The objection-handler skill: honest answers to too expensive
TL;DR
Give it the objections you really hear and it writes a calm answer to each one in your voice, plus a one-line version short enough for a DM, saved to ~/objection-cheatsheet.md. Free, public, and it installs with three copy-paste lines.
They say it's too expensive and your mouth says oh no worries at all, no pressure. The conversation is over and you're annoyed at yourself for the rest of the day.
An objection is usually a real, reasonable concern the person needs answered before they can say yes. You froze because you'd never written the answer down. Folding instantly and getting defensive both lose the sale, and both feel awful afterwards.
The objection-handler skill is one of the 55 free skills in our freeskills repo. It builds a cheat sheet for your offer specifically: the four objections almost everyone hears, plus whatever else people say to you, each with a calm answer in your voice and a short version for DMs. You skim it before a conversation and the answer is already in your head.
Builds a cheat sheet of calm answers to the objections your buyers actually say. One public folder, no keys.
Install the objection-handler skill
A skill is a folder of instructions Claude Code turns into a slash command. Copy it into your skills directory and it's ready.
bashgit clone https://github.com/duncan-buildroom/freeskills.git
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r freeskills/objection-handler ~/.claude/skills/Restart Claude Code or start a new session and the install is finished. No API keys, no config.
Run it the first time
Type /objection-handler. It starts from the four almost everyone hears, it's too expensive, I don't have time, let me think about it, and does this work for someone like me, then asks which ones you actually get and what else comes up. Answer honestly. A generic list you'd never use is worthless, and the ones that throw you are the ones worth writing.
It pulls your offer, price, and any real proof from your profile, then writes each response and a one-line version short enough for a DM. There's a golden rule at the top of the sheet, ask before you answer, and a graceful exit at the bottom for when it genuinely isn't the right time. Everything saves to ~/objection-cheatsheet.md. One thing it won't do: invent a result or a guarantee to make an answer land. If your proof is thin, it uses honest logic and a smaller first step instead.
Build the sheet for your offer
The more specific you are about what people actually say to you, the more usable this is.
/objection-handler
My offer and price: [what you sell and what it costs]
Who buys it: [your buyer]
What I actually hear: [the exact words people say, even if it's just one line]
The one that always throws me: [the objection you dread]
Real proof I have: [a result, a client, a guarantee, or nothing yet]
Build me the cheat sheet.Handle the one you got yesterday
Live objections beat imagined ones. Bring the real message and get the real answer.
Someone said this to me yesterday: [paste exactly what they wrote or said].
Context: [who they are, what we'd talked about, my price]. Give me the reply. Then give me the DM-length version, because that's where I'll actually send it.Get the version you can say out loud
Reading a paragraph off a screen isn't the same as saying it on a call. Ask for the spoken cut.
Take my top 3 objections and give me the spoken version of each answer. Two sentences max, plain words, the way I'd say it to someone sitting across from me. No sales phrases I'd never use.The 60-second version
The say-it-out-loud version of what this skill does, in 60 seconds.
- 1Hook: there's a brand new free Claude skill that takes you from freezing when someone says it's too expensive to having the answer already written in your own words.
- 2Mechanism: you give it the objections you genuinely hear, in the words people really use, along with your offer and your price. It answers each one in four moves: acknowledge it, reframe it honestly, give one true piece of evidence, then invite a small next step. It writes a full version and a one-line version for DMs, and puts the golden rule at the top, which is to ask a question before you answer. You get a cheat sheet you can skim before any conversation.
- 3Transformation: the next time someone pushes back, you stay calm and answer honestly, and the conversation keeps going instead of ending with oh no worries.
- 4Close: the cheat sheet is free, one of 55 skills. If you'd rather hear the objection less often, that's pricing and proof, and that's Claude Code Club at 9 dollars a month. Link's below.
Tonight: install it, build the sheet from the objections you've genuinely heard, and read it once before your next conversation.
Common questions
Do I need to know how to code?
No. Three copy-paste lines install it. Everything after that is you describing your offer and what people say to you.
Is it really free?
Yes. Public repo, no API keys, no accounts. Claude Code Club is separate, for when you want the whole path and the community.
What if I have no results or testimonials yet?
The skill won't invent any. When proof is thin it leans on the honest logic of the offer plus something that lowers the risk, like a small first step or a guarantee you can actually honor.
What if the objection is really just a no?
Then respect it. The sheet includes a warm exit for exactly that, because pushing past a genuine no burns the relationship and any future yes with it.
Where does this fit with the other selling skills?
first-customer-closer builds the shape of the whole conversation and dm-writer handles the message. This one is the pushback, and the short answers here drop straight into a DM.
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