I spent two months building a product and then stopped. Not because the product was bad. Because I had no idea what the fastest way to market was, and that uncertainty quietly killed the momentum.
What got me moving again was not more advice. It was three prompts (plus one bonus prompt for procrastinators) that forced me to pick one path and start selling this week.
I recorded the whole thing on screen so you can watch me run each prompt live and see exactly what Claude said back:
Watch the full walkthrough on YouTube: I Asked Claude To Make Me As Much Money As Possible
Below is everything you need to run this yourself. You can use the free version of Claude. You do not need an audience. You do not need a product yet.
Why most people stay stuck at zero
Everyone is drowning in free business advice and almost no one is taking action. The problem is not information. It is that the first sale feels impossibly far away, so people never start.
The fix is to shrink the goal. The fastest path to a million runs through your first thousand, then ten thousand, then a hundred thousand. Once you have one paying customer, everything changes, because now you have proof and momentum instead of theory.
These prompts came from Sabrina Ramonov, who has shared them with thousands of creators and beginners. She calls it the "first $1,000 money sprint": get from setup to your first paying customer as fast as possible.
Before you start: pick the version of Claude that knows you
Log into Claude. It does not matter if you have never used it, or you came from ChatGPT or Gemini.
One recommendation: use the version of Claude that has the most context about you, your business, your skills, and your goals. The more it knows, the more tailored the two paths it gives you will be. I used the Claude AI website on Opus, the most capable model as of June 2026. If you only have Haiku, that is fine too.
Prompt 1: Find your path to $1K
Give me two ways I could make my first $1,000 in 30 days. Both ways must require skills I already have, not require a built audience, and be sellable within 48 hours. Ask me clarifying questions until you're 95% confident in your recommendations.
Swap "$1,000" for $10K, $15K, or your real dream number. Claude can handle it.
The last line matters most if Claude does not know you yet. It forces Claude to interview you before it answers, instead of guessing. In my run it asked about my most marketable skill, whether I had sold to cold traffic before, my pricing, and who would benefit most. Be honest, even when the honest answer is "no idea." That is exactly what Claude is there to help with.
What I got back: two concrete paths. A productized audit service I could sell on a marketplace for $500 to $750 per audit, and a cold-outreach campaign offer at around $1,000 per project. Both built on skills I already had. Neither required an audience.
Prompt 2: Find the one person to learn from
Who is the most successful person I should learn from to make this happen? Limit this to one person.
The "one person" constraint is the whole trick. It stops Claude from handing you a reading list you will never finish.
For my situation it picked Steli Efti. His entire approach is converting cold prospects into paying customers without an existing audience, and he has documented the full system. The core insight Claude pulled out: you do not need an audience, you need a system to turn strangers into customers.
Prompt 3: Get your 20-day action plan
Pretend you are that person. Create a 20-day plan that needs less than $1,000 upfront that gets me to my first paying customer as fast as possible.
This is where it stopped being inspiration and became a schedule. Claude wrote 20 days of concrete steps that fit my five-to-ten hours a week:
Days 1-2: nail one crystal-clear offer and a one-liner to memorize, so I can pitch on the spot.
Days 3-4: build a list of 150 cold prospects (LinkedIn, plus tools like Hunter.io or Apollo).
Days 5-6: write the outreach using Steli's framework: personalization, specificity, a clear ask.
Week 2 onward: send across two channels, aim for one to two calls in week one, three to five calls by day 15, one closed customer by day 20.
It even did the math: LinkedIn Premium around $40 a month, Hunter or Apollo $50 to $100 a month. Roughly $150 to land a $1,000 client.
And it set my expectations so I would not quit early: expect 10 to 15% of messages to get a reply, and about one in three calls to convert. If you have no customer by day 20, the problem is the offer or the execution. Fix it and go again.
Bonus Prompt 4: Cut the plan in half (for procrastinators)
Ask me three or four yes/no questions to identify what will stop me this week. Cut the plan in half and keep only what directly leads to money.
This one is for people like me, who think about a task and then quietly assume it is already done.
Claude asked the uncomfortable questions. Will you actually keep sending messages after the first few get no response? Are you willing to charge and close? My honest blocker was losing momentum if nobody replied. So Claude stripped the plan down to one path and one week: define the product, get the customer, then repeat. The repeatable part matters. This is not a one-time win you cannot copy.
Where I actually landed
After running all four, I leaned toward a marketplace like Upwork over cold LinkedIn outreach, for one reason: expressed demand. On Upwork I can filter for people already looking for paid media audits, GoHighLevel help, Meta Ads, Salesforce work. Cold outreach means messaging a hundred people hoping a few need what I offer.
I set up a fresh Upwork account with Claude's help, filtered for intermediate-to-expert jobs from clients with a hiring history, and immediately found live postings, some only hours old, paying around $1,000 for the exact audit I do.
Whichever channel you pick, volume wins. More proposals and more DMs means more data on how people react to your offer, which means you improve faster.
Your move this week
Open Claude (free is fine).
Run Prompt 1 and answer every clarifying question honestly.
Run Prompts 2 and 3 to get your one mentor and your 20-day plan.
Run Prompt 4 to cut it down to only what makes money.
Send your first batch of outreach or proposals. This week.
The point is not a perfect plan. It is the first paying customer, because that is what turns the next ten into a path you can actually see.
Watch me run all four prompts on screen: I Asked Claude To Make Me As Much Money As Possible
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Julia