Most entrepreneur prompts are generic garbage that keeps you invisible. Search "prompts for entrepreneurs" and you'll find millions like this: "Suggest low-cost ways to get my first 100 customers for [product/service]." Plug that into ChatGPT and you get the same stale list of 10 tactics that every other struggling business owner just got. You're now competing with thousands of people running the exact same playbook. Here's how I fixed it: Instead of asking for generic suggestions, I rebuilt the prompt to force the AI to give me a plan that actually fits MY business, MY timeline, and MY constraints. The rewrite: "I need 10 low-cost customer acquisition tactics for my [business type]. My budget is under $500, I have no team, and I need to get my first 100 [customers/calls/demos] in [timeline]. I currently have [describe existing assets: email list, social following, website traffic, content, etc.]. Provide a prioritized, actionable plan." What changed: - Added my actual business type - Stated my real budget ceiling - Named my timeline - Listed what I already have to work with - Asked for prioritization (not just a brain dump) The result: A plan I can actually execute instead of another bookmark I'll never use. This is what I mean when I say stop using AI like a search engine. Give it context. Give it constraints. Get output that's worth your time. Clean. Direct. No fluff. Ready to post.

You've got 30 minutes to write a client email before your next meeting. You open ChatGPT. You type your request. It hands you back five paragraphs of nothing. Corporate air. Words that take up space but say absolutely nothing. You hit regenerate like it's a slot machine. Different words, same useless output. Here's what you're missing: ChatGPT isn't clairvoyant, but you're asking it to read your mind, and it can't. It has no idea if you want a Wikipedia entry, a late-night infomercial, or something your actual customer might read without falling asleep. So it splits the difference and gives you beige. When I finally realized this for myself, I added 3 sentences to my prompt journal that I use almost every day. With these sentences, you tell it who to be before you tell it what to do. Let me explain. ➡️ When you need the facts and nothing but the facts: ✨️ "Be factual and conservative. No creativity, just accuracy." You'll want to use this for documentation, process explanations, technical stuff where one wrong word costs you credibility. Think instruction manual, not sales pitch. ➡️ When you need something that sounds like a human wrote it: ✨️ "Give me accurate information but add personality. Don't sound robotic." You'll want to use this for client emails, LinkedIn posts, lead magnets. Anything where the reader needs to believe a real person is on the other end of what they're reading. You're not writing poetry here. You're just trying to not sound like an automated customer service bot. You know good and well we can tell when a bot is talking to us. That's what you're trying to avoid. ➡️ When you need ideas that don't suck: ✨️ "Take risks. Be creative. Give me ideas that sound crazy." This is for things product names, descriptions, positioning angles, content hooks. The stuff that makes someone stop scrolling and lean in. BIG WARNING: this mode tends to hallucinate more. It trades safety for interesting. You must always fact-check before you use anything. The idea is to be creative and interesting, not to lie or mislead. This is vital for your reputation.