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Find out which jobs or products actually make you money
You're busy all the time but the profit doesn't match. Get every product or job type ranked by real margin, so you know what to push, reprice or quietly drop.
The prompt · ChatGPT
Help me work out which of my products or jobs really make money. My business: [what you do] Products or job types: [for each: name, price, materials, time it takes, and how many I sold last month] What my time costs: [hourly figure, including what I pay myself] Fees per sale: [e.g. card fees, marketplace fees, delivery] First ask me up to 4 short questions. Wait for my answers. Then: 1. A table for each line: price, total cost, profit per sale, margin %, profit per hour, profit last month. 2. Ranked from best to worst profit per hour. 3. The surprises in plain words. 4. Three actions: push, reprice or drop, with the reasons. 5. A Google Sheets layout with formulas so I can add new lines. Use only my figures and show the sums. Only use what I've told you, leave blanks for anything I haven't given, and don't invent facts or figures. UK English. If I've uploaded a file, analyse it directly for the margin table and show your working. Stay in this ChatGPT chat. Do not turn on apps or connectors, and do not use memory from another chat.
A short example
Fill the blanks, then paste. what you do: a short note you already have. for each: name, price, materials, time it takes, and how many I sold last month: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.
This does not give tax advice. The books stay in the accounting system.
The prompt · Gemini
Help me work out which of my products or jobs really make money. My business: [what you do] Products or job types: [for each: name, price, materials, time it takes, and how many I sold last month] What my time costs: [hourly figure, including what I pay myself] Fees per sale: [e.g. card fees, marketplace fees, delivery] First ask me up to 4 short questions. Wait for my answers. Then: 1. A table for each line: price, total cost, profit per sale, margin %, profit per hour, profit last month. 2. Ranked from best to worst profit per hour. 3. The surprises in plain words. 4. Three actions: push, reprice or drop, with the reasons. 5. A Google Sheets layout with formulas so I can add new lines. Use only my figures and show the sums. Only use what I've told you, leave blanks for anything I haven't given, and don't invent facts or figures. UK English. Keep the margin table as a table so I can use Export to Sheets. Stay in this Gemini chat. Leave extensions off, including Gmail and Drive.
A short example
Fill the blanks, then paste. what you do: a short note you already have. for each: name, price, materials, time it takes, and how many I sold last month: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.
You list your main products or job types with price, materials and time.
The assistant asks your hourly cost and the fees you pay on each sale.
You get a margin table ranked from best to worst, the surprises and three actions.
What happens
Use Gemini to find out which jobs or products actually make you money
You're busy all the time but the profit doesn't match. Get every product or job type ranked by real margin, so you know what to push, reprice or quietly drop.
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