OC Book Club - $100M Dollar Leads Chapt 1 & 2
Happy Friday from Malaysia 👋🏽 Hope you’re all enjoying your weekend as much as I’m enjoying the views out here 😁 I have a lot of thoughts on these two chapters. For me, Chapters 1 and 2 were less about tactics and more about zooming out and getting extremely clear on fundamentals. Understanding the core principles of lead generation matters way more than most people realize, because everything in your business is downstream from leads. No leads, no money. We all know this, but a lot of people still treat lead generation like a side project instead of the main event. For most businesses, this is the only thing they should focus on if they want outsized results. A good lead magnet does four things: 1. It engages ideal customers when they see it. 2. It gets more people to engage with you than they would with your core offer. 3. It’s valuable enough that people actually consume it. 4. It makes the right people more likely to buy. Last year, I intentionally ran different lead gen experiments inside my own business. One part of the year I leaned heavily into organic content. Another part, I went almost ads-only. Organic = high effort, low cost. Ads = lower effort, higher cost. I wanted to see how each one actually performed, what I liked better, and what the downstream impact was, not just revenue…but who I was attracting. In the second half of the year, I barely posted content at all because lead gen was basically on autopilot. Both worked, both made money. But here’s the thing that really stood out: The quality of leads coming from organic content…especially people who had consumed a meaningful amount of long-form content on YouTube was significantly higher than leads who came in purely through ads and lead magnets without that prior exposure. Not even close. Higher alignment. Better conversations. People who already “got” me, my brain, and how I think about business. Ads and lead magnets absolutely have their place. But these chapters reinforced something I felt all of last year: