Day 1: Your tools, and your list

I run a small business where clients book appointments with me for
treatments. I want you to help me build a short document called
About My Business. I will reuse this document all week so you and I
do not have to start from scratch every time we talk.

Interview me to build it. Rules:

1. Ask one question at a time and wait for my answer. Nine
 questions, then one final open question, then stop.
2. Keep your side short. No advice yet, nothing longer than a
 sentence or two between questions.
3. Plain language only. I am new to AI and I do not use marketing
 terms.
4. I will mostly answer by talking into my phone, so expect
 rambling and odd words. That is good. Never comment on it or
 clean up how I speak while we talk.
5. Longer answers help me more in the long run, so if my answer is
 very short you may ask once: anything else worth adding? Never
 push past one nudge.
6. If I skip a question or do not know, write "not sure yet" for
 that part and move on.
7. Never ask me to upload anything, click anything, or leave this
 chat.

The nine questions, in order:

1. The name of my business and what I do, in my own words.
2. The town or area I work in and where I see clients: my own
 space, a suite in a salon, mobile, or from home.
3. My treatments and services, with prices. Rough prices are fine.
4. Which treatment sells best, and what I would like to sell more
 of.
5. Who my clients mostly are, in plain terms.
6. How people book with me right now: text, DM, phone, a booking
 app, walk-ins.
7. Roughly what the business brings in a month right now, and what
 I want it to bring in.
8. Roughly how many clients I see in a week, and roughly how many
 past clients and old inquiries I have phone numbers for. A guess
 is fine.
9. How I talk to my clients: friendly, professional, playful, calm.
 Anything I always say or never say.

The final open question: is there anything else about my business
I would tell a friend who was helping me with it? Anything counts.

When the interview is done, write the About My Business document
using only what I told you. Keep it under a page, first person,
plain language, with my numbers in it. Do not add anything I did
not say. If something is missing, write "not sure yet" instead of
guessing. Then tell me: copy this whole document and save it in
your notes with the title About My Business.

Now make my raw file. Collect every answer I gave in this
interview, word for word, exactly as I said it. Do not clean it
up. Do not fix typos or rambling. Do not shorten anything. The
mess is the point: it is how I actually talk.

Title it HOW I TALK, list my answers under it in the order I gave
them, and end by telling me: copy everything from HOW I TALK down
and save it in your notes.

Now I want a checkup on my business. You already have my About My
Business answers in this chat, so use them. Do not ask me anything
the document already answers. If you need to confirm a number,
confirm it in one line.

Interview me first, then give me a written list at the end. Rules:

1. Ask one question at a time. Eight questions, then stop.
2. Keep your side short between questions. No advice until the
 list.
3. Plain language. No marketing terms.
4. If my answer is vague, like "a few" or "sometimes," you may ask
 one short follow-up to put a rough number on it. If I do not
 know, mark it "no number yet" and move on.
5. Use only numbers I give you. Never use industry averages,
 typical figures, benchmarks, or numbers from anywhere else. If I
 ask what is normal for other businesses, tell me that tonight we
 are only looking at mine. The one exception: you may show
 what-if math, like "if even 5 of your 250 booked," as long as
 every input except the what-if count came from me and the line
 is clearly an if, never a prediction.
6. Never ask me to upload anything or leave this chat.
7. I may be answering by talking into my phone, so expect rambling
 and odd words. That is fine. Never comment on it.

The eight questions:

1. When somebody new texts, calls, or messages about booking, how
 fast do they usually hear back from me? Including when I am with
 a client.
2. When someone asks about a treatment but does not book, what
 happens next? How many times do I reach out before I let it go?
3. What do I currently do to bring past clients back in? When did I
 last reach out to someone who has not been in for six months or
 more?
4. Am I running any ads or boosting posts right now? If yes,
 roughly what am I spending, and is the offer usually a deal or
 discount?
5. When a client finishes an appointment, do they usually leave
 with the next one booked? And what happens when somebody
 no-shows?
6. Do I ask happy clients for reviews? Roughly how many do I have,
 and when did I last ask for one?
7. If you asked me which of my promotions or posts actually brought
 in money, could I answer? What do I actually write down or
 track?
8. Last one, and I can skip it: when things are slow, what do I
 usually blame? The economy, the ads, or myself?

Then write my list. Format:

- Title it MY LIST with today's date and my business name.
- Numbered items, fastest things to fix first. Prefer things I
 could fix with what I already have.
- Each item has three parts: what is broken in plain words, what I
 told you (quote me), and what it might be costing me. For the
 cost, only do math on numbers I gave you, show the math in one
 line, and label it "up to" or "if," never a promise. If you have
 no number for it, write "no number yet."
- Only list problems that came out of my own answers tonight. Do
 not add problems I did not describe.
- If something in my answers is genuinely working, say so in one
 line under the list. Do not invent one.
- If I said I blame myself when things are slow, make the last
 numbered item "Whether it's me," quote what I said, and add one
 line: based on tonight's answers, everything above this line is a
 missing system, not a missing skill. If I did not say that, leave
 this item out.
- End by telling me: copy everything from MY LIST down and save it
 in your notes.