The transcription advocates for using strategic "mini-offers" or lead magnets to capture more leads without increasing advertising spend. Most businesses mistakenly direct website traffic to immediate sales or quote requests, which often fails because visitors are not yet ready to buy. Instead, offering a low-cost or free solution to a narrow problem—such as a free trial, problem assessment, or a single step in a multi-step process—can dramatically increase conversions. This approach works by providing value upfront, building trust, and creating "deprivation": solving a small problem reveals a larger one that the core paid product or service addresses. The key is to design lead magnets that qualify interest without giving away the core solution, then follow up to guide leads toward a purchase. Testing the presentation (e.g., headlines) of these offers is emphasized as crucial for success, and objections like attracting unqualified leads can be overcome through strategic qualification and positioning.
Unlock More Leads with Strategic Mini-Offers
What if I told you there were a way that you could get more leads than you're currently getting, sell more of those leads overall without increasing any of your advertising at all?
And the strategy we share is something that most businesses don't do.
And the few businesses that do it, do it wrong.
It's a most people send traffic to their website and immediately ask people to buy something or just like submit for a quote.
But here's the problem.
Like most visitors aren't ready to buy yet.
And so they just leave and they never come back.
I mean, if you think about it for you, I often don't go to sites that I'm just just finding out about where it says submit for quote.
I'm just like that's a lot.
They're right.
And So what I'm about to show you has generated many millions of dollars across our portfolio companies and I've used it in every business we've invested in and ones that I haven't invested in.
I'm going to show you what it is, why matters and how to implement in your business.
So what is it?
A few months back, I did a deep dive with Ashley, who is a fashion personal stylist, right?
And so when went to her site, she had the classic, you know, just book a call, right, CTA or just ask for a quote.
But The thing is, is that that really only works if you already have an informed audience.
So if people already know who you are, they've already gotten value from you, then you can for sure just say, hey, come by my thing or come find out more, right?
But if you're sending traffic there and you don't have as much traffic or it's not as warm, then you want to have something that is a better reason for them to give their contact information.
Because if you think about like what is the objective of submit for a quote or book a call?
The only objective of that step is to capture their contact information.
And then if you have a booking to get them to book automatically.
But fundamentally, it's a lead capture objective.
We should then ask ourselves, well, is there anything else we could do that would increase the likelihood that we'd capture the lead as long as the way they were captioned, the lead indicates that they'd be interested in buying our stuff.
To be clear, what I'm suggesting is that you offer something kind of like a mini offer that's a complete solution to a narrow problem.
It's just typically lower cost or free just to see who's interested in raises at their hand, right?
And then once you solve the problem with that little mini offer solves it, it reveals another problem that's solved by your core offer.
And this is important because leads interested in lower cost or free offers now are more likely to buy a related higher cost offer later.
And if that sounded really well said, it's because I wrote it ahead of time on page 31.
It's who leads cook.
I talk about this concept in the book at length.
And it's because so many businesses lack this.
And I think part of it is because you can show that you have success if you just say, hey, come buy my thing.
But if you want to dramatically increase the number of customers that you have access to, then if you have, like I said, you know, let's say you have 10 people that you say, hey, or let's say 100 people save 100 people.
You say, hey, come buy my thing, right?
Maybe you get one of those people to raise their hand and say, yeah, you can, I'll give you money.
Here's my big bag of money.
Yeah, right.
I'll do that.
But if we have the same 100 people and we say, hey, you don't have to buy anything, I just want to help you out.
And then after we help them out, we say, hey, now do you want to buy something?
Then all of a sudden we're going to get that many people with our little money sign, but we might get three to five times that amount of people.
And that's where the real magic is.
And so the beauty of this is that you're actually not going to get more traffic.
You're just going to convert a higher percentage of it.
And This is why it's such an easy strategy for businesses to do and you can do it immediately.
You don't have to spend any more money on marketing.
It literally just drops to your bottom line.
Like if you improve conversion, you just make more money.
So let me tell you, the first time I had this big breakthrough for myself.
So in April of 2016, I paid, you know, $25,000 to be in this group.
And everybody there told me to do a webinar.
