We spent ~$80 to acquisition 5 premium ChatGPT prompts and ran a unsighted trial among the members of our selling squad to spot if they were worth it.

Long communicative short: They aren’t.

The experiment

Here’s what I did:

1. I signed up for a work selling ChatGPT prompts and selected 5 SEO ones
2. I created elemental versions of these prompts (27 words connected average, vs. 227 for the premium prompts)
3. I entered these prompts into ChatGPT
4. I took the output and did a unsighted poll, asking the Ahrefs selling squad to conjecture which output was better.

A full of 15 radical took the poll.

Here are the results:

The premium prompts lone convincingly “beat” the elemental punctual for two tasks.

Considering that you’ll request to cough up wealth (in immoderate cases, a lot) for these pre-engineered prompts, I’m skeptical they’re worthy it astatine all. I don’t deliberation you’re missing retired if you don’t pay.

The anatomy of a “premium” prompt

Pretty overmuch each of the “engineered” prompts we tested had a akin structure.

I tried to interruption down what I saw:

Specifically, present are the patterns:

1. Role — Asks ChatGPT to enactment arsenic a nonrecreational oregon adept with circumstantial skill sets.
2. Target language — Acts ChatGPT to respond successful a peculiar language.
3. Ultra-specific instructions — Asks ChatGPT to bash XYZ enactment successful utmost detail.
4. Emphasis connected human-like writing — Asks ChatGPT to constitute successful a circumstantial code or style.
5. Specific output — Asks ChatGPT to operation its effect successful a circumstantial format, specified arsenic markdown, tables, codification boxes, etc.

The takeaway

This experimentation is by nary means world nor scientific. It’s conscionable a fun, informal trial to spot if “engineered” prompts could execute amended than a elemental command—at least according to quality interpretation.

Based connected the results, though, I’m not convinced that “premium” prompts really do that overmuch for you. It’s astir apt amended to commencement disconnected elemental and past refine accordingly.

So, don’t discarded your money. Use it to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus instead.

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