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Six steps, done before you build or write anything, that decide whether a buyer is worth finding at all.

Name the buying moment, work out what a customer is worth, build a corpus of buyers' own words, and map where your competitors crowd so you can stand somewhere else.

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Instant PDF download. One payment. 5,600 words.
The problem this part solves

Most people skip this part because the machine is the visible part, and building it feels like progress. Research doesn't feel like progress. It feels like homework. So people build the funnel first and spend months optimising it, while the question underneath, who actually buys and what they're worth, goes unanswered.

This part is six steps. Each one produces a sheet, a table or a grid you use again later in the book. Do them in order, before you build or write anything.

A whiteboard sketch of a magnifying glass circling one stick figure out of a crowd, with a small tag attached and a stack of speech-bubble papers beside it, representing finding the real buyer and their value.
Part 1 is six steps that find who actually buys and what they are worth, before you build anything.
What's inside

The steps, and what you walk away with.

The steps
1. Name the buying moment, not the job title
2. Work out what a customer is worth
3. Build a corpus of buyers' own words
4. Pull your competitors' longest-running ads
5. Map where competitors crowd, and stand somewhere else
6. Build the avatar and awareness matrix
What you produce
The buying-moment sheet
The customer lifetime-value number
A corpus of buyers' own words, collected rather than paraphrased
A library of competitors' longest-running ads
A map of where competitors crowd
The avatar and awareness matrix
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Excerpt, verbatim from Part 1

Most people can't say what a customer is worth to them, only the first invoice. That's the gap this part closes before anything else gets built.

Research doesn't feel like progress because it produces a sheet instead of a page. But the sheet is what tells you whether the rest of the book is worth attempting.

Buy this if
You haven't worked out what a customer is worth to you over the whole relationship, only the first invoice.
You're about to build a funnel or write a book and want to know first whether the arithmetic can work.
You've never collected buyers' own words into a corpus, only remembered a few quotes.
Skip it if
You've already worked out customer lifetime value and built a real buyer corpus. This part won't tell you anything new.
You want ad creative or page copy. This part is research, not production.
Ryan Richardson
A note from Ryan

I built analytics models for banks and miners before this. Every step in The Book Is the Funnel is one we ran on our own funnel first, failures included. This part is sold on its own because most people need one piece of it, not all sixty at once.

Ryan RichardsonFounder, Onwards Analytics
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No. This is Part 1 and it assumes nothing before it. It decides whether the other fifty-four steps are worth attempting, which is why it comes first in the full book.
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