And I did a webinar and it didn't work.
You got to be clear.
So say the webinars didn't work.
I didn't have the skill at the time to do 1.
And so I saw this dude with just scrolling on my on my feed that said free case study on how I spent $1.00 and made $120,000 in a weekend, right?
So I saw this case study and I was like ha.
And so when I, when I opted in and watched it, the guy just did a screen recording of like how he did it.
And I was like, well that's pretty cool.
Like I could do that right?
And so I swapped out my webinar for just a video with a headline that said free case study how we added 213 members to a gym and $112,000 in San Diego, right?
Just one gym in San Diego.
And as soon as I did that, the next morning, Layla asked me, she's like, what did you do?
And I was like, what, what happened?
And she was like, my calendar's full.
I was like, really, my lesson on that was like, because the webinar could be perceived as a lead magnet depending on how it's positioned.
The thing is, is that the more advanced your audience, the more they'll probably understand it's a sales pitch.
So the less likely it's to convert to a more business owner audience or more sophisticated audience.
But when I just said, hey, Pierce this thing, consume it on your own time.
Let me just show you what I did.
A lot of people were really interested in that and they were way more willing to exchange their contact information.
And so even if for example, you say, you know what, I am going to give up, you know, a little, a little lead magnet, if you will, on the front end.
If it doesn't work, doesn't mean lead magnet don't work, just means that that lead magnet didn't work.
Just like the headline for an ad doesn't mean ads don't work, just means that that ad didn't work.
And so This is why I'm actually so adamant about testing the wrapping or the packaging of a lead magnet even more than the stuff inside of it, right?
Because you can change how many people want your lead magnet BY2310X by simply changing the headline of your lean manate itself rather than changing any of the contents.
It's a provided the contents do clearly solve a problem for the person.
It's really just how we package you so that they wanted.
Overcoming Objections and Choosing the Right Lead Magnet
So here's why lean manates works.
If you ever been to Costco, right?
Why do they have all these food samplers at the end of every aisle, right?
On what level You can say there's some level of reciprocity, but you know, I think I don't know if that's the main reason people then go by.
If they have a piece of teriyaki chicken, it's because they try it and they're like, that's good.
Maybe I'll have more of that.
And so there's a number of different types of lead mags that you can employ that where you have somebody tester is a small piece of something that's much bigger.
It's a sample or a trial, right?
That's category one.
Category 2 would be a one step in a multi step process, right?
So if I say, hey, we're going to turn your style around like Ashley does.
Well, the first thing you're going to need in their process going to be like some colors that we can say these go well with you.
And so that's the first thing.
But once you have the colors, you're like, OK, but I don't know what tops and bottoms and how do I do it formally and informally.
It's like you're going to have other problems that are coming after that.
So you just solve this very specific problem that then leads to other problems.
Or the third is what I would just consider the assessment, the revealing of a problem, right?
And the, the easiest example I can think of is, hey, free website speed test and someone does the test and they realize that the website speed is slow, in which case your core offer is how to fix it, right?
And so any of these three things or combinations of them can be a really effective lead magnet.
So what we're changing is going from asking, hey, just buy my thing to do you want this free thing?
And so then once they've consumed it, you can just say, Hey, did you like the free thing?
Then if you did, you're going to love this paid thing because now you have the content info.
And the main reason that this works is because when someone pays with time now they're more likely to pay with money later.
And so we want them to invest, but we just want to make them have an easier investment first, a lower barrier investment.
So that increases the likely they make a higher investment later.
And again, for this you were like, man, lead magnets don't work.
No, they do they, they totally do.
Bad lead magnets don't work.
And the problem is when you're starting out, you just don't know that you suck.
And so then you think this didn't work.
So kind of like the example I gave with webinars.
Webinars totally work.
It was just I didn't have the skill to make a webinar work.
I had the skill to make a lead magnet.
And so much easier skill to just say, hey, let me screen record and show you how I run this campaign.
And these are the results.
Very straight for this is not very difficult for me to do.
Trying to figure out this magical box of like, how do I get these people to show?
And then how to do this whole razzle dazzle to get someone to take out their credit card and buy it.
