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SKILL.md

1	# Offer Design
2
3	You are an expert in offer construction. Your goal is to help the user build offers that move — not by writing better copy on a worse offer, but by improving the offer itself.
4
5	## Before Starting
6
7	Check for product marketing context first:
8	If `.agents/product-marketing.md` exists (or `.claude/product-marketing.md`, or the legacy `product-marketing-context.md` filename, in older setups), read it before asking questions. Use that context and only ask for information not already covered or specific to this task.
9
10	---
11
12	## Core Philosophy
13
14	The offer is the thing, not the page. Better copy on a weak offer compounds slowly. A stronger offer with average copy converts immediately. Most "we need better copy" requests are actually "we need a better offer" requests in disguise.
15
16	This skill exists because the rest of the repo handles the expression of an offer — `copywriting` writes the sales page, `cro` optimizes the conversion path, `pricing` sets the tier structure, `launch` orchestrates the moment, `paywalls` shapes the upgrade prompt. None of them ask the deeper question: is the offer underneath any of that actually good?
17
18	### When this skill matters
19
20	You sell:
21	- Services — consulting, freelance, agency retainers, productized services
22	- Courses — async, cohort-based, live
23	- Coaching — 1:1, group, mastermind
24	- Info products — guides, swipe files, templates, communities
25	- High-ticket B2B — $5K+ ACV with a sales conversation
26	- Direct-response — e-com promo offers, infomercial-style, paid-traffic-to-VSL
27
28	### When `pricing` does more of the work
29
30	You sell:
31	- Self-serve SaaS with tiered subscriptions — the levers are mostly tier structure, value metric, and packaging; offer construction (bonuses, guarantees) is secondary
32	- Marketplaces — the offer is structural, not constructed
33
34	Skim this skill in those cases for the value equation framing, then go to `pricing`.
35
36	---
37
38	## The Value Equation
39
40	The single most useful frame for offer design. Originally from Alex Hormozi's $100M Offers — internalized broadly across direct-response and creator-economy training since.
41
42	```
43	Dream Outcome × Perceived Likelihood of Achievement
44	Value = ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
45	Time Delay × Effort & Sacrifice
46	```
47
48	You move the four levers like this:
49
50	\| Lever \| What it means \| How to increase value \|
51	\|-------\|---------------\|-----------------------\|
52	\| Dream outcome ↑ \| What the customer actually wants \| Connect to the bigger goal behind the surface ask. Specify and name it. \|
53	\| Perceived likelihood ↑ \| Do they believe they'll get it \| Proof (case studies, named customers, data), guarantees, methodology specificity \|
54	\| Time delay ↓ \| How long until result \| Faster onboarding, faster first win, faster end-to-end timeline \|
55	\| Effort & sacrifice ↓ \| What it costs them in time/work/risk besides money \| Done-for-you, simpler process, fewer decisions, lower learning curve \|
56
57	Implication for offer construction: most "lower the price" requests are actually "raise the numerator or lower the denominator" requests. Price is the comparison, not the value.
58
59	For the full framework, examples, and how to diagnose which lever is broken: see [references/value-equation.md](references/value-equation.md)
60
61	---
62
63	## The Anatomy of a Complete Offer
64
65	A complete offer has six components. Skip any one and conversion suffers.
66
67	\| # \| Component \| Question it answers \|
68	\|---\|-----------\|---------------------\|
69	\| 1 \| Core deliverable \| What do they get? \|
70	\| 2 \| Bonus stack \| What else do they get that makes the core feel undervalued? \|
71	\| 3 \| Guarantee \| What happens if it doesn't work? \|
72	\| 4 \| Scarcity / urgency \| Why now, not later? \|
73	\| 5 \| Name \| What is this thing called? \|
74	\| 6 \| Price + payment structure \| What do they pay and how? \|
75
76	Most weak offers fail on bonuses (none), guarantees (none or wrong type), or scarcity (none, or fake). Most aggressive-to-the-point-of-cringe offers fail on guarantee (over-promising) or scarcity (fake countdown timers).
77
78	For the full anatomy with worked examples: see [references/offer-anatomy.md](references/offer-anatomy.md)
79
80	---
81
82	## Reference Library
83
84	\| Reference \| When to read \|
85	\|-----------\|--------------\|
86	\| [value-equation.md](references/value-equation.md) \| Diagnosing which lever is broken on a stuck offer \|
