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Alex Hormozi shares targeted scaling advice across businesses: optimize webinar funnels with qualified buyer data and paid workshops; boost ad spend, creative volume, and LTV via upsells for fitness coaching and mobile IV drips; reduce SaaS churn through hands-on onboarding and ICP targeting; refine hiring with referral bounties and recruiter negotiations; and pivot agency models to premium US markets with AI content. He urges escaping the "doom cycle" of constant pivoting by pushing through informed pessimism to informed optimism via consistent execution, emphasizing depth over shiny objects. Key principles include prioritizing qualified conversions, fixing back-end LTV before scaling spend, segmenting ICPs for low churn, and compounding through relentless consistency.
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Highest quality signal for buyers is average buy-in amount for the games they play. Add as field: name, phone number, email, average buy-in. Do not DQ people who don't qualify; collect data.
Use different thank you pages: buy and qualified, buy and not qualified, don't buy. Train Facebook pixel on qualified audience.
Changes:
- Switch from free webinar to paid workshop ($99, expand 90 minutes to 3 hours, deliver true value).
- Add buy-in to intake form to optimize ads around qualified leads.
- Track true conversion percentage on qualified leads (care more about qualified conversions than overall webinar conversions).
Example: If 50% of qualified close, it's a banger webinar; otherwise traffic issue. Predict revenue based on qualified attendees.
Juice the $99 offer: give away a ton, make it absurd.
Congrats on getting from two to four million... next time hopefully over ten million a month.
Business: Standard and Low Standards, transformational online coaching for men bottlenecked by body. 150k MRR, goal 15M MRR in 3 years (100x). Thousands of transformations, 100+ pro athletes. Demand constrained.
Main offer: $15k PIF all-inclusive telemed + 1:1 coaching. ~10 sales/month.
Funnel: Meta ads → VSL → application → sales kick (financial qualify) → SDR manual touch points → 1-sale close. Implementing double dial funnel system.
Past metrics (daily ad spend $1300): CAC $3500, AOV ~$12k upfront cash, ROAS 5.4, Rev ROAS 7.8 (inconsistent: 3 bad weeks, 1 good week). Used WAP payment processors, BNPL financing.
Ads: Chris (cultural/top), founder (middle funnel salesy), VSL shared.
Advice:
- Spend too low ($1300/day) causes volatility (1 sale every 3 days feels lumpy).
- Increase daily spend to at least CAC ($3500-3600/day) for 1 customer/day.
- Creative volume too low: 5 new/week each (10 total). Need 100/week baseline (blend statics/videos). Produce 20-30 videos/hour with iPhone + teleprompter app (reuse hooks, tweak meat/background). Use Chris images for statics.
- Context: At 100x spend ($100k/day), produce 250 new ads/day (1750/week).
- CTR 0.8% low (esp. with Chris's brand).
- New offer: 'Get abs in a year or 3 months free coaching' ($15k includes telemed). Believable (norm: 2.5% body fat loss every 4 weeks; 45% to 10% in year possible).
- Optimize pixel on application thank you pages: qualified vs unqualified (higher volume signal than closes).
To 100x in half time: Focus on volume, creative, spend.
Vantage: Community for $1M+ business owners. $1000/month (cheapest believable price; max revenue at $5k/month). Verify income for quality.
ACQ AI: Trained on 500+ of Alex's private consultations + 3-4k team consults (20-page deep dives). Advanced small business AI.
Solo operator, 12-hour days, 4 clients (realtors/home improvement in Slovenia), 3k MRR total. Made 30k last 12 months. Goal: 30k net/month. Baby on way.
Services: Facebook ads, content, appointment booking. Educational content (fixed revenue), lead gen. 15-25% revenue share.
Attract clients: Cold calling (same 4 clients 6 months).
Advice:
- Mismatched pricing vs delivery; charge more.
- Switch to US market (stronger dollar; charge 10x: $1500-3k/client). Same skills (content + ads).
- Make own content: Teach everything to run real estate/home improvement marketing (automations, AI). Hold nothing back.