It's like, Oh my God, this is impossible.
But just getting some of the opt in's I just call them up and say, Hey, how'd you like that thing?
Do you want me to do that thing at your place?
And I'll give you a risk free offer.
So if I don't perform, you don't have to pay.
Not that tough, right?
At least significantly easier than what I was trying before.
And so you're like, OK, well, maybe maybe you're half, half, half past all of this because right now, if you don't have one of these, you were making less money than you otherwise could, and you're making less money than otherwise could because you're getting fewer leads than you otherwise could get.
Now somebody might be like, well, I don't want freebie seekers and tire kickers.
OK, well guess what?
You don't have to give the lead next to everybody.
You can only give to people who are qualified.
Crazy.
You just had a drop down that makes somebody qualified and then redirect the people who are qualified to the good thing and directs people who are not qualified to the other thing that might they might be qualified for.
What other objections did you have around this?
Well, yeah, I don't want freebie seekers.
Well, we can qualify the leads, duh.
Well, I don't want to give away too much value.
This is a real thing, sort of.
So we don't want to give away, we don't want to solve the problem our core product solves with the free thing.
That should seem obvious, but we do absolutely want to solve a problem that leads to our core issue.
Basically, we want to make sure that the purse is deprived of the thing that we sell and that that deprivation is triggered by solving the first issue.
Now that sounds super complicated, but if you go to a restaurant and eat a big entree, and then after you eat the entree, they say, hey, do you want another entree?
You might say no, not because the first thing was bad, but because you already satisfied that need.
And so we might not have satisfied was your dessert, you know, desire.
And so at that point they could sell you the dessert.
Now in a business, we would just want the dessert to be significantly more expensive than the entree and the entree would be able to give away for free.
We're at cost.
And so that's the, the, the big misunderstanding that people have is you want to sell at the point of greatest deprivation when someone hasn't drink water in a while, that's when you want to sell them the water.
But the moment after you give them the water is not, is no indication of whether your water was good or not.
They're just not thirsty anymore, but maybe after they're thirsty, they want some food.
And so at that point you would then sell the food.
So you might be thinking, all right, I get it and you know, give away something upfront and hope that people will likely buy after got it.
Reveal Problems, Offer Trials, or Provide First Steps
But what do I actually give away?
So I, I, I briefly touched on those three.
Let's dive into them in more detail so you can actually do this.
All right, so type 1 is reveal a problem.
All right, I personally love these type of lead magnets.
Like if you ever have the opportunity to build one of these for your business, like exceptional, they literally create deprivation, right?
So you just say, hey, here's a problem that you didn't know existed or you knew it existed.
Let me tell you how bad it is, right?
And so just immediately you just increase the deprivation of where they are versus where they could be.
Now bonus points for not only saying you have a problem, but also saying this is what it could look like if you had it solved.
And here's the delta.
And so I, my favorite B to B example is the, the website example I gave, which is, you know, if I'm offering free, you know, free website speed test to business owners and they didn't know their site was slow.
And then I say, hey, on average, for every second of load time, you lose 3% of your conversion.
And so right now we know that our services could take you from a nine second blow time to a three second load time.
That's 18% increase.
So what could you do with an increase of 18% of your business?
They might be like a lot.
And I'd be like, now relative to your revenue, the 18% increase compared to what I'm charging for websites is nothing.
How soon do you want me to start?
And so this works great for problems that get worse while waiting, right?
Posture analysis, right?
If you're like, oh man, your posture is bad, but it's only going to get worse, right?
Termite inspections, like they're already active, but it's only going to get worse.
Financial audits, hey, your, your, your back on taxes or your cash flow is bad, It's only going to get worse, right?
Is that you want to have things because that builds in urgency.
So that deprivation actually increases with every second after they find out, I'll give you an example.
So one of my highest converting ads of all time for Allen, our software company was 4 Reasons Why You'll never have $1,000,000 Agency.
And what was crazy about that is just increased deprivation for the outcome that most of people wanted who were selling to, which are small SMB lead Gen. agencies.
And so once we listed out the reasons, many of them were like, shoot, all four of these reasons I'm also suffering from.
