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Hey rebel solopreneurs 🦸♀️🦸♂️
Posting twice a week and still getting almost no replies. Writing posts that feel real — but sound like every other account in the feed.
Running 3 prompts for 20 minutes produces something different: a post built from your actual experience, with an angle only you could have written.
Here's how that works:
⛳️ Here's the scenario
Meet Nina.
Six years as a project manager at a logistics company.
She knew how to get teams moving, how to fix bottlenecks before they blew up, and how to turn chaos into a working system.
She'd left her job three months ago to help small businesses run better operations.
She was posting on LinkedIn twice a week.
She was getting almost no results.
And here's the thing that drove her crazy — she wasn't wrong about anything she was writing.
"5 signs your team is overwhelmed."
"How to run a better Monday standup."
"Why your project is behind and what to do about it."
It was all true.
It was all advice she'd actually used.
It was also advice that looked exactly like every other operations post in her feed.
She knew her experience was different.
She just couldn't figure out how to make that show up on the page.
One Tuesday morning, she was at a coffee shop, laptop open, staring at a blank draft.
The woman at the next table caught her eye.
Quiet. Mid-fifties. Reading a battered paperback and nursing a flat white.
"You look like someone who has the knowledge but not the words," she said.
Nina blinked.
Turned out the woman had spent 20 years building content frameworks for some of the biggest business authors online.
(Nina nearly choked on her oat milk latte.)
She glanced at Nina's screen.
Read the draft.
Then she said: "Read that post back to me. Now Google 'project management tips' and read the first result."
Nina did both.
They sounded like they came from the same person.
"That's the problem," the woman said. "You're writing what you know — but not what only you know."
She took Nina's notebook and rewrote the post opener on the spot.
❌ What Nina had: "5 signs your team is overwhelmed and what to do about it"
✅ What it became: "The reason most project managers miss burnout coming isn't that they're not paying attention. It's that they're watching the wrong thing. Here's the signal I caught in my third year that saved two projects from falling apart."
Same expertise. Completely different post.
"How did you do that?" Nina said.
"Dickie Bush and Nicolas Cole teach this inside Ship 30 for 30," the woman said. "They call it the Tequila Test. Been using it for years."
She explained three things — slowly, like she was talking to someone who'd never thought about content this way before.
💡 First — your real frameworks are already inside you, you just haven't named them yet.
"Every time you solved a problem at work, you created a process. Most people never stop to pull it apart and name it. When you do — you have content nobody else can write, because they don't have your experience."
💡 Second — the Tequila Test finds the angle nobody else is using.
"Google your topic. Read the first 10 results. Whatever shows up most — that's the obvious take. Now flip it, or find what they all missed. That's your angle. It's like ordering tequila at a coffee meeting — unexpected enough that people pay attention."
💡 Third — once you have the angle, your AI sidekick writes the full post.
"Give it your framework, your specific angle, and a real example from your work. It does the heavy lifting. You make the final call."
She pushed Nina's notebook back across the table.
"Three prompts. Twenty minutes. You'll have a post that sounds like nobody else in your feed."
Here's what each prompt does:
▶️ Prompt 1 — Name your framework: Takes a problem you've solved and pulls out the steps you actually used — so you have something real to write from.
▶️ Prompt 2 — Find the non-obvious angle: Runs the Tequila Test on your framework to find the take nobody else in your niche is saying.
▶️ Prompt 3 — Write the full post: Takes your framework and your angle and turns them into a complete, ready-to-publish LinkedIn post.
Nina opened her AI sidekick and got to work.
🎯 Step 1: Name your framework
⏱️ 7 minutes
Most solopreneurs have solved real problems — they just haven't stopped to pull apart how they did it.
A framework is just a set of steps you used to get a result. This prompt pulls those steps out of your head so you have something real to write from.
I want to turn something I've done before into a content framework.
Here's a problem I've solved or a result I've helped create:
{e.g. helping a 6-person team cut their weekly meeting time
from 4 hours to 45 minutes}
Here's who I help:
{e.g. small business owners whose teams feel like they're
always in meetings}
Do this:
1. List the 3-5 steps I most likely took to solve this —
based on what would actually work
2. Give the framework a short memorable name (4-7 words)
3. Write one sentence explaining what it does and who it's for
No jargon. No buzzwords.
Write like you're explaining it to a smart friend
who has never heard of this before.
Be specific — vague is useless.
