Alex Hormozi’s whole thing in $100M Leads is simple: there are only a few real ways to get attention — and if you consistently do them, you win. He boils prospecting down to four core activities:

  • Cold outreach

  • Warm outreach

  • Content

  • Ads

Let’s call those your Inputs.

Then there are your Outputs — what happens after that attention hits your world:

  • New leads

  • Qualified leads

  • People you actually connect with

  • Booked meetings

  • Show-ups to those meetings

  • Signed / won deals

  • People you need to follow up with

  • People you lose / don’t sign

And finally, the Score: revenue created from all that activity.

Almost everyone is already doing some mix of those Inputs and getting some level of Outputs. But:

  • Inputs live in DMs, inboxes, Loom links, and ad accounts

  • Outputs live in CRMs, Stripe, or some cursed “deals” view you never open

  • Revenue lives in your bank account and your anxiety

So every day you’re asking:

“Am I winning or losing?”

…and you have no clean way to answer. You’re forced to feel your way through the week instead of seeing your way through it.

“What Gets Measured Gets Improved” (If You Can Actually See It)

Peter Drucker is widely credited with the idea that what gets measured gets improved — and whether he said it exactly or not, the principle is everywhere in modern management.

The problem for most founders and sales-driven operators isn’t that they’re not measuring anything. It’s that:

  • Measurements are scattered

  • They’re buried inside “fancy” tools

  • They aren’t visible during the day when decisions and actions actually happen

Think about sports:

  • In a baseball game, no one wonders about the score.

  • You don’t need a login, a dashboard, or a weekly report.

  • You just look up. The scoreboard tells you the truth.

Business rarely works that way. We’ve made the “scoreboard” so complex that most people unconsciously opt out of looking at it.

The Hormozi Core Four as Your Daily Inputs

Let’s bring this down to something you can track in minutes per day.

From Hormozi’s framework, you get four core Input lanes:

  1. Cold Outreach

    • New cold emails sent

    • New cold DMs

    • Cold calls

  2. Warm Outreach

    • Follow-ups to existing leads

    • Check-ins with past customers

    • Referrals and intros

  3. Content

    • Posts published

    • Videos recorded

    • Emails/newsletters sent

  4. Ads

    • Campaigns running

    • Daily budget

    • New tests launched

On their own, these numbers are just vanity. But paired with the right Outputs, they turn into a predictable machine.

Your Outputs: The Simple Pipeline That Actually Matters

Here’s a simple, universal pipeline you can track no matter what you sell:

  1. Lead – Someone raised their hand or you got their info

  2. Qualified – They fit your basic criteria

  3. Connected – You had a real back-and-forth (call, DM, email)

  4. Booked – A meeting is on the calendar

  5. Showed – They actually attended

  6. Signed / Won – They bought

  7. Follow-Up – They didn’t buy yet, but they’re still in play

  8. Lost – They’re not moving forward (for now)

If you can see those numbers next to your Inputs, you can finally answer questions like:

  • “What happens when I send 20 more cold DMs per day?”

  • “Are my leads from content actually better than my leads from cold?”

  • “Is my real problem leads… or show-up rate?”

This is where the magic (and the money) is: connecting Inputs to Outputs in one view.

Why Top CEOs Still Use a Simple Google Sheet

Here’s the part most people underestimate: you don’t need a monster CRM to manage this.

Ryan Deiss, who runs a portfolio of companies doing around $200M in revenue, has publicly talked about running everything off a simple Google Sheet “CEO Dashboard” he checks each week.

Not a 9-tool tech stack.
Not a 200-field Salesforce instance.
A sheet.

Because the power isn’t in the software. It’s in:

  • Clearly defined Inputs

  • Clearly defined Outputs

  • A habit of looking at them consistently

That’s it.

So the real question isn’t “What tool should I use?”
It’s: “Where does my scoreboard live, and how often do I look at it?”

The Scoreboard Model: Inputs → Outputs → Revenue

Here’s the simple model underlying scoreboardz.ai and the Google Sheet behind it:

  1. Inputs (Daily/Weekly Activity)

    • COLD: # of cold outreaches

    • WARM: # of warm outreaches

    • CONT: # of content actions

    • ADS: spend / experiments

  2. Outputs (Pipeline Movement)

    • LEAD

    • QUAL

    • CONN

    • BOOK

    • SHOW

    • SIGN

    • F/U

    • LOST

  3. Score (Money)

    • Revenue created (by day / week / month)

When you put this in one place, you can literally see:

“We did X cold, Y warm, Z content, and A ads…
…which produced B leads, C booked calls, D show-ups, E deals, and $F cash.”

