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#165: When the customer asks for a discount

Published about 1 month ago • 1 min read

Issue #165

Reader

Every founder I talk to this year asks me the same thing. They want to know how their business survives AI. Then I tell them this:

"You're staring at the wrong villain."

AI is loud and easy to blame. But the thing actually draining your company is quiet, and it has one unmistakable symptom: customers choosing you on price.

The moment you have to discount to close a deal, your value is already dead.

It is not a product problem. You spent years sweating the details and building real substance.

The breakdown happens when you hand off the translation to an outside agency, a committee, or a prompt. You let someone else describe what took you years to build.

Your value goes into witness protection. And the customer treats you like every other vendor they saw that day.

"Effort does not send out telepathic signals. If you do not translate it, the market assumes it does not exist."

I just wrote a complete breakdown tearing this loop apart, along with my video, "Second Chances," and an invitation to get on a 30-minute call with me to isolate what your kryptonite is to your brand.

​READ TODAY'S ARTICLE & WATCH THE VIDEO >​

Once you check it out, hit reply and tell me where your own value is getting lost. I read every response.

Have an amazing weekend.

David Brier

The Saturday email your competitors hope you never find. (One coffee. Zero fluff.)

by David Brier, Bestselling Author and Rebranding Expert

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