We spend so much time competing in online markets where everyone is running increasingly sophisticated distribution systems that we forget how primitive customer acquisition still is across entire industries
It’s standard practice for anyone operating online to build and enrich lists, segment markets, identify decision makers, run cold email and cold DMs, build paid acquisition funnels, test offers and creatives, retarget and deploy all of it at scale
One of our consulting clients runs an influencer agency in the European market, where nobody in the industry has a proper distribution system
Deals are still generated through existing relationships, inbound opportunities, introductions, agencies circulating briefs within their existing networks, or managers manually pitching brands one by one
Agencies representing large rosters of creators don’t have shit in terms of infrastructure for mapping the full universe of potential buyers, identifying the relevant decision makers inside those companies, segmenting them properly, reaching them across multiple channels and doing it at enough volume to generate a consistent flow of opportunities
So we had our client run two test campaigns simultaneously for one of the influencers his agency represents
She operates around motherhood, family and lifestyle, and the first step was figuring out how many different pools of buyers we could realistically sell her audience and content to
We looked at the categories where she had already landed partnerships, the ones she wanted to enter and adjacent categories where her audience made commercial sense
From there, we ranked each segment based on the depth of the brand pool and whether those companies had enough budget to make it worth attacking
That gave us multiple segments across baby and kids products, skincare and clean beauty, home cleaning, home services, appliances, food, furniture, supplements and other consumer categories
The segmentation matters because “brands that work with mum influencers” is useless as an outbound strategy
A baby food company, a robot vacuum brand, a skincare company and a home services platform might all want access to the same audience, but the reason they would work with the creator, the person responsible for the budget and the angle you use to approach them can be completely different
Once those segments were mapped, we built the first campaign around direct access to the buyers
For each segment, we built the company lists, identified the people responsible for influencer marketing, partnerships and relevant marketing budgets, and reached them through cold email and cold DMs
At the same time, we built a second campaign around access to the buyers
We targeted media agencies, PR agencies, social agencies, influencer marketing teams operating on behalf of brands and other intermediaries already sitting on relationships with multiple companies in those segments
The economics of that relationship are completely different
Going directly to a brand gives you a shot at that brand’s budget
Building a relationship with someone managing campaigns and creator spend across a portfolio of brands can give you access to multiple budgets and a recurring stream of briefs
We ran both campaigns simultaneously because they compound each other
The direct campaign created conversations with the companies holding the budgets, while the partnership campaign built relationships with people already managing those budgets across multiple brands
Within a few weeks, the combination secured six figures in annual deals from a test campaign for a single influencer
There are thousands of businesses with great products, real demand and shit distribution
Meanwhile, online mfs are fighting over the same audiences with the same acquisition channels, bloated tech stacks and more expensive infrastructure
A lot of the skills you had to learn just to survive online are still barely being used in other industries
Take them somewhere distribution is shit and put them behind a banger product or service
You might be sitting on a $30K+ offer that you're currently selling for a fraction of that
Without changing much about what you actually do
We had a client who was already building media engines for info guys, building the content infrastructure, personal brands and distribution behind them
Then he took the exact same expertise into politics and started closing politicians on $25K-$45K+ deals
In Greek mythology, Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to humans
That's pretty much what you're doing when you take a capability that's already everywhere in your industry and bring it into a market where almost nobody has it
Info guys have spent years obsessing over how to capture and monetize attention
They've had to figure out how to turn one person into a media property, produce enough content to stay everywhere, build distribution around it, understand what gets watched and systematically turn that attention into money
Politics has PR people, communications teams, campaign strategists, press relationships and all the traditional machinery you'd expect around a politician
But attention is worth a fucking lot to a politician
So the same media expertise our client had been selling to info guys could suddenly command $25K-$45K+ per deal
And you can find this kind of pricing disconnect all over B2B
Something everyone around you already knows how to do can be worth $30K+ to people in a completely different industry
People spend their careers moving between the same companies, hiring from the same talent pools, going to the same conferences and learning from the same people
So entire bodies of knowledge can get developed inside one industry without traveling very far outside of it
And instead of trying to invent another offer from scratch, you can steal from all of that accumulated R&D
Years of testing, millions spent figuring out what works, and thousands of operators iterating on the same problems
Then you figure out who else should have it
Obviously you can't just copy and paste the exact implementation
A media engine built around some 22 yo ecom course seller in Miami can't be dropped unchanged onto a politician
You're now dealing with a completely different audience, layers of approval, reputational risk and consequences for getting shit wrong
The mechanics that made the original model work are what you steal
Everything around it has to be rebuilt for the market you're bringing it into
Now think about how many industries you've never even looked at
Find the fire
Then find the humans who still don't have it
If you're an online marketer and almost everything you consume was made by other online marketers, you're studying people who studied people who studied the same fucking people you did
Which is how you end up with thousands of monkeys selling slightly different versions of the same shit
