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Business Marketing Strategy in 7 Phases: Setup to Funnel

Sets up a marketing consultant with your business brief, then works through six steps: market positioning, customer psychology, offer and messaging, a full marketing strategy, customer acquisition and a funnel from awareness to purchase.

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  1. Phase 1 — Set up the marketing consultant
    Role: you are a high-end marketing consultant who has built growth strategies for companies in many different industries. Your work is structured strategies focused on four things: positioning, winning customers, growing the brand and generating revenue.

My brief:
- Type of business: [business type]
- Target audience: [audience]
- Main business goal: [goal]
- Current marketing budget: [budget]

For now, confirm in two or three lines that you have understood the brief, then wait for my next request.
  2. Phase 2 — Market positioning
    My business: [business details]
My competitors: [competitors]
My target audience: [audience]

Task: analyze these three inputs and help me build a strong market positioning strategy, one that makes my business clearly different from the competitors.
  3. Phase 3 — Customer psychology
    Role: you are a strategist specialized in customer psychology.

Target audience: [audience]

Task: analyze this audience and identify:
- their biggest pain points
- their desires
- their motivations
- their buying triggers
- their objections
- the emotional patterns behind their decisions
  4. Phase 4 — Offer and messaging
    My offer (product or service):
[offer details]

Task: review this offer, then rewrite its value proposition and its messaging so that the benefits, the results and the transformation the customer gets are clear and compelling at first glance.
  5. Phase 5 — Full marketing strategy
    My business: [business details]

Task: build a complete marketing strategy for this business, including:
- positioning
- acquisition channels
- content strategy
- lead generation
- lead and customer nurturing
- retention systems
  6. Phase 6 — Customer acquisition
    My business: [business details]
My target audience: [audience]

Task: design a strategy to acquire customers through channels that are realistic and cost-effective, that suit this audience and that fit the resources I have.
  7. Phase 7 — Marketing funnel
    My business: [business details]

Task: design a marketing funnel for this business. It should move prospects forward one step at a time: awareness first, then trust, then the purchase, using customer journey stages arranged in a logical sequence.
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  1. Phase 1 — Ideal customer profile
    My business: [describe your business]
What I sell: [product]
Who I sell to: [audience]

Task: help me build a complete profile of my ideal customer. Cover:
- demographics
- psychographics
- the frustrations they face every day
- what they have tried before, and why it did not work
- what they wish existed
- where they spend their time online
- the words they use when they describe their problem
- what would make them buy straight away, with no hesitation

Then sum everything up in one paragraph that I can use as the base for all my marketing.
  2. Phase 2 — Messaging strategy
    My ideal customer profile: [paste it]
My business: [describe your business]

Task: help me build a complete messaging strategy. Include:
1. A core brand message that speaks straight to my customer's pain.
2. A unique value proposition.
3. 3 taglines, each for a different context.
4. The main emotions my marketing needs to trigger.
5. My customer's biggest objections to buying, each with a messaging response.

Every word should feel written for this specific customer.
  3. Phase 3 — Top 3 marketing channels
    My business: [describe your business]
My ideal customer: [ideal customer]

Task: based on the places my customer hangs out and the way they make purchase decisions, recommend the 3 best marketing channels for me. For each channel explain:
- why it suits my particular audience
- which type of content works best there
- how much time and budget it needs to work
- what success looks like

Then list the channels I should avoid, and why, so I stop spending time on platforms that will not make a difference.
  4. Phase 4 — 90-day content marketing plan
    My business type: [type of business]
My ideal customer: [ideal customer]
My 3 focus channels (chosen in Phase 3): [your top 3 channels]

Task: build a complete content marketing plan for 90 days. Include:
- content pillars that follow my customer's journey
- a weekly content calendar with the topic and the goal of each post
- how to turn a single piece of content into versions for each of the 3 channels, getting maximum output for minimum effort
- the metrics to track to know whether my content is really working
  5. Phase 5 — Funnel from first touch to repeat purchase
    My business: [describe it]
What I sell: [product], at [price point]
My ideal customer: [ideal customer]

Task: build a full marketing funnel, from the first contact to the purchase and beyond. Include:
1. How a cold audience discovers me for the first time.
2. The email or follow-up sequence that nurtures them toward buying.
3. The call to action that turns them into paying customers.
4. A post-purchase strategy so that people who buy once come back, buy again and refer others.

Map every stage with specific actions and messaging.
  6. Phase 6 — Paid advertising strategy
    My business: [describe it]
My ideal customer: [ideal customer]
Monthly ad budget: [$X per month]

Task: build a complete strategy for paid marketing, in these sections:
1. Platform: which one to advertise on first, and why.
2. Campaign structure: how to set up campaigns for awareness and for conversion.
3. Creative and copy: what the ads must emphasize, given the profile of my customer.
4. Retargeting: how to set it up to win back people who did not buy the first time.
5. Expectations: realistic results I can expect.
  7. Phase 7 — One-page marketing strategy
    My business: [describe it]

Task: take everything built so far (the customer profile, the messaging, the channels, the content calendar, the funnel and the paid ads approach) and turn it into one complete marketing strategy document that fits on a single page. Include:
- my core customer avatar
- my unique value proposition
- my top 3 marketing channels
- a summary of my 90-day content plan
- an overview of my funnel
- my paid advertising approach
- my 3 most important KPIs
- my action plan for the next 30 days, week by week

If the earlier outputs are not in this conversation, ask me to paste them first.
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My product or service: [product or service]

Task: develop a complete marketing strategy for it.

Cover four parts:
1. Target audience
2. Marketing channels
3. Key messaging
4. Promotional tactics
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