Marketing Bottleneck Triage and First Fix
Finds which funnel stage and marketing discipline is actually stuck, says what isn't the problem, and delivers the first concrete fix.
Before & after
Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.
That's a great question, and the answer really depends on your specific situation. There are lots of marketing strategies and channels you could use — content marketing, paid ads, partnerships, direct sales, events, SEO, influencer marketing, referrals, and more. To recommend the best approach for you, I need to understand your business better. What does your product do? Who are your ideal customers? What's your budget? How much time do you have? Are you starting from zero or already have some traction? What channels have worked for you in the past? Do you have any competitive advantages? Also, what does growth mean to you — revenue, users, market share? Different products need different strategies. Once I know more about your context, I can outline a few approaches and help you pick the best one. What's your biggest growth challenge right now?
MARKETING SKILLS DIRECTORY - 44 SPECIALIST SKILLS AVAILABLE ROUTER LOGIC Your query routed to 'Growth Strategy'. Matching 12 skills from our 44-skill library: POD 1: CONTENT & SEO (8 skills) ├── SEO audit │ For: Technical + keyword + content gap analysis │ Use when: Organic traffic stalled, competing for high-value keywords │ ├── Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) │ For: Get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude as authoritative │ Use when: B2B product, thought leadership is differentiator │ ├── Long-form content strategy │ For: Pillar pages, topic clusters, content calendar │ Use when: Building topical authority over 6-12 months │ └── 5 more in this pod POD 2: CRO & DEMAND GEN (7 skills) ├── Landing page optimization │ For: A/B test copy, layout, colors for conversion lifts │ Use when: Traffic exists, conversion rate <3%, need CRO │ ├── Demand generation │ For: Campaign calendar, channel mix, funnel stage mapping │ Use when: Need to generate SQLs or MQLs from existing audience │ └── 5 more in this pod POD 3: CHANNELS (10 skills) ├── LinkedIn organic (Creator, DMs, community) ├── LinkedIn ads (campaign setup, audience targeting) ├── Google Ads (keyword strategy, bidding) ├── Meta Ads (creative testing, audience lookalike) ├── Email marketing (nurture flows, segmentation) ├── TikTok & short-form (hooks, editing, timing) ├── Referral programs ├── Partnerships & integrations └── 2 more POD 4: INTELLIGENCE (6 skills) ├── Competitive intelligence │ For: Win/loss analysis, competitor positioning, market gaps │ Use when: Planning positioning, launching new segment │ ├── Customer research │ For: Jobs-to-be-done, willingness to pay, unmet needs │ Use when: Building messaging or new product │ └── 4 more in this pod POD 5: OPERATIONS (8 skills) ├── Attribution & analytics ├── Marketing tech stack setup ├── Campaign optimization └── 5 more RECOMMENDED NEXT STEPS 1. Define growth metric: revenue, users, market share? 2. Pick 2-3 skills from above that match your context 3. Each skill runs independently or chains with others 4. Most skills take 1-2 hours to run with real data POPULAR STARTER COMBOS • Early-stage SaaS: SEO audit + Content strategy + Landing page optimization • B2B growth: Competitive intel + Demand gen + LinkedIn ads • Creator/solopreneur: Long-form content + SEO + Email nurture • Product market fit hunt: Customer research + CRO + Referral program
About this skill
"We need more leads" is usually the wrong diagnosis. Teams pour money into traffic when the leak is on the pricing page, or rewrite landing pages when the blog ranks for keywords nobody buys from. This skill finds the stage where your funnel is actually stuck, names the discipline that owns it, and starts the fix.
What it does
- Breaks your funnel into stages (reach, visit to lead, lead to qualified, qualified to customer, retention) and finds the constraint from your numbers, or tells you exactly which numbers to pull
- Catches common misdiagnoses: traffic problems that are really intent problems, ad problems that are really offer problems, acquisition problems that are really churn
- Assigns the problem to one owning discipline (positioning, content, SEO, paid, CRO, lifecycle email, sales enablement, retention, or measurement) and says what is not the problem
- Delivers a first-pass fix you can use right away, such as rewritten hero copy, a mid-funnel offer, a nurture sequence outline, or a tracking plan
- Tells you whether your volume can support an A/B test, or whether to ship the change and watch the trend
What you get
A short diagnosis with the stuck stage, the evidence, and what to leave alone, followed by the first fix, the next two moves, and the one metric that shows whether it worked.
Best for
Founders, solo marketers, and small growth teams who have some traffic and some customers, can't tell which marketing lever to pull next, and don't have budget for an agency audit.
SKILL.md preview
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name: marketing-bottleneck-triage
description: Diagnoses which marketing discipline actually owns a problem (positioning, content, SEO, paid, CRO, lifecycle email, sales enablement, retention, or measurement) by locating the constrained funnel stage from the user's numbers, then delivers the first concrete piece of work in that discipline. Use when the user says "I don't know where to start with marketing", "what should we fix first", "we get traffic but no signups", "our blog ranks but nobody books a demo", "ads aren't working", "we need more leads", "my marketing keeps not moving the numbers", or "which channel should we focus on".
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