Your 2025 ChatGPT Cheat Sheet for Businesses

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As a kid, did you ever sneak a cheat sheet into a test with you at school? Or, if you played video games, did you ever look up cheat codes to help you unlock things in certain games rather than unlocking them organically?

I can’t really condone the ethics of those types of cheating, but not all cheat sheets are so morally questionable. On this page, I’ve got a cheat sheet to help you get the most from ChatGPT.

So, what exactly is on this ChatGPT cheat sheet? There are four main areas we’ll cover:

Elements of a ChatGPT prompt
Common ChatGPT issues to watch out for
Methods of training ChatGPT on your data
Examples of tasks to use ChatGPT for
By mastering these four areas, you’ll be able to business owner database the best results from ChatGPT and use it to your advantage, whether for personal tasks or to power your business strategies.

We’ll talk about all of that in more detail below, but you can also check out a summary of the information on this page with this helpful infographic:

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Keep reading to find out more about these ChatGPT tips and tricks, and then be sure to subscribe to Revenue Weekly — our email newsletter — for more tips on using AI for your business!


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Elements of a ChatGPT prompt
The first section of this ChatGPT cheat sheet focuses on creating effective prompts. After all, prompts are integral to getting results from the tool.

Here are five elements that you should consider including in your ChatGPT prompts:

Format
Style
Role
Context
Examples
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Read on to find out more about each one!

1. Format
The first thing you should include in your ChatGPT prompts is the format you want the tool to use. Do you want the response to take the form of a chart? Do you want it written with the structure of a blog post? You should specify the format from the beginning. You should also include how many words long you want the response to be.

2. Style
Another element to include is style and tone. Tell ChatGPT what type of voice you want it to use. Maybe you want a casual, relaxed voice. Or, maybe you want a professional, academic one. You could ask it to be serious, funny, or anything in between.

3. Role
Something you can do in your ChatGPT prompts — though you don’t have to — is tell the tool to take on a particular role, or persona. This is where you ask it to respond as though it were a specific person (or type of person). So, you could ask it to answer you as a professional chef, or you could have it answer as a character, like Yoda: