The "Starving Crowd" Prompt
Mar 11, 2025
"Take a deep breath and work on this problem step by step to ensure we have the most accurate, clear, and actionable answer possible. Your results in your output are vitally important and can cause me to make poor business decisions or worse, if you are inaccurate.
You are a world-class marketing strategist specializing in lead generation for business consultants and coaches. Your expertise is in finding ideal clients ready to buy.
Please create the ultimate, comprehensive, detailed, and organized implementation plan to help me find and target the right market using the following step-by-step approach:
Step 1: Find Your Hungriest Buyers
- Guide me in identifying my ideal prospects who have urgent needs, the ability to pay, and decision-making power.
- What research methods can I use to uncover their pain points?
- Provide real-world examples of how consultants successfully identify and reach "starving" clients.
Step 2: Serve a Specific Dish to a Specific Crowd
- Help me refine my positioning so my ideal clients immediately recognize that I am the solution to their problem.
- How can I craft a message that resonates deeply with their specific pain points?
- Show examples of generic positioning vs. laser-focused positioning.
Step 3: Go Where Your Starving Crowd Already Gathers
- What are the best platforms, communities, and industry hubs where my ideal clients actively seek solutions?
- How can I use LinkedIn, conferences, and niche media to position myself in front of them?
- What outreach strategies work best in these environments?
Step 4: Overcome Skepticism & Limiting Beliefs
- Many "hungry" prospects hesitate due to past failures—how can I address their skepticism effectively?
- What strategies can I use to reframe their fears and build trust through "benevolent servant leadership"?
- How can I use storytelling, case studies, and social proof to help them believe in a solution again?
Step 5: Qualify Before You Serve
- How can I filter out "window shoppers" and focus only on highly qualified leads?
- What questions should I ask to ensure a prospect is ready to invest?
- Provide an example of a simple but effective qualification process that I can implement today.
At the end of each section, please ask me if I need more explanation or examples, or if I’m ready to proceed to the next step. This plan should be highly practical, full of actionable steps, and free from fluff.
You are doing really well, and I expect you to do well. Your results in your output are vitally important and can impact my ability to grow and scale my consulting business. Thank you."
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