You watch cheaper agencies steal deals you should win. A bold guarantee is the one thing that flips it, but you are terrified of working for free. This playbook hands you the 7 guarantee types, the fill-in-the-blank statements, and the actual refund math that proves you can afford to offer one. The invocation rate is almost always lower than you fear.
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Want us to build the guarantee with you? Apply →Most "just guarantee results" advice skips the one thing that keeps you up at night: what happens when someone invokes it. This playbook starts there, with the equation, then hands you everything you paste into a sales call, a proposal, and a contract.
One equation that ends the fear: extra deals won times your margin, minus refunds paid. Plus a worked example at $5K retainers showing a guarantee that adds $5,000 a month even after eating a full refund.
Unconditional, Conditional, Minimum-Result, Performance, Service-Recovery, Anti-guarantee, and the Stacked Conditional. Each with a refund-exposure rating and the one client action that protects your margin.
A 4-question decision tree that tells you exactly which guarantee fits your margin, your churn, and your proof. Under 50% margin gets a different answer than 80%.
10 fill-in-the-blank guarantee lines (each under 125 characters) plus the $10,000-style flagship line - copy, swap your niche and number, ship it today.
The verbatim 3-sentence close that removes their risk on the call, plus where the guarantee goes on the proposal, the contract clause, the landing page, and the retargeting ad.
The 4 to 6 client actions to require so a no-show client cannot demand their money back, plus the "reason why" script that makes "all sales final" actually convert.
If any of these is the voice in your head before a sales call, this was written for you.
In service businesses, refund and invocation rates run 1 to 16 percent. Not the 50 percent your fear assumes. Course and coaching refunds run 21 to 28 percent, which is exactly why conditions matter, and why this playbook is built around them. You are not betting the company. You are pricing in a small, known cost to win a lot more deals.
Conversion-lift ranges reference tested cases (Geeks2U +49%) and money-back A/B tests; the price-objection figure references agency loss-reason analyses. Ranges are ranges, not a promise of your results.
Read the worked example, pick your guarantee type, and have a statement live on your offer by tonight.
"I added a minimum-result guarantee with four conditions: onboarding done, ad budget funded, calls answered, weekly check-in attended. My close rate went from 4 in 20 calls to 6 in 20. In the first quarter one client invoked it. I refunded them. I was still up five figures on the deals the guarantee won me that I would have lost on price."
Your guarantee is profitable as long as the conversion lift percent beats your refund rate divided by your margin. At 80 percent delivery margin and a 16 percent invocation rate, you only need your guarantee to lift conversions by more than 20 percent to come out ahead. The playbook spells out this exact calculation with the numbers filled in, so you can run it on your own retainer before you ever offer it.
Only if your guarantee has no conditions. That's the whole point of the playbook. You require the 4 to 6 client actions that protect you (onboarding completed, assets delivered, calls answered, minimum spend in), so a client who didn't do the work can't invoke it. A conditioned guarantee makes the client carry their half of the deal.
Then you use the Conditional or Performance type, not the Unconditional one. The decision tree routes you by margin: under 50 percent gets a different answer than 80 percent. And the afford-it formula shows you, with your own numbers, whether the extra deals you win cover the rare refund. Usually they cover it many times over.
You guarantee an input or a minimum, not a magic revenue number. "X qualified appointments in 90 days or we work free until you hit it" is defensible because you control the appointments. The 10 swipeable statements give you lines for exactly this situation, each tied to something you actually control.
You can have a guarantee statement live on your offer tonight. The playbook hands you the fill-in-the-blank lines, the verbatim 3-sentence verbal close for the sales call, and the placement map for your proposal, contract, and landing page. Read it, pick your type, fill in the blanks, and ship it.
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