The Maker Letter ·
Your offer isn’t broken
Hey Friend,
If your offer’s stopped converting, I doubt it’s actually broken. It’s probably just out of date.
It’s not the price. It’s not the funnel.
The offer is answering a question the market stopped asking months ago.
This is the hangover I talked about last time.
The conversation moved on and your offer didn’t move with it.
The fix,is almost annoyingly simple: match your offer to the conversation happening in the market right now.
That does 2 things, and they’re the 2 things that actually move conversions:
- It makes you recent. You sound like now, not 18 months ago.
- It makes you relevant. You’re talking about the thing they’re already chewing on.
That’s it.
Get recent and relevant and you can double or triple how many people say yes, without touching the thing you actually deliver.
Here’s what I mean.
2 years ago, “I’ll grow your LinkedIn reach” sold itself. Everyone wanted reach and reach was easy to get.
Try selling that today and you sound a bit deaf. Reach is down for everyone and people are quietly panicking about it. The conversation isn’t “how do I get more reach” anymore. It’s “I’m posting into the void and nothing’s converting.”
So the offer just becomes “turn the audience you already have into clients.”
Same skill.
Same you.
But now it lands, because it’s the thing they’re worrying about at 11pm.
You didn’t change what you do. You changed the conversation you walked into.
And this matters more than ever, because everyone and their brother and sister and mother can create strategy now. AI handed it out for free. So the strategy isn’t the rare thing anymore. Saying it back to people in the exact words they’re already using?
That’s the rare thing.
So before you rebuild the whole offer, go and listen. Read your comments and your DMs. Notice what your people keep complaining about, and the questions they ask you over and over. That’s the conversation. Then say your offer back to them in those exact words.
Match the conversation, and the same offer starts converting like it’s brand new.
Your biggest fan,
Jacob ‘milk’s gone off’ Pegs
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