The Easiest Way to Make More Money With the Same Audience. Hormozi Hotline | Ep 924

24 Dec 2025 · 24 min

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Podcast Notes: The Game with Alex Hormozi - Episode 982: The Easiest Way to Make More Money With the Same Audience

Welcome to the notes for Episode 982 of The Game with Alex Hormozi. In this episode, Alex shares insights on maximizing revenue from existing audiences and discusses various business strategies through a Q&A format.

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Episode Overview

  • Host: Alex Hormozi
  • Episode Title: The Easiest Way to Make More Money With the Same Audience
  • Format: Q&A session with live callers
  • Main Theme: How to increase income with your current audience through various methods.

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Key Concepts & Strategies

  1. Monetization Options for Media Businesses
  2. Sell More Ad Spots: Outreach to potential advertisers interested in buying media space.
  3. Expand Channel Reach: Increase content visibility to charge more for existing ad spots.
  4. Affiliate Marketing:
  5. Low Risk: Drive traffic to products and earn commissions after sales.
  6. Media Sponsorships: Get paid upfront regardless of sales outcomes.
  7. White Labeling: Partner with existing products to resell under your brand.
  8. Minority Equity Deals: Negotiate stakes in products/services you promote.
  9. Own a Product: Build and sell your own product, maximizing profits but increasing complexity and risk.
  1. Growth Strategies for Influencers
  2. Increase Eyeballs: Focus on creating more engaging content to attract a larger audience.
  3. Direct Engagement: Encourage audience members to DM or book calls directly for consultancy or services.
  4. Call-to-Actions (CTAs):
  5. Utilize multiple platforms (bio, comments, community posts) to make it easy for followers to connect.
  1. Ad Spend and Attribution
  2. Importance of tracking ad performance through proper attribution software to ensure effective spending.
  3. Strategies for dealing with attribution issues, such as asking partners to install tracking pixels.

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Caller Insights and Strategies

Caller 1: Online Fitness Coach

  • Current Situation: Generates leads from YouTube but struggles with conversion.
  • Advice:
  • Improve content quality to attract more leads.
  • Use direct messaging or calendar links to facilitate easier conversions.
  • Focus on personalization and accountability in marketing approaches.

Caller 2: Digital Service Provider (SEO)

  • Current Situation: $18,000/month revenue, underpriced services.
  • Advice:
  • Revamp service offerings to include measurable outcomes (like revenue opportunities).
  • Increase pricing to reflect the value added.
  • Consider a "wave fee" offer where initial fees are waived but require long-term commitment, reducing financial risk for clients.

Caller 3: Beauty Salon Owner

  • Current Situation: Difficulty attracting customers for hair removal services.
  • Advice:
  • Evaluate pricing structure and consider bundles rather than individual sessions.
  • Utilize organic social media marketing (especially Instagram) to showcase results through before-and-after visuals.

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Conclusion In this episode, Alex Hormozi emphasizes the importance of optimizing monetization strategies through better engagement, improved content, and strategic offerings tailored to the audience's needs. By exploring various pathways and embracing calculated risks, businesses can significantly enhance their revenue.

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Key Takeaways

  • Focus on audience engagement and delivering value to maximize opportunities.
  • Use data and analytics to refine marketing strategies and ad spend.
  • Adapt offerings based on market demand and competitor analysis for sustainable growth.

For those looking to scale their businesses, this episode offers a wealth of knowledge and practical strategies to leverage existing resources for increased profitability.

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0:00Hermosi hotline, coming in hot. there we go spicy here's summit if you only need meta ads what would you do uh faster to make 10k only with one type of outreach method well then just use meta ads dude if you're only good at that then just use the thing that you're good at okay loose foot blutos 15 to 20 000 a month youtube business okay a podcast about soccer in spanish awesome dude congrats i've been making the same amount per year i've been focusing on the content and not on the business how can i scale this up Okay, so I'm gonna bet that you probably have, so I actually don't know what your monetization vehicle is.

0:35So I don't know if you're doing sponsorships or if it's ad revenue. I'm gonna guess that it's one of those two things because just the way you described it, you probably, if you were selling something, you probably would have mentioned your product. So I'm gonna assume that you don't have a product and that you were just basically a media business, which there's nothing wrong with that. So if you want to, so think about it like this. There's a couple ways you can grow the business. number one is that you can sell more media spots. That's the easiest thing you could do to grow the business. So that would be like outreach to other people who buy media in your type of business and are willing to buy more ad spots.

