Module 2: Packaging Your Offer
Turn your expertise into something buyable: the three offer types, the one-problem-one-promise rule, and the offer math that tells you which path fits your audience.
The three offer types
Every audience monetization offer is one of three types. Services (done-for-you): you do the work — social media management, ghostwriting, consulting. Price band: $1,000–$5,000+ per month or project. Pros: high revenue per client, fast to start. Cons: your time is the ceiling. Cohorts (done-with-you): you guide a group through a program over weeks — 4 to 8 weeks is the sweet spot. Price band: $300–$2,000 per seat. Pros: leveraged time, community sells itself. Cons: needs enough audience to fill seats. Digital products (do-it-yourself): courses, templates, playbooks. Price band: $49–$497. Pros: infinite scale, no calendar. Cons: low price needs volume, and volume needs a big warm audience.
Start with services. They need the smallest audience — five clients at $2,000/month is $10,000/month, and you can find five clients in DMs. Cohorts come second, once you have proof and a few hundred engaged followers. Products come last, when your audience is large enough that 1–2% conversion at $99 moves the needle. Sell your time first, then your system, then your knowledge — in that order.
Each type also teaches you the next: services reveal exactly what clients struggle with (your cohort curriculum), and cohorts reveal which lessons land hardest (your product content). Nothing is wasted.
Build brief
Which of the three offer types fits you right now — service, cohort, or product? Write why, and what your version would be called.
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One problem, one promise
An offer is not a list of features — it is a promise about a specific problem. "Social media coaching" is not an offer; nobody wakes up wanting coaching. "I write your LinkedIn posts for 30 days so you get inbound leads without posting yourself" is an offer: one problem (no time to post), one promise (30 days of posts, inbound leads), one price.
Name it like a product, not a service. "The 30-Day Authority Sprint" beats "consulting package." A name makes it feel real, repeatable, and referable — clients can tell a friend "you need the Authority Sprint" in a way they cannot with "my coach." Then write the one-pager: the problem it solves, who it is for (and not for), what is included, what is not included, the timeline, the price, and the next step.
The "not for" line is doing quiet heavy lifting — it pre-qualifies buyers and makes the right ones feel seen. Vague offers attract vague interest; specific offers attract buyers. If you cannot explain your offer in two sentences, it is not ready to sell.
Build brief
Write your offer one-pager: name, the one problem, the one promise, who it is for AND not for, what is included, timeline, and price. Two sentences max for the promise.
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The offer math
Before you launch, do the math backwards from your income goal. Want $5,000/month? The paths: 2 service clients at $2,500. Or 10 cohort seats at $500. Or 50 digital products at $100. Or a mix: 1 client at $2,500 + 5 cohort seats at $500 = $5,000. Write all three paths down — seeing the numbers makes the goal concrete instead of aspirational.
Now sanity-check each path against your audience. The 2-client path needs maybe 20 warm conversations — doable with a few hundred engaged followers. The 10-seat cohort needs roughly 500–1,000 engaged followers at typical 1–2% conversion. The 50-product path needs thousands. Pick the path your current audience can actually support, not the one that sounds best. You can climb paths as the audience grows.
Add the time cost honestly. Two clients at 5 hours/week each is 40 hours a month for $5,000 — $125/hour effective. Ten cohort seats at 3 hours/week for 6 weeks is 18 hours per cohort run for $5,000 — $277/hour effective. The math tells you which offer to build first and which to graduate to.
At a glance
Four paths to $5,000 a month
Build brief
Do your offer math: pick a monthly income goal, then write the 3 paths (clients / cohort / product) with the exact buyer counts and prices. Which path fits your audience today?
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Priya has 400 engaged followers and wants $4,000/month. She is choosing between a $99 ebook and a $2,000/month service. Which fits her audience?
Your turn: Write your full offer one-pager: name, one problem, one promise (2 sentences), for/not-for, included/not-included, timeline, price, and next step. Then write your 3-path offer math below it.
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Your next 24 hours
Name your offer and write the two-sentence promise. Post the name and promise in your own notes — if you cannot say it in two sentences, simplify until you can.
Steal this template
THE OFFER ONE-PAGER
Offer name: ___
The one problem: ___
The one promise (2 sentences): ___
For: ___ / NOT for: ___
Included: ___
NOT included: ___
Timeline: ___
Price: $___
Next step: ___
Module 2 cheat sheet
- Three offer types: services ($1k–$5k+), cohorts ($300–$2k/seat), products ($49–$497).
- Start with services — smallest audience needed, fastest to revenue.
- One problem, one promise, one price. Vague offers attract vague interest.
- Name it like a product: 'The 30-Day Authority Sprint' beats 'consulting.'
- Do the math backwards: $5k/mo = 2 clients at $2,500, or 10 seats at $500, or 50 products at $100.
- Pick the path your current audience can support — climb later.