- Record in Slovenian, AI translate voice + English captions (no accent).
- Content about making their content.
- Post on FB/IG/TikTok (duplicate effort minimal). US + Slovenian pages.
- MiniChat automation: CTA in first line/video; DM new followers ('free stuff or grow real estate?'). Implementing for organic.
- Lead magnet: '100 days of content in 100 minutes'.
- Focus realtors only (more than enough; drop home improvement).
- Keep current clients as cash flow.
US content: Adapt concepts (e.g., Texas laws for selling houses).
$3.3M/year, goal $10M/year. 150 new subs/week, lose 100/week. Off-season decline risk.
Funnel: No CC signup → onboarding checklist (videos/steps: activate, product tours, first video/photo edit).
Price: $60/month basic, $360/year (push annuals; 40-50% take it).
Activations: 50% first video in 7 days, 10% first photo edit. Correlates to retention.
Advice:
- Segment data: Channel, avatar (e.g., houses sold/year), actions (video/edit).
- Hands-on group Zoom onboarding: 2/day (morning/night), auto-book on signup (text/call/email). 20 min/session. Brother handles one.
- Watch over shoulder, remove friction, increase buy-in.
- Route data to front-end targeting.
- Billing: Align with value cycle (quarterly if 1 house/quarter; test annual-only).
- Keep monthly for fast feedback/churn signal; solve monthly churn first, then push annual.
- Don't scale until fixed (cut churn 2/3 → 3x business).
- Booking flow: Next step post-signup = book onboarding (2 slots/day with real person).
60-70 hour weeks, non-stop phone, not present at home (3rd baby). Profit 22% (~$400-600k/year net).
Hired Director of Operations (month 2, huge relief). Need secondary role under him ($150k) to manage 13 field safety pros across 4 states (phone/email/text volume).
Hiring: Referrals, job sites, LinkedIn/Indeed.
Field guys: Avg $70k cost, $200k gross profit each.
New role: ~$250k revenue ($100k gross profit?).
Advice:
- Referral program tweak: $500 → $10k+ total ($1k upfront, $9k at 90 days). 10-20% of gross profit. ROI positive vs recruiting firms.
- Repeatable roles (field safety): Build system like CAC/CAT (cost to acquire talent), lifetime gross profit/employee. Ads → opt-in → VSL (why company awesome) → group call → select.
- One-off roles (specialized): 10+ contingency recruiters at once.
Example: Scaled sales team 0-80 in 90 days (gassed ads/funnels, 15 recruiters at $5k/head negotiated).
They had a standard fee of 10. We said we'll get 80, so do it for five and we'll take as many as we can. They agreed, got 15 recruiters, hired 80 guys, kept 50. Within 90 days, doing 5 million a month in extra sales. It's a numbers game—one or two not working is expected, like working one or two leads and not finding a customer. Reframe around treating it like a lead, hunting new business, hunting new talent. It's a bow tie: demand gen funnels and supply gen funnels—need both to scale service business. Everyone misses the backside.
Jonathan, 10-month-old baby, new house, mortgage equals one-time income (6k/month), can't quit 9-5 ER nurse job. Business doesn't get enough leads. Need to solve to turn around family fate—daycare 1500/month soon. Mobile IV drips company at 360k/year, goal 1M/year. Issue: not enough leads, struggling with Google ads targeting best customers. Google CAC 278, blended CAC 83, average LTV 454. Working on SEO, tried Meta ads briefly, following advice to hammer one channel to 100k spend first.
No CAC issue—could get Google to 150 locally, but unlock is LTV problem. Offer commoditized, everyone 50% off. Risks speed: if not within 1-1.5 hours, go to next. Upsell packages: 3-drip (1000), 6-drip (1500-2000). Fine with 278 CAC if targeting right avatar for 6-pack sales upfront. Currently 10% take upsell.
