Full disclosure. This week's experiment started with zero grand plan.
I had a digital product I'd purchased from a creator I trust, a sales page URL, and a few spare minutes. I opened NotebookLM, uploaded the URL, and typed what I can only describe as the most unimpressive prompts of my AI career.
And what came back genuinely surprised me.
Here's exactly what I did.
The product was the AI Executive Suite by Becky Beach, an integrated set of AI bots designed to run your business together as a system rather than forcing you to jump between individual tools separately. I've purchased from Becky before and trust her work, so this felt like a good candidate for an honest review.
I uploaded the sales page URL directly into NotebookLM as a source. Then I typed three prompts, one after another, each one about as sophisticated as asking your phone for the weather.
Prompt one: "Can you compose an article that reviews this product and identifies who it will benefit and what problems it will solve. Also address any gaps it has."
Prompt two: "Please do a video overview of this review article for me."
Prompt three: "Could you also create a slide deck of this overview."
That's it. No elaborate instructions. No carefully engineered prompt frameworks. Just three plain questions typed by a tired teacher on a weeknight.
What NotebookLM gave me back was a solid review article, a complete video script with natural conversational pacing, and a structured slide deck outline ready to build from. All three. From a sales page URL and three basic prompts.
What this is actually good for.
I want to be honest with you about where I see this being genuinely useful versus where it has limits.
Could you use this exact process to create quick review videos of product launches? Yes, and some marketers do exactly that. It would probably rank fast in search. But that kind of content tends to have a short shelf life. It's not really the direction I'm heading and probably not yours either.
Where I think this gets really interesting is content repurposing. I'm planning to start publishing longer articles on Medium. One well written article uploaded into NotebookLM could become a video script, a slide deck, a SlideShare post, and potentially a YouTube upload. That's four distinct pieces of content from one source, with some very basic prompts doing the heavy lifting.
Same idea, four different formats, four different places where someone might find you. That's not a bad return on a weeknight experiment.
Your turn.
Here's what I want you to try this week. Open NotebookLM at notebooklm.google.com and upload something you already own. A digital product you've purchased, a blog post you've written, a sales page you've been meaning to review. Then type the same three prompts I used, word for word if you want, and see what comes back.
You don't need perfect prompts. You just need to start.
The worst case is you learn something about the tool. The best case is you walk away with three pieces of content you didn't have an hour ago.
The AI assist this week: NotebookLM for product review, video script, and slide deck creation from a single source URL.
The honest take: I went in with low expectations and basic prompts. NotebookLM didn't care. It built something useful anyway. That tells you something important about how much you're allowed to just try things without having it all figured out first.
See you next Wednesday.
— Kelly
P.S. Haven't grabbed the free NotebookLM Quick Start guide yet? Five prompts that show you exactly what this tool can do for your content. Grab it free right here.