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Framework deep-dives, archetype guides, and research analysis built on the 24 dimensions of the Marketing Canvas Method.
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12 minutes. 24 dimensions scored on a forced-choice scale. You get your Strategic Archetype, your Vital 8 against target, and your Fatal Brakes flagged — before you read anything else.
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Marketing Canvas - Budget
Budget is the 24th Marketing Canvas dimension — scoring not how much you spend, but how deliberately. Learn the four properties, the 3-Cycle allocation logic, and the 90/10 innovation reserve principle.
Marketing Canvas - User Lifetime
Lifetime measures how long customers stay — scored as 1/churn rate. Learn the four properties, the CRC/CAC benchmark, and why a leaky bucket makes every other marketing investment less efficient.
Marketing Canvas - ARPU
ARPU measures whether you are maximising revenue from each customer through frequency, spend, and value growth. Learn the four properties, the revenue equation, and why measurement capability is the prerequisite everything else depends on.
Marketing Canvas - User Acquisition
Acquisition scores four metrics — CAC, conversion rate, CLTV/CAC ratio, and time to conversion. Learn the canonical diagnostic range and why the ratio matters more than the absolute number.
Marketing Canvas - Influencers
The Influencers dimension of the Marketing Canvas scores four properties — purpose alignment, goal clarity, authenticity, and long-term measurement. Learn why follower count is the wrong selection criterion.
Marketing Canvas - Media Strategy
Media is the distribution layer of the Marketing Canvas. Learn how the four media types — owned, earned, shared, paid — work as a system, not silos, and why sequence matters.
Marketing Canvas - Listening
Most companies listen reactively — processing complaints, running annual surveys, reading reviews when they arrive. The Marketing Canvas demands proactive listening. Dimension 510 explains the difference, why it is a Fatal Brake for Pivot Pioneers, and the most expensive sentence in marketing.
Marketing Canvas - Magic
Satisfaction keeps customers. Magic turns them into advocates. Dimension 440 of the Marketing Canvas scores four components — effortless, stress-free, sensory pleasure, and social pleasure — and explains why exceeding expectations on something the customer doesn't care about isn't magic, it's waste.
Marketing Canvas - Channels
Most companies have channels. Few have orchestrated channels. Dimension 430 of the Marketing Canvas scores the difference — and explains why a brand with three connected channels outperforms one with eight siloed ones.
Marketing Canvas - Experience
Experience is a Fatal Brake for three archetypes. In every case the mechanism is the same: experience failure is the proximate cause of churn. Dimension 420 of the Marketing Canvas scores consistency — not brilliance — and explains why "leaving nothing to chance" is a scored criterion, not an aspiration.
Marketing Canvas - Proof
Every brand makes claims. Few build proof systems. Dimension 340 of the Marketing Canvas identifies four types of proof — demonstration, logical explanation, endorsement, and reputation — and explains why stacking all four is the only way to convert sceptical prospects into convinced ones.
Marketing Canvas - Engagement
Satisfaction and engagement are not the same thing. A customer can score 7/10 on satisfaction and never return. Dimension 140 of the Marketing Canvas explains the difference, how to measure it, and why engagement is the leading indicator that predicts churn before it appears in the revenue line.
Marketing Canvas - Pains & Gains
A list of customer frustrations is research. A list of frustrations mapped to the journey stages where they occur is strategy. Dimension 130 of the Marketing Canvas explains the difference — and why getting it right determines the reliability of every downstream score.
Marketing Canvas - Market and Economic Value
Economic value can be described as a measure of the benefit from a good or service to an economic agent. It is typically measured in units of currency. Another interpretation is that economic value represents the maximum amount of money an agent is willing and able to pay for a good or service.
Marketing Canvas - Job To Be Done
Customers don't buy products — they hire them to make progress. Dimension 110 of the Marketing Canvas explains how to define the job at all three layers (functional, emotional personal, emotional social), why it is a Fatal Brake for Category Creators, and the single diagnostic sentence that exposes whether your team actually knows it.