The Prompt Engineering Cookbook

100 Ready-to-Use Prompts for Business

By: Shane Larson

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

You know AI can help. You just freeze when facing the blank prompt box.

Prompt Engineering For Real Work taught the principles. This book gives you the recipes.

100 battle-tested prompts organized by business function — ready to copy, customize, and paste into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any AI tool you use. Each prompt includes the complete template, an explanation of why it works, customization guidance for your industry, and a real output example so you know what to expect.

What's inside:

• 15 Marketing & Content prompts — blog posts, social calendars, email campaigns, SEO briefs, ad copy, brand voice guides
• 12 Sales & Business Development prompts — cold outreach, proposals, follow-ups, objection handling, discovery calls, competitive positioning
• 12 Operations & Process prompts — SOPs, workflow optimization, meeting agendas, change management, vendor evaluation, compliance checklists
• 10 Finance & Analysis prompts — executive summaries, budget analysis, board reports, cost-benefit frameworks, investment memos
• 10 HR & People prompts — job descriptions, interview questions, performance reviews, onboarding plans, difficult conversations
• 10 Customer Service prompts — response templates, escalation handling, FAQ generation, satisfaction surveys, service recovery
• 10 Strategy & Planning prompts — competitive analysis, SWOT, OKRs, scenario planning, go-to-market plans
• 10 Leadership & Communication prompts — all-hands presentations, executive memos, crisis communication, board presentations
• 11 Personal Productivity prompts — research synthesis, decision matrices, writing improvement, weekly planning, resume optimization

This book is for you if:

• You use AI tools at work but struggle with the blank prompt box
• You want ready-made templates you can copy and customize in seconds
• You're a marketing manager, sales rep, operations lead, HR professional, finance analyst, or executive who needs results today
• You've read Prompt Engineering For Real Work and want the practical companion
• You want a reference book that sits open next to your laptop while you work

Not another beginner's guide. This is a working reference — a cookbook — designed for the professional who already knows AI is useful and just needs the right prompts to unlock it.

Every prompt works. Whether you read the explanations or not.

By Shane Larson, author of Prompt Engineering For Real Work