prepared for
One month, fixed scope. We settle the offer and the avatar, then build the minimum funnel needed to turn the attention you already have into booked meetings.
Three decisions came out of Tuesday, and they change what needs building.
$2M to $5M accounting firms, two to five partners. Not sole traders, not bookkeepers. Your own point stands: you have been marketing to sole traders using million-dollar-firm numbers, and your site's case studies sit at $1.4M to $1.7M, which is why a $2.6M firm questioned whether you were built for them.
Free Fee Gap Report, then a $97 to $297 micro-offer, then the $15k+ engagement. The report replaces the 45-minute diagnostic, which is the piece that has not been converting.
97% turn over under $100k and 80% charge below $100 an hour. Easier to win, but you cannot charge $15k into that market. Revisit later as a feeder, not a target.
One month. Two halves.
The offer, the avatar and the messaging. This is the part that decides whether anything else works, and it is where most of the value sits.
The build required to actually take money and book meetings. Not a rebuild of everything. Your words: “just the basics, that's all I really need because I will get leads from that.”
You said you want to move quickly. This is built to have the funnel taking real requests by week three, not at the end.
Offer architecture, avatar spec, messaging direction.
Fee Gap Report template, intake form, landing page live.
Automation spine, booking flow, pipeline, tracking.
End-to-end test, first reports out, Goldie handover, next-phase plan.
Being explicit so there are no surprises.
| Not in this month | Why |
|---|---|
| The $97 to $297 micro-offer build | You said yourself the content is a couple of weeks of your work. We spec it this month, build it next. |
| Paid ads | Nothing gets paid traffic until the funnel converts organically. Your list and LinkedIn are the test. |
| Website rebuild off GHL | GHL has real limitations and we will hit them once traffic is genuinely up. Not a month-one problem. |
| Dashboards and lead scoring | Needs volume before it means anything. |
| Community group | Good idea, later phase. |
| Content and video production | You are shooting these. I will direct what they need to say. |
We both raised this on the call, so here it is properly.
On your numbers that is $1,500 on a $15,000 engagement, out of revenue that did not exist before. As I said on the call, I would rather a new client paid for this than you did.
You charge $5,000 a month for coaching. This is one month of me, at exactly what one month of you costs.
If this month produces a single $15k engagement, it has paid for itself three times over. If it produces the appointment-a-week you asked for, the arithmetic stops being interesting.
To hit the four weeks, these matter more than anything.
Deliberately not quoted here, so you can decide this month on its own merits.
None of that is worth doing until this month proves the offer lands. That is the whole reason it is sequenced this way.
Both documents, formatted for print. The roadmap is the longer strategic piece behind this quote.