The main difference between video games and reality is that feedback loops are slower but there are far more ways to win. - Alex Hormozi

Failure is to be expected, not avoided. Failure is feedback, not judgment.

the right way.’ Each went something like this: Step 1: They got me excited about all the new leads they would bring.
Step 2: I’d go through an onboarding process that felt valuable (and sometimes was).
Step 3: They assigned their “best” senior rep to my account.
Step 4: I saw some results.
Step 5: They moved my senior rep to the newest customer...
Step 6: A junior rep starts managing my account. My results suffered.
Step 7: I complained.
Step 8: The senior rep would come back once in a while to make me feel better.
Step 9: Results still suffered. And I’d eventually cancel.
Step 10: I’d search for another agency and repeat the cycle of insanity.
Step 11: For the zillionth time–Start wondering why I wasn’t getting results like the first time.

The degree of the pain will be proportional to the price you will be able to charge (more on this in the Value Equation chapter). When they hear the solution to their pain, and inversely, what their life would look like without this pain, they should be drawn to your solution. I have a saying I use to train sales teams, “The pain is the pitch.” If you can articulate the pain a prospect is feeling accurately, they will almost always buy what you are offering. A prospect must have a painful problem for us to solve and charge money for our solution.