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The $100 MBA Show - Episode MBA2652: How to Build a High-Profit Offer in 24 Hours
Episode Overview In this episode, Omar Zenhom presents a step-by-step guide on how to create and sell a high-profit offer within 24 hours, even starting from scratch. He emphasizes the importance of solving urgent problems and provides practical strategies for pitching offers without needing sophisticated tools or technology.
Key Concepts
What Makes an Offer High-Profit?
- High Perceived Value
- Solves urgent or frustrating problems.
- The more pressing the problem, the easier it is to sell the solution.
- High Margins
- There should be a significant difference between the cost of creating the offer and the selling price.
- High margins enable reinvestment into marketing and scaling.
- High Leverage Potential
- The offer should be scalable through systems and automation.
Examples of High-Profit Offers
- A service that helps business owners convert leads into sales.
- A coaching program that promises a specific transformation.
- Short workshops that teach actionable skills quickly.
24-Hour Plan to Create an Offer
Hour 1
Brainstorm Result
- Focus on painful problems you can help solve using your skills.
- Shift from "What’s my passion?" to "What urgent problem can I solve?"
Hours 2-4
Validate Your Idea
- Use the Five-Line Offer Framework:
- Who is it for? - Define your target audience.
- What’s their problem? - Be specific about the pain point.
- What they'll get? - Define the specific result.
- How? - Describe your method or approach.
- Why now? - Provide urgency to encourage prompt action.
Hours 5-7
Price it for Profit
- Determine pricing based on the outcome's value rather than time spent.
- Examples of pricing tiers:
- $100: Low-risk lead magnet.
- $300-$1,000: Short consulting services.
- $1,500+: Comprehensive solutions.
Hours 8-10
Build a Simple Landing Page
- Use free tools like Google Docs, Notion, or Canva.
- Include essential elements:
- Clear offer headline.
- Description of who it's for and what they're struggling with.
- Deliverables and transformation details.
- Pricing and a clear call-to-action.
Hours 11-18
Outreach
- Message 20 potential customers directly.
- People to contact include past clients, followers, and community leaders.
- Suggested outreach script:
- "Hey [Name], I’m launching a new offer that helps [target customer] go from [pain] to [result]. Want me to send you the details?"
Hours 18-24
Wait for Responses
- Focus on securing your first sale.
- Deliver exceptional value to customers to encourage testimonials and feedback.
Key Takeaways
- Action Over Perfection: You don’t need a polished product or extensive marketing to start selling. Begin with clarity and a well-defined offer.
- Make More Offers: The more offers you present, the better your chances of making sales and refining your approach.
- Confidence Through Validation: Early sales validate your business idea and help build confidence.
Conclusion Omar stresses the feasibility of going from idea to first sale in just 24 hours. The episode inspires listeners to act quickly and leverage their unique skills to create valuable offerings, regardless of their current resources or audience size.
Call to Action Listeners are encouraged to subscribe to the podcast for more actionable business lessons to help them grow and scale their own businesses.
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Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:28Let me ask you something. sales before anything was built. I'm going to show you step by step. So let's get into it.
0:40Welcome back to the$100 MBA show. I'm your host Omar Zinhome, where I deliver practical business lessons three times a week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to help you start, grow, and scale your business. First, to build a high profit offer fast, you have to understand what makes it high profit. It's not about fancy branding or tech. It's about solving a painful problem for someone willing to pay for the fastest, clear solution. So here's the criteria I believe makes a high profit offer very powerful. Number one, high perceived value. It solves something urgent or frustrating. The more urgent, the more frustrating this problem is, the higher the perceived value will be, which makes it easier to sell.
1:28Number two, high margins. You want a large difference between the cost to fulfill the offer and the amount of money you make from the offer, right? The price of the offer. The bigger the margins, the better, because when you have high margins, you have enough money to reinvest in your offer to market it and sell more of your offer. This makes it a marketing flywheel where you continue to grow and make more money. Number three, you want a high leverage potential offer, meaning it can be scaled later with systems, with automation, with digital delivery. You want to be able to do this at a faster, higher scale.
2:07Let me give you some examples. Let's say you have a service that solves a nightmare bottleneck for business owners. Like maybe they have plenty of leads, but they don't know how to close these leads and make them into sales. or you have a coaching offer that gets someone a clear transformation. They know what they're going to get, what transformation, who they're going to be by the end of the coaching program or something simple like a 90-minute workshop that gets a skill across. For example, you can teach in 90 minutes how to script a keynote speech. So if somebody is doing a speech soon, they know how to script it at least in 90 minutes after that 90-minute workshop.
