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I Studied Every $100M Ecommerce Offer So You Don't Have To — Transcript

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  1. 0:00How is it that two brands can sell the
  2. 0:01exact same product, but one hits nine
  3. 0:03figures and the other stays at seven
  4. 0:04figures forever? It's not the team. It's
  5. 0:06not the ads. It's definitely not the
  6. 0:08product. It is the offer. Multi-9igure
  7. 0:10brands like AG1, Grunes, and True
  8. 0:12Classic have figured out the art of the
  9. 0:14offer. And this is what separates the
  10. 0:16true winners like that as well as some
  11. 0:17of the other brands that I've been able
  12. 0:18to play a part in their growth. I've
  13. 0:20watched the same pattern across every
  14. 0:21single category from subscriptions to
  15. 0:23apparel, accessories, CPG, everything.
  16. 0:25and I've been a part of several brands
  17. 0:27who have gone from the 8 figure mark to
  18. 0:28the nine figure mark, seeing everything
  19. 0:30play out. So, in this video, I'm going
  20. 0:31to be breaking down the three offer
  21. 0:32types that have helped these brands
  22. 0:34scale to nine figures. I'll walk you
  23. 0:35through the brands that are running each
  24. 0:36one and then how it can fit inside of
  25. 0:38your business. See, most brands are
  26. 0:39thinking about offers wrong entirely.
  27. 0:41They'll do something like slap on a
  28. 0:43regular 10% off offer and leave it at
  29. 0:45that. Maybe they'll always have a 20%
  30. 0:47off sort of seasonal sale always on
  31. 0:49their website or just give a discount
  32. 0:50for somebody's email. But that's not
  33. 0:51what the fastest scaling brands are
  34. 0:53doing. They are actually putting real
  35. 0:54strategic thought and ad money behind
  36. 0:57testing the offer and making it the
  37. 0:58forefront of their business. They test
  38. 1:00it religiously because they know that if
  39. 1:02you can make an offer that just hits a
  40. 1:04different psychological nerve with the
  41. 1:06customer that will get them to buy more
  42. 1:07than any other creative can. Just like
  43. 1:09Alexi says, the offer is everything.
  44. 1:11Make an offer that people feel stupid
  45. 1:13saying no to. A lot of you might be
  46. 1:15thinking, "Okay, perfect. Let's throw up
  47. 1:1650% off or 90% off and that'll get you
  48. 1:18sales." It probably will, but it's not
  49. 1:20going to last you very long. A lot of
  50. 1:21other people out there are just going to
  51. 1:23test different discount percentages like
  52. 1:2510% off, 20% offers, 30% off. That's not
  53. 1:27offer testing. That is discount testing.
  54. 1:29And that is the biggest reason why
  55. 1:30brands don't break through the ceiling.
  56. 1:32An offer is not necessarily a discount.
  57. 1:36A discount is percent off. An offer is a
  58. 1:38series of benefits and advantages
  59. 1:40[clears throat] that a customer gets
  60. 1:41from buying with you. And so the real
  61. 1:43lift and test comes from testing
  62. 1:45different offers, not discount depths.
  63. 1:47There are three core offers that I want
  64. 1:49to go over today. Now, this blew my mind
  65. 1:52once when I saw this with a client who
  66. 1:53was around the seven figure mark and
  67. 1:55they wanted to get to eight figures as
  68. 1:57fast as possible. All they were doing
  69. 1:58was they were just running a plain
  70. 2:00discount on their product. They're a CPG
  71. 2:02brand and they were just doing, "Hey,
  72. 2:04get an extra 20% off if you subscribe to
  73. 2:06our product." That was boring and that
  74. 2:08does not grab your attention. In the
  75. 2:10days of people scrolling meta and there
  76. 2:12are discounts being thrown everywhere,
  77. 2:13you need to have an offer that actually
  78. 2:15grabs people's attention. That's what
  79. 2:17this brand did. If you subscribed to
  80. 2:19their product, here's what you got. You
  81. 2:20got $10 off, you got three free gifts,
  82. 2:23and you got a $20 gift card of future
  83. 2:26credit that you can use at that store.