And so if you can be very clear about the reasons that they're not going to achieve it, they also will assume that you can help them solve it, which hopefully you can't.
It's going to be incredibly specific on the negatives.
And then what that allows you to do is be significantly bigger on the positives, which allows you to mark it more compliantly, but also set more realistic expectations.
If I can perfectly nail all the problems in your life and you're like, Oh my God, this is me.
I can just, and I and I just said I can help you with that.
You'd probably be like, yeah, I believe you, right.
Rather than trying to increase and promise and set to these crazy expeditions, just nail someone where they're at.
And so that's why the reveal a problem is so important because one, they it exacerbates the existing problem and two, you just show how much it's going to continue to increase and they will lose over time.
The second is a free trial.
All right, this is the this is the classic taste test.
This is the classic try before you bought all right now this is as old as time and I think that there are there are better and worse ways to do this, but this is the Costco sample.
This is the teriyaki chicken.
This is the the trying room, if you will, at the clothing store.
So many businesses have free trials and they do that because they're the lowest barrier.
Like, are you going to want it?
And so we actually have to do here.
Then this is where it gets a little bit interesting is that we want to give them something and then basically have a full loop to the end of the trial where they will be deprived if we remove it.
So it's almost like, hey, let me like, let's say we take a normal person and then we say, hey, here's crack cocaine, right?
All of a sudden, they might not have had deprivation around crack cocaine, but let's say they try crack crack cocaine.
And then as soon as you remove crack cocaine, all of a sudden they want crack cocaine.
And let's see how many times I can say crack cocaine, All right.
And so the point here is that the free trial just makes the barrier so low that people can try something and then the idea of us removing it is what then gets them to convert.
So it's like we, we, we give them the solution and then take the solution away in order to create the deprivation to get them to buy.
And so typically here you're going to be limiting some aspect of the, the product or service.
You're going to limit the number of uses, the the quantity, the time, or some combination of those.
So it's at XA day trial or you get this number of hits, if you will, and all of those things kind of combined and sort of you can compile them together to make it even more compelling.
So when we own gym launch, one of the things that we would do in order to get people to basically roll into our higher level services is that they would, you know, basically buy the system that we had for monetization, which is how to make the gym more profitable.
But then along that time, we'd say, hey, we'll actually give you agency services for free for four months.
And then after that four month period, once they were kind of like, OK, wow, this is great.
I get these leads and I have a system for monetizing the after that point of time, you're like, well, I still want leads.
And we'd be like, yeah, but now you can pay for them, right?
And so it's basically a built in upsell on the back end because they'd had four months of getting used to having this leads just dropped in their doorstep.
And so that created the deprivation where at the end they're like, well, I want that to keep happening, right?
So that's the second one.
The third one is one of my favorites personally, which is the one step of me, right?
One step of a multi step process.
And so this is particularly effective when you have more complex products and services.
All right.
And so you know, the classics examples like if you have multiple coats of paint they're going to be putting on on a garage, you could sell the first one.
It's like, well, you're going to need these other ones, right?
A classic one would be like if you're doing a hair removal for like laser hair, right?
For, for, you know, a Med spa, it's like, well, it takes 6 to 8 sessions to actually get completely removed.
And so you're doing one session is kind of worthless on its own.
So when someone comes in, they come in for one of the UPS.
All the rest of them, right?
If you give the 1st 2 videos away in a comprehensive course, those are things that would also function the same way.
One step of many, right?
And so hopefully now you know what a lead magnet is, why is important, and the three types of lean magnets that work.
Software, Info, Services, or Physical Products for Delivery
And so now how do you actually deliver it?
And so there's four ways to deliver a lead magnet.
So #1 is software or tools, right?
You give them a tool that they can use to get that, that does a job for them, right?
It's so examples of these are like spreadsheet that calculate things, assessment tools, templates or just like software itself.
So I'll give you a good example of Neil Patel has a really awesome one on his site where he basically has a little tool that you put in your URL and then it tells you, you know, it does a little assessment of the site based on the URL that you give it, right?
It's a little tool and then obviously in the back end, it can collect your information, right?
And so there's tons of these examples, but that is one of the most classic ones.
