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The Claude Prompt I Used to Find My Niche

If you're good at twelve things, 'pick one' is terrible advice. Your niche isn't a skill - it's the problem your skills solve together. Here's how I got Claude to find mine.

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The Prompt I Use to Land Consulting Clients

You don't have a confidence problem. You have an evidence problem. How I get Claude to go through my client work and find the consulting experience already in it.

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4 Things I Don't Do Anymore, Now That I Have Claude

Most people use AI to produce more. The better question is what it could stop you doing - here are the four jobs that have quietly left my week, with the prompts.

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The Claude Prompt I Use to Review My Business Each Month

Three months back, two months forward. The prompt I run at the end of every month to find where the capacity is, where the money is leaking, and what to sell now to land income later.

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4 Signs You Have a Content Strategy But No Lead Generation Strategy

Posting consistently is not the same as having a way to get clients. The four signs, what a lead generation strategy actually is, and the prompts to build yours.

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The 6 Documents Every Freelancer Should Have in Their AI Brain

You've built the folders. Now here's what actually goes in them - the six documents that turn a filing system into something that knows your business.

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How I Boost My Income Without More Retainer Clients

A £1,000 retainer can cost you 80 hours a month. A £1,000 project can cost you eight. Here's the prompt I use with Claude to work out which projects to add to my offer suite.

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How to Land Clients on LinkedIn (5 Days, 5 Real Conversations)

You don't need a following or viral content to land premium tech clients. The exact 5-day LinkedIn outreach system: who to target, what to research, and the email template that gets 30-50% replies.

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How I Use Claude to Prospect on LinkedIn

The LinkedIn strategy works. The problem is the twenty minutes of research it takes per prospect. Here are the exact prompts I use so it takes five.

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10 Admin Tasks I Now Delegate to Claude

The ten jobs that used to eat my evenings, the connectors each one needs, and the exact prompt I run for every single one.

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How to Build Your Own Claude Skill (With a Template)

A prompt is something you remember to paste. A skill is something Claude reaches for on its own. Here's how to find the one worth building, and a template to build it from.

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How I Built My Brand Profile with Claude Design

Four businesses, one look. How I built the brand profile everything else hangs off - and turned it into the PDF templates my proposals and lead magnets live in.

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How I Use Claude to Create Proposals

Three prompts, one brain dump, and a proposal that looks like it came from a proper business - saved into the client's folder before I've even asked.

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The Claude Prompt I Run at the End of Every Client Project (and You Should Too)

Every project you finish contains something worth keeping. These three prompts pull it out, file it, and hand it back to you six months later when you need it again.

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Build your own sticky-note to-do lists for your Mac

Apple Stickies crossed with Notes checklists, in your own colours, with a little alien who jumps up to chase you. Free code, built by Claude Code in about ten minutes.

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Build your own alien meeting reminder for your Mac

A little alien flies across your screen five minutes before every meeting. Here's the code, and Claude Code builds it for you in about ten minutes.

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The Co-Founder Setup: How My Business Actually Runs on Claude

You've seen the prompts - this is the setup that makes them work. The filing system, Claude Projects vs Claude Code, and the new folder feature that changes everything.

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The 15-Minute Daily Authority Routine (Without Posting Every Day)

You don't need to post daily or grow an Instagram following to build authority as a VA. The exact 15-minute routine: referrals, LinkedIn and stories.

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The Two-Path Proposal: Reprice a £350/mo Client to £1,500/mo

The exact proposal structure TQA students use to turn "button-clicking" retainers into proper strategic contracts — scripts included.

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5 Client Tasks to Hand Your AI This Week

Delegate like a consultant: five real client tasks your AI can own today, the exact briefs to give it, and the one thing you should never hand over.

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