  84. 2:27With all the gift value, it essentially
  85. 2:29made the product free and instantly
  86. 2:31their CAC dropped and they were able to
  87. 2:33scale like crazy. And the fact that it
  88. 2:34was subscription means that they got
  89. 2:36higher repeat order rates. So, their LTV
  90. 2:39drive considerably. This brand is now
  91. 2:41one of the fastest growing in the space
  92. 2:42and they are multi-ight figures. So,
  93. 2:44let's break down the first offer type,
  94. 2:46which is the front-loaded subscription
  95. 2:48offer. So, you may have seen that a lot
  96. 2:49of the fastest growing brands like
  97. 2:51Marsmen, IMA, Grunes, and AG1 are all
  98. 2:54subscription brands, and they really try
  99. 2:56to get you to subscribe on that first
  100. 2:57order. Why do you want people to
  101. 2:58subscribe? Well, subscribers repeat
  102. 3:01order at a much higher rate. This is our
  103. 3:02custom analytics platform, and we're
  104. 3:04looking at cohort LTVs of people who are
  105. 3:06subscribers or non-subscribers. If
  106. 3:08somebody is a subscriber, their month 6
  107. 3:09LTV right here is around $226 on
  108. 3:13average. But if we switch to people who
  109. 3:15did not do subscription, on average
  110. 3:17they're worth $138 just at month six
  111. 3:19alone. That's why getting people to
  112. 3:21subscribe on their first order is so
  113. 3:23important. And that's why these brands
  114. 3:24create banger offers around
  115. 3:26subscription. And that does not mean 10%
  116. 3:28off. It means building an actual offer.
  117. 3:30Discount bundle value. And all that goes
  118. 3:33away if you try to one-time purchase.
  119. 3:34The best example of this right now is I
  120. 3:37amate who has been scaling like crazy.
  121. 3:39Take a look at this offer that you get
  122. 3:41if you subscribe to their product. It's
  123. 3:43$91 every single month for this 90-day
  124. 3:46supply. You get exclusive access to a
  125. 3:4790-day IM8 transformation program, which
  126. 3:50is right here, which is a quarterly sort
  127. 3:52of complete mastermind with some of the
  128. 3:54biggest health experts in the space. You
  129. 3:56get a free welcome kit, which you can
  130. 3:58see right here. $100 in value. Look at
  131. 4:00all this stuff right here that the
  132. 4:02customer sees. You get absolute maximum
  133. 4:03savings. So, it's $91 compared to $130
  134. 4:07if you did a onetime order. And you get
  135. 4:08this 90-day money back guarantee. And
  136. 4:10again, you're reminded of all these
  137. 4:11discounts. That is a banger offer. It is
  138. 4:1330% off. So, they're really
  139. 4:14incentivizing 90-day versus 30-day is
  140. 4:1720% off right here. You still get some
  141. 4:19similar stuff. You get a welcome kit of
  142. 4:20€81 in value, but you don't get access
  143. 4:22to this other sort of stuff. That is an
  144. 4:24offer. You think that is going to
  145. 4:26convince people to buy compared to this,
  146. 4:28no offense, but just a regular subscribe
  147. 4:30and save 15% off. This does not grab
  148. 4:32anybody's attention. They're relying
  149. 4:34just on the product. Whereas this will
  150. 4:36get people to convert no matter the
  151. 4:37product because of the value that's been
  152. 4:39stacked in. So how are they able to
  153. 4:40economically make this work? They just
  154. 4:42jack up their prices and then you stack
  155. 4:44up the value. AG1 follows the similar
  156. 4:46playbook right here with subscription
  157. 4:48first. You can see just how low the buy
  158. 4:50once is and it's $99 compared to if you
  159. 4:53do the one month you get all these free
  160. 4:55gifts. $43 value right here and you get
  161. 4:5720% off. Whereas 3month you get even
  162. 5:00more $72 in value right here. There's
  163. 5:02taking items that are low cost for them
  164. 5:04to produce things that help the customer
  165. 5:06experience and bundling it all into one
  166. 5:08and stacking the value and making it
  167. 5:10only available on subscription. Whereas,
  168. 5:12if you do a one-time order, you have to
  169. 5:14pay much more and you don't get any of
  170. 5:16this fun welcome kit. And that's an
  171. 5:17offer that gets you to convert to
  172. 5:19subscription. So, if you are a
  173. 5:20subscription brand, here's exactly what
  174. 5:22I recommend you do. First, we want to
  175. 5:24frontload our discount offer. Instead of
  176. 5:26doing a regular subscribe and save 15%
  177. 5:29on every single order, we want to
  178. 5:31frontload the discount because getting
  179. 5:3315% off on every order does not
  180. 5:35incentivize me to subscribe on my first
  181. 5:37order. People who do one time, only like
  182. 5:3910% of people who place a onetime order
  183. 5:41actually come back and subscribe. So, we
  184. 5:43want to push on the first order. So, we
  185. 5:44want to frontload that first order to
  186. 5:46really incentivize that first order
  187. 5:48place subscription. So, instead, what we
  188. 5:50would do is increase the discount on the
  189. 5:51first order and then decrease the
  190. 5:53recurring. Armra does this really
  191. 5:55aggressively where it's 30% off your
  192. 5:57first order to get you to subscribe.
