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Marketing Methodology

From brand
to growth.

A structured, layer-by-layer system. Every skill produces an artifact the next layer reads — no skipped steps, no wasted spend.

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The methodology

Ten layers from foundations to optimization. Each layer gates the next — nothing downstream is built without the artifacts upstream confirming it.

skill Primary — always runs at this layer
skill Conditional — when applicable
Gate Required before next layer
00
Brand Prerequisites

Captures or creates the brand identity — voice, positioning, visual direction, copy anti-patterns. Without this, every creative and copy skill downstream generates output that ignores the brand's actual voice.

brand-capture brand-persona logo brand-analysis
Produces: BRAND-VOICE.md + profiles/{slug}.md
01
Intake

Full client onboarding — audience definition, offer stack, channel readiness, budget, current analytics state, and diagnostic questions. The strategic source of truth for all downstream derivations.

client-onboard
Produces: client-brief.md
02
Research Parallel

All research skills run in parallel. SEO keyword vocabulary seeds audience community queries. Together they surface what the audience actually says, what competitors are doing, and whether search channels are viable.

audience competitors seo spy market offer-research reddit-research
Produces: AUDIENCE-INSIGHTS.md + COMPETITOR-REPORT.md + SEO-AUDIT.md
03
Offers

Designs the offer stack grounded in research. Hormozi scoring, pricing, value stack, mechanism. Offer gaps from audience research inform what's built here.

offers low-ticket
Produces: OFFERS.md
04
Campaign Brief Gate

Platform audit, campaign objective, organic strategy, paid strategy, phase sequence, creative asset inventory, budget scenarios. Nothing downstream is built without a confirmed brief. Organic and paid strategy are produced here in one pass — not in separate layers.

campaign-brief
Produces: CAMPAIGN-BRIEF.md — read by every build, creative, and launch skill
06
Funnel Design

Maps the complete buyer journey — entry points, nurture sequence, conversion triggers, per-offer variants. Defines what gets built at Layer 7.

funnel-new funnel strategist-new-launch ig-funnel wa-funnel quiz-funnel
Produces: FUNNEL-SPEC.md
07
Build

Landing pages, email sequences, pixel + GTM tracking, server-side data pipeline, organic content infrastructure. All built and confirmed working before any spend goes live.

lp-build emails tracking website-build website-capture funnel-diagram data-pipeline seo content-calendar blog
08
Creative

Ad creatives, video scripts, motion graphics — all grounded in brand voice and campaign brief. Creative direction comes from the brief, not from scratch each time.

social-artwork video-brief footage-reel video-script creative-dr vsl-framework yt-script image-motion ad-dissect ads-intelligence
09
Launch

Ad copy, creatives, and campaign creation. Three gates required before spend: confirmed channel strategy, conversion tracking, and creative brief. No campaign goes live without all three cleared.

copy --format ads social-artwork --format ad media-buyer launch post-organic post-paid capture-to-post workflow-organic
10
Optimize

Drop-off analysis, strategy reviews, performance reports, and scaling decisions. A continuous loop — findings feed back into the Layer 4 brief refresh, not back to zero.

funnel strategist media-buyer report-html report-pdf