2:46It doesn't have to be perfect, but it has to be valuable and clear. In fact, the more valuable, the more in demand of what you have to offer, the less perfect it has to be. It doesn't have to be polished. For example, I ran at an event, a founder's retreat called OzCon in Australia for several years. The first year I ran it, it was so basic. I didn't even have any marketing material. I had a very basic landing page just to show what's included and what's going to happen at this event. and I just send out some emails and some DMs to people I think that would be interested in this event, in this few days together up in the slopes of Parashur in Australia.
3:26I sold all the spots to this event before I put in one dime of my money to pay for this event. The whole presentation of this idea was very rough. It was just emails. I was sending emails and direct messages on Messenger. It was pretty unpolished. It was very kind of unprofessional in a lot of ways, but because the event itself was high value, people really wanted to go to this event. This was really fun and interesting and something that was unique in the marketplace. So it was so easy to get a yes, despite the fact that I didn't have like a super polished website or marketing materials or beautiful photography, anything like that.
4:03Next, let's talk about how to create this offer in 24 hours like we promised. Here's your full 24-hour plan. Your first hour, hour one, you're going to brainstorm a specific result you can help someone get. Forget asking, what's my passion? What niche should I pick? Or what is a brilliant idea? Forget this. Forget all these things of searching for ideas. Ask this instead. What is a painful or expensive problem I can help someone solve using my skills, my experience, or my knowledge? Some quick examples. You can help busy executives launch a podcast in 30 days. Another example, I can help coaches get 10 leads in seven days using organic content.
4:50Another example, you can help creators set up automated sales funnels without using ads. Or with my event, OzCon, like I mentioned earlier, have a fun weekend with founders just like you and go home with a new perspective. See how I'm just talking about the result, what they're going to get at the end of this experience. Be specific, be outcome-driven, and make it fast so that they know that, hey, this is what's gonna happen in this time period. So in my case of the event, over the weekend or over three or four days. Next, hour two through four, you're gonna validate the idea with a five-line offer framework.
5:31Number one, who is it for? This is for specific person. Get as specific as possible. Number two, the problem that they have. Who's struggling with what's the pain or problem, right? Get really specific about what they're struggling with. Number three, what they'll get. I help them get specific result. What's that specific result that you are going to get them at the end of your experience? Number four, how? You're going to be using a method, a framework, an approach. People want to have an understanding of how you're going to get there. So going back to the example of OzCon, the event I ran, you know, me, interesting fellow founders here in Australia.
6:14How? Well, we're going to do fun activities together. We're going to go skiing. We're going to have delicious dinners together. That's how we're going to pull this off. And number five, why now? Very important. Why should they do this now? So they can finally turn their leads into sales. so they can finally have an automated sales funnel that operates and works for their business while they sleep. So they can finally meet like-minded people here in their local area. You get it. Let me give you a cohesive offer example with all five elements. This is for online coaches who are struggling to consistently get leads.
6:52I help them book 10 plus qualified calls every month using organic video content so they can finally stop relying on referrals and start growing predictably. If that sounds clear and painful to your target, you're good to go. Remember, you want to make sure you're addressing a painful problem and your solution, how you're going to pull it off, is clear to them. Hours five through seven, one of my favorite steps. Price it for profit. Use this rule. Charge based on outcome, not time. If the result is worth$5 ,000 to the customer, $1 ,000 price tag is a no-brainer. Super simple for them to say yes.
7:33So do you need a quick sanity check? Let me give you some prices here. $100 offer is a low risk sort of lead magnet, entry level product. $300 to$1 ,000, short form consulting or a personalized service. $1 ,500 plus a full solution or deep transformation. Now remember, you want to anchor the price with clarity. So say, for example, your solution is$5 ,000, but it's going to save them$2 ,000 a month. That's pretty good. That's$24 ,000 a year. So no brainer,$5 ,000. Cool. Another example, this gets you from X to Y in 10 days. Hour 8 to 10, build a one-page landing page or sales document. You got no website?
8:18No problem. Use Google Docs. Use Notion. Use Tally Forms. use ConvertKit's free landing page builder use Canva's got a website builder that's free what you should include on this page a clear headline and the transformation that you offer who's it for and what they're struggling with and of course what they're going to get the deliverables and the transformation the results here are some things I would also include why you you want proof you want a personal story you want testimonies you want some sort of experience that you had. Also, don't forget to put the price and how to buy or book a call, a call to action, a bun.
8:58I know that sounds obvious, but some people kind of missed this part. How do the person actually buy what you're offering? As you can see, no fluff, just clarity, crystal clear clarity. Next, hours 11 through 18, I want you to message 20 people manually. I've done this several times and this works tremendously well. You don't need ads or automation. You really just need conversations. You want to message people. What kind of people? People that you've helped before, they have a relationship with. People that follow you. People you've engaged with or they've engaged with your content. People who run communities or newsletter who have reach.
