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notes from a capitalist degen

Joined November 2023
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
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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
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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
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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
WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER SELL LOW TICKET FROM YOUR PERSONAL BRAND:
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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
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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
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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
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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. $$$
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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
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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
The global healthcare industry moves over $10 trillion a year There’s a fuck ton of money to be made 3 verticals that print regardless of the economy : - Private clinics & regenerative medicine - Biotech & AI diagnostics - Executive wellness infrastructure Do what you want with this info
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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)
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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 DM "SOVEREIGN" if you want access to the full training library
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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
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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
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