ChatGPT Tutorial for Beginners: How to Actually Get Work Done with AI

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Presented by Garrick in partnership with Zapier, this beginner tutorial reframes ChatGPT as a collaborator for getting work done, not a fancy search engine, and notes most of what is shown is available on the free plan. After signing up at chatgpt.com, he outlines the prompt field, model selector and sidebar of past conversations. For writing, he drafts a professional email about a Q3 website redesign project that is on track, having completed design and moving into development with estimated completion at end of October, then iterates with a follow-up to make it warmer and more conversational — stressing you should never send AI text as-is without reading and editing it. For files, he uploads an eight-page report, asks for a summary and the three most important takeaways, then asks follow-ups including what insights he might not be noticing, which produced nine insights; PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets and presentations can be attached. For research, he compares Asana, monday.com and Notion for a small team of about 20 people on ease of use, pricing and collaboration, noting the knowledge cutoff, web search and sources, and follow-ups about free plans. He also generates a 90-day marketing plan with monthly goals, activities and channels, then expands month one. Paid features covered include Projects — illustrated with a Colvento onboarding project holding a handbook, benefits overview and remote work policy that ChatGPT answers questions from with citations — Zapier connections via a paid ChatGPT Plus account to apps such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive, Notion, Slack and HubSpot, and Memory under Settings > Personalization, which you can view, correct and control.

Key takeaways

• Get the best results through back-and-forth iteration instead of trying to write the perfect first prompt
• Always read, edit and make AI output your own before sending it — it can make mistakes
• Upload files and ask for summaries, takeaways and missed insights, then keep questioning the same document
• Use Projects (paid) to keep files and context together so you do not re-explain context in every new chat
• Memory and Zapier connections (paid) let ChatGPT remember your preferences and pull live data from tools like Gmail and Calendar, under your control

Episode details: published July 1, 2026 · 14:31 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kevin Stratvert’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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