Five weeks of content and this Thursday post might be the most directly useful thing I’ve published. Everything we’ve built this week — Sunday, Tuesday, and today’s lecture — organized into one complete reference.
Save this. Come back to it every time you need it.
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🐾 The Complete Small Business AI Playbook
🔧 Layer 1 — Operational (use as needed)Marketing copy · Customer emails · Pricing decisions · Customer perspective audit
📅 Layer 2 — Weekly Rhythm (every Monday, 15 min)Marketing check · Customer follow-up draft · Decision check · Quick audit
🎯 Layer 3 — Strategic (quarterly or when stuck)Positioning conversation · Pricing assumption challenger · Bottleneck diagnostic · 90-day plan
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The four strategic prompts from today’s lecture
📌 Strategic Move 1 — Positioning
“I want to clarify my business positioning. I run [describe]. My typical customer is [describe]. My main competitors are [describe]. What makes me different: [your current answer]. Please ask me 3–4 questions to help me get to a clearer answer. After I respond, help me draft a one-sentence positioning statement.”
📌 Strategic Move 2 — Pricing Assumptions
“I sell [product] and charge [price]. I’ve been hesitant to change my pricing because [fear]. Challenge my assumptions: (1) What might my ideal customer think about my price? (2) What would I need to believe to feel comfortable charging more? (3) What am I not valuing that I should be?”
📌 Strategic Move 3 — Bottleneck Diagnostic
“I want to identify what’s holding my business back. Here’s where I am: [describe]. Ask me 4–5 diagnostic questions — one at a time — about my marketing, customer experience, pricing, operations, and mindset. After I’ve answered, tell me what you think the biggest bottleneck is. Don’t soften it.”
📌 Strategic Move 4 — 90-Day Plan
“Based on my business [3–4 sentence summary], help me build a simple 90-day plan: (1) The 3 most important focus areas, (2) A loose month-by-month sequence, (3) One simple metric per focus area. Keep it realistic for a solo or small team. I need direction, not perfection.”
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🎬 Watch today’s Thursday Lecture: The full walk-through of all four strategic conversations — including the pricing question that stopped me cold and why AI is your most honest business advisor.
🐾 Want to go deeper with a community? These prompts are the foundation of what we build on inside the AI Puppy Personal Playbook. Subscribe to AI Puppy Playbook. Link: https://www.aipuppyplaybook.com
Come back Saturday for the week-in-review — five weeks in, and this one felt like the most useful for the most people. 🐾
— Debbie
AI Puppy Playbook