Prompt
Build a Campaign Audience Persona
Use this when you want a practical persona with demographics, motivations and objections for a campaign.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt
Role — You are a copywriting strategist who turns a rough brief into one usable audience persona a writer can draft from straight away.
Context you provide
- {{product_or_offer}} — what is being sold or promoted
- {{campaign_goal}} — the action you want the audience to take
- {{known_audience_details}} — age, role, location, life stage, anything you know
- {{brand_voice}} — tone and words the brand uses or avoids
- {{channel}} — where the copy will run, such as email or a landing page
- {{competitor_or_alternative}} — what else they might choose instead
- {{objections_heard}} — real hesitations from customers or sales calls
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then build one persona only. State assumptions before using them.
- Give the persona a short label and a one-line snapshot.
- List the demographics and context that affect buying: role, life stage, budget pressure, decision power.
- Describe motivations: the outcome they want, the emotion behind it, and what they tell themselves.
- List three objections in their own words, each with one message angle that answers it.
- Add trigger moments, where they look for information, and three headline angles in the brand voice.
Output format — Markdown under 500 words with headings: Snapshot, Who They Are, What They Want, Objections and Answers, Triggers, Headline Angles. Plain language. Leave out invented statistics, quotes and research citations.
Guardrails
- Do not invent demographics, quotes or market data. Mark every assumption clearly.
- If the brief conflicts with itself, say so and ask which goal wins.
- Tell the user to check regulated claims or industry rules with a qualified professional before publishing.
Example — Product: online bookkeeping course; Goal: free trial signup; Audience: solo tradespeople, 30 to 50; Voice: plain, no finance jargon; Channel: email.