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Claude Opus 5.5

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517 words · 3 fill-ins

Example input

[Your topic and expertise]: I'm a bookkeeper with 12 years' experience and a QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor certification. I run a small practice with about 40 small-business clients (trades, salons, cafes, online shops). Most new clients come to me after a year of messy do-it-yourself books: uncategorized transactions, personal and business spending mixed, bank feeds never reconciled, sales tax not set up. With every new client I do the same fix: set up the chart of accounts for their type of business, connect bank feeds and create bank rules, reconcile monthly, set up invoicing and receipt tracking, and run the 3 reports that matter (profit and loss, balance sheet, accounts receivable aging). I have 6 client testimonials I can use. One client, a hair salon owner, went from 6 hours a month on her books to under 2 after I trained her.

[Your audience]: US small business owners with 0 to 5 employees who do their own books in QuickBooks Online, usually in their first 1 to 3 years. They hate bookkeeping, dread tax time, and have tried YouTube videos that are too general or out of date. They can't afford a bookkeeper yet (my service is $300 to $500 a month). They want to stop dreading their books and hand clean numbers to their tax preparer.

[Format, length and price ideas]: 6 weeks, self-paced, with a 60-minute live Q&A call each week for the first group. Learners can give about 2 hours a week. Video lessons and worksheets on a course platform I haven't chosen yet. I'm thinking $297 to $497. My email list has 1,800 people, mostly small business owners who downloaded my month-end checklist.

Example output

1. Learner and promise

Promise: In 6 weeks, get your messy QuickBooks Online file clean and reconciled, ready to hand to your tax preparer, and leave with a monthly routine that keeps it from piling up again.

Who it is for

US small business owners with 0 to 5 employees who do their own books in QuickBooks Online, usually in their first 1 to 3 years, in businesses like trades, salons, cafes or online shops
People with about a year of do-it-yourself books: uncategorized transactions, personal and business spending mixed, unreconciled bank feeds, sales tax not set up
Owners who can't hire a bookkeeper yet and want to stop dreading tax time

Who it is not for

QuickBooks Desktop, Xero or Wave users. Every demo is in QuickBooks Online.
Businesses that need payroll setup, full inventory accounting or multi-entity books. The course doesn't cover these.
Owners more than about 12 months behind, or anyone who wants it done for them. Point them to your bookkeeping service instead.
Accountants and bookkeepers, and anyone wanting to file their own tax return. The course gets books ready for a tax preparer and doesn't replace one.

What they need before starting

An active QuickBooks Online subscription with admin access, and bank and credit card accounts connected or ready to connect
Online banking logins and the last 12 months of bank and credit card statements
A separate business bank account, or a plan to open one in Week 2
About 2 hours a week. Assumption: the 2 hours covers lessons and activities, and the live call is optional and recorded.

Before

Hundreds of transactions sit in "For review" or "Uncategorized," and you don't know which numbers to trust
Personal and business spending are mixed, and the bank accounts have never been reconciled
Tax time means a panicked weekend and an embarrassed email to your tax preparer

After

Every account is reconciled, and transactions are categorized on a chart of accounts built for your type of business
Bank rules, invoicing, receipt capture and sales tax settings handle much of the routine work
You run the profit and loss, balance sheet and accounts receivable aging reports, know what each one tells you, and send a clean handoff packet to your tax preparer

Claude Opus 5.5

Outline an Online Course – Online course creation prompt for ChatGPT and Claude

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Claude Opus 5.5

This prompt plans an online course from what you know. Paste your expertise, your audience and the format; you get the promise, a module outline, worksheets, scripts for module 1, pricing notes and a sales page outline.

What you get

A one-sentence promise, who the course is for and who it is not for
A module outline with lessons, lengths and a worksheet for every module
Module 1 scripted lesson by lesson, ready to record
Pricing notes to test and a sales page outline built on your real proof

How to use it

1
Describe what you really do
Paste the fix you repeat with clients, your real results and testimonials, and your audience in their own words.
2
Cut before you record
Check that each module ends with something the learner has done, and drop any lesson the promise does not need.
3
Test with a small group
Run the course with a small first group, fill every [add proof] with real results, then finish the sales page.

Better results

Name the one result your best clients got, such as "6 hours a month on the books down to under 2"; the promise and the sales page build on it.
Follow up with: "Script module 2 the same way" once module 1 is recorded.
Ask a few people on your list to take module 1 before you build the rest; their questions show what to cut or add.

Questions

Can ChatGPT create an online course?

ChatGPT can plan an online course: the promise, modules, lessons, worksheets, scripts and a sales page outline. It cannot supply your expertise or proof, so give it what you actually do for clients, and record the lessons yourself.

What should an online course outline include?

An online course outline should include the result the learner gets, modules in the order they need them, lessons with a length and an objective, and an activity or worksheet for each module. A good outline also says who the course is not for.

How long should an online course be?

As long as the promised result needs and no longer. Fit the total to the hours a week your audience can give, keep lessons short, and end each module with a task, so learners finish rather than stall halfway.

How do I price my online course?

Price an online course from the value of the result to your buyer, what they pay now for the alternative and what your audience can afford, then test with a first group. This prompt marks its pricing numbers as assumptions to test.

Updated 8 Nov 2026