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Stop Wasting Time with AI: Make ChatGPT Actually Useful with 8 Practical Tips

A free on-demand webinar from ECS. Presented by Peter Robert, CEO & System Architect, with 24+ years of hands-on IT experience.

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What You'll Learn in This Webinar

Most teams have access to ChatGPT, but few are using it in a way that saves real time or improves the quality of their work. This webinar changes that.

In under 30 minutes, ECS CEO Peter Robert walks through 8 practical, actionable tips that help you move from casually using AI to using it with intention. Whether you're drafting client emails, summarizing documents, or preparing executive memos, these tips will help you get better results on the first try and reduce the back-and-forth revisions that slow your team down.

This is the 2nd edition of our most popular AI productivity session, updated with new guidance on ChatGPT's latest model tiers, credit management for business accounts, and prompting techniques that actually work.

8 Tips Covered in This Session

1. Start with Instant for Most Everyday Work

Learn how ChatGPT's model tiers (Instant, Thinking, and Pro) consume credits differently, and why Instant should be your default for fast drafts, rewrites, and daily tasks.

2. Switch Models Based on the Task

Use a simple decision framework to pick the right model. Instant for speed, Thinking for structured analysis, and Pro for high-stakes deliverables and final review.

3. Personalize ChatGPT to Match Your Working Style

Adjust base tone settings (Professional, Friendly, Candid, Efficient, and more) so ChatGPT sounds the way you need it to from the start.

4. Use Custom Instructions for Consistent Results

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Set rules that apply to every conversation, such as formatting preferences, audience assumptions, and output structure. Write them once, benefit every time.

5. Add "About You" Context for Better Responses

Give ChatGPT lightweight context about your role, your typical tasks, and your preferred output style so it makes better assumptions without extra prompting.

6. Set Project Memory and Instructions

Organize work into Projects with dedicated instructions and memory settings. Keep client work, internal ops, and planning separated and focused.

7. Move Chats Into the Right Project

Keep your workspace clean by moving conversations into the correct project so the right instructions, files, and memory apply going forward.

8. Use Canvas for Longer Documents

Draft and refine memos, summaries, board updates, and templates in ChatGPT's Canvas; a focused editing space designed for longer, more complex writing.

Bonus Prompting Techniques

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  • Router Nudges

Phrases like "Think carefully about…" or "Consider the risks before answering…" that signal ChatGPT to slow down and reason more deliberately.

  • Branch in New Chat

Explore alternative directions without losing your original work.

  • Control the Length

Add constraints like "Max 6 bullets" or "Under 200 words" to avoid bloated outputs.

  • Few-Shot Prompting

Show ChatGPT an example of what "good" looks like, then ask it to follow that format.

  • Ask for Prompts

When you get a great response, ask ChatGPT to generate the prompt you should have written. Save it and build a reusable prompt library.

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Peter Robert - CEO of Expert Computer Solutions

Peter Robert - CEO

Highly futuristic, innovative, and goal-driven, Peter Robert is a leading IT Consulting professional and the CEO of Expert Computer Solutions. He has an extensive background involving IT management, developing infrastructure solutions, auditing, monitoring, and IT optimization and has cultivated the ideal leadership skills that spearhead positive business transformations in the ever-evolving modern age.

Born in the Ukraine, raised in Brooklyn, NY, and currently based in Houston since 1997, Peter has always had an underlying ardency for computers, diligently working with them since he was nine years old. He was born with a creative, analytical eye and fostered a keen interest in computers as a whole. With this being the catalyst for his desire to pursue IT as a career path, Peter has since provided deep technical consulting services to small to mid-size businesses for the last 16 years and is now a respected entrepreneur who has proven to be a valuable IT resource to help organizations thrive.

Peter is exceptionally passionate about his work has helped countless businesses reach new advancing levels within their IT infrastructure systems. He established Expert Computer Solutions based on a foundation involving family values, reliability, authenticity, and trust and designed it to be a prime point of contact for businesses facing IT organizational challenges. From expert installation handling, repair/maintenance of computer systems to configuring/installing cutting-edge hardware and software, Peter and his team take pride in supporting organizations in reaching peak performance, all while providing streamlined experiences along the way.

Though Peter loves what he does and is always seeking ways to improve himself both personally and professionally to better serve his clients and team, when he is not working, you can often find him spending time with his family, researching new futuristic technologies, and salsa dancing.