The prompt
Score 10 of 10, Excellent
Use it when You have a market or craft fair coming up and want a plan for how much to bring and how to set up, based on what has sold before.
- {{event}}
- {{staff}}
- {{past_sales}}
- {{products}}
- {{event_details}}
- {{payments}}
Full prompt and why it works
Prompt
Plan my stall at {{event}}, so that I bring the right amount of stock, take payments without trouble and leave with a way to reach the people who bought from me. I run it with {{staff}}, so the plan has to be practical for a small team on the day. Past sales at markets like this (item, quantity sold, price, which event), or "first market": """ {{past_sales}} """ What I sell, and my current stock: {{products}} Event details (date, hours, pitch size, table provided or not, power, cover from weather, expected visitors if the organizer gave a figure, fees): {{event_details}} Payments I can take: {{payments}} Work out and write: 1. Stock to bring: a table with the columns Item, Sold last time, Bring, Why. Base quantities on past sales at similar events, scaled to this event's hours and visitor figure where given, plus a buffer you state. 2. Prices and signs: price labels, a sign that says what I make in under ten words, and any bundle price only if I approve it. 3. Layout: the table as a customer sees it from the front, what goes at eye level, where I stand, and where the card reader goes. 4. Float and payments: a cash float made up from my prices, so I can give change for the common bills, and a backup if the card reader loses signal. 5. Packing list: a checklist grouped under Display, Stock, Payments, Comfort and weather, Paperwork. 6. Staffing: who does what, and break cover, if there are two or more of us. 7. Repeat customers: one way to collect contact details with consent, such as a sign-up sheet or a code to my mailing list, and what goes in each bag. Keep it to what fits on two printed pages, written as checklists I can tick on the day. A good plan means I neither sell out by noon nor carry most of my stock home. Do not invent visitor numbers, sales or prices, and do not suggest discounts I did not approve. Leave out permits, insurance and food rules unless the event details mention them; add one line telling me to check the organizer's requirements instead. If it is my first market, say so and give a small starting range for each item instead of a single number. If a past sales figure looks odd, for example one event far above the rest, say so and do not let it drive the quantities without a note.
Variables
- {{event}}
- The market or fair, for example "the Saturday farmers market at [place]".
- {{staff}}
- Who is running the stall, for example "just me" or "me and one helper".
- {{past_sales}}
- What sold at past events: item, quantity, price, which event. Write "first market" if this is your first.
- {{products}}
- What you sell, with prices and how much stock you have.
- {{event_details}}
- Date, hours, pitch size, what the organizer provides, expected visitors, fees.
- {{payments}}
- How you take payment, for example "cash and a card reader on my phone".
Why it works
- If unsure. A first market gets a starting range per item, and an outlier event is called out instead of setting the quantities.
- Format. Checklists grouped by job fit on two printed pages, so the plan works on the day, not only the night before.
- Background facts. Quantities are scaled from your own past sales and this event's hours, never from a guess about the crowd.