$npx -y skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills --skill offersWhen the user wants to design, construct, or improve an offer — the thing they actually sell — including value framing, bonus stacking, guarantee design, scarcity/urgency, naming, and payment structure. Also use when the user mentions 'offer,' 'offer design,' 'build an offer,' 'g
| 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 |