside its summary.

          • The FAQ pass returned a ranked question list matched to formats, including a competitor comparison page.

          • Chapters

            00:00 Manual listening reports miss the real questions

            00:51 Social listening by hand, one spreadsheet row at a time

            02:21 Why a negative score hides four different problems

            03:26 Conversation is home turf for a language model

            05:07 Pulling one month of conversations out of your inbox

            06:09 The context block that goes in before the instruction

            07:45 What counts as a meaningful sample

            09:08 1,902 messages in, 1,829 after the spam is gone

            09:50 The biggest theme is a coin flip

            11:05 Start with the objections, not the 82% praise

            12:19 Ranking by one-sidedness instead of theme size

            14:17 The discount double-check

            15:29 Put the citation request in the first prompt

            16:02 The what we heard loop with clients

            17:39 Answering the question where it was asked

            19:05 The FAQ list and the competitor comparison page

            20:57 Why she skipped her Claude project

            22:01 Three ways a first run goes wrong

            24:12 Six months of hand-coding down to a couple of hours

            26:08 Where to find Brooke

            About our guest

            Brooke Sellas is CEO of B Squared Media, a social experience management firm that runs social care for brands including Brother International, Miele, and BCU. She wrote Conversations That Connect, teaches social care through UCI and LinkedIn Learning, and was doing conversational analysis by hand long before software existed for it.

            Website: bsquared.media

            LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/brookebsellas

            YouTube: youtube.com/c/hellobsquared

            Full episode, prompts, and transcript

            https://www.agorapulse.com/blog/podcasts/ai-social-playbook/e1

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            24 min
          • Why Most AI Social Media Advice Fails (And What Works) | The AI Social Playbook Trailer

            Stop guessing your AI workflows. Watch real builders share their screens and grab the free prompt kits here: https://agorapulse.com/blog/ai-social-playbook/

            Let’s be honest - social media moves way too fast to keep up doing things the old way. Between constant platform algorithm changes and the pressure to publish daily, just working more hours isn't a strategy. And typing "give me 10 post ideas" into ChatGPT? That just gives you the same generic stuff your competitors are already posting.

            Welcome to The AI Social Playbook - a hands-on tactical lab built for modern social media practitioners and marketing leaders who are ready to build something bigger.

            We completely skip the 20-minute resumes and high-level corporate fluff. Each week, we sit down with elite practitioners and brand builders who are actually winning with AI on social. We don't just talk about their strategy - we make them share their screens.

            You’ll see their exact prompt chains, multi-agent setups, and workflows in real time so you can replicate what works and avoid what breaks.

            Inside the Lab:

            • Live screen shares of real AI workspaces and prompt setups

            • Practical shortcuts that give lean marketing teams unfair leverage

            • How top operators use human judgment to eliminate generic AI slop

            • Free companion blueprints and prompt toolkits with every single episode

            • Timestamps:

              00:00 - The Reality Check: Why generic AI prompts fail modern marketers
              00:45 - Inside the Lab: Live screen shares and real workflows
              01:25 - Free Episode Blueprints and Prompt Kits
              01:55 - How to Watch & Subscribe

              New masterclasses drop every Monday right here on YouTube. Hit Subscribe, dive into our first episode, and let’s build together!

              Hosted by Mike Allton, Chief Storyteller at Agorapulse.

              The AI Social Playbook is powered by Agorapulse and built with Archie.app.

              Connect with Mike Allton on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mikeallton

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              3 min

            About The AI Social Playbook

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            Let’s be real - social media moves too fast for traditional execution to keep up anymore. Between shifting algorithms and the constant demand for high-velocity content, just grinding harder isn't a strategy.