At some point you have to stop jerking off the same five guys everyone else follows and go study completely different industries
Look at how racehorses are marketed
The racing itself can be a tiny part of the money made around a horse
Once a stallion has won enough, people can pay six figures just to breed a mare with him, and the best ones can do that more than 100 times a year
His offspring can then sell at a premium before they've ever raced because buyers are buying the bloodline
If they start winning too, the father's breeding price goes up again
There are breeding rights, syndicates, auctions and entire businesses built around this shit
Then you have boring industrial businesses selling the most basic products imaginable that have controlled their markets for decades through a handful of key relationships and distribution deals
The same goes for casinos, funeral businesses, private islands, sperm banks, fertility clinics, citizenship by investment programs and engagement rings, all running on completely different models of acquisition, distribution, trust, status and retention
Cults are probably top 3 for me
Ignore the morality of it for the purpose of the analysis
They're obviously fucked, but very few organizations have ever figured out how to package this many human needs into the same system, with some basically covering every level of Maslow's pyramid
At the physiological level, even sex gets covered because cults tend to facilitate relationships between members, giving you a dating pool where everyone already shares the same beliefs, community and social circle
Then comes safety, which can mean housing, money when you're struggling, people around you when shit goes wrong, and a set of rules that removes a huge amount of uncertainty from your life
Belonging is pretty obvious when your friends, family, social life, weekly activities and entire community can all end up concentrated in the same place
Esteem gets built through internal hierarchy, recognition, responsibility, proximity to leadership and whatever signals that particular group uses to define a "good" member
Then self actualization gets absorbed into the ideology itself
The organization gives you the mission, tells you what your life is for, gives you a path to progress along and defines what reaching the highest version of yourself is supposed to mean
So you end up with something that can touch all five layers of the pyramid at once, while also controlling a meaningful percentage of the person's social environment
Leaving can mean losing your partner, friends, community, routines, status and the entire belief system you've spent years building your life around
Some of these organizations are absolute cash machines
Jehovah's Witnesses spent more than a century accumulating real estate in Brooklyn alone, then sold 37 properties between 2004 and 2018, with estimates putting the combined sales at around $2B
You have millions of people spreading the message for free, recruiting new members, repeating the same rituals and using the same language, with internal status systems that reward certain behaviors, physical infrastructure everywhere, and relationships that make the network harder to leave as it grows
These organizations have managed to make themselves part of where people live, who they marry, who their friends are, what they do every week, what they believe and what they spend their money on
There is more marketing to learn from figuring out how a bunch of door to door preachers ended up owning billions of dollars worth of Brooklyn real estate than from watching another monkey explain how he structures his VSL
Nah bro, this is absolutely not true
There is no inherently superior way to monetize a personal brand
You're treating the price of the first transaction as the value of the customer, which only makes sense if the entire business begins and ends with whatever you sold them on day one
A few years ago we worked with a client where we deliberately did almost the exact opposite of what you recommend
We used low ticket as the entry point into the ecosystem and did $30K+ days for roughly two weeks straight entirely from organic traffic with less than 10K followers on X
The low-ticket sales were already making a fuck ton of money, but the real value was what having that many customers allowed the client to do afterwards
Without getting into the specifics of the offer because the client would be identifiable, the front end was effectively creating a continuous pool of people from which much larger opportunities could emerge
The client partnered directly with some of them on a rev-share basis and participated in the businesses and opportunities they went on to build
So the economics weren't simply “customer pays X for product”
The product generated revenue while simultaneously functioning as a discovery and selection mechanism for people the client could make significantly more money with on the backend
The important thing is that someone paying you $100 isn't necessarily worth $100
The transaction has also identified a person with a specific problem, demonstrated that they're willing to spend money to solve it, given you permission to continue communicating with them and moved them from anonymous audience into your customer base
Your marginal cost of reaching that person again is now basically zero, and you know exponentially more about them than you did when they were one of 100,000 people watching your content
The client ultimately made enough money from the ecosystem that he's basically retired now and barely works anymore
But even that understates the actual economic value that came out of the business, because what you build around a business can create second and third-order effects worth significantly more than the original revenue
At the time we were processing a lot of money for this client across several Stripe accounts and I wasn't comfortable relying entirely on Stripe, so I started looking for other ways to process payments
That's how I met a guy who had some of the solutions we needed and also happened to have built multiple 8 figures himself
We eventually became partners and have since run multiple offers and businesses together, including very high-ticket ones, but also several low-ticket products that we built intentionally
The logic behind those products has nothing to do with being afraid to sell expensive shit
We wanted multiple entry points into the same ecosystem across adjacent areas of expertise, where every additional product deepened the relationship and expanded the number of problems people trusted us to solve
That gave us a much larger surface area for acquisition while progressively increasing LTV as the right customers moved into $30k-$60k+ offers
One guy eventually deployed more than $1M into a deal with my partner
So was he a low-ticket customer or a million-dollar customer?
That's the fundamental problem with your analysis
It assumes the product is the economic unit when, in a well-designed ecosystem, the customer is the economic unit
You can't compare 2,100 $47 customers with 20 $5K customers without knowing what happens to those customers after they buy
You need to know what percentage of those 2,100 people buy something else, what they buy, how frequently they buy, what the gross margin is across the product stack, how many become qualified for higher-value transactions, what percentage ascend, what those backend transactions are worth and what other economic opportunities are created by having thousands of buyers moving through the ecosystem
Then you can actually compare the models
In my case, the partner I met while looking for payment processing solutions introduced me to an entire network of world-class operators and partners
I now regularly route traffic and opportunities to people in that network and take a cut without doing any of the fulfillment myself
There are revenue streams and relationships in my life today that can indirectly be traced back to us selling a low-ticket product years ago
Obviously you can't build a financial model assuming every $100 customer is eventually going to introduce you to a multi-8-figure entrepreneur
The point is that distribution creates optionality, and a large base of transacting customers creates far more optionality than the revenue visible on the initial checkout page
None of this means low ticket is better than high ticket either
We sell a fuck ton of high ticket and for many businesses I'd recommend moving upmarket immediately because the economics are dramatically better
But ticket size is a variable you choose based on the architecture of the business you're trying to build
If you have no backend, no ascension, no cross-sells, no differentiated IP and you're trying to maintain a giant $47 community purely through recurring subscriptions, then yes, the churn math can be fucking horrible
Now, if you've got an audience, offer or expertise worth selling and you're currently monetizing with no backend or ascension path, send me a DM and I'll show you how to craft an ecosystem around your current offer that monetizes, segments and feeds your backend with 30-100K+ buyers
I understand people are always going to preach whatever content model is currently working for them, but saying the talking-head educational video is dead is just completely retarded
You're confusing the economics of attention with the economics of persuasion
Entertainment is obviously a very effective way to capture attention, but that doesn’t mean attention itself is what creates commercial value
The only attention that matters commercially is attention that changes the perception of someone capable of buying from you
A boring video that fundamentally changes how 50 qualified buyers perceive your expertise can be worth infinitely more than an entertaining video consumed by 5 million monkeys
We just built $2.3M in originated pipeline for Kadenwood Group in 30 days, with mandates in the $30K-$75K range coming directly from Instagram, using almost entirely raw educational content with basically zero entertainment built into it
The account was fresh, it generated 800K+ views, and 48 qualified consulting calls were booked in the first month
Every piece of content was engineered around a specific belief we wanted to install in the buyer’s head
Exit multiples spoke to one type of operator, distribution spoke to another, case studies were placed according to where the buyer sat in the sales cycle, and the content was sequenced so that each piece moved him further into the ecosystem
Prospects were literally referencing specific pieces of content on sales calls
Some of the reels that looked like they “underperformed” from a content perspective were actually the ones pulling the money
Low views, weak algorithmic performance, and $30K-$75K mandates sitting in the DMs
That’s because a view from someone who controls a serious budget isn’t economically equivalent to a view from some monkey scrolling Instagram for his next dopamine hit
Entertainment works insanely well when you want to sell to monkeys, because monkeys are the overwhelming majority of the internet
They give you the likes, comments, shares and watch time that push your shit into more feeds
We actually used that dynamic ourselves at the top of the funnel: you can package certain ideas broadly enough for the masses to carry the distribution while the people you actually want to sell to watch from the sidelines
But confusing the mechanism that gets you distribution with the mechanism that gets you paid is retarded
The guy who can actually buy your $50K engagement will happily listen to you talk into a camera for five minutes if what you’re saying maps directly onto a problem he cares about
All he needs is to see enough evidence that you understand a problem worth millions of dollars to him, understand it at a level his current advisors don’t, and have a credible mechanism for solving it
If you accomplish that with a guy sitting in a chair talking into an iPhone for 90 seconds, the format has done its job
Entertainment is a distribution mechanism
It’s not a prerequisite for persuasion, and it definitely isn’t a prerequisite for making money
You can make content for monkeys and optimize for how many of them watch
Or you can engineer content around the handful of people whose attention can turn into a $50K wire
We’ve done this repeatedly across completely different industries and I can confidently say almost nobody thinks about content and distribution the way we do