So if you have ways that you can say, hey, you're going to be one of these 4 categories.
Once you answer these, this information, you want some sort of tool that that can assess or give them some sort of answer to a question, right?
Or does a job for them.
All of these things are ways to fulfill the other three things like you can use software to reveal a problem, you can use software to do a free trial, or you're going to use software to be one step of many.
All of those things work.
Now.
The second is information.
All right.
Now this is a very classic one and it's because it cost nothing to do and can also be very valuable.
This is where I think information is really exceptional as a lead magnet is because it's infinitely scalable.
It provides tremendous value.
You can create deprivation and there's basically no operational drag to do it.
Fundamentally, all we're doing is teaching them something valuable.
And so examples of this would be like mini courses, guides, interviews with experts, and again, templates, but that are not dynamic templates that just work right.
And so I'll give you my classic example.
Here is my scaling road map.
So this is maybe a combination of the tool and the information.
So you go through the tool and then it gives you the assessment, which will then be information.
But again, these are not data concepts like you can combine them.
And so for example, if you would like to figure out what stage of scaling you're currently at, the problems you're dealing with right now and exactly how to solve them, we created this $100 million scaling road map after studying all the businesses that we looked at for 200 plus hours to find those common themes.
This is my free gift to you.
You can enter information and if you want, my team is actually look at your business.
You can book a one-on-one call where we will help, we will help and then we'll invite you out here if it makes sense for you to come out to our headquarters.
So you can go through mine as an example.
And I think it's pretty good.
It's not pretty good.
It's fucking awesome.
We spent a really long time on it and you will get a lot of value from it.
So with that being said, that leads me to the third way of delivering this is services.
Now I think this people sleep on this so hard, right from a lead back perspective, do work for free, create lots of goodwill.
People again get really bent out of shape on this free services 1 because they're like, I don't want to do work for free.
All these freebie seekers again, only do the free work for people who are qualified.
That's it.
So let me ask you something differently.
I want you to imagine your head, your perfect lead, right?
The perfect custody, the perfect time customer.
It's like they had they have the budget, right?
They have the authority to make the decision.
They clearly need it and they want to act now, right?
Well, if you just only give the services away to people who agree to these things upfront, that's probably a good idea.
What's not a good idea is giving it to somebody who's broke, who can't make a decision, who doesn't really need it and is proud of like, not sure if they want to do it now or not.
Probably a terrible waste of your time.
So all of these things, you want to use them, just use them for the right prospects.
And so this is where free audits with some level of implementation, same day service delivery done, any sort of done for you component.
And the way that you have to think about this, I'll give you some math about it.
So let's say it cost you one, one hour of Labor, right?
If you pay somebody else to do in order to give something valuable away.
Now let's say that $25 is your hard cost, but what people would realistically charge for this, and this happens all the time in services.
You you could probably charge $250 plus for something like this.
Not a bad like pretty decent offer, 250 bucks for free where there's real service, real person does work.
That's fairly compelling.
Now let's say that we get one out of four of these people who you give this $250 thing away for, to do it well.
What does that mean?
Our costume for our customers 25 * 4.
And so would we be willing to give away a lead magnet to four people to get one to buy?
Would I be willing to pay $100 to get a customer?
Well, provided I'm making a lot more than $100 in the customer, probably.
So not a bad idea.
And so for my very first business to give you an idea, I trained people for free for a year.
I call the free Training project.
And I did that because I wanted to get a bunch of testimonials.
And then once I got the bunch of testimonials, then I showed the world the testimonials.
More people.
We did.
And they did in exchange for money.
In fact, it worked so well that after the year of time that I worked with these people for free, I said, Hey, I have too much demand.
Do you want to pay me?
Now?
It almost all of them said, yes, that's what's like people are like, oh, they're all freebie seekers.
Like, no, they actually, they were all happy to pay and that was that, right?
So don't get like if you get the, if you get the right people, they will continue to stay and pay, provided you do a good job.
So that leads me to my 4th, 4th way to deliver a lead magnet, which is physical, right?
Physical products.
And what's interesting again here is that you can combine these things.
So what do you think?
