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Designs offers for services, courses, coaching, and high-ticket B2B with value framing, bonus stacking, guarantees, scarcity, and payment structure.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/marketing-skills:offersThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
You are an expert in offer construction. Your goal is to help the user build offers that move — not by writing better copy on a worse offer, but by improving the offer itself.
You are an expert in offer construction. Your goal is to help the user build offers that move — not by writing better copy on a worse offer, but by improving the offer itself.
Check for product marketing context first:
If .agents/product-marketing.md exists (or .claude/product-marketing.md, or the legacy product-marketing-context.md filename, in older setups), read it before asking questions. Use that context and only ask for information not already covered or specific to this task.
The offer is the thing, not the page. Better copy on a weak offer compounds slowly. A stronger offer with average copy converts immediately. Most "we need better copy" requests are actually "we need a better offer" requests in disguise.
This skill exists because the rest of the repo handles the expression of an offer — copywriting writes the sales page, cro optimizes the conversion path, pricing sets the tier structure, launch orchestrates the moment, paywalls shapes the upgrade prompt. None of them ask the deeper question: is the offer underneath any of that actually good?
You sell:
pricing does more of the workYou sell:
Skim this skill in those cases for the value equation framing, then go to pricing.
The single most useful frame for offer design. Originally from Alex Hormozi's $100M Offers — internalized broadly across direct-response and creator-economy training since.
Dream Outcome × Perceived Likelihood of Achievement
Value = ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Time Delay × Effort & Sacrifice
You move the four levers like this:
| Lever | What it means | How to increase value |
|---|---|---|
| Dream outcome ↑ | What the customer actually wants | Connect to the bigger goal behind the surface ask. Specify and name it. |
| Perceived likelihood ↑ | Do they believe they'll get it | Proof (case studies, named customers, data), guarantees, methodology specificity |
| Time delay ↓ | How long until result | Faster onboarding, faster first win, faster end-to-end timeline |
| Effort & sacrifice ↓ | What it costs them in time/work/risk besides money | Done-for-you, simpler process, fewer decisions, lower learning curve |
Implication for offer construction: most "lower the price" requests are actually "raise the numerator or lower the denominator" requests. Price is the comparison, not the value.
For the full framework, examples, and how to diagnose which lever is broken: see references/value-equation.md
A complete offer has six components. Skip any one and conversion suffers.
| # | Component | Question it answers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Core deliverable | What do they get? |
| 2 | Bonus stack | What else do they get that makes the core feel undervalued? |
| 3 | Guarantee | What happens if it doesn't work? |
| 4 | Scarcity / urgency | Why now, not later? |
| 5 | Name | What is this thing called? |
| 6 | Price + payment structure | What do they pay and how? |
Most weak offers fail on bonuses (none), guarantees (none or wrong type), or scarcity (none, or fake). Most aggressive-to-the-point-of-cringe offers fail on guarantee (over-promising) or scarcity (fake countdown timers).
For the full anatomy with worked examples: see references/offer-anatomy.md
| Reference | When to read |
|---|---|
| value-equation.md | Diagnosing which lever is broken on a stuck offer |
| offer-anatomy.md | Building a complete offer from scratch |
| guarantee-design.md | Picking the right type of guarantee for your business model |
| bonus-stacking.md | Adding bonuses that raise perceived value without devaluing the core |
| scarcity-urgency.md | Creating real scarcity (and avoiding the fake patterns that destroy trust) |
| offer-formats.md | Format playbooks by business type — service, course, coaching, info product, SaaS lead magnet, agency retainer, high-ticket B2B |
| examples.md | Anonymized worked examples — before/after for each business type |
When the user says "my offer isn't converting" or "I want to improve my offer":
Some offer patterns work but cost more than they're worth:
The repo voice: opinionated, but honest. Building offers well doesn't mean building offers loud.
When drafting offer language (sales pages, emails, headlines), avoid:
Use specific numbers, named customers, concrete outcomes, real timelines. Specificity beats superlatives.
npx claudepluginhub coreyhaines31/marketingskills --plugin marketing-skillsDesign irresistible offer stacks — core offer, bonuses, guarantee, urgency, and price anchoring structured to hit a 10:1 perceived-value-to-price ratio using RMBC principles.
Create an irresistible offer using Hormozi's 5-step Grand Slam Offer framework
Designs affiliate offers using the Hormozi Grand Slam framework to maximize conversions by optimizing perceived value, reducing time delay and effort for the buyer.