Upsell script: "Have you ever been able to get a drip when hungover or sick? How about a 6-drip package—prevent getting sick, free add-on VIP priority booking (everyone expects), 20% off total." Hook: "Want today for free?" Explain credit today's drip to recurring package—effectively free. 90% drip usage for feeling better, not just hangovers. Reframe to "internal gym" at microbiome level—stay ahead like chiropractor or gym. When feeling good, feel amazing. People stop, miss energy from no caffeine needed. Shift from pathology/emergency (survive) to thrive business—flip emergency to ongoing.
SEO/PPC low work once running. Focus back-end sales process. Break one-channel rule: run Meta ads for thrive mode customers (feel better, not emergency). Inbound high-intent emergency solution; Meta interruption for long-haul buyers who wake up feeling off, not planning IV drip.
30% off 6-packs pulls cash upfront but reduces margin. Inbound price-shopped; interruption not—they pay 30% premium. Tweak offer, add widget. Ethically two prices. Prefer memberships over packs for MRR, but prepay first period for cash (e.g., 6 months, then month-to-month).
Target with messaging, not geo-targeting. Take testimonial video from every customer—each makes an ad. Ad messaging for thrive customer. Front-end whatever, pitch flips to membership: "Want today free? That's what most do." Transition packs to membership, prepay first quarter (start 12, downsell 6, 3). Emergency business = LTV problem. Get better front-end customers, pair offer on back-end. Then pricing power—bundle e.g., float tank in van for IVs while floating. No comparison. Add thrive elements to feel better, increase pricing with social brand.
SEO/PPC great start—PPC least work, hottest leads. Meta leads colder. Don't hold back Google spend despite high CAC—treat business as experiment to nail model. Marketing for reps to practice offer/sales to membership. Objective: nail, then scale massively. Reframe: broke even? Not goal—nail first.
24yo, IVF treatments expensive, partner pregnant—9-month clock to solve constraints for money/presence with kids. Sell DFY content/ads to door-to-door/life insurance salesmen. 1M/year, goal 10M. Churn 17%/month—too downmarket.
Helping attract salespeople to grow teams. Higher-earner guys getting recruits work best. Issue: recruits not trained, don't make money. ICP: 800k+ personal commissions + downline, ~30-person sales team, training system (qualifiers: 750k+, training system, 10+ team).
Pricing: two packages, 3-4k/month (same buying bucket). Good ICPs churn low (stay >1 year vs. others 3 months). CAC incl. sales commission 2100. Only 6/40 customers ICP.
Short-term: 5-6k/quarter for minnows (price drop, more runway/commitment, cash flow). Long-term: all messaging to ICP avatar—qualifies everyone (e.g., million+ owners still get sub-million apps). Pricing: minnows 1.5k/month or 5k/quarter; whales 5k/month (nothing for them, they buy/stay). Future: 5-10k/month (750k min, triples income via salespeople—not big deal).
Leads: paid ads + organic content. ICP small for content? Normal—top avatars skim money (9% own business, 5% of that >1M = 0.5% people, but huge money). Watch 51-1-1 rule video: 100 circles wealth distro—50% have $2, 40% $25, 9% $36, 1% $32. Tiny % = huge money.
All funnel/offer for ICP. Minnows fine—lower price, slower billing, include training build (or provide one). Long-term: segment ICP/non-ICP churn—target sub-3%/month for ICP, then scale. For 1.5k tier: do less (fewer content pieces), use AI/automate delivery for higher margins (e.g., 20 YouTube vids/day with 1 guy). Change delivery model—old model sets low pricing/costs.
Summary: Change avatar (750k+, training, 10+ sales guys). Split pricing minnows/whales. Match messaging. Segment churn. Change delivery for margins.
How do you stop constantly pivoting before execution when each new idea seems more rational than the last one? You're stuck in analysis and can't commit.
You're running on the doom cycle: start with uninformed optimism (see new idea, get excited: "holy shit, this looks awesome"). Then learn more, enter informed pessimism ("oh no, this isn't as easy as I thought, I'm not going to become a millionaire overnight"). Drop into the valley of despair, then chase another shiny object, repeating the cycle.
The only way out is push through the valley of despair to reach informed optimism, leading to achievement.