Here's what changed:
❌ Before: "How to run better team meetings"
✅ After: "Framework name: The 10-Minute Signal Scan
Steps:
Name this week's single most important outcome
Ask each person: what could block that outcome?
Surface the two biggest risks immediately
Assign one owner to each risk before leaving the room
What it does: A 4-step Monday meeting flow that finds project risks in under 10 minutes — for small business owners whose team meetings run long and miss what matters."
The prompt gave Nina a 4-step framework she'd been running for years without ever naming it.
She'd always called it "the bottleneck fix."
Turns out it had actual steps — and a sharper name.
But a named framework isn't enough.
If it says the same thing as everyone else, nobody notices it.
Step 2 handles that.
🔍 Step 2: Find the non-obvious angle
⏱️ 5 minutes
The Tequila Test is a simple idea.
Whatever everyone else in your niche is saying about a topic — don't say that.
Find the angle that makes someone stop mid-scroll and think "wait, I've never heard it put that way."
This prompt does that for your specific framework.
Here is my framework:
{paste your framework name and steps from Prompt 1}
Here is the topic it's about:
{e.g. running better team meetings}
Do this:
1. List 5 things most people say about this topic —
the advice that shows up in every blog post and LinkedIn feed
2. For each one, write one sentence saying something
different or unexpected — something that contradicts
the common advice OR names a problem the common advice creates
3. Pick the strongest contrast and write it as a
one-sentence post opener (15-20 words, no hype,
sounds like a real person talking)
Be specific — vague is useless.
No "unlock your potential" language.
Here's what changed:
❌ Before: "How to run a better Monday standup
Keep it to 15 minutes.
Ask everyone for a status update.
Focus on blockers, not progress.
End with clear next steps."
✅ After: "Most Monday standups don't fail because teams are disorganised.
They fail because the person running it is asking the wrong question.
Here's what I learned to ask instead — and why it cut our meeting time in half."
Nina read that opener back.
That would have made her stop scrolling.
She'd written the other version a dozen times without once questioning the angle.
Now she had the angle.
Step 3 turns it into a full post.
🧠 Step 3: Write the full post
⏱️ 8 minutes
This prompt takes your framework and your non-obvious opener and turns them into a complete LinkedIn post — ready to copy and publish.
Here is my framework:
{paste from Prompt 1}
Here is my post opener:
{paste the strongest contrast sentence from Prompt 2}
Here is a real example from my own experience:
{e.g. A 6-person logistics team spending 4 hours a week
in status meetings. After running this framework,
they got it down to 45 minutes and caught a project
delay 2 weeks earlier than they would have.}
Write a complete LinkedIn post:
- Open with my post opener (use it exactly)
- 2-3 lines expanding the idea — what most people miss
and why it matters
- Walk through my framework in 3-5 short steps
- End with one line the reader can use today
- Total length: 150-200 words
- No hashtags. No "drop a comment below."
- Write like a human talking to one specific person.
- Specific beats vague every time.
Here's what changed:
❌ Before: "5 reasons your Monday standup isn't working.
Most teams know they need better meetings but don't know where to start. Here are the five things I see going wrong and how to fix each one. Save this post for your next team sync."
✅ After: "Most Monday standups don't fail because teams are disorganised.
They fail because the person running it is asking the wrong question.
For six years I watched project managers open standups with: 'what did you work on yesterday?'
That question gets you a summary. Not a signal.
The question that changed everything: 'What's the one thing that could slow us down this week?'
Here's the 4-step flow I ran every Monday to find that signal in under 10 minutes:"
[Nina's AI sidekick filled in the remaining sections...]
Nina read it twice.
That was her experience.
Her framework.
Her angle.
But sharper than anything she'd written on her own.
🏆 Nina's results
Before:
Generic posts that looked like every other operations account in her feed
Two posts a week, almost no engagement, no inquiries
Knew her experience was valuable but couldn't make it show in the writing
After:
3-step system to turn any past experience into a ready-to-post LinkedIn post
First post using this method got more replies in 24 hours than her last month combined
A library of content angles only she could write — because they came from her real work
Total time: 20 minutes. Not 3 months of guessing.
Her AI sidekick handled the framework-building, the angle-finding, and the heavy lifting on the draft.
Nina made the final creative call. BAM.
Three prompts. Twenty minutes.
Any solopreneur with real experience now has a system for turning that experience into content that sounds like nobody else in their feed.
That's it, my fellow outliers!
Yours 'finding high-potent AI shortcuts so you work less' Vijay Peduru 🦸♂️