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Hey rebel solopreneurs 🦸♀️🦸♂️
Content creation isn't about having more ideas.
The ideas are already in your head. You just need a system to pull them out.
⛳️ Here's the scenario
Meet Ryan.
Six years running cost and supplier operations for a mid-size manufacturing company.
He knew how to cut costs, win negotiations, and build supplier systems that worked.
He'd helped his company save hundreds of thousands in supplier costs.
He'd trained entire teams on how to do it.
When he went solo as a freelance consultant, he did everything right.
He set up his LinkedIn profile.
He committed to posting three times a week.
He sat down on Monday morning.
And stared at a blank document for 45 minutes.
He'd post something vague just to get something out — "5 ways to improve supplier relationships" — and it would get six likes.
One from his mum.
He tried writing topics on a notepad.
He googled "content ideas for consultants."
Nothing felt specific enough.
Nothing felt like him.
He had a decade of real-world expertise.
But every time he sat down to write, he felt like he had nothing to say.
One Saturday afternoon, he was browsing a secondhand bookshop in his neighborhood.
Tucked behind a shelf of business books, a woman was quietly reading with a highlighter in hand.
He almost walked past.
But she glanced up and noticed the LinkedIn draft open on his phone.
"Still trying to figure out what to write?" she said.
Ryan laughed awkwardly.
Turned out she'd spent 20 years building content systems for online educators and newsletter writers.
She'd helped creators publish consistently for years — without ever starting from a blank page.
(Ryan nearly knocked over a stack of books.)
She took one look at his draft and rewrote the frame on a sticky note from the inside cover of her book.
❌ What Ryan had: "5 ways to improve supplier relationships"
✅ What it became: "3 questions to ask a new supplier before signing anything — the ones most buyers skip until it's too late"
Same topic. Completely different pull.
Ryan blinked.
"How is that so much better?"
She leaned back.
"Ship 30 for 30 uses a framework like this," she said. "I've been building on it for years."
"Your topic wasn't wrong. Your level of zoom was wrong."
She explained two things — slowly, like she was talking to someone who had never thought about content systems before.
💡 First — broad topics make vague posts.
Not "supplier relationships" — but "the exact question a buyer forgets to ask before signing a contract."
When you zoom into a specific subtopic — a focused slice of your bigger topic — the post writes itself.
And when you have 7 subtopics, you have 7 different directions to write from.
💡 Second — each subtopic has 10 built-in post angles.
These angles are called proven approaches.
Things like: the top 3 mistakes, the 3 steps, the 3 habits, the 3 tools.
Readers click on these because each one promises a specific, numbered answer.
One subtopic multiplied by 10 angles gives you 10 post ideas instantly.
Seven subtopics gives you 70.
She pushed the sticky note across the shelf.
"Two prompts. Run them back to back. You'll have 70 ideas in 10 minutes."
Here's what each prompt does:
▶️ Prompt 1 — Map your subtopics: Takes your broad topic and breaks it into 7 focused subtopics — specific enough to build a full post around each one.
▶️ Prompt 2 — Build your idea bank: Takes those 7 subtopics and generates 10 proven-approach questions for each one — giving you 70 ready-to-answer post ideas.
Ryan opened his AI sidekick and got to work.
🎯 Step 1: Map your subtopics
⏱️ 4 minutes
A subtopic is a focused slice of your bigger topic.
Think of it this way: "getting clients" is a topic.
"Overcoming the fear of following up after a sales call" is a subtopic.
One is too broad to write a useful post about.
The other practically writes itself.
This prompt takes your topic and finds 7 of those focused slices.
You are my personal content idea consultant.
I want to create LinkedIn posts about a topic I know well.
My topic: {e.g. helping new freelancers get their first client}
Generate 7 subtopics I could write about.
Rules:
- Each subtopic must start with a verb (Developing, Overcoming, Building, etc.)