  193. 5:58Then it's only 5% recurring. A massive
  194. 6:01front-loaded discount just like this. In
  195. 6:03the case of this, what I would recommend
  196. 6:04this brand does is I would do 25% off
  197. 6:07the first month and lead with, hey,
  198. 6:08subscribe and save 25%. And then down
  199. 6:11here, we say, but it's 10% recurring on
  200. 6:13every order. Cuz at that point, we
  201. 6:15already got them and now we're going to
  202. 6:16save on our margins in the long term.
  203. 6:18So, it's actually probably going to make
  204. 6:19us more net margin because we're saving
  205. 6:21on recurring orders. That's the first
  206. 6:23step is give something juicy on the
  207. 6:25initial order just like these brands
  208. 6:27right here do. Step two is adding in
  209. 6:29strategic free gifts. We need to make
  210. 6:31sure these are strategic in things that
  211. 6:33actually contribute to the customer
  212. 6:34experience. We do not want a tote bag.
  213. 6:36Otherwise, this is pointless and the
  214. 6:38customer doesn't really care about it.
  215. 6:39And this is an excellent opportunity to
  216. 6:41actually contribute to the customer
  217. 6:43experience. And this is going to help
  218. 6:44our long-term retention. For example,
  219. 6:46Everyday Dose, they're a coffee brand.
  220. 6:48And they add as free gifts, they add a
  221. 6:50creamer right here that helps with the
  222. 6:52customer experience. They add an
  223. 6:53electric frother, which the customer
  224. 6:55probably would have to buy on
  225. 6:56themselves. And if a customer doesn't
  226. 6:57use a frother, their coffee is not going
  227. 6:59to be nearly as good because it's going
  228. 7:00to be clumpy. So they add this then also
  229. 7:02a gunmetal spoon instead of like a
  230. 7:04plastic one. Just something that feels
  231. 7:06special. And this breath work app as an
  232. 7:08added bonus. This contributes to the
  233. 7:09customer experience and it's going to
  234. 7:10help the consumption and getting people
  235. 7:12to actually use the product and make it
  236. 7:14something fun and exciting. But not only
  237. 7:15that, it adds value because you have $20
  238. 7:18in value here, $65 in value here, $10
  239. 7:20here, and $20 here. Do not offer stupid
  240. 7:22free gifts. Make them actually
  241. 7:24contribute to the customer experience.
  242. 7:25So, taking it a step further with
  243. 7:27subscription, there really like four
  244. 7:28types of subscription offers that you
  245. 7:30can do. Some of them more effective for
  246. 7:31others, and it's going to depend on your
  247. 7:33brand and what [clears throat] is
  248. 7:34perfect for you. So, you have the basic
  249. 7:36recurring discount, like a simple 10 to
  250. 7:3820% off every purchase. Just like
  251. 7:40Newtonic here, it's just subscribe and
  252. 7:41save 15% in Bloom right here. Subscribe
  253. 7:43and save 10%. There's no sort of
  254. 7:45front-loading the discount or anything.
  255. 7:46No free gifts, nothing. And then we have
  256. 7:48a step up is the heavy front-loaded
  257. 7:50discount just like Armra right here,
  258. 7:52which I'd showed before. 30% off first
  259. 7:54order, 5% recurring. This is much more
  260. 7:56enticing and a much better offer to get
  261. 7:58people to subscribe. Same thing as
  262. 7:59Grunes right here. But the best and most
  263. 8:01effective offer here is the welcome kit.
  264. 8:03Giving a discount on recurring orders
  265. 8:05and then also adding these free gift.
  266. 8:08This is what the banger offer is and
  267. 8:09this is why these brands have been able
  268. 8:11to scale so heavily is test these offer
  269. 8:13types. Test these price points, test the
  270. 8:15free gifts, and see what works the best.
