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Troubleshoot formatting issues

This is real work, not a feature someone invented — it comes from real job ads and real questions people asked. Below are four ready AI prompts: get it done, make it easy for the next person to say yes to, work out the right move when you are stuck, and stop it coming back.

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The same task, four prompts

today's deadline · the next reviewer · the stuck moment · the pattern
AExecute — do the immediate taskFix the broken image on the 'Spring Sale' email campaign draft so it displays correctly on a…+
Fix the broken image on the 'Spring Sale' email campaign draft so it displays correctly on a phone before I send it to my list on Thursday morning.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
BImprove — make it easier to acceptBefore I send this 'New Arrivals' announcement, make sure all the images are optimized for…+
Before I send this 'New Arrivals' announcement, make sure all the images are optimized for mobile viewing and don't look stretched or pixelated, so customers see a professional message.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
CDecide — diagnose the stuck momentThe 'Summer Collection' email looks perfect on my desktop, but when I preview it on my phone,…+
The 'Summer Collection' email looks great on my desktop but is a mess on my phone, and I'm worried about looking unprofessional to my customers.
The 'Summer Collection' email looks perfect on my desktop, but when I preview it on my phone, the images are overlapping and the text is tiny. My customers mostly open emails on their phones, and I can't afford to send something that looks broken. What's the fastest way to diagnose why it's formatting so poorly on mobile, and what's the best next step to get it ready to send by tomorrow morning?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
DBecome — change the patternI'm constantly fixing formatting issues for mobile after I've designed an email on my computer.…+
My emails frequently have formatting issues on mobile devices, even when they look fine on a desktop.
I'm constantly fixing formatting issues for mobile after I've designed an email on my computer. This wastes so much time and makes me nervous about every send. What habit should I change in my design process to ensure my emails look good on all devices from the start, so I can stop scrambling before every campaign goes out to customers?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?

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Every task here was seen in the real world. Someone doing the job named it, a real job ad asked for it, or a lot of people asked about it online.

If nothing real showed a task, it is not on the page. That is the whole rule.

They are the same job approached four ways, because what you need depends on where you are.

Get it done today. Make it easy for the next person to say yes to. Work out the right move when you are stuck. Learn the pattern so the job stops coming back.

For most of these jobs it can carry the heavy thinking - draft it, sort it, check it, rehearse it with you.

It cannot sit in your chair, take the blame when a number is wrong, or notice what nobody wrote down. Let it do the first 80%. Keep the last 20% that is truly yours.

No. Copy any prompt and paste it into the AI you already use. No account, no score, no wall in the way.

Any of them. The prompts describe the work rather than naming a product, so they are not tied to one assistant.

That is also why they keep working when you switch.

Change it freely. Every prompt is a starting line, not a rule.

Put in your real numbers, your real names and your real deadline. The more you make it yours, the better the answer comes back.

The tasks come from real job ads, published job data and the questions people ask in public forums.

The steps come from Mailchimp's own documentation, with practitioner sources for the traps the manual does not mention.

Push once. Ask it to sharpen the weakest part and to say what it assumed.

Most wrong answers come from a missing detail rather than a bad prompt - tell it the thing it could not know.