So if you run a consulting firm, agency, capital advisory firm, or have a strong offer, skillset or expertise worth selling, send me a DM and I’ll show you how we’d reposition it, package it and build the distribution around it to attract buyers capable of paying $30K-$100K+
the talking head educational video is dead
the pendulum has SWUNG
people don't go to Instagram to get educated
they go to be entertained
the education lives inside the entertainment
you make them laugh, you hold their attention, and because you held it long enough they go deeper
if you look at who's actually doing numbers right now you're going to see this pattern
How to secure $30K-$60K+ deals by strategically manipulating the buyers thinking patterns after sales calls:
(our exact internal process)
You're bleeding $1.2M a year in the 72 hours after you end your sales calls
A sales call is designed to build the conditions for the deal to close
The window between the verbal yes and getting paid is where the deal actually moves forward or not
What you never took into account was that the buyer's psychology keeps moving after you finish the call
You do things like follow up with a "just checking in" message
But your buyers are stalling because they have an internal process you never properly mapped
Either a partner who has to sign off, or a board conversation they have to win on your behalf
Which means you need to regulate full control over the post-call window
Which is moving the buyer through their own decision making
You stabilize the decision and hand them the exact language to defend the purchase to whoever sits between them and moving forward with you
We're running a very similar email right now but with the intention of booking in-person meetings
Targeting family offices, private banks and wealth managers with this specific consulting offer
Recently had partner at a multi family office managing clients at CHF 50M minimum inviting us for coffee off the back of a cold email we sent
Historically, deal flow prior to us implementing this strategy came from 3 places:
- Word of mouth inside closed finance circles
- Trusted referrals between operators
- Private dinners, in person meetings and invitation only conversations
The model produces high quality conversations, compresses trust fast and generates interest from serious counterparties
But it also scales linearly with time, presence and social bandwidth, and concentrates risk in a handful of relationship nodes
If one node goes quiet, an entire stream of mandates goes quiet with it
But being able to combine a well crafted outbound method solves the throughput problem entirely
So we structured the outbound as our way to generate and qualify demand, and then use private dinners and in-person meetings to secure the deal
Sitting down face to face amplifies trust in a way no other channel can touch and it matches the internal dynamics of how this market has always moved
These circles built their entire commercial logic around physical presence decades before digital infrastructure existed
Capital moves between people who've shared a table
Reputations get transferred over lunch
Mandates get agreed on walks between office buildings
When you show up through the same rituals the market already uses you become perceived as one of their own
This is how you become a chameleon inside any market
You study how it operates on a daily basis including its rituals, trust mechanics and unwritten rules
Then you camouflage your way in and infiltrate circles that stay permanently closed to outsiders
The private wealth world will ignore a vendor for a decade but will open completely to a mf who moves like the market moves
So what we needed to implement for ourselves was simple
We needed to structure an entry point into a high skepticism, over contacted, reputation sensitive market without diluting the trust signal that referrals and private dinners naturally provide
That constraint dictated everything about the outbound strategy
It had to behave like a referral, carry reputation without an introduction and signal relevance instantly
It had to avoid the appearance of BS at all costs too
Anything else would damage positioning in the market
Which is exactly why most operators going upmarket can never get their offer to land
They treat outbound as a volume game
The moment the message resembles marketing you’re immediately categorized into a specific category and it’s difficult to revert back
So the messaging was built on a different principle
Buyers in finance do NOT respond hype, novelty or promises
They respond to messaging that understands their position, constraints and timing without needing any of it explained
When a partner at a family office reads a message that demonstrates fluency in his world, the message comes off like a peer surfacing something relevant
The reply happens because the offer required no explanation
That's the point where outbound starts functioning like a warm introduction
Then when you book the in person meetings, they have the cleanest way to evaluate whether you’re worth working with or not
This market runs its due diligence face to face
So the relationship itself is becomes the infrastructure behind a deal
Then that relationship node produces mentions to the lawyer who feeds him clients, who mentions it to the banker he knows
Introductions are the only acquisition channel this market actually trusts, and they typically flow exclusively between people who've physically met
One good meeting can quietly work its way through an entire backend over the following years
One of the best cold emails I’ve ever wrote was for a VC fund manager who wanted wealth management and RIA capital. Consistently boxed a 10% reply rate.
