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Hey rebel solopreneurs 🦸♀️🦸♂️
Most solopreneurs spend 30 minutes writing a hook.
They start with a blank page.
They write something. Delete it. Try again.
45 minutes later, they have something "good enough" — which is just a polished version of what everyone else already wrote.
Here's what they don't know: the writers whose posts get millions of views don't start from scratch.
They steal proven structures — and they do it in minutes.
There's a way to do the same thing. One prompt. Done.
🧩You provide:
A topic you want to write about
Who you're writing for
What outcome they want
🍿 What you get:
First — 15 hook variations for your topic, all built on structures proven to go viral
Then — a clear recommendation telling you which one is strongest and why
Finally — hooks ready to copy, tweak for your voice, and post
These are hooks, not finished posts.
Post the best one and watch what lands.
Expand the ones that do into full threads or articles.
⛳️ Here's the scenario
David ran a one-person consulting practice helping HR managers at small businesses keep their best people without competing on salary with bigger companies.
He had real results to share.
But every LinkedIn post he wrote got maybe a dozen likes — mostly colleagues being polite.
He'd tried writing more. Posting more. Studying his analytics.
Nothing worked.
One Saturday he was at the golf driving range, working through a bucket of balls and thinking about a post he'd been drafting all week.
The guy in the next bay was barely touching his clubs — laptop open, reading something intently.
David noticed because it seemed like an odd place to do that. (Fair question, mate.)
"Bad round?" David said.
The man smiled. "Saving something I found. Best hooks I've ever seen."
Turned out he'd spent 15 years writing content for founders and operators, building audiences in the hundreds of thousands.
"Mind if I ask what's not working?" he said, nodding at David's phone.
David explained. The posts. The effort. The silence.
The man took David's phone, pulled up the draft, and read the opening line.
❌ What David had: "Most small businesses struggle to retain employees. Here are 3 things you need to know about keeping your team motivated."
✅ What it became: "99% of small business owners will never know why their best employee quit.
I did — and it changed how I run every team I've worked with since.
Here are 3 things nobody tells you about keeping great people:"
Same topic. Completely different energy.
David stared at it.
"How did you do that in 30 seconds?"
"Every hook that goes viral was built on a structure someone else already proved works," the man said.
"Dickie Bush and Nicolas Cole figured this out years ago," he added. "They call it a swipe file — a library of structures that have already worked. You study the shape, not the content. Then you write something new inside it."
"The problem is, most writers never build the file. And even when they do, it takes forever to find the right structure and fill it in."
He pulled up a prompt on his phone.
"One prompt. 15 proven structures. All run at once. Pick the one that fits."
He handed David his phone.
David opened his AI sidekick and got to work.
🎯 Step 1: Generate 15 proven hooks for your topic
⏱️ 10 minutes
This prompt loads 15 battle-tested hook structures and runs your topic through all of them in one shot.
Here's what it produces:
Here's what changed:
❌ Before: "Most small businesses struggle to retain employees.
Here are 3 things you need to know about keeping your team motivated."
✅ After: "99% of small business owners will never know why their best employee quit.
I did — and it changed how I run every team I've worked with since.
Here are the 3 real reasons your best people leave — and what to do about each one:
—
The most important skill nobody teaches new managers: how to have a real retention conversation.
These 3 frameworks will help you keep your best people without raising salaries. Use them well.
—
It took me 6 years to lose my first great employee.
It took me 6 months to understand why.
Now I help small business owners stop that mistake before it happens.
Here's how:
[David's AI sidekick filled in the remaining 12 structures...]"
Here's the prompt that did that:
I want to write hooks to capture my target audience's attention
using proven hook structures.
My topic: {e.g. how small businesses can keep great employees
without raising salaries}
My audience (FOR WHO): {e.g. founders and managers of businesses
with 5-20 people}
Desired outcome (SO THAT): {e.g. they can stop losing their best
people to bigger companies}
Write 1 hook for each of the 15 hook structures below.
Replace any variable in brackets {} or marked with X.
Keep the line spacing of each structure exactly as written.
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Hook Structure 1:
I'll let you in on a secret.
You're {doing something wrong}, and it's {causing adverse consequence}.
Here's {strategies to fix it}
Hook Structure 2:
X {strategy} I use to {action} instead of {no action}
Hook Structure 3:
{Topic} is the most popular {thing}
But it's not always {what you think it is}.
Here are X {things} you need to change immediately:
Hook Structure 4:
99% of people will never {get to do something rare}.
I did and {here's what happened}.
Here's {what I learned and you can too}:
Hook Structure 5:
{Skill} is a superpower.
Learn it and {desirable outcome}.
Use these X {resources} to {achieve outcome} in Y {amount of time}.
Hook Structure 6:
If you're not {doing something}, you're falling behind.
Here are {solutions} that will bring about {desirable outcome}.
Hook Structure 7:
The most important skill nobody ever taught you: {skill/concept}
These X powerful {strategies} will bring about {desirable outcome}.
Use responsibly.
Hook Structure 8:
X sentences that'll make you more money than a {dollar amount}
{skill} course
Hook Structure 9:
{Topic} has {large number or wide reach}.
But 99% of people don't know how to use it.
Here are X things you didn't know existed.
Hook Structure 10:
Why does {something unexpected happen}?
Because {data or reason}.
And {more surprising insight}.
Here's a breakdown.
Hook Structure 11:
I've done {X things} over the past {time period}.
Here are X tips from that experience.
Hook Structure 12:
{Skill} is the most valuable skill {this year}.
But it's too hard to find good resources to master it.
So here are X {strategies} to cut your learning time by 90%.
Hook Structure 13:
X insanely useful {resources} for {target audience} nobody told
you about.
You won't believe they're free.
Hook Structure 14:
Master {skill} and you can print money at will.
Most people don't know how or where to start.
So here are X frameworks to get you going.
Hook Structure 15:
Most advice is garbage.
Here's some advice you shouldn't listen to on {topic 1},
{topic 2}, and {topic 3}.
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Once you've written all 15 hooks — review the full list.
Pick the single strongest hook for my specific audience.
Tell me which one you picked and explain in 2-3 sentences
why it will work best for them.
David ran it and had 15 hooks in about 90 seconds.
He read through the list.
Two of them made him stop and think "I wish I'd written that."
Get this — that feeling is the signal. That's the one to post.
🏆 David's results
Before:
Writing hooks from scratch every time — 30 to 45 minutes per post
Every hook sounded like everyone else in the HR space
Posts getting 10 to 15 likes, mostly from people he already knew
After:
15 hook variations from one prompt in under 2 minutes
A clear AI recommendation pointing to the strongest one
First post using the new structure got 340 likes and 12 comments from strangers
Total time: 10 minutes. Not 45.
His AI sidekick generated every variation — David picked the one that felt true and edited it into his voice.
BAM.
Fifteen structures. One prompt. One run.
You walk away with more hook options than you'd write in a week — plus a recommendation telling you exactly which one to post first.
That's it, my fellow outliers!
Yours 'helping you build freedom, not just a business' Vijay Peduru 🦸♂️