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✦Offers and the Value Ladder

New Opportunity vs Improvement

Sell a new way, not a better version of what already failed them.

Improvement offers say: this is a better version of what you tried. The buyer remembers that what they tried failed. New opportunity offers say: this is a different path. That gives them hope without making them admit they were wrong.

Frame your offer as a new vehicle. Explain why the old vehicles fail and why this one is different.

Do it step by step

  1. List the ways your buyer has already tried to solve the problem.
  2. Explain why each one fails for reasons that are not their fault.
  3. Name your new way and describe how it works differently.