Whether you’re a freelancer or working for a large corporation, ensuring that you are as productive as possible is essential. Fortunately, we are now living in a world with incredible advances in artificial intelligence (AI) that can assist you in doing just that.
Google Gemini (formerly Google Bard) is one of the multiple AI platforms available today. Via a free or paid plan (called Gemini Advanced), the AI can help streamline tasks so you have more time to do other things.
If you’re wondering how to get the most out of this revolutionary new tool, here are some of the top prompts for using Google Gemini.
Research
Research is a part of many jobs. From researching competitors and market trends to seeing what consumers are searching for online, research can provide insight and guidance.
While you can search online for specific data points, doing this can be cumbersome and take more time than you have available. Finding specific data may also be challenging and require trying various search syntaxes before you come across what you need.
Google Gemini, with live web access, can help streamline the research process significantly. When prompting the AI to search for something specific, you can also tell it what format to display the results in or even request that the information be summarized before it is displayed.
An example of a prompt for research purposes could be:
Gather statistics on the top five companies operating in the retail clothing industry. Include their market share and pricing strategies, and summarize their customer reviews. Present this information in a table format.
Gemini’s ability to do research can also be applied to many personal areas. When looking for mobile casino slots or the best-value shoes, for example, you can ask Gemini to research which options are best based on the factors you deem most important.
Project Management
Managing a large project is commonly performed using dedicated software such as GanttPRO, Microsoft Projects, or Asana. However, Gemini can provide a quick overview of the project in addition to other insights.
Alongside risk management detection and optimization suggestions that can help streamline your project’s progress, Gemini can also create detailed timelines. When doing this, you can tell Gemini to identify which tasks in the project are most urgent or important and even provide resource allocation suggestions.
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One prompt to get Gemini to aid in your project management may be:
Generate a timeline for the opening of my new storefront. Incorporate milestones such as ‘securing a property,’ ‘shopfitting,’ ‘inventory purchasing,’ and ‘online campaign launch.’ Also, add any other milestones that you may identify. When creating the timeline, also include task priorities and resource allocations.
Communication
Since Gemini competitor ChatGPT revolutionized the AI industry in late 2022, companies have been trying to find ways to utilize AI in practically every daily process you can think of. Replying to emails has been one of the most common areas that the technology has been applied to.
Due to its integration with Google Workspace, Gemini can be used not only to write responses to emails but to let you know which are most important. This allows you to focus on those that require urgent responses and leave those that could wait until later when you have more time.
The prompt below will tell Gemini to create a table of your highest-priority emails. However, you will need to allow AI access to your Workspace account to complete this.
Analyze my inbox and generate a list of my unread emails. Sort these into a table based on the highest to lowest priority. Next, tell me who the email is from and its subject. Give me a summary of what the email is about. Also, include a possible response that I could send.
Daily Business
Managing business tasks such as preparing for meetings and reading memos can take up a significant portion of your day. Fortunately, these too can be streamlined and reduced using Gemini.
The AI can read documents you upload or store on your Google Workspace account and provide summaries or agendas. This allows you to prepare only what is necessary when entering a meeting and ensures that you stay up to date with what is happening without having to read full reports.
An example prompt to get Gemini to analyze a previous meeting’s minutes and generate talking points ahead of the next meeting could be:
Analyze the attached minutes from my previous meeting. Summarize everything discussed, including any key points. From this, generate a numbered list of talking points for my meeting tomorrow. Include any relevant details I may need for each of these points.
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Data Visualization
Data visualization can help bring understanding and conciseness to what could otherwise be an endless stream of data points. For this reason, many businesses use data visualization to simplify information and aid in decision-making processes.
This visualization could take the form of charts, graphs, or tables that make it easier to identify trends and patterns. Gemini can help show where problem areas may exist or where systems or performances are lacking. It can also create visuals based on a large amount of data using uploaded or stored documents. Here is a prompt that would achieve these results:
Using the attached production reports as a reference, identify the products most commonly made during the production process. Map a graph of their production over time and clearly indicate where there have been significant dips. Alongside the graph, provide a table with the product descriptions and the dates on which the highest and lowest quantities were made over the last month.
Creativity Boost
Marketing is a tough job that constantly requires out-of-the-box thinking and intense brainstorming. Using Gemini, dreaming up new marketing strategies targeted to specific audiences can be done quickly.
While the marketing campaigns suggested by Gemini may not be ready for immediate implementation, they can provide an excellent starting point. With the initial idea in place, you can tweak and amend the creative marketing to achieve the best results.
A prompt that can get Gemini to provide you with a solid foundation could be:
Brainstorm a creative marketing campaign for our upcoming product launch. The product will focus on being eco-friendly and should target households concerned about their carbon footprint. Provide me with a title for the campaign, a logo that we could use to identify products that fall within it, and suggestions on how best to market it.
