Weekly or monthly GTM working sessions: Learn → Plan → Build → Execute; for each Customer, Product, Market Fit
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Most industrial and technical B2B companies do not have a marketing problem. They have a growth decision problem. When pipeline stalls, sales and marketing drift apart, or you are unsure what to scale, stop, or fix, adding more marketing activity usually makes the problem worse and harder to hold anyone accountable for the spend. We install marketing governance: a clear, evidence-based way to make, test, prioritize, and execute growth decisions across sales, marketing, and vendors. Every recommendation carries a confidence score and a risk score, so you know not just what we recommend, but a straightforward view of why. It is set up in 2 weeks, and the strategy and institutional knowledge stay inside your business, not inside a vendor's folders.
For companies already carrying six-figure marketing budgets, up to half of the current marketing spend can often be redirected toward work that actually drives pipeline, depending on where they sit in their vendor contract cycles. Typical clients see up to a 20% sales increase over the first year.
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Does this sound familiar? Every two or three years you place a $30,000 to $50,000 bet on a new marketing agency's promise, then reset when it does not land. Or you are already carrying $150,000 to $200,000 or more in annual marketing spend and cannot say how it connects to the business or a return on investment. Did you notice you had to ramp a new agency up on your business each time, and any learnings stayed with the agency? You are losing time and marketing knowledge, not just the spend.
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We repeat the cycle as we uncover new markets, customers, and products.
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What you get (every tier)
Spend stewardship • decision clarity • vendor guidance • risk-based rigor
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Best for
CEOs and owners of industrial and technical B2B companies who want marketing spend tied tighter to revenue, with decisions, assumptions, and risk visible to leadership instead of scattered across vendors and campaigns.
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Typical outcomes
Faster decisions • less rework • defensible spend • institutional memory that stays in the business
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Proof it works: One client had lost 20% of their business, and their strategy had been rejected by the board. We rebuilt the GTM strategy from the ground up, refocused it to support the sales team, and they recovered the lost business and returned to growth within 18 months.
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The last thing you want is one more advisor to manage. You may already have an implementer, an exit advisor, a CPA, and an attorney, and no room to coordinate another executive. CGP is built to take work off your desk, not add to it. In most engagements we work through your head of sales or marketing, or your strongest salesperson or in-house marketer, ask about an hour of their week, and give them the structure to execute and manage vendors, which cuts the disorganization pulling at the rest of their time. You get a quarterly check-in for peace of mind, not another meeting on your calendar, and in weeks the team is heads-down we put the time into market research and structured sales and marketing assets. If sales or marketing is not your real constraint, or the whole business needs structure first, we will say so and point you to the right operating-system partner such as an EOS implementer or fractional COO; CGP fits best once the commercial function is the clear priority and there is someone to run it.
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How this compares to EOS, Exit Factor, or a business coach. Those give you sound guidance and a rhythm across the whole business, and if you are running sales and marketing well on that guidance, keep going. CGP is not a coach, and not another manager added to your team. Your people still run sales, and your in-house marketer or agency still runs marketing. What CGP builds, tunes, and expands is the machine underneath them: the market and customer understanding, the targeting and messaging, and the spend and vendor governance that make their work actually connect to sales. It is modular by design, so when you enter a new market, launch a product, test a channel, or meet a new competitor, we reconfigure it quickly instead of starting over, which happens more often than most owners expect once you learn the market is bigger and more complex than it first looked. The asset you keep is the accumulated market and customer knowledge that makes every rebuild smarter and faster, and it reapplies in minutes to a new vendor, a new hire, or a new initiative.
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Looking for a 12-week training course instead of monthly coaching? → Take the guesswork out of marketing
| Outcome | What it looks like in practice |
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| Spend discipline (avoid waste) | Stop/start/continue decisions that prevent premature tools, vendors, and campaigns. |
| Faster decisions | Shorter debate cycles with clearer trade-offs, assumptions, and next actions. |
| Less rework | Fewer false starts: segments, offers, and messages are based on a holistic plan. |
| Conversion infrastructure | Visibility work connects to capture + follow-up so interest becomes meetings (not leakage). |
| Alignment + clearer handoffs | Sales/marketing/vendor/operations coordination improves: owners, definitions, and "what happens next" are explicit. |
You get a proven system that reduces time, energy, and anxiety around sales + marketing decisions because it’s run with accountability meetings and a simple measurement system throughout the entire process.
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Your market knowledge should not live on a vendor's desktop. Today the read on your buyers, what has been tried, and what actually worked usually sits with an outside agency that has no reason to hand it over. That is the hidden reason switching marketing suppliers feels so painful: you restart the learning curve every time. CGP keeps that knowledge inside your business, so it transfers cleanly to a new vendor, a new team member, or a new owner.
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Most companies run this loop without naming it: add marketing activity, hire a rep, conclude it didn't work, cut or pivot, usually inside a quarter. It is rarely a marketing problem. It is the absence of a system for deciding what to keep, and the cost compounds because the spend repeats while nothing is retained.
You are not alone. Roughly 73% of businesses abandon their social strategy within six months, and 25 to 33% of new sales hires fail to deliver, with leaders consistently pointing to the same root cause: no system underneath the activity. The Audit is the circuit breaker.
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The cycle most companies run: hire a marketer or rep, run campaigns, decide "it didn't work," cut or change, then repeat.
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Step 1, always: the Marketing and Sales Audit. It is the universal entry point. In about 60 minutes we pinpoint the #1 growth constraint in the business, hand you a scorecard, and point you to the lowest-cost resources that fit your current state. No capital committed to a larger engagement until the Audit shows it is warranted.
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