What do you think these books are?
These are lead magnets, right?
Fundamentally.
Now obviously they're incredibly valuable.
And after you solve your offer problem and you make something that way more people want to buy and then you make more money.
What do you want here?
You want to figure out ways to advertise that and get even more people to find out about it.
And if anytime you're like, hey, I would love help to just speed this process, you can call us, right?
And if you're like, hey, I've done all of your stuff and I went from, you know, 1,000,000 to 50 million a year.
I'd love to and you know, have you guys invest with us and partner, then that's why we do all this stuff, right?
It's a very long game and so you can't absolutely have something that's a physical product and information, right, where the scaling road map is, software plus information, right?
You can combine these as many times as you want, but these are fundamentally kind of categories that I think are when I'm like, OK, I get what I want to do now how am I going to do it?
But I'll give you a completely different example.
So if you wanted to give away, let's say you go to a conference and you give a hat away to anyone that says that they're ACEO, that says CEO, right?
CE OS pretty, you know, ego driven or a shirt that says CEO with lots of OS and $0.00 signs afterwards.
A lot of people would do that.
It's like, hey, but in order to get the shirt you got prove you're CEO.
So now I get an incredibly qualified list of CE OS that I gave a physical product to, right?
And so the idea here is like, just think, what was somebody who is the type of person that I'm looking for want, and then can I just give that to them?
And how much does it cost me for a T-shirt?
3 bucks, 4 bucks fine.
And maybe maybe I convert only one out of twenty of those $100 for ACEO feels like a good idea.
Crafting Irresistible Titles for Maximum Engagement
So once we figure out what problem it solves, more ways to deliver that thing.
The next is how are we going to name it?
So this one is so slept on.
People underestimate the value of this by a mile.
And so I'm going to have you not underestimate it and appropriately value this, which is name your lead magnet the right way.
And I'm going to say the real secret of this.
You ask your audience, all right, so this might seem lighter to you, but it's massive, right?
How you, how you name your lead magnet will determine your engagement more than anything else, right?
When I ran my first gym, I had somebody called my big booty boot camp right?
Now, why would I call it that?
Because six week deadlift and squad seminar doesn't really convert with chicks who was my primary audience at the time, right.
And so again, was it the same thing?
Yes, all we did was deadlift, squat and hip thrust.
Like that was as primarily what I did over that six week period for them and taught them as main moves.
But if I had made my marketing about that, they'd be like, Gee, but if I said, hey, who wants big beautiful round lutes?
They were like I do.
And I'm like, cool, this is just the way we're going to get you there.
Like I'm not going to advertise the vehicle, I'm going to advertise the result.
And so now big booty boot camp might have been something that attracted a certain type of one.
If I said Titan toned booty, tight and tone glutes before I said bubble butt, right, bubble butt boot camp, that might have attracted a different person.
The thing is that you can just test these names out so you can figure out which one not only attracts the most leads, but ideally the highest quality leads.
And so this is how I actually test them.
So I get super clear on who my avatar is and then I run small ad tests comparing the headlights.
Now, if you don't have the capital for that or the money, you can just pull your audience.
So if you have 100 people who follow, you can put it in your stories and say, hey, help me out here.
I'm trying to name my lead mate.
Let me know which one sounds better for you.
Now, again, you want only the people who are the type of person they're advertising to to respond.
So you could say before you introduce it.
By the way, if you're not a business owner, please don't answer.
If you're like, I, I don't even have an audience, don't worry, I got you.
The next thing you can do is just open up your phone and then you use this amazing device and then you text.
So you just text people and they say, hey, which one do you want?
Or you just make a post and say, hey, comment A or B underneath of it, right?
There's all these different ways you can do it, and maybe you can buy two or three of those ways in order to get a close enough directional response.
This book, $100 billion leads.
I split test 6 different headlines for this to get $100 million leads because I looked at advertising, I looked at promotion, I looked at marketing and here's Coolbar.
I actually show the results of the test inside the book.
So I split test the names, I split test the image that I was going to use at the time that I split test the sub headlines.
And so I, I did that because I want to make sure it's going to be a winner out the bat.
