Rock Solid Planning:
Jump the Code-Speak Chasm to Prototype
- Introduction
- Marketing Funnel, Tactics & Social Media Platforms
- Marketing Funnel Continued
- Choosing Marketing Tactics
- Selecting Social Media Platforms
- Survey Distribution & Survey Analysis
- Continued Survey Distribution
- Immediate Survey Analysis
- Product Management Concepts
- Introductory Product Management Concepts
- Immediate Offer
- Needs & Task Analysis
- Sprint Planning Basics
- Business Planning
- Market Types – New & Re-segmented
- Business Model Types
- Revenue Streams
- Homework
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Two Week To-Do’s
Continue to Distribute Your Survey
- Return to previous social and forum posts. Create a new comment to let people know you’re still looking for responses
- Use the Similar Web Guide to identify which social channels you should be on
- If you have not yet started posting on that channel, create a new post there to share your survey
- Follow the Survey Guide’s exact instructions for sharing your survey on Reddit.com/r/SampleSurvey
- Review Office Hours recap to improve your chances of keeping your posts in groups up versus having a moderator take them down
Processing Survey Results
- Start reading the answers to open-ended questions and storing those answer verbatim in your Voice of Customer spreadsheet
- If respondents have said they are okay with a follow-up, set up interviews, or user testing sessions
- Consider anyone you have spoken to as a potential Customer Advisor or general Advisor (see Customer Advisory Guide)
- Do not deduce any big insights until you’ve got 20-30 people that rated the goal & problem statements 5+
Marketing & Building Brand Awareness
- Update or Create a Landing Page, see GOOD UI Template
- Read the “Building Marketing Awareness” Guide
- If you already have an email list and website, learn about Marketing Analytics tracking (Pages 2-6)
- (All) Determine your marketing tactics (Pages 7 – 13)
- As mentioned above, in addition to your marketing tactics, use Similar Web Guide to determine your primary social channels
Product Management & Developing Your First Offer
- Read Intro to Product Management
- Go through the Taco Crawl example in the guide to learn how to develop your MVP using Tasks & Needs Analysis
- If you do not yet have a product, use the “Design Your Solution” template to think through your first offer
- If you do have a product, work towards creating a content strategy by developing a content inspiration board (see Branding Guide)
If you have time…
- Browse Lindsay’s collection of free opt-ins from other people to develop your own free & gated opt-in
- Continue to synthesize all of your finding and learnings into content pieces
- Fill out the Brand Positioning & Marketing Inputs template to be the single source of your marketing plan for the future
- Fill out the Business Information for Executive Summary & Pitch Deck to also consolidate all that you have determined from the past 10 weeks
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”“‘Begin with the end in mind’ is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There’s a
Steven Covey“7 Habits of Highly Effective People”
mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things.”
