Tiny Offers: How Low-Ticket Offers Can Accelerate Your Growth

Are you tired of giving away free content that doesn’t convert? Do you want to attract buyers instead of freebie seekers?

Discover how to create high-converting tiny offers—low-ticket digital products designed to build an audience of engaged buyers and generate consistent revenue.

Why Tiny Offers Help Marketers, Coaches, and Service Providers

A tiny offer is “a small, irresistible digital product, usually between $7 and $47 for B2C audiences, focused on providing a solution to one very specific problem.” The offer fixes one single pain point for your buyer, creating a quick win for your audience.

By solving a specific problem rapidly, tiny offers transform the traditional marketing funnel. Instead of giving away free content, hoping people will eventually buy, you're immediately building a list of customers who have invested in your expertise.

As Allie Bjerk notes, “People who pay pay attention.” When someone purchases even a low-ticket item, they're more likely to consume the content, implement the solution, and experience results from your teaching.

The traditional marketing model assumes you need extensive time for people to know, like, and trust you. Tiny offers flip this model by providing value upfront, accelerating the trust-building process, and creating an audience of buyers rather than passive subscribers.

“It's really based on dopamine,” explains Allie, a demand generation strategist who helps marketers and entrepreneurs skip launches and build profitable automated systems that scale. “When you focus on getting customers a quick win, it starts to transform the buyers themselves—they start seeing themselves in a little bit different way.”

This psychological shift is key to tiny offers' effectiveness. Just like webinars or challenges help people have transformations and shift beliefs before entering your higher-ticket programs, low-ticket offers can create the same paradigm shifts when designed correctly.

Why Charge Instead of Giving It Away?

You might be wondering why you shouldn't just give away your tiny offer content for free to attract more leads. Bjerk explains that the quality of the lead matters more than quantity:

You want to ensure you're growing your list full of people who value their time more than their money. Those are the people who have the right attitude or mindset to see the value in other things that you have.

Free offers often attract people who collect resources without implementing them. When they receive your follow-up emails, they may not remember signing up and unsubscribe.

“When you attract people who want to be there and are putting their credit card down to come into your world, it's a totally different game,” Bjerk notes.

#1: How to Create Your First Tiny Offer

Identify Your Specific Audience

Success with tiny offers begins with precisely defining your audience. The more specific, the better.

For example, marketing yourself as someone who teaches study habits is going too broad. You need to narrow your target audience from “people who need help with study habits” to “high school students with ADHD who struggle to study for tests.”

This level of specificity makes it easier to create targeted content that resonates deeply with your ideal customers. It also helps you define the ultimate goal you want to help these clients achieve.

Determine What Your Audience Needs

Once you've identified your audience, you need to understand their most pressing problems. If you don't have existing customers to survey, Bjerk recommends several research methods:

1. “I love to stalk comments on social media,” Bjerk admits. Look at viral content related to your topic and analyze what people are saying.
2. Search your topic on Reddit or join Facebook groups where your audience gathers, then read the questions people are asking.
3. Find books on Amazon related to your topic and read the negative reviews to discover what people felt was missing.
4. Pay attention to topics that trigger you when others discuss them incorrectly. These passion points often indicate areas where your unique approach could provide exceptional value. For example, say you're a weight-loss coach, and you deeply disagree with the notion that the key to losing weight is cutting out carbs. Create a tiny offer that hinges on weight loss without cutting carbs.

The key is finding what Bjerk calls “the smallest tiny piece that you could solve that specific problem, the thing that's keeping them in the most pain.”

Create an Irresistible Offer

When developing your tiny offer, focus on providing significant value that delivers a quick win. Bjerk suggests creating your core content and then repurposing it into multiple formats with slight refinements:

“I try to think of all the different ways that I can deliver the same information without making a ton more time for me to create this entire tiny offer,” she explains. “So if it starts with a mini-course of three five-minute videos, I transcribe that into an ebook, a checklist, and a podcast that aligns with the course.

This approach creates the impression of abundant value so that when the customer logs in, they think, “Wow, I got all this for $27?!'

Create Irresistible Bonuses to Overcome Objections

Bjerk also recommends adding at least three bonus assets to your tiny offer to overcome buyer objections. These bonuses address what Frank Kern calls the “Yeah, Buts”—the mental objections that arise when potential customers consider your offer.

If your tiny offer is a guide to choosing the best AI model for your needs, an objection might be:

“Yeah, this AI guide looks great today, but what happens when the models update?”

A bonus asset might be a Google doc of prompts that updates when each AI model changes, which your customers can use.

This comprehensive approach ensures customers feel they're getting exceptional value and prompts them to trust you and stick around.

