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How to Supercharge Your Rental Business Marketing with ChatGPT

Author: Nathan Crossley April 13, 2023 · 5 Min read
How to Supercharge Your Rental Business Marketing with ChatGPT

As the rental industry becomes more competitive, finding innovative ways to attract new customers is essential. ChatGPT can help you to create marketing content that helps your business rank better, stand out on social media, improve user experience, and save time. While it’s not a complete replacement for content creation, it can help take you to the next level.

Marketing can be time-consuming, especially for a small team without someone dedicated to it. Creating exciting content, communicating with guests, and increasing website traffic can take a lot of effort. Many things must be learned, and gaining experience can be challenging. However, you no longer have to do it alone, thanks to recent AI innovations.

AI has matured to the point where it can provide valuable assistance for the everyday entrepreneur. Open AI’s ChatGPT is leading the pack and has incredible capabilities, opening up the possibilities for what small teams can achieve. It’s a chatbot that is smart enough to create content with a small prompt. So, let’s discover how rental businesses can leverage ChatGPT.

What is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM) AI that uses deep learning algorithms to generate human-like responses to text-based queries. It is trained on a large amount of data and can understand and generate text in multiple languages. ChatGPT can assist with answering questions, generating content, and providing recommendations.

That might sound scary, but it’s easy to use. You provide a prompt, which will generate a response based on the data it has been trained on. This prompt can be as simple as “Write a caption for an Instagram post about riding bikes in Utah” or something more complex with exact details about what you want it to write for you.

While ChatGPT is smart enough to create content, it can sometimes make mistakes when providing an answer. It is essential to be aware of this and take the time to review and edit any content you create with it. Now that you have a brief understanding of ChatGPT let’s see how you can use it to supercharge your rental business marketing efforts.

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How ChatGPT can assist you in creating marketing content

ChatGPT can be used to create marketing content for almost any aspect of your rental business, from product descriptions to social posts, terms and agreements, FAQs, personalized emails, and more. It can be great for creating brand-new content and improving your existing content. Below are some examples of utilizing it in your rental business marketing.

Product descriptions

You can generate enticing product descriptions for your rental website by inputting information about the product, such as its features and benefits. ChatGPT can generate a compelling description that accurately represents the product. This can increase conversions and customer satisfaction, as customers will better understand what they are renting.

Let’s try it with a prompt for production description for a mountain bike:

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As you can see, it has produced a long and in-depth product description for the BMC Roadmachine AMP 2023. You could fact-check this description and add it to your website, but what if you want something less technical and more exciting? By modifying the prompt to tell it that we want a product description to be used on a rental website and including a description of the tone we want, we can get a more clear description that creates excitement for a website visitor.

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That’s much better! You can now edit this however you like to make it fit the voice of your website better. For example, you may wish to remove “Introducing the BMC ROADMACHINE AMP 2023”, as it sounds like you’re launching a product, and replace it with the opening from the original reply. If you add it to the product on your website, you will end up with something like this:

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Great! You’ve created an exciting product description and added it to your website in just a few minutes. That’s just one way ChatGPT can help you create content to increase your website’s conversion rate. You can take it further by asking ChatGPT to ensure it’s optimized for SEO or include extra information you want to share with your website visitors.

Website content

Having high-quality website content is crucial for any rental business. ChatGPT can generate website content, including homepage copy, landing pages, and FAQs. This can improve search engine rankings and user experience, as customers can find the information they need quickly and easily. This is especially important for new customers as it needs to be clear and concise.

Let’s try it with a prompt for an FAQ page for an event decor rental business:

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30 seconds later, you have a list of FAQs with answers for your event decor rental business. Of course, these are pretty broad and may not all apply to your business, so you should go through and edit any details that aren’t correct. If you don’t want ChatGPT to write the answers and want a list of questions, you could try a different prompt to get you started:

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Now you have a list of common questions visitors to your website will likely ask without having to do your own research. You can now write the answers to these questions and add them to your website. This example should give you an idea of how ChatGPT can help you to generate content for your rental website. It can do all the work or save you some time so that you can get right into the writing.

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Social media posts

Social media is a powerful marketing tool for rental businesses. ChatGPT can generate social media posts, including captions for images and videos. This can lead to increased engagement and follower growth, as customers will be more likely to engage with content that is well-written and compelling. It can also generate ideas for the kind of content you can post.

Let’s start by asking it to write a caption for an Instagram post about a new camera you’ve added to your inventory:

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Wow! That’s a nice caption to introduce a new addition to your store for customers to rent. However, you might want it to be a bit more exciting, and you could use a few more hashtag suggestions. Let’s ask ChatGPT to spice it up and give us more hashtag suggestions to increase the reach of your post.

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Isn’t that a bit more exciting to read? ChatGPT remembers your conversation within the same thread, so you can iterate on the content it has given you. This allows you to give it instructions, and it will tweak its output to match what you’re asking it to do. You can also ask ChatGPT for a list of content ideas for your Instagram posts; again, let’s stick with camera rentals:

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Nice! Now you have a list of 10 content ideas that you can use to create a plan for your social media content. This will help you provide followers with a better experience and increase engagement. You can experiment and see what posts work best to get the most out of these ideas with ChatGPT as your social media content assistant.

Proceed with caution

While ChatGPT can generate high-quality content, it’s important to remember that it could be better. Rental businesses should always review and edit the output generated by ChatGPT to ensure that it fits their specific needs and voice. Businesses can create unique and tailored content for their brand by customizing the output.

Reviewing and editing any website content generated by ChatGPT before publishing it on a rental business website is essential. This can prevent errors and inaccuracies that can harm the business’s reputation. Rental businesses should always take the time to review and edit the content generated by ChatGPT to ensure that it accurately represents their brand.

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