How many channels should a small team use?
As many as you can staff with an owner and a weekly check. Two staffed channels beat six abandoned ones.
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Marketing channel strategy
Turn a goal and a budget into a channel mix with an explicit budget split.
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What the marketing spend must produce, in outcome terms. Include a number and deadline so the mix can be judged.
Who can buy or influence the purchase. Name role, segment, geography, or account size.
Total monthly marketing budget in your currency. Enter 1 if you have no paid budget and want an earned/owned-only plan.
How long you have before you need a readable result. Use a number of days, weeks, or months.
Team size, skills, compliance limits, existing assets, or anything that removes options.
Evidence-based rules
Example output
Illustration: search captures people already comparing reminder tools, email supports the demo request, and a community post creates demand among practice managers. The marketing channel strategy states those roles. It does not assign a percentage of pipeline to each.
How to use it
- List the channels you can staff this quarter.
- Assign one role to each: create, capture, or support.
- Run the marketing channel strategy and remove a channel that has no role.
- Put money only on the staffed rows, using the marketing budget planner.
FAQ
Should every channel generate leads?
No. Some create demand and some capture it. Forcing every channel to book a meeting produces weak content and weak ads.
Where does budget fit?
After the roles. A share of spend without a job is how unused tools accumulate.
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