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Are You Selling Expert Words Or Real Problems?

Subscriber Episode Jenny Melrose: Business Strategist Episode 230

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You don’t need a genius new idea to create a sellable offer, you need to pay attention to what you already repeat. When customers keep asking you the same question, that’s not noise, it’s demand. We walk through how to spot those patterns and turn them into a clear product or service offer that solves a real problem and feels obvious to buy.

Then we get practical about marketing: the fastest way to be ignored is to describe your work in insider language. If your audience doesn’t use your professional terms, they won’t search them, click them, or trust them. We share how to translate expertise into the words people actually type, focusing on symptoms and lived experience, what it looks like, what it feels like, and what they hope will change. This simple shift improves your content marketing, your SEO, and the quality of leads you attract.

Finally, we tackle the opt-in and lead magnet strategy that connects everything. Your freebie should not deliver the entire how. It should create a meaningful mindset shift by clarifying why the problem matters and why your paid solution is the path forward. If your lead magnet overteaches, you can accidentally give away the transformation and remove the reason to buy. By aligning your opt-in with your offer and using a clean sales sequence, you set up a warmer audience and a stronger launch.

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If I was a business owner today and I was routinely getting asked the same question, having to teach the same thing, having to repeat the same thing to multiple people throughout the day or even within a week, that is where I would start with an offer. I would start with understanding that if people are routinely asking me the same thing over and over again, there's a need for it. They need that solution that I am providing through that education. So that is where I would start. So that once I have that offer, I can then go to look to see how I'm going to make it so that people can find it. People will have a solution from that offer. Now, with this, it's important that as you are creating the content for the offer, that you're making sure that people are interacting with it, are using the language that they use. One of the biggest mistakes I see of business owners is they will often use their own language for what it is that they are offering. And what I mean by this is if I was a teacher, I might use teacher words. I might start writing things as if I expect them to know literacy language and educational language. Or if I was a therapist, I might be using words like coercive control or hypervigilance, words that are very specific to the background, to what it is, to the niche that you are in, that only the educators are going to know those words. The terms that people are going to use in order to look up that, how to fix that is what it feels and looks like, the symptoms, okay? So I need you to start when you're creating content to think about what are people searching for symptom-wise? What does it look like? What does it feel like? So hypervigilance, course of control. What does that look like? What does it feel like? What are they looking for on how to fix it so that you can create the content that they are going to be able to find? Now, once I start to be able to create that content, start to build an audience, I have to make sure that I am offering an opt-in that's in line with the offer that I am providing. And remember, that opt-in, that lead magnet that you are giving them is supposed to be the why. It's not supposed to be the how. The what you want your opt-in to show them why they need to fix this problem so that your sales sequence then shows them how your product or offer is going to solve that solution. That is what's most important. And I think one of the biggest mistakes that I see because a lot of people will create a lead magnet that overteaches. It goes way over the top, so much more than what is necessary. And because of that, people feel like they're already starting to see a huge transformation for themselves. So that why would they need the paid offer? You want them to have a transformation, but you want the transformation to be mindset. You want it to be why they start to understand they need the product or service. Not that they're able to fix the offer to fix the problem. That is what the offer is there for. So as you are starting to try to figure out do I have a product? Is this the right offer? These are the things that you need to start thinking about and putting into order. Because as you do this, you are going to be more likely to earn from that launch of the product or service. Because as you continue to warm them up and engage them to the fact that you can solve this problem for them, the more likely they are going to want it. Now, if you haven't already grabbed our 30 minute guide to a launch, you're going to want to make sure that you do that. It's going to be in the show notes. And you also are going to want to make sure that if you are ready for the full solution of how to launch from beginning to end, to make sure that you check out launch to profit. We're also going to link to that.