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022 of 025 · At Work Everywhere

AI for

Small Business Owners

Nobody gets sold to the way a small business owner gets sold to. Everything now arrives with the same two letters bolted on the front, and it all still lands on you.

Ebook $7.99 · Audiobook $14.99 · instant download · no DRM

eleven hours
a week.

That’s eleven hours in a normal week. Your first week will be slower — you’re learning a tool. By week three, the numbers above are realistic. Chapter 12 gives you the 30-day plan to get there.

Line illustration: an hourglass filled with folded sheets of paper instead of sand

Where the hours come from

  • Chapter 4Writing quotes, proposals, and product descriptions at night~3 hours
  • Chapter 5Customer messages, confirmations, the hard conversations~2 hours
  • Chapter 6Invoices, payment chasing, vendor emails~1.5 hours
  • Chapter 7Review replies and reputation upkeep~1 hour
  • Chapter 8Writing down how your business runs — SOPs, hiring ads, training~2 hours
  • Chapter 9Marketing you keep putting off~1.5 hours
Contents

Twelve chapters.

150 copy-paste prompts across twelve chapters, a glossary with no jargon in it, and a thirty-day plan that starts with one thing on Monday.

  1. Line illustration: a cash-register drawer standing wide open on a bare counter, its coin trays already heaped over the brim and its note slots packed tight before the shop has opened, every coin and note completely blank with no numerals, faces or lettering, the open drawer front the accent colour 01 Your Head Start
  2. Line illustration: a small shop counter till fitted with a receipt paper roll the size of a cable drum towering over it on its spindle, keys, paper and body all completely blank with no lettering or numbers anywhere, the paper roll the accent colour 02 The 30-Minute Setup
  3. Line illustration: an old mechanical cash register with a single blank price flag popped up on a stalk twice the height of the machine itself, flag, keys and register all bare with no lettering or numerals, the raised flag the accent colour 03 How to Talk to It
  4. Line illustration: three brown paper parcels of wildly different sizes standing in a row on a shop counter, all three tied together by a single continuous length of string, the paper plain and free of any lettering, stamps or markings, the string the accent colour 04 Selling It
  5. Line illustration: a chrome counter-top napkin dispenser on a shop counter with small folded paper notes fanned out of its slot instead of napkins, every note blank and free of lettering, the dispenser's slot lip the accent colour 05 Serving Them
  6. Line illustration: an open metal cash tin on a shop counter with its coin trays empty and a small fishing rod propped across it, the line hanging down inside the tin, no lettering or numerals anywhere, the float the accent colour 06 Collecting It
  7. Line illustration: a plain brown paper shopping bag standing upright on a counter with a laurel wreath resting around its rim like a crown, the bag free of any print, lettering or markings, the wreath the accent colour 07 Your Name
  8. Line illustration: an upright shop broom standing on its bristles with an oversized clockwork wind-up key set into its handle, nothing else in the frame, the wind-up key the accent colour 08 Running It
  9. Line illustration: a small shopfront with an enormously oversized map pin pushed through its roof like a drawing pin, the fascia board above the door and the awning left completely blank with no lettering or numerals, the pin's head the accent colour 09 Getting Customers
  10. Line illustration: an ordinary sprung wooden mousetrap set on a bare desktop with a small USB memory stick fixed to it as the bait, trap and stick completely plain with no lettering, numbers or logos, the memory stick the accent colour 10 The Rules You Can’t Afford to Break
  11. Line illustration: a shop counter bell of the press-down kind with a coin slot cut into its dome and one coin standing upright in the slot, the bell and both faces of the coin smooth and blank with no lettering, numerals or emblems, the coin the accent colour 11 Tools of the Trade
  12. Line illustration: a pair of ceremonial ribbon-cutting scissors as long as the shop counter they rest on, a slim ribbon threaded between their open blades and just nicked at one edge, no lettering or numerals anywhere, the ribbon the accent colour 12 Your First 30 Days

Then: The Prompt Library, Glossary, The AI on the Job Series and About This Edition.

Free, from this book, right now

Read the opening before you decide.