That’s your scoreboard.

Why “Always-On-Top” Beats “Once-a-Week Reports”

The scoreboard behind scoreboardz.ai is just a well-structured Google Sheet. But the experience is different:

  • The app sits as an always-on-top floating bar on your desktop, above all your windows. bejewelled-lamington-fb35db.netlify.app

  • You can’t “lose” it in a browser tab.

  • Your Inputs and Outputs are literally in your face while you work.

The result is a system that:

  • Creates a visual habit – you see your numbers every time you move your mouse

  • Triggers a dopamine loop – when your metrics turn green, your brain gets a “win” and wants to keep going bejewelled-lamington-fb35db.netlify.app

  • Acts as anti-cheat – it’s very hard to lie to yourself about how much you’ve actually done when the scoreboard is staring back at you bejewelled-lamington-fb35db.netlify.app

You’re no longer relying on willpower or vibes. You’re using visibility and feedback.

Why a Google Sheet Backbone Is a Feature (Not a Bug)

Under the hood, scoreboardz.ai syncs directly with a Google Sheet:

This also means the system is:

  • Low-friction – you’re editing a familiar sheet, not some rigid black-box CRM

  • Flexible – agencies, coaches, SaaS founders, and closers can all adjust labels

  • Trustworthy – if the app disappeared, your spreadsheet (and your model) still exists

And because the visible “scoreboard” is just reading from the sheet, you don’t have to shove your whole life into yet another software tool.

The 12-Minute-a-Day Rhythm

Here’s the cadence that tends to work:

Daily (≈12 minutes total)

  • Log yesterday’s Inputs:

    • COLD, WARM, CONT, ADS

  • Log yesterday’s Outputs:

    • LEAD, QUAL, CONN, BOOK, SHOW, SIGN, F/U, LOST

  • Watch your scoreboard update in real time

Weekly (≈1 hour)

  • Review:

    • Which Inputs are actually producing Outputs?

    • Where are leads getting stuck?

    • What’s your real bottleneck? (Leads? Qualified? Show rate? Close rate?)

  • Decide:

    • “This week I’m increasing this Input by X%.”

    • “I’m fixing this step in the pipeline.”

Because the system is simple, you don’t need a 2-hour “RevOps meeting.” You can run a million-dollar plan from a single sheet plus a visible scoreboard — just like the CEO dashboards people like Deiss talk about.

A 7-Day Experiment You Can Start Right Now

If you want to feel this instead of just nodding along, here’s a quick challenge:

Day 0 – Set Up the Scoreboard

  1. Open a new Google Sheet.

  2. Create columns for:

    • Inputs: COLD, WARM, CONT, ADS

    • Outputs: LEAD, QUAL, CONN, BOOK, SHOW, SIGN, F/U, LOST

    • Score: REVENUE

  3. Add a row for each day of the next 7 days.

Days 1–7 – Run the Play

Each day:

  • Log your Inputs (how many cold, warm, content, and ad actions you took).

  • Log your Outputs (pipeline movement and revenue for the day).

  • Look at the totals building up over the week.

Then ask:

  • When I push on cold or warm, what happens?

  • Am I actually following up with people, or am I leaking leads?

  • Which number, if I doubled it, would most directly move revenue?

If you like the feeling of finally seeing your Inputs and Outputs together, that’s exactly the experience scoreboardz.ai is designed to streamline and keep in your field of view all day.

Bringing It All Together

To recap:

  • Inputs (cold outreach, warm outreach, content, ads) are the controllable levers you pull daily.

  • Outputs (leads → qualified → connected → booked → show → sign → follow-up → lost) tell you where the machine is leaking.

  • Your Score (revenue) is just the natural result of consistent Inputs and a clean pipeline.

  • A simple Google Sheet can capture all of this, and many top operators literally run multi-million-dollar portfolios from a single sheet-style “CEO dashboard.”

  • An always-on-top scoreboard (like scoreboardz.ai) makes those numbers impossible to ignore, turning “I hope this works” into “I can see exactly what’s happening as I work.” bejewelled-lamington-fb35db.netlify.app

If you’re already doing the work — sending DMs, running ads, posting content, taking sales calls — the next big jump in your revenue probably isn’t a brand-new tactic.

It’s putting all your Inputs and Outputs in the same place, looking at them every day, and letting the scoreboard tell you the truth.

Now go put in the reps!

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