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AARRR tells you retention is falling. It cannot tell you why.
Dave McClure called it Startup Metrics for Pirates. Metrics, not strategy. The funnel tells you retention is falling; it has no way to tell you whether the cause is the job you are serving, the experience after the sale, or the price. Six causes, one red number, and a one-in-six chance your fix is the right one.
The Digital Marketing Canvas gets it right. The next step is scoring it.
Jeremy Corman's Digital Marketing Canvas gets the hard part right: the fundamentals feed the funnel. What it cannot do is tell you whether your fundamentals are load-bearing or decorative. You write a sentence in the Value Proposition box in thirty seconds, and then spend four quarters optimising downstream of a claim nobody ever tested.
How the Marketing Canvas Method complements the Business Model Canvas
Osterwalder's canvas describes an entire business in nine boxes, and it does that better than anything else. Ask for the marketing strategy, though, and everyone points at the same two. Four of the nine are really marketing's, and a box is not a strategy. Where the BMC hands off, and what the Marketing Canvas Method does next.
The Marketing Canvas Method vs the 4Ps of Marketing: why it is time to evolve
Product, Price, Place, Promotion. Sixty-five years on, the marketing mix still covers exactly half the canvas, and the half it misses is the customer, the brand, and whether any of it worked. Why "be more customer-centric" was the right answer in 1990 and still fixed nothing, and what a marketing mix alternative has to do instead.