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name: slow-month-plan
description: "Ten things to try this month when takings have dropped, ranked by cost and effort. Use when the user wants help with Slow Month Plan. Related topics: Small Business, Marketing, Planning."
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# Slow Month Plan

Ten things to try this month when takings have dropped, ranked by cost and effort.

## How to use this skill

1. Ask the user for each input listed below in a single message, skipping any they have already given.
2. Where options are listed, offer them, but accept other answers too.
3. Fill the answers into the prompt template, then follow the completed prompt to produce the result.

## Inputs

- **Sales at my** (free text, e.g. "type of business")
- **percentage or amount** (free text, e.g. "percentage or amount")
- **Input 3** (choose one: last month, this time last year, what I planned for)
- **your best guess** (longer free text)
- **Input 5** (choose one: no spare cash, a few hundred to spend, a proper budget)
- **Input 6** (choose one: no spare time, a few hours a week, a quiet enough diary to actually do things)

## Prompt template

Sales at my {{Sales at my}} are down about {{percentage or amount}} compared to {{Input 3}}. I think it is because {{your best guess}}. I have {{Input 5}} and {{Input 6}}.

Give me ten things I could do this month. For each one: what it is, roughly what it costs, how many hours it takes, and when I would know whether it worked. Sort them by cost and effort, cheapest and quickest first. Put anything that needs a designer, an agency, or a website rebuild at the bottom, and mark the two you would do first if you were me.

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Source: [Slow Month Plan on PromptBuild](https://promptbuild.io/prompt/R6r7adJmBNagUx7GH3sS/slow-month-plan)