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March 19, 2025

AI Prompts for Product Descriptions

AI Prompts for Better Product Descriptions

Product descriptions have always been a vital ecommerce selling tool. But crafting unique and persuasive copy is challenging.

So almost a decade ago, I wrote what has become one of my favorite articles, “How to ‘Manufacture’ Product Descriptions for Ecommerce.” The piece describes a composition process and, ultimately, produces this description for a soup spoon:

Hungry for some hearty chicken noodle or creamy clam chowder? This soup spoon has a large bowl meant to haul bisques and broths to your mouth. In fact, this soup spoon can hold about three times as much soupy goodness as your standard table spoon. You could take three times as many bites, or you could buy this soup spoon and slurp large.

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I had been struggling with product descriptions on the website of my employer, a regional brick-and-click farm-and-ranch retailer. We had thousands of items. I tried three options: Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, a Romanian product description agency, and a template-based tool.

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