——
Hey X,
Is your firm currently taking on new HNWI clients?
I wanted to explore introducing you to some of our founders whose net worth ranges from $30M-$100M+. Our firm actively advocates that our founders be proactive in optimizing their personal investment strategies, including preparing for significant exits well in advance.
——
He’d then get on the call and offer to make intros and pitched his VC fund. Closed quite a bit of capital this way.
The key thing here is the framework is replicable
How to craft a multi 7-figure B2B offer by targeting yacht brokers:
99% of agencies and clients work with clients who don't have money,and it has nothing to do with their skill
Nobody ever showed them where the money actually lives, who controls it and how to plug into it
Mfs watch agency tutorials on YouTube and then start targeting infopreneurs, coaches and SaaS companies
So the ceiling gets locked in from the first client
When instead you’re meant to apply the exact same delivery and target premium yacht brokers in Monaco, Miami and Dubai
Every single one of brokers run their acquisition like its the mid-2000s
Hulls trade between $10-$300M with 8-10% commission on new builds and resales
The same companies run charter desks renting those boats at $200K to $400K a week
The way they source these deals is boat shows, marina walk-ins and referral loops built over 30 years worth of dinners
But the mfs holding those networks are ageing out and there’s been no strategy to be able to adapt to the new UHNW wealth sitting in Miami, Dubai and Singapore
Structured outbound doesn't exist anywhere in this segment, retargeting is an unknown concept, and the closest thing to a qualification layer is a receptionist
The exact acquisition mechanics that got commoditized in SaaS have never once been deployed in this vertical
They haven't realized that an UHNWI never really searches for his own boat
He delegates and gets a shortlist built by family office analysts, executive assistants, business managers and yacht-adjacent concierges
An entire gatekeeper layer decides which 3 hulls the principal ever sees and there isn’t a single brokerage that runs structured outreach to get in these ecosystems
They're all trying to target the principal himself, through channels he never reads
While the people who actually filter the decision have never received a single intelligent outbound message in their careers
Which is exactly what you deliver for these clients
The system you build:
Paid distribution aimed at UHNW geographies with retargeting pools that follow the buyer for the six months a yacht decision actually takes
Automated qualification that separates price shoppers from serious buyers before a broker ever touches the conversation
And outbound into the gatekeeper layer that Claude runs targeting every family office with a marine asset or charter history + the yacht management companies and concierge networks between London and Dubai
The broker can't build any of this, and he doesn't have the vocabulary to hire for it either
You always structure the conversation with the frame of pre-existing demand:
"I'm in contact with UHNW buyers and family offices looking at charters and acquisitions this quarter. Are you the right person to speak with about how you'd handle those introductions?"
Now you're routing deal flow and the conversation carries a completely different weight
On the call you run the math with him
- Average commission
- Deal count last year
- How much of it traces back to 2 relationships
- What his pipeline looks like the year one of those relationships retires
Then you hold one incremental sale against your fee and let him realize the logic himself
Charge $10K-$25K upfront + $5K-$8K to run the system + 5-10% of the brokerage commission on deals your system sourced
One sourced hull per year across the roster turns your agency into a multiple 7-figure operation with less than 5 clients and no external team beyond your agents
"Hello, I got a bunch of potential buyers for yachts. Can I talk to *Name of the boss*?"
(Either they put you through to the boss, or it's already the boss you're talking to)
"Hi, I’m a private consultant for entrepreneurs making tens or even hundreds of millions a year.
I have a strong network of potential yacht buyers.
When can we link up to talk about this ?"
(You schedule the date and time.)
"Bet. On this call, I'll also break down how you can build a network like mine. Sound good?"
Then, during your sales call, you make your pitch and sell them everything they need to get more clients : ads, event organization, influencer campaigns, website design etc.
This approach also works for other high-ticket niches like private jets or luxury real estate.