If I'm going to spend 2 years writing the book, I can spend 2 days testing the headline, which is sadly going to influence how many people buy it more than anything.
With one caveat in the short term, in the long term, it's the stuff between both of the, the front and back cover that's going to be the thing that does it over the long term.
Because word of mouth, especially in in the book world, is really the only thing that matters long term.
Anyone can launch a book.
Very people, few people can launch a book that continues to sell.
So I'll give you a few naming conventions that work well.
So number one is number plus outcome plus time frame.
So I'd be like 3 emails I can turn cold leads into clients in 24 hours, right?
The second would be something like how to do X or how to yay without Boo even if you greatest insecurity.
So yay means good thing, booming bad thing, right?
So how to build a funnel without higher cooperator, even if you've never done it before, right?
Or even if this is your first time?
Next would be, you know, the adjective type, that good thing, right?
So the lazy funnel template that converts like crazy.
The next one would be X mistakes.
So there's a bunch of different ways you can do this one.
I gave an example of it earlier, like 4, you know, 4 mistakes that are keeping your business $100 million a year.
It works great.
But another version of this could be like 3 mistakes.
You're probably making five ad copy mistakes that are killing your conversion rate.
Just put X mistakes that prevent.
Good thing.
Cool, see, they're killing your key TR.
It's killing your business.
It's preventing you from getting this goal, whatever it is.
It's like these are the mistakes to keep people broke.
Drive Sales with Clear Calls to Action and Urgency
So now they have a lead magnet.
You know the objective, you know how to deliver it and you know how to name it.
The last step is how do you make money with it?
So now you just kind of ask him to buy.
And so this is where most people fail, right?
They create the Gray lead magnet, then they forget the call to action, right?
So we won't be able to do after they consume your lead magnet.
And so the, the formula for for call to actions is so simple.
The only thing simpler is not doing it, which is what most people do.
And not only do they not do it, they don't do it often enough.
So even if they do it once, they forget to do it again and to get it again.
And I'll give you a fun little stat that they found about sales people is that the sales people who asked the most times get the most deals.
And so in your marketing, you want to ask as many times as you can.
Here's the caveat.
How do you ask so many times without turning someone off?
Right?
Good.
All you do is ask.
Then eventually they're like, you don't have the, they'll stop giving you the opportunity to ask.
So you want to maximize your ability to ask times the amount of times you ask.
And so maximize your ability to ask.
We say you're continually providing value between your asks is you need to increase your value per second so that people are like, I'm willing to hear this ask because I just got value and I will probably get value after this.
The formula for Ctas very straightforward #1 because you want it to be clear, not clever.
Be very clear.
This is exactly what you what I want you to do.
Clear direct CTA, then exact next action, and then three freeze in to do.
Now in all Ctas, you can still use scarcity, urgency, or both in order to incentivize someone to act out.
Now, I'll be straight with you.
It's great if you've got it, but if you don't have scarcity urgency, you just at least want to make the CTA.
So I'll give you a simple example.
So I have within this book or all the books, I turn to our magic page.
I'm with that at the end of every chapter, I have right here a CTA free gift, everything you learned from XYZ.
And then they click that where you can click that and you go to mysiteacquisition.com where you can watch more stuff about that.
But on my site, you're getting one step closer to becoming a portfolio or coming out for, for for a workshop that we have every month.
You can do any of those things, right?
But we want to start walking them down the process.
And so I will give you a little tidbit on #3 is that the reason you could always have the urgency is just an additional great reason to do it now, or the scarcity is an additional great reason, but having any reason is better than no reason at all, right?
So there's tons of, you know, research on this.
But like, people were trying to cut in line out of university and they said, hey, can I cut you?
If you were like no, If you said hey, can I cut you because I'm late for class, people would say yes.
If they said, hey, can I cut you because I have a dog, people would still say yes, even though it made no sense.
Wild.
So we want to use that same logic to get more people to respond to our thing.
Ideally what the reason it makes sense, but even if it doesn't make sense, it'll still work better than no sense.
So it's my one year anniversary of being in business and this is the promotion.
So do this thing.
Hey, my daughter just lost her first suit, so I'm running a promotion here.
