Marketing strategy
Positioning, messaging, personas, competitor analysis and campaign planning.
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- Analyse competitors
Builds a competitor comparison of target customer, messaging, pricing, strengths and gaps, and finds openings for differentiation and how to win against each. Use for strategy or battlecards.
- Brainstorm guerrilla marketing ideas
Brainstorms low-cost guerrilla marketing ideas for a business, rating each for feasibility, cost, reach and risk, naming the permissions to check, and planning the top three.
- Build an annual marketing calendar
Builds a twelve-month marketing calendar with seasonal moments, launches, tentpole campaigns, always-on activity, lead times, channel plans and budget by quarter, checked against team capacity.
- Build an ideal customer profile
Builds an ideal customer profile and buyer personas from customer data or interviews, with buying triggers, disqualifiers and a fit score. Use to focus targeting, outbound and messaging.
- Choose marketing channels for an early-stage business
Chooses marketing channels for an early-stage business by scoring audience fit, cost and speed to signal, then designs small tests with success and kill criteria before committing budget.
- Collect user stories and case studies for an open-source project
Plans how an open-source project finds real adopters without telemetry, asks them for a story, interviews them and publishes approved case studies and an adopters list. Use when you need proof of use.
- Create a lead magnet
Designs a lead magnet that solves one painful, specific problem for an audience and bridges to the product, with its full contents, landing page copy and follow-up emails.
- Design an affiliate programme
Designs an affiliate programme with commission sized from margins, partner types, tracking and attribution rules, programme terms, fraud controls, recruitment and incrementality checks.
- Design a brand ambassador programme
Designs a brand ambassador or community advocate programme with goals, selection criteria, tiers and rewards, activities, disclosure guidelines, operations and measurement.
- Design a how-did-you-hear survey
Designs a "how did you hear about us" question for checkout, booking or phone intake, with answer options that match real channels, staff phrasing and a monthly tally to compare with platform numbers.
- Design a customer loyalty programme
Designs a customer loyalty programme for a shop, cafe or online store with mechanics, reward costs tested against margins, tiers, terms, launch plan and measures of incremental value.
- Design a referral programme
Designs a referral programme with the incentive model, double-sided reward sizing from unit economics, fraud prevention, where to ask, copy and success metrics. Use for SaaS, e-commerce and services.
- Evaluate sponsorship requests
Scores the sponsorship and donation requests a local business receives on audience fit, visibility, cost and goodwill, sets an annual giving budget and policy, and writes kind yes and no replies.
- Fractional CMO
Acts as a fractional CMO who ties marketing to revenue, picks a few priorities, builds simple measurement and tells founders plainly what not to do. Use for marketing strategy and spend decisions.
- Growth marketer
Acts as a growth marketer who runs disciplined experiments across the funnel, weighs retention as heavily as acquisition and reports results honestly. Use for growth planning and reviews.
- Launch a new service line
Plans how an existing business introduces a new service to current customers first - who to tell, an early-adopter offer, staff scripts, materials and first-month targets. Use once you have decided.
- Main street growth advisor
Acts as a marketing advisor for independent local businesses who knows footfall, word of mouth, local search and community ties, and judges every idea by cost per customer and owner time.
- Plan brand awareness measurement
Plans how to measure brand awareness with surveys, branded search demand, direct traffic and share of voice, with baselines, cadence, budget options and caveats for each signal.
- Ninety-day local marketing plan
Runs a 90-day marketing reset for a small local business in gated steps - audit what exists, choose three channels, build the calendar, produce first assets, and review at day 30.
- Open-source growth strategist
Acts as a growth strategist for open-source projects who works the whole funnel from pitch to contributors, uses public evidence instead of telemetry and refuses manipulative tactics.
- Pitch developer newsletters and podcasts
Finds developer newsletters, podcasts and channels that cover projects like yours, checks how each takes submissions, and writes a short personal pitch per outlet. Use after a launch.
- Pitch a journalist
Writes a media pitch to a specific journalist or outlet with a newsworthy angle, why now, proof and an easy next step, plus one follow-up and a press-kit checklist. Use for founders and PR teams.
