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8 Sales Prompts I Reach For

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Ellis Explorer
Aug 24, 2026 · 6 min read
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You don't need a hundred sales prompts. You need five you trust and actually reuse.

Make the output reviewable

Ask for the reasoning, then the result. When the model shows its steps you can see exactly where to push back.

Keep a negative list

Lock the parts that never change and leave one slot for the variable. Now every run shares a family resemblance instead of starting from scratch.

Reuse the recipe

Write down what you never want as explicitly as what you do. The exclusions often do more work than the instructions.

Ask for the reasoning, then the result. When the model shows its steps you can see exactly where to push back.

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