Mockup  ·  Marketing 760  ·  For Michael Buckhoff  ·  13 May 2026
Vol. I   The Funnel · Index  
Prepared by Marketing 760 · 13 May 2026 · For Better TOEFL Scores

A proposed funnel for Better TOEFL Scores.

Five stages that turn 17,700 YouTube subscribers and every organic visitor into an email list, a $19 trial, and a $99/mo subscription. Four pages do the work. Math below.

The Funnel · Five Stages · One Page Each Job

How a visitor becomes a $99/mo subscriber.

Cold visitor lands on the lead-magnet page, trades email for the free playbook, gets nurtured for five days by Michael in their inbox, buys a $19 single submission as a try-before-you-subscribe, then subscribes at $99/mo if the work is worth it. Conservative monthly math below.

Stage 01
Acquisition
Lands & reads
17.7K YouTube + organic
Stage 02
Opt-in
Trades email
~200 per month
Stage 03
Nurture
5-day sequence
~140 engaged readers
Stage 04
Trial
$19 submission
30 15% conversion
Stage 05
Subscription
$99/mo or $899/yr
21 70% trial → sub
200Email opt-ins / mo
30$19 trials sold
21Subscribers / mo
+$2,649MRR lift
I.
Stages01 + 02
Page · 01 · Acquisition + Opt-in

The lead-magnet landing page

Captures the email. Replaces both current free-course pages. H2 stacking + Person + Course + FAQPage schema.

II.
Stages02 + 03
Page · 02 · Activation + Nurture entry

The thank-you & immediate-delivery page

Delivers the playbook, previews Michael's welcome email, soft-launches the $19 trial as optional, not pushy.

III.
Stage03
Page · 03 · Internal reference

The 5-day email sequence

Visual mock of the autoresponder cadence. Each email's job, length, CTA, and previewed opening line. Day 5 opens the $19 trial offer.

IV.
Stages04 + 05
Page · 04 · Trial + Subscription

The rebuilt pricing page

Three tiers ($19 · $99/mo · $899/yr), risk reversal, head-to-head vs. self-study + private tutors, FAQ with Product + Offer schema.

V.
ReferenceVol. II
Appendix · Brand Book

The style guide & design tokens

Every color, font, spacing token, component, shadow, asset, voice rule, and schema declaration used across the funnel. One source of truth.

Colophon · A note on the design

Built to read as professor's office, not Silicon Valley funnel.

The audience for Better TOEFL Scores is foreign-trained physicians, pharmacists, engineers, and graduate-school applicants who can smell hype at fifty paces. The funnel was designed in the editorial-academic register on purpose. Warm paper background, deep ink, oxblood accents, GFS Didot for display and EB Garamond for body. Library-card opt-in forms, archival button styling, paper-grain texture. Every word of copy is real Michael content. No lorem ipsum, no stock testimonials, no invented numbers.

TypographyGFS Didot · Display
EB Garamond · Body
IBM Plex Mono · Metadata
PalettePaper #f6f1e7
Ink #15110d
Oxblood #7a1f1f · Gold #b9802a
On-Page SEOH2 stacking from target queries
JSON-LD: Person · Course · Product · FAQ
Canonical · OG · Twitter Card meta