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Howdy rebel ideapreneurs 🦸♂️🦸♀️
Sloan writes a weekly newsletter about traveling the world on less money.
She started it to show that a good trip is about wonder, not a fat budget.
To her, the best adventures cost far less than most people think.
That's what Sloan's readers crave — big adventures on a small budget.
⛳️ Problem:
Sloan writes about travel, and so does everyone else.
Cheap flights, packing tips, the ten best cities — the same as a thousand others.
Readers skim her issue, then skim ten just like it, and her list barely grows. Ouch.
Her struggle:
She writes the same travel tips as everyone, so nothing makes hers the one to open.
🔥 The recipe
➡️ The Monopoly of One
Picture one coffee shop on a street with nine others.
Same beans, same prices, same muffins — so people just pick whichever's closest.
Now picture the one shop built only for new moms: quiet room, warm milk, space for the stroller.
Every new mom on that street walks past nine shops to reach it.
Get this — nine shops, all skipped.
That's what Peter Thiel understood.
He co-founded PayPal and sold it to eBay for $1.5 billion, then co-founded Palantir.
Along the way he became worth around $27 billion.
His take: competition is for losers. Don't fight in a crowd where you're one of a thousand.
Be the only one who does your exact thing for your exact people.
A tiny corner you own completely beats a huge crowd you fight to be noticed in.
When you're the only one, the right reader has no one else to choose from.
They walk past the other nine shops to get to yours.
🚗 So Sloan tried it her way.
Remember Sloan and her travel newsletter, lost among a thousand others?
She'd been writing generic tips — cheap flights, packing hacks, best-city lists.
So she shrank her whole topic to one corner she could own.
Funny thing is — one corner beat the whole map.
Before, she wrote "travel for everyone," the same promise a thousand others made.
Now she picked one reader nobody else was serving: solo women over fifty, on a budget.
She even renamed the newsletter to say it out loud — Solo & Fifty-Plus.
It wasn't for every traveler, and that was the whole point.
Her first issue in the new corner brought real replies, not skims.
Plot twist: the corner she shrank into is the one that finally grew.
Three women wrote back the same thing: "Finally, one made for me."
She stopped being one of a thousand, and became the only one they'd open.
Boom.
🧸 Don't fight the whole crowd. Own the one corner where you're the only choice.
The prompt below shrinks your crowded topic into one corner you can own.
You just tell it your broad topic and the reader you most want.
🏄♀️ The prompt
Save this prompt as a Skill or add to Project in your favorite AI tool — build once, use often.
Update your input values in the prompt, or just run it as is. Your AI sidekick will use the example values and give you an output.
CONTEXT:
- (use what's available, fall back to the inline values)
- If my Voice Profile exists, write in that voice. Otherwise, write in a clear, warm, no-jargon voice — first-person, plain words, no startup-speak.
- If my ICP / Audience doc exists, target that reader. Otherwise, use the audience below.
Inputs:
My broad topic (the crowded space my newsletter is in right now — the one a thousand others also cover):
{e.g. general travel tips — cheap flights, packing hacks, best-city lists}
The one specific reader I most want to serve:
{e.g. solo women over fifty who travel on a tight budget}
The real need only I care to serve well (the exact problem this reader has that the big crowd ignores):
{e.g. safe, doable solo trips that don't cost a fortune or assume you're twenty-five}
For Outcome: {e.g. a new narrow niche, a name, and a one-line pitch for my title and first line}
Outputs:
1. My monopoly corner — the one narrow niche, cut down from my broad topic, that I can own completely.
2. Why the crowd can't follow — one line on what makes this corner mine, not one of a thousand.
3. My new name + tagline — a newsletter name and one-line pitch that makes the right reader think "this is for me."
4. My first issue angle — one topic only my exact reader would open before all the others.
Then name the ONE broad habit I should drop — the general topic I keep writing "for everyone" that keeps me lost in the crowd.
That's it, my fellow renegades!
Yours 'helping you gain years of experience without putting in the years' Vijay Peduru 🦸♂️