You never know who’s watching. Ninety eight views was enough.

About 12 years ago, a friend and I were interviewed for a YouTube channel about trusts. It wasn’t planned. I got clicked onto a three way call and joined a conversation I had no reason to expect anything from. The video went up. Today it has 98 views. One of those views was a man who had just made a fortune in crypto. He called us and became one of my biggest consulting clients.

Most owners measure content by how many people see it. The other number is how many of the right people see it. Sometimes that number is one.

This episode’s prompt is One Question Video. It sets AI up as your video producer and turns one real customer question into a short title, a first line, a script under two minutes, and a caption you can record on your phone today.

Get the full prompt in the Prompt Library: https://www.patreon.com/Damonrebuilds

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What you hear is what I lived and what I’d do. It’s not legal or financial advice.

Every decision has a runway. Make sure it’s shorter than the rule you’re standing on.

From 2004, I ran a payday loan store on Baseline. The business depended on Arizona’s payday law, and that law had an end date of June 30, 2010. In 2008, voters rejected Proposition 200, and the climate changed. Loans written in 2009 would run past the end date. We closed in 2009, and almost none of the outstanding loans were ever collected.

The loans weren’t the real asset. The customer list was. If I had it to do over, I would have started serving that list in new ways the day Proposition 200 failed.

Know which rule your business depends on, and when it ends. A license, a permit, a law, a platform’s terms. If you don’t know the date, you don’t know your runway.

This episode’s prompt is What Am I Standing On. It sets AI up as a business analyst and gives you a list of the rules you’re standing on, a read on your runway, and what your customer list is worth outside your main product.

Get the full prompt in the Prompt Library: https://www.patreon.com/Damonrebuilds

Have a business question? Call 602 900 8833 and ask it. Your question could be answered on the show.

What you hear is what I lived and what I’d do. It’s not legal or financial advice.

Decide what you’re selling before the big client shows up.

A client came to us who had gone from delivering pizza to a crypto fortune. He wanted asset protection. My partner was focused on selling him marketing. Nobody on our team wrote down what he asked for and put it in front of everyone. He paid enough to cover our salaries for a few years, and he never got what he came for. He moved on.

Give the client exactly what they asked for. Put a scope document in front of everyone on the first call, so the whole team is aligned before the work starts.

This episode’s prompt is the First Call Scope. It sets AI up as your project lead and turns a client’s first call into a one page scope document: what they asked for, what you will and won’t deliver, who owns each part, dates and price, and open questions.

Get the full prompt in the Prompt Library: https://www.patreon.com/Damonrebuilds

Have a business question? Call 602 900 8833 and ask it. Your question could be answered on the show.

What you hear is what I lived and what I’d do. It’s not legal or financial advice.

The best customer is one who has to come back.

In 2020 I ran a Covid testing site in a mall parking lot. Companies required a test before people could come back to work, so the same people came back every week without any ads. The rule did the marketing. When we missed the mail cutoff, I drove the specimens to the airport myself so nobody lost a day of work.

When that rule went away, I used what I learned to help clinics move to telehealth. Clinic owners ask me if they can keep their workflow when they go virtual. My answer is to split the visit from the numbers.

This episode’s prompt is the Telehealth Stack. It sets AI up as your clinic operations planner and gives you a software stack, a staff map, and the patient’s path from first contact to prescription.

Get the full prompt in the Prompt Library: https://www.patreon.com/Damonrebuilds

Have a business question? Call 602 900 8833 and ask it. Your question could be answered on the show.

What you hear is what I lived and what I’d do. It’s not legal or financial advice.

Every dollar in your business leaves a record, but somebody still has to read it.

A weekend employee at my check cashing store sent herself money through our MoneyGram machine. It started at $500 a weekend and ended at over $70,000. The records were there the whole time. What caught it was my bookkeeper reading the pattern out loud in a regular meeting.

Your CPA files what happened. Your bookkeeper catches what’s happening. Data doesn’t protect you. Somebody reading it on a schedule does.

This episode’s prompt is the Weekly Money Check. It sets AI up as your bookkeeper doing a weekly review of your transactions. It flags repeat payments, unusually large items, and unclear charges, and gives you three questions to ask.

Get the full prompt in the Prompt Library: https://www.patreon.com/Damonrebuilds

Have a business question? Call 602 900 8833 and ask it. Your question could be answered on the show.

What you hear is what I lived and what I’d do. It’s not legal or financial advice.