BONUS: From Cold Leads To Clients: A Simple Offer Funnel For Solo Consultants

We unpack a simple offer path that moves buyers from cold to ready by matching their awareness at each step. Lead magnets clarify symptoms, active generators reveal solutions, micro offers create quick wins, pop-up offers validate demand, and milestone-based main offers sell with less friction.

• purpose of a lead magnet as list builder for cold audiences
• matching messaging to symptom-level awareness
• using active lead generators to demonstrate solutions
• deploying micro offers for single-outcome wins
• validating new services with pop-up offers
• building main offers as milestones to reduce objections
• linking each step with clear next actions

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Chapters

• 1:06 Why Lead Magnets Exist
• 2:49 Match Offers To Buyer Awareness
• 4:59 Active Generators, Micro Offers, Gateways
• 5:57 Validate With Pop-Up Offers
• 6:33 Build Main Offers As Milestones
• 7:21 Next Steps And Booking The Blueprint

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:34

Welcome to TinyMarketing Podcast. I'm Sarah No L Block. This show is made for solo consultants who want to get booked out without burning out. If you've ever thought, I just want this to feel easier, you're not alone. Around here, we focus on simple, sustainable growth that actually fits into your life so growth feels doable instead of overwhelming. Hello, hello. I'm Sarah Nawablock, and today is a bonus episode for you. Because yesterday we had our consultant's mastermind, and a question came up that I've been seeing a lot lately. It's also come up inside my DMs inside of the Booked Out in Six program. And I wanted to address it, and I just so happened to have done a workshop called Pop-Up Offers, How to Validate Your Offer and Get Fast Cash. And in it, I just went on a little tangent where I talked about the offer structure and where lead magnets fall into that, and active lead generators and microoffers. And that really answers a question that so many of you have. So that is the goal of a lead magnet. One, you're getting cold leads. So it's super, super rare to be able to convert cold leads immediately. The goal of a lead magnet is to get people on your list so you can nurture them. So those are the people that you're sending emails to. Those are the people that you want to connect with on LinkedIn. So one, get that in your mind. Lead magnets bring in cold leads. They take time to nurture before they convert. I've had people on my list for years before they convert to a client when they come in cold. So there's that. And the second thing that I want to really emphasize about a lead magnet is you have to meet your prospects where they're at. That early in the process, in the sales process, all they're feeling are the symptoms of their challenge. They might not even know what problem is causing those symptoms. They just know how they feel. So your lead magnet should address that. It should help them understand their problem, and that is its sole job. From there, you're nurturing and you're moving them through the rest of the offer funnel based off of stages and problem awareness. So that is what this clip is about. If you want to watch the video because there's a little graphic that goes with it, go to YouTube or go to Spotify. And let me know in the comments wherever you're listening to this if you have any questions that came up from this. Thank you. So lead magnets. Where do lead magnets fit in? It brings in cold leads and it helps prospects understand their problem. So a lot of people they don't make lead magnets like that, but that is how you should be making lead magnets. It should help them understand their problem and it's a list builder. So these would be the coldest prospects coming in through lead magnets. Active lead generators bring in warm leads. Quick recap of what an active lead generator is. It is usually like a time-sensitive lead generator, like a workshop or a webinar or a challenge that needs to be completed in a set amount of time. So it should help prospects understand the solution to their problems. That's the purpose of an active lead generator. A micro offer brings in hot leads. So they are almost ready to work with you. And it should help them achieve one goal. So an example of a micro offer would be like this, like a paid workshop. A gateway offer brings in fire leads. They are ready to buy. And it helps them choose a path to the best solution. What offer would make the most sense from your service of offers? Now let's just insert pop-up offers here. Because it's something I invented after making many mistakes. So a pop-up offer validates your main offer idea, it provides quick cash and it does it fast. So this should happen before you develop the main offer. If you are considering adding on a new offer that would be longer term, do the pop-up offer first because this will save you a lot of time and money to validate if people actually want it. And then at the bottom, you have your main offer. This main offer solves the problem your ideal customer is going through. So it provides the desired transformation they need. And I recommend breaking it down into milestones so you have an easier selling path. Usually, when you sell the entire transformation, it's a little bit harder to sell all of that. So instead of that, I recommend you break it down into milestones so they're achieving one goal. You're closing that loop. And then accomplishing that one goal opens up a new loop. So then you have to sell that next one. So that's an easier way to sell if you're getting hit with objections on cost or time. Which I've I've seen a lot this year. If this episode made things feel a little more doable, I'd love to help you take the next step with the booked out blueprint. It's a practical, low pressure session to clarify your offers, your marketing, and what actually moves the needle. You can book yours through the link in the show notes. You don't have to figure it out alone.