In a word, yes. If you want to learn how I use a hybrid human + ChatGPT blog writing system – keep reading.
Table of Contents
- How I Started a ChatGPT Blog Writing Business for $20
- My Hybrid Human + ChatGPT Blog Writing System
- How to Build A Human + AI Blog Writing Dream Team
- How to Train ChatGPT to Write Like a Human
- How to Teach SEO to Your ChatGPT Blog Writing Assistant
- How I Turned Travel Stories Into AI Blog Content
- Get Your Own ChatGPT Blog Writing System
How I Used a Team of AI Assistants to Build A ChatGPT Blog Writing Engine That Writes Like Me
I’ve been told more than once that my greatest skill is managing people. I’m a concepts guy and a thinker. I like to have big ideas, then find the right people for the job.
Unfortunately, big ideas take teams. And not everyone has the budget for a dream team of talent. When I started my blog mill, neither did I.
Last year, I was recovering from a serious illness. CIRS (Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome) This illness had taken more than three years of my life.
Besides taking my time, this illness had taken my business and savings. If you’re interested, you can read about my journey here.
In this blog post, I will show you how I turned $20 into a business that creates high-quality blogs, using nothing more than ChatGPT.
How I Started a ChatGPT Blog Writing Business for $20
Most people don’t have a recruitment budget. But they do have a spare $20. And with that, you can access a never-ending supply of talent. If you’ve got the imagination and drive to use it properly, that is.
The first business I built using AI was a blog mill.
Now, I know what you’re thinking: emotionless, SEO-choked gibberish. The same blocky content you’ve tripped over a hundred times online. However my blog mill was different. I am a writer at heart and I value the power of words more than most. So, my blog miill had to be perfect.
I didn’t just ask ChatGPT to “write me a blog post.” I built a structured, task-focused team of AI assistants, each responsible for a specific stage of the blog writing process.
I didn’t want to churn out bland content. I wanted a lean, scalable, automated business. That could tell stories and paint big pictures. So I sat down and built my first AI dream team.
My Hybrid Human + ChatGPT Blog Writing System
Luckily, I already understood the mechanics of good blog writing. I have been writing my entire life, and I have a good understanding of SEO.
My first AI writing attempts were a disaster. I made the classic mistake. I wrote a prompt based on the “act like” principle.
I asked ChatGPT to act like a blog writer with a world of experience. I requested a blog post about travel accessories. What I received was emotionless, hallucinated garbage.
My initial belief was that I could get better results if my prompt was longer. The result, I fell into the classic “give AI personality” trap.
I wrote a long prompt with phrases such as:
- “You are an expert writer.”
- “You have been a lifelong traveler.”
- And rather embarrassingly:
“You are an excellent communicator and SEO expert, with a high standard of education.”
The results from these prompts were terrible. All I had managed to do was take emotionless garbage and add a pretentious personality.
All I was doing was writing long-winded prompts that said, “You can do it all. You’re an expert in everything.” Without giving my AI any clear guidance or context.
Then I had an idea.
How to Build A Human + AI Blog Writing Dream Team
My final attempt before I went back to the drawing board was a prompt so long it could have been an 800-word blog post.
The result? I broke ChatGPT — by giving it too much information, and not enough context.
I then decided to sit down with a pencil and paper, and I drew the blog writing process. If I write a blog, I don’t just open a blank document and start writing.
First, I will plan the SEO. Then I will research the topic. After this, I will write my first draft. So, I decided to do the same with AI.
I split my operation into three roles:
- SEO Assistant (keyword research + post planning)
- Research Assistant (fact gathering + tone shaping)
- Editor Assistant (tightening + polishing)
And in the middle sat me: the “very part-time” writer.
This time the results were much better. I had three separate AI assistants performing three separate tasks.
But there was still something missing. The posts were still flat and robotic in tone.
How to Train ChatGPT to Write Like a Human
Let’s imagine this is a blog mill with real people.
You are the CEO. You’ve invested money finding an office and buying equipment. You have also dedicated time, and more money into recruitment.
On the first day, would you walk into the office, stand on a box, and yell, “Write me ten, 750-word blog posts on sports drinks!”?
Of course not. You would onboard your team. Align them to the mission. Set the tone and standards, before introducing your “house” writing style.
So here’s the question: why do people treat AI differently? I’ve written extensively on the subject of AI on-boarding, and a process I like to call Psychological Coding. You can read more about AI on-boarding and Psychological Coding here.
What did I do with my team of ChatGPT Blog writing assistants?
I trained them, unfortunately, AI knows too much, and can’t see the wood for the trees. Unless you show it what wood actually is, and more importantly, what your wood looks like.
This is where I introduced my AI writer to some of my previous work. I showed my AI writer how I write. I introduced my AI writer to my seance of humor and love of word play. I gave my AI writer something to aim for.
How to Teach SEO to Your ChatGPT Blog Writing Assistant
Ask any SEO professional, and they’ll tell you that structure wins. So I took a free SEO course, distilled the best bits, and built a mini training manual.
I didn’t ask my AI assistant to “act like an SEO expert.” I gave my assistant goals and examples.
I didn’t want keyword-stuffed fluff. I wanted:
- Long-tail, voice-friendly queries
- Sourced facts
- Reputable links
- Quotes from industry leaders
My SEO prompt wasn’t short. It read more like a short blog post. But, it delivered context to a very broad request.
- “Provide SEO” opens hundreds of doors and possibilities.
- Provide good SEO” is lazy.
- Provide SEO matching my requirements.” That resulted in the SEO and research I actually wanted.
As I wanted to put this to the test. I asked ChatGPT the following question:
What prompt delivers the best results — “Give me the best SEO for my project” — or — “I give you the best SEO and ask you to perform those tasks”
This was the reply:
- “Give me the best SEO” → You’ll get a generic answer: lists of keywords, on-page tips, backlink ideas. It’ll be good, but it’ll be a “greatest hits” version with no tailoring to your site, niche, or resources.
- “I give you the best SEO and ask you to perform those tasks” → You’re now feeding me your strategy or your preferred SEO method, and I can execute that exact playbook — writing meta descriptions, generating keyword-rich articles, structuring your internal links, etc. This works much better because:
- You’re anchoring my output in a proven or chosen framework.
- I can spend less time guessing what’s best and more time doing the work.
- You can iterate and refine faster because we’re working from a shared baseline.
How I Turned Travel Stories Into AI Blog Content
One blog mill project involved writing about dozens of travel destinations. After an hour of reading what other people had written, I was bored stupid. Each blog post contained the same tips.
The same clichés, and the same shallow SEO bait.
So, i built an specialist travel AI writer. I trained this writer with some of my personal journals taken from over two decades of travel.
I guess you could call me a digital nomad. I’ve spent a huge portion of my life traveling around whilst making money remotely. Some even call me a pioneer, as I started my digital nomad journey in 2003. You can read about some of my stories here.
Back to my AI travel writer. After I trained it using my real life stories and experiences. I added the SEO data created by my AI SEO expert, and set my AI writer to work. The results were much better. The blogs being produced started to read like they had been written by someone who had actually lived the life.
But there was still something missing. That something is my secret source. The secret source is what lifts my blogs from being AI churned to something where the reader can not actually tell that the blog was created by AI.
I am sorry, but obviously I am not going to just give away me secret in a blog post. But, what I will say is this. Was this post written by AI?
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