Finesse.
$$$
How to steal propaganda strategies to take control of an entire market with your B2B offer:
By the time a serious buyer gets on a call with your firm, the decision has already been made
What happens on the call is just the confirmation of a conclusion the buyer reached somewhere else inside an information environment that someone built
The only question that determines your influence on a market is whether that someone was you
You probably never even realized this environment exists because you think deals are won on calls
So you pour everything into pitch decks, objection handling, and closing frameworks
Then you wonder why a competitor with half your skillset closes the same buyers you spent three months chasing
The buyer who buys your offer is buying the story he gets to tell his board, his LPs, and his partners
"We brought in the firm the big dogs use"
"I'm the kind of executive who recognizes quality"
Every six-figure engagement is really a status transaction
So if you engineer the conditions where saying yes to you makes him look smart to the people he answers to, the deal closes itself
And if saying yes to you carries even a 5% risk of making him look stupid, no case study on earth saves you
You build this environment the exact way Bernays did in 1929
During this time women didn't smoke in public - it was taboo
So Bernays staged a moment at the Easter parade where fashionable women lit cigarettes and called them "torches of freedom"
The press covered it as news, women walked away confident they'd made a liberated decision entirely on their own
But they never had to be ‘convinced’ because they never knew persuasion was happening in the first place
Which is exactly how you need to view your offer:
Proof placed in the environment converts but proof asserted by you gets resisted
Trying to forcefully assert your own competence is the weakest signal you can produce
Everyone has case studies
Buyers at this level have maximized resistance to them
But independent confirmation is what actually moves
You craft this through elements within your offer like advisory board members with careers spanning institutions the buyer already respects because their presence transfers decades of credibility you never earned
Or even interviews and appearances alongside people the buyer admires
McKinsey runs the deepest version of this play in existence
Every year they push their people out into senior operating seats, board chairs, and C-suites across the entire economy
Tens of thousands of alumni sitting in exactly the chairs that hire consultants
So when a buyer looks for independent confirmation that McKinsey is where serious operators come from, the confirmation is everywhere he looks
The proof was placed in the seats years before he ever reached the decision
Now here's how this maps directly onto your B2B offer
There are two layers you need to run simultaneously:
Layer one is saturation
Enough controlled exposure across enough surfaces that when the buyer's problem becomes urgent, you're the only name his brain produces
His feed, inbox and industry language
You're already there before the trigger event happens
Saturation makes you inevitable
Then layer two is manufactured desire
You need to be the version of inevitable that a buyer WANTS attached to his name
That comes from the company you keep in public, clients you're seen with, rooms you appear in and the standard your content holds
We saw this work in real time with one of our own clients recently
Prospects showing up to first calls quoting specific pieces of content back to us
Buyers pre-sold before anyone picked up the phone with the positioning doing 90% of the work
The only reason it was happening was because we strategically crafted their enviornment through our entire content strategy
We accounted for each type of buyer that came through
Our entire strategy was basically packaging an elite level of B2B game that we crafted ourselves and presented it through the client on his group + 1:1 calls as the delivery mechanism
But it makes no sense to only talk about high level game because at the end of the day content is a visibility game long before it becomes a conversion game
And visibility comes from the brokies and retards pushing your content into your ICPs feed
That’s why we designed the top-of-funnel content to look sexy af
Which is exactly what pushed the algorithm to place the account in front of the buyers we were targeting
And the only reason that they ended up converting is that we sequenced the content across multiple pillars
The best sale in B2B is the one the buyer thinks he made himself
They walk into the call certain the decision was theirs
But the environment you carefully crafted in his world months before you even spoke was what closed him
Neko Health just raised $700M to scan rich people's bodies
Founded by the same mf behind Spotify
Capital is now funding getting high-income individuals to pay premium prices to stay ahead of their own biology
Preventive healthcare is now a capital markets category
But 90% of the people within this space have zero digital sophistication when it comes to scaling their customer acquisition
We spoke with a healthcare company doing around $10M+ a year
Offering connected health, chronic care management and remote patient monitoring with 100,000 patients under management
FDA-approved devices, fully turnkey delivery and a zero-risk billing model where the client doesn't pay a cent until reimbursement money is already sitting in their account
But when we asked about customer acquisition the entire process was just one guy in C-suite reaching out to prospects himself
He literally said ‘basically I'm on my own’
A $10M+ operation with the growth system of a broke freelancer hey had a close rate on booked calls: 80 to 90 percent
He literally told us directly:
"I just need calls. If I can fill up my calendar with two calls a day, we'll be bringing in more business than we can shake a stick at"
