What Actually Gets People To Buy

Our reading notes on Alex Hormozi

• How to Price a Service Business So It Actually Makes Money | Ep 1002

  In a conversation about an event service, Hormozi asks how the team separately prices work such as sponsor and vendor management. He proposes a worksheet that turns answers about the scope into a quote. It gives the person preparing a proposal a way to show which responsibility changed the price.

• Alex Hormozi: How to Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No

  About 37 minutes into this conversation, Hormozi uses an agency with a finite onboarding team to explain a credible limit on new work. A buyer can act on the actual next opening. The seller needs to check the schedule before attaching a deadline to the offer.

• I Offered $10,000 to Anyone Who Could Change My Mind | Ep 1013

  Hormozi invites entrepreneurs to challenge rules he has offered publicly. The chapter at 5:23 concerns which customers to sell to. Another, at 24:16, asks how much a founder should stake on one decision. The debate format gives the challenger a concrete job: find a situation in which following the rule produces a poor result.