Use These AI Prompts To Find Winning Business Ideas
Rethink Your Approach to Business Ideas
The most common mistake when creating a business idea is to package up your existing skills and hope someone buys them. True success comes from flipping that script. Instead of starting with what you can do, you must start with a dream client and figure out what they desperately want to buy. Then, you build that exact thing. That is the path to a profitable venture.
Your skills are irrelevant if they aren't commercially viable. Your products, content, and pricing must align with what people are already searching for. You need to find a hungry audience, and the AI tool ChatGPT can be your guide. The following prompts can be copied and pasted directly into ChatGPT. For best results, keep the entire conversation in a single chat window so the AI remembers the context.
Prompt 1: Identify the Pain That Keeps Your Clients Awake
Your ideal client is already experiencing a problem. They are losing sleep, searching for a solution. To connect with them, you need to stop talking about your credentials and start identifying the top 10 things they are genuinely sick of and would pay to solve. Get specific about their daily frustrations to understand what makes them desperate for a solution.
"Based on what you know about my business expertise and the problems I've discussed, help me identify the top 10 pain points my ideal client experiences. For each pain point, ask me to rate how urgent it feels to them on a scale of 1-10. Then help me identify which 3 pains are most likely to make someone pull out their credit card immediately. Ask for more detail if required."
Prompt 2: Name the Belief That's Keeping Them Stuck
Everyone has a story they tell themselves that holds them back. Your ideal client has a limiting belief that keeps them trapped. Perhaps they think they lack the right credentials or that their industry is unique. Your job is to understand this story and then show them why it's the only thing standing in their way. When you can crack their belief system, the sale becomes almost inevitable.
"Help me uncover the core limiting belief my target audience holds. Based on our previous discussion about their pain points, what story are they telling themselves about why they can't solve this problem? Create 5 different versions of this limiting belief, from surface-level to deep-rooted. Then for each one, write a powerful reframe that would make them see their situation differently."
Prompt 3: Write the Tweet That Grabs Instant Attention
If you can't capture someone's attention in 280 characters, your business idea needs refinement. Your core value should be so clear that it makes people stop scrolling and click instinctively. Test your idea by framing it as a tweet. Focus on the transformation you offer, not the process. If your test tweet gets no engagement, your angle is wrong. Keep testing different hooks until you get a response.
"Based on what we've discovered about my ideal client's pain points and limiting beliefs, write 10 different tweets that would make them stop scrolling immediately. Each tweet should promise a specific transformation or solution. Make them direct, punchy, and focused on the outcome they desperately want. After each tweet, note which psychological trigger it uses."
Prompt 4: Explain What You Do Without Using Your Job Title
No one cares if you are a coach, consultant, or strategist; they only care about whether you can solve their problem. You must be able to explain what you do in simple terms. Focus on the gap between where your client is and where they want to be. Your explanation should make potential clients immediately think, "That's exactly what I need."
"Help me create 5 different ways to explain what I do without using any job titles or industry jargon. Based on the pain points and solutions we've identified, each explanation should follow this format: 'I help [specific person] who struggles with [specific problem] to [specific outcome] so they can [ultimate transformation].' Make each version progressively more specific and compelling."
Prompt 5: List What Your Best Customers Have Already Told You
Your most satisfied customers have already told you what transformation you deliver. You just need to listen. Go through your testimonials, messages, and feedback to find the exact words they used to describe their results. This feedback contains your real offer. Package that proven outcome and sell it directly.
"Based on what you know about my work and expertise, help me identify the 5 most powerful outcomes my clients likely experience. For each outcome, write a sample testimonial quote that captures the emotional transformation, not just the logical result. Focus on specific before-and-after scenarios that would resonate with someone experiencing the same struggle. Make them feel real and relatable."
Turn Your Expertise into a Business That Sells
You are likely already sitting on a profitable business idea but have been marketing it incorrectly. Stop guessing and start selling what people actually want. Use these prompts to find the pain, crack the limiting beliefs, and test your angle. Let your results speak for you, and you'll find your profitable business idea is closer than you think.
For more tools to refine your content, you can access these powerful ChatGPT prompts.