Not a sample that stops mid-sentence — the whole first section, as printed, the title of every prompt in the library, and the guide to the trade.

The opening · 2,183 words It All Lands on You About 9 minutes. What AI does and does not do in this trade, and why the difference is worth your Tuesday. Read it free → The library · 150 titles Every prompt in the book, by name All eight groups, every numbered title, and twelve of the prompts printed in full so you can use them today. See the list → The field guide · free What AI does for small business owners The whole answer on one page: the six blocks of writing worth handing over, what each is worth in hours, what the tool gets wrong here, and the words you will meet. Read the guide →
From the Prompt Library

Prompt #1.

Printed exactly as it appears in the book. The yellow parts are the blanks you fill in — there are thousands across the 150 prompts, and they are why this works on your trade rather than a generic one.

COPY THIS — Prompt #1 · Your permanent profile

Paste into the custom instructions / profile box: “I own a [BUSINESS TYPE, e.g., residential cleaning company / women’s clothing boutique / landscaping company] in [CITY, STATE] called [BUSINESS NAME], with [N] employees. My customers are [WHO — homeowners, walk-in shoppers, local businesses]. What we sell: [YOUR TOP 3–5 SERVICES OR PRODUCT CATEGORIES]. When I ask you to write anything customer-facing, keep it professional, plain, and brief — no hype, no exclamation points, an 8th-grade reading level. When I ask for a quote, a price, or anything with a dollar amount, always leave the numbers as blanks for me to fill in unless I give them to you.”

One of 150 in AI for Small Business Owners.

Formats

Pick how you want it.

Both are downloads and arrive the moment you pay. Prices, delivery and returns.

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Ebook (EPUB)
EPUB 3 · reflowable · no DRM · 915 KB · about 29,814 words · ISBN 979-8-90623-453-7
$7.99
Audiobook
MP3 · unabridged except the Prompt Library · 2h 30m · 20 tracks · ISBN 979-8-90623-454-4
$14.99
Before you buy

The questions people actually ask.

Do I need to pay for ChatGPT or Claude to use this book?

Not yet. The free tiers of both tools will carry you through this entire book’s TRY IT NOW exercises and your first few weeks of real use. You’ll know it’s time to pay (roughly $20/month) when you hit the free tier’s daily limits during a normal workday — that’s the signal the tool is earning its keep. Chapter 11 covers what the money buys.

Is this book going to tell me AI is coming for my job?

No. It takes the opposite position, and says so on page one: it is a good tool for words, it does not do your job, it does the writing around your job. The book's own last line on it is “this book will not tell you AI is magic. It’s a power tool. It kicks. We’ll show you where.” You can read the whole opening, It All Lands on You, free: 2,183 words, no sign-up.

What is actually in the 150 prompts?

Eight groups: Setup & Voice (1–15), Selling It (16–40), Serving Them (41–65), Collecting It (66–85), Your Name (86–105), Running It (106–120), Marketing & Growth (121–145), Admin & Momentum (146–150). Every title is listed free on the prompt page, and twelve of the prompts are printed there in full.

I have never used AI at work. Is this too advanced?

It assumes nothing. Chapter 2 is “The 30-Minute Setup” and Chapter 3 is “How to Talk to It” — the tool is set up and the one real skill is taught before anything else is asked of you. The glossary at the back explains every term the book uses.

How long is it?

It is about 29,814 words across 12 chapters, plus the 150-prompt library and the glossary; the audiobook runs 2h 30m across 20 tracks, measured from the masters on 2026-08-31. Chapters 1–3 take about an hour and everything else depends on them.

What do I actually get, and how is it delivered?

Ebook at $7.99 and Audiobook at $14.99. Both are downloads and arrive the moment you pay — the EPUB has no DRM, so it is yours on any reader. Ebook ISBN 979-8-90623-453-7; Audiobook ISBN 979-8-90623-454-4. There is no printed edition of this one yet.

The last line of the Promise Page

This book will not tell you AI is magic. It’s a power tool. It kicks. We’ll show you where.

AI on the Job: Small Business Owners Edition · page one

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