  271. 8:17Now, these brands have onetime purchase,
  272. 8:18but the last one you could do is don't
  273. 8:20offer a one-time purchase, and it's
  274. 8:22just, hey, you have to subscribe. Those
  275. 8:24are really the four different ways that
  276. 8:25you could run these offers as a
  277. 8:26subscription brand. But the real banger
  278. 8:28offers come in this welcome kit with
  279. 8:30stacked value, making you feel stupid if
  280. 8:33you say no. Real quick, this is a client
  281. 8:34of ours where we're showing some of the
  282. 8:35retention numbers inside of our custom
  283. 8:37retention analytics platform. And these
  284. 8:38are some of the repeat customer numbers
  285. 8:40that we've been able to do with them
  286. 8:41over this time period. You can see
  287. 8:42repeat customer rate at 40% up from 35%
  288. 8:46and originally 30% from where they were
  289. 8:47when they started with us over a year
  290. 8:49ago. Increase the repeat customer rate
  291. 8:50by 33%. This is inside our custom
  292. 8:53analytics platform called Well TV. You
  293. 8:55can see the different tabs here and what
  294. 8:56we're able to measure for brands and how
  295. 8:57we're able to make strategic decisions
  296. 8:59for you. If you want a completely free
  297. 9:00audit for us to take a look at what your
  298. 9:01retention numbers are like and look at
  299. 9:03these things like the peak conversion
  300. 9:04window, when to get people to repeat
  301. 9:06buy, then book a call with the link in
  302. 9:08the description. We've wor with over 300
  303. 9:09plus brands managing their email SMS and
  304. 9:11retention systems. So, we kind of know
  305. 9:12what we're doing. Back to the video.
  306. 9:13Now, we're going to go with the next
  307. 9:15offer, which isn't necessarily
  308. 9:17subscriptionbased only. This is one that
  309. 9:19we see True Classic execute to
  310. 9:21perfection. They do over $500 million
  311. 9:23selling plain t-shirts. It's all because
  312. 9:26they've mastered the offer in value
  313. 9:28stacking. They have all sorts of
  314. 9:30different offers, but the main one I'm
  315. 9:31going to highlight is the simple bundle
  316. 9:34offer. It's overlooked in a lot of
  317. 9:36cases, but it is the best by far offer
  318. 9:39for fashion and accessory brands. Let's
  319. 9:41break it down. This is their
  320. 9:42breadwinning product right here. It is
  321. 9:44the classic crew neck. And the whole
  322. 9:46reason this works, most clothing brands
  323. 9:48would just have one specific product and
  324. 9:50that's it. They're driving traffic just
  325. 9:52towards that. But people like different
  326. 9:53products in different styles. So why
  327. 9:55don't we sell them as a bundle and stack
  328. 9:58the value? So what they do here in all
  329. 10:00their messaging, they have auto selected
  330. 10:02the six-pack right here. In all their ad
  331. 10:04messaging, they talk about the staple
  332. 10:06six-pack. That is the AOV that they are
  333. 10:08trying to shoot for is this six-pack
  334. 10:10right here at $120. And so they give a
  335. 10:13simple discount. A single right here is
  336. 10:15$35 which you could get. But the
  337. 10:17threepack, you can see the crazy value
  338. 10:19$34. It drops to $23 an item in the
  339. 10:22six-pack which they have auto selected
  340. 10:24and it's treated as the base standard
  341. 10:25right here is down to $20 an item and
  342. 10:28you save $89. Notice how they anchor the
  343. 10:31price towards the singles version right
  344. 10:33here. and they use human psychology to
  345. 10:35select this middle option. They don't
  346. 10:37make six-pack the biggest because most
  347. 10:39people opt towards a middle option. The
  348. 10:41biggest seems too scary, but a middle
  349. 10:43option is much more friendly. And so
  350. 10:45that's what they do right here. And the
  351. 10:47bundle offer absolutely crushes. It's
  352. 10:49simple, easy to follow, and easy to
  353. 10:51execute. Like literally all their ads
  354. 10:53just talk about the six-pack. That's all
  355. 10:55they're pushing. So, I'm going to take
  356. 10:56this even a step further with the bundle
  357. 10:58offer cuz my favorite way to frame this
  358. 11:01offer is by doing a BOGO or a buy 2 get
  359. 11:04one free. And this brand does this
  360. 11:06absolutely perfectly. This is Live
  361. 11:08Fresh, a very fast growing toothpaste
  362. 11:11brand. And they have done crazy offer
  363. 11:13tests right here. And they have used
  364. 11:14this to help scale to 8 n figures. The
  365. 11:17thing is a brand like this might just
  366. 11:18lead with, hey, 33% off. But after
  367. 11:21meticulous testing, we have found out
  368. 11:22that free always works better. people
  369. 11:25just like free. So instead of 33% off
  370. 11:28three products, why don't you just knock
  371. 11:29off 33% of it and say, "Hey, you get
  372. 11:31this one for free." And that's why this
  373. 11:33absolutely crushes for them. The one
  374. 11:35pack is just a simple discount. You can
  375. 11:37do buy two get one free or you can do
  376. 11:38buy three, get two free. That is my
  377. 11:41other favorite offer is offering a free
  378. 11:43item if you can in a bundle because
  379. 11:45people like that much better and I
  380. 11:47consider that part of the bundle deal.