1:07That's like thing one. That's gonna be capped though based on the amount of eyeballs and impressions that you're getting. But that would be like the fastest lever. The second thing that would take a little bit longer would be like I'm gonna keep what I have and just gonna expand my channel so I can charge more with the ones that I've got. That'd be the second way. The third way is, and this is a smart cookie way, of doing it is it depends on how much getting in the game you want to be, right? And so when you have a media business like you do, I see this as this big continuum of risk and reward, okay?

1:38So if you want, you know, low risk here and then you've got high risk and potentially higher reward, you're on this side. And I'll walk you through the options that you have besides what I just outlined. So the lowest risk thing that you can do is you can just be an affiliate, which means is that you send traffic and you get paid after the sale. That is the single easiest thing you can do. The next thing you can do is you can do media sponsorships, which is what you're doing. So now you're saying, hey, I wanna get paid no matter what, I don't care what your outcomes are. Oops, I should say ship.

2:09Whatever, you get the idea. Media sponsors. The next level that you can think about is you can do white label, which means that you can go and find a product that you like, you can drop ship it or you can like you're not manufacturing anything like that but you white label it and you put your brand on it and people buy it from your channel the next thing you can do is you can do a minority deal which is where you find an existing product that you like a lot so maybe it's one of your bigger sponsors and say hey i will make this you know more exclusive for me but i want some points of equity i want some sort of royalty or rev share on what i can bring you and so that gives you a nice mix of upside today and upside down the line and you trade some sort of exclusivity with that.

2:52Now, you don't have to do exclusivity, obviously it depends on the size of your brand. But those are things that you could explore. Now the last and most risky but highest reward would be you own 100%, right? So you actually just, you build your own product or service and you have free advertising from your existing media business to go sell that. But I wanna warn you, that's getting into the game. Like you're getting into the business of business. And so these two are significantly easier. This one is pretty easy too. I might flip these. So like one, two, and minority deal, you basically just keep making media and you just change the economics of how you make media.

3:30White labeling and you owning your own thing are you really getting into the game of business. You owning a product that you can sell will for sure be the thing that can get you the most money. It's also a distraction if you don't have the resources. Cool? So hopefully they give you a little bit of outline in terms of how you can think through how to make more with the existing thing you have. But the easiest things here is more eyeballs. If you're already just like, I don't want to change anything, just get more eyeballs, make more media. Or increase sponsors. That would be the easiest, fastest that you could do.

4:06All right, cool. So with that, Hermosi Hotline. Craig, welcome to the show. Welcome to the channel. You guys digging this live stream stuff? I think this is fun. This is so much more fun for them. For increased sponsors. Okay. Craig. Mute me in the back. I'm good. You don't sound like Craig. Oh, I'm Corinne. Corinne. Okay. Rock and roll. Well, Corinne, tell me about the business. Okay, so you're doing$83 ,000 a month, right? I'm an influencer. $83 ,000 a month. Your ad spend is$3 ,000 per month. Got it. You're an influencer. Okay, let's see. GLP1. Okay, so you're doing... Got it. Wait, I'll stop.

4:52Okay, cool. And then your constraint is attribution issue. All right. So you're doing$83 ,000 long. Good for you. Okay. So what's profit on that right now?

5:05So let's see. I'm like nervous. We came to the scaling workshop, and it's not all GLP1, but overall our business let's see a couple months ago was the revenue was 856 and then 389 and then the EBITDA was 544 856 was a few months ago or like last year the last 12 months okay got it i was like girl what happened okay got it so so so you're going up you're at 83 you're at a million dollar run rate fine So what's the issue? So you have your audience, you solicit the audience to go buy GLP One Stuff. Do you have an affiliate? Are you basically acting as an affiliate to somebody else? Correct. I act as an affiliate to lots of different brands.

5:53This is the one that we get paid back on the quickest, so that's why we're trying to run ads. But our ads, Meta thinks that we're not converting because we can't actually hook up to their back end. Word. Okay, so you would need, you just need to add, do you have software for ad attribution? No. Yeah, just literally hook, like this is a one-time setup, it'll probably cost you between, Lewis, what's the range for like ad tracking software cost?

6:27Yeah, it'll be like, call it like on the low side, like maybe 500 to a thousand, and then it kind of tends to scale up with your spend level. So it'll probably be$1 ,000-ish, call it, but sometimes more to get the attribution. So what it'll do is it'll then feed back the data to Facebook so that you can get a conversion mechanism in place and just shorten the loop. But that's like a Google search on YouTube and how to set it up. And most of those are B2B SaaS, so they'll have some sort of concierge that'll do the setup with you, like super solvable. Okay, even if I don't own the GLP One company.

