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Chapter 1: What is the pricing and commodity problem in business?
hey guys this is another special edition collaboration between the game podcast and 100 million dollar offers uh today we're going to break down the pricing and commodity problem this is the number one issue that most businesses have and why they can't make enough profit uh the starving crowd problem which is that they're they're selling to people who don't have enough pain who are hard to find who are in markets that are not growing and there's an easy fix for that and i'll walk you through the process and
The third chapter we'll go over today is charge what it's worth. All right, this is probably one of the biggest unlocks for the majority of people who have listened to the book and the many messages and reviews that I have read of it.
These upcoming chapters are heavy hitting, and I hope you enjoy them.
We believe every person, every company, and every organism is either growing or dying. Maintenance is a myth. What this means is, if your company isn't growing, it's dying. This is a sobering reality for many of us. I learned the hard way, and my business suffered for a long time because of it.
Let me explain. The market is continuously growing. The stock market grows at 9% per year.
If we aren't growing at 9% per year, we are falling behind. Maintenance, in the most generic sense, would be 9% per year growth, year over year. Furthermore, if you're in a growing marketplace, then you might have to grow at 20 to 30% per year just to keep up or risk falling behind.
So you can see how maintenance is a myth.
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Chapter 2: How can businesses differentiate their offers based on value?
So then, what does it take to grow? Thankfully, just three simple things. One, get more customers. Two, increase their average purchase value.
Three, get them to buy more times. That's it. Sure, there are lots of ways to acquire customers and zillions of ways to increase order value and purchase frequency, but simply put, that's it. Those are the only three ways to grow. Example, if I sell 10 clients a month and a client is worth $1,000 to me over their lifetime through average cart value times number of average purchases,
then my business will cap at $10,000 per month, aka 10 times $1,000. Taking new clients per month times $1,000 lifetime value equals $10,000 per month in max revenue. If you want to grow, you've either got to sell more clients every month while maintaining suitable margins, or have them be worth more by increasing the profit per purchase or number of times they buy. That's it.
Author note, only two ways to grow. To simplify this concept even more, there are really only two ways to grow. Get more customers and increase each customer's value. Increasing each customer's value has two sub buckets. One, increasing profit per purchase. Two, increasing the number of times they buy. For the purpose of this book, I highlight both of those sub buckets as individual growth paths.
I did this because I think it will be easier to understand the money models that will come in volume three. All three, getting more customers, increasing their average purchase value, and getting them to buy more, are repeated themes in this book.
But if you seek simplicity, both increasing average purchase value and increasing the number of times a customer buys results in one outcome, increasing each customer's value. Business terms. Before going any further and to better flesh out the concepts that will follow, we should take a second to define and better understand some key business concepts.
When I stood in that Las Vegas penthouse in my beast mode t-shirt, I was clueless about such terms.
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Chapter 3: What are the three essential ways to grow a business?
Let me help you be better than, well, me. Gross profit. The revenue minus the direct cost of servicing an additional customer. If I sell lotion for $10 and it costs me $2, my gross profit is $8, or 80%. If I sell agency services for $1,000 per month and it costs me $100 per month in labor to run that client's advertising, then my gross profit is $900, or 90%. Note, this is not net profit.
Net profit is what's left over after all expenses are paid, not just the direct cost of fulfillment. Lifetime Value The gross profit accrued over the entire lifetime of a customer. This is gross profit multiplied by the number of purchases an average customer will make over their lifetime.
Using the example above, if the average customer stays five months and they pay $1,000 per month while it costs me $100 per month to fulfill, then their lifetime value is $4,500. Here's the breakdown. Revenue equals $1,000 per month times 90% gross margins times five month equals $4,500 lifetime value or LTV.
Note that the indirect costs like admin, software, rent, et cetera, are not included in LTV.
Chapter 4: How does understanding market growth impact business success?
Note, you will find different definitions for lifetime value depending on the source. The biggest difference is that some sources only count total revenue, while others focus on gross profit over the lifespan. I focus on gross profit. You may also see me refer to this as LTGP or lifetime gross profit in other texts, just for clarity's sake. Value-driven versus price-driven purchases.
This book was intended to be a textbook for any business that wants to grow. I've spent, and continue to spend, hundreds of hours on calls and in-person meetings consulting entrepreneurs on crafting their offers. I've seen the ones that take off into the stratosphere and those that fizzle. Having a Grand Slam offer makes it almost impossible to lose. But why? What gives it such an impact?
