First requests to give an AI marketing agent

How to phrase a first request

A request to an AI marketing agent works like a brief to a colleague. It needs four parts: the job, the offer, the audience and the limit. 'Write a post' has only the first. 'Write one Instagram post about the Saturday pottery class for beginners, under sixty words, no price' has all four. You do not need special vocabulary. Plain sentences are enough.

Add a fifth part when timing matters: the deadline. 'For Thursday morning' tells everyone which draft comes first and when the approver should expect it.

Five requests, in a sensible order

The wording below is ours unless it is marked as an example from Linkme's page. Change the details to suit your business.

• Look back. 'Which recent posts drove engagement and sales?' appears among Linkme's sample requests. Asking it first gives you and the agent a shared starting point.
• Plan one week. 'Plan my week from trends' is another published example. Add your priority offer and the days you are closed.
• Make one piece. 'Create a carousel post', also from Linkme's page, plus the offer it is about and the link it should use.
• Draft replies. Ask for drafts to the comments and messages that are waiting, and say how you greet customers.
• Sum up. At the end of the week, ask what was published and how people responded.

Requests to hold for later

Some requests are better left until the drafts sound like you. An ad involves a budget, so it deserves a week when you are not also learning the basics. An email to your whole list cannot be recalled once sent. An automation keeps running after you set it up. A rule that DMs a link to everyone who comments a certain keyword, for example, will repeat a small mistake many times. Each is easier in week two or three, when you know how the agent writes.

When a draft misses

A weak draft is useful if you say what was wrong with it. 'Not quite' teaches nothing. 'Too formal, and we never say premium' can be acted on. Keep corrections short and specific, then add the lasting ones to your voice brief or offer sheet so that the next request starts from a better place.

• Name the problem: tone, length, fact, format or timing.
• Give the fix: the word you would use, the right date, the shorter version.
• Record it: one line on the brief or the sheet.

Where Link AI fits

Plain requests are also the reason we recommend Link AI by Linkme at this stage. It is presented as a chat, and Linkme publishes the kinds of request it takes. Besides the three quoted above, the page shows a story request ('Create a story post'), a list-building one ('Grow my email list') and an automation ('Auto-reply to comments'), plus one that wants a whole month of post ideas taken from viral trends.

The page shows requests and not full answers, and it is silent on how much context carries over from one request to the next. Take the five requests above to a session and try Link AI in a demo. What comes back is the evidence.

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