6:58See, that's a little harder. that's a little harder if you don't own the now they still might be willing to install your pixel on their page if you're like a big affiliate for them okay because that's been our eternal struggle since like I would just ask I'd be like hey I want to spend money to advertise your product can you give can you install my pixel on your page a lot of people are willing to do that if you're going to send me money it's like sure go for it okay okay is there any other workaround as an influencer or? Well, let me do, let me give you one more detail on this. You can have them clone the page, right?

7:34So that's not like you're not getting their data or anything like that. So they clone the page and make it Corinne's page, right? So GLP one forward slash Corinne or whatever. And that page is only for you. And then you install only your pixel on that page. That way it's not like you're like using their data or anything like that. So they'll probably be far more likely to be like to, to, to, to do that with you. Okay. Okay. Beyond that though. Yeah. As an influencer. So number one, get the tech stack. Number two, ask the people who you are doing this affiliate stuff if they'll just clone the page and install the pixel there so you can spend more money so you can make them more money.

8:06The next thing, though, a third door. How big is the company that you're dealing with?

8:15How big? They've been in business for a little over a year, but she's been doing telehealth for 10 years. Okay, well, I was going for size of revenue. But what I would suggest, no, you're fine. Don't worry about it. So what I would suggest doing is saying, hey, I'll make ads for you. And my normal affiliate commission, what's your normal commission percentage? For them, 40%. 40, right? So I say, hey, I will do this deal with you where you give me 20 % instead of 40. But I'll make ads for you and you can run them. Okay. And then they're fronting the cash and you get paid 20%. And you'll go back and forth.

8:58There'll be a negotiation. But at the end of the day, it's free money for you. Yeah. I don't know if they'll do that because it's like a direct sales company. So if they do it for one person, they have to do it for everyone. They don't have to do it for everybody. They can say that it's something that they unlock after you do, you know. Hey, if you make us$50 ,000 a month and you have a larger getting following, we'll put money behind ads. Okay. I mean, I would do that as a business owner. Like if you have a massive audience of the types of customers that I have, like sure, like I'll spend the money.

9:25And like the beautiful part for you is that you're going to get your brand more recognized, right? So you're going to get free exposure. You're going to get paid to do it. But it makes sense for them because your ads for sure will decrease CAC by more than 20 % than their standard, whatever ads they have. Okay. Right? So that's door three. Door one is obviously to like just clone the page, get ad tracking set up, and then you can run your ads. That's like, that's the super easy one. okay all right feel like you knew that yes all right rock and roll this was fun let's do this again sometime thank you you bet all right dogs are great okay tashauna i'm an online fitness coach i get my clients from youtube i post one long form in four to five shorts a day by the way excellent framing for this like everyone modeled tashauna how can i scale my business to 10 000 a month i get about five to ten leads a month.

10:17Okay. So I'm going to guess that the content itself is not good enough. Number one, and I don't know anything about you. So I literally just saw a tiny little icon. I'm going to say something that's going to be borderline, borderline. It'll be borderline. All right. So my team can't stop me. All right. Cause this is live to deal with it. So I'll, you know what? I won't make this about you. I'll tell you a story. So friend of mine, obviously come from the fitness world. So I know I do something about this. was in the fitness space and he was listening to all the people and making content and doing the stuff.

10:50And he wasn't as consistent as he should be, but he was doing stuff. And the big issue when I was talking to him, I was like, bro, you don't look in shape. You're not in shape. And so I don't know if that's your situation. Now, you have to look in the mirror quite literally and be like, do I have a body that people aspire to have? and like I told you know this particular individual I said you got to go pro man I was like if you want to be a professional I was like you got to look like this is what you do like full-time like like you going like this is not this is not negotiable and so every business has this type of thing it's like if you're a web design business and you have a terrible website like that sometimes it's the big obvious thing so I'll say number one I would look there number two if you're getting five to ten leads a month and you're making one was it long one long form a day and then four to five shorts a day was that what it was that's a lot that's a lot of content to only have five to ten leads a month so I don't know what your view count is on your videos but you can you probably need to make better content that's like the absolute simplest thing is like you just need to make way better content number one I guess that's number two get in shape number one number two make better content number three you might not be soliciting your audience so one of the easiest things you can do I mentioned this earlier is like you can have people just directly DM you on Instagram.

12:10And if your content is wholly on YouTube, then you need to direct them to a platform where you can more easily have a conversation, right? Conversions happen, conversations. All right. And so I would say send them to a calendar or put a calendar link for people to just book a call straight with you. So I don't know how you're collecting leads, but if it's like an opt-in or something like that, like you can probably just put a straight calendar link on all the places that you make content. So there's five if you're on YouTube. So you've got your profile bio, number one. Number two, you've got your pinned comment underneath of every single one of your videos.