When you strip away all the complexity with either the org chart, clinical language, or compliance layers it doesn’t matter if they’re doing $10M+ - they don’t know how to originate consistent executive traffic
But what you need to understand very clearly is that these buyers make decisions on who they work with very carefully
A big buyer purely decides to move forward from his perception of your status
If it’s low, they won’t respect you and they’ll lowball
But if they find that you match it, you’ll be able to pretty easily secure a big deal with these companies
The thing is even if you’ve never sold to a big healthcare company before
There’s a few things you can do to ‘hack’ your way into this perception that the buyer creates of you
One of those is by creating high status analogies that show that you understand the market or operators that move at the highest level
This is why we always say case studies are hardly the thing that moves the needle forward in B2B
Because if you can demonstrate pattern recognition and immediately reflect how the prospect thinks daily
You’re instantly someone they trust
Let’s take an example
Say you’re selling an origination offer to a big healthcare company
The biggest thing holding them back from moving forward is that ‘outbound will damage our brand image’
Obviously it makes no sense
But a weak person will think it’s about convincing them out of this
What you actually need to do in a situation like this is reframe the objection as an ignorance of modern distribution
They might associate mass scale outbound with ‘spray and pray’ or sounding ‘desperate’
But an example to run here is to leverage an analogy that preserves their status
High status individuals ALWAYS fear being lumped in with low-tier mfs
So all you do is give them an analogy that places them above these guys
"The PE firms buying up practices aren't ashamed to call every physician-owner in the state
They call it deal sourcing
We're running the exact same thing, just with better tech and targeting"
Now they have zero excuse to hide behind
But more importantly, instead of trying to convince them all you’ve done is showcased an ability to handle situations that happen in their world daily
How to engineer a "zero-objection state" with 8-figure buyers & get them to willingly pitch your B2B offer to their own board
(even if you have no case studies)
How to effortlessly turn "we need to think about it" into a same-day $25K+ close using the "Math Method"
(full 18-min training)
We're consistently adding breakdowns of our internal frameworks to our training library within the private program
Specifically for clients that we work with on our consulting offer
For example one of our clients was struggling with implementing the "Yes or No" method into their sales process + running the math to close higher ticket deals more consistently
So we filmed an 18-min breakdown and added it to the private training library
Here's a segment of the exact binary closing process we use on $30K-$60K sales calls
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This guy built a $20M dining business without opening a single restaurant
He pulls chefs out of Eleven Madison Park and The French Laundry and has them cook inside multi-million dollar residences and members-only clubs
80 events a month for everyone from startups to the Fortune 500
Mf went upmarket on a cooking offer
All he changed was where the skill gets applied
He positioned the offer it at the intersection of liquidity and now dinner is a $20M a year asset
While you're busy making excuses about why your market can't handle higher prices
Most people never get rich because they stay trapped selling to people who can't afford to make them rich
Going upmarket changes the economics of your business more than any offer redesign ever will
It’s the same service, the same skillset, but the entire equation flips
At the bottom, you’re fighting with kids who’ve watched three Hormozi clips and think “value” is overdelivering for broke founders
You’re competing with a thousand clones who all charge the same, talk the same, and sell to the same type of emotionally unstable clients who freak out over $2K invoices
The work doesn’t scale because the people you sell to don’t have leverage
Their business lives month to month, and so does yours
When you go upmarket, the crowd disappears
The market gets thinner, quieter, and slower, but the money moves in larger blocks
There are fewer players, fewer opportunities, but each one is worth ten times more
The number of agencies and consultants capable of serving them without embarrassing themselves is tiny
Clients at that level aren’t choosing between ten great options
They’re choosing between a handful of outdated suppliers who’ve been billing them for years without doing anything remarkable
You don’t need to change your process
You just need to change the environment it’s applied in
The exact same service that struggles at $3K a month becomes a $30K retainer when the client’s economics can absorb it without flinching
The LTV is absurd
One client can fund your entire operation for a year
If you’re good, they don’t churn, because they don’t have time to look for new providers
The switching cost is higher than the invoice
They pay faster because they have departments that exist to process payments
They complain less because they’ve seen worse
They give you more autonomy because they have bigger problems to deal with
And when you perform once, the ripple effect starts
High-level operators all move in closed circles
A good result for one unlocks introductions to five more
The compounding happens horizontally inside networks that actually have liquidity, not vertically through broke clients
Margins go up
You can finally pay for killers to fulfill
Remove yourself from delivery, and focus only on finding and securing bigger opportunities
The margin pays for the team, the team frees the founder, the founder compounds the relationships
You can focus entirely on acquisition, on control, on strategy, because delivery becomes a solved problem
