How to Create Your Product Ladder with Chris Lema artwork
The Recognized Authority

How to Create Your Product Ladder with Chris Lema

  • S1E55
  • 45:11
  • March 7th 2022

As consultants, we often think about having a single core offer - usually a high ticket offering. But it's not always a good fit for a lot of our potential clients, and there are some clients who are willing to pay more to get more. So how should we approach creating a product or services ladder?

In this episode, Chris Lema and Alastair McDermott discuss how to think about product ladders, including the three key offers you can include in your ladder.

They also discuss how content marketing is about telling a story, how to use frameworks to tell that story, and how Chris got it wrong about mattresses! 


“Different people need different products, even when they're all saying "I need a hotel" or "I need a car". As service practitioners, who have high ticket offers, we act like everybody is the same. Do you have a "more for more" offer for people who want more? Do you have a "less for less" offer? You deliver less, they pay less.” -- Chris Lema


“All content marketing is about helping someone progress from A to B. But in order to get them over the hump of inactivity, to willing to do something, you have to tell them a story.” -- Chris Lema


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