12:46Number three, you have your description, which you wanna make sure that it's the first line with the link with some sort of big reason to why they should click it. Number four is gonna be community posts on YouTube, like you should post your community posts. And number five is you got in video. So a third of the way through a video, you make a quick call to action to whatever it is might be like hey by the way if you like this then you might want to come you know buy more of my stuff or work with me directly whatever it is and I would say if you're in the fitness world then I would make my make my CTAs around personalization and accountability that's the number you know one in two things that people want when they're trying to lose weight is they want to be personalized to them and they want accountability so like what can someone not get from free internet content they're not sure if this is right for them or that it's personalized for their specific needs and they want somebody to call them up and be like, hey, stop being a, stop being, I'm trying to keep this PC.

13:35Stop being a, stop being a, man, I have so many words that are just not good. A rotund individual. Stop being a fatty, all right? They need to hear that, right? That's what they need to hear. I'm not saying that's what you would say, obviously, but they want somebody who's going to hold them down, okay? Okay, so with that being said, let's rock and roll to, let's see if Craig will pick up this time. So Craig, welcome to Mosey Hotline. Hello, Alex. What's up, dude? $18 ,000 a month, right? That's where we're at. 18K per month, ad spend is zero. Okay, got it. Industries digital service, you're SEO.

14:19Got it? Yes, yeah. And you're selling to e-commerce? Yes, we are. Okay. e-commerce brands trying to so basically business is about a year old um and we've got like my best friend is a really good web developer we joined forces started like using his network to get clients so we've done around two or five thousand dollars in the last 12 months proud to say we've never had a client churn but we're kind of like a glorified tech support department so basically what's anyone with a credit card in the pulse what's price point price point and we're basically billing hourly at the moment i'm putting together like an offer funnel and everything so don't do that yeah it's like what's so okay so what are you what are you billing right now on average um like 50 pounds an hour say so like 70 or so right it's just you and I'm trying to...

15:18With one other full-time developer, a few freelancers and everything, so we do offer, like, you know, we do SEO, we do good web development, PPC, some CRO stuff. It's kind of like we need to really rein in on our ideal avatar. I feel a bit silly because you've already shown me what to do. I need to go, maybe my name's get a ton of leads, get our ideal avatar. Well, you do need to change your offer. You do need to change the offer. Yeah, yeah. The offer sucks. For sure. We need an offer. Dude, you're selling to people who are doing$30 ,000 to$100 ,000 a month, right? Yeah, well, that's the target audience.

15:54Some are a bit smaller, but yeah. Well, whatever. I mean, I don't know if you just heard. I had, who did I have on earlier? I had Liz, I think. Liz is doing$600 ,000 a month, doing mini chat automation, and she's selling to e-commerce owners doing$25 ,000 a month. And she's selling$6 ,000 a month. Right, yeah. You're selling like$100 a month. Yeah. Under prices. Yeah. You're wildly underpriced, but we have to tweak the offer and the pricing together. So I would want to say like, can we say like we'll get, we'll, you know, we'll replace 10 % or 20 % of your traffic with SEO within a year and our services are, I don't know, starter$2 ,500,$3 ,500 a month just to like get going.

16:37Yeah. Yeah. I have an offer. I'm starting to pitch on cold outreach. If I can run that by you. Okay. Yeah. So I mean basically SEO industry is like really commoditized by retainers. So I'm trying to just ramp up cold outreach and basically offer people like a free personalized audit as a lead magnet. So I'll show them where their competitors are ranking, where they're ranking and what they're missing out on. I'll give them a personalized loom sort of showing them how to improve. And then we're going to do like a 28-day sprint to basically fully optimize the website as much as we can. Try and get them as many wins as we can in the first 28 days.

17:11I wouldn't use the word audit. For the guarantee. Yeah, I wouldn't use the word audit because I think that sounds boring and not fun. So I would say, like, look at, like, we will find you at least seven revenue opportunities that you can set up within the next 30 days for free. Gotcha. Okay. And then you walk them through it. Yeah, way better. You walk them through it and say, hey, you can do this on your own. Turn it over to, you know, a web company or we'll do it for you. Gotcha. And I was thinking, like, in terms of, like, a guarantee, I was thinking maybe, like, we refund a sort of 25 percent of our cost like our profit margin something like that yeah that's fine yeah it's i'm trying to make it more compelling but i i think seo is a tricky industry to sell right now yeah i mean the thing is it takes time for seo to work yeah well i mean we we can do a lot in in like four weeks and and just show them like initial wins and trying because i'm trying to build the trust because you know everyone's got a million SEO guys in their inbox just like, hey, you know, give me a...

