# Act out the cliché line, then the fix

A business and marketing format, measured November 8, 2026 by Volume. https://tryvolume.app/working/business-and-marketing/act-out-the-clich-line-then-the-fix

Roleplay the exact phrase reps or buyers say today, flag it as wrong, then perform the word-for-word replacement. It worked for 6 accounts, with a median of 7x their usual reach. Type: Editing trick. Seen as: Talking head, Skit.

## Why it works

The viewer hears their own daily line fail and gets a script they can memorize at once. This pattern repeats across wolfofwallst, lukelunk, therealbillycox, angelo.toure, officialandyelliott, kacungira and jeremyleeminer.

## How to make it

1. Name the objection or default phrase in the hook
2. Act out the bad version and show it failing, with a buzzer, red X or rewind
3. Deliver the exact replacement script, often twice

## Hook formula

What do you say when they tell you "[verbatim objection]"?

## Examples

- @wolfofwallst (2.9M followers, Instagram talking head): 14x their usual views. Hook: “Never open a COLD CALL” [Original post](https://www.instagram.com/p/DeaSK7EyGjS/)
- @angelo.toure (25K followers, TikTok talking head): 16x their usual views. Hook: “How to Sell Anything ("I Need to Speak to My Wife")” [Original post](https://www.tiktok.com/@angelo.toure/video/7692208724789742878)
- @officialandyelliott (778K followers, TikTok talking head): 8.5x their usual views. Hook: “HOW TO HANDLE SALES OBJECTIONS” [Original post](https://www.tiktok.com/@officialandyelliott/video/7698798241583828254)
- @lukelunk (17K followers, TikTok talking head): 7.3x their usual views. Hook: “SALESPEOPLE: HOW TO GET A CO-SIGNER” [Original post](https://www.tiktok.com/@lukelunk/video/7693309696018533646)
- @therealbillycox (123K followers, TikTok skit): 7.0x their usual views. Hook: “WHAT IF THEY SAY "I WANT TO THINK ABOUT IT"?” [Original post](https://www.tiktok.com/@therealbillycox/video/7695169107372559630)
- @jeremyleeminer (1.4M followers, Instagram talking head): 2.5x their usual views. Hook: “HOW TO HANDLE: "I'M NOT INTERESTED"” [Original post](https://www.instagram.com/p/Defl4L6pGMc/)

More business and marketing formats: https://tryvolume.app/working/business-and-marketing.md

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## How this is measured

- Every post is compared with its own account's usual reach, not with other accounts. "14x their usual" means the post got 14 times the median views of that account's recent posts.
- TikTok videos and Instagram Reels are measured on views. Instagram carousels have no view count, so they are measured on likes against the account's usual likes, and say so.
- A post makes the library at 2x its account's usual or more. A format is a repeatable move (what is said or shown, or how it is edited) that several accounts used in breakout posts. It is listed here once it worked for 3 or more different accounts.
- Formats rank on how many accounts they worked for and how far above usual, damped so a fluke on one tiny account cannot outrank a format that worked for ten.

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