  381. 11:49Now, a lot of people are going to see
  382. 11:50that me talking about bundles and try to
  383. 11:52like create bundles of all sorts of
  384. 11:53different products, and I don't
  385. 11:55necessarily recommend that. For example,
  386. 11:56if you're a supplement brand and you
  387. 11:58sell creatine and protein powder and all
  388. 11:59this sort of stuff, we don't see bundles
  389. 12:01like that perform as well just because
  390. 12:03it's not something that the customer
  391. 12:04particularly wants to do. They might
  392. 12:06only want two of the three items in your
  393. 12:08bundle. That's why I instead push
  394. 12:09bundles of the same product. So, doing
  395. 12:11buy 2 get one free of the same product
  396. 12:13in a different flavor or a different
  397. 12:15color or just more of the same. I also
  398. 12:17want to highlight True Classic and just
  399. 12:19like how much they've mastered the offer
  400. 12:21because they also have their evergreen
  401. 12:23offer, but then they have this flash
  402. 12:24deals page, which I don't know if they
  403. 12:27are actually refreshing this with new
  404. 12:28deals every single day, but they just
  405. 12:30run ads towards this flash deals page.
  406. 12:32And it's like, hey, time to purchase
  407. 12:34right here. And this is how much time it
  408. 12:36is until midnight. And it's custom deals
  409. 12:38right here on like overstocked items or
  410. 12:40anything. And they use 79% claimed right
  411. 12:42here. And it adds a ton of urgency and
  412. 12:44it makes it feel special. And then
  413. 12:45what's funny is under it, they actually
  414. 12:46link their bestseller, the six-pack
  415. 12:48right here, classic crew neck. But I
  416. 12:50think it's just absolutely brilliant to
  417. 12:51have your core offer as your bundles and
  418. 12:53then you have these flash deals on the
  419. 12:54other site. This is because they have
  420. 12:56mastered the offers and they know that
  421. 12:58people buy from offers and so these are
  422. 13:00just big discount. So that's what I
  423. 13:02really want you to focus on for this
  424. 13:03next offer type. Now, let's get to the
  425. 13:04last offer type, which is definitely by
  426. 13:06far the most used, but the most used
  427. 13:09incorrectly, and that is the first order
  428. 13:12simple offer. specifically, usually
  429. 13:14through your pop-up form to get people
  430. 13:15onto your email and SMS list or some
  431. 13:17sort of discount to get somebody to buy.
  432. 13:19But so many brands do this absolutely
  433. 13:21wrong, but the ones who do this right
  434. 13:22absolutely print. So most brands, for
  435. 13:24example, like Ridge right here, just
  436. 13:26don't have any discounts on their
  437. 13:27website. It's just the standard dollars
  438. 13:29right here. And then maybe they'll have
  439. 13:31different sales throughout their website
  440. 13:33here and there throughout the year.
  441. 13:34That's the standard sort of setup that
  442. 13:36most brands run. And that's okay. You
  443. 13:37can execute that correctly, but it is
  444. 13:38going to be really hard to get first
  445. 13:40orders. So, you don't have any discounts
  446. 13:42right here or nothing incentivizing that
  447. 13:44first purchase, which is where we insert
  448. 13:45the first order special offer. However,
  449. 13:47most brands again just throw up a 10%
  450. 13:50off discount and think that's enough.
  451. 13:52Spoiler alert, it's not. I'm going to
  452. 13:53show you just why. And then I'm also
  453. 13:55going to give you a list of different
  454. 13:56offers that you can test and run. This
  455. 13:58was an 8 figureure brand that came to us
  456. 13:59similar to sort of Rigid's setup where
  457. 14:01it's just like they have standard
  458. 14:02dollars on the website. They don't
  459. 14:03really do any like slashed out discounts
  460. 14:05or anything. Pretty standard. and they
  461. 14:07had this regular offer on their website
  462. 14:09of a free gift with your first order.