18:15Yeah, Hurt, can you guarantee around rankings? Like, we'll get you in the top 10 or in the first page or something? It is tricky because it's like, we could do everything right, Google changes there are about them, and their site goes down. So I try and pitch it as like, we're going to stack the odds in your favor. But yeah, it's hard to guarantee results, I guess. We could guarantee page speed, but I mean, that's not really the be-all end-all of a business. No. Can you do anything around just traffic, not necessarily ranks?

18:48I mean, potentially. Yeah, I mean, I like the seven revenue. If I'm just keeping it simple, I think seven revenue opportunities, we're going to unlock these things. This is our price. You don't have to worry about guarantee or anything like that for now. Gotcha. Okay, so just like one time kind of lead magnet. Here you go. And hopefully from there, book a call. Maybe go into like the sprint. yeah I mean I would say like here's what it is we can implement this in your business do you want to simple in your business great and so if you want have you read the money models book yeah yeah yeah I would use a wave fee offer for you okay so for everyone who's watching online I'll on this so a wave fee offer is the last offer I think in the continuity section and so when you have a business that like takes time for someone to get started you do an AB and you say, hey, option one, you keep flexibility, right?

19:43And so you say, hey, it's$25 ,000 and then it's$5 ,000 a month after that. Or I'll waive the 25 and it's$5 ,000 a month, but you gotta stick for a year because it takes time for the SEO to work. And the good news is that if we haven't made progress within the 90 days, you can get out. That would be my second outdoor. Cool? You don't feel like you're giving it. But in 90 days, if we haven't, like you know what to insert here, but if we have an X within 90 days, then we'll let you out of the contract. So instead of the guarantees that we can let you out of the contract without having to pay the wave fee exit.

20:18But if we hit our thing, then you got to pay that to get out because that would have been the flexibility price. Okay, gotcha. Cool. That makes a lot of sense. I appreciate it, yeah. Okay. Cool. All right. And just to take a second, I just, I always thought if we ever spoke, I just want to thank you for everything that you and Trevor have done into drilling everything down into a way that we can all understand. Because, yeah, when it's like, when I'm overwhelmed and I'm overthinking, it really helps so much to be reminded of the equation at the end of the day. Well, I'm happy to hear it, man. Yeah, thank you, man.

20:49You're awesome. All right, all you. All right. All right, see ya. For everyone online, talking about page 153 inside the, not offer, excuse me, money models book. All right, so this is the last part of the continuity offers. That's the weight fee structure I was just talking about. Okay. Let's do, let's get kooky with it. Okay, Andre File. Okay, so I run an AI cold email. Okay, so just give me one that I can, you can pause it somewhere so I can read it.

21:20Pause it anywhere just so I can read it. Okay, hold on. Just so someone pauses. Thank you. Okay, so why, okay, let's do, I have a beauty salon. Okay, Albus Tube. I have a beauty salon in Romania. Most money come in for permanent hair removal. The rest of people pay me rent. How can I scale it? Okay, permanent hair removal. Oh, Jesus, I was thinking like, I was thinking like, I was like, who is paying for this? Body hair, got it. Okay, how can I scale it? I find it difficult to get customers and my costs are high. Okay. Most money, Okay, most, the rest of the people favor it. Okay, got it. So, I mean, I'm going to guess that you're, I'm not sure if you're running ads.

22:09You might be mispriced. But usually, like, this is something that I call pseudo-medical, which is one of my favorite spaces to be in because you have so much pricing power. So I don't know the rules in Romania. I don't know if they're, like, super tough to do pseudo-medical-type procedures there. And I probably won't try and translate U.S. prices to you guys. But, like, I'm guessing, I'll just do a relative. so the cost of a generic haircut here is probably somewhere the limit of like$75 if it's like the commoditized haircut price and the cost of laser hair removal for a package we'll call it like six to eight will usually be like$2 ,500 and so maybe you can make that appropriate difference and so if you're looking at your price points compared to like your hair stuff that you do compared to your removal stuff that might give you an idea of maybe that you're mispriced within Romania secondarily I think this is a super visual in terms of the nature of what you sell in terms of before and afters and so I think organic Instagram for sure will be like monster for you and given how small Romania is I think that that actually might work pretty well so I would go organic first with before and afters that's like easy to do Google AdSense would be the second thing in terms of speed well Google AdSense will be faster than than than posting and then the Third is that I would run meta ads.

23:23That would be my like three pronged approach. It's like, we probably have to change the price. You probably need to sell bundles, not sessions. You need to make sure that you're priced appropriately and then give it all of that. Then we use those three marketing charges. Cool. All right.

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