Appendix 1 Quick ideas for creating a persona
- Biographical?
- Geographic profile?
- Demographic profile?
- Psychographics – social class, lifestyle traits, motivations, and personality characteristics?
- Webographics – characteristics (tenure of usage, device, and speed)?
- Persona relationship to the business – employee, partner, supplier, the customer?
- Products/business relationship to the persona – usage rate, loyalty, attitude, projected brand relationship?
- Specific goals/needs/attitudes – usage and emotional goals, motivations, needs, frustrations triggers for action?
- Specific knowledge – language (including local dialect, slang, and jargon), computer proficiency?
- Context of usage – seasonality, culture, task context, user’s role, responsibilities, benefits sought, environment, security, trends, legal, learnability?
- Interaction characteristics of usage – frequency, regularity, continuity, timeliness, complexity, scenarios?
- Information characteristics of usage – information flow and presentation?
- Sensory/immersive characteristics of usage – brand, identity, style, genre, appeals, memorable, pleasurable?
- Emotional characteristics of usage – brand personality – sincerity, excitement, perceived and experienced, point of time and sense of place?
- Accessibility issues – physical, and mental disabilities, assistive devices used?
- Design issues – appreciation of style and design?
- Persona relationships – general interaction?
Appendix 2 How to optimise your pictures
- Image file names – Name your image Charlie-walking-down-the-road.jpg not img45rt.jpg
- Add metadata and key phrases in image properties
- Always use high-resolution imagery (at least 72 dpi)
- Upload to image-sharing sites (Pinterest/Instagram and link back to <your brand name> website and
- where possible add relevant text around the image
- Use descriptive alt and title attributes when linking to the pictures
- Link to the image wherever you can using descriptive text
Appendix 3 Best practices for content on YouTube
Overview
- Create original content that entertains and educates (How to)
- Use your experience to engage the community
- Concise messages may be delivered in two minutes or less
- Use audience retention reports to determine what users find engaging (average percentage viewed)
- Update content regularly, with a regular frequency
- Read user comments for new ideas and respond with key term answers
How to optimise video
- Make the video title the same as a web page title (including any key phrases)
- Use all the 120 characters
- Place <your brand name> at the end of the title (if at all)
Description
- There are 5000 characters available
- Include full transcript and/or long-form article
- Include URLs (HTTPS://) for more information and/or the main site
Tags
- Use all 120 characters
- Put <your brand name>, places, topics, and key phrases you wish to rank for here
Other
- Watermark your video with your target URL (in the edit where possible) at the start and end (the first 5 seconds is free branding if the video is skipped in ads)
- Jumpstart the view figure by sharing on social media, ensuring they watch the complete video
- Interact with other videographers on YouTube – comment on their videos and/or create a video response
- Embed the video on <your brand name>.com (and any other relevant websites possible).
- Build links to the video from press releases
- Add an open question in the comments to engage watchers
- Upload and share playlists to increase overall view time
Appendix 4 Generative AI Tools & Prompt Engineering
Brain
Chat GPT 4 – ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in a prompt and provide a detailed response.
Video
Synthesia – Synthesia is an AI video creation platform. Thousands of companies use it to create videos in 120 languages, saving up to 80% of their time and budget
Vidyo – Vidyo is a video communication and conferencing software that embeds real-time video into virtually any application environment and network.
Audio
Descript – Descript – Genuinely Useful. Edit By Script And Scene And Share Your Videos And Podcasts. Descript Is The Only Tool You Need To Write, Record, Transcribe, Edit, Collaborate
Otter – Otter.ai uses AI to write automatic meeting notes with real-time transcription, recorded audio, automated slide capture, and automated meeting summaries
Trint – Trint’s AI transcription quickly converts your audio & video files to text, making them as editable, searchable and collaborative as a doc.
Audio Editing
Krisp – Krisp works where you do … Krisp acts as a “smart” layer between your device and any online communication solution to eliminate all background noise
Beatoven – Beatoven.ai uses advanced AI music generation techniques to generate unique mood-based music to suit every part of your video.
Cleanvoice – Cleanvoice is an artificial intelligence, which removes filler sounds (uh’s, um’s), mouth sounds (Ex. Lip-smacking) and stuttering from your podcast
Podcastle – Podcastle is the simplest way to create professional-quality podcasts. Record, edit, transcribe, and export your content with the power of AI
Image Generation
Dalle 2 – DALL·E 2 is an AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.
Mid Journey – Midjourney is an independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought
Stable Diffusion – Stable Diffusion is a latent text-to-image diffusion model capable of generating photo-realistic images given any text input
Flair – The AI design tool for Branded Content
Text
Murf – Murf offers high-quality natural-sounding AI voices for your projects.
Text Generation
Writesonic – Write SEO-optimised, long-form blogs up to 1500 words in under 15 seconds with Writesonic. Works for: blogs, landing pages, ads, emails, product descriptions & more.
Jasper – Breakthrough Writer’s Block with Jasper Who Will Help You Spark Fresh Ideas. Jasper – AI Copywriting & Content Generation for Teams. Write content 5x faster.
Copy Matic – Save time, save money, and optimise your copy with AI. We’ll do the heavy lifting for you. Write unlimited SEO-optimised and plagiarism-free content for your blog.
Ryrt – Rytr is an AI writing assistant that helps you create high-quality content, in just a few seconds, at a fraction of the cost! ; killer content, effortlessly.
Tome – A collaborative AI partner, right at your fingertips. Type in a prompt and watch Tome generate entire narratives from scratch or create additional content pages
Presentations
Beautiful.ai – Create professional-looking presentations in minutes.