Creating a Great Offer

In this module

Before we go any further, we need to be clear on what a great offer actually looks like. An offer is what you sell, who it’s for, and the result you help them get. Without a great offer, nothing downstream works.

What makes an offer great

A great offer has four things.

1. A specific niche. A group of people you can clearly describe, with at least around thirty thousand potential buyers. Broad enough to find them. Narrow enough that they recognise themselves.

2. A clear problem to solve, or outcome to reach. A real, urgent, expensive problem, or a desired outcome people want badly enough to pay for. If the problem is vague, the offer is vague.

3. A clear transformation. A tangible before and after. Where they are now, and where they’ll be when they’ve worked with you. People buy the transformation, not the process.

4. A reachable audience. You can find them and they can find you. They gather somewhere, read something, follow someone. If you can’t reach them, the offer can’t sell.

The common trap

Most coaches describe their audience by role (“female entrepreneurs”, “coaches”, “consultants”). That’s too broad. A strong offer targets an emotional state or a specific situation: the new coach who’s signed two clients and doesn’t know how to get to ten. The consultant burning out at sixty hours a week. Role is where they are. Emotional state is why they’d buy today.

Why it matters

The rest of this stage builds on your offer. If we start with a vague offer, everything we build from it will be vague too. Get this right and the website, emails, sales page and marketing all get easier.

The video below goes deeper on each of these. Watch it before moving on.