- Promoción para El Buen Fin
Planea la promoción de El Buen Fin de un pequeño negocio en México: diseño de la oferta, inventario y margen, calendario de mensajes en WhatsApp y redes y puntos de PROFECO por verificar.
- Plan a cause marketing campaign
Plans a cause marketing partnership or campaign with a fit test, authenticity checks, partner due diligence, donation mechanics, clear disclosures, a comms plan and impact reporting.
- Plan cross-promotion with neighbours
Finds nearby or complementary businesses to team up with, designs fair cross-promotions, referral swaps or bundles with simple tracking, and writes the first approach message.
- Plan awesome-list and directory submissions
Finds the awesome lists, directories and registries an open-source project truly qualifies for, checks each one's rules and writes a submission tracker with entry lines. Use after launch.
- Plan event marketing
Plans marketing for a trade show, conference or webinar - goals, pre-event outreach, booth or session plan, lead capture, follow-up sequence and ROI tracking. Use for event and field marketers.
- Plan a geographic farm
Plans a real estate agent's geographic farm - choosing the patch by turnover and competition, a 12-month touch plan, local-expert content, cost per home and listings needed to break even.
- Plan a grand opening
Plans the grand opening of a shop, cafe or studio - pre-opening buzz, a launch-day programme, community and press invites, offers that bring people back, a budget split and what to measure.
- Plan an influencer campaign
Plans an influencer campaign with goals, creator selection criteria, a compensation model, disclosure and contract rules, a content brief outline and a measurement plan.
- Plan integrations and partnerships for an open-source project
Finds tools and projects whose users overlap with yours, ranks integrations by user value and effort, and drafts a short pitch and "works with" page for each. Use to grow through other ecosystems.
- Plan a marketing campaign
Plans a marketing campaign with objective, audience, core message, channel mix, budget split, timeline, KPIs and a measurement plan, working back from the goal. Use before a launch or promotion.
- Plan off-season promotions
Plans a seasonal business's quiet-month promotions - pre-booking deposits, season passes, vouchers and maintenance plans sold to past customers - with offer wording and a contact calendar.
- Plan a reopening campaign
Plans how a business wins customers back after a closure (refit, illness, flood, new owner) - what to tell regulars and when, a reopening offer, local press, profile updates and signs it works.
- Plan a weekly promotion routine
Builds a small-hours weekly marketing routine for a solo owner - the few activities with the best return for their business, a weekly checklist and a 15-minute monthly review.
- Plan word-of-mouth triggers
Designs talkable moments customers mention to friends - a signature surprise, a handover ritual, an unexpected extra - costed per customer, with staff delivery and ways to check they work.
- PR strategist
Acts as a PR strategist who finds the real news angle, knows what journalists need, protects credibility and plans earned media around true stories. Use when seeking press coverage.
- Set a small business marketing budget
Sets a yearly and monthly marketing budget for a small business from revenue, margin, goal and customer value, splits it across always-on, seasonal pushes and tests, and states kill rules.
- Sharpen an open-source project's pitch
Finds an open-source project's real category, audience and differentiator, then writes the one-line pitch, repo description, topics and README opener. Use before a launch or when nobody gets it.
- Write a campaign brief
Writes a one-page campaign brief for an agency or in-house team with objective, audience, insight, single-minded proposition, mandatories, deliverables, budget and measures.
- Write a crisis holding statement
Writes a crisis holding statement and reactive Q&A for media, customers and staff that says only what is confirmed, shows care, states actions and commits to an update time.
- Write a one-year marketing plan
Writes a one-year marketing plan for a small business with goals worked back from revenue, audience, positioning, a focused channel plan, monthly calendar, budget split and measures.
- Write a messaging framework
Builds a messaging framework with a core message, value pillars backed by proof, messages per persona, words to use and avoid, and worked examples. Use to align copy across teams and channels.
- Write a positioning statement
Works out a product's positioning from competitive alternatives, unique attributes, value, best-fit customers and market category, then writes the statement. Use before messaging or a launch.
- حملة رمضان والعيد
يخطط حملة رمضان والعيد لعلامة تجارية في السوق العربية ويكتب نصوصها: رسائل محترمة لكل مرحلة من الشهر، وتوقيت يناسب الإفطار والسحور، وأفكار للعطاء، بالفصحى أو بلهجة محلية.