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Prompts for everyday business work.

A practical collection of prompts for The $20 Assistant. Use them as starting points for email, marketing, admin and customer work.

Email & Communication

10 prompts

Reply to a customer chasing a quote

Chapter 1

Supplier email reply (the tricky ones)

Chapter 4

Handle a customer complaint

Chapter 4

Sort your inbox in 60 seconds

Chapter 4

Follow up on a quote (without sounding desperate)

Chapter 4

Build a 3-email follow-up sequence

Chapter 4

Batch-reply to emails you've been avoiding

Bonus

Summarise a long email thread

Bonus

Write your out-of-office reply

Bonus

Offer an instalment plan

Bonus

Marketing & Content

12 prompts

Analyse customer reviews for marketing gold

Chapter 5

Turn insights into marketing angles

Chapter 5

Write an SEO blog post that actually ranks

Chapter 5

Turn one blog post into social posts and an email

Chapter 5

Create your voice profile (do this once, use it forever)

Chapter 5

Write a social media post in your voice

Chapter 5

Batch a week of social content in one go

Chapter 5

Generate 10 ad variations to test

Chapter 5

Analyse ad results and write better ones

Chapter 5

Rewrite your product descriptions

Bonus

Spy on your competitor's website

Bonus

Turn FAQs into social posts

Bonus

Finance & Invoicing

6 prompts

Write an invoice chasing sequence

Chapter 6

Phone script for chasing an overdue invoice

Chapter 6

Prepare for tax season in 20 minutes

Chapter 6

Categorise your bank statement

Bonus

Calculate your AI ROI

Chapter 3

Compare AI tools for your budget

Bonus

Documents & Paperwork

13 prompts

Turn your brain-dump into a proper SOP

Chapter 7

Write a health and safety policy

Chapter 7

Write a professional proposal from rough notes

Chapter 7

Rewrite your website homepage

Chapter 7

Rewrite your "About" page

Chapter 2

Write a job description people actually want to read

Chapter 7

Review a contract before your solicitor does

Chapter 7

Write a monthly report from raw data

Chapter 7

Rewrite a trades quote to look professional

Chapter 2

Reply to a client brief (freelancers)

Chapter 2

Extract scope from a messy email thread

Bonus

Write an expenses policy for your team

Bonus

Write a case study from rough notes

Bonus

Automation

3 prompts

Score and route incoming leads (for Zapier)

Chapter 8

Write a post-call follow-up

Bonus

Build a lead nurture sequence

Bonus

Quality & Safety

3 prompts

Make AI check its own work

Chapter 9

Check an AI draft before you send it

Bonus

Proof an AI blog post before publishing

Bonus

Team & Training

3 prompts

Plan a 15-minute team training session

Chapter 10

Introduce AI to your team without the drama

Bonus

Create an AI cheat sheet for your team

Bonus

Strategy & Evaluation

7 prompts

Evaluate any new AI tool (the sceptical ops manager)

Chapter 12

Find out what AI can do for your specific business

Bonus

Audit your AI subscriptions

Bonus

Find your next AI use case

Bonus

Work out your AI budget

Bonus

Reply to a 5-star review

Bonus

Write a callback script from a voicemail

Bonus

These prompts work better with context

The book adds context for choosing a prompt, adapting it to your business and checking the result before you use it.

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