Quarterly strategy

Run quarterly business reviews that assess current state, set ambitious but realistic goals, build actionable roadmaps, and define key results that keep everyone aligned.

Quarterly strategy

Introduction

one coherent system. It defines who you're for, where they are, what problem you solve, and how each touchpoint moves them closer to buying.

Most companies guess at their ICP, spray tactics across channels, and wonder why nothing compounds.

Get this right and growth becomes predictable. Get it wrong and you're constantly firefighting.

Chapters

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How to write a go-to-market strategy for B2B growth

Learn how to write a go-to-market strategy that defines your ICP, positioning, pricing, and channels. Includes real examples from service and product businesses.

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Set your 90-day goal

One clear outcome you want to achieve in the next 90 days. Ambitious yet realistic.

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Assess your current state

Honest assessment of where you are now, what's working, what's broken, and what resources you have.

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Build your 90-day plan

The roadmap from where you are to where you want to be. Three parallel tracks working together: big initiative, 10% improvements, and buffer capacity.

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tools

Notion

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Notion

Flexible workspace for docs, wikis, and lightweight databases ideal when you need custom systems without heavy project management overhead.

Google Sheets

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Google Sheets

Google Sheets is a cloud-based spreadsheet tool for data analysis, collaboration, and automation. It's free, works in your browser, and integrates with the entire Google Workspace ecosystem.

Books

Good Strategy Bad Strategy

Richard Rumelt

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Good Strategy Bad Strategy

A sharp test for strategy quality. Diagnose, choose guiding policies and design actions that compound over quarters.

Disciplined Entrepreneurship

Bill Aulet

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Disciplined Entrepreneurship

Step by step approach to define customers, test value and design a go to market path that leads to repeatable revenue.

Lean Analytics

Alistair Croll

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Lean Analytics

Pick the One Metric that Matters for your stage. Build lean dashboards and use data to decide the next best move.

Measure What Matters

John Doerr

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Measure What Matters

A clear guide to OKRs for growth teams. Write good objectives, choose key results and run cadences that stick.

The One Thing

Gary Keller

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The One Thing

A method for ruthless focus. Ask the focusing question, block time and protect momentum on the work that matters most.

The 80/20 Principle

Richard Koch

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The 80/20 Principle

Use Pareto thinking to pick channels, ideas and customers. Cut the long tail and double down on what works.

Wiki

Buyer persona

Document your ideal customer's role, goals, and challenges to tailor messaging and prioritise features that solve real problems they actually pay for.

Competitive advantage

Identify what you do better or differently that competitors can't easily copy to defend margins and win customers consistently over time.

Go-to-market strategy

Plan how you'll reach customers and generate revenue by choosing channels, pricing, and sales models that match your product and market reality.

Positioning statement

Define how you're different from alternatives in a way that matters to customers to guide all messaging and ensure consistent market perception.

Value proposition

Articulate the specific outcome customers get from your solution to communicate why they should choose you over doing nothing or using alternatives.

Total Addressable Market (TAM)

Estimate the maximum revenue opportunity if you captured 100% market share to size your opportunity and prioritise which markets to enter first.

Growth marketing

Apply disciplined experimentation across the entire customer lifecycle, optimising every stage through rapid testing and data-driven iteration.

Product-market fit

Achieve the state where your product solves a genuine, urgent problem for a defined market that's willing to pay and actively pulling your solution in.

Inbound Marketing

Attract prospects through valuable content that solves real problems, building trust and generating qualified leads who approach you.

Referral marketing

Turn satisfied customers into active promoters who systematically bring qualified prospects into your pipeline at near-zero acquisition cost.

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Growth orchestration

Get a grip on what's actually working and what needs course correction. Use data and experiments to make decisions instead of opinions. See how changes in one part of the system affect everything else. Random tactics don't compound, coordinated ones do.

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Other playbooks

Hubspot for managers

Hubspot for managers

This playbook is for sales and marketing managers who need to monitor team performance, set goals, track progress, and forecast revenue. Learn how to use HubSpot's reporting and dashboard capabilities to understand what your team is doing, whether they're hitting targets, and where coaching is needed. By the end of this playbook, you'll have executive-level visibility into your team's performance without micromanaging individual activities.

Hubspot configuration

Hubspot configuration

This playbook is for HubSpot administrators and account owners who are setting up a new HubSpot account or migrating from another platform. Learn how to configure your HubSpot account foundations, implement tracking across your website, and import your existing data cleanly. By the end of this playbook, you'll have a production-ready HubSpot instance with proper permissions, tracking, and migrated data.

LinkedIn advertising

LinkedIn advertising

Calculate lifetime value

Calculate lifetime value

Automation

Automation

Identify repetitive tasks draining time and build workflows that run without you. Use HubSpot and Zapier to automate lead routing, follow-ups, notifications, and data entry.

Weekly scorecard

Weekly scorecard

Set up and run the weekly 12-metric review across all four growth engines. Structure the meeting, assign ownership, use traffic lights, and escalate issues that need attention.

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