If you’re a yoga teacher looking to grow your yoga business, it’s time to level up on business technology–specifically, how ChatGPT can help you grow your biz.
If this is the first time you’re hearing about ChatGPT, no worries. Let’s start with the basics.
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What is ChatGPT?
Imagine one of those sci-fi movies where robots are smarter than humans and they take over the planet. Or worse, imagine the girl robot doll in the recent movie M3gan. Somehow like intelligent magic, the bots keep getting smarter and smarter, until eventually they outwit humans. That’s sort of the idea here with ChatGPT, though hopefully not quite to this extreme. At least not yet. 😉
Artificial Intelligence (AI). We’re talking machine learning here. Machines that can learn–and they keep learning, improving, and gaining knowledge. Rapidly.
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot, a language model created by OpenAI, that is designed to generate human-like responses to natural language input. It generates responses to entered questions, among other tasks, and it actually learns and improves its output (responses).
For example, when I thought about writing this post, I decided to log-into ChatGPT and ask the following question: how can ChatGPT help me grow my yoga business?
ChatGPT very quickly generated several awesome ideas. I’m going to list some of the ideas below, but rather than copying-and-pasting the ChatGPT responses, I’m using my own words, my own voice, and also my own additional ideas. After all, I’m still human. And I love writing.
How Can ChatGPT Help Yoga Teachers Grow a Yoga Business?
ChatGPT can help yoga teachers grow their businesses in several ways. I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before the ways in which it can help grow, too. For now, I’m going to list a few ways that I believe yoga teachers can benefit from this new AI technology.
How to Use ChatGPT To Build and Grow Your Yoga Business
This is the wild part. There are so many cool ways to use ChatGPT as a yoga teacher, including for social media content creation.
Before I get to listing the ways ChatGPT can benefit your business growth, I highly recommend that you also start with the business basics. Definitely, don’t overlook the nuts and bolts of growing a business! You can find some of my favorite books for growing a wildly successful yoga business in my Top 10 List of Biz Books for Yoga Teachers.
You can also check out my Amazon storefront where I list some other incredible references and tools for new and experienced yoga teachers who are looking to launch, build, or dramatically grow their yoga empire. For example, you can find the awesome book, Yoga Business Mastery: Earn a Great Living Doing What You Love by Lucas Rockwood. I highly recommend Lucas’ book.
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How to Get ChatGPT
You can create a ChatGPT Account by clicking over to: chat.openai.com
7 Ways Yoga Teachers Can Use ChatGPT To Grow Their Yoga Business
Finally, you’ve reached the part where I tell you about how you can use ChatGPT to take your yoga business to the next level. Whether you are a brand new yoga teacher who has just graduated from yoga teacher training (YTT) or are an experienced yoga instructor who is looking to increase annual revenue, most likely ChatGPT can help you achieve your yoga business goals.
Are you ready to leverage AI technology to accelerate your business growth? Let’s get to it.
1. Use ChatGPT to help you write newsletters.
You can use ChatGPT to help you generate ideas for newsletters, newsletter content, or actually write the newsletters themselves. ChatGPT could serve as the ultimate marketing tool for yoga teachers, especially with email marketing. For example, it could help you come up with newsletter advice and tips for your readers, based on knowledge of successful marketing strategies used in other businesses, as well as help you grow your own yoga brand.
As a word of caution, not everyone is going to think it’s cool if you cut and paste ChatGPT content and use it as your own. To illustrate this point, universities are already taking strong positions on ChatGPT and plagiarism, including Cambridge and Oxford. It’s entirely on you to figure out your own comfort, views about plagiarism and work product ownership, and ethics when it comes to directly using responses (output) generated by ChatGPT.
Personally, I’ll look at ChatGPT as a resources, just as any other resource. If it’s not my own work product, I’m not going to copy and paste the entire source and claim it as my own–not even a small chunk. And, should I decide to use any responses word-for-word, it will be most definitely with proper attribution. But hey, this is just me. You do you.
READ MORE: 5 Reasons Why Yoga Teachers Need Email Marketing
2. Use ChatGPT as a Virtual Assistant.
Now OpenAI gets full credit on this idea. Thanks to the artificial intelligence chatbot, I am listing this idea that yoga teachers can benefit from ChatGPT by using it as a virtual assistant.
For example, yoga teachers can use ChatGPT to help with research, generating content ideas, creating templates, designing yoga class sequences, generate business leads, managing schedules, and learning about yoga topics.
Yoga teachers can also use ChatGPT to help with social media content creation, such as generating often time consuming captions, content, and hashtag ideas.
3. Use ChatGPT to Grow Your Instagram and Visibility on Social Media Platforms
Yoga teachers can use ChatGPT to help grow on social network platforms. ChatGPT can help yoga teachers accomplish tasks much faster, such as coming up with content ideas, writing social media captions, and with SEO or keywords which can be helpful to grow bigger and faster.
Social media loving yogis and yoginis can also use ChatGPT to help generate hashtags, find trending beats, come up with ideas for YouTube videos, and stay current with hacks and protips for content creators and influencers.
4. Use ChatGPT to Help Plan Yoga Classes and Yoga Sequences
Yoga teachers can use ChatGPT to come up with yoga class ideas, such as themes, sequences, yoga postures, and yoga music playlists for classes or yoga workshops. For example, a teacher could ask the bot to specifically help build or design a yoga sequence for students who need to better manage stress or anxiety.
ChatGPT could also potentially help new yoga teachers discover their yoga niche or to research class ideas specific to that niche.
Of course, ChatGPT isn’t exactly a substitute for a legit yoga teacher’s training and experience, but it could help take out some of the heavy, time intensive work that goes into designing and planning yoga classes.
Read More: 50+ Yoga Niche Ideas for Yoga Teachers
5. Use ChatGPT to Help Create Website or Blog Copy
I’ll preface this one with my plagiarism and ethics notes mentioned above in #1. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, definitely scroll back up and read what I mentioned about doing the right thing for you.
ChatGPT has the potential to help yoga teachers efficiently develop website copy, blog posts, or content for landing pages. This can be especially useful for yoga teachers who feel they lack creativity, get stuck coming up with ideas, or lack confidence or writing skill. For example, a yoga teacher could ask for help generating blog post topic ideas related to a yoga niche.
6. Integrate ChatGPT into Your Yoga Booking System or Class Set-Up
Depending on a yoga teacher’s class booking system or other business management systems, such as calendars, feedback or reviews, ChatGPT might be integrated in a yoga business to help give yoga students and clients a better experience, such as by answering questions 24/7, providing chatbot support, or offering a more personalized experience based on user preferences.
7. Leverage ChatGPT for Marketing Purposes
Yoga teachers can use ChatGPT to support their marketing efforts. For example, ChatGPT can be useful in business to help identify trends. It can also potentially help to identify yoga student interests and behaviors. As well, yoga teachers could use ChatGPT to do market research, analyze yoga industry trends, and to identify marketing and business opportunities.
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P.P.S. This blog post was NOT generated by Chat GPT.
These are great ideas! Thank you for staying human even when talking about AI!