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The Book Is the Funnel · Part 2 · $4.95

Nine steps that turn who buys and what they're worth into an actual offer, before anyone writes a word.

Generate twelve offers with a pipeline instead of picking the one you already liked, score them against a rubric you wrote before looking, then build the ladder and decide the lead magnet and back end.

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Instant PDF download. One payment. 8,900 words.
The problem this part solves

The first three steps in this part stop you picking the offer you already liked before you've compared it to anything. The next three are the arithmetic that says whether the thing can pay for itself. The last three decide what the ladder looks like and where it points.

Two numbers carry over from Part 1: your customer's lifetime value and your buyer-to-customer rate. Step 11 reworks the second one fresh here if you don't have Part 1.

A whiteboard sketch of a funnel narrowing twelve small boxes down through a checkmark gate into one box on a three-step ladder, representing many offers scored down to one priced ladder.
Part 2 turns twelve generated offers into one scored, priced ladder.
What's inside

The steps, and what you walk away with.

The steps
7. Generate twelve offers with a pipeline, not one by instinct
8. Score every offer against a rubric you wrote before looking
9. Test the survivors on a blind panel before spending
10. Design the ladder so each rung removes effort, with no overlap
11. Compute revenue per buyer
12. Make the front end pay for the ads
13. Sell the small thing first, build it after it sells
14. Choose the lead magnet: what is free and what costs five dollars
15. Decide the back-end offer before writing anything
What you produce
Twelve generated offers, scored against a pre-written rubric
A blind-panel result on the surviving offers
A priced product ladder with no overlap between rungs
Revenue-per-buyer arithmetic
A decided lead magnet and back-end offer
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Excerpt, verbatim from Part 2

The offer you already liked is the one you're least equipped to judge. You picked it before you compared it to anything.

A rubric written before you look at the offers, and a blind panel on the survivors, both do the comparing for you.

Buy this if
You have a buyer's worth and a corpus of their words, and need to turn that into a priced ladder.
You're choosing between several product ideas and want a rubric instead of a gut call.
You haven't decided your lead magnet or back-end offer yet.
Skip it if
You already have a scored, tested offer ladder in place. This part won't tell you anything new.
You want ad creative or page copy, not offer design.
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
Before you buy

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Do I need the rest of the book?
Not strictly. Step 11 reworks the buyer-to-customer number fresh if you don't have Part 1, but the rest assumes you already know roughly who buys. Part 1 makes that faster.
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