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Go-to-Market Strategy

Move your brand and product with value + story + delivery.

Δ GTM

Duration

3 weeks

Hours

8 hours (guided + applied)

Delivery

Online cohort with applied work

Who it's for

Founders, GTM and marketing leads

The hook

You do not warm the market after the product is built. By then you have already lost the lead time.

Intent · Design a market-entry system: positioning that resonates, messaging that hooks, channels that produce sales from day one, and a playbook the team can run.

Take this if

Six signals you are leaking this value

01

Buyers cannot tell the difference between you and the next tab

02

You are selling 20+ features instead of one outcome

03

Thin spread across every channel

04

No brand recall in the segment

05

Sales conversion is slow and inconsistent

06

Discounting is the closing mechanism

About the course

Learn to position value in time, build a positioning pitch that resonates, and deploy messaging that hooks. Establish the channels that invoke sales from day one.

Customers do not care how much you know until they know how much you care — GTM is the discipline of proving that at scale.

2026 additions: PLG + sales hybrids, AI-search and answer-engine visibility (buyers ask an assistant before they visit a site), community and partner-led motion, and privacy-first attribution.

Tools you will use

  • Positioning canvas
  • Benefit ladder
  • Channel yield model
  • Sales playbook template
  • Win-loss framework

Prerequisite

Curiosity to learn, apply and impact.

Curriculum

What we cover, hour by hour

01 · The why elements

  • Micro-segmentation: behaviour, need, value, decision, demography
  • Go-to-market for B2B vs B2C
  • Objectives of a market strategy
  • Market lifecycles and timing

02 · Positioning your brand and product

  • Integrated market messaging
  • Buyer positioning and beneficiary journey
  • Customer benefit maps
  • Emotional and functional ladders

03 · Market penetration plan

  • Omni-channel design and channel-to-customer fit
  • Mapping influencers to channels
  • Crossing the chasm
  • Persona personalisation and AI-search visibility

04 · Price, targets and learning

  • Pricing, margins and up-sells at launch
  • Market acquisition timeline and sales targets
  • Sales playbook and customer demos
  • Win-loss analysis and feedback automation

Key takeaways

  • GTM conceptualisation and strategy
  • GTM penetration plan
  • Crossing the chasm
  • Sales playbook
  • Win-loss analysis

You leave with

  • Positioning and messaging house
  • Channel plan with targets
  • Sales playbook v1
  • Launch timeline

Measured value

The numbers this course is meant to move

MetricTarget
Pipeline per channelOne channel proven repeatable
CAC payback< 12 months
Win rate+5–10 pts in the target segment
Pre-launch and launching teamsFounders resetting GTMMarketing and sales leads

Run this with your team

Cohort seats or a private team session — 8 hours (guided + applied), delivered online and applied to your own venture.

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