- Each subtopic must be outcome-focused — it should help a reader build a skill,
solve a problem, or implement something specific
- Do NOT include specific tactics or techniques as subtopics
(e.g. "3 tips for..." or "tools for..." — those are post angles, not subtopics)
- Keep each subtopic to one clear sentence
Output: a numbered list of 7 subtopics only. Nothing else.
The prompt came back with exactly what the woman in the bookshop had described.
Seven clean directions.
Each one a completely different angle.
Each one something Ryan could write about for weeks.
Here's what changed:
❌ Before: "Supplier relationships (one vague topic, no clear direction)"
✅ After: "1. Overcoming the fear of pushing back on supplier pricing 2. Building a supplier evaluation process that protects your margins 3. Developing a negotiation mindset for buyers who hate conflict 4. Navigating supplier contracts without a legal background 5. Creating a supplier scorecard your whole team can use 6. Reducing dependence on a single supplier without disrupting operations 7. Establishing payment terms that protect cash flow from day one"
Ryan had seven directions to write from.
And he hadn't written a single post yet.
Seven subtopics is just a map.
Step 2 turns the map into 70 specific posts.
🔍 Step 2: Build your idea bank
⏱️ 6 minutes
Each subtopic has a dozen different angles hiding inside it.
Tips. Steps. Mistakes. Habits. Tools. Stories.
These are the proven approaches — the angles readers actually click on because each one promises a specific numbered answer.
This prompt takes all 7 subtopics and generates 10 questions for each one.
That's 70 post ideas from a single run.
Here are 7 subtopics I want to create LinkedIn posts about:
{paste the 7 subtopics from Prompt 1}
For each subtopic, generate 10 questions I can answer as LinkedIn posts.
Each question must:
- Ask for a specific list of 3 items (e.g. "What are the 3 most common mistakes...")
- Use a proven approach angle: Tips, Steps, Habits, Tools, Mistakes,
Lessons, Secrets, Frameworks, Reasons, Questions
- Be specific enough that someone reading it immediately knows what the post will cover
Format:
Subtopic: [name]
Questions:
1. [question]
2. [question]
... (10 total)
Repeat for all 7 subtopics.
Ryan pasted his subtopics in.
Sixty seconds later, his AI sidekick had filled the whole page.
Here's what changed:
❌ Before: "Ideas: getting clients, pricing, sales calls (3 vague topics. No clue what to actually write about any of them.)"
✅ After: "Subtopic: Overcoming the fear of asking for referrals
What are the 3 most common reasons freelancers avoid asking clients for referrals?
What are the 3 habits consultants build to make asking for referrals feel natural?
What are the 3 best moments to ask a happy client for a referral?
What are the 3 questions to ask yourself before reaching out to a past client?
What are the 3 mistakes freelancers make when they finally do ask for referrals?
[Ryan's AI sidekick filled in the remaining 5 questions — plus 60 more across the other 6 subtopics...]"
Ryan scrolled through the output.
Seventy questions.
Every single one something he knew the answer to.
Every single one something a real buyer had asked him at some point in his career.
He picked the first one and wrote the post in under 15 minutes.
Six hundred impressions in the first hour.
Fourteen comments.
Three connection requests from procurement managers.
🏆 Ryan's results
Before:
Blank page every Monday — vague topics, nothing felt specific enough
Posts like "5 ways to improve supplier relationships" — generic, forgettable
6 likes, 0 engagement, zero new connections
After:
70 specific post ideas from one 10-minute session — enough for 23 weeks of posting
First post from the idea bank: 600 impressions, 14 comments, 3 inbound connection requests
Never stared at a blank page again
Total time: 10 minutes. Not 3 months of guessing.
His AI sidekick mapped the territory — Ryan just had to answer the questions.
BAM.
Two prompts. 10 minutes.
You go from one vague topic to 70 specific post ideas — every single one built from expertise you already have.
That's it, my fellow outliers!
Yours 'helping you hire the best 'AI Sidekicks' team who work 24/7 with almost zero cost' Vijay Peduru 🦸♂️