In short, having a Grand Slam offer helps with all three of the requirements for growth. Getting more customers, getting them to pay more, and getting them to do so more times. How, you ask? It allows you to differentiate yourself from the marketplace. In other words, it allows you to sell your product based on value, not on price.
Commoditized equals price-driven purchases, aka a race to the bottom. Differentiated equals a value-driven purchase, aka selling a category of one with no comparison. Yes, market matters, which I'll expand on in the next chapter. Commodity, as I define it, is a product available from many places. For that reason, it's prone to purchases based on price instead of value.
If all products are equal, then the cheapest one is the most valuable by default. In other words, if a prospect compares your product to another and thinks, these are pretty much the same, I'll buy the cheaper one, then they commoditized you. How embarrassing.
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Chapter 5: What defines a Grand Slam offer and why is it important?
But really, it's one of the worst experiences a value-driven entrepreneur can have. This is a massive problem for the entrepreneur because commodities are valued at the point of market efficiency. This means that the marketplace drives the price point down through competition until the margins are just enough to keep the lights on, just enough to become a slave to their business.
The business makes just enough to justify the owner waiting anxiously for things to turn around. And by the time that lie is realized, they're in too deep to pivot, at least until now. A Grand Slam offer solves this problem. But what does a Grand Slam offer do? All right, let's start by defining a Grand Slam offer.
It's an offer you present to the marketplace that cannot be compared to any other product or service available, combining an attractive promotion, an unmatchable value proposition, a premium price, and an unbeatable guarantee with a money model, aka payment terms, that allows you to get paid to get new customers, forever removing the cash constraint on business growth.
In other words, it allows you to sell in a category of one, or to apply another great phrase, to sell in a vacuum. The resulting purchasing decision for the prospect is now between your product and nothing. So you can sell at whatever price you get the prospect to perceive, not in comparison to anything else. As a result, it gets you more customers at higher ticket prices for less money.
If you like fancy marketing terms, it breaks down to this. One, increased response rates, think clicks. Two, increased conversions, think sales. Three, premium prices, think charging a lot of money. Having a Grand Slam offer increases your response rates to advertisements, aka more people will click or take action on an advertisement they see containing a Grand Slam offer.
If you pay the same amount for eyeballs, but one, more people respond, two, more of those responses buy, and three, they buy for higher prices, your business grows.
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Chapter 6: How does pricing affect customer perception and business profitability?
I've struck gold on my fair share of offers, not because I've got some superpower, but because I've just done this a lot of times and failed even more. I've sorted through the crap that chronically fails and pocketed all the stuff that reproducibly succeeds and put it into this book. Here's the key takeaway from all this.
A business does the same work in both cases with a commoditized offer or a Grand Slam offer. The fulfillment is the same. But if one business uses a Grand Slam offer and another uses a commodity offer, the Grand Slam offer makes that business appear as if it had a totally different product. and that means a value-driven versus price-driven purchase.
If you have a commodity offer, you will compete on price, having a price-driven purchase versus a value-driven purchase. Your Grand Slam offer, however, forces a prospect to stop and think differently to assess the value of your differentiated product.
Doing this establishes you as your own category, which means it's too difficult to compare prices, which means you recalibrate the prospect's value meter. Real life Grand Slam offer money math, before and after. Quick backstory. One of our companies is a software that advertising agencies use to work leads for their customers.
Using this software, agencies transform their offer from a commoditized offer of lead generation services to a Grand Slam offer of pay for performance. Let me show you the multiplicative effect it has on revenue for business.
While rounded for illustration's sake, the values I will share with you are based on real numbers of lead generation agency selling services to brick and mortar businesses experience. Old commoditized way, price driven, race to the bottom.
Commoditized offer, $1,000 down, then $1,000 per month retainer for agency services. I will read through the chart that is displayed. Advertising spend, $10,000. Impressions reach, 300,000. Response rate, 0.0013. Appointments booked, 40.
Show rate, 75%. Appointment showed, 30. Closing percentage, 16%. Appointments closed, five. Price, $1,000. Total, $5,000. ROAS, or return on advertising spend, 0.5 to one. Here's the breakdown. At 0.5 to one return on advertising spend, you lose money getting customers. But in 30 days, those five customers will pay another $1,000 each, bringing you $10,000 in total and breaking even.
The next month, the $5,000 that comes in will be your first profitable month. And each month thereafter will be profitable, assuming they all stay. This is an example of a commoditized service, normal agency work. There's a million of them, and they all look the same.