You're cycling because the current thing sucks once you learn about it, then a new exciting unknown appears. CFO Suzanne Shifflett said: "Alex, in all my years, all I can tell you is everything's got shit. All businesses have problems. The grass is so green on the other side because it's fertilized with manure."
Every business that feels easy signals you don't know enough yet. Last year (maybe 2024) was the first in Alex's career without much shiny object syndrome; it plagued him for the first 13 years.
A friend made $50 million in crypto in a quarter, but Alex thought: "I have no idea how that works. I'm glad he spends all his time doing it. I've got my own thing."
Compounding insight: Your Year 1 in a new opportunity equals Year 4 in the old one. Even if growth is faster, compare to Year 5 of the old. Mr. Panda (neighbor, owns Panda Express) started 45 years ago as a "China man" making a Chinese chicken shack. Despite skepticism, he's now a decabillionaire by perfecting chicken. Raising Cane's has seven ingredients, keeps it simple to scale by eliminating complexity.
You gain depth with surface area of exposure—see the ridges and texture. Push past where it no longer makes sense; that's where everyone quits.
Belief: If someone else can do it, they're made from the same flesh and blood. You can model them exactly and get the same results; do twice or three times as much to beat them on a long enough timeline.
If struggling, stick with it.
AI implementation is a recommended business. Should you learn to code or skip basics and go all-in on Claude?
See this as "happy to glads" (hearsay from Anthropic): None have hands-on keyboard; they manage 20-50 agents doing coding, focusing on project management and code review to ship fast.
Skip coding chunk now. AI is the first product that teaches you: ask "how do I use you? What do I do now?"
Don't fixate on vehicle. Start with problem: What customer? What problem? Solve it. Elon Musk story: Wanting to learn code is like explaining a wrench without context. Better: Open engine hood ("need a wrench")—tool gains purpose and reinforcement.
Start with business owner problem, solve it, learn tools contextually.
One leadership move Layla (wife) does better than anyone, quietly adopted: Give more kudos.
Used to think "if you didn't hear from me, everything's fine," training team to extinct good behavior. Now dramatically increased regular kudos.
Layla's book on this topic upcoming—initial draft read, "quite savage."
Best way to target enterprise clients (e.g., making 3D images for off-plan developments targeting developers—few, huge clients)?
Go where the fish are (trade shows, conferences, COI—centers of influence). Developers use specific law firms; get them to refer you.
At that level, use less scalable methods due to gates to decision-makers: Need internal or trusted champions for recommendations.
Alternatives: Build big brand as thought leader (long-term) or aggressively increase outreach, trade shows, affiliates (e.g., architects) working with those customers to bolt on services.
Works in finance, son + baby #2 coming, side business, gym, family. Passed CFA Level 1, considering Level 2 in August—but mostly ego.
If clear ROI (time to study vs. permanent income unlock), it's a straight trade-off. Loves short- and long-term investments, especially career path payoffs: "Give me these six months, I'll do all of this for the rest of our lives." Fair trade.
If had to build business today with no audience, no capital, only 90 days: Work. No one's willing to work.
Hardest unseen thing: consistency. Only witnessed by being consistent yourself. One 1.5-hour workout isn't impressive; doing it 20 straight years is.
Success is in longevity/patience of consistency: Do the same thing daily without immediate reward. Few do it, so fruits await. Simple but hard—100 daily reasons not to, one future reason to. Convince yourself it's worth it.
Skill: meta learning (learning about learning). 23, making content, no team/support. "On a deserted island, can't speak, blind, need money."
Smells like victim mentality ("woe is me, no support"). Congratulations—you start like everyone else who made it. Vast majority of millionaires self-made (80% in America); even inheritors need skills to keep it.
Quit job at 22, started business at 23—knows the spot. Made commitment: Make it work or die. As long as food fuels, keep going.
Divorce from make-believe standards you're inventing, holding yourself to, deeming insufficient. Gain freedom: Do whatever it takes for however long.
Rate of success correlates to learning rate. Learn faster by doing more.
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