9:36Here's a quick script. Don't overthink it. Just use what I'm going to give you right now. Hey, so-and-so, I'm launching a new offer that helps, insert ideal customer, go from pain, whatever pain that is, to result, whatever that result is. I thought of you. Want me to send you the details? That simple, okay? You may want to rewind what I just said right now and listen to that again and take notes. Super simple. Don't overthink it. Just start talking to human beings because that's how business is done. You're also going to learn a ton through these conversations about how to improve your offering, what resistance people have, why they wouldn't buy, all kinds of things like that.
10:16Hours 18 to 24, okay? You've sent out your messages. Now you just kind of wait and get your first yes, right? You don't need 100 customers. You just need one person to see yes to prove that this works. And when you do get your customer or customers, you want to make sure you deliver like your life depends on it. You want to make sure that you over-deliver, that you knock their socks off. Why? Because they're going to be able to give you a testimonial And they're going to also help you refine your offer with some feedback. Now, I'm going to give you the magic formula to making more sales. Okay, I want you to lean in.
10:49Keep this between us. All right, keep it a secret. If you want more sales, make more offers. It's that simple. It's a numbers game. I know that you'll heal a million excuses in your head right now. Oh, you know, that's not how it works. In my experience of over 20 years of entrepreneurship, the more offers I make, If I reach out to five people, it's a whole lot different when I reach out to 10 versus 15 versus 20 versus 30 versus 50 versus 100. Automatically, by making more offers, one, it's a numbers game. It's a ratio. You're going to make more sales. Number two, you're going to get better at making the offer.
11:26The more tries you have, the more practice you have of making the offer. And number three, of course, when you make more offers, you are top of mind. They may not buy now, but they might buy later. But if you never offered it to them, they're not going to know that you have something to offer. You're not going to know that you have a solution to their problem. So now you have proof, you have cash, you have confidence, you're in business. If you didn't know, I ran a software company for 10 years called Webinar Ninja. We grew it to over 30 ,000 users and we got acquired last year actually by ProProfs.
11:57It was a life-changing exit for me. And Nicole and I, my founder, are so proud of that journey. but it all started with us pre-selling Webinar Ninja back in 2014. Yep, we pre-sold that software. We didn't even write a line of code yet for the actual commercial software. We made up a simple landing page with mock-ups of what the tool would look like, and I explained the problem of what it would solve, of hosting and automating webinars without tech headaches. You know, we targeted author speakers, coaches, creators. These people are usually solopreneurs or have small teams. they don't have like a whole crew that can run the webinar for them.
12:35They need to do it themselves. We've sold 250 beta spots before writing a single line of code, like I mentioned. That gave us the capital to build a product, but it gave us also the confidence that people wanted what we were offering. And we had clear messaging and positioning already built in because of that pre-sell period. And you can do the same with your offer. I'm not teaching you something that I haven't tried myself and know it works. You don't need 10 ,000 followers. I didn't have 10 ,000 followers when I started it. I had a very small email list of less than 500 people. You just need clarity and you need the courage to just pull this off in 24 hours.
13:14I just want to make sure I'm super clear as I wrap up. You don't need to build a funnel. You don't need to be famous. You don't even need a website. You just need a solution to a problem that helps someone and the courage to offer it clearly. People don't buy your credentials. They buy your ability to help them win. Stop waiting. Stop trying to perfect everything. Launch the offer. Serve someone, even just one person, and make your first sale. 24 hours is all it takes to go from stuck to in business. Trust me, that's how it works. You go from zero to one by just committing to it for the next 24 hours to make this happen.
13:53Thank you so much for listening to subscribing, to being part of our community, being a part of this podcast. If you've made it this far in the episode, it tells me you are a winner, right? You're somebody that wants to learn, wants to grow, wants to invest in themselves, is looking to become a better person every single day. You're my kind of person. Love it. Thank you so much for being here. If you found today's episode helpful and you want more practical business lessons to help you start, grow, and scale your business, the best thing you could do is subscribe to this podcast. hit subscribe or follow on your favorite podcast app the one that you're using right now whether it's apple or spotify or ever you listen to podcasts by hitting subscribe you get our next episode automatically and it's the best way to support the show it's absolutely free and it's a way for you to commit to growing your business and now that you've subscribed i'll check you in the next episode
14:56Thank you.
From the publisher
What would you do if you landed in a brand-new city with nothing but your phone? No website, no product, no audience—just 24 hours to make your first dollar. Think it's impossible? Think again.
In this lesson, Omar breaks down exactly how to build and pitch a profitable offer from scratch—fast. You’ll find out how to spot an urgent problem, craft a solution on the fly, and start selling without any fancy tools or tech. It’s a no-fluff, step-by-step approach you can actually follow—even if you’re starting with zero.
Curious how it’s done? Tap that play button at the top of this page and get ready to take action—your first sale could be closer than you think.
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