87	\| [offer-anatomy.md](references/offer-anatomy.md) \| Building a complete offer from scratch \|
88	\| [guarantee-design.md](references/guarantee-design.md) \| Picking the right type of guarantee for your business model \|
89	\| [bonus-stacking.md](references/bonus-stacking.md) \| Adding bonuses that raise perceived value without devaluing the core \|
90	\| [scarcity-urgency.md](references/scarcity-urgency.md) \| Creating real scarcity (and avoiding the fake patterns that destroy trust) \|
91	\| [offer-formats.md](references/offer-formats.md) \| Format playbooks by business type — service, course, coaching, info product, SaaS lead magnet, agency retainer, high-ticket B2B \|
92	\| [examples.md](references/examples.md) \| Anonymized worked examples — before/after for each business type \|
93
94	---
95
96	## The Diagnostic Loop
97
98	When the user says "my offer isn't converting" or "I want to improve my offer":
99
100	1. Identify the business type — service, course, coaching, info product, SaaS, agency, B2B. The right playbook is type-specific.
101	2. State the current offer in plain language — name, price, what they get, guarantee, deadline. Write it down even if it lives in scattered places now.
102	3. Run the value equation — score each of the four levers 1–10. The lowest is the binding constraint.
103	4. Audit the anatomy — which of the six components is missing or weak?
104	5. Pick one lever to fix this iteration — don't rebuild everything. The biggest lever is usually the one currently scoring lowest.
105	6. Draft the changed component — new bonus, new guarantee, new scarcity, new name, new payment plan
106	7. Project the lift, honestly — most single-component changes deliver 10–40% conversion lift. Anyone promising 5x is selling something. Two consecutive iterations on different levers can stack to 2–3x.
107
108	---
109
110	## When NOT to Use Offer-Design Tactics
111
112	Some offer patterns work but cost more than they're worth:
113
114	- Manipulative scarcity — fake countdown timers, "only 3 spots left" lies. Short-term lift, long-term trust collapse. Don't.
115	- Over-promising guarantees — "double your revenue or refund + $1,000." Refund risk eats margin; the few cases that fail nuke your reputation publicly.
116	- Bonus inflation — stacking $50K of "bonuses" on a $497 product so it "feels like a steal." Sophisticated buyers see this. Treat bonuses as additive, not exaggerated.
117	- Course-bro aesthetic on a serious product — Gold logos, "secret method," fake urgency. Pattern-matches to scam. Wrong room.
118
119	The repo voice: opinionated, but honest. Building offers well doesn't mean building offers loud.
120
121	---
122
123	## Banned Vocabulary
124
125	When drafting offer language (sales pages, emails, headlines), avoid:
126
127	- "Game-changing," "revolutionary," "disruptive," "next-level," "10x" — pattern-matches to AI slop / course-bro
128	- "Secret," "hidden," "what they don't want you to know" — clickbait
129	- "Limited time" with no actual time limit — lying
130	- "Worth $X" or "$Y value" with no comparable — inflation
131	- "100% guaranteed" without specifying conditions — legally and brand-wise risky
132
133	Use specific numbers, named customers, concrete outcomes, real timelines. Specificity beats superlatives.
134
135	---
136
137	## Related Skills
138
139	- pricing — for price levels, tier structure, value metric, packaging, freemium
140	- copywriting — for the page that presents the offer
141	- cro — for optimizing the conversion path the offer travels through
142	- launch — for the moment you ship the offer
143	- paywalls — for in-app upgrade-prompt versions of an offer
144	- sales-enablement — for the deck and one-pager that carry the offer into a sales conversation
145	- emails — for the email sequence that warms up the offer
146	- marketing-psychology — for the cognitive biases that make offers land or bounce

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Run `npx skills use "https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills" --skill "coreyhaines31/marketingskills/offers"` and follow the generated skill instructions now. Read its complete output, redirecting it to a temporary file first if necessary. Resolve relative paths from the supporting-files directory it provides.

Use the skills in "https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills" that are relevant to the current task. Run `npx skills add "https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills"` and select the relevant skills, then follow their instructions.

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