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The $2,000 presentation Apple just gave away for free 🔄

How to sell expensive products to people with no money

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Tom Orbach
Jul 04, 2025
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Apple just released the most brilliant sales deck I’ve ever seen.

They created an 81-slide presentation template for broke college kids to convince their parents to buy them a $2,000 MacBook.

I’m not kidding.

It’s called “Why I Need a Mac for College” and it’s absolutely brilliant.

The presentation has everything: ROI calculations, competitive comparisons, objection handling, even guilt trips about vitamin D and spine health:

My favorite slide? 👇

Apple is doing Certificate Marketing! 👨🏻‍🍳 *chef’s kiss*

Here’s what happened:

Student wants Mac → Parents have money → Apple gives student the pitch deck

Apple basically turned every college student into a trained sales rep with ready-made slides and arguments.

The marketing idea: Help users pitch your product internally 💡

Every B2B marketer knows this problem:

But it’s damn difficult.

Game over.

Here’s the problem: Your biggest fans are your worst salespeople. They know exactly why they need your product, but they can't explain it in a way that gets budget approved.

The solution: Arm users with the right words.

Enterprise companies solved this paradox years ago: They have dedicated “business value” teams that create custom slides for customers to take to their own bosses. It’s how they close million-dollar deals

Apple just applied the same strategy to consumers.

Every company where users ≠ buyers should be doing this immediately.

The crazy part? It’s stupidly simple to implement.

I’ll be covering:

  1. 🎯 The copy & paste template that 90% of companies should start with

  2. 🧠 4 psychological triggers that guarantee budget approval

  3. 🍦 The “ice cream” principle that makes expensive feel worthwhile

  4. 🖼️ Rare examples from companies generating millions this way

  5. 💰 Proven scripts for CFOs, CTOs, and every buyer type

  6. ⚠️ The fatal mistake that kills most internal sales (avoid this)

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