  463. 14:11That's what the email pop-up form said.
  464. 14:13That's what it said on the website. Hey,
  465. 14:14on your first order, you get a free
  466. 14:16gift. And they've been running that for
  467. 14:17years. And they thought it was great.
  468. 14:18They weren't even struggling or even
  469. 14:20thinking of anything. And they didn't
  470. 14:21even want to change this. But we came
  471. 14:22in, we were like, let's just test this.
  472. 14:24Let's see what happens. Because this is
  473. 14:26one of the biggest levers that you can
  474. 14:27pull on a business is the offer. So, we
  475. 14:29tested our simple offers in the pop-up
  476. 14:31form to the email list to see how it
  477. 14:33turned out. So, you can see it was an
  478. 14:35eightpart offer test right here. We had
  479. 14:37eight different pop-up forms with eight
  480. 14:39different variations of offers. We
  481. 14:40tested free gift versus a different
  482. 14:41percentage amount versus dollar off, a
  483. 14:43different dollar off. We tested cash
  484. 14:45back. We tested a different free gift.
  485. 14:46We tested a bundle. We tested all sorts
  486. 14:48of different things just to see what
  487. 14:50piqued the customer's interest the most.
  488. 14:52And we bolt it down to four and one
  489. 14:54offer completely crushed the others. And
  490. 14:56here, right here, you can see the final
  491. 14:58answers right here. We had the free
  492. 14:59gift, which they had been running for
  493. 15:00forever. We had a mystery discount which
  494. 15:02was actually $25 off. Then we had $25
  495. 15:05off and then we had 10% off. This
  496. 15:07brand's AOV ran from about $250 to $300.
  497. 15:11So $25 turned out to be around like 10%
  498. 15:13value. And we can look at the numbers in
  499. 15:15performance right here. All four
  500. 15:17different pop-up forms with these
  501. 15:18different offers got the same traffic to
  502. 15:20them. The only thing that changed was
  503. 15:22the offer on the pop-up form. And some
  504. 15:24of these got more email addresses and
  505. 15:27then some of these got people to convert
  506. 15:28more. So, you can see the free gift
  507. 15:29offer based on the same traffic as the
  508. 15:31others. It only got 520 people to opt
  509. 15:33in. A pop-up form that said, "Hey, give
  510. 15:35us your email for a free gift." The 10%
  511. 15:37off was low as well. It didn't do as
  512. 15:39good as the free gift. And it got 476
  513. 15:42people, but it got a much higher placed
  514. 15:44order rate. Right here, you can see it
  515. 15:46generated $10.5,000 compared to 4.6.
  516. 15:48Okay, so we got an upgrade there just
  517. 15:50like that. However, you would need to
  518. 15:51look at the gross profit because the
  519. 15:53cost of this was definitely less than
  520. 15:54that. But then we go even further and we
  521. 15:56have the mystery discount and now it
  522. 15:57gets even more people. And then it had a
  523. 15:597.6% placed order rate. So again, we're
  524. 16:01moving up. And the final winner was look
  525. 16:03at $1,800 people opted into this. It had
  526. 16:06three times the amount of opt-ins
  527. 16:08telling people, "Hey, you've got $25 in
  528. 16:10credit." And on top of that, it also had
  529. 16:12a 10.7% placed order rate. So it got
  530. 16:14three times the amount of people to
  531. 16:16enter and then three times the placed
  532. 16:18order rate from 3.3 to 10.7, just a
  533. 16:20simple change in offer. And when you
  534. 16:22break down the gross profit right here
  535. 16:23of what the COGS of the free gift was
  536. 16:25versus $25 off, this absolutely blew it
  537. 16:27out of the water. As a result, the
  538. 16:29welcome sequence right here did $33,000
  539. 16:31in January. In March, it did $210,000.
  540. 16:34And the store was able to increase their
  541. 16:36total store revenue by $200,000. We can
  542. 16:38see the email revenue doubled in this
  543. 16:39period and total store revenue increased
  544. 16:41around $400,000 at that time with no
  545. 16:43other major changes in the business,
  546. 16:45just from a simple offer test. Real
  547. 16:46quick, I want to highlight my school
  548. 16:47community right here. So, this is email
  549. 16:49marketing mastery. All the insights that
  550. 16:51you see right here, I post daily
  551. 16:52insights right here within the community
  552. 16:54and I host live calls twice per week
  553. 16:56right here. I just had my live call
  554. 16:58earlier today answering your questions
  555. 16:59about retention, email, SMS, and offers.
