30 Claude Prompts for Marketers

Picture this: you're a solo marketer at a 30-person company, responsible for social, email, paid ads, and whatever content the CEO decided the company needs this quarter. The calendar doesn't care that there's only one of you. That's the exact situation these 30 claude prompts for marketers are built around — not a hypothetical enterprise team with dedicated specialists for each channel, but the reality most marketers actually work in.

The Problem Most Marketers Face

A one-person marketing function at a Series A logistics startup was drowning in channel-switching: write a LinkedIn post, then jump to an email subject line test, then draft ad copy, then pull last month's numbers into a report, all before lunch. Generic "write me marketing content" prompts didn't help much, because each channel needs a genuinely different kind of output, and asking broadly just produced broadly average results across all of them.

The Wrong Approach

Her early prompts looked like this:

Write some marketing content for our logistics software company.

What this does: it's too broad to produce anything channel-specific, so Claude defaults to generic copy that could apply to any product in any industry, which then needs a full rewrite for each actual channel it ends up in.

⚠️ Common mistake: using one broad prompt and hoping to adapt the output across channels. A LinkedIn post, an email subject line, and ad copy all have different length constraints, tone expectations, and jobs to do — one output rarely serves all three well.

The Correct Prompts, By Channel

Social Media (Prompts 1-8)

1. Write 5 LinkedIn post variations announcing [feature/news], each 
   with a different opening hook
2. Turn this blog post into a 3-post Twitter/X thread: [paste post]
3. Write 3 Instagram caption options for [image/topic], each under 
   150 characters
4. Draft a LinkedIn post from our CEO's perspective about [industry 
   trend], conversational, not corporate
5. Write 5 poll question ideas for LinkedIn related to [topic] to 
   drive engagement
6. Turn this customer testimonial into a social post highlighting the 
   specific result: [paste testimonial]
7. Draft a "behind the scenes" post about [process/launch] for our 
   company page
8. Write 3 comment responses to common objections we get on social 
   posts about [topic]

Email Marketing (Prompts 9-15)

9. Write 5 subject line options for an email about [topic], optimized 
   for open rate, under 50 characters each
10. Draft a re-engagement email for subscribers who haven't opened an 
    email in 90 days
11. Write a 3-email onboarding sequence for new [product] users
12. Turn this webinar recording summary into a follow-up email for 
    attendees: [paste summary]
13. Draft an email announcing a price change, direct but not 
    defensive
14. Write a cart-abandonment email sequence (2 emails) for [product]
15. Draft a newsletter intro paragraph summarizing this month's 
    3 biggest updates: [list updates]

Paid Ads and Copy (Prompts 16-21)

16. Write 5 headline variations for a Google ad targeting [keyword/
    audience]
17. Draft 3 Facebook ad copy variations for [product], each targeting 
    a different customer pain point
18. Write ad copy testing a benefit-led angle vs. a feature-led angle 
    for [product]
19. Turn this long-form case study into 3 short ad copy snippets: 
    [paste case study]
20. Draft landing page headline and subhead options for [campaign], 
    3 variations
21. Write a retargeting ad sequence (3 ads) for users who visited but 
    didn't convert on [page]

⚡ Pro tip: always ask for multiple angle variations, not multiple wording variations of the same angle. "Benefit-led vs. feature-led" produces genuinely different ad copy to test; "5 versions of this headline" often produces five ways of saying the same thing.

Analysis and Reporting (Prompts 22-27)

22. Summarize this month's campaign performance data into 3 key 
    takeaways for a leadership update: [paste data]
23. Turn these competitor ad screenshots into a summary of common 
    messaging angles they're using: [describe/paste ads]
24. Draft talking points explaining why [metric] underperformed this 
    quarter, based on this data: [paste data]
25. Summarize customer survey responses into 3 recurring themes: 
    [paste responses]
26. Turn this raw campaign spreadsheet into a plain-language summary 
    for a non-marketing stakeholder: [paste data]
27. Draft a one-page marketing plan outline for next quarter based on 
    this quarter's results: [paste results]

Planning and Strategy (Prompts 28-30)

28. Build a content calendar outline for next month across social, 
    email, and blog, based on these 3 themes: [list themes]
29. Draft a positioning statement for [product] targeting [specific 
    audience segment]
30. Write a one-paragraph brief I can hand to a designer or freelance 
    writer for [campaign], covering goal, audience, and tone

Results and What Changed

Once she switched to channel-specific prompts, the marketer's actual editing time dropped noticeably — not because Claude got smarter, but because each output was already shaped for its destination instead of needing to be reshaped after the fact. The ad-copy angle-testing prompt (18) became a permanent part of her monthly workflow, since it consistently surfaced an angle she hadn't considered on her own.

How to Apply This to Your Situation

1. Match the prompt to the channel's actual constraints — character limits, tone norms, and typical reader intent are different for LinkedIn, email, and paid ads, even when promoting the same thing.
2. Ask for angle variation, not wording variation, especially for ad copy and headlines.
3. Feed in real data for reporting prompts. Generic "summarize my marketing performance" produces generic insight; pasted real numbers produce real takeaways.
4. Build a monthly rhythm around a handful of these, rather than treating each one as a one-off — the reporting and planning prompts especially benefit from repeated use with updated data each time.

Next Steps

Pick the five prompts closest to your actual weekly bottleneck — for most solo marketers, that's somewhere in the social or email sections — and use them consistently for two weeks before expanding to the rest of the list. Trying to adopt all 30 at once usually means none of them become a real habit.

Once a few of these become part of your regular rhythm, save your customized versions — with your actual product, audience, and tone baked in — in PromptABCD, so next month's planning starts from prompts that already work for your specific brand instead of the generic bracketed versions above.