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Chapter 7: What role does market selection play in business success?
Comparison. Remember the old way? The way you lost half the ad spend up front? With the new way, you're making more money and getting more customers. This means that your cost to acquire a customer is so cheap relative to how much you make that your limiting factor becomes your ability to do the work you already love doing.
Cashflow and acquiring customers is no longer your bottleneck because it's 22.4 times more profitable than the old model. Yup, you read that right. This is the part in the action movie where you walk away from an explosion in slow motion. This is the exact Grand Slam offer we used with our software business that serves agencies. The numbers can become wild fast, I know.
22.4X better sounds unreasonable, but that's the point. If you play the same game everyone else does, you'll get the same results everyone else does, mediocre. You hit singles and doubles, keep the lights on, but never get ahead. But remember the opening passage of this book, that when you align all the pieces, you can nod it out of the park so well that you win for good.
In my first 18 months in business, we went from $500,000 a year to $28 million a year off of less than $1 million in ad spend. So when I say 20 to 1, 50 to 1, 100 to 1 returns, I mean it. When you get this right, the results are, well, unbelievable. Summary points. This chapter illustrated the basic problem with commoditization and how Grand Slam offers solve that.
This gets you out of the pricing war and into a category of one. The next chapter will focus on finding the correct market to apply our pricing strategies to. It's one of the most important things to get right. A Grand Slam offer given to the wrong audience will fall on deaf ears. We want to avoid that at all costs. We must detour from pricing for a moment to learn what to look for in a market.
It's an essential box to check before continuing on our journey. Free gift number one. Bonus tutorial. Start here. If you want a deeper dive, go to acquisition.com forward slash training forward slash offers and watch the first video in the free course, starring yours truly, about how I differentiate offers in businesses I consult with and get them charging premium prices.
I also created some free SOPs and cheat codes that you can download for free so you can implement faster. Enjoy. Pricing, chapter four. Finding the right market. A starving crowd.
The seed that fell on good soil represents those who truly hear and understand God's word and produce a harvest of 30, 60, or even 100 times as much as has been planted. Matthew 13.23 NLT A marketing professor asked his students, if you were going to open up a hot dog stand and you could only have one advantage over your competitors, which would it be? Location, quality, low prices, best taste.
The students kept going until eventually they had run out of answers. They looked at each other, waiting for the professor to speak. The room finally felt quiet. The professor smiled and replied, a starving crowd.
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Chapter 8: How can businesses create compelling offers that drive sales?
We are not trying to create demand. We are trying to channel it. That is a very important distinction. If you don't have a market for your offer, nothing that follows will work.
This entire book sits atop the assumption that you have at least a, quote, normal market, which I define as a market that is growing at the same rate as the marketplace and that has common unmet needs that fall into one of three categories, improved health, increased wealth, or improved relationships.
For example, Lloyd could have gone through this entire book and nothing in here would have worked for him. Why? Because he would be targeting newspapers, a dying market. That being said, having a great market is an advantage, but you can be in a normal market that's growing at an average rate and still make crazy money. Every market I've been in has been a normal market.
You just don't actually want to be selling ice to Eskimos. Here are the basic tenets of what I look for in markets. Let's run them before we return to the offer.
When picking markets, I look for four indicators. One, pain. Two, purchasing power. Three, easy to target. Four, growing. One, massive pain. They must not want, but desperately need, what I am offering.
Pain can be anything that frustrates people about their lives. Being broke is painful. A bad marriage is painful. Waiting in line at the grocery store is painful. Back pain, ugly smile pain, overweight pain. Humans suffer a lot. So for us entrepreneurs, endless opportunity abounds. The degree of pain will be proportional to the price you will be able to charge.
More on this in the value equation chapter. When they hear the solution to their pain, and inversely, what their life would look like without this pain, they should be drawn to your solution. I have a saying that I use to train sales teams. The pain is the pitch. If you can articulate the pain a prospect is feeling accurately, they will almost always buy what you are offering.
A prospect must have a painful problem for us to solve and charge money for our solution. Pro tip, the point of good writing is for the reader to understand. The point of good persuasion is for the prospect to feel understood. Two, purchasing power. A friend of mine had a very good system for helping people improve their resumes to get more job interviews.
He was great at it, but try as he did, he could not get people to pay for his services. Why? Because they were all unemployed. This, again, may seem obvious, but he thought, these people are easy to target. They're in massive pain. There are plenty of them, and it's constantly adding new people. This is a great market. He just forgot a crucial point.
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