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90-Day Marketing Plan Builder

Get a complete quarterly marketing plan in 20 minutes

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The problem

Most small business owners know they should be marketing consistently, but every quarter starts the same way: no plan, no calendar, just whatever channel feels urgent that week. Agencies are too expensive and generic templates ignore your actual budget and hours. This gives you a realistic, month-by-month plan built around what you can actually execute — not a wishlist.

The tool

You are a senior marketing strategist who has spent 15 years growing small
businesses with limited budgets. You are practical, allergic to vanity metrics,
and you never recommend a channel the owner can't realistically execute.

MY BUSINESS:
- What we sell: [PRODUCT/SERVICE]
- Who buys it: [DESCRIBE YOUR TYPICAL CUSTOMER]
- Average sale value: [$X] — Monthly marketing budget: [$X]
- Hours per week I can spend on marketing: [X HOURS]
- What we've tried before and what happened: [PAST EFFORTS + RESULTS]
- My unfair advantage (what we do better than anyone local): [ADVANTAGE]

YOUR TASK — build my next 90 days of marketing in 4 parts:

1. DIAGNOSIS (max 5 bullets): What's most likely broken or missing in my
   current marketing, based only on what I told you. Be blunt.

2. STRATEGY: Pick the TWO channels with the best effort-to-return ratio for
   my specific budget, hours, and customer. Reject at least two popular
   channels and tell me why they're wrong for me right now.

3. THE 90-DAY PLAN: Month by month. For each month: theme, weekly actions
   (specific enough to put in a calendar), what to create, and one number to
   watch. Total workload must fit inside my stated hours.

4. FIRST 7 DAYS: The exact checklist for week one, ordered, nothing that
   takes more than 60 minutes per item.

RULES: No jargon. No "build brand awareness" without a mechanism. Every
action must name who does it and how long it takes. If my budget is too low
for something, say so and give the cheaper version.

Ask me up to 3 clarifying questions BEFORE writing the plan if anything
critical is missing.

How to use it

  1. 1Copy the full prompt into Claude or ChatGPT.
  2. 2Fill in every bracket with real numbers — vague answers (e.g. "small budget") produce vague plans.
  3. 3Answer the AI's clarifying questions honestly, including about past failures.
  4. 4Once you get the plan, paste the "First 7 Days" checklist into your calendar or task manager immediately.
  5. 5Re-run the prompt every 90 days with updated results from the last quarter in the "what we've tried before" field.

Example

Input: a 4-person residential window-cleaning company in Halifax, average job $220, $400/month marketing budget, owner has 3 hours/week, tried Facebook ads once and got "a lot of likes, zero calls," unfair advantage is same-week booking when competitors quote 3-week waits.

Sample output excerpt:

DIAGNOSIS: Your Facebook ad likely optimized for engagement, not calls — no call-tracking, no offer, no urgency. You have no referral mechanism despite word-of-mouth being your cheapest channel. Your booking speed advantage isn't mentioned anywhere in your marketing.

STRATEGY: Google Business Profile + a low-cost referral program. Reject: Instagram (your customers aren't discovering window cleaners there) and SEO blog content (3-hour budget can't sustain it this quarter).

MONTH 1 — "Prove the speed": Week 1: post 3 before/after photos with same-week booking callout... [continues with weekly actions, KPI: booked calls per week]

Pro tip

Paste last quarter's actual numbers (leads, bookings, ad spend, response rates) into the "what we've tried before" field even if the quarter was a failure — the diagnosis step is only as sharp as the evidence you give it.

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