Livestream Shopping Event Planner
Plan a livestream shopping event — run of show, talking points and offers.
What is the Livestream Shopping Event Planner?
The Livestream Shopping Event Planner is a free AI skill that plans a livestream shopping or live-selling event for a food or beverage brand. You give it your product lineup, the platform you're streaming on, your host setup, and your sales goal; it returns a full run of show with timed segments, natural-sounding hosting talking points, an offer and urgency schedule for the stream, engagement prompts to keep viewers watching and commenting, and a technical and contingency checklist for the day of. It is built for social and shopper marketing teams running or piloting live selling, where an unstructured stream loses viewers fast and a well-run one turns watch time into checkout. Because it times offers and talking points against expected viewer behavior instead of leaving them to improvisation, the event holds attention instead of meandering. Anchoring the product lineup and offer angles in what shoppers respond to in live selling right now keeps the stream from pitching into silence.
Who it's for
- Social and shopper marketing teams piloting livestream shopping
- Brand teams hosting a live-selling event on TikTok Live or Instagram Live
- DTC food and beverage brands running a flash-sale livestream
- Founders hosting their own brand's first live shopping event
What you get
- A full run of show with timed segments
- Hosting talking points that sound natural, not scripted
- An offer and urgency schedule for when deals drop
- Engagement prompts to keep viewers watching and commenting
- A technical and contingency checklist for the day of
- A post-event recap plan for repurposing the recording
How to use it
- 1Paste the prompt into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
- 2Fill in the brackets (products, platform, host setup, sales goal).
- 3Answer its clarifying questions about stream length and past live experience.
- 4Ask it to role-play a viewer dropping tough questions in the chat so your host can rehearse.
See it in action
Example input
Brand: fictional 'Blaze Hot Honey', sold direct-to-consumer and in specialty grocery. We're running our first TikTok Live shopping event, 30 minutes, to launch a new 3-bottle gift set ahead of the holidays. Host: our founder, first time on camera live. Goal: sell 200 gift sets during the stream with a limited-time bundle discount.
Example output
Livestream shopping event plan — Blaze Hot Honey, 30-minute TikTok Live Run of show 0:00-2:00 — Cold open and hook Founder on camera immediately, no slow intro. State the offer up front: "If you stay for the next 30 minutes, I'm going to show you why this gift set sells out every year, and the first viewers to grab it get a bonus." Naming the offer in the first 30 seconds is what stops scroll-by viewers from leaving before they know why they should stay. 2:00-8:00 — Product story, not a pitch Walk through the 3-bottle set one bottle at a time — what's actually different about each, how they were developed, a quick taste description. This segment builds the "why" before the "buy," since a live audience that hasn't been given a reason to want it yet won't act on a discount alone. 8:00-14:00 — Live demo Use each hot honey on camera — a real dish, a real reaction, a real heat response. This is the section most likely to get clipped and reshared afterward, so treat it as the highlight-reel moment, not filler. 14:00-16:00 — First offer drop Announce the bundle discount clearly, state the exact price, state the exact deadline (live only, next 14 minutes), and repeat the checkout instructions. Assume half the audience just joined and has heard none of this yet. 16:00-24:00 — Audience engagement block Read and respond to live comments, answer heat-level and gifting questions, and react to purchase notifications on screen if the platform surfaces them. This section's real job is proof of momentum — visible purchases from other viewers are the single strongest live-selling trigger, stronger than the discount itself. 24:00-28:00 — Urgency close Restate remaining time and, if available, remaining stock at the discounted price. If inventory or sales data isn't visible in real time, use time urgency only — never state a fake remaining-stock number. 28:00-30:00 — Thank you and next steps Thank viewers, confirm the offer window (does it extend a few hours post-stream or end exactly at the stream), and tease the next live date if there is one. Hosting talking points, founder-specific and first-time-live - Prepare 2-3 personal, specific stories about developing the recipes — specific beats generic every time on live video, and personal stories are the easiest thing for a first-time host to deliver naturally without sounding scripted. - Prewrite the exact offer language word for word and keep it visible off-camera; price and deadline are the two things that must not get fumbled live. - Practice one recovery line for dead air or tech hiccups, like a placeholder line to fill space while something loads — first-time hosts benefit most from having an escape hatch memorized. Offer and urgency schedule Drop the discount at minute 14, not at the open — announcing it too early removes the incentive to keep watching. Repeat it at minutes 20 and 26 for anyone who just joined. Technical and contingency checklist Test the checkout and tap-to-buy flow before going live, confirm gift-set inventory is accurate at the start, have a backup host or moderator monitoring comments so the founder isn't reading and talking at the same time, and prepare a short pre-recorded backup clip in case of a connectivity drop. Post-event recap plan Clip the live-demo segment, 8:00-14:00, as a standalone short-form post within 24 hours — it's the highest-value moment and shouldn't only exist inside a 30-minute replay few people will rewatch in full. Want me to write the founder's word-for-word offer script for the 14-minute mark?
The prompt
Here's the start of the prompt. Download the free bundle for the full, ready-to-paste version — plus the installable Claude Skill and Custom-GPT instructions.
# Role You are a livestream shopping producer for food & beverage brands who has run live-selling events that hold attention and convert, not just technically stream. You time offers and talking points against real viewer behavior instead of leaving the event to improvisation. # Context I'll provide - Products in the event: [PRODUCTS] - Platform: [PLATFORM e.g. TikTok Live, Instagram Live, a livestream shopping app] - Stream length: [LENGTH] - Host: [HOST — who's hosting and their on-camera experience level] - Sales goal: [GOAL] - Past livestream experience (optional): [PAST EVENTS] # Your task
Frequently asked questions
- What is a livestream shopping event?
- A livestream shopping event, sometimes called live selling, is a real-time video stream, on TikTok Live, Instagram Live, or a dedicated shopping platform, where a host demonstrates and sells products directly, often with time-limited offers and in-stream checkout. It combines a broadcast format with direct-response selling, which means it needs a run of show, not just a camera turned on. This skill plans that run of show: segment timing, talking points, and when offers should drop.
- How is this different from the Social Commerce & Shoppable Post Planner skill?
- The Social Commerce & Shoppable Post Planner covers always-on, asynchronous shoppable posts — product tags on regular content people scroll past anytime. This skill is for a single, scheduled, real-time event with a start and end time, a live host, and a run of show timed to viewer behavior during the stream itself. Use the shoppable post planner for everyday tagged content, and this skill specifically when you're planning a live event.
- Which AI models can run this prompt?
- Any capable chat model — ChatGPT, Claude, or Google Gemini. The prompt is model-agnostic, so paste it into a chat, save it as a Custom GPT, or store it as a reusable skill so every livestream event your team runs starts from the same run-of-show discipline.
- Do I need professional streaming equipment for this to work?
- No — livestream shopping on TikTok Live or Instagram Live is commonly run from a phone, and the plan this skill produces doesn't assume a studio setup. What matters more than equipment is the run of show and the host's preparation, which is why the plan adjusts its talking-point support based on the host's stated on-camera experience. Test your actual checkout and comment flow on the platform beforehand regardless of setup, since that's the most common point of failure.
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