What insanely profitable offers have in common


Yesterday I talked about what a bad offer does to your business — and to you.

Today, I want to flip that and talk about what insanely profitable offers actually have in common.

Because they’re not clever.

And they’re definitely not built around hustle.

In fact, I'd argue that...

Great offers don’t rely on you as the facilitator.

If the results depend on your personal effort, time, or constant involvement, you’ll hit a ceiling fast.

You can do well like that. I know guys pulling around 7-figs as the sole facilitator in their business.

They all work like mad though, and if they stop working, the money stops flowing.

Meaning you can’t really scale.

It;s the golden handcuffs in action.

The most profitable offers are designed so the system does the work, not the founder.

The second common trait is the problem itself.

Big offers solve big, expensive problems.

Not “nice to have” issues.

Not vague pain.

Problems where real money is already being lost.

Big markets with painful problems are gold mines.

You don’t need to reinvent anything.

You just need to find where existing systems are broken.

Once you’ve identified the problem, the next rule is simple.

Make the solution as easy as possible to get results from.

Even if that means white-gloving it at the start and manually implementing it for the client.

Even if it’s messy internally.

Effort on your side is fine in the short term.

Effort on their side kills adoption and sends churn through the roof.

And the real goal?

Build something that, once they use it, they can’t imagine operating without it.

That’s when pricing pressure disappears.

Now, here’s where most people go wrong with scale.

They see the rules above and think "there's a huge problem in [SECTOR X] and I can solve it by doing Y."

They try to solve everything at once, try to implement the complete, final form of the offer right from the start.

It;s too much, too fast. It'll cost so much money that the financial pressure to succeed ramps up the stress unnecessarily.

So, instead of trying to eat the steak whole, you take it bite by bite.

Let me give you an example.

If I wanted to revolutionise the trainer (sneaker) production market, I wouldn’t try to immediately set up a brand to compete with Nike or Adidas head-on.

I’d lose instantly.

Instead, I’d look at the entire system and ask one question...

Where is the most money being lost?

Let’s say it’s in the supply chain, specifcially in overstocking. Unsold inventory. Capital tied up doing nothing.

I’d identify the exact break point causing that loss.

Calculate what it’s costing companies every year.

Then build a solution that fixes just that issue.

I'd then charge them 10% of the average losses for me to implement it, effectively reducing their losses by up to 90%.

Rather than try to create a full competitor from day 1, I'd just solve this one little problem and use the sales form this to fund my expansion.

More solutions.

More parts of the system.

Eventually, you become the go-to player in that market.

That’s how real offers are built.

Not by piling on features.

Not by guessing what people want.

But by finding where money is leaking and fixing it cleanly.

Tomorrow, I’ll show you how to turn this thinking into a repeatable way of designing offers, not one-offs.

Speak soon,

Pete "beachhead market" Boyle

Vagrants, Vagabonds, and Villains Ltd, Unit 16535, 13 Freeland Park, Wareham Road, Poole, Dorset BH16 6FA
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