Price Your Tiny Offer

Pricing your tiny offer correctly depends on whether you're targeting consumers (B2C) or businesses (B2B):

• For B2C audiences: $7-$27 tends to convert best
• For B2B audiences: $27-$47 is more appropriate
• For sophisticated B2B audiences: Up to $97 can work for front-end offers

You can price your B2B offer higher because business owners will view the asset as an investment that will yield a return.

#2: How to Build Your Tiny Offer Sales Page

Your sales page should follow a proven structure that addresses the psychological journey buyers take before purchasing. Bjerk follows Ray Edwards' PASTOR method:

• Problem: Identify what keeps your audience up at night
• Amplify: Explain why the problem is worse than they thought
• Story: Begin painting a picture of a better future
• Transformation: Show how their life can change with your solution
• Offer: Detail precisely what they'll receive
• Response: Call to action with clear next steps

For the visuals, Bjerk recommends creating mockups that make your digital products look tangible. “It feels like you are getting a tangible product even though it's a digital product,” she explains.

Other essential sales page elements include:

• A value stack showing everything they'll receive
• Your bio to establish credibility
• FAQs addressing common questions
• A money-back guarantee to reduce risk
• Clear checkout instructions with a summary of the offer

Add an Order Bump or One-Time Offer to Complete Your Tiny Offer Funnel

While the tiny offer itself converts cold traffic into buyers, the real profit potential comes from the complete funnel:

1. Front-end tiny offer: $7-$47 product that often covers ad spend
2. Order bump: Additional complementary offer added at checkout
3. One-time offer (OTO): A $77-$97 upsell presented immediately after purchase

Bjerk explains that the tiny offer typically covers your advertising costs, while the order bump and OTO generate profit. This structure allows you to acquire customers profitably while building a list of buyers.

#3: How to Run Ads to Your Tiny Offer

To successfully promote your tiny offer with paid advertising, Bjerk recommends starting small:

Budget: Allie runs her first campaign of three ads with a budget of $30 on the first day. Her goal is to get one sale to validate her offer.

Targeting: Allie targets broad interest categories rather than highly specific interest combinations. Rather than building an audience of people interested in Amy Porterfield, Russel Brunson, and Brene Brown, she runs her ads to people interested in social media and digital marketing.

Creative: When creating ads, Bjerk uses three main types of creative. The first ad features a product mockup with text overlay highlighting the benefits her target customer will realize by opting in. The second ad features a selfie-style video (under 60 seconds) that explores her target customer's key pain points. The third ad features Allie's professional headshot without any text overlay.

Bjerk notes that movement creates engagement for selfie videos: “The ones where you're in motion and moving convert better for some reason. It's like it just gets people's attention even more.”

The most crucial element is your hook—the first few seconds that determine whether viewers will continue watching. One effective hook Bjerk has used: “I thought everybody knew this, but I guess they don't.”

Copy: Bjerk follows a strategic approach that mirrors her sales page structure. While she doesn't directly pitch the tiny offer, she indicates that the viewer will be clicking through to something for sale.

This transparency is important – Bjerk deliberately avoids making people think they're clicking for free content, as this would attract the wrong audience and skew conversion metrics. “When someone clicks, and they know it's a product that they could buy, then they're more qualified…they're already interested in spending money to get something.”

For effective tiny offer ad copy:

1. Identify your audience immediately—”I always call out exactly who it's for in the first line,” Bjerk says. “Hey, online coaches, are you tired of launching?” or “Are you getting burned out by needing to be live all the time for your business?”
2. Build a narrative arc – Guide potential buyers through a brief emotional journey that moves from pain to possibility.
3. Signal that it's a paid solution – Be clear that you're offering a purchasable solution: “If you want the solution, click to the sales page, and I have a tool to help you fix the problem.”

With this approach, your ads attract people who are ready to invest in solutions, not those who just want to collect free information.

Destination: Send the traffic from your ads straight to your landing page.

Pro Tip: Leverage Tiny Offers with Existing Audiences

Tiny offers aren't just for paid traffic—they can also be highly effective with your existing audience.

Bjerk described a client named Chris who runs a membership program called Musical U. After building his list with free content for years; he launched a tiny offer to his email subscribers with his membership as the backend OTO offer.

The result? Many subscribers who had been on his list for years without purchasing anything bought the low-ticket offer and then joined his membership. This approach allowed him to monetize his existing list while adding recurring revenue.

Whether you're an established business looking to acquire customers more profitably or a new entrepreneur wanting to validate your offers, tiny offers provide a framework for sustainable growth.

Other Notes From This Episode

• Connect with Michael Stelzner @Stelzner on Instagram and @Mike_Stelzner on X.
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