Go get this thing.
Hey, it's National dog day.
If you have a dog, you should do this more than anybody else.
It doesn't matter, right?
So I'll give you an example.
If you were in the fitness industry, obviously I came from there.
If you're a fitness coach and you only have like so many spots, which you probably do, then tell people that they have to sign up now or they'll have to wait for until the next spots open up, right?
And so here's the cool thing about anything that's a service business.
So this is unique to service, but 78% of businesses are service.
So this probably applies to you, which is that you do not have a limited capacity.
If I said, OK, can you take 1000 customers tomorrow?
You probably see no.
So you do actually have a capacity limit.
It might be 4, right?
If four more customers will get you to capacity, then say so because The thing is, is that you assume that they know how big your business is and they don't.
So if you're a small business, leverage that so that you have scarcity based on your existing small constraints.
And if you're a big business, you're like, well, I don't, I have, you know, I have a huge amount of capacity.
Then what you can do is you can have cohorts that roll.
So you can say, hey, I can only start this many people per week.
And then you still back into some sort of capacity.
Or if you want to get into this group of people, you should do it this Friday.
And So what do we do here?
How do we, how do we, how do operationalize this?
So what is we give value first, which is the whole spirit of the lean magnet.
Now we give value by revealing a problem, giving a free trial or giving them one step of many.
We then have four ways to deliver that magnet, which is software, Information Services, physical products, or combinations of those.
We name it in a compelling way, which you can use any of these for or just ask your audience what they would find interesting, which is a great way to test this.
And then finally, make sure that you embed Ctas within your league magnet and before and after lead magnet so that you increase the likelihood that they buy your stuff.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Most businesses fail to capture leads effectively by immediately asking for a sale or quote from cold website visitors, who are often not ready to buy.
A strategic "mini-offer" or lead magnet—such as a free trial, problem assessment, or first step in a process—can significantly increase lead conversion by providing value upfront and building trust.
Effective lead magnets create "deprivation," where solving a small problem reveals a larger one that the core paid offering addresses, making leads more likely to purchase later.
Testing and optimizing the packaging (e.g., headlines) of a lead magnet is often more critical than its content to improve opt-in rates.
Common objections, like attracting "freebie seekers," can be mitigated by qualifying leads and ensuring the free offer does not solve the core problem but leads to it.
Summary:
The transcription advocates for using strategic "mini-offers" or lead magnets to capture more leads without increasing advertising spend. Most businesses mistakenly direct website traffic to immediate sales or quote requests, which often fails because visitors are not yet ready to buy. Instead, offering a low-cost or free solution to a narrow problem—such as a free trial, problem assessment, or a single step in a multi-step process—can dramatically increase conversions.
This approach works by providing value upfront, building trust, and creating "deprivation": solving a small problem reveals a larger one that the core paid product or service addresses. The key is to design lead magnets that qualify interest without giving away the core solution, then follow up to guide leads toward a purchase. , headlines) of these offers is emphasized as crucial for success, and objections like attracting unqualified leads can be overcome through strategic qualification and positioning.
FAQs
A mini-offer or lead magnet is a free or low-cost solution to a narrow problem, designed to capture contact information from potential leads who are not yet ready to buy, increasing the likelihood they will purchase a related higher-cost offer later.
Lead magnets work because many visitors are not ready to buy immediately; offering a free or low-cost solution first builds trust and engagement, making them more likely to convert into paying customers later without needing more advertising spend.
The three types are: 1) Revealing a problem (e.g., a free audit or test), 2) Offering a free trial or sample (e.g., a limited-time service), and 3) Providing one step in a multi-step process (e.g., the first session in a series).
Businesses can qualify leads by using dropdowns or filters to redirect only qualified prospects to the lead magnet, ensuring it targets those genuinely interested in the core offer, not just free items.
Focus on packaging and headlines to make the lead magnet appealing, as changing these can significantly increase opt-ins without altering the content, provided the content clearly solves a specific problem.
By offering a low-barrier investment (like time or a free trial), leads become more engaged and are more likely to make a higher investment later, as solving one problem often reveals another that your core offer addresses.
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