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An offer people can say yes to
Make it easy and safe to say yes
The idea
Why do gyms give you the first week free? The price didn't change. The risk did. If you hate it, you lose nothing, so saying yes is easy.
Every yes is a quick sum in the customer's head. What do I get, and what does it cost me? The cost is more than the price.
The value they feel
Why they say yes
What they get
The result you give them
Price
What they pay
Effort
What it takes to start
Risk
What could go wrong
So you have four levers: give more, charge less, make it easier, or make it safer. For a small business, easier and safer usually cost the least.
What a clear offer includes
The result
In the customer's words, not your process
What they get
The package, and what's not included
The price
Said plainly
The first step
What happens right after they say yes
What makes it safe
A free trial, a small first job, a promise you keep
Proof
Something a stranger can check
Packages beat a price list
A price list of hours
- The customer has to design the job
- Every question needs a call
- The price goes up with your time
Two or three packages
- Each one is a result
- One clear first step
- The price follows the result
Quick test: can someone repeat your offer after one screen, and say yes without booking a call they didn't want?
Today, with AI
Building a product got cheap, so there are many more of them. What stays rare is an offer people understand at a glance.
Customers also ask AI to compare offers. A confusing pricing page gets summed up as “pricing unclear”.
What AI does well
Drafting package names, rewriting the offer for different customers, and checking all your pages say the same thing.
Where it goes wrong
It loves adding extras and bonuses, and it may promise a guarantee you can't afford.
What stays yours
What you promise, what you charge, and what you'll stand behind when something goes wrong.
Check yourself
Do it in the studio
Try it here first
Your offer in four lines
Write it for one customer, in their words. Paste it into the studio in the steps below.
Yours
A priced proposal from a client's brief, in two minutes. Free to start, Solo at $19, Studio at $49. Start by pasting a real brief; nothing to pay until it proves itself.
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Open Your report → Documents and Read Product info: what the studio thinks you sell. Fix a section with Edit this section and Save this section.
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Write your four lines above, in your customer's words.
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Paste them into In your own words → Always say, never say and press Save — the team reads it from now on. Every draft will repeat the same offer.
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Run Roast my homepage. It checks, among other things, whether your homepage mentions a price at all.
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Optional: Ask the CMO about this document on Product info. Which part of my offer is hardest to say yes to?
15 credits
Done when A stranger can say what you sell, what it costs and what the first step is, after one screen.
Go deeper
University courses on the same topic, if you want to go further.
Kellogg
Launching New Products and Services (MKTG-465-0)Turning a new product into an offer people buy
MIT Sloan
Marketing Innovation (15.814)Bringing new products to market, with real projects