Go-to-market

Positioning and launch, aimed at the buyers who convert.

How go-to-market works as one system

Diagram: go-to-market as a system of nine stages in sequence: market, segmentation, ideal customer profile, positioning, channels, demand, pipeline, conversion and retention. Signal moves forward from stage to stage. Three feedback loops return learning to earlier stages: conversion teaches positioning (message learning), retention teaches the ideal customer profile (who stays), and pipeline teaches channels (channel yield). A band under the sequence narrows as each stage filters the one before it.

Forward signalFeedbackChannel yieldMessage learningWho staysMarketSegmentationICPPositioningChannelsDemandPipelineConversionRetentionChannel yieldMessage learningWho staysMarketSegmentationICPPositioningChannelsDemandPipelineConversionRetention
Each stage feeds the next, and what happens later teaches the stages before it.Illustrative

Market, segment, ICP, positioning, channels, demand, pipeline, conversion and retention in sequence, with results feeding back into positioning.

Stages

1 of 5

Where is there real, urgent demand?

What you get

Market map

What we do

What we do

Segmentation

Who buys, who buys fastest and who stays.

Positioning

What buyers really compare you to, and why you win.

Launch

Channels, assets and a plan with owners and dates.

Measurement

Stage definitions and conversion tracking.

Start with the objective.

Usually the 90-day growth sprint. See the sprint.

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