Episode 37

Why Your Offer Isn’t the Problem

Unfiltered & Unshakable episode 37: Why Your Offer Isn't the Problem

“My offer needs work.” Steve hears it constantly. People rebuild the program, restructure the package, rewrite the sales page a hundred times, and nothing changes. The actual answer might annoy you.

๐ŸŽฏ Key Takeaways

  • An imperfect offer people can see will outsell a perfect offer nobody knows about
  • Landing page hell is a hiding place, not a strategy
  • Rewriting the sales page again changes nothing when visibility is the real gap
  • Visibility starts in conversations, not campaigns
  • Clicking like on other people’s posts all day makes you invisible, not present

๐Ÿ“‹ Show Notes

  1. “My offer needs work”… the single most common thing Steve hears
  2. Landing page hell, and why people keep going back to it
  3. The truth that might set you free or make you turn the episode off
  4. Why an imperfect visible offer beats a perfect invisible one every time
  5. This week’s move: reach out to three people in your network
  6. Why it isn’t a pitch… you’re just reopening the conversation
  7. What actually happens when you spend your day liking other people’s content
  8. Riff of the episode

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    ๐Ÿ“ Full Transcript ยท Episode 37

    Episode 37 i don’t know why i say the episode numbers when i start now it just seems to feel like i don’t know i could add some more gravitas to it like i’m i’m doing it man i’m putting the effort in and i really am and i’m really hoping that people are enjoying it today i want to bust out one of the most common things right that i hear when someone’s business isn’t where they want it to be my offer needs work i hear that all the time my offer needs work Steve, my landing page sucks. All right. So they go back and they rebuild the program. They restructure the package. They’ll rewrite the sales page 100 times over, right? Landing page hell. And then they wonder why nothing has changed.

    The results stay the same. And here’s the truth, that it might set you free. It might also piss you off and make you want to turn off the episode. You know, that set your offer probably isn’t the problem. Your visibility is. Right an imperfect offer that people can see will always outsell a perfect offer that’s invisible every single day of the week every single day and look i’m not saying here that your offer doesn’t matter it totally matters it absolutely matters but there’s a sequence here and most business owners are getting it backwards they’re over engineering the product and they’re under-investing and getting seen.

    So you spend all this time and energy building this amazing, amazing product in crickets. That sucks, but let’s think about it this way. If 10 of the right people actually saw what you do this week, would any of them want it? Answer that honestly for yourself. If the answer is yes, you have an offer. You also have a visibility problem. If you answer no, well, you got to go back to the drawing board, right? If you don’t have something that people would even want, well, then you got to get back to the drawing board and start over. That’s fine. But this is for the people that said, yeah, I have an offer. But then nobody’s saying it. Nobody’s engaging it. So how do we fix the visibility?

    Well, there’s a lot of ways that we could fix our visibility, right? Number one, you show up consistently in the places where people are. Might be LinkedIn. Could be X, could be Instagram, could be TikTok or YouTube, could be somewhere else. It could be Medium. If you’re an article writer on Medium, it could be a million other places. Could be the podcast. Maybe it’s your emails. You know, you talk about the problems your clients are dealing with. You share your thinking. You stop hiding all the good stuff behind a paywall that nobody’s found yet. Like if you put everything behind a wall and nobody knows it’s there, then nobody knows you’re there. Think about that for a minute.

    If you hide all of your content behind paywalls or you hide all your content behind private one-on-one consulting and one-on-one meetings and one-on-one this and sign up for that. And there ain’t nothing out there for the universe to know who you are or what you are or what you can do. You’ve got no visibility, man. And you’re just, you’re in the shadows. You’re not even building in secret. You’re building invisible. That’s really bad. That’s an invisible offer. I’m going to be mad. So here’s this week’s move. Here’s what I want you to do. I want you to reach out to three people in your network who can either use what you do or refer you to someone who could. Not a sales pitch, just a regular conversation.

    Just, you know, visibility starts in conversations. So just open up conversations to people that you know. Don’t sell them. We’re not talking about making a pitch here. Just reopen the conversation with these people. Start talking to them again. Like, be seen. Be alive. Because your offer is probably fine. But you got to get it seen. And if you just sit quietly on LinkedIn all day and just look at other people’s shit and just click like, nobody sees you. Nobody remembers who’s individually liking them. That’s bizarre to even think that that could be a reality, especially with anybody who’s got some traction on their account.

    If they’re getting hundreds of likes and comments and whatnot, they absolutely don’t see you. So get seen, okay? And here’s the riff of the episode. We’re going to keep this one short and sweet. An imperfect offer that gets seen beats a perfect offer that’s invisible every time. Put that one in your pipe and smoke it, folks. I’m Steve Lichtman. This was unfiltered and unshakable. And as always, thank you so much for being here.

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