  556. 17:02There's a full course in here. There are
  557. 17:03templates and resources. There is a
  558. 17:04custom clawed skill even to execute your
  559. 17:06email and SMS calendars and so much
  560. 17:09more. There are over 290 people in here
  561. 17:11and I highly recommend you should check
  562. 17:12it out. Link is going to be in the
  563. 17:13description. So, you know,
  564. 17:14[clears throat] we're just giving a
  565. 17:15first order discount and you know the
  566. 17:17leverage that it has. Now, let's go over
  567. 17:18the different offers you can run. There
  568. 17:20are all sorts of fun ones that you can
  569. 17:21do. Now, the main ones are going to be
  570. 17:23dollar off or off and free gift. That
  571. 17:26free gift also entails of like buy 1 get
  572. 17:28one or buy two get one. You could also
  573. 17:30do something fun like cash back. And I
  574. 17:32wouldn't recommend anything else besides
  575. 17:34everything that I just listed. I'm not a
  576. 17:35fan of giveaways. You really get
  577. 17:37lowquality leads and they don't really
  578. 17:38convert. So, I wouldn't recommend that.
  579. 17:40And I don't typically recommend free
  580. 17:41guides because you don't have high
  581. 17:43intent around that. People just buy from
  582. 17:45offers and discounts. So, if you want to
  583. 17:47give yourself the best chance, and I
  584. 17:48highly suggest you build some sort of
  585. 17:49offer around this, that doesn't mean
  586. 17:50slashing your margins. You can jack up
  587. 17:52your price and then discount down to
  588. 17:54your target price that you're going to
  589. 17:55charge. Anyways, that's what I
  590. 17:57recommend. A great place to get
  591. 17:58inspiration on different offers is here
  592. 18:00on Alia's website, aliaops.com.
  593. 18:03They have all sorts of different popups
  594. 18:04with different offers, whether it's
  595. 18:05dollar off, percent off, different
  596. 18:07amounts of percent off, because it
  597. 18:08sounds pretty basic, me saying like
  598. 18:10percent off, but there's so many
  599. 18:11different ways you could do it. You do
  600. 18:1215% off, you could do a random number
  601. 18:14like 18%. I've even seen brands do
  602. 18:16something like 17.5%. One of my
  603. 18:18favorites is the mystery discount. So,
  604. 18:20you can use this for any of your offers.
  605. 18:22Have it be% off, dollar off, or a gift
  606. 18:24or whatever it is and say you've got a
  607. 18:26mystery offer. That mystery really gets
  608. 18:28people enticed to want to opt in. We see
  609. 18:30really good results from that. You could
  610. 18:31have it be exclusive discount. So,
  611. 18:33again, it's hidden. You could frame
  612. 18:34Dollar Off as store credit. That's
  613. 18:36another one. And all this sort of stuff,
  614. 18:38which you can see on their website right
  615. 18:39here. We use Alia for pretty much all of
  616. 18:41our clients. This is the best pop-up
  617. 18:42platform in the game. And so, shout out
  618. 18:44to them. If you do not use them, you
  619. 18:46100% should get on them and use their
  620. 18:49free trial. As far as what I recommend,
  621. 18:50I always recommend with starting with a
  622. 18:52plain percent off versus dollar off. In
  623. 18:54most cases, if your AOV is above $100,
  624. 18:57your dollar off offer is going to
  625. 18:59perform better. But if your AOV is under
  626. 19:01$100, then your 20% off offer is going
  627. 19:03to convert better. Why is that? Say your
  628. 19:05AOV is $50 and you offer people 10% off.
  629. 19:09You're willing to give 10% of margins
  630. 19:11away. Well, that's $5 off. So, really,
  631. 19:14it's just a $5 bill for someone. And
  632. 19:15usually, do you want a $5 bill or do you
  633. 19:17want 10% off? Usually 10 is the higher
  634. 19:20number than five. And so, it sounds
  635. 19:22better and converts better. Whereas, if
  636. 19:24my AOV was $200 and I'm willing to give
  637. 19:26away 10%, then saying 10% versus $20
  638. 19:30off, usually the $20 off sounds a lot
  639. 19:32better. This is usually a really big
  640. 19:33lever that we're able to pull for
  641. 19:34brands, right, when we come in is if
  642. 19:36they're a high AOV brand and they're
  643. 19:38charging a percent off, we just convert
  644. 19:40that to dollar off. it usually works a
  645. 19:42lot better and converts a lot better.