And the stress disappears
Once you’re in that zone, you stop trading effort for money
You start trading access for scale
Every new deal adds distribution, credibility, and network effects
You start compounding structurally
Seeing a ton of 8 and 9-figure CEOs in capital-rich markets starting to taking personal branding seriously
Guys who ignored the internet for 25 years are suddenly hiring content teams
We called this a year and a half ago and acted immediately
One of our 1:1 consulting clients hit $100K+ in revenue selling plus multiple six figures in success fees within a few weeks of repositioning around it
He's 19 and we took him from writing for course sellers to signing 9-figure entrepreneurs and influential politicians
In fact last year he began building out a full media operation for a French billionaire
You can structure a very similar offer and book calls with some of the wealthiest CEOs in your country within 48 hours
The type of buyers none of your competitors are targeting rn
Important part here is none of these mfs care about getting famous
They ran the numbers on where their last 10 deals came from and realized every single one traced back to trust that existed before the first call
When you analyze how a $2M buyer actually behaves, you start seeing the patterns clearly
A principal deciding between two yacht brokerages typically asks around his network which one they know better
But the last move they make when they’re alone is searching both founders up at 11pm from their phones
They check both profiles
One founder has a dead LinkedIn with 400 connections and a company page posting a few boat pictures
But the other one published an article three weeks ago on why hull depreciation curves make this the wrong quarter to sell a 40-metre
Then the buyer clicks through to the first guy’s company site
He finds a firm doing $50M a year in contracts but looks like a subcontractor who launched last month on a website built in 2009 that barely loads properly
Immediately he trusts the second brokerage more
In trust-heavy markets that site is the first due diligence checkpoint
Most of these companies fail it in the first 5 seconds without realizing it
The same mechanics run through aviation
A charter client worth $500K a year comes from sitting next to someone at dinner who mentions a name he's already seen twice
The founder of a jet management company who publishes thought leadership on pre-owned Gulfstream pricing naturally becomes the name that surfaces at those dinners
In oil and gas it gets even more extreme, because the contracts are 7-figures+ and the buying committee is professionally paranoid
The point is capital-heavy markets are slowly beginning to realize the founder is a strong acquisition channel they’ve been sleeping on for decades
Referrals covered this weakness during the entire time they were sleeping which is why nobody ever built anything
Now look at who's available to serve them
Money twitter mfs selling $2K/month content offers writing “founder story” carousels for broke SaaS founders
A yacht brokerage founder is not gonna hand his voice to someone who posts about morning routines
Hardly anyone that runs a ‘content’ or ‘personal branding offer’ is serving these verticals at the altitude they buy at
Which is where you can enter this market and structure a B2B offer very easily to solve this problem
The most important part of this is how you package the offer
You never walk in selling "personal branding"
They’re gonna immediately think of you as a content monkey and send you to a marketing intern to evaluate whether it’s worth investing in you or not
Remember who you're dealing with
These founders and CEOs are ex-engineers and former military men who can’t stand anything that smells like marketing jargon
But they'll happily deploy capital into assets that remove friction from 8-figure deals
So you sell a demand infrastructure that does exactly that
Start with the buyer map
You sit with the CEO and dissect his market like a PE analyst:
- Which titles sign
- What internal trigger makes a buyer move this quarter
- What a 10/10 client looks like next to a 3/10
Most of these founders have run their vertical for 20 years and never once written any of this down
Then you construct the narrative layer
You extract two decades worth of deal logic out of his head and turn it into published thinking:
- His read on charter demand cycles
- Why certain acquisitions in his space keep failing
- The pricing logic he’s never revealed in public
The buyer reads it and feels like he's accessing something restricted
Which is a completely different way of presenting expertise than traditional ‘marketing’
Every piece of content gets timed against deals in motion
His commentary on fleet maintenance economics lands two weeks before his team approaches a target operator
An article on how family offices structure charter arrangements goes out the same month his sales guy opens conversations with 3 of them
The buyer thinks he keeps coming across this guy who’s dropping game that none of his competitors are
So by the time their sales rep reaches out he's already half convinced
Charge $10K-$25K upfront to build the entire infrastructure
$5K-$8K a month to operate it
Then the account naturally expands on its own
The perception gap you fixed at the founder level exists one layer up on the website that they built 10 years ago
Rebuild it as a trust asset at $15K-$25K
Get Claude to handle the delivery for this within 30 min max
Position the ‘website’ as the trust engineering asset that regulators, investors and procurement teams screen before anyone moves through the sales process
Almost like an investor deck that happens to be online
One engagement becomes two and within a few weeks a $15K client becomes a $40K account without a single new sales call
You frame the engagement around the math against the client's deal size
One deal sourced through the system covers your entire engagement for the year












