Ideate the Next Steps for Your Business
Create an action plan of the next steps of growing your business with this 3-step method.
The method
Copy and paste the prompts below - one at a time - into your preferred LLM.
The prompts
Prompt 1
I need to ideate the next steps for my business. To start, I need you to fully understand my current situation. Here are the key details:
- My Business: {ex. An independent bookshop in Bristol that hosts community events}.
- My Biggest Recent Success: {ex. Our monthly poetry night has been fully booked for the last three months}.
- My Persistent Challenge: {ex. Low footfall and sales during weekday mornings}.
- My Core Ambition: {ex. To become the central cultural hub for our local community}.
Based on this information, please write a short "State of the Business" summary for me. This summary must identify the core strength my recent success has revealed and the primary weakness my biggest challenge represents.
Prompt 2
Now, using the "State of the Business" summary you just created, I want you to brainstorm potential strategic directions. Generate two distinct ideas for each of the following categories. Each idea must either leverage the core strength or directly address the primary weakness you identified.
- Category 1: Deepen My Market. Ideas focused on getting more value from my existing customers or market niche.
- Category 2: Broaden My Reach. Ideas focused on attracting new types of customers or entering new markets.
- Category 3: Optimize My Operations. Ideas focused on improving my internal processes, efficiency, or product delivery to solve my primary weakness.
For each of the six ideas, provide a one-sentence description and a brief explanation of how it builds on my strength or solves my weakness.
Prompt 3
I've reviewed the list and the most compelling idea for me is: "{indicate_the_selected_idea}".
Based on this chosen idea, create a "First 90-Day Action Plan." Outline the key milestones for Month 1, Month 2, and Month 3 to help me turn this idea into a reality.
Finally, define the single most important metric (or Key Performance Indicator) that I should track to determine if this new initiative is successful, and explain why this specific metric is the best measure of progress.
