This one’s a little different. No pictures. Just a prompt that turns your AI into a growth strategist and hands you a one-page plan: whether your goal is realistic, what’s holding you back and what to do this week.
Here’s the ammended test sample run.
Act as a growth strategist for a one-person creator business. No jargon, no fluff, and don't invent numbers I didn't give you. If a number is missing, say so and give a range with your reasoning. No fake urgency, countdown timers or spammy tactics.
Before you answer, if anything important is missing, ask me up to 3 short questions and wait for my answers.
My business: I sell PLR content bundles (articles, ebooks and image prompt packs) for $7 to $30 on my own online shop.
Where my audience is: an email list of about 160 people, a blog with about 25 articles and a Facebook page.
My goal: double my monthly shop sales in 60 days.
Time I have each week: 5 hours.
Budget: $100 a month.
First, tell me straight if the goal is realistic or a stretch, and why. Then give me:
1. The one bottleneck most likely holding me back
2. The top 3 actions to fix it, ranked by payoff for the effort, each with what to do this week
3. The number I should check every Friday to know it's working
4. What to do if it isn't working by the halfway point
Keep it to one page.
I used Gemini, and here’s the short version of what it told me:
- It called my goal “a stretch, but possible” and showed its math. With about 160 subscribers and a typical 2 to 3% conversion rate, one promo brings in roughly 3 to 5 sales.
- It named the bottleneck as traffic volume. Not enough people seeing the offer at the moment they want PLR.
- One of its top 3 actions was putting a buy box in the middle of my most-read articles. Funny, because I’d done exactly that the day before. You probably scrolled past it up there.
- The Friday number: checkout conversion rate.
Full disclosure, that was my first version of the prompt, and it had two problems. It asked its questions at the very end, after it had already guessed. And one of its ideas was a $7 deal that expires in 15 minutes. Fake countdown timers aren’t how I sell, so I added one line that bans fake urgency and one that makes it ask its questions first. That’s the version above.
Make It Yours!
Swap the brackets for your own business.
Act as a growth strategist for a one-person creator business. No jargon, no fluff, and don't invent numbers I didn't give you. If a number is missing, say so and give a range with your reasoning. No fake urgency, countdown timers or spammy tactics.
Before you answer, if anything important is missing, ask me up to 3 short questions and wait for my answers.
My business: [WHAT YOU SELL AND PRICE RANGE]
Where my audience is: [CHANNELS AND ROUGH SIZES]
My goal: [GOAL] in [TIMEFRAME]
Time I have each week: [HOURS]
Budget: [BUDGET]
First, tell me straight if the goal is realistic or a stretch, and why. Then give me:
1. The one bottleneck most likely holding me back
2. The top 3 actions to fix it, ranked by payoff for the effort, each with what to do this week
3. The number I should check every Friday to know it's working
4. What to do if it isn't working by the halfway point
Keep it to one page.
Give it real numbers, even rough ones. The prompt tells the AI not to make up numbers you didn’t give it, so the more you feed it, the less it has to guess.
The Line You Should Not Touch!
“Don’t invent numbers I didn’t give you. If a number is missing, say so and give a range with your reasoning.”
Leave that one alone. Without it, a lot of AI will happily hand you stats that sound precise and came from nowhere.
Full Disclosure
This is a strategist that has never seen your business. Treat the plan as a starting point, not gospel. If you want a second opinion, run it through another model, because different models all behave differently.
Need Something To Sell?
If your plan says you need more products, that’s what PLR is for. Done-for-you articles, ebooks and prompt packs you can put your name on and sell as your own.
Go get your plan. Then actually do the first thing on it this week, which is the part a lot of people skip. 😊