  646. 19:43The other super quick note that I want
  647. 19:45to be sure to highlight is use the offer
  648. 19:47that's already on your website and stack
  649. 19:50that with your first order discount in
  650. 19:51this video right here on my channel. I
  651. 19:53did a live audit with a brand owner and
  652. 19:55this was one of the things that we
  653. 19:57fixed. You should definitely check this
  654. 19:58out. We literally just went through his
  655. 19:59whole business in Clavio. But this was
  656. 20:01one of the big lessons and levers we
  657. 20:02were able to pull. They were pushing
  658. 20:03everybody towards this product of this
  659. 20:05hemp cream and you save 15% off and this
  660. 20:08is on the website just available for
  661. 20:09everybody. What is that 15% though?
  662. 20:11Converted to about $25 and so we are
  663. 20:14giving $25 off and that sounds a lot
  664. 20:17better than 15% off. So in our welcome
  665. 20:19flow we're doing a mystery discount and
  666. 20:21right here it's an extra 10% off but we
  667. 20:24weren't advertising that in the welcome
  668. 20:25flow for them. It was just hey get 10%
  669. 20:27off but they're able to mix that 10% off
  670. 20:29with this 15% off. So the percent offs
  671. 20:32don't sound as good and we were
  672. 20:33advertising 10% off when reality is 10%
  673. 20:36off plus 15% off. So now the messaging
  674. 20:38and the whole entire welcome flow is 25%
  675. 20:40off. Aka, you've got $35 off. What
  676. 20:43sounds better? $35 off. Hey, place an
  677. 20:46order for 10% off. That's why I really
  678. 20:48recommend that you use what's already on
  679. 20:50your website to your advantage. And
  680. 20:51actually, they could take this even a
  681. 20:53step further because there's an extra
  682. 20:5410% right here. So in reality, it is 35%
  683. 20:57off your first order, which is going to
  684. 20:58be like almost $50 off their first
  685. 21:00order. So if I was running this brand, I
  686. 21:02would have a pop-up in a welcome that
  687. 21:03says, "Hey, you've got up to $50 off
  688. 21:05your first order." That's essentially
  689. 21:07what this is because look it, it's
  690. 21:08almost $50 lower and then add the extra
  691. 21:1010% off welcome discount. It's actually
  692. 21:11like $60 off the first order. So, I
  693. 21:13would put that front and center and make
  694. 21:14that the core offer. Make sure you don't
  695. 21:16have conflicting offers with your
  696. 21:18website and then also with your pop-up
  697. 21:19form first order. And make sure you
  698. 21:20combine them so you have the juiciest
  699. 21:22offer available. You want to measure
  700. 21:24your conversions and then also measure
  701. 21:26your 90-day LTV cuz maybe an offer works
  702. 21:28better on the first purchase, but it
  703. 21:30gets repeat purchases really low. So
  704. 21:31when you're doing these offer tests,
  705. 21:33make sure that you are tracking not just
  706. 21:35that first order, but you're looking at
  707. 21:36the downstream effects as well. At my
  708. 21:38agency, WellCopy, we work with over 100
  709. 21:407 to9 figure brands and we do this for
  710. 21:42them. If you want us to do this for you,
  711. 21:44setting up all these tests and
  712. 21:45everything, we could literally have it
  713. 21:46live within a week, then you should book
  714. 21:48a call below because be honest with
  715. 21:49yourself. You watch this video, are you
  716. 21:51actually going to go make this happen?
  717. 21:53Most people probably not because you
  718. 21:54have a million things to do as a
  719. 21:55business owner and things get
  720. 21:56unprioritized and things move around and
  721. 21:58happens. And so you have this on
  722. 21:59your to-do list, but it doesn't end up
  723. 22:01getting happen for months. But this
  724. 22:03could be a massive unlock. And so you
  725. 22:04need somebody to take control of this.
  726. 22:05So if you're interested, click the link
  727. 22:06below to book a call with us. That does
  728. 22:08it for this video. Three different types
  729. 22:09of offers for three different types of
  730. 22:11brands. I hope you got value from it.
  731. 22:12And if you want to see more from me, I
  732. 22:14have a killer video coming up next. This
  733. 22:16is the most valuable welcome flow
  734. 22:17training. So we talked about offers.
  735. 22:19Now, what does your email and SMS
  736. 22:20welcome flow look like? Cuz you need to
  737. 22:22have this in place in order to get
  738. 22:23people to convert. So I'll see you over
  739. 22:24on that next video. Thank you so much
  740. 22:26for watching.

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