Case Study: ~R$4M Funnel — Daniel Ribeiro / DSM · Rafael Ruivo
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High-Ticket Funnel · Automotive Sales Training

From a R$197 city lecture
to nearly R$4M
in mentorship sales.

A multi-city funnel system designed to turn paid traffic into event attendees, event attendees into premium immersion buyers and qualified participants into R$150,000 mentorship clients — through a structured, layered digital experience.

Daniel Ribeiro DSM — live immersion event
~R$4Min mentorship sales from a single campaign
300participants at the sold-out São Paulo immersion
Sold outpremium in-person 3-day event in Alphaville, SP
50–300paying attendees per city lecture, nationwide
Context

The business behind the funnel.

Daniel Ribeiro is the creator of Método DSM — a training program for entrepreneurs, car dealership owners and automotive business leaders, focused on sales, negotiation and business growth. Starting from a single room in a favela with three cars in stock, Daniel built the most respected consignment operation in Brazil, selling over 150 vehicles per month.

With over 1.3 million followers across social media and more than 3,000 car dealers impacted across Brazil, the campaign was structured around a national event strategy: low-ticket lectures in multiple cities, designed to attract qualified business owners and move them progressively toward a high-ticket 3-day immersion in Alphaville, São Paulo.

The digital infrastructure — from the first city page to the final mentorship pitch — was built as a connected funnel system, not a collection of isolated pages.

DSM immersion — audience
DSM immersion — venue
DSM immersion — Daniel presenting
DSM immersion — full room view
DSM immersion — participants
Challenge

Turning cold traffic into a qualified high-ticket pipeline.

The challenge was not to design isolated landing pages. The real objective was to support a complete acquisition and monetization system — one that could scale across multiple cities while maintaining a consistent conversion flow.

Paid traffic needed to generate low-ticket event buyers. Those buyers needed to show up, experience the live lecture and become qualified prospects for a premium immersion. From there, the most qualified participants would be introduced to the main offer: a R$150,000 mentorship.

The funnel had to create progressive commitment at each stage, reduce friction in the purchase and qualification steps, capture the right data for the sales team and maintain consistency across dozens of pages and multiple campaigns running in parallel.

Strategy

A revenue ladder, not a single sales page.

Instead of asking cold traffic to immediately consider a high-ticket program, the funnel used a low-ticket entry point to lower resistance and build commitment progressively.

A R$197 lecture in the prospect's own city created the first moment of real skin in the game — separating curious scrollers from genuinely interested business owners.

Each 3-hour live lecture then became the trust-building engine for the São Paulo immersion pitch. By the time the offer was presented, the audience was already warmer, more engaged and had experienced Daniel's method firsthand.

Entry · City Lecture
R$197

Low-ticket event used as the qualifying entry point and trust accelerator

Mid · SP Immersion
R$5K–14K

Premium 3-day in-person immersion in Alphaville, SP — sold out with 300 participants

Main · Mentorship
R$150K

Main offer pitched to a fully qualified, high-intent audience on days 2 and 3

City Event Funnel

One page per city. One clear path to conversion.

For every city where the lecture took place, we built a dedicated sales page. Each page was designed to convert paid traffic into event buyers while also capturing essential lead data before the checkout step.

The flow was intentionally lean: Paid creative → City sales page → Lead form (name, phone, email) → Checkout → Thank you page → VIP WhatsApp group.

The WhatsApp group served as an engagement layer — event information, reminders and connection were delivered there, keeping participants mentally committed to attending before the lecture even happened.

01
Paid creative to city-specific sales page

Each campaign sent traffic to a page tailored to the specific city, event date and local context — no generic redirects.

02
Lead form before checkout

Name, phone and email captured before payment — giving the commercial team a full contact list regardless of purchase completion.

03
Checkout and thank you page

After purchase, users reached a thank you page with one unmissable next step: joining the VIP WhatsApp group.

04
VIP WhatsApp group

Pre-event engagement channel that kept participants informed, connected and committed before the live lecture.

metododsm.com.br/acelerador-de-vendas-sao-paulo
DSM — City lecture sales page
City-specific lecture sales page
metododsm.com.br — lead capture form
DSM — Pre-checkout lead capture form
Pre-checkout lead capture form
Live Conversion Layer

The event became the sales floor.

The city lecture was not just a product — it was a 3-hour trust-building mechanism designed to qualify and warm up prospects for the main offer.

During each lecture, Daniel delivered genuinely high-value content on sales and business growth, then pitched the main São Paulo immersion at the end. The commercial team was present and available to close interested participants on the spot.

For those who didn't buy at the event, the lead data captured before checkout gave the sales team a complete list to follow up individually — generating significant additional immersion sales after each lecture.

DSM live lecture — Daniel presenting to audience
Immersion Funnel

High-ticket pages built for qualification, not direct checkout.

Parallel to the city lecture funnel, we built the page structure for the São Paulo immersion. At this ticket level, sending cold traffic directly to checkout was not the strategy.

Instead, the pages were designed to capture qualified interest and route leads to the commercial team. Two versions were developed for different traffic and segmentation scenarios.

Version A
Immersion page with price visible

Paid traffic → Immersion sales page → Access section → Deeper qualification form → Lead sent directly to commercial team for follow-up.

Version B
Immersion page without price

Paid traffic → Immersion page → Access section → Separate qualification form → Thank you page with option to schedule a free business diagnosis call.

Why two?
Lead segmentation for smarter sales follow-up

Different forms for each version allowed the team to immediately identify lead source, intent level and readiness — enabling a more calibrated conversation for each contact.

metododsm.com.br
DSM — High-ticket immersion landing page
High-ticket immersion page — Método DSM Acelera
metododsm.com.br/venda-carro-todo-dia
DSM — Digital product landing page
Entry digital product page — Venda Carro Todo Dia
My Role

Designing the digital experience behind the funnel.

My responsibility was to design and structure the complete digital funnel experience. I worked closely with the strategy, copy and paid traffic teams to translate the campaign architecture into a clear, persuasive and conversion-focused set of digital touchpoints.

I was not responsible for media buying, campaign copy or core business strategy. My focus was on making the funnel visually coherent, structurally sound and aligned with the commercial process at every stage.

  • City-specific sales pages — one per lecture location
  • High-ticket immersion pages (with and without price)
  • Lead capture form UX — pre-checkout and qualification flows
  • Thank you pages and post-purchase flow architecture
  • Page hierarchy and visual structure for conversion
  • CTA flows and access section design
  • Lead segmentation architecture through form differentiation
  • Visual consistency across all funnel touchpoints
Results

A structured funnel that helped generate nearly R$4M in high-ticket sales.

~R$4Min R$150K mentorship sales
300immersion participants
Sold out3-day São Paulo event

The campaign produced a sold-out in-person immersion with 300 participants, generated a highly qualified pipeline for a R$150,000 mentorship offer and resulted in nearly R$4M in mentorship sales — built on a funnel designed to qualify, educate and convert progressively across multiple digital and physical touchpoints.

"Conversion design is not about the page.
It's about the journey between the pages."

This project demonstrates what happens when paid traffic, landing pages, forms, checkout flows, live events and sales teams are designed as a connected system — not isolated assets. The value of the design was not primarily visual. It was structural: organizing decisions, reducing friction, segmenting leads and giving the commercial team exactly what they needed to close at every stage.

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