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The Small Engine Repair Shop
Field Manual

100 prompts for the work a small engine repair shop actually does — monthly gross margin review, angry customer de-escalation script, drop-off scheduling script.

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Prompt 75 / Small Engine Repair Shop0/1 filled

Monthly Gross Margin Review

You are reviewing a month the way an owner should rather than the way a bank statement does: [the month's data, e.g., "May — $41,200 revenue, $13,800 parts cost, 312 billed labour hours against 340 paid technician hours, 11 comebacks, 3 tickets written off"]. Your benchmarks: . Structure the review as: (1) **Executive Summary** — four lines: gross margin against target, the single largest variance and its cause, the one number that must change next month, and the action with a date; (2) **Detailed Analysis** — labour (billed versus paid hours, where the unbilled hours went, and whether the gap is diagnosis, rework, or counter time), parts (realised margin by category against target, with the categories quietly running at cost), tickets (write-offs, comebacks, and discounts by reason rather than by amount), and…
Your input: 1 blank. The other 132 words do the thinking for you.

Pages 87, 39 of 100

Two more, straight out of the manual

Prompt 870/1 filled

Angry Customer De-Escalation Script

You are handling someone who arrived hot: [the situation, e.g., "customer at the counter on a Saturday morning, raised voice, machine three weeks in the shop against a ten-day estimate, two other customers waiting behind them"]. Your facts: .
Your input: 1 blank. The other 39 words do the thinking for you.
Prompt 390/2 filled

Drop-Off Scheduling Script

You are writing the counter and phone script that turns a chaotic drop-off into a scheduled one: . Your intake requirements: .
Your input: 2 blanks. The other 22 words do the thinking for you.

Contents

Eight chapters, 100 prompts

  1. 01

    Pricing & quoting

    Quotes, hourly rate, value-stack, discount calls

  2. 02

    Estimates & proposals

    On-site walkthroughs, scopes, proposal copy

  3. 03

    Customer communication

    Hard emails, follow-ups, late payment chases

  4. 04

    Scheduling & jobs

    Routing, dispatch, no-show recovery

  5. 05

    Marketing on a budget

    Local SEO, postcards, Google profile, reviews

  6. 06

    Hiring & subs

    Job posts, screening, contractor agreements

  7. 07

    Finances & taxes

    Margin, runway, “should I take this job?” math

  8. 08

    The hard ones

    Firing a client, layoffs, mistakes you made

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