Abraham's offer prompt lands where Nowoslawski's 5x test did
Two posts from the same week point at the offer line rather than the subject line.
Nick Abraham published an offer building framework for cold email that puts the offer, not the subject line, at the top of the test order. His rule, credited to Leadbird, is blunt. The offer decides whether anyone replies, and you test offers and industries before you touch subject lines.
the offer decides whether anyone replies. test offers and industries before you touch subject lines.
That lands on the same spot as Eric Nowoslawski's test from earlier in the week. Nowoslawski says "Free campaign" returned one positive reply per 1,000 and "Two meetings on your calendar, free" returned one per 200, on the same service his team fulfils. Five times the replies for naming the result instead of the deliverable.
What the two posts actually agree on
Nowoslawski points at a framework he attributes to @seanlongden for finding that line. Take your 10 most recent wins and average the outcome you created for them, then write as close to that as you can. His own read on why the first version failed is that he got lost in what he thought buyers would find interesting.
Abraham's version runs through Hormozi's value equation, where value is dream outcome times perceived likelihood of achievement, divided by time delay times effort and sacrifice. The build steps say to name the dream outcome in the buyer's words, like "booked jobs" or "signed clients", and that "growth" is too vague. The rest of his list covers the free front end, one industry per email, risk reversal such as pay per result, and a small permission ask. He says "want me to send it over?" beats "can we book 30 minutes?". The post is written to be pasted into an agent, which then interviews you about what you sell, the industry, your best client result and what you can afford to give away free.
For people sending
Both of these are agency offers aimed at agency buyers, and one of them is a single operator's result on his own service rather than a dataset. The transferable part is narrow. The lift came from naming a countable outcome, which only works if you have a countable outcome to name. Abraham's own guardrail covers the rest of it. If the promise sounds too good to be true, add proof or shrink the promise.
He says